# Thank you, kind sir. I think. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 7, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-kind-sir-i-think/173566 "2003-05-07T02:14:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MercyStreet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@MercyStreet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MercyStreet)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-kind-sir-i-think/173566/1 "2003-05-07T02:14:18Z")
From the Doofus Division of the Just In Case You Forgot The Years of Craniofacial Reconstruction Department: Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting a (and I mean this) dear colleague’s new wife. Lovely woman. Today the dear colleague dropped by my desk and announced: “So [Lovely New Wife] thinks you’re just gorgeous. You can’t even tell you had all that plastic surgery! Well, other than the scars.” I adore the guy. I really do. He’d sooner chew glass than knowingly hurt my feelings. But, like … sigh. Sniff. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-kind-sir-i-think/173566/2 "2003-05-07T05:04:29Z")
Would you like me to kneecap him for you? 😉 His scars will be barely visible! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-kind-sir-i-think/173566/3 "2003-05-07T13:13:05Z")
What an amazing statement. I can’t believe anyone can utter this and not realize it will be hurtful. When I turned 35 I was consulting and one of the engineers at the place I was consulting said: “No offense, but you look much older.” LOL. How do you start a sentence with “No offense” and expect others not to be offended? But back to your problem. Your friend is obviously a man of quality, or you wouldn’t adore him - so forgive him this one moment of offishness. He may have been reaching for gentle teasing and missed it by a mile. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-kind-sir-i-think/173566/4 "2003-05-07T13:20:44Z")
I don’t understand how someone would gently tease about scars. That’s just wrong. Was this elective or reconstructive surgery? Either way, it’s very insensitive. ---
**Author:** ![MercyStreet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@MercyStreet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MercyStreet)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-kind-sir-i-think/173566/5 "2003-05-07T16:14:00Z")
Oh, reconstructive surgery. Cleft lip with a lot of jaw and nose and sinus involvement. Ick. He is truly a gentleman. I think he just had one of those awful thinking-aloud moments. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-kind-sir-i-think/173566/6 "2003-05-07T16:21:02Z")
Your colleague and his Lovely New Wife are **Joe\_Cool** and **Jersey Diamond** , right? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-kind-sir-i-think/173566/7 "2003-05-07T16:53:08Z")
My teenaged kids had a bunch of friends over once, and one of the guys said to one of the girls, “Don’t take this the wrong way, but you don’t do anything for me.” I was walking through the room, stopped dead in my tracks and asked him, “Just for the record, what’s the _right_ way to take that?” He didn’t have an answer, so I made him apologize for being a doofus. He doesn’t come around much any more… ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-kind-sir-i-think/173566/8 "2003-05-07T16:54:28Z")
Oh shit. That was great, Eve! We call them The Decorum Twins! MercyStreet, you’re a doll to be so forgiving. I’m not sure I could do it. I’m sure you look terrific! ---
**Author:** ![MercyStreet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@MercyStreet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MercyStreet)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-kind-sir-i-think/173566/9 "2003-05-07T19:22:47Z")
_Your colleague and his Lovely New Wife are Joe\_Cool and Jersey Diamond, right?_ “Hello, IT? I seem to have horked diet Snapple all over the keyboard.” ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-kind-sir-i-think/173566/10 "2003-05-07T21:15:04Z")
Can’t talk…Iced Tea comin’ out my nose… ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-kind-sir-i-think/173566/11 "2003-05-07T23:41:31Z")
oh FUCK that was funny. ---
**Author:** ![MercyStreet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@MercyStreet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MercyStreet)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-kind-sir-i-think/173566/12 "2003-05-07T23:50:26Z")
_Can’t talk…Iced Tea comin’ out my nose…_ “You can’t even tell you had all that much to drink. Well, other than the iced tea shooting from your nose.” ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-kind-sir-i-think/173566/13 "2003-05-07T23:50:45Z")
**Eve** -you’re so bad! 😛 EHEHEHEHE… ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-kind-sir-i-think/173566/14 "2003-05-08T00:33:48Z")
Yes, I don’t even mind having been so viciously insulted that I spent a week with my head buried under the pillows, because _at least I finally got a good wisecrack out of it!_ Y’see, it all comes out right in the end.