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My MIL last night asked which member of the band was named Lynard Skynard. She couldn't understand that their is no one in the band with that name. She's asked the same question about Jethro Tull and Alice Cooper. All of which are bands she likes she just keeps referring to them as "him" instead of "them". and keeps wanting to know who in the bands has those names despite being told many times that no one in those bands has those names. At least she likes them, that's the important thing.
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quote:Originally posted by zman977: My MIL last night asked which member of the band was named Lynard Skynard. She couldn't understand that their is no one in the band with that name. She's asked the same question about Jethro Tull and Alice Cooper. All of which are bands she likes she just keeps referring to them as "him" instead of "them". and keeps wanting to know who in the bands has those names despite being told many times that no one in those bands has those names. At least she likes them, that's the important thing.
Zman, While neither Jethro nor Lynyrd are in the bands, Alice Cooper is a person. Born Vincent Furnier.
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quote:Originally posted by zman977: My MIL last night asked which member of the band was named Lynard Skynard. She couldn't understand that their is no one in the band with that name. She's asked the same question about Jethro Tull and Alice Cooper. All of which are bands she likes she just keeps referring to them as "him" instead of "them". and keeps wanting to know who in the bands has those names despite being told many times that no one in those bands has those names. At least she likes them, that's the important thing.
Zman, While neither Jethro nor Lynyrd are in the bands, Alice Cooper is a person. Born Vincent Furnier.
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yes, I know. I was referring to his stage name in that case. I actually interviewd him on the air a few years ago. he was playing in the area and wanted to do an on air interview and I was lucky enough to talk to him. Hopefully I'll get to talk to him again someday.
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Last weekend we had a yard sale and just about every other person that walked by asked "So, are you having a yard sale?" GAH! No, we just drug all our stuff out onto the sidewalk, arranged it nicely, and put prices on it for FUN
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Sometimes during work, I find myself scribbling things so fast that I can't read them later. Today, I was trying to email someone based on my scribbling and apparently, it was the wrong email. When the person called me and said she didn't get my message, I asked "So who did I email it to?"
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Just came back in from walking our dog. Someone came up to me and asked, "Is that your dog." nope. just walked around with an empty leash and this dog walked up and hooked herself on and we've been walking ever since
Just so you know, this is someone who knows my wife and I and has seen our dog many times.
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Last night I was attempting to play pool (after a few drinks), and my friend told me to make the shot I should hit a bit to the left. My response: "My left, or the ball's left?"
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Someone once asked me, "Are you getting all your mail?"
Um. All that I know of. How would I know if I were missing any?
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"So V-E Day ... when was that?"
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quote:Originally posted by NancyFancyPants: Not to get off the subject again, but am I the only one who looks at the bottom of the screen and thinks it says, "Infopoop"?
Nope, Haven't seen that yet.
Never mind. I"ll get it.
seriously I did look after reading your post and I can see how one could think that.
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A friend if mine once drove over an icy patch one winter and the car skidded against a tree. Luckily he was as slow as the conditions required and so the only thing happening was damage to the front and hood, about 1200 Dollars worth. His girlfriend looked over to him and asked: "Why did you do that?"
We still use this as a running gag when someone has a mishap
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quote:Originally posted by zman977: Just came back in from walking our dog. Someone came up to me and asked, "Is that your dog." nope. just walked around with an empty leash and this dog walked up and hooked herself on and we've been walking ever since
Just so you know, this is someone who knows my wife and I and has seen our dog many times.
Sounds like you could write for Bill Engvall.
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Stopped myself rom asking this out loud at the last minute but I sure asked myself in my head. I was watching TV last night when there was an ad for a charity and the words "I hank you" flashed onto the screen at the end. "Wtf does 'I hank you' mean?" i thought, "is it meant to be some cute childish way of saying "I love you?". Afterall, there had been children on the advertisement. It took me quite a while to realise that it actually said "THANKYOU" and not "I hank you".
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Sat with a group of friends one time, and someone mentioned something about having a can of drink.
"Drinks come in cans!?" I exclaimed.
I was thinking tins in my head, honestly.
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A stupid question I asked was when I was at the Nascar races I asked a guy sitting next to me if it was the Busch Race or Nextel Cup race when it was clearly Saturday (Busch Race is on a Saturday in the Spring Races.)
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quote:Originally posted by Spikey: Sat with a group of friends one time, and someone mentioned something about having a can of drink.
"Drinks come in cans!?" I exclaimed.
I was thinking tins in my head, honestly.
Hehe, on page one of the thread you were thinking of jars
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Ouch! Managed to post twice, in the same thread!
And I meant tins on page 1.
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Once when I was younger (I'm 25, so I'm guessing it was AT LEAST 15 years ago) I called 411 and asked, "What time does so-and-so close?" The operator was like, "Well, I don't know!" I'm all sassy, "Well isn't this INFORMATION?"
I don't know. I was a KID!
