# "You're a good spitter" - Tell me your strangest compliment **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 30, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316 "2002-09-30T23:21:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [October 1, 2002, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/21 "2002-10-01T13:37:50Z")
Beginning programming class. The slightly absent-minded instructor had assigned us a programming task involving a card trick, and we were to obtain the data from an account he had set up. The data were supposed to be the numbers from 0 to 51 (to represent the cards) in random order – only his data set had the numbers from 1 to 52, so no one’s program worked. I went to his office to tell him; he pulled up the data, and sure enough, they were wrong. He scratched his head for a bit, trying to figure out how to fix it, until I quietly suggested that he just change the 52 to a 0, and then the data would work. He thought about it for a minute, and then said (I wish I could recall the exact words) something to the effect of “You’re not as dumb as I thought” or “You’re smarter than you look.” Mind, I had been getting perfect grades in the class up to this point. Wonder if it had something to do with the fact that I was one of only a very few women in the Comp Sci major? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/22 "2002-10-01T13:57:02Z")
The Red Cross says I bleed very well, and I have great veins. I have been accused of eating soup sensually. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/23 "2002-10-01T14:03:07Z")
“You’d make an ugly woman.” I’ll take that as a compliment. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/24 "2002-10-01T14:51:07Z")
From a guy named Emilio, whose grasp of English was rather, um, creative: “You have the face of an angel … I do not know if you have the same wars in America, but you look like an angel in the last war.” I was flattered, until he asked me five minutes later how my trousers were going. (They’re not going anywhere tonight, but thanks anyway.) ---
**Author:** ![jellen92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@jellen92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellen92)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/25 "2002-10-01T16:57:37Z")
I used to work as a bank teller… and had this one man tell me once that I was “accidentally charming”… (which could mean I was a cute klutz, but nonetheless…) ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/26 "2002-10-01T18:19:58Z")
I don’t know if I would call it a compliment, but I puffed out with pride. 😃 And no, me puffing out wiht pride wasn’t pretty so don’t even go there. Anyway, someone once told me “\, you **are** the meanest motheryouknowwhatgoeshere in the valley.” Well she didn’t say you know what goes here, but you get the picture, right? ---
**Author:** ![Zanshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zanshin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zanshin)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/27 "2002-10-01T18:28:45Z")
My favorite compliment came from a friend’s wife. Us fellas were sitting around talking computers and video card specs. Now I’m not a hardcore hardware wirehead, but I know enough to get myself in trouble. I popped up with a comment, and my buddy’s wife swivels around wide-eyed and said, “Do you know what they’re talking about?” I assured her I did, and she replies, “Wow, you sure don’t LOOK like a geek!” I know there’s a compliment in there somewhere. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![agentfroot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@agentfroot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agentfroot)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/28 "2002-10-01T18:30:04Z")
A few days ago a girl told me “I thought you were a senior. You look older.” I’m a sophomore in college. Well, I thought that was very strange since most people tell me I look like I’m 12 (I’m around 4 foot 9-ish). Last year a guy told me I have strong thighs. NO, I did not have sexual relations with him… he just put his hands above my knees when I was sitting down once… that was weird… ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/29 "2002-10-01T18:43:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBill \* > \*\*The Red Cross says I bleed very well, and I have great veins. \*\* ☹ I on the other hand am a “hard stick” and the phlebotomists run away when it’s my turn. Recently my boss said, “You are the most amazing combination of infantile and advanced I’ve ever seen.” ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/30 "2002-10-01T18:45:46Z")
my step daughter told me i wasnt mean and evil like all the step mothers she had known she was about 5 when she said this, her dad has only been married twice, once to her mother and the other time to myself. i think she was thinking along the lines of cinderella, snow white, ect. ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/31 "2002-10-01T18:49:32Z")
i also hear " you dont look old enough to have kids a lot" ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/32 "2002-10-01T18:50:34Z")
\*\*\* thats meant to be " you dont look old enough to have kids" a lot ---
**Author:** ![owlofcreamcheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@owlofcreamcheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlofcreamcheese)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/33 "2002-10-01T18:53:26Z")
“if you ever want to be really mean to someone, you should date them” told to me by my girlfreind. it WAS a compliment… she was trying to say it was sad every time she had to leave, but it really didn’t sound right. ---
**Author:** ![DeepPurple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@DeepPurple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepPurple)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/34 "2002-10-01T19:57:21Z")
from the guy that set up my new computer, he said I was a hyper-media multitasker. This is not what I do with the computer, it’s a reference to my personality. I will treasure it always. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/35 "2002-10-01T20:35:33Z")
Oh, yes…people at the plasma center constantly praise me and my good-bleeding vein. They cite it as an example of good physical health and hydration… :o :eek: If only they knew… ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingwithChickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@SwimmingwithChickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingwithChickens)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/36 "2002-10-01T20:40:19Z")
A couple: “Sheesh Swimming, you have the loudest piss I’ve ever heard.” This was said whilst standing next to a coworker at the urinal. “The more I talk to you, the more I want you.” Which at first appears to be a compliment, but if you think about it: she didn’t want anything to do with me until she talked to me for a while… “You have gigantic knuckles for a man your size.” I’m just over 6’ and while my hands are a bit big, I still don’t understand that comment. “You make no sense at all.” Which wasn’t a reference to my communication (though it might also fit there too) but rather, a comment on my taste in literature and music combined with my personality and job. “You’d think that a guy like that wouldn’t be able to cook!” Uh, thanks… ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingwithChickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@SwimmingwithChickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingwithChickens)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/37 "2002-10-01T20:52:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by misstee \* > \*\*\*\*\* thats meant to be " you dont look old enough to have kids" a lot \*\* I like the original quote… ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/38 "2002-10-01T20:53:54Z")
“You burp like a guy!” And yes, it was meant as a compliment. :: tears well up :: I’m so proud! ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/39 "2002-10-02T00:02:48Z")
My big brother once told me I was the least feminine-acting woman he’d ever known. He was going through a bad patch where he considered typical female behavior to consist of lying, being manipulative, and generally being an asshole, so it really was quite a compliment. ---
**Author:** ![c\_carol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@c\_carol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_carol)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/40 "2002-10-02T00:31:45Z")
I was buying mini-cupcakes from the bakery the other day, and as I was carrying them to the cash register a little girl about 5 or 6 called out “Hey, I like your cupcakes!” What is the socially correct way to respond to this kind of compliment? “Thanks” just doesn’t quite seem to fit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316.md?page=3)