Photos: Top ten Colorado School of Mines pickup lines

It's a good news-bad news situation for the Colorado School of Mines. Good news: The college is known around the country for the brilliance of its students. Bad news: This reputation has resulted in a whole series of online Mines jokes, with many of the weirdest ones involving pickup lines...

By Michael Roberts

February 21, 2014

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It's a good news-bad news situation for the Colorado School of Mines. Good news: The college is known around the country for the brilliance of its students. Bad news: This reputation has resulted in a whole series of online Mines jokes, with many of the weirdest ones involving pickup lines for fellow engineers. Below, check out our photo-illustrated top ten. We suspect you Mines enrollees and alums out there will despise them -- but at least you understand why they're stupid. We're only guessing. Number 10: "You fascinate me more than the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus." Number 9: "You're so much cuter than your avatar." Continue to keep counting down our list of the top ten Colorado School of Mines pickup lines. Number 8: "I'm attracted to you so strongly, scientists will have to develop a fifth fundamental force." Number 7: "It doesn't take a genius to see how gorgeous you are, but if it did, I would be overqualified." Continue to keep counting down our list of the top ten Colorado School of Mines pickup lines. Number 6: "Let's convert our potential energy to kinetic energy." Number 5: "What's your sine? It must be pi/2 because you're the 1." Continue to keep counting down our list of the top ten Colorado School of Mines pickup lines. Number 4: "How about me and you go back to my place and form a covalent bond?" Number 3: "Let's find out what our coefficient of friction is." Continue to keep counting down our list of the top ten Colorado School of Mines pickup lines. Number 2: "I won't stop bugging you until I get the address of your home page." Number 1: "Since distance equals velocity times time, let's let velocity and time approach infinity, because I want to go all the way with you."

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Michael Roberts began his career with Westword in 1990 as music editor. In 1999, he took on a new role, full-time media reporter, as author of a column called The Message. In 2008, he became the lead writer for Westword's news blog, The Latest Word, a position he held until January 2023. Michael continues to freelance for Westword, covering everything from business to sports and the media; he also contributes to Jazziz, a national music magazine. He holds a bachelor's degree from what is now Colorado Mesa University and master's degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, and Northwestern University.

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