Does this deserve a or a or a ?
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quote:Originally posted by MissE: Once when I was younger (I'm 25, so I'm guessing it was AT LEAST 15 years ago) I called 411 and asked, "What time does so-and-so close?" The operator was like, "Well, I don't know!" I'm all sassy, "Well isn't this INFORMATION?"
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Vienna can get incredibly hot in July. To make matters worse, not many places there have air conditioning.
On my last night there I was talking to the director of my hostel, who is from Colombia, and to a girl from the U.S. I asked the hostel director, "Do you get used to the hot summers after a while, or is it always uncomfortable?"
He gave me a blank look. The girl just sighed and said, "For God's sake, he grew up in Colombia!"
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quote:Originally posted by Signora Del Drago: Sara, that reminds me of the time my sister was at a party, and one of the guests, who is blind, asked her if she'd get his jacket for him. She asked, "Phil, is it the gray one?" He said, "Could be."
In a similar vein, I went on a beach trip with a group of friends; one of them was blind. The friend who was driving said, "If one of you guys see the hotel, could you tell me." A minute later, the blind one yelled out, "There it is!" "Where? Where?" the driver demanded. It took him a few seconds to figure out why we were all laughing so hard.
That reminds me of an elderly blind friend of our family's when I was growing up. He was telling us about a restaurant where he'd recently eaten but couldn't remember the name ... he said it was "two letters." We were stumped at first, but then I asked him if it was Arby's. He said yes, that's it -- and when I told him how it was spelled (not "RB's") he got the biggest kick out of it. He always loved to laugh at himself.
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In 7th grade we were invited to submit anonymous written questions concerning a film we watched in class. For some reason I thought it would be funny to ask "Do chickens have pubic hairs?" Unfortunately, I was the only kid in class that wrote in red ink (remember those 4-color pens where each tip snapped into place?). Needless to say my teacher didn't think it was funny.
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Once a long time ago (I was 13 or 14 I guess), I called a music store to ask about having a trumpet replated; specifically, how much it would cost.
The guy replied, "Usually, about one-seventy-five."
In shock, I asked, "A DOLLAR SEVENTY FIVE?!!?!?!"
Ater a brief pause, he said, "Uh, no. A hundred and seventy five dollars."
I was so embarassed, I just hung up.
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A friend used to work in a shop and get asked every few minutes how much things were by the customers. The shop was "Everything's A Pound."
My personal worst was asking what day is Easter Monday this year!
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In my class one of the children asked "PJ, how do you spell your name?"
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quote:Originally posted by Esprise Me: I had a friend once who was colorblind. I knew this about him. It came up in conversation every once in a while. But that didn't stop me from asking him one day, while looking at earrings, what he thought of these particular stones, and when he shrugged, what he thought, specifically, of the color. He just stared at me until I figured it out.
That reminds me of an colleague I had who was red-green colorblind (as in: not being able to distinguish the two at all).
I had just bought a new car which was a bright metallic green color. Colleague comments:
"Nice car, just don't like the color."
"But you're colorblind..."
(Colleague gets quite indignant) "Just because I'm colorblind doesn't mean I can't have an opinion on its color! I just experience it differently."
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Whenever you ask my husband something stupid, he says, "You guys playing CARDS?" (15 points for movie reference!)
Kent "Flounder" Dorfman in "Animal House"?
Had to think a bit about that one, it also reminds me of John Candy cheating at cards in "Stripes"
I'm no better. I was half-heartedly trying to make conversation with someone at a family reunion several years ago. She was from Atlanta, and was talking about the Olympics being held there in the coming year. Without thinking (obviously!) I asked "summer or winter". egads!
Nappy "well, duh" Solo
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Had a customer last week calling at our Call Center C: Till when are you open? I: Till 22:00 o'clock(10 Pm) C: And till what time are you taking calls. I: Till 22:00 o'clock(10 Pm) C: And then? (Because she was just the last in a long line of idiots.) I: Then....We go home.
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quote:I had just bought a new car which was a bright metallic green color. Colleague comments:
"Nice car, just don't like the color."
"But you're colorblind..."
(Colleague gets quite indignant) "Just because I'm colorblind doesn't mean I can't have an opinion on its color! I just experience it differently."
My daughter has the same problem and asked me the other day "Why are you wearing that green top with the red one? It's not Christmas." I said "Sweetie, this top is brown, not green." She kept insisting it was green until I finally said "Hon, which one of us is colorblind?"
I can't really call her question stupid though, she's only 9 and only learned she was colorblind a year ago.
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At my first job, there were six of us in our department, five men and one woman (let's call her Jane, 'cause that was her name.) And we used to go to lunch together.
Over lunch one day, the subject turned to transvestitism. Jane leaned over the table and said "For all you know, one of us at this table could be wearing ladies underwear."
I leaned over the table and said "You're right Jane, and I bet I know which one of us that is."
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