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09-30-2002, 06:21 PM
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"You're a good spitter" - Tell me your strangest compliment
Today, at the dentist's office, when I was rinsing after having a cavity filled, the dental hygienist says to me, "You're a good spitter." Strangely puzzled, as I consider myself only an average spitter, I thanked her and asked what she meant. Apparently some people make quite a mess when rinsing and spitting into the little funnel-shapped suction thing. I, on the other hand, got all my spit into the thing.
I've also been told (by a fellow doper, as a matter of fact) that I'd look good bald and that I have the face to carry it off. So tell me your strangest compliment. 
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#4
09-30-2002, 09:30 PM
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You're awfully big, for your size.
I'm only 5' 7", and it was after sex 
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#6
09-30-2002, 10:01 PM
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#7
09-30-2002, 10:02 PM
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"You could be in a toothpaste commercial!" - random girl at kegger
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#8
10-01-2002, 01:52 AM
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"I wish I had your vocabulary."
Said by a classmate after he finished hearing me debabte something or other. The specific compliments are always the best ones, I think. 
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#11
10-01-2002, 03:28 AM
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Well, the time the little kid in the bookstore I worked at said "Thank you, sir" after I rang up his purchase was a little unnerving, seeing I couldn't have been 10 years older than him. The first time someone ever called me "sir" when they didn't have to.
Ohhh...I feel old just thinking about it.
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#13
10-01-2002, 04:51 AM
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That I remember: "You have model teeth." Meaning that all my teeth are healthy and placed where they should be...without the help of braces. The dentists and detal assistants say that.
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#14
10-01-2002, 05:16 AM
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I've also been told my teeth are beautiful, by a clarinet teacher.
"Open your mouth" "Eh?" "Let me see your teeth" "Ok" "Beautiful" The reason she wanted to look was that my clarinet doesn't sit in the middle of my mouth and she was checking to see if my mouth was particularly deformed. But what can you do? My clarinet still sits that way but at least I try to fix it.
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#16
10-01-2002, 07:16 AM
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Tell me your strangest compliment
Strange due to the circumstances, and not intended as a compliment, I'm sure: Ex- wife, after loading her car with personal belongings for her final departure, gets in car, starts it, sticks head out car window and yells: "It's too bad, the only thing you're worth a damn at doesn't pay anything." Oh, well.....
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#17
10-01-2002, 08:01 AM
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"You should be a librarian -- you have the personality for it."
Only because it was said by a librarian do I think it's a compliment.
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#19
10-01-2002, 08:23 AM
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Speaking as a librarian, gallows fodder, that's definitely only a compliment when it's coming from a librarian!
I guess mine would be being told, "you don't look like a librarian!" I get this frequently--from non-librarians, of course The only other one that I recall being totally stunned at was by my ENT, "magnificent! You have tonsils the size of golf balls!" He seemed really pleased when he said it--almost made me want to keep them, but I didn't.
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#21
10-01-2002, 08:37 AM
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Beginning programming class. The slightly absent-minded instructor had assigned us a programming task involving a card trick, and we were to obtain the data from an account he had set up. The data were supposed to be the numbers from 0 to 51 (to represent the cards) in random order -- only his data set had the numbers from 1 to 52, so no one's program worked. I went to his office to tell him; he pulled up the data, and sure enough, they were wrong. He scratched his head for a bit, trying to figure out how to fix it, until I quietly suggested that he just change the 52 to a 0, and then the data would work.
He thought about it for a minute, and then said (I wish I could recall the exact words) something to the effect of "You're not as dumb as I thought" or "You're smarter than you look." Mind, I had been getting perfect grades in the class up to this point. Wonder if it had something to do with the fact that I was one of only a very few women in the Comp Sci major?
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#24
10-01-2002, 09:51 AM
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From a guy named Emilio, whose grasp of English was rather, um, creative: "You have the face of an angel ... I do not know if you have the same wars in America, but you look like an angel in the last war."
I was flattered, until he asked me five minutes later how my trousers were going. (They're not going anywhere tonight, but thanks anyway.)
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#26
10-01-2002, 01:19 PM
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I don't know if I would call it a compliment, but I puffed out with pride.
And no, me puffing out wiht pride wasn't pretty so don't even go there. Anyway, someone once told me "<regular name here>, you are the meanest motheryouknowwhatgoeshere in the valley." Well she didn't say you know what goes here, but you get the picture, right?
