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  • My mother is a very simple cook, who loves to eat, loves the grocery store, loves to chat-up the grocery line attendants, is over-excited when people cook for her.

    Linda Novick O'Keefe: We Are Our Parents' Mirrors Linda Novick O'Keefe 2011

  • In Ella Hickson's "Gift" a Panamanian boy who "passes as Arab" say the stage directions runs a souvenir stall at Ground Zero, and finds that handing out tissues with an appropriately mawkish chat-up line scores with two out of 10 girls.

    Many Voices Add Up to Memorable 'Decade' Paul Levy 2011

  • Also knowing I may have to screen my prospects I decided to buckle down to the laborious task of going out in the afternoons to down countless cervesas, stuff myself with innumerable botanas, and chat-up god-knows-how-many young ladies to find an acceptable travel companion.

    Page 2 2009

  • My mother is a very simple cook, who loves to eat, loves the grocery store, loves to chat-up the grocery line attendants, is over-excited when people cook for her.

    Linda Novick O'Keefe: We Are Our Parents' Mirrors Linda Novick O'Keefe 2011

  • My mother is a very simple cook, who loves to eat, loves the grocery store, loves to chat-up the grocery line attendants, is over-excited when people cook for her.

    Linda Novick O'Keefe: We Are Our Parents' Mirrors Linda Novick O'Keefe 2011

  • Laughter at the recognition of characters or chat-up lines, seeing holes in the storylines: "You just put your phone in your pocket!" one shouted at a boy on screen calling out to an empty street for an ambulance.

    Top Boy gets a mixed reception from Hackney residents 2011

  • Also knowing I may have to screen my prospects I decided to buckle down to the laborious task of going out in the afternoons to down countless cervesas, stuff myself with innumerable botanas, and chat-up god-knows-how-many young ladies to find an acceptable travel companion.

    Page 2 2009

  • Morning Star not to be confused with the socialist newspaper of the same name sounds like the New Radicals oldie You Get What You Give with the chorus replaced with rubbish chat-up lines about wishing on stars.

    This week's new singles 2011

  • We learn that during his time at the Spectator, his chat-up line was: "You must come and write for me at the Spectator."

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • My mother is a very simple cook, who loves to eat, loves the grocery store, loves to chat-up the grocery line attendants, is over-excited when people cook for her.

    Linda Novick O'Keefe: We Are Our Parents' Mirrors Linda Novick O'Keefe 2011

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