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Topic: Most asinine comment
Posted By: Pnoom!
Subject: Most asinine comment
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 08:38
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What is the most asinine comment you've ever heard/made
Made: outlawing abortions is like saying women can't have periods...
Heard: Syd Barret's Scarecrow was inspired by the wizard of oz (which came out later...)
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Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 08:44
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Calm down! Are you seeing how many threads you can start in the shortest time? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/BobGreece/?chartstyle=basicrt10"> 
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Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 08:46
No, I sat down last night and thought of a bunch of threads, and wrote them down. I had about ten more that I won't be posting because they're bad.
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Bob Greece wrote:Posted By: Stefanovic
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 08:47
I guess some people have too much time on their hands... 
would a "get a life" comment be inappropriate ?
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Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 08:48
Save them for tomorrow.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/BobGreece/?chartstyle=basicrt10">
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Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 08:48
I did, however, have some problems at one point... the computer thought I was spamming.
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Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 08:50
Artificial intelligence.------------- http://www.last.fm/user/BobGreece/?chartstyle=basicrt10">
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Posted By: Politician
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 12:00
| Heard (on a tran): "I saw my gran over the weekend. Well, I call her my gran, but she's not really - she's my mother's mother." |
Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 12:32
And this is the most asinine comment I've seen on the web...
No wait, that's still the scarecrow comment
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Posted By: Psychedelia
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 16:29
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I was at the Eden project and before you get to the domes which hold the jungle area and meditteranean hot one you go down a hill which is surrounded by more interesting plantlife; the path curves around so you can see all the plants.
In Northern accents: Son- "Can't the path lead straight to the domes?" the father takes him to one side and replies
Father-"No son, cos the hills too steep" ------------- Another emotional suicide, overdosed on sentiment and pride |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 16:34
The Wizard of Oz film came out in 1939, 7 years before Syd was born. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 16:35
This may be an urban myth, but an American tourist supposedly said of Windsor Castle "it's nice but why did they build it so near the airport?" |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 16:47
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When my wife and I were on a tour bus in Italy, with other Americans, we sat in stunned silence as the following was spoken by a woman behind us: "You know, I was in Germany recently, and they had the word 'Deutsch' everywhere. 'Deutsch' this and 'Deutsch' that. I wonder what that word means in English." |
Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 16:52
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Posted By: Bastille Dude
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 23:27
That was me. ------------- DEATH TO FALSE PROG! |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 23:41
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A girl in my friend's Astronomy class asked the Professor, "If the Earth didn't have an atmosphere, would we be cold?" ... ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: November 04 2006 at 02:25
A friend of my Gran once said, when asked why she was driving so fast: "I'm low on petrol and I want to get home before I run out". ------------- When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory. |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: November 04 2006 at 09:42
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Overheard in a Thai restaurant:
"Boy, this is the best Chinese I've ever had."
------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: Sasquamo
Date Posted: November 04 2006 at 09:53
Try replying to other people's threads for a change. |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: November 04 2006 at 10:10
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Heard: at "Altazor awards" (Chilean tribute to Chilean artists), the presenter, a girl called Patricia Larraín, was announcing the "Best national opera production" award. The winner was a production of "Carmina Burana". She started inmediatey requesting for Miss Carmina Burana to get to the stage and receive the award. She kept going: "¿Miss Burana?... ¿is she here, or someone will receive the award for her?" ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: November 06 2006 at 08:21
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The best has to be Richard Millhouse Nixon who flew to China in 70's for a major meeting with Chinese govenment to try and stalibilise the World during the cold war era.
Meeting on the great wall of China, Nixon had the opportunity to make a profound and timeless quote that would sum up what the whole trip was about. What he came up with was:
"Gee this is a great wall" ------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
Posted By: Drachen Theaker
Date Posted: November 06 2006 at 09:31
Reminds me of the West Bromwich Albion fotballer on a tour of China in the 1970s. When they were taken to see the Great Wall he pronounced himself unimpressed, commenting "Once you've seen one wall, you've seen 'em all." 
------------- "It's 1973, almost dinnertime and I'm 'aving 'oops!" - Gene Hunt |
Posted By: Empathy
Date Posted: November 06 2006 at 11:33
Similarly, this happened to me in my first day of physics class in high school... We had a teacher that seriously mumbled, not to mention had a very thick North Carolina drawl that was sometimes hard to decipher. Again, it's the first day of class, and I'm sitting in the front row of desks, yet can still barely make out what he's saying. He's talking about the two opposing views of the solar system pre-Copernicus, Heliocentric versus Geocentric. He says: "Geocentric means 'earth-centered', because 'geo' is Greek for 'earth'. Heliocentric means 'sun-centered', because helios is Greek for 'sun'... I guess." I turned to my friend in the seat next to me, (who was close to dozing off) and asked... "Did he just say 'I guess'????" I didn't attend that class very often for the rest of the year. ------------- Pure Brilliance: 
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Posted By: darren
Date Posted: November 06 2006 at 15:49
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Being in a Canadian tourist town, everyone I know has at least one tourist story.
I was in a restaraunt with a friend. An American tourist was on the pay phone trying to call home and without luck. Finally he slams the phone down and says "Geez, you'd think this was a foreign country or something."
Then there's the European tourist who was impressed by the forests. He asked me who planted all the trees.
A big one is people not knowing how big Canada is. A friend works in a Thunder Bay hotel and a lot of guests inquire about making reservations in Toronto for that night. The distance is over 1300 km. You probably won't make that in a day.
------------- "they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world. the fools they locked up the wrong man." - Leonard Cohen |