# Weird compliments you've received. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 22, 2012, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292 "2012-01-22T08:39:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/21 "2012-01-23T01:41:24Z")
In high school one my classmates, who I had known slightly for years but was never close with said “I can’t picture you being rude. I can picture you plotting to kill everyone, but not being rude.” Uh…thanks? ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/22 "2012-01-23T01:44:17Z")
A guy once told me that my skin was so soft, it almost felt rotten. Awesome. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![slm2955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@slm2955](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slm2955)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/23 "2012-01-23T01:53:56Z")
“You make Me look good”. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/24 "2012-01-23T02:09:19Z")
Hmm, let’s see, I’ve received a few strange ones…How about the stripper who told me that she thought it was “sexy” that I was “here at the club” in my wheelchair. Or the girl who told me I have “sexy hands” (all I know is that they are small). 😕 ---
**Author:** ![slm2955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@slm2955](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slm2955)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/25 "2012-01-23T02:11:25Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Hmm, let’s see, I’ve received a few strange ones…How about the stripper who told me that she thought it was “sexy” that I was “here at the club” in my wheelchair. Or the girl who told me I have “sexy hands” (all I know is that they are small). 😕 Those are good complements. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/26 "2012-01-23T02:20:52Z")
> [@slm2955](#): > > Those are good complements. The first fits the definition of the OP exactly. And the second, while definitely good, is still _weird._ ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/27 "2012-01-23T03:47:06Z")
Never have gotten one, tho I’ve always wanted to. (Would show that they _know_ me.) ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/28 "2012-01-23T03:58:25Z")
I’ve been told on two non-consecutive occasions that I look like, “not Val Kilmer, but the other one”. No info on who, specifically, the other one is. Also I “own my nerdiness” and am “very flexible for a guy”. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/29 "2012-01-23T04:09:25Z")
When I was at uni I crashed out at a party in the hostess’s bed (she offered it to me as I needed to lie down for a bit) and woke up with her pleasuring me, something I lay back and enjoyed. Afterwards I asked her why she’d done that and she replied “because you looked so cute lying there - just like a little pink pig”. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/30 "2012-01-23T05:12:55Z")
I’ve told this one before. Programming class in college. The (slightly dotty) instructor gave us a set of data that was supposed to represent a pack of cards, 0 to 51, randomly arranged. Only none of our sorting programs worked. We looked closer and saw that the professor had given us 1 to 52 in random order, not 0 to 51. I was elected to go tell him. He went “Hmm” and sat there scratching his head over how to fix the arrangement of random numbers. I said (as gently as I could, because it was blindingly obvious to me), “Couldn’t you just change the 52 to a zero?” The light came on. As he fixed the data, he said to me (approximately; I wish to hell I could remember his exact words), “Gee, you’re smarter than I thought you were.” 😕 I was getting good grades in the class. I suspect that it had something to do with the fact that I was one of a very few female Comp. Sci. students (early 80s). :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/31 "2012-01-23T05:43:13Z")
“Not everyone thinks you’re good-looking you know.” Then, said with sad face, “Although my mum wants to fuck you.” ?? oh-tay ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/32 "2012-01-23T06:16:50Z")
Someone once told me they thought I was okay and that they didn’t care what everybody else said. ---
**Author:** ![Tamarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tamarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamarin)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/33 "2012-01-23T06:17:27Z")
“You’d be really pretty if you wore makeup.” …I was wearing makeup at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/34 "2012-01-23T06:22:31Z")
“You’re so brave”…for continuing to live, evidently. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/35 "2012-01-23T06:26:06Z")
Just tonight… Driving through McD’s drive-through. Girl at the first window says, “You just getting off work?” I politely reply, “No.” Then she says, “Oh, well, you are very pretty.” I wonder what she thought my work was? ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/36 "2012-01-23T06:58:50Z")
I once had a girlfriend tell me “You’re not ugly”. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/37 "2012-01-23T06:58:50Z")
When I was food shopping a few weeks ago, a manager complimented me on my ability to maneuver my wheelchair and cart simutameously. Saying that he sees able bodied people who are worse cart drivers. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/38 "2012-01-23T16:41:28Z")
I was in labor and getting an epidural. The anesthetist told me I had such a nice, thin back, unlike most pregnant women. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/39 "2012-01-23T16:57:03Z")
I was talking to a non-religious friend of mine once about some small thing I felt guilty about, and he enthused, “You’d make a great Catholic!” ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Ducky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrs_ducky/32/6227_2.png) [@Mrs\_Ducky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Ducky)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/40 "2012-01-23T17:28:05Z")
> [@CitizenPained](#): > > Did you _smack_ him? :eek: No. My husband’s previous wife was about 98 pounds soaking wet and I was about 140 at the time. We’ve been married almost 25 years now, but it still cracks me up every time I think about it. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292.md?page=3)