“Joan, I feel sorry for some of my electrical eng friends, you know.” Meng shakes his head.
“Why, Meng?”
“Well, some of them went from boys high schools straight into electrical engineering — and it’s like going into another boys school. I’m all right because I do psychology as well but a lot of my friends are really scared of girls! Like, when a girl comes up and asks for help with a problem, they’d get all confused and shy.”
“That’s no good, Meng. They should join dancesport.”
“Nah, they’re not sociable, like me. Because I do psychology and all, they like to ask me for help. Have you heard of the Wingman Theory?”
“No…”
“In first year, one of my friends really liked a girl but it was hard for him to talk to her because she was always surrounded by a gaggle of her girlfriends. So we electrical engineers coordinated a campaign to give him a chance. We planned it! We had a briefing and we modelled our strategy using toy cars. The target girl was a Ferrari, her best friend was the Volkswagon…”
“Hahaha, really?? What happened?”
“Well, we were the Wingmen, you know? As the group of girls walked into the lecture theatre, we swooped. We all took a girl each and drew them away from the target girl, so she ended up walking into the theatre by herself. My friend finally got to talk to her.”
“Heehee! That’s crazy!”
“Yeah, yeah. We had one of the guys positioned at the top of the lecture theatre to watch the campaign so he could…”
“Report back?”
“Yeah. There was a debriefing afterward.” Meng sighs. “It actually didn’t work too well. You see, it just looked really weird, this one girl walking into the theatre and then followed by a whole group of people. It just looked weird.”
“A learning experience, then?”
“Yeah…”
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Posted by Vera
Wow! That’s CRAAAAZY!
I thought I was bad with my constant scheming and stalking… oops, shouldn’t have said that.
Hey, if they want to join a club with a favourable male-female ratio, get into amnesty international (why do you think I did?). Actually, even better – get into ballet! Guys generally don’t have to put any effort into socializing, the girls are always intrigued by a guy who does ballet. Hahaha
Posted by Daniel
I second girls being intrigued by a guy doing ballet. You get to throw girls around, which is always fun.
Surely there has to be some point in time when that girl is not surrounded by all her girlfriends? The guy should have talked to her then.
Posted by joee
… I have also been involved in many wingman schemes, though haven’t needed their support…yet… 😛
I actually find them really good fun, espescially the strategising part 🙂
We never had someone watching the ‘battlefield’ though…interesting idea…
Posted by 2c
I’m amazed at the effort people put into attracting people. I think that if someone went to this effort to chat me up, I’d be very flattered. Or freaked out. One or the other 😛
Do you think wingwomen would be more effective if a boy wanted to figure out how to attract another girl? A wingwoman could:
– provide insights into the bizarre female mind
– act like a rival and make the target girl jealous/interested
– distract the accompanying girlfriends in a more natural way.
Posted by joanium
What an idea. I think a wingwoman would be brilliant.
However, if a wingwoman would go to the trouble of doing all this for the wing commander, then perhaps the wing commander’s affections are misdirected?
Perhaps the old saying that a gay guy is a girl’s best friend, should be applied to this situation. Perhaps a lesbian wingwoman would be the ideal choice?
Posted by Daniel
I think the men who use wingman (generally shy etc) might have a hard time flying with women…it’s possible though 🙂 I’m willing to give it a shot :P
Posted by 2c
Hello Joan,
A very interesting blog you got down here ïŠ.
That thing wingmen theory we were talking about was just the basic. Wait! There’s more to it. Let me explain:
During our operation young years, we have things like. Wingmen, Wing commander, AVACS, spies, double agents, mission control. And yes even your WINGWOMEN was an integral part of the operation.
Beside the standard wingmen, wing commander, kamikaze pilots, we have cool stuff like
“Translator†– cause some target girls of other origin, speaks a different languages. And when they convey their deepest feeling they naturally do so in their native language. So having a translator can get you some inside details that are not normally transmitted on the English Channel.
Yes, we even have your wingwomen – they are female friends assisting our wing commander.
Once we had a wingwomen PRETENDING to date another wingmen, so the “target girl†had an impression of a double date with the wing commander. That was another funny story, Yes Joan they did all the below:
-provide insights into the bizarre female mind
– act like a rival and make the target girl jealous/interested
– distract the accompanying girlfriends in a more natural way.
