# What's the coolest compliment you've ever received?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 27, 2000, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coolest-compliment-youve-ever-received/34707 "2000-09-27T04:53:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2000, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coolest-compliment-youve-ever-received/34707/61 "2000-09-28T20:40:06Z")

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Without a doubt the coolest compliment I ever received is hearing my daughter, barely old enough to talk, showing a broken toy to her mother, saying “Don’t worry, Daddy can can fik (fix) it”

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coolest-compliment-youve-ever-received/34707/62 "2000-09-30T09:33:23Z")

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A few weeks/months ago, my co-workers were talking about the difficulties the Los Alamos labs were having after the fire. The boss’ assistant said, “Let’s send Rilchiam out there; she’ll have them up and running in two days!”.

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**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coolest-compliment-youve-ever-received/34707/63 "2000-09-30T13:25:05Z")

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After I played in a college cricket match, one of my teammates (who had played for India Universities) told me I “bowled off-spin like an Indian”.

Since India has produced so many good spin bowlers, I took that as a major compliment.

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**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-coolest-compliment-youve-ever-received/34707/64 "2000-09-30T16:34:10Z")

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Hmm . . .

I’ve been called: ‘amazing’ (Jen), ‘uncouth’ (Ike), and ‘entertaining’ (several people), but I think my favorite was when I left a Detachment someone said “We are losing an icon.”

Wow.

Tripler  
Because some things are better left unsaid when she’s around.

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