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This. Pickup at the right of the bell curve looks a bit different. It involves more puns, for instance.
Pickup at the right end of the bell curve looks like this:
"If I were to ask you out, would your answer to that question be the same as the answer to this one?"
(Disclaimer: I didn't make it up. I saw it somewhere else on this site, long time ago.)
Smullyan invented this "coercive logic" in "The Riddle of Scheherazade".
Pretty sure this is much, much older than that.
looks silly to me. ;)
Is there a more comprehensive resource anywhere on picking up the right side of the bell curve?
edited to add: as long as I'm asking how to pull the long tail, so to speak, how 'bout resources considering the culturally Russian, Indian, Japanese, Chinese, etc.?
I'd guess that this is just indicative that being at the right end of the bell curve works on those who are also at the right end of the bell curve.
FYI - puns and wit work as a pick-up line... only if they're your puns and wit... not if you're just parroting somebody else's idea of what "should work".