There's never a shortage of information on how to be a scintillating conversationalist. After all, if a woman finds you interesting, she'll want MORE of you.
But oftentimes in life, one of the best ways to really grasp a concept is to learn what NOT to do as well.
With that in mind (and after enduring years of listening to engineers with IQs of about 200 talk about they personally believe is "fascinating"), I've come up with a fairly quick list of 9 patterns...