Come Ons

Given that I was at a massive digital advertising and media show with what seemed like a thousand company booths and tens of thousands staffing those booths with the sole objective of stopping passersby with pithy questions and come-ons, this was extraordinary that I could be frozen in my path by any words. ❋ Bill (2012)

But Joan — in decidedly unsexy pajamas — overcomes her weakness for Roger, side-stepping his come-ons and sending him on his way: "I'm not a solution to your problems; I'm just another problem," she says. ❋ Unknown (2010)

NEW YORK — Whistles, catcalls and lewd come-ons from strangers are all too familiar to New York City women, who say they are harassed multiple times a day as they walk down the street. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

Grand bipartisan budget deals are one of the great come-ons of Washington politics. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They were favorite topics for email spammers to incorporate as come-ons in the subject line of millions of malicious messages sent across the Internet in recent weeks. ❋ Unknown (2009)

NEW YORK mdash; Whistles, catcalls and lewd come-ons from strangers are all too familiar to New York City women, who say they are harassed multiple ... ❋ AP (2010)

In its complaint, Microsoft alleges that the operators of Rustock are allegedly violating Microsoft trademarks with spam that fraudulently claims Microsoft sponsorships of lotteries and other come-ons. ❋ Nick Wingfield (2011)

No, he's not real so save your smutty come-ons for those porn sites. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And then in email there's the growing number of spammers who send endless requests to 'print your company's business cards' or other come-ons that don't offer any unsubscribe or response email. ❋ Steve Rosenbaum (2011)

If you own or operate a Web site for your business, the come-ons are no doubt familiar: "I visited your website and noticed that you are not listed in most of the major search engines," goes one popular one. ❋ Inder Sidhu (2011)

Much as birds chirp their threats and come-ons and commentaries, sagebrush lizards in the western United States communicate through little flex fests. ❋ Darwi (2009)

As Martin Lindstrom reminds us in "Brandwashed," marketers make sneaky appeals to our fears and desires, leverage our social connections to maximize peer pressure, dazzle us with tinfoil celebrity and lure us with sexual come-ons that would embarrass a bawd. ❋ Eric Felten (2011)

The people there that day worked like trojans with no regard at all for their safety – like you say, these people could easily have set up ‘come-ons’ and raised the death toll still higher. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)