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{{Short description|Attention that never leaves has no price}}
{{Infobox term
| name = Cat string theory
| also = cat string, string theory (pickup)
| field = Pickup
| origin = Mystery Method
| related = [[Push-pull]]; [[Takeaway (pickup)]]; [[Bait, hook, reel, release]]
}}
'''Cat string theory''' is Mystery-era slang for the same claim as [[push-pull]] and the [[takeaway (pickup)|takeaway]]: a cat chases the string that moves away and ignores the string in its face.<ref name="lingo">{{cite web |url=http://www.pualingo.com/ |title=PUA Lingo |author=Vince Lin |website=PUA Lingo |date=2008 |access-date=11 September 2026}}</ref><ref name="mm">{{cite book |last=von Markovik |first=Erik |title=The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-312-36011-5}}</ref>

This wiki records the metaphor. The house reading is ordinary: have somewhere to be, tease, do not sit in her lap all night. It is not a license to yo-yo someone as a hobby.

== Method ==
Leave, or look like leaving, after the set has hooked. Short version is a roll-off. Long version is actually going to another venue.

== Failure mode ==
Drama takes, fake jealousy, disappearing as punishment. That is not a string. That is a tantrum.

== See also ==
* [[Push-pull]]
* [[Takeaway (pickup)]]
* [[Bait, hook, reel, release]]
* [[Qualification (pickup)]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Pickup artist terminology]]
[[Category:Techniques]]
[[Category:Glossary]]

Cat string theory - Revision history

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