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I find that telling jokes is a better way to pick up girls than writing a proof as to why I am a superior mating candidate.

Weird, huh?

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I find that writing jokes is a great way to show girls that I am not a superior mating candidate.

You need to find yourself a friend that will be brutally honest on just how bad or offensive your jokes are. I found someone like that quite accidentally and it's really improved the quality of my humor from other people's perspective.

I'm still trying to figure out what makes some stuff funny and others not. For example randomly yelling "You're fuzzy!" at a cat during a heated discussion works if I use it sparingly around my close friends. Other people just give you weird looks. (My rule of thumb: most humor is best used sparingly and definitely around the proper audience.)

Did you actually try it the other way? I think that any girl who would analyze and respond to empirical evidence would be my kind of lady.

Though knowing my luck she'd find the flaws in my experiment and reject me due to a problem with the number significant digits.

you're missing some fingers?

He said significant digits. Not minor ones :P

(sorry, couldn't resist!)

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