my favorites:

Breton

Sot oc'h gant ar binîoù?

Are you fond of bagpipes?

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Chinese (Mandarin)

(fǎndòngpài zǒng yǐwéi zìjǐ liǎobuqǐ, qíshí bùguò shì zhǐlǎohǔ)

The reactionaries always think they are terrific, but in fact they are just paper tigers.

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Finnish

Oho! Tota noin ... Eihän se vaa ollu' sun ajokoira?

I'm awfully sorry ... was that your ferret?

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Scottish Gaelic

Dè th'ort fo d'fhèileadh?

What do you wear under your kilt?

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*Manx Gaelic

Vel oo er chur sheese yn skeddan ayd foast mleeaney?

Have you salted your herring this year yet?

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Irish Gaelic

Pionta Guinnes le do thoil

A pint of Guinness, please.

Tá póit orm

I have a hangover.

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German

Wir wollen Ihre Kühe und Schafe sehen.

We want to see your cows and sheep. O.O

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Hindi

Merā dūdhvālā beīmān hai.

My milkman is dishonest.

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Latin

Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?

Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?

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Portuguese

Onde é a embaixada timorense mais próxima?

Where is the nearest East Timorese embassy?

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Romanian

Cu cana poţi să bei lapte, dar cu pisica nu poţi să tai lemne

You can drink milk with a cup, but you can't cut wood with a cat

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Spanish

No me importa mirar, pero prefiero no participar

I don't mind watching, but I'd rather not join in :O

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Tibetan

Nga saymong chig gö.

I need a squirrel.

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Uzbek

Gorbachevning boshda katta xolli bor.

There is a large birthmark on Gorbachev's head.

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Welsh

Mae defad wedi bwyta fy mrechdanau!

A sheep has eaten my sandwiches!

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*I did find these in their entirety at this wonderful site which I highly recommend. it even has wav files for some of the sayings. however, I do wish to point out that they swiped my manx herring off the net (so to speak) first, so I don't feel guilty swiping these back especially since I'm crediting them and linking to it. :p

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this was a cool find. :D

multiple language versionz of "My hovercraft is full of eels."

link

"Just as the legend of the Holy Grail and 9/11 conspiracies refuse to die, the myth persists that somewhere out there is a secret pickup line, as jealously guarded as the formula for Coca-Cola, that will endow the schleppiest guy with hottie-melting mojo.

Male pickup prowess has been explored in movies like "Hitch" and in books like "The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists" by Neil Strauss...

...Recently, a group of researchers at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland used pickup lines as a means to determine how women assessed the desirable qualities of a male.

Psychologist Peter Caryl says the study was based on the ideas of Geoff Miller's book "The Mating Mind," in which he argued that the evolution of humans was based not on natural selection but on sexual selection. Thus, males who could come up with the best conversational gambit -- not necessarily a pickup line -- presumably would make more desirable mates.

"Given this background, and the fact that no one seemed to have looked at chat-up lines from an evolutionary perspective, we decided to have a go at this," Caryl says...."

Results:

"...Actions spoke louder than words. The two scenarios that women rated the highest weren't pickup lines at all, but displays of chivalry..."

4 Rules:

1: A tacky cliched line is no better when it's uttered ironically.

2: Being drunk does not make you resemble Dudley Moore in "Arthur."

3: The direct approach can work.

4: Humor is your friend.

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