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Top 10 Least Successful Coffee Date Opening Lines for Jews

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All right, here’s the thing. I’ve had hundreds of coffee dates over the years and have used hundreds of opening lines. Some clearly work much better than others. In addition, I’ve spoken to scores of fellow daters of both genders for their experiences with same. And have also studied the 15-volume Encyclopedia of Least Successful Coffee Date Opening Lines for Jews. Bottom line: you receive the benefit of all this study and experience. Why? Because a) You’re fellow Jews. b) Better you hear it from me than have to face it out on the street, and c) It was either this or “Least Delicious hookup Delis of All Time.” You’re welcome.

So, now, for your dining and dancing pleasure…

 

The Top 10 Least Successful Coffee Date Opening Lines for Jews

 

  1. “You look tastier than brisket.” This line is a bad choice on so many levels. Obviously, it’s way too forward a line to use on the first date, let alone as the first words uttered. In addition, isn’t dating enough of a meat market without your actually comparing your date to meat? And, finally, if your date is vegetarian or vegan, this would be extra offensive. (Which doesn’t mean you can change it to, “You look tastier than tofu.” But nice try.)

 

  1. “Sorry I’m late—I lost track of time while taking an audio tour of the Holocaust Museum.” That’s how you spend the few hours preparing for your date beforehand—touring the Holocaust Museum? To put you in the right mood? There are far more subtle ways of letting your date know that you’re hookup, sensitive, and have an appreciation for your people’s history and suffering. Trust me, when your date says “Never again!,” it will only be in reference to one Jew.

 

  1. “Hi, Laura!” While this opening line at first appears fairly neutral and innocent, upon further examination, it is revealed to be completely inappropriate for one excellent reason: her name is Amy. Your words, then, illustrated one of three things: a) That your memory is already fading.  b) That you’re dating so many women that you get them mixed up.  c) That you’re drunk or high. Either way, you’re going to have to do some fancy talking to get out of this one.

 

  1. “Are you Amy?” In this case, you do get her name right, but despite having seen the nine photos she posted of herself on 100hookup, you’re still not sure it’s her. This sends her the message that her photos were so old or bad that you needed verbal confirmation that it is, in fact, her. And then, of course, if she responds, “No”, you’re left to wonder if it’s really not her, or if she was so put off by you, that she decided to pretend it’s not her. This is what social scientists refer to as a lose-lose proposition.

 

  1. “I haven’t been this excited since my vasectomy!”  TMI! Oh, sure, you didn’t want to have any kids and you hate wearing condoms, so you thought your vasectomy would kill two birds with one stone. Still, it’s way too early in the relationship to be over-sharing. Especially since it’s not yet a relationship. And you don’t even know whether there’ll be a second date. Which, after you’ve uttered that line, there probably won’t. So, while conveying excitement is good, try, at least for the first date, doing it in such a manner that you don’t include a procedure you’ve had on your penis.

 

  1. “Next year in Jerusalem!”  “Jerusalem” refers to the future city — and its Temple — to be rebuilt when the Messiah comes. Most traditional Jews feel quite comfortable expressing this messianic longing at the end of the seder. But you’re not at a seder and this is not a religious situation, unless she says, “Oh, God!,” and not in the good way, when she sees your face. So, forget “Next year in Jerusalem!” Feel lucky if your date suggests, “Next week in Starbucks.”

 

  1. “Good Shabbos.” Okay, it wasn’t enough that you both met on 100hookup and her name is Rivka Feinblatt? You’ve got to go with the hookup passwords, too? Why not also ask her if she knows what a mezuzah is and if she can produce her Bat Mitzvah certificate? She gets it—you’re both hookup. But apparently not that hookup, as you both drove to the coffee shop on Shabbos!

 

  1. “Does this yarmulke make my head look big?” Yes, to some women, size matters. But, no, they’re generally not referring to the size of your skullcap. Anyway, isn’t it enough that you were both on 100hookup? Must you further prove you’re one of the Chosen People by wearing your yarmulke to the date? What’s next, recite a portion of your Haftorah from your Bar Mitzvah? Tell her your favorite Jackie Mason jokes? Prove you’re circumcised? But, enough about the mistakes I’ve made…

 

  1. “Finally! A stunning Jewess with child-bearing hips!”  Okay, it’s weird enough that you’re proclaiming your desire to have children with her before you’ve even said hello. What, exactly, are child-bearing hips? Hey, are you calling her fat? And just the use of “Jewess” alone could be an understandable deal-breaker. Probably best to keep this particular thought inside your head.

