Like most things, I think its safe to say that pick up lines have evolved through the ages. With this issue being our Throwback Addition, I figured I could take us on a trip down memory lane, or through the history department, and remember those long forgotten pickup lines of old.

10,000 BCE - This Homo isn’t the only thing that’s Erectus.

500 BCE - You light up my world like Apollo.

711 AD - Islam may have reached Spain and India, but I think I’ll be the one to reach your heart.

1315 - Do you have the Black Plague or are you just dying to see me?

1543 - The earth may revolve around the sun but I revolve around you. - Copernicus, probably.

1606 - Is your name Pocahontas or are you just another twelve-year-old Native American princess?

1774 - Good thing I’m not a colonist, because I’d let you do Intolerable Acts to me.

1776 - You have the right to bear me in your arms.

1776 - "My signature isn’t the only thing that’s big." - John Hancock, probably.

1793 - It must be the Reign of Terror, because I am losing my head over you.

1803 - It may not be the Louisiana Purchase, but it WILL double in size.

1861 - Are you Jefferson Davis because you’re making the south rise?

1863 - Sorry, I’m not into bondage. - Lincoln probably

1903 - Did you invent the airplane, because you seem Wright to me.

1911 - Want to know why they call me Titanic? 'Cause when I go down, the ladies always get off

first.

1929 - I would give away my last nickel to be with you. Oh wait, I don’t have one.

1945 - My love for you is atomic.

1950 - I hate to be Russian you, but quit Stalin and let’s get out of here.

1963 - Are you the Cuban Missile Crisis? Because you da bomb.

1969 - “Do you wanna join the free love revolution with me?”

1984 - You won’t be “Like a Virgin” when I’m done with you.

1998 - You must be Monica Lewinsky, because I don't wanna have sexual relations with you.

2001 - I’ll take better care of you than I do my Tamagotchi.

2003 - I would trade my Pikachu for you.

2012 - The world is ending, and I have a fallout shelter at home.