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Cyborg Ninja 11-15-2007 07:16 PM

Dumbest things you've heard people say
 
My grandmother continues to boggle my mind everyday. I used to think she was intelligent when I was a child. She reads quite a bit, at least. Anyway, I'm amazed at some of the things she says. One thing she said recently made my cousin and I both laugh. She said, "You hear about all the men who fought in WWII and how they were heroes, but you never hear about Hitler! He was the reason we went over there in the first place, you know." *palm to face* My God.

Share your stories.

KellyC 11-15-2007 07:44 PM

12th grade in US Government class. My teacher was lecturing and mentioned Georgia. A class mate suddenly raise his hands and said "Umm, where's Georgia at?" The whole class laughed at him. The teacher, wanting to save him some face, said "Maybe he meant Georgia the country" but we all know better.

And he was born here...

Hyacinthe 11-16-2007 02:20 AM

Ok people have a tendency to say extremely stupid things around me so list time!

1) "No I'm not worried about sun bathing you can only get skin cancer if you live under one of those holes in the ozone layer"

2) "What? where'd your tattoo go? I thought they were permanent" (please note that he was looking at the wrong side of my neck)

3) "What, so wait a second your modem is on FIRE and you didn't think to mention this?" - from when I used to work helpdesk for a wireless ISP and someone rang up unable to connect due to the fact that they had fried a circuit board in their wireless modem.

4) "Ahh the good old days, when the men were men, the women were men and the sheep were scared"

5) "I don't sort my laundry I prepare it for surgery"

6) "What are you talking about I have a very delicate filing system for my belongings - everything goes on the floor"

Push-Pull 11-16-2007 05:59 AM

1) guy from work was asked how many beers short of a six pack he was, his reply was "three". And he meant it.

2) Customer at work asking me to cut an 8' piece of wood into two 6' pieces.
"Don't try to rip me off punk, I know quite well that I don't need to buy 2 eight foot pieces to get what I want."

3) A looooong time ago customer. "Yeah, that xxxxx for $79.95, how much is it?"

4) My wife. "Would you like to fuck me?"

Plan9 11-16-2007 08:10 AM

Aaah, deployment brings out the best dumb quotes:

"Hey, Sarge... I think there's something metal buried in the dark over there on the side of the road."

"Hey, Sarge... I can't find my weapon."

"God, why is it so hot over here?"

I keep track of memorable fumbles in my life:

Stuck in front of a razorwire fence: "Robot, get out your shovel."

Me: "Hey, 'Ooops... I did it again,' is a Britney Spears album... not the way to handle bad past relationships!"
Girlfriend: "Thank you very much, have a nice day and go fuck yourself, asshole."

Drunken voicemail I got in '05: "Who's that man? The manly man! He's CROMPSIN! I said who's that man? The ladies man! He's CROMPSIN! Who's the coolest guy on the street, the crazy guy layin' down ghetto beats; if he had a sponge he'd wash your feet! He's CROMPSIN! CROMPSIN! Yeah CROMPSIN!"

Willravel 11-16-2007 09:12 AM

A friend of my little brother once made a great argument about how there wasn't gravity under water.

Really? The POTUS really is the king of dumb.
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm
http://www.slate.com/id/76886/

"Because he's hiding…"
—Bush, explaining why Osama bin Laden has yet to be captured. (Washington Post interview, Jan. 16, 2005)

Average_Joe 11-16-2007 09:28 AM

I get a kick out of people who call my house looking for me, if I'm late for something, and ask "Hey, man, where are you?" Uhh...at home?

Ustwo 11-16-2007 10:18 AM

"You can't get blood from a tuna."

DaveOrion 11-16-2007 10:33 AM

I didn't actually hear these but still.......


(On September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.)
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?


Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not
live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever,"
--Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest.


"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
--Mariah Carey



"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very
important part of your life,"
--Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign .



"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body,"
--Winston Bennett,
University of Kentucky basketball forward.



"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the
lowest crime rates in the country,"
--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.



"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
--Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents.



"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death
by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it,"
--A congressional candidate in Texas.


"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
--Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark



"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
--Al Gore, Vice President



"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.."
--Dan Quayle



"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"
--Lee Iacocca



"The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." --Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.



"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude
certain types of people."
--Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instrutor



"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
--Bill Clinton, President



"We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
--Al Gore, VP



"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas."
--Keppel Enderbery


"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."
--Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina



"If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack
in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their
heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when
they wake up dead, there'll be a record."
--Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman

QuasiMondo 11-16-2007 11:01 AM

We had a new Lieutenant come in to our comm shop to get setup with a network account. After we briefed him about DoD policies and etc., we gave him the standard password of '12345678' that would need to be changed immediately.

