For those who like openers, here's a list that I have found. Watch out some of these are too Americanised.

ARE YOU SHY?
Are you guys shy? I've been standing here talking to my friend for like 5 minutes now and you still haven't said 'hi".

BLIND DATE
Walk up to a girl or a group of girls. (No guys in the group preferred you will know what I mean).
Say loud and clear, "hey, I need your opinion on something."
"I am going on a blind date with some girl and I am very nervous about it. Are there any tips you can give me so I don't look like an idiot. I don't really know how to dress to impress or act the right way" (Act as AFC as you can to disarm the bitch shield).

Now some girl would just tell you "be yourself". You should reply with C&F line or expression. What I did was I made a very serious face and said "like this?" which cracked them up. I then put up the serious face again and said, "I need to know", and then change to a happy face and said "come on, tell me the secret to girls' hearts, and how do I dress to impress. If you were going on a blind date, what would you like the guy to look like".

At this point at least one girl would volunteer to give you a few tips, and then more will follow. You can then ask all the questions you want to those girls until they go dry (EV). Or you can run some patterns and move in to your routines.

Depends on how well you spin it, you might be able to get one of the girls out shopping with you or more. The danger of this opener is, they might give you advices to be AFC, i.e. buy her flowers...blah blah blah. It is your natural ability as an ASFer to filter out the useful info from the AFC ones.


COLOGNE OPENER
In a mall put on different cologne on each wrist and ask girls which one smells better on you. Go back and forth several times between arms and make cute faces when you do.

Have something queued up and ready to go immediately afterwards.


COMPLIMENT OPENER
Compliment her on something she's wearing or her hair or just style in general. The trick is compliment openers are to never compliment her on her physical beauty.

You have an incredibly energy about you
You have an artless grace
That's an incredible whatever-x accessory/garment

DATING FOR DUMMIES
Go find the Dating for Dummies book. It's bright yellow and black. I forget the exact page (78 maybe?), but find the page that has "NEVER USE THESE LINES" on it, and keep the book open to that page.

Walk up to a girl BLATANTLY and hold the book up in front of your face so she can easily read the title. She might start laughing, depending on how you do it.

Then slowly lower the book and read the lines. "So... come here often" in a super player voice. She will crack up and answer you. Break your "smooth" look on your face and quickly bring the book back up and read the next line "What's your sign?". She will laugh again and probably answer.

Then I usually say "Wow... this works great. Your turn". It puts her on the spot. You can flip to random pages and do tons of role-play... the breaking up stuff is great.

Eventually just stack with a relationship related opener, and you're in. I've done this a ton of times and it never fails to open.


DAVID BOWIE
Hey guys, I need a female opinion. Do girls think the rock star David Bowie is hot?

(blah, blah, blah)

Get this... my roommate's little sister, she's 7 and half years old, has a HUGE picture of David Bowie on her wall. I'm not talking an 8x10; I'm talking a 4-foot by 6-foot POSTER! It's like the first thing she sees when she wakes up in the morning.

David Bowie is a freaky looking OLD MAN! She's like 7 and he's like 70. I'm seriously worried about my roommate's little sister.


DIRECT OPENERS
Hi, I like you. And I'd like to get to know you.
Hey, What's up?
Where are you going?
You're cute, are you friendly/interesting?
You guys are so adorable. You have such a cute group dynamic going on. I want to meet you guys. My name is x-name.
How are you?
You look like someone I'd like to meet.
Can I ask you a quick question?(Sure) Are you single?etc.
(I have a lot of successes with these on girls that are HB7 and lower or older women)


DENTAL FLOSS
Hey guys, I need to get your opinion on something. It's very important, and we need a woman's perspective. It's a matter of life and death.. My friend and I were having a debate and your answer could completely change my entire life....

Do you brush before floss or floss before brush? No one knows.


DON'T TOUCH ME
When a girl bumps into you in a crowded club tap her on the shoulder and say "don't touch me". Have something to immediately follow up with.


DRUG DEALER OPENER
Used with a wing at night, with funny, just-got-done-laughing tonality.
"Hey, I need your opinion on something...does my friend here look like a drug dealer?" (chicks usually either laugh or look quizzically) "Because we were outside and some dude came up to him and touched him on the shoulder like this...
(cheap kino on girl) and asked, 'Hey man, you got some weed?'" Ideally you will use this with a wing who doesn't look too straight-laced.

I've done this where my wing will open with this and I'll pipe in with "Since I've changed my look I get asked, "do I party" like all the time. I think they're looking for cocaine. Another thing I've noticed is about 10 times a night I'll get someone coming up to me and asking "can I bum a cigarette". I don't smoke but I'm seriously considering carrying around a pack but not like regular cigarettes. like Virginia Slims 120s then I'll just pull one out and hand it to the guy and he'll be all like "WTF?" etc."


