Lilani said:
Most women want to think about relationships once they have a "friendship" established. This is because most women (except for bimbos and chronic daters) are looking for more long-term relationships--ones that could very well lead to marriage.
This is wrong on so many levels. When you are in "friendship" your cat's dead, like we say. Game over, move on to the next woman. Women are emotional, they are about chemistry and attraction, PLUS that affinity and complicity that can be found in a friendship. But a man won't get squat (be it a loving relationship or plain sex) without her feeling that attraction, that butterfly feeling, for him. And it's not a choice, either you have it or you don't, and it is notoriously difficult to change a woman's viewpoint on a guy from being a "guy friend" to a "boyfriend".
And there another slight difference: Women want to be
exclusive. That is why they focus on the long-term relationship, because it encloses the guy into an exclusive relationship and prevent him to spend his time, emotion, and resources on another woman.
As for pick-up lines, only the stupidest, lamest of guys with no game will use silly pick-up lines like that, and women LOATHE guys who use these to approach them. Best to just approach them either with a contextual opener (like "Whacha' reading" if she's reading a book), or just say "Hey, how are you?" and move on from there when the ice is broken.