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NJJ Inner circle 6437 Posts |
So we've all had a good chuckle at the more girl who made an idiot of herself bumbling over geography on You Tube. (and then we rubbed salt on the wound by drawing attention to how 'hot' she was. This is Miss teen...a bunch of old men leering at a 17 year old is a bit creepy isn't it?)
So what is the stupidest thing you've ever done that didn't make it to you tube? For me? I believe that Mr Ed was a Zebra whose stripes didn't show because stripes don't show up on black and white TV! Curse you Snopes! ( http://www.snopes.com/lost/mistered.asp ) Not only that but I told a room of 300 people that it was a fact and argued with those who refused to believe me smug in my self satisfaction and wisdom. What is your "Miss Teen" moment? |
michaelmystic2003 Inner circle 3062 Posts |
My "Miss Teen" Moment was when my mind was on other things while at Walmart, and I was dee in thought while purchasing my items. While I was leaving the cashier said "Have a great day" and I said in return, "You too! I love you."
OOPS
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NJJ Inner circle 6437 Posts |
I love you too
I called the teacher mum once! |
MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
I would say it happened in Chile about 25 years ago. I was in full uniform and sitting on a raised platform at a table. A middle aged couple came up to my friend and I and everyone in the place stopped what they were doing and turned to look. The story was the couple were actually brother and sister and they had told everyone they learned English on their own using flash cards and we were their first experience with Americans. They came up and started talking to us and we had a nice talk, they did very well. At one point I was paying attention and looked at the table and saw my beer bottle then looked back up to the couple, picked up my glass, and thinking it was a bottle put it the right distance from my mouth to drink and poured the glass of beer over my uniform in front of about 80 people. I later went and picked up a teen age girl.
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TomKMagic Special user I tripped over 620 Posts |
Maybe not my stupidest moment, but it has happened more than once. When I buy lunch at work, and the lunch lady says, "enjoy your lunch" and I reply, "you too". Usually they say, "have a nice day" to which my conditioned response would have been OK.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
Oh, I have one far worse than that!
My wife's office used to meet at a local bar "The Lost and Found." I would meet her there after work on occassion and had shown the odd card trick. One time, the bartender came over and said; "We have a guy who used to work here and does magic, maybe you can show him something." Turned out to be Derek Dingle! (Yeah, I'm going to show Derek Dingle "something." Right after that, I show Hefitzt (sp) how well I play "Chopsticks!" After introductions had been made he showed a "Cigarette Through Quarter" and I swear my brain wasn't aware my mouth was going to say, out loud, "Oh, cool. Did you get that at Tannens?" One of those moments you wish the Earth would open up and swallow you!
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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NJJ Inner circle 6437 Posts |
Only five idiots out of seventy seven reads!
I thought we were dumber than that! |
Blindside785 Inner circle Olympia, WA 4541 Posts |
Quote: The hell? lol I typed almost the same exact thing and decided to delete it and next time I see this thread...someone else did it
On 2007-08-29 02:33, Nicholas J. Johnson wrote: I've called my teacher in 6th grade mom. I also did somewhat the above where a person said, " Well have fun at the park " ..."You too" |
NJJ Inner circle 6437 Posts |
My wife does that all the time! says "You Too"
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
I'll give you another one that had the potential of blowing up but didn't. I was working, this was mid 80's, and the phone rang and my clerk answered it. He walks in and says "Vannesa is on the phone and has a question". I said, still looking at the paper on my desk "What does that stupid @$#*)@ )@&((* want now?". Sounds like trucking runt. I turned my head and he was holding the phone about three inches from my head, and she heard my response. She said "I heard that!" so I said "yeah, but you are a stupid @!5@@# )*#$@(, what do you want?" she said "oh, I need to know when.....". You see, she didn't rat me out or get upset because she was a stupid @$(@) $*@(#.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
Isaac Asimov had one in his biography that was priceless.
Seems a famous female SF writer was pining after a male SF editor who'd broken up with her. At a convention, Asimov was on a panel honoring the writer, in which the editor took part. In the introductions, the editor introduced, his introduction ran something like this; "and so-and-so, the famous SF editor by whom she has often been antholosized (sp)." Asimov muttered to himself; "Antholosized? Always eupherisims!" And then discovered to his horror that he was in front of a live mike! It became the catch-phrase of the convention; "Go get antholosized!" "Antholosize yourself!" Fortunately, the writer used it as a cold dash of water and told Asimov that it showed her that she was blowing the whole thing out of proportion."
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
There was a story on another forum about a very popular UK MC during a show giving a running commentary about a more popular female magician not realizing his lapel mic was on.
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mvmagic Inner circle Has written 1322 Posts |
This happened ages ago, in the early 80s. We showed a lot of respect towards our principal. Girls curtsied and boys bowed. I was standing in the hallway with a bucnch of girls and the principal walked by, I neatly curtsied with everyone else...I am STILL embarrassed about that!
A more recent one...I am a male nurse. I was at work and the phone in the nurses station rang. I answered and a young woman asked for her mom. I asked her whats the name of her mom and she said "Lizzie". The patient we all knew as "Lizzie" had died only hours ago so I told her. She totally crashed, yelling and crying. She asked me how could it happen, that she was just fine earlier the same day. I just told her that the cancer was just too strong and then se said "mom didn't have cancer". She was the daughter of one of our nurses and had called her by her nickname which I didn't know. What made me feel REALLY stupid was the fact that I had called the patient's only daughter when she had died.
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Scott Cram Inner circle 2678 Posts |
My favorite video that hasn't made it onto YouTube? That would be Miss Teen South Carolina's Geography Quiz! How good can you do?
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
I got three out of seven. Pretty bad.
But the point is not that she didn't know geography but that she couldn't answer the actual question put to her.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
That page has crashed Firefox for me twice. It's a good thing, too, because I didn't start very well. I was 0 for 1.
As for the subject of this thread, twice I was very embarrassed by saying terrible things about people when I shouldn't have. Both occurred when I was twelve, and both at church. The first time I used a racial epithet, and turned and saw someone of that race looking at me with very sad eyes. I've never used that epithet again. The second time I was talking about some guy, only to discover he was sitting behind me. I do still talk about people negatively, sometimes, but as a kind of rule (harder to follow than the previous example) I try not to say anything about anybody that I would be embarrassed for them to hear. On a less serious note: I am embarrassed every year when I travel to the States, because I speak German at inappropriate times. Basically, it's phrases like "excuse me" or "I'm sorry" or "you're welcome"--you know, the things that come automatically out of your mouth in certain moments. I guess it shouldn't be that embarrassing, but it is. Of course, on this end I catch myself speaking English at inappropriate times, too. But that's much less embarrassing than an American who thinks he's in another country. Jeff |
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