-networking with the target girl group in hope of recruiting double agents
-lure too: once, we got a wingwomen to ask the target girl out for coffee, Target girl agreed! Unknown to the target girl, the whole squad of was waiting in the coffee place to ambush her. So, when the wingwomen and target girl arrived, we’ll all go “hey, what a coincidentâ€. Then the wing commander would use a corny line like “hey, looks like this is a sign that we are meant to know each other better, we keep bumping to each other all the time…..†[its really nothing more than just a well executed plan]
-More (too much old memory to fit in this small space)
“AVACS- eye in the sky†Think it stands for something like advance reconnaissance blab la.. Can’t even remember why we named it like that. Basically it’s this person’s job to keep an eye the battlefield. Give a report at the end to access the performance of the squad. Once, there was this other bad bad guy who liked our “target girlâ€, our AVACS detected this and saves the day. But that’s another story, so eye in the sky is really important too
In engineering there’s only like 2% datable-girls in the class, the rest are either, too boyish, nuts, too dominating, and etc.. Hey, its electrical engineering it’s a male dominated place so the competition is very tough.
In the heat of the battle, missiles streaking everywhere, coordinating a squad to take out secondary targets (her friends) is not easy task, often the “Wing commander†is clouded by the FOG OF WAR [see glossary]. * During these times the wing commander can call on, [Mission Control] –These are elite committee advisors, usually the most experience in this field. Their main task is to advice wing commander & make sure he don’t crash. Think of it like Huston, – whenever an astronaut runs into problems “Huston We’ve got a problemâ€. I was usually elected to be one of mission control team, on the basis that I went to a Co-ed school, and I was studying psychology and I had the most experience with girls – AT that time. We do stuff like
– give WC pick up lines
-keep him FUNNY, CONFIDENT & Mysterious in the face of the “target girl†(our tactical plan)
– discuss future mission and past mission performance
– Do Battle plan, where we had everyone represented as toy cars, cause we only had toy cars. our symbols were:
Ferrari – target girls, or hot guys or hot girls
Toyota Camry – girls or guys, with conservative or family type personality
Bus – A guy who would PICK-UP any girls he sees. Usually a playboy or playgirl type personality
General sport car – wingmen or wingwomen in the mission
Damage or soiled toy car – to represent ugly but friends of the “Ferrariâ€
Truck or van – Fat person
toy plane – Avacs – eye in the sky person
merc or lexus – rich boy or girl.
Example: planning goes something like. “at 0800 hr the Ferrari, will be waiting in front of the lecture hall [move the car]…….in the lecturer hall will be seated as plan….. the Bus will initiate conversation…… when signal is given, the bus will pretend that he’ll need your help. And will re position himself here here and here..â€
We’ll move the toy cars like around like they way u see the movies when they are planning a battle.
-more… continue next time.
I am sleepy now.. let me know next time.. there’s just too much to tell.
Conclusion – overall. We had almost a 100% success rate. We manage to get all the “target girls†to come along to party with us to, bbq, shopping and etc {measure of success}. Weather they (wing commander and target girl) loving one another, that’s a different story, But its our job to give the Wing Commander the best possible chance. How often would you agree to go out with a group of strangers whom u don’t even know 2weeks ago?
When I came across the theory it in class, I was a bit skeptical, but when we tried it out. I was amazed that it worked! TEAM WORK works!
There’s more:
Double agent – a friend whom is already a friend of the target girl. But we got her to defect to our side.
Pathfinder – just point to the person you like, this pathfinder will find out their names, what course she does, what class she’s in and what time etc.
Spies – unknown to the “target girl friendsâ€. Has the ability to survey the site in advance without arousing suspicion, they must be kept secret, they cannot be recognized by her or her friends
Infiltrator- daring wing women, who risk herself and fly alone to enemy territory, to be friends with the “target group†and gain their trust.
Sniper – a wingmen, who has the ability to establish rapport, talk and get her friends away from the “target girl†at record time. 2 min is our current record time.
Propaganda mission: wing women who would fly in and spread news of, how wonderful the wingcomander is or how bad the competitor is.
Double date mission: wingwomen and wingmen pretending to date each other.
Ambush mission: lure the target to a killbox, where pretend it was all a coincident that we meet up.
Much much more.
Glossary: Fog of War – research has shown when you are in love – you do stupid things, during a mission when A guy got a hot’s for a girl, its easy for him to do stupid and crazy things. This stupidity = FOG
Posted by meng
Man I am so impressed…I’ve already convinced my mates to give this a shot…all we need is a target 😛
2C
Posted by 2C