This one’s more funny than really stupid; a momentary :smack: .
I went on a road trip with my cousin in our senior year of high school (we lived quite far away from each other), and we picked up a friend of hers and went to an amusement park. At one point I mentioned something about my mom having lived in Japan as a kid. My cousin gasped and said “Wow, my dad lived in Japan when he was a kid too!” This amazing coincidence came about, of course, because my mom and her dad are siblings…
Yeah, but I bet the sequel will kick ass!
A co-worker told me she didn’t believe in gay marriage because if gays could marry, then they would be able to have SEX, and thats against the bible!!
:smack:
(do I win?)
That’ right up there with Anita Bryant’s statement that “homosexuals can’t have children of their own, so they have to recruit our children to be homosexuals.”
/Marge Simpson voice: I can’t begin to tell you what’s wrong with that statement./
My husband. Someone asked us what our anniversary was. “It’s the day before Thanksgiving - that’s why we picked that date. So we’d always remember it!” :rolleyes:
While watching Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, some jerk of my acquaintance said “If I found the Ark of the Covenant, I would melt it down and sell the gold because it would be worth more that way.”
The days of the week matched up?
When I was working in a doctors office someone called and to see if they could be fit in that day. I told her to come in at noon, and she asked what time that was.
I fractured my elbow and I was explaining to the doctor that I tripped and as I started started to fall forward I put my hand out to break my fall and that’s how I fractured my elbow.
The nurse said it was too bad I put my hand out. I guess she though it would have been an even better idea if I fell flat on my face.
The doctor and I both looked at her at the same time sort of speechless.
Yes, from March on the months in the current year had the same set up as the ones in 1988.
There are only seven set ups to each month except February, which has 14 to account for leap years. A month can only start on seven different days of the week, and it doesn’t matter what year it is. So if an old calendar is a year that starts on the same day as the same month in the current year, you can use it.
How hard is this concept anyways?
Huh? I don’t remember THAT!
Remember when they came out with the V-chip? My mother misinterpreted it and kept saying that the government was going to be able to control what we watched. Finally my uncle had to explain to her that it was for PARENTS to be able to control what their kids watched.
Oh, and my aunt (wife of the above uncle, and my mother’s sister) keeps telling me that our government took prayer out of our schools, so we’re doomed. Mmmmmkay.
Or how about about my mom and my sister believing Sylvia Brown is legit? Ugh.
:smack:
There are publishers that take advantage of this fact. One example is the company that prints a calendar for the current year and features a different automobile from 1933 (or other relevant year) for each month. There’s even a handy box of text that explains: NOTE – 2006 dates are the same as 1933!
The sister of a former co-worker once got extremely indignant about the sign she saw at a Wendy’s drive-thru window that said they were distributing free condoms. She even wanted to pursue legal action against them since she was so offended. After making a huge stink about the whole thing, she cooled off when someone explained the sign to her.
The sign, of course, read: “Condiments available upon request.”
It’s STILL a joke around the office.
It works fine now but what about when they decide to add another holiday?
Hoo boy. I can’t top that.
But I’ll try. 
Said by clueless lump about a picture of an elderly Helen Keller with her elderly friend, Polly Thompson: “Ooh, that’s a nice picture. But how come there’s two of her? Oh I get it. In one, she’s not wearing her glasses.”
No, the deal was, she thought it was always cold in Montana. Always. Summer, Winter, no real difference. When I picked her up at the airport, she was really surprised there was no snow on the ground.
This is the same girl that, after loosing some weight due to moving and no longer eating normally, declared that the weight loss was actually due to “Being further from the center of the earth, where the gravity comes from”.
While technically at least a little feasible, she was saying that her apparent loss of about 7 lbs was due to the “gravity being less at a higher elevation”.
I can’t beleive I dated her for a year.
Of course there’s that story about racial discrimination in an ad that advertised for polish and finish workers, only.
I’ve told this one before. Standing in line to enter the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam and college age woman behind me says to her father, “I don’t get it. Why were they hiding?”
A former roommate’s queen of an ex-boyfriend was over once right before I was going over to Ireland to visit some friends. We had this gem of an exchange:
[Queen] Oh, I don’t like Dublin, too boring.
[Me] Really? I love it over there, when were you there last?
[Q] Oh, I’ve never been, but I know it would be boring. I’m just not an Anglophile.
[M] You’re thinking of the English, the Irish are Celtic.
[Q] I’m not going to argue with you about it.
[M] Yes, because you’d be wrong.
This could be a forgiveable line for anyone who does not watch football. But the guy who said it, my roomate at the time, was from Omaha NE and lived and breathed college football.
We were watching SportsCenter and the schedule for the following week’s games came up.
It was arranged in two columns
Team one VS Team two
when it got to The Nebraska Huskers, it said
'Huskers VS BYE
My buddy looked at me and said, " Who is BYE? I thought the Huskers had next week off. "
I understand that several college teams just show up as acronyms such as UNC, UCLA,or LSU, but to a die hard college football fan, that is just wrong.
That was six years ago, and I still give him crap for it.
I’ve posted both of these on similar ‘stupid things people have said’ threads, but since it’s been a long, long while, I’ll post it again:
During a high school history class, the teacher was lecturing about the protestant reformation and was relating the tale of Martin Luther. When our teacher Mr. Atwell mentioned that Luther hung his 95 theses up in 1517, one bright young lad (a football player) intoned: “Wait. Didn’t Martin Luther free the slaves in the '60s?”
Another time, a woman said she was against gays because “it says in the bible it’s wrong.” When I opined up that the book of Leviticus is a very long list of commandments, very few of which anyone (aside extremely orthodox jews) adhere to anymore, the woman practically yelled “the book of what? I’m talking about the BIBLE! And there’s only TEN commandments!” And then she rolled her eyes and uttered an exasperated sigh to show how stupid she thought I was.