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The new Holiday Inn Express ads for their hot-food breakfast bar take the typical tipsy behavior by groups of friends at nightclubs and put it in the cold, sterile, windowless cafeteria of a budget business hotel. (In one, a bunch of suit & tie guys try to figure out what to send over to a woman across the room: a plate of bacon or a cinnimon bun.) While reading Seth Stevenson's review of these "vaguely lewd" ads in his Ad Report Card column on Slate.com, we came across what has to be the best college pickup move ever. Writes Seth:
Call us easy, but that totally would have worked on us our first year in college. It's funny, clever, and doesn't involve encouraging us to do keg stands in an attempt to impair our judgement so much so that we finally agree to sleep with you. Too often the guys in college were/are the kind of guys who'd hand out these cocktail napkin hook-up disclaimers if they could and still get laid ("I do not claim, now or ever, to be used for emotional relations after recreational relations are over"). Here's hoping the 19-year-old goofballs who are creative enough to send over a glass of milk aren't the kind of heartless Neanderthals who will say anything to get access to a vagina. If that recent study on the sexual motivations of boys holds any water (many are moved by romance), then there is indeed hope for respectful lust in college. 3 CommentsLeave a comment |
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are you kidding, i'm 35 and that apple juice line would STILL work on me! love it,
That is really clever. I actually saw a girl trying to get milk once and the machine wasn't working for her. I ended up getting the milk myself and I brought it to her and she said it was the nicest thing anyone had EVER done for her. I don't know if I feel bad for her because seriously one glass of milk isn't that nice, or me because I didn't get her phone number. I guess a good deed is a good deed.
Does sending over a drink at a bar ever actually work?