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Matt McSpadden
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What are some of your best permies/gardening/homesteading pickup lines?

I've got the first example from another thread here on Permies.

"You seem to know a lot about plants, can you ID these for me?" *Then hand them a bouquet of flowers*

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I used to live on a very busy street, and any time I was working in the front, there were massive amounts of horn honks, obscene suggestions etc. I often thought in those days what I wanted was a guy who would stop and say "you are too beautiful to do this, let me have that shovel!"

Fast forward to these days, when I know a lot more, and I want to be working in the front, have a guy stop and say
"What are you doing? That sounds like fun! Can I help? Got another shovel, or I can go quickly and grab my tools!"

Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!

 
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What are your favorite vegetables? I want to make sure our garden will be big enough.

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." C.S. Lewis
"When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind." C.S. Lewis

 
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Fun!

Are you a sunflower? Because you brighten up my day.

If you were a vegetable, you'd be a cute-cumber!

Invasive plants are Earth's way of insisting we notice her medicines. Stephen Herrod Buhner
Everyone learns what works by learning what doesn't work. Stephen Herrod Buhner

 
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True Story from years ago...

We had ordered chicks through a local shop and they called me when they arrived. Hubby worked near the shop, so I emailed him telling him to leave early and get the chicks so we could get them into the brooder.

I thought he should be arriving home when the shop called, saying he hadn't arrived and they needed to know for sure if he was coming.

I called him. The email had landed in his spam folder. I suppose the Subject Line: Pick up Chicks was a bad idea....

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Hey baybee, wanna snoogle on my hugel?

I've been married a long time...

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Not exactly a pick-up line, but I posted this on facebook a few weeks before I got together with my 'new' partner.

I think it might be the reason he seems to believe that agreeing to build a rocket mass heater was a requirement of us being together...

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An inadvertent one that turned into a 3 yr relationship  began by me asking a remarkably beautiful young woman how recently her horse had taken de-worming medication because I was hoping to use the manure!

"Them that don't know him don't like him and them that do sometimes don't know how to take him, he ain't wrong he's just different and his pride won't let him do the things to make you think he's right" - Ed Bruce (via Waylon and WIllie)

 
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Matt McSpadden wrote:What are some of your best permies/gardening/homesteading pickup lines?

I've got the first example from another thread here on Permies.

"You seem to know a lot about plants, can you ID these for me?" *Then hand them a bouquet of flowers*



To this, one might respond with, "If these are for me, they might be the kind that will get you leied..."

"The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance."~Ben Franklin
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~ Plato

 
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My homestead is almost perfect. It is just missing one thing... you :)

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." C.S. Lewis
"When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind." C.S. Lewis

 
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I'm supposed to meet my girlfriend at the orchard. Want to go apple picking?

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." C.S. Lewis
"When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind." C.S. Lewis

 
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Would you give me some directions? These botanical gardens are huge and I will never find my way to your heart without some help.

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." C.S. Lewis
"When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind." C.S. Lewis

 
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Hi there, how's it growin' ?

Hello, wanna go grab a wheelbarrow and spread some mulch, maybe catch a sunset?

G'day ma'am...can I take a look at your hands?



 
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