# "You're a good spitter" - Tell me your strangest compliment

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316>\
**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")\
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**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/81 "2003-05-07T15:16:57Z")

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This guy I know who thinks I know everything told me, “You’re like a Google search!”

Well!

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/82 "2003-05-07T15:32:46Z")

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In my parochial grammar school (eight years of Catholic School!), the Chief Nun, the Mother Superior, was walking past a line of us kids. Suddenly she stopped in front of me and, for no good reason that I could see, announced:

“[CalMeacham], you’re so smart, you’re _dumb_!!”  
Then she continued on her way.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-good-spitter-tell-me-your-strangest-compliment/130316/83 "2003-05-07T16:45:16Z")

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I’ve gotten a lot of these. A few I remember offhand:

“Marley’s the atheist you’ll know and love.”  
-a friend of mine, describing me to another friend (I wasn’t there)

“I’ve never thought of you as being short. I think it’s because you’re proportional. A lot of short people have big heads and stuff.”  
-a friend explaining to my why I’m not short (5’7" or so).

But the best one ever - it wasn’t just a compliment, it was the best summary of me ever - needs a little explanation. It was senior year of high school, and my best friend was talking to a bunch of people in drama about how everybody knows Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, but nobody knows who the third Tenor is. I wasn’t really in the conversation, but I stuck my head in and said “Jose Carreras.” She said,  
“You’re just the kind of wiseass who _would_ know who the third Tenor is.”

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