EIGHTIES DOG
Hey guys, I need a quick opinion about something. My friend just got two puppies, a Pug and a Beagle. She wants to name them after an 80's pop duo. she wants to name them. DURAN DURAN. I think that's a horrible idea. you can't have two dogs with the same name. Do you guys have any ideas?

I was thinking Sonny and Cher would be a good one, because the Pug dog is a male and the Beagle dog is a female. But they're 70's, not 80's, so that won't work.

Maybe Axel and Slash would be good, but they're rock n' roll hair band style.

Milli Vanilli was a thought, but those are both guy names. We need a female name. Plus, Milli doesn't fit a Pug or a Beagle.


EIGHTIES MUSIC
Hey guys, help me out, I have this song stuck in my head ALL day and I can't remember who sings it. it goes "you spin me right round baby right round like a record player right round, round round, etc...." who sings that???

(blah, blah, blah)

I was talking to my mom earlier today and she said its Lionel Richie. but I KNOW that isn't right!

Then later in the night you can like reopen with "Dead or Alive." This works with any one hit wonder 80s music.


ELVIS OPENER
Did you know that Elvis dyed his hair black? What was his natural hair colour?
Dirty Blond.
Did you know that Priscilla Presley also dyed her hair?

I don't know what her natural hair colour was, I'm not Cliff Claven, but can you picture that these two every couple of weeks would dye their hair black together around a dirty sink in some sick mass-appealing ceremonial ritual? I bet people never considered that before ... did you?

Alternative:
Did you know that all Elvis had to do to get a shag was look directly into the girl's eyes and smile?

Then look into the chick's eyes and smile.

EXPENSIVE CLOTHES
"Hey guys, I need a female opinion... we were just Saks today, and there were all these 600$ collared tee-shirts. when chicks see guys wearing 6bill shirts like that, do they think its classy or try-hard?" (That's the skeleton obviously use your own speaking mannerisms).

Then you can use what info and opinions they give you to bust on them, using all the usual stuff.


FAT ELVIS
Hey guys, if you were going to hire an Elvis impersonator for your friend's birthday party, would you hire a young Elvis or a Fat Elvis?

blah, blah, blah. (if she says young Elvis bust on her for being shallow)

Get this, my roommate lived in Graceland for a year and he said the craziest thing. He told me that the fat Elvis impersonators always got the hottest chicks, and the young Elvis's were always alone. I couldn't believe it at first, but I thought about it, and it kinda makes sense. I guess women just lose all control when the see a fat Elvis impersonator doing "hunka hunka burnin' love."


FASHION TIP
I think this is highly underrated.

Just go up and just tell them how they would look EVEN BETTER to you. "Wear your hair open", "open that up one more button", or just fix their clothes. tell her what would look amazing on her.

Train your eye to look for imperfections and what to do against them. For the clueless, get two-dozen model magazines and look through the pictures SEVERAL times so you get some idea. Try to make up negs for these girls and point out what would look better on them

This sets an interesting frame. First of all, you are teaching her how to please you, if she reacts well, praise her for being a good puppy. Second, it is obvious that you are the prize, that you have standards and that you know what you want.

Women love the idea of seducing you, you just gotta teach them HOW and they will comply.

This is *not* delivered playful or C&F or anything, just a genuine comment.

From there, it's easy to launch right into a routine (for example you can talk about what and how much clothes say about people and cold-read her right there. whatever you want.)

CONT...

GAY OPENER
Preferably used with a wing and with a game-show host/party host attitude. "I need your honest opinion on something...do I look gay?" Some chicks will bust out laughing when you ask this. "...Because something really funny just happened, this dude was hitting
on me in another bar!" Better is to use this with a wing and change it to
"Does MY FRIEND look gay" because it eliminates the self-conscious aspect. The person who was supposedly hit on must play it off as something totally funny and even flattering.


GIRLS FIGHTING OUTSIDE
With great enthusiasm, "OMG! Did you see those two girls fighting outside? Like right outside the club... they were totally going at it; one was pulling the others' hair, and the other one drew blood with her nails. And they seemed to be fighting over this short guy; he was standing near them just totally laughing!


JEALOUS GIRLFRIEND
"Hey guys, I need a female perspective on something. This'll only take a minute. My roommate's girlfriend just found a shoebox he keeps hidden in a dresser drawer, and she's really upset about it.

It's nothing bad, just pictures of him and ex-girlfriends on vacation and old love letters he got in high school and stuff. But for some reason his girlfriend is freaking out about this and wants him to get rid of it or she's threatening to break up with him.

Is this normal female behaviour?"

So now she wants him to burn the box or she's leaving him, isn't that fucked up??

