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Mike Damone’s Five-Point Plan for Dating

1. Never let on how much you like a girl
2. Always call the shots
3. Act like wherever you are, that’s the place to be
4. When ordering food, you find out what she wants, then order for both of you.  It’s a classy move
5. Now, this is most important.  When it comes to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zepplin IV

Mike Damone provided these "helpful" rules for dating in the 1982 film "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," which was written by Cameron Crowe, who went on to write and direct "Jerry Maguire" and "Almost Famous."

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“[David] Schmier [the former director of interactive marketing at AOL] starts by laying out his networking philosophy for Lou. ‘If I’m trying to get a meeting with someone, I don’t tell him I’m planning to hit him up for job leads,’ he says. ‘I go out of my way to tell him that I’m not going to. After the meeting,’ Schmier continues, ‘I’ll send him something, like an extra ticket to a trade show. A couple weeks later I’ll send him something else, maybe a book that’s relevant to his work — not a new copy, but one I’ve spilled some coffee on, dogeared and underlined.’

“It sounds a lot like dating advice from Mike Damone in ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High.’”

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