Getting Cheesy And Geeky In 140 Digits Or Less – #nerdpickuplines

Nerds can a unique lot. They can find a way to turn an old computer into a MP3 jukebox, add a “Copy and Paste” to an iPhone (maybe), hide flight simulator in Google Earth and other cool feats in cyberspace. Now that Valentines days is a week away what would suspect they will do? Buy jewelry? Shop Teleflora.com? Send candy? Shop for cards? Nope.

Several are exchanging their favorite pick-up lines on Twitter. If you search Twitter under the hashtag #nerdpickuplines you’ll find the perfect line in less than 140 characters. If you’re uninitiated in Twitterdom you can also check the short one liners out at Hashtags. Don’t laugh too soon, back in October of last year we ran across the idea of Twitter date and for a month I had e-mails wanting know if there was Twitter based Match.com. Here are just a few that jumped off the screen and grabbed my attention:

• Hey baby, let me bust through your firewall
• How about a quick cron job?
• when you do that my CPU overheats
• Hey girl, let me ASCII you out for a drink sometime?
• Is that a lightsaber in your pocket or are you happy to see me?
• Pi is the limit
• I like Battlestar Galactica. Wanna frack?
• If I were an enzyme, I’d be DNA helicase so I could unzip your genes.
• I’m gonna compile you all night long
• You’re hotter than the 2 suns of Tatooine. I’d shave a wookie just for a chance to slip my dianoga in your trash compactor
• Let’s exchange APIs and write a mashup tonight
• Baby, trust me, im like Twitter it will only take 140 seconds
• Wanna see my tinyURL expand?

As you can see this group pulls it off in less than 140 characters, where the real world Don Juans would probably still be just warming up. Although this is just the advice of divorced man, to stay on the safe side of love you might want to stop by the Hallmark in case the Tweet comes up short.