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DanielBenoit
12-16-2009, 06:56 PM
Inspired by Jazz_'s blog entry (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/blog.php?b=9446) what unbelievably stupid things have you heard people say?

To quote some greatly funny ones from the comments section

From Dark Muse



I use to go camping when I was younger up near the coast. The beach was in walking distance to many of the campsistes and the campground is called Bodega Dunes, becasue of the sand dunes.

And this woman acutally asked one of the rangers

"Can't you do something about all this sand?"

Than once when I was trail riding up in Lake Tahoe and there were these rock formations, and the woman in front of me said:

"How do you think all these rocks got here like that? Do you think they brought them in with a helicopter?"


From Aunt Sheckly



Around here, the gold label benchmark for stupidity (a pit into which ALL of us occasionally
may fall) was actually overheard at a supermarket deli counter.

Customer: "I'd like that ham cut on
the thin side."

Deli clerk (picking up and examining
the hunk o' ham): "Which is the
thin side?"



One infinitley stupid thing I heard from this one women whom I didn't know whilst standing in some line was that people never saw the world in color until they watched The Wizard of Oz. Hmmm, so I guess the world before 1939 was colored-blind right? Wow, Van Gough and Monet must've been pretty boring in black-and-white. Also, I guess the creators at MGM seemed to have some kind of divine knowledge, being able to unlock man's ability to see in color. :crash:

Maximilianus
12-16-2009, 07:17 PM
From an interview between a TV presenter and a scientist:

Scientist: "In that location we were able to find several dinosaur fossils."
TV P: "Alive? Did they eat people?"
Scientist: "Oh, no, they were vanished much before the rise of mankind! :)"
TV P: "Oh, well... it could have been... right?"

(the poor scientist found no more words to that final statement :rolleyes:)

Pryderi Agni
12-20-2009, 01:48 AM
Basically a monologue that qualifies for black humor:

Journalist to a Bereaved War Widow: Ma'am, your husband has recently been killed in combat ops in so-and-so area. How do you feel?

Italics are mine, of course.

Maximilianus
12-20-2009, 03:01 AM
Question from a primary school teacher to one of her pupils (yes... me... :() who is wearing a coat:

"Whose coat is that?" http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-think004.gif

Maryd.
12-20-2009, 07:20 AM
I had an ex partner one day that aksed my cousin's wife, as she was changing her baby's nappy/diaper.

"How many times a week do you have to do that?"

MANICHAEAN
12-20-2009, 07:57 AM
Cremation? Think outside the box.

prendrelemick
12-20-2009, 10:02 AM
Prince Charles recalls the time he found himself asking a poor lab technician at a sperm clinic "And how does one produce a sample?"