His first question: "12345678, is that in all caps?"

IT guy (with a straight face) "Yes, sir."

Thank goodness my workbench had me facing away from them.

Plan9 11-16-2007 11:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by QuasiMondo
We had a new Lieutenant come in to our comm shop to get setup with a network account. After we briefed him about DoD policies and etc., we gave him the standard password of '12345678' that would need to be changed immediately.

His first question: "12345678, is that in all caps?"

IT guy (with a straight face) "Yes, sir."

Thank goodness my workbench had me facing away from them.

HAHAHAHHAHA! Oh, god... our LT once did that with grid coords on a PLGR.

yellowmac 11-16-2007 12:01 PM

"If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college."

/I really hope someone has heard what I'm referring to there...

and my actual answer ... I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet:

"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uhmm, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and uh, I believe that our, I, education like such as uh, South Africa, and uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our education over here in the US should help the U.S., umh, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us." --Miss South Carolina from this year's Miss Teen USA pageant.

Strange Famous 11-16-2007 12:08 PM

"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
--Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark

Thats not a stupid quote... its completely true.

Redlemon 11-16-2007 12:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yellowmac
"If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college."

/I really hope someone has heard what I'm referring to there...

I'm sure many of us have. Classic bit.
Quote:

Originally Posted by DaveMatrix
"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
--Mariah Carey

False. This was included in a satire piece, then picked up as a real quote incorrectly.

DDDDave 11-16-2007 01:03 PM

"You should always go to friends funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours." - who else but Yogi Berra

Strange Famous 11-16-2007 01:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yellowmac
"If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college."


Sure. haha.

I love Lewis Black.

Bill O'Rights 11-16-2007 01:23 PM

Quote:

Dumbest things you've heard people say
I Do.

ring 11-16-2007 01:43 PM

" do as I say dammit, not what I do"

Dear Old Dad.

Plan9 11-16-2007 01:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
I Do.

Oh, that totally bitchslapped me.

Best quote ever.

fish_oinc 11-16-2007 03:17 PM

I heard once on out company Radio give me a land line on your cell phone

MSD 11-16-2007 09:44 PM

"Who here is bad at geography"
half of the class puts their hands up
"Really bad"
most of the hands go down
"Who's the worst of the five of you? Come up to the map"
girl walks up to the pull-down map
"OK, point to Europe"
"uhhhhhhhhh ... ummmmmmm ..."
ten seconds later
"oh, there it is"


Then there's a classic, and every time I tell the joke, there are a few people who think the heavy boots answer makes perfect sense. I don't know if it started as a real anecdote or a joke, but people actually are that dumb.
Quote:

About 6-7 years ago, I was in a philosophy class at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison (good science/engineering school) and the teaching
assistant was explaining Descartes. He was trying to show how things
don't always happen the way we think they will and explained that,
while a pen always falls when you drop it on Earth, it would just
float away if you let go of it on the Moon.

My jaw dropped a little. I blurted "What?!" Looking around the room,
I saw that only my friend Mark and one other student looked confused
by the TA's statement. The other 17 people just looked at me like
"What's your problem?"

"But a pen would fall if you dropped it on the Moon, just more
slowly." I protested.

"No it wouldn't." the TA explained calmly, "because you're too far
away from the Earth's gravity."

Think. Think. Aha! "You saw the APOLLO astronauts walking around on
the Moon, didn't you?" I countered, "why didn't they float away?"
"Because they were wearing heavy boots." he responded, as if this made
perfect sense (remember, this is a Philosophy TA who's had plenty of
logic classes).

passthru 11-17-2007 02:49 AM

Heavy boots? Wow, that's a good one..

QuasiMondo reminded me of something that happened while I worked at Fry's in the Components department. A new hire came over from the computer department and said he needed help finding a part, and one of his coworkers had told him we'd have it. He tried reading it but was very confused, so he handed me his piece of paper. The part number was "ID 10t". I told him to look on aisle seven.

MSD 11-17-2007 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by passthru
QuasiMondo reminded me of something that happened while I worked at Fry's in the Components department. A new hire came over from the computer department and said he needed help finding a part, and one of his coworkers had told him we'd have it. He tried reading it but was very confused, so he handed me his piece of paper. The part number was "ID 10t". I told him to look on aisle seven.

