The stupidest thing you can remember someone saying to you? - Page 2

Inverse Icarus · May 30, 2003, 12:27

EW! You're a communist? how could you like hitler?

Urban Ranger · May 30, 2003, 12:44

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Originally posted by mindseye
Perhaps a sha gua ("melonhead").

More like "silly melon"

Perhaps a "dumb egg?"

MRT144 · May 30, 2003, 12:49

"you can hella breath under water"
"i didnt kick brandyn, he walked his groin into my foot"

Amadan · May 30, 2003, 13:16

Recently (at work) it's been, "Wireless Internet? So, does that require a phone line?"

chequita guevara · May 30, 2003, 13:17

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Originally posted by Uber KruX
EW! You're a communist? how could you like hitler?

I've gotten that.

Dumbest thing anyone ever said to me story.

I was down in Springfield, IL to attend a wedding of a friend. I was up late, hanging out in the lobby, drinking lousy coffee and chatting with a local: alder man, slicked hair, moustahe, glasses, looked kinda like a Prussian officer from the 19th Century.

We're talking about all soerts of stuff, being a proud poppa, he's talking about his boys in the military, and then somehow he tangents onto the subject of Black people.

"I just don't know what we're gonna do. We shoud round them all up and put them in prison or something until we civilize them. Oh, it make take a couple hundred years"

* chegitz trying to keep jaw from hitting floor and eyes from bugging out

I don't really remember much after that.

In what can only be considered spectacular timing, within minutes of that declaration, my Black roommates (to be honest, one was a Dravidian Indian, but she looked Black) showed up. Kaiser Wilhelm clamed up, I said goodbye, and we went back to our hotel room, I told them the story, and after I cured my friend's natural impulse to go find the guy, we started laughing our asses off.

raghar · May 30, 2003, 13:18

What about something like... New processors are as fast as 2000 MHz/sec.

Of course I think quotes from common journalists should get half amount of points. Or was it quote from computer magazine?

Inverse Icarus · May 30, 2003, 13:19

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Originally posted by chegitz guevara
"I just don't know what we're gonna do. We shoud round them all up and put them in prison or something until we civilize them. Oh, it make take a couple hundred years"

i see your outrage, as the very IDEA that they could one day BECOME civilized is laughable!

kidding... kidding...

Solver · May 30, 2003, 13:21

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What about something like... New processors are as fast as 2000 MHz/sec.

Not that wrong technically. A 2000 MHz (2 GHz) processor actually means that it does 2 trillion operations a second.... stupid, though, yes.

I can recall on a gaming site very recently: the game was tested using a P4 2.4 MHz computer... wow, that's a fast one!

Arrian · May 30, 2003, 13:26

"You're from Connecticut? What state is that in?"

"Yankees suck, the Red Sox always win!" - to be fair, this was from the son of one of the guys on my softball team, and he's about 8 yrs old. Poor, misguided soul. So much pain and misery ahead of him.

My memory sucks... I'm sure there are other really good one's I'm forgetting.

-Arrian

raghar · May 30, 2003, 13:27

to Solver

Sure about it?

Inverse Icarus · May 30, 2003, 13:33

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Originally posted by Arrian
"You're from Connecticut? What state is that in?"

i often mixed up stuff like that as a child, but never that bad.

for example, i thought my counsins lived in the state of Chichago, i thought Boston was the state name, etc.

i still had it all straight, locatonwise and whatnot, but i just mixed them up occasionally

Dauphin · May 30, 2003, 13:33

When at the top of the Hancock building in Chicago some woman overheard me talking and asked me "Are you British?". I said I was. Her follow up question was "Do they still have vampires in London?".

Arrian · May 30, 2003, 13:37

Talk British to my Kids! [/Izzard]

-Arrian

JohnT · May 30, 2003, 13:56

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Originally posted by JohnT
My brother (who is slightly off-kilter) actually asked my wife, a stay-at-home mother, the following question:

"Do you work or do anything other than staying around the house?"

Reason why this is stupid and not just rude is that Laura works her a** off for Sophie, and being a stay-at-home mother is quite difficult.

