New research into the romantic lives of famous men throughout history has verified what social historians have long suspected: eminent men have always tried to get dates, too. And now, thanks to the tireless research team working at Harvard’s James Q. Riddely Institute for Hornier Histories, we now know the pick-up lines some of them used when doing so.
“Discovering the pick-up lines of history’s most important men has really been exciting,” says project leader Melvin Phinbone. “It was a lot of research, but learning how men so important to our culture tried to get dates has made me feel like a lot less of a geek. And that’s really, really important when you’re a researcher at Harvard.”