Funniest / Most Ridiculous Questions You've Ever Been Asked?
Jan 3rd 2007, 4:08 pm
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Re: Funniest / Most Ridiculous Questions You've Ever Been Asked?
Jan 3rd 2007, 4:29 pm
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Re: Funniest / Most Ridiculous Questions You've Ever Been Asked?
Its like the friggin Mafia.
Whats your poison anyway? Have a cuppa?
Jan 3rd 2007, 4:44 pm
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Re: Funniest / Most Ridiculous Questions You've Ever Been Asked?
I'm drinking water .... New Years health thing.
Jan 4th 2007, 1:12 pm
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Unless this guy meant joined in the physical sense, like by a bridge. Then an unforgivable thing to say.
Jan 4th 2007, 1:22 pm
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Re: Funniest / Most Ridiculous Questions You've Ever Been Asked?
I've had this on more than one occassion:
"Oh, you're from England -- that's in London, right?"
"Oh, you're from England -- that's in London, right?"
Jan 5th 2007, 1:52 am
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I think the 'oddest' exchange I've had here was at the wedding reception of one of my wife's many (extended family) redneck cousins.
This woman came rushing over to me, cornered me and said "I hear you're from England". I replied in the affirmative to which she gushed "My son will be sooooo jazzed to be able to talk with you, he loves everything about England and wants to go there someday".
I smiled 'that smile' all we brits own in our makeup and muttered "nice"
She said she would send her son straight over to me.
He shuffled up beside me about 30 minutes and (for me) several whiskies later, mumbled something about England and so I felt 'obliged' to respond as "gentlemanly" as I could muster.
He asked where in England I came from - I answered "Southampton". He responded by saying he did not know where that was.
Instead of being malicious - as I sometimes am - and saying "it's in London", I thought I would be helpful and informative and told him "it was where the Titanic sailed from"
His answer, which I could NOT have made up, was a classic....
"Oh, I never saw that movie"
This woman came rushing over to me, cornered me and said "I hear you're from England". I replied in the affirmative to which she gushed "My son will be sooooo jazzed to be able to talk with you, he loves everything about England and wants to go there someday".
I smiled 'that smile' all we brits own in our makeup and muttered "nice"
She said she would send her son straight over to me.
He shuffled up beside me about 30 minutes and (for me) several whiskies later, mumbled something about England and so I felt 'obliged' to respond as "gentlemanly" as I could muster.
He asked where in England I came from - I answered "Southampton". He responded by saying he did not know where that was.
Instead of being malicious - as I sometimes am - and saying "it's in London", I thought I would be helpful and informative and told him "it was where the Titanic sailed from"
His answer, which I could NOT have made up, was a classic....
"Oh, I never saw that movie"