Thursday, December 11, 2008

Good lines

"If I told you that you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"

Now that is clearly an awesome pickup line, and anybody who disagrees just doesn't understand romance.

Are there the equivalent of pickup lines that one ought to intersperse throughout one's cover letters? Little verbal hooks that will make the SC think that you are a driven researcher and an inspiring teacher? This will only be good for next year (or the VAP season), but would anybody care to share their best cover letter lines?

(I'd also be interested in hearing from members of SC's about the worst lines they've ever read.)

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bellamy Brothers, right? How about Vern Gosdin's, "I can tell by the way you dance that you're gonna love me tonight." And can I just add that in order to post this comment blogger is requiring me to type 'pubis.'

Anonymous said...

Not one I heard as an interviewer, but blurted out by a friend at an interview, long ago: "Can you see the beach from the classrooms?"

Anonymous said...

no good lines -- but where's the action on the wiki?? I thought today would be the day.

Anonymous said...

I am getting wiki vertigo; wiki sicky.

Anonymous said...

I wish colleges and universities weren't so finicky?

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