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| title    = Pickup Lines
 
| title    = Pickup Lines
 
| image    = pickup_lines.png
 
| image    = pickup_lines.png
| titletext = That shirt looks good on you, but it would look even better stuffed onto the neck of a vodka bottle and flung burning through our office building's window. Let's fucking do it and never look back.
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| titletext = That shirt looks good on you, but it would look even better stuffed onto the neck of a vodka bottle and flung burning through our office building's window. Let's fucking do it and never look back.
 
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*"If I could rearrange the alphabet, I'd put U and I together."
 
*"If I could rearrange the alphabet, I'd put U and I together."
:[[Cueball]] is making a "your sister" joke. A different variation of this line is featured in [[1069: Alphabet]], and another "your sister" joke is made in [[442: xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel]].
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*"Is your dad a thief, because he stole all of the stars in the sky and put them in your eyes."([http://www.jokes4us.com/pickuplines/isyourdadpickuplines.html Is Your Dad Pick Up Lines])
*"Is your father a thief? Because he stole all of the stars in the sky and put them in your eyes."([http://www.jokes4us.com/pickuplines/isyourdadpickuplines.html Is Your Dad Pick Up Lines])
 
:A {{w|Volkswagen Jetta|Jetta}} is a car, and Cueball is implying that the father is an actual thief.
 
 
*"You must be tired, 'cause you've been running through my mind all night."
 
*"You must be tired, 'cause you've been running through my mind all night."
:He adds the word "Screaming," to make the word "running" be literal instead of figurative.
 
 
This is yet another example of [[Beret Guy]]'s bartender job.
 
  
 
The title text refers to a pickup line like this: "That shirt looks good on you, but would look even better on my bedroom floor." But here the shirt is used as fuse for a {{w|Molotov cocktail}} thrown into their office.
 
The title text refers to a pickup line like this: "That shirt looks good on you, but would look even better on my bedroom floor." But here the shirt is used as fuse for a {{w|Molotov cocktail}} thrown into their office.
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
:[A bar. Beret Guy is the bartender, holding a can or mug. On the counter are a bottle and two mugs. In front of the counter are four barstools. Megan is to the left of the second barstool and Cueball is to the right, talking to her.]
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:[Cueball at a bar.]
 
:Cueball: If I could rearrange the alphabet, I'd put your sister and I together.
 
:Cueball: If I could rearrange the alphabet, I'd put your sister and I together.
 
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:Cueball: Is your father a thief? because that's totally my jetta you parked outside.
:[Another bar scene, shown from a different angle, with the bartender at left of panel and two barstools to the right. Cueball, standing, is talking to a different woman seated at the bar. Cueball points toward the front window of the bar.]
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:Cueball: You must be tired, 'cause you've been running through my mind all night
:Cueball: Is your father a thief? Because that's totally my Jetta you parked outside.
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:Cueball: screaming.
 
 
:[Another bar scene. A bar with one mug on it, and one barstool, are visible. Cueball stands talking to Ponytail.]
 
:Cueball: You must be tired, 'cause you've been running through my mind all night.
 
:Cueball: Screaming.
 
  
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
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[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Beret Guy]]
 
[[Category:Romance]]
 
[[Category:Your sister]]
 

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