Ming · May 30, 2003, 13:56

While opening my car door WITH THE KEYS in a parking lot, a lady came up and asked if I was sure that it was my car. I said yes... as my keys opened the door, and she still went around the back to check the license plate.

She explained afterwards that she couldn't remember where she had parked her car... and that it was the same model and color... What a space angel...

Japher · May 30, 2003, 14:04

Yeah, one time while I was in line at the grocery store a bag boy came in, after helping some elderly women into her car, and hollard "Does anyone own the white Chevy that is double parked in front of the handicap space!"

Some guy hollard back; "No. I think the dealership left it there..."

Anywho

My lil sis snuck a license plate frame onto the front of my car that says "Proud brother of Anne". I have been asked about 5 times, "Whose Anne?"

My sister... duh

Agathon · May 30, 2003, 14:14

When I was at high school this bimbo (great lookin' too) asked our English teacher:

"Mr ******, is there quicksand in real life?"

Agathon · May 30, 2003, 14:20

Actually, here's one that happened this year. One day this past winter it was about 20 below and in my afternoon tutorial the students were arguing about religions. A couple of the guys in the class are Jewish and wear the Jewish skull cap and are obviously Jewish (except one has red hair - I've never seen a Jewish person with red hair before).

I (the teacher) sort of sat back and tried to think about nice things, when one girl, after a barrage of critical comments about religion in general, asked one of the skull cap wearers, "Are you Jewish?"

Everyone just looked at her. So I said, "No he just wears that hat all the time".

Then the Jewish guy said, "yeah, it keeps out the cold."

People kept laughing about it for the rest of the class, so we didn't get a lot done.

Sava · May 30, 2003, 14:23

from one of my more conservative buddies:
"Reagan proved that giving tax cuts to the rich ultimately helps the poor."

??

One of my all-time favorites is an interview of Charles Barkley from an All-Star game in the early 90's. A local woman reporter said the following:

"I'm here with perrenial all-star Charles Barkley. Being such a great player, you must have won a lot of championships. What's that like?"

GePap · May 30, 2003, 14:25

Well, this might take some knowledge of NYC geography but, Madison square Garden is on 34th street and 7th avenue, while the Empire state building is on 34th street and 5th avenue, east of the garden.

I was on the observation deck of the Empire State Building when i oevrheard some tourist looking west, trying to figure out what all the buildings were.

one points to a large ciruclar building (Madison square Garden) nad wonders what it could be. Another person in the group thinks it might be Madison Square Garden, when another member says:

"It could not be Madison Square Garden, the building is round."

That was about 8 years ago, yet I have neevr forgotten it.

In my school, one day the Teahcer was yelling at the class because everyone (but me..) had done poorly in thir social studies exam. He would not say who did well, but that he was angry at the class. He was done yelling, so he decided to move on and said "anyway...", then a fellow student (saluditorian of the class, mind you) called out "Are you talking about Annie?" The teacher just stared at him dumbfounded.

Japher · May 30, 2003, 14:25

Barkley

Championship

Solver · May 30, 2003, 15:43

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Originally posted by raghar
to Solver

Sure about it?

Clearly. Also, computer CPU speeds are measured in Hz (MHz, GHz, whatever) - which stands for frequency. In physics, frequency measured in Hz means how many times a second does something happen. And this is why 2 GHz / sec isn't correct... the GHz thing already implies that it happens in seconds.

Az · May 30, 2003, 15:46

I'd love it if my computer had performed at 500mhz per second.

Imran Siddiqui · May 30, 2003, 15:54

While in undergrad I was in this Causes of War class. There was this student, Julian, who was a total numbskull. Anyway, one our midterm, question 60 was 'Fill in A, this is a free point' (I guess it was basically to keep the number of questions even). In our review class, Julian raises his hand, and says:

"What if you didn't fill in A for question 60?"

I thought the prof was going to have a heart attack! He said "What do you mean you didn't fill in A?"

Also one of my friends was told that 'Hitler was World War 1'

Arrian · May 30, 2003, 16:13

"I'm an architect, I can walk!"

A friend from college, shaking off assistance in walking back to the dorm while *extremely* drunk.

But I'm guess drunk quotes don't really count - that could be it's own category.

-Arrian