# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/61 "2012-01-24T06:49:58Z")
That reminds me: my counselor (_my counselor!_–a man whose professional practice requires him to know about\* the effects of psychoactive drugs) once told me that I didn’t need to take drugs because my imagination was already active enough… [sub]\*His boss, the psychiatrist, was the one who could prescribe them.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/62 "2012-01-24T07:23:51Z")
In the vein of the OP, I’m about the whitest white girl you’d hope to encounter on a sunny May morning. But in high school marching band, our band director said I really “got dat soul.” We were doing a park and blow (which just means stand in place and dance while playing your instrument), and apparently I was the best at it. It was definitely a weird compliment, but it made me feel good. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/63 "2012-01-24T13:51:11Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I don’t know that “Poppy Fairy” was the look I was going for (or achieved), but it was a nice thing for her to say. Hey, it works for me. That’s pretty much how I picture you in my fantasies. Was that a weird compliment? ---
**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 24, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/64 "2012-01-24T16:16:38Z")
**tdn** , the things you say to a girl are enough to make her petals fall off. Was that a weird compliment? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/65 "2012-01-24T16:35:52Z")
Naw, I liked it! ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/66 "2012-01-24T18:00:28Z")
After presenting what he felt was a well-reasoned argument, my friend commented “I keep forgetting you’re smart!” I burst out laughing and waited for him to explain, because we’re good friends and I knew there had to be some sort of reasonable explanation for why he said that. He explained that he thought I was attractive, and he usually thinks of women as either smart or attractive but not both (and sometimes not either), but he thought I was both. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/67 "2012-01-24T18:16:56Z")
I overheard one of my teenage pupils say to another “Glee is … all right.” (In case you don’t know, that meant I was a truly amazing teacher!) ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/68 "2012-01-24T18:31:56Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > Several times while living in Canada and the UK I’ve been told by various people “you don’t act like an American.” I’ve gotten that one too, in the UK and a few other European countries. A French person once asked me if I was Belgian. I took that as a compliment to my French-speaking ability. Years ago a friend interrupted the conversation, suddenly looked me in the face, and said, “You have the most amazing eyes.” I’d had a crush on her already, but that sealed my fate. Head over heels for a good year. ---
**Author:** ![1GothMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/90ced4/32.png) [@1GothMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1GothMama)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/69 "2012-01-24T18:54:01Z")
I had a friend - who was rather sleep deprived due to long work hours and babysitting his niece and nephew - tell me I reminded him of Dory, the ditzy blue fish from _Finding Nemo_. I was a little baffled until he later explained it was more the practical outlook on life and the “just keep swimming” motto and less the flaky memory thing. She’s still one of my favorite Pixar characters, so I guess it wasn’t too bad a compliment. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/70 "2012-01-24T18:59:22Z")
A kid once told me that I looked like Weird Al. I think it’s the moustache. ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/71 "2012-01-24T19:07:16Z")
“Being with you is like being alone.” From a lover who placed enormous value on his privacy and ‘alone’ time. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/72 "2012-01-24T19:12:21Z")
Most of my coworkers are male. Every once in a while I’ll hear “But not you, **Queen Tonya** , you’re not a _girl_!” :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/73 "2012-01-24T19:13:14Z")
The sandwich maker lady at Subway told me I had very nice eyebrows. My initial reaction was that she was trying to say something nice about every customer, since I’m fat and sort of ugly this is what she came up with for me. But, fuck it - I’ll take it! She made my year 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/74 "2012-01-24T19:17:06Z")
I took a literature class in which I was the only English major among a bunch of theater kids. My professor wrote at the top of one of my essays, “you are, like the Duchess of Malfi, a woman out of her time.” She could have meant a lot of things, but I really liked the play so I took it as a compliment. I still think about it sometimes, when I get overwhelmed. ---
**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/75 "2012-01-24T19:21:24Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > The sandwich maker lady at Subway told me I had very nice eyebrows. > > My initial reaction was that she was trying to say something nice about every customer, since I’m fat and sort of ugly this is what she came up with for me. > > But, fuck it - I’ll take it! She made my year 🙂 Don’t underestimate the value of good eyebrows. I would kill for nice eyebrows, mine are naturally lopsided and sometimes when I’m putting on makeup I make it worse and end up looking permanently suspicious. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/76 "2012-01-24T19:55:23Z")
A stranger at the bus stop was very talkative. In the course of his chatter, he informed me that he was 48 years old (I’d have thought he was older) and then asked me “How old are you, about 67?” I did not take it as a compliment at all since I am 59. When I said I wasn’t near 67, he said that I was beautiful because I was wearing gloves that matched my scarf. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/77 "2012-01-24T20:15:33Z")
“You’re just a big lop!” A friend’s aunt told me that when I was in college. I could tell she meant it as a compliment because I was a tall, muscular guy and she thought my easy going nature was nicer than the bullies she usually had to work with. ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/78 "2012-01-24T20:40:54Z")
A random guy on the street once told my best friend – who, at the time, looked approximately like Baywatch-era Pamela Anderson, only natural and not brain-dead – “You know, you have really nice teeth.” She did, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/79 "2012-01-24T20:48:00Z")
A few of them: “You’re not like the girl next door.” From my next door neighbor whom I grew up with as he was making a pass at me. I **think** it was a compliment. I was in an another country visiting a friend and everyone was staring at me. I asked him why that was (I’m ok looking but not stunning or anything) and he said, “You don’t look like an ordinary person.” Hmmmmm… A co-worker who worked for the same Anti-Christ boss as I said that I was like one of those inflatable clown punching bags - you keep punching them down but they keep popping back up. I **think** she meant I was resilient. Either that or I was too stupid to take a hint and quit already. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/80 "2012-01-25T00:57:03Z")
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