# What's the dumbest thing you've heard?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-youve-heard/158098
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 28, 2003, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-youve-heard/158098 "2003-02-28T11:21:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-youve-heard/158098/121 "2003-03-10T01:51:38Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Floater \*
> \*\*A friend of mine was checking in at the airport together with someone that she had never met before, who was going to the same do. However, when the travel companion went through the security check the metal detector kept beeping no matter how she emptied her pockets, so in the end the security guard went over her with a handheld detector, that buzzed away over her breast pocket. Guard: “Are you sure tou haven’t got a purse or something in your pocket?”
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> “Of course. That’s just my dagger.” :eek: \*\*
LOL! I used to work in airports and I once saw a guy forcibly wrestled to the ground by several security staff because he said “haha, what, do you think I’ve got a bomb in there or something?” when asked to open his bag after the x ray check.
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-youve-heard/158098/122 "2003-03-10T02:02:44Z")
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> \*Originally posted by dahempfaerie \*
> I work at a restaurant. A few days ago a customer requested that her chicken fried steak “contain only white meat!”:smack:
I wonder if she’s related to the guy who, when I ordered chicken fried steak, asked me “You do know that’s _beef_?” :rolleyes: :smack:
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### Author:  [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-youve-heard/158098/123 "2003-03-10T08:58:51Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Kat \*
> \*\*I wonder if she’s related to the guy who, when I ordered chicken fried steak, asked me “You do know that’s _beef_?” :rolleyes: :smack: \*\*
Which probably means the dumbest thing that guy ever heard was the customer complaining that his chicken fried steak didn’t seem to have any chicken in it…😃
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### Author:  [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-youve-heard/158098/124 "2003-03-10T10:53:44Z")
When I showed some classmates my copy of Stephen King’s Black House, they remarked :“A book?! YOu’re reading a book for FUN?!” and later said(at the $12 canadian price tag) “That money could’ve been used for some good drugs!!”.
:dubious: ☹
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