Should've told him they sold it at the auto parts store next to the 710 caps. Maybe he would have gotten it.

tecoyah 11-17-2007 04:52 PM

Do You Work Here?

dressed in company uniform in a retail store

MSD 11-18-2007 02:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tecoyah
Do You Work Here?

dressed in company uniform in a retail store

Do you work here?

dressed in shorts, a t-shirt, and flip flops in a respectable clothing store

Damnit, if I wanted to impersonate an employee anywhere for fun, I'd dress nicely and put on the Radio Shack "Manager" name tag I stole when I was fired for not working during exam week.

noodle 11-18-2007 02:54 PM

"Yes."

Mister Coaster 11-18-2007 05:04 PM

I'm always surprised at the lack of intelligence of the people I work with when it comes to requesting signs. (I work as the graphic artist & sign printer) VERY few people realize that a regular sheet of paper in the US is 8.5"x11". I mean, that's common knowledge, right? But the best sign size question I got was:

"How big is 5"x7"?" Ummmm... yeah. We ARE talking inches here...

optik_nerve 11-18-2007 05:19 PM

There was 8 of us at a TGI Fridays and we were with this guy who was vegetarian. He asked the waiter, "Do you have anything on the menu vegetarian?" To which the waiter replies, "Uhh.... turkey burgers."

Jack The Lad 11-23-2007 09:52 PM

"Of course, it's safe!" :orly:

Plan9 11-23-2007 09:58 PM

Here's a winner:

(time machine back to Fort Bragg in 2004, lights off, clothes everywhere, bed creaking rhythmically, exwife moaning, door kicked in, dumbass big-headed Private toddles in)

Pvt E: "Heeeyy, Saaarrjunt Crompsin... whatcha doin!?"

Sgt Crompsin: "What the fuck do you think I'm doing?"

lurkette 11-24-2007 05:37 AM

After my brother died, someone in her grief support group told a story of being called by his manager a week after his son's death and reamed out for taking 5 days off from work. He said "I mean, really, how long does it take to bury someone?"

>.<

Dono dumb, but insensitive, definitely.

fresnelly 11-24-2007 07:37 AM

We were at the zoo this summer and while looking at some gazelles in the African area, I overheard a grown woman exclaim ``I didn`t know their were Reindeer in Africa!``.

MSD 11-24-2007 11:50 AM

In Class:

"Why would the proletariat rise up against the bourgeoisie? they're the ones who give them all their money."


Another one from a friend:
"Mohammed took 30 years to do all that? Well Jesus did it in only three!"

She apparently also got mad at an anthropology professor for dismissing creationism because of the fossil record, which was placed there by Satan to test our faith.

Xazy 11-24-2007 02:53 PM

I had a co-worker who saw Guiliani on tv (back when he was the mayor) and said wow the president. She also said there was 53 states.

Sadly she is a substitute teacher in NYC.

Baraka_Guru 11-24-2007 03:51 PM

My mother heard this in a nursing class:

They just finished discussing all the bones found in the human body. A young woman raises her hand to ask a question, and is called upon:

"What about the bone in the penis?"

bobw 11-24-2007 08:40 PM

I love when people, usually athletes during a post-game interview, say, "I take my hat off to them..." when they aren't wearing a hat in the first place. Or better yet, when they are actually wearing a hat, but don't even attempt to actually take it off...

stevie667 11-25-2007 06:29 AM

'Whats 10% of £10?' - Cashier asking her manager when i gave her my discount card.

'If it wasn't for america, we'd still be in the caveman times!' - Stupid bitch #2 in my business studies class.

'Milk comes from sheep' - One of my room mates

One of my favourites, we wandered in to a friends house after a drunken night in town, his mum comes down stairs to tell us to shut up and be quiet, at which point friend shouts 'I'M FUCKING TRYING!'. So so funny at the time.

Zodijackyl 11-25-2007 11:21 AM

Talking to a girl from New York (who has lived there her whole life).
"Yeah, I'm going to Massachusetts next month."
"Where's Massachusetts?"
"Above Connecticut."
"Oh."

CoolestPerson 12-04-2007 03:31 AM

Why would I put something so fag like as a colored condom on my beautiful dick?

Merlocke 12-08-2007 04:05 AM

http://www.digyourowngrave.com/lette...n-about-prison

http://www.digyourowngrave.com/kelli...r-is-not-smart

Stupidity is a commodity that I must tap into. Watch the videos above and you'll see what I mean.


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