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Every so often, we get a woman to tell us about a guy's oafish attempt to impress her. Why? We want to learn something from the fairer sex. (OK, we also want to laugh at the tool.) If you have a tale, e-mail it to us.

During college, this guy started hanging out at the pool hall where I was a bartender.

He'd always chat me up while paying for his table and drinks. But I didn't have that "Aha, he's hitting on me!" moment until he saw the tattoo on my back. In an attempt to prove he was cool, he said, "Wow. You like tattoos? Me too. Check mine out."

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It was on his shoulder, just above the muscley, toned arms I'd admired many times from a distance. Tattoos? Muscles? It was every girl's dream. Until I saw the tattoo: It was a question mark.

"I couldn't decide what tattoo to get," he explained. "So I figured I'd get a tat of a question mark."

Lesson #1: If you're going to impress a girl with your tattoo, make sure it isn't a completely stupid one that demonstrates your utter lack of interest and imagination. That means no punctuation marks, names of ex-girlfriends, cartoon characters or portraits of celebrities.

Lesson #2: Here's a little secret. Every woman is a sucker for a guy who has a "Mom" tattoo.
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