(girls get ridiculously into this opener and it helps if you tease them for it)


KHAKI OPENER
Hey, guys, my friends and I were making fun of some frat boys, and got into an argument...is khaki a color or a fabric?" The correct answer is that khaki is a color, and most girls know this. You can go into, "See, I was thinking it was a color, but the thing is that you never see a khaki car or wallpaper color or anything like that!" then fire into your next routine...


KINO OPENERS
Pushing girls, grabbing drinks out of their hands, lightly hip checking them, snapping bra straps, grabbing hats off heads, poke her, tap the opposite shoulder, etc.(these require no memorization are easy for newbie)

This has been mentioned somewhere in the forum but I thought I posted it again...

THE RING FINGER ROUTINE

Notice a gleam of metal on her fingers (a ring) and say, “I have to ask before I run: Why did you chose to wear that ring on that particular finger….Interesting…Do you always wear those rings on the same fingers?” (Note: Of course they always do, because that’s where they fit.) Then continue, “I have a friend who’s a spiritual type, and she just told me that like the finger you choose to wear your rings on says something about your personality…”If she is not wearing any rings, just ask instead, “Out of curiosity, and I’ll explain why I’m asking in a second, when you do wear rings, what fingers are they usually on?” If she normally doesn’t wear rings, ask, “Well, if you were to wear a ring, and it wasn’t a wedding ring obviously, what finger would it be on?” Then go on to explain :“Each one of these mounds” – the pads on the palm where the fingers join the hand –is represented by a different God, and in Greek culture, you wear a ring on that finger to praise and pay homage to that particular god. “For example, the thumb represents Poseidon which as you know is the god of the sea. And he was very independent. He was the only god who didn't live on Mount Olympus. He did his own thing. And the thumb kind of sticks out, it kind of does its own thing. People who wear thumb rings are therefore very individual and independent and generally do their own thing. They don’t follow trends, but prefer instead to set their own. The index finger is represented by Zeus. Zeus was the king of all gods, and the God of Thunder and Lightning. That's a very dominant finger, and having a ring there means you tend to be a more dominant person.” (Wave your index finger at them like "no no no" or"don't do that.”) It represents power and immense energy. Your middle finger is represented by Dionysus who is the god of wine and partying. He is a very irreverent God. So if you have a ring there, it means you tend to do what ever you want and care less about what others think.” (Then lift your middle finger up on its own and give the bird and say, “It’s like fuck you to the world.” When they are wearing a ring on that finger, they always laugh at this.)“Your ring finger is of course represented by Aphrodite. She is the goddess of love, and that is why we wear our wedding rings on that finger. (You can add all kinds of romantic cold-reading lines here, like, "When you fall for someone, you tend to fall completely for them.”)“Interestingly, it is the only finger that has a vein that goes straight to the heart without branching off, and so when someone puts a ring on that finger, they’re actually making a direct connection with your heart.” (If she is comfortable, you can trace a line from her finger up her arm as you say this.)“The pinky is represented by Ares. who is the God of war, and that's why you see mobsters wearing pinky rings, It represents conflict. ”If she is wearing a pinky ring, ask, "Did you buy that yourself or did someone give it to you?” If she bought it herself, it means she is sometimes at war with herself and has some inner conflict, maybe an emotional conflict or something she is not comfortable with herself about. If she was given it by someone ask, then ask by whom and tell her there may be some tension below the surface between the two of them, some unresolved problem that she just haven't solved yet. If the women ask, “How do you know this?" You may respond, "An ex-girlfriend of mine was into mythology and taught it to me." If she has a ring on her wedding finger ask, "Is that an engagement ring or do you just wear that to keep the womanizers away?" You’ll be surprised how often the latter is true.

POCKET GUIDE
THUMB = Poseidon, representing individuality
INDEX = Zeus, representing dominance, power, and energy
MIDDLE = Dionysus, representing irreverence, rebelliousness, and decadence
RING = Aphrodite, representing love and romance
PINKY = Ares, representing conflict

I like the intellectual approach

Ritz

these are awsome im a big fan of the ring finger routines wat books can i look into that will have these routines and stuff on cold readings ive use the cube routine and find that its awsum and get alot of interest from it but its the only one i'm aware of a new to this all but loving the advice and its all working a treat will post a field report up soon

thanks

Midway

Good stuff dude!I heard an epic, yet cheesey, opener the other day:
PUA: Hey would you have sex with me for £500?
Target: Umm..
PUA: Hurry cos I really need the money!

Instead of openers you could take rsd Tim's advice and think "how can I make this fun?"

this is a very god one! ahahah

Nicely put mate. Recently I've just been going with 'Hi, how's it going' / 'You guys having a good night', etc. and then talking about something totally random or situational and putting across a fun vibe.

As my signature says below...

I seem to forget my own (well someone elses) advice that i'm dishing out though, I think I need one of those jesus band things not WWJD but HDIMTF