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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!"

 
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What are your favorite vegetables? I want to make sure our garden will be big enough.
 
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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!
 
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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!
 
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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..."
 
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My homestead is almost perfect. It is just missing one thing... you :)
 
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I'm supposed to meet my girlfriend at the orchard. Want to go apple picking?
 
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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.
 
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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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