# Saying the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 16, 2003, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-the-wrong-thing-in-the-wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time/175696 "2003-05-16T15:39:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Evil\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/45deac/32.png) [@Evil\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_One)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-the-wrong-thing-in-the-wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time/175696/1 "2003-05-16T15:39:14Z")

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I have always found the concept of saying the wrong thing in the wrong time and place very amusing. Here are a couple of examples. Seeing a group of leather-clad rough-looking motorcycle types, walking up to them and saying “Whose gonna be my bitch?” Or walking onstage at a National Organization for Women meeting, hitching up your pants and saying “Which one of ya’ll are cookin’ supper tonight?” I think you get the idea. I would love to hear of further examples from the fertile minds of dopers who enjoy the idea of defying social convention as much as I.

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**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-the-wrong-thing-in-the-wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time/175696/2 "2003-05-16T15:59:57Z")

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This requires that I travel through time, but you didn’t **specifically** prohibit that, now did you?

“Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?”

Sorry, old joke … but I love it!

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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-the-wrong-thing-in-the-wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time/175696/3 "2003-05-16T16:09:57Z")

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Some stand-up comedienne tells the story of how she performed for a NOW convention and led off with “I’m gonna have to do this quick, my man’s expecting me home to cook his dinner by 7 and then he likes oral sex by 9.” Faced with a stony response she followed up with “I’m just joking…my man likes oral sex _any_ time!”

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**Author:** ![WhiteyFoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@WhiteyFoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhiteyFoo)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-the-wrong-thing-in-the-wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time/175696/4 "2003-05-16T17:22:57Z")

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That would be the very funny Wanda Sykes-Hall (now without the Hall). Very funny woman.  
As the keynote speaker at the annual KKK Rally, open with “I had a dream…”