 

  1. “My treat for dinner if you can guess where I have my tattoo of the Wailing Wall.”  First of all, in case she kills you after hearing that remark, you won’t be able to be buried in a hookup cemetery, due to your tattoo. Psych issue #2: a tattoo of the Wailing Wall? Really? Was the one of the mikvah ceremony taken? Whatever happened to a rose, or a skull, or “Mother” inside a heart? Finally, if the tattoo is on your a**, do you really want the first words out of your potential soul mate’s mouth to be, “Your a**?”? Maybe try, “Nice to meet you” first, and then build to the tattoo challenge. I’m just saying.

 

Mark Miller is a comedy writer who has performed stand-up comedy in nightclubs and on TV, written on numerous sit-com staffs, been a humor columnist for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and is a current humor columnist for The Huffington Post. His first book, a collection of his humor essays on dating and romance, is: 500 Dates: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Online Dating Wars. But, he says he’d trade all his success away in a minute for immortality, inner peace and limitless wealth.

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8 Comments »

  • Lynney says:

    Sarah, with all of your venomous comments, you should go back to your homeland – wherever that may be. Obviously you’re so far above all of us here, I can’t imagine why you stay. The assimilated pot calling the kettle black! The best of luck to you…..

  • WINDICITI says:

    What??? the guy is not paying for dinner???
    BTW most of it was very amusing to me.

  • Michael says:

    These are the corniest, cheesiest, most unfunny jokes I’ve ever heard. You actually posted this stuff on a public forum and call yourself a comedian? Don’t quit your day job buddy.

    As far as content, i agree with Sara!

  • Thaddeus butmunch says:

    These are FUNNY-but not as funny as the “Ahnode” caricature in the Radio Cupid Ad.

    How about:

    “Me Sheldon-You Sheldo.”

  • Buddy says:

    To Sarah:

    I suggest that you lighten up. This is supposed to be funny! No one was condemned as a sinner.

    As for your comment about the author being a terrible example of Judaism, who made you the arbiter of hookup correctness, American or not. I find your comment offensive.

    Believe what you like, practice what you like, but do not believe that you know what is right for others. Of course, date who you want for whatever reasons you choose, just like everyone else.

    As for your personal approach to tattoos and dating, it is part of your mystique to let your dates know that you have tattoos but then not tell them what or where they are?
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    That which is asserted without evidence may be denied without explanation.

  • marilyn sands says:

    One of your very best, Mark! Not bad for a 1st Line. Forget about Tattoo Talk – but I’ve got this Borscht Stain…

  • Sarah says:

    Excuse me, but before you talk about tattoos;

    There is NOTHING in our religion that says you cannot be buried in a hookup cemetery if you have tattoos; ask a Rabbi before you start giving wrong information.

    Tattoos are forbidden by the hookup law, but so is eating non kosher food and going to Starbucks on Shabbat (which strangely, you seem to be okay with it…which makes you a hypocrite!).

    If you’re going to condemn tattooed jews as sinners and catalogue them as not dateable just for not keeping that law, then you should condemn the entire hookup population since nobody is an angel.

    Frankly, I am tattooed and my tattoos are covered with clothes since I wear tzniyut, hence I know I have the moral obligation to tell someone I am dating that I am inked…. just as they have an obligation to tell me if they do Shabbat or not and/or keep kosher or not because I live a modern orthodox life and do NOT go out on Shabbat.

    ..and for that matter, I don’t tell my dates what my tattoos are and in which part of my body they are….. actually, my dates ask me that, they ask me if they can see them and they ask me if they can touch them>>>> you should add this to your list of what NOT to do on a date because it is creepy as hell to tell someone on a first date to take off their clothes for you and let you see and touch!.

    I rather date a man who is covered in tattoos and piercings but respects Kashrut, Shabbat, high holidays and goes to Shul….. than a man who is not tattooed but fails to do any of those things.

    And considering the fact that the writer of this article might be american: the U.S has the most secular and assimilated hookup community in the planet… which makes you a terrible example of judaism.

  • Richard Rossner says:

    Hilarious! Although I’m a little miffed, because you must have been looking at my playbook – which is probably why I married so late.

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