BS: Odd Compliments

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: catspaw49
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 08:30 AM

George Kaufman was seated next to a chattering female guest at a dinner party. After growing tired of her incessant babbling, he turned to her and asked, "Madam, do you have any unexpressed thoughts?"

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: kendall
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 08:18 AM

That remark about being two faced has been traced back to Abraham Lincoln.


"Wow! did the Clampetts have a yard sale"?

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: Slag
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 02:23 AM

Well, we were all young and beautiful, once.

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: KT
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 02:12 AM

How 'bout, "You're pretty good. What did you do in your prime?"

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 12:38 AM

It will go so well with these.

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 12:38 AM

"Interesting."

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: Bert
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 12:27 AM

Max once said to me "You don't realise that you're old do you?"

But then of course, he is somewhat socially impaired.

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 12:26 AM

That's what you say about bulldogs ...

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 12:24 AM

Ebbie, I always thougth one was supposed to say, "Looks just like you!

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 11:59 PM

Yeah, it sort of felt like one too ...

And then there's, "I really admire the way you don't let your physical appearance bother you ... "

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 11:53 PM

LOL

That sounds like a Herman cartoon.

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 11:48 PM

"So - the little lady cut your hair, did she?"

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 11:35 PM

"There, there, ma'am. I'll get you a nice cup of tea, and while I'm at it I'll get a banana for your monkey."

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 11:13 PM

I once read that when one is confronted with the first glimpse of a prized but really ugly new baby, the only possible answer is to say admiringly, Now that is some baby.

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 10:24 PM

Here's another one I've always felt a little unsure of: "That's quite a hat!"

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 10:23 PM

A guy in a bar, when my brother told him a TV program was going to be showing a clip of me perorming somewhere: "Jeez, that's great; ya never know, some rich idiot may see that and think you're really good or sump'm ... !"

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: Midchuck
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 10:03 PM

Many years ago, one of my employers said to me, "We'd pay you what you're worth, but there's a minimum wage law."

P.

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: Joe_F
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 08:27 PM

(Actually said to me once:)
I'll pay you three-quarters of what you're worth.

(The most extravagant compliment I've ever heard:)
He's the kind of guy who'd give you his right eye if he thought you needed it -- but then he'd figure out a way to replace it.

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 07:36 PM

This sort of compliments is generated when the left hemisphere (who is unaware that there MAY be unfortunate social consequences) really wants to be nice, but the right hemisphere (who is aware that there MAY be unfortunate social consequences) doesn't get a chance to say

"Hey, how about we let the frontal cortex (who is more aware of what the unfortunate social consequences may be!) deal with this?"

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 06:10 PM

It's pretty common at arts festivals for another artist to walk into your booth and start up a conversation that goes something like. "I really like your work. You should apply for the Such-and-Such Festival. They're not very selective."

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 05:57 PM

"Say, ya' know you clean up real nice!"

Jack Reese had a great sense of humor and was a superb put-down artist. I walked in one day wearing a new Hart, Schaffner, and Marx suit with all new accesories (silk shirt and tie even, and a new pair of Florsheim dress boots). Jack encounters me in the office doorway, stops me and steps back. He looks me over with a look of awe and admiration....turns me around and looks up and down til he has killed enough time to assure a watching audience the says, "Man, I just love those socks."...........and of course it was the one thing you could NOT see.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 05:01 PM

My favorite, from a good friend of mine in the early sixties: "They really should record you. There are people a lot worse than you that have been recorded."

And I was his best man..

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: GUEST,Scoville at scanner computer
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 03:12 PM

One band-mate about another when we apparently took the assurance that we could dress "casually" to play a wedding a little too literally: "He did dress up. Look--his socks match!"

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 03:05 PM

I was on a sidewalk (pavement to some of you) talking with a friend when a man we knew joined us. This man is somewhat socially impaired, being fairly non-verbal but he's a very bright guy and nice too so I've always enjoyed (not)talking with him.

Suddenly he blurted to my friend: I've never seen your face so clean.



I *think* he was referring to the ever-present glow this friend has. As another friend once said, She always looks as though her battery is connected.

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: ClaireBear
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 02:45 PM

I'll never forget this series of quasi-compliments, which I treasure:

Year 1982, as we came offstage at the Northern California (Marin) Renaissance Faire, owner Phyllis said to me: "I really like you guys. You have -- a creative use of dissonance."

Year 1983, same venue, circumstances, and speaker: "I really like you guys. You are -- right on the edge of bad taste."

Year 1984, same venue, circumstances, and speaker: "I can't figure out what it is I like about you you guys."

(me:) "Could it be our creative use of dissonance?"

(Phyllis:) "That's it!"

We didn't make it to 1985...

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: Cluin
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 02:43 PM

Great! You got right through that one that time.

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 02:35 PM

At the end of a small church's worship service, for which I had been leading music on autoharp for a whole year:

"Be sure to come to the Christmas Eve service-- it will be really nice, because we'll even have a real organ player for THAT!"

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: GUEST,jimlad
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 02:21 PM

Compere as a singing duo were leaving the stage

" Thank you Bill and Marcia" he turned to the audience and said "Now we hope you all will come again next week because we have someone even better"

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: Wesley S
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 02:03 PM

I like the way you play the uke { it's a mandolin }

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: John Hardly
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 02:00 PM

That's great! ....is it a real song or did you just make it up?

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 01:58 PM

Christine Lavin once had someone come up to her and ask "were you ever a nun?"

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 01:55 PM

Wow, my grandmother had a dress just like that!

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 01:54 PM

You don't sweat much for someone your size

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 01:54 PM

Damn!! I hit the wrong key first time.


Mike Harding:       to a young lady    "you don't sweat much for a fat lass'

Anon                     " look at that lass,I bet she's flattened some grass in her time"

Anon                      " No!, if she was two faced she would wear the other one'

To a worthless person    "You are nowt a lb and s**ts tuppence"

Subject: RE: BS: Odd Compliments
From: John Hardly
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 01:51 PM

You have the cutest eyelashes.

Subject: BS: Odd Compliments
From: GUEST,Jimlad
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 01:44 PM