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Leningrad
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Topic: The Dumbest Thing You've Ever Said Posted: July 05 2007 at 23:39 |
What's the dumbest thing you've ever said out loud? The kind of stuff you'll never live down and haunts you forever. For me, it was:
"Jimi Hendrix was only famous because of him doing the windmill." 
Nice job Einstein, way to simultaneously get the wrong guy and spit on Hendrix's grave.  While it was a couple years ago, I really should have been shot for saying that.
Luckily, it was quickly brushed aside by all who heard it, but it lives in my mind to this day. 
So, what conversation-killers have you guys come up with?
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fungusucantkill
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Posted: July 05 2007 at 23:41 |
"Hey guys a dead cat died in here"
yep.....that ruined it
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Wilcey
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Posted: July 06 2007 at 02:57 |
I am always saying things that have the beloved rolling around with laughter and astonishment at my stupidity.......  I seem to have quite a gift for it.
Just this week we had a guy here to measure and quote for a garden fence (the dry stone wall is great, but we keep getting robbed.....AND watched  ) So we were looking at samples, and talking over the options, the beloved was trying to visualise the height of the fence, so we can block out the gawpers........
"how tall are you? I want to work out what the average person can see" he asked me
"Well. I am 5'11" but my eyes are about 4 inches down from the top of my head so they are only 5'7"........." came my reply
both the beloved and the fence guy fell over laughing.......and I still don't get it.........
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Atavachron
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Posted: July 06 2007 at 03:01 |
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Jim Garten
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Posted: July 06 2007 at 03:24 |
"A copy of the new Pallas album 'The Sentinel', please my good man"
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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Philéas
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Posted: July 06 2007 at 06:42 |
I've said loads of silly things like these. No particular one comes to mind right now, however. But they keep happening.
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Tony R
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Posted: July 06 2007 at 06:48 |
" I do" Only kidding!
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Dean
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Posted: July 06 2007 at 07:14 |
"I bet you five quid Wuthering Heights will never get to number 1."
"Roger Waters will never leave Pink Floyd, that's a daft idea."
"This one's for all you teenie boppers..." - my last gig as a DJ
"That's f  king awful - no one in their right mind is goning to buy that rubbish!" (on hearing Anarchy in the UK for the first time)
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chopper
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Posted: July 06 2007 at 08:07 |
"Sure Ian, I'd love to help out with the Bands Submissions Team"
Only joking.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: July 06 2007 at 08:11 |
I told this relatively well-known French singer that some things were worth waiting for !!(we were both a little too tipsy for shagging)
We never met again 
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let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword
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Chicapah
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Posted: July 06 2007 at 08:26 |
"Honey, that outfit looks small on you" 
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"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain
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1800iareyay
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Posted: July 06 2007 at 11:08 |
I have a story about someone else's slip up. My physics teacher told our class how he visited Helen Keller's house and went on a guided tour. The guide explained how, when Ann Sullivan taught Helen, she would put the girl in a carriage and drivea round for hours only to go to a cottage on the family's land in order to make Helen think she was isolated.
My teacher then asked "Did her family have to keep quiet so she wouldn't know?"
Then the guide explained how Helen was deaf also.
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chopper
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Posted: July 06 2007 at 11:39 |
Chicapah wrote:
"Honey, that outfit looks small on you"  |
Ouch. I'm surprised you're still here to tell the tale.
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cuncuna
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Posted: July 06 2007 at 19:49 |
To girlfriend, on birthday call when we were still in the just friends phase:
- Girlfriend: "... and wait until I see you; I have a really beautiful present for you..."
- Me: "[I need to say something romantic now]... uhm... ah, but you don't need to give anything; you are a present already. I can't wait to meet you tomorow to OPEN YOU ...
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¡Beware of the Bee!
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Philéas
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Posted: July 06 2007 at 19:57 |
^ OUCH. What did she say?
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debrewguy
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Posted: July 06 2007 at 22:10 |
Telling my wife that she should calm down because it was just that time of the month
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"Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case.
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The Doctor
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Posted: July 06 2007 at 23:00 |
"No honey that dress doesn't make you look fat. It's the double cheeseburger you had at lunch that makes you look fat."
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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JJLehto
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Posted: July 07 2007 at 00:39 |
So many things.
I try to be funny, and most of the time it works....but sometimes I just kill the convo.
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el böthy
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Posted: July 07 2007 at 01:32 |
"And then I realized that publicity is all about selling a product" I said that in Design class... good thing most of the people already know I joke a lot, cause it could have been understood like a really stupid thing ... which, of course it was
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"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Visitor13
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Posted: July 07 2007 at 05:28 |
Just read almost any one of my posts.
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