http://metachat.org/index.php?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:11:03 +0000 c167406@http://metachat.org I have two examples. One night a few years back I came home to find the message “Call me back right away” from my sister on the machine. She never calls me, so when I called back I said, “So who died?” She said, “Uncle Ivan.” I said, “Oh.” There was a pause, and then we both cracked up laughing. Another time I was having lunch with a friend who was having terrible problems with her marriage — she’d found out her husband was seeing someone, but they were trying to work things out. I noticed she wasn’t wearing her rings and I asked her if this had any significance. She said no, she never wore them because they were too small for her now, but that she and her husband worked things out she planned to have them resized. I blurted out, “And if doesn’t work out you can have them made into a really sexy ankle bracelet.” I immediately thought, “Oh maaannnnnn,” but my friend got a fit of the giggles and didn’t seem to mind at all. (And since she is now getting a divorce, who knows but that she might use the idea.)
One night a few years back I came home to find the message “Call me back right away” from my sister on the machine. She never calls me, so when I called back I said, “So who died?” She said, “Uncle Ivan.” I said, “Oh.” There was a pause, and then we both cracked up laughing.

Another time I was having lunch with a friend who was having terrible problems with her marriage — she’d found out her husband was seeing someone, but they were trying to work things out. I noticed she wasn’t wearing her rings and I asked her if this had any significance. She said no, she never wore them because they were too small for her now, but that she and her husband worked things out she planned to have them resized. I blurted out, “And if doesn’t work out you can have them made into a really sexy ankle bracelet.” I immediately thought, “Oh maaannnnnn,” but my friend got a fit of the giggles and didn’t seem to mind at all. (And since she is now getting a divorce, who knows but that she might use the idea.)
]]> http://metachat.org/index.php/2006/06/14/funny_faux_pas#c167406 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:39:21 +0000 c167410@http://metachat.org I often do the first part, but never the second. http://metachat.org/index.php/2006/06/14/funny_faux_pas#c167410 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:10:59 +0000 c167416@http://metachat.org All the time, I'm pretty much known for it. I won't put an example here because the one I can think of isn't very nice and is a bit of an inside joke. Anyways, yes, I do do that. http://metachat.org/index.php/2006/06/14/funny_faux_pas#c167416 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:10:10 +0000 c167437@http://metachat.org Yeah, I'm with dg. Less of the laughing, more of the withering glares and not-returning-phone-calls-anymore. http://metachat.org/index.php/2006/06/14/funny_faux_pas#c167437 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:58:44 +0000 c167467@http://metachat.org Who, me? Tactless? http://metachat.org/index.php/2006/06/14/funny_faux_pas#c167467 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:12:48 +0000 c167478@http://metachat.org One lunch time, I was at this yuppie market deli counter, which often has a plate of samples. Well I see a plate of something or other, and I am really really hungry, so I reach out and take some food off it. Turns out it was a plate of something that someone had just bought. . .gosh was I embarrassed.
Well I see a plate of something or other, and I am really really hungry, so I reach out and take some food off it.

Turns out it was a plate of something that someone had just bought. . .gosh was I embarrassed.]]> http://metachat.org/index.php/2006/06/14/funny_faux_pas#c167478 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:01:16 +0000 c167552@http://metachat.org I was at a fancy dinner in Austria when someone in a deeply accented voice asked me: In English I don't understand the difference between the word "ceiling" and "roof." How are those words different? An I answered "the jews are hiding between them."
In English I don't understand the difference between the word "ceiling" and "roof." How are those words different?

An I answered "the jews are hiding between them."
]]> http://metachat.org/index.php/2006/06/14/funny_faux_pas#c167552 Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:29:09 +0000 c168133@http://metachat.org R O F L http://metachat.org/index.php/2006/06/14/funny_faux_pas#c168133