Taboo tutor

Say Something!

You've been eying that cutie from marketing for months as she walks around with that knowing smile on her face. She's held your stare for just one second too long to be casual. Finally, when the tension was palpable, you asked for her number.

It all went well from there. A call or text, an invitation issued and declined (you were undeterred, you know that game), a second invitation she accepts. Now here you are, at the best table with the perfect lady, with your favourite drink (Rumble, a perfect mix of Taboo and Appleton VX) and you have absolutely nothing to say.

Your mind is scrabbling madly. You've already asked how her day was, told her that she looks nice, asked if she's ever been here before. Hell, you've even employed those most embarrassing of silence-fillers "Boy the days are getting hot." "Traffic bad, eeh." Yet, nothing...

Shucks! You should have checked our website before you went on the date.

Introducing the Taboo Tutor - and you thought all we did was make a sexy, potent, energy drink. Well, we'll tell you a thing or two about socializing. No man/woman-about-town is without his/her stockpile of funny little facts, ready to deliver one as soon as the specter of awkward silence looms. Because the truth is, after you've impressed her (or him) with your looks and your style, the next step, the clincher, is to introduce your wit, your charisma, your Savoir Faire.

So here are a few of our very own tricks, random little facts that never fail to get the ball rolling on a conversation full of laughs and exclamations, without so much as a breath of the dull...

1. No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half (no one can resist testing this out)
2. Over 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people
3. According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
4. You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206
5. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
6. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
7. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
8. Damiana (an ingredient of Taboo) has been used as an aphrodisiac since the time of the Maya.
9. Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
10. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
11. Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second
12. Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is U$2,500
13. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult
14. Most lipstick contains fish scales
15. The state of Florida is bigger than England
16. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave

Now, if after all that, there's still no response... maybe that blank look in her eyes is not so much boredom as emptiness. Conversation requires thinking, and maybe that's just not her forte. You win some, you lose some. Besides we hear they just hired a long-legged, glamazon over in Customer service.