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#27
10-01-2002, 01:28 PM
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My favorite compliment came from a friend's wife. Us fellas were sitting around talking computers and video card specs. Now I'm not a hardcore hardware wirehead, but I know enough to get myself in trouble. I popped up with a comment, and my buddy's wife swivels around wide-eyed and said, "Do you know what they're talking about?" I assured her I did, and she replies, "Wow, you sure don't LOOK like a geek!"
I know there's a compliment in there somewhere.
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#28
10-01-2002, 01:30 PM
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A few days ago a girl told me "I thought you were a senior. You look older." I'm a sophomore in college. Well, I thought that was very strange since most people tell me I look like I'm 12 (I'm around 4 foot 9-ish).
Last year a guy told me I have strong thighs. NO, I did not have sexual relations with him... he just put his hands above my knees when I was sitting down once... that was weird...
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#29
10-01-2002, 01:43 PM
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 I on the other hand am a "hard stick" and the phlebotomists run away when it's my turn.Recently my boss said, "You are the most amazing combination of infantile and advanced I've ever seen."
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#30
10-01-2002, 01:45 PM
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my step daughter told me i wasnt mean and evil like all the step mothers she had known
she was about 5 when she said this, her dad has only been married twice, once to her mother and the other time to myself. i think she was thinking along the lines of cinderella, snow white, ect.
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#33
10-01-2002, 01:53 PM
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"if you ever want to be really mean to someone, you should date them"
told to me by my girlfreind. it WAS a compliment... she was trying to say it was sad every time she had to leave, but it really didn't sound right.
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#34
10-01-2002, 02:57 PM
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from the guy that set up my new computer, he said I was a hyper-media multitasker. This is not what I do with the computer, it's a reference to my personality. I will treasure it always.
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#35
10-01-2002, 03:35 PM
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Oh, yes...people at the plasma center constantly praise me and my good-bleeding vein. They cite it as an example of good physical health and hydration...
  If only they knew...
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#36
10-01-2002, 03:40 PM
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A couple:
"Sheesh Swimming, you have the loudest piss I've ever heard." This was said whilst standing next to a coworker at the urinal. "The more I talk to you, the more I want you." Which at first appears to be a compliment, but if you think about it: she didn't want anything to do with me until she talked to me for a while... "You have gigantic knuckles for a man your size." I'm just over 6' and while my hands are a bit big, I still don't understand that comment. "You make no sense at all." Which wasn't a reference to my communication (though it might also fit there too) but rather, a comment on my taste in literature and music combined with my personality and job. "You'd think that a guy like that wouldn't be able to cook!" Uh, thanks...
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#37
10-01-2002, 03:52 PM
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#39
10-01-2002, 07:02 PM
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My big brother once told me I was the least feminine-acting woman he'd ever known. He was going through a bad patch where he considered typical female behavior to consist of lying, being manipulative, and generally being an asshole, so it really was quite a compliment.
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#40
10-01-2002, 07:31 PM
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I was buying mini-cupcakes from the bakery the other day, and as I was carrying them to the cash register a little girl about 5 or 6 called out "Hey, I like your cupcakes!" What is the socially correct way to respond to this kind of compliment? "Thanks" just doesn't quite seem to fit.
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#42
10-01-2002, 07:43 PM
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"You look like you should be wearing one of them Renaissance type dresses and riding a horse."
-A year or so ago from an older guy who comes in once a year to do lighting for a panel discussion I help organize. It was completely out of the blue, and this guy had no idea that I love Ren Faires and such, so I was just tickled. (My mom's reaction when I related this over the phone: "You stay the hell away from that guy!" )
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#43
10-01-2002, 08:30 PM
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"Your poo smells interesting. Stinky, but interesting." ~my friend, as she was going into the bathroom and I was leaving
"I'm jealous of the spoon when you eat chocolate pudding." ~comment on how I eat chocolate pudding and how it looks like I'm doing some naughty licking of the spoon "You have cute little feet." "I can't believe you never had braces. Your teeth are too straight and perfect."
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#45
10-01-2002, 09:52 PM
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After reading an erotic horror story of mine, a friend told me it was so arousing he jerked off to it. <blush>
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#46
10-01-2002, 10:16 PM
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When presenting me with an award for "Social Studies Student of the Year", my high school history teacher likened me to Teddy Roosevelt, because I "spoke softly and carried a big stick."
He was a huge Teddy Roosevelt fan, so I know it was a compliment. It was just so terribly odd, though, especially coming from the man who had exhorted me the previous year to "get a personality."
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#49
10-02-2002, 09:59 AM
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On leaving a yoga class around ten years ago: "You'd make a good yoga teacher".
Eh? Still haven't figured that one out.
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