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Hobgoblin Lord
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2006 06:46
A few weeks ago a friend of mine told me he was getting divorced. Trying to be a good friend I talked to my cousin who had gone through one a few years earlier and always bragged about his lawyer, he got almost everything including custody. The lawyer in question is supposed to be the best divorce attorney around so I got his name and gave it to my friend telling him how good the guy was and how he wrecks the other side. My friend looks at the name and tells me that I just gave him the name of his wife's attorney. YIPES! nothing like making a pal feel good

Anyone else ever do something similar?

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Posted: 22nd Nov 2006 06:54 Edited at: 22nd Nov 2006 06:54
Yeah. My gf, who was dating some complete a-hole for 2 years, told me one day she was breaking up with him for good. It was about time, I been telling her to do that for awhile. Well, he was a real jealous type and would try to force her not to talk to me, (before i ever said anything bad about him) and would try to threaten me. Well, one day I noticed she called and tried calling her back. He answers, he yells at me for calling his girl and threatens to beat me up again (honestly, he wouldn't have a chance) and so i said something like: "she dumped you anyway, what do you care".

The bad part? She didn't quite tell him yet that they were broken up, which only made matters worse. He was furious that I knew about his breakup before he did. When she told me that, I couldn't help but laugh and laugh, I hated the prick.

Oh, I did tell him by mistake cause I thought he knew already. But I probably would've done it on purpose anyway.

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Posted: 22nd Nov 2006 07:04 Edited at: 22nd Nov 2006 07:04
My sister(georgie) did something like this about a week ago.

This guy(geoff) we know, his father was really ill, and passed away about 2 weeks ago.

This guy(not the dead one), offered the deceased estate, to my other sister(courtney) and her husband.

Remembering that Geoff had offered our sister a house, Georgie went up to him and started talking. About half way through she asked "so how is your father?"

Went down like a lead baloon that one.

Not really a "deliver bad news" story, but pretty cool none-the-less.

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Posted: 22nd Nov 2006 07:35
ouch. I met someone in a shopping centre who i knew before but couldnt tell.
She was a lot older looking then myself and we got onto talking about high school, I mentioned if she was a teacher, turned out she was a classmate. gulp...

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Posted: 22nd Nov 2006 08:12
I've had it happen the other way arround for me.. I was at school (This was a while ago) and my friend who was next to me said "Sorry about your cat. You know I was the one that brought it in." And I didn't know my cat was hit by a car until then..

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Posted: 22nd Nov 2006 10:30
I know someone who wrote a bitchy email at work regarding one of her colleagues...and then sent it to her by mistake. Watching her run down the office not actually knowing what she had done yet was quite bizarre. She arrived at the desk of the other woman to find her already reading it.



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Posted: 22nd Nov 2006 10:34
Nope, never have.

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Posted: 22nd Nov 2006 15:57
haha. Hmmm. I have a similar story to all these relationship stories, and similar to Phaelax's story. One of my ex girlfriends (years ago), before we got together, I'd met her and we'd got on really well in the pub. Anyway, I'd found out she was in a relationship that she was unhappy in, and to cut a long story short I said if you want to be with me, you gotta drop him (pretty obvious). Let me make it clear now he was a nice chap. Not an a**hole in anyway, they just had grew apart.

The next week I saw her out in town and we spent the whole night chatting getting on really well. She told me she'd split up with her ex and the way was clear, so to speak. So things got a bit hotter and we ended up kissing etc in the pub. Anyways, she got a bit stand-offish all of a sudden, which I didn't quite understand. Anyway, we moved on to another place and she started leading me around the pub introducing me to her mates (she was a "knows everyone" type of person). Then she disappears for a bit when I got chatting to someone else.

Later, I find her talking to a bloke, so I go over expecting an introduction to this other friend, and I'm standing right behind her, and give the bloke a nod and put my hands round her waist. Only then do I realise that it's her ex and she is "completing" the break-up process, of which he wasn't fully aware. Me .. the new guy on the scene, standing right behind her, smiling at this bloke rubbing his face in it inadvertantly. Of course, he would be a big rugby player ...

Good job he wasn't the violent type. I could've started my new relationship in a wheelchair.


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Posted: 22nd Nov 2006 16:00
rofl @ fallout

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Posted: 22nd Nov 2006 17:36
At my school we used to hang out in the mornings in our technology department because that's where out form toom was. So I'm standing there, comforting my (ex, thankfully) girlfriend who was really upset because, the day before, a friend of hers had been run over by a truck. Now, that girl was prone to making scenes like that, so my best mate walks over to us and says 'So, who died then?'. She ran, lol.

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Posted: 22nd Nov 2006 17:55
Oh man. That reminds me of a guy I used to live with at uni. I spent about a month living with him making the odd "Yo mumma" jokes and "Yeah, like your mum" comments, before he told me his mum had died of cancer a year or two back.

Talk about feeling like a complete twat.


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Posted: 22nd Nov 2006 22:00
Every day, once I said "your mom" to one of my newer friends and he was like "My mom is dead." and I was awestruck =X
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2006 22:35
haha. Yeah, there's putting your foot in it, and there's lying on the floor and rolling around in it. We both made that mistake. I dont make mum jokes anymore unless I'm sure the mum is in perfect health!


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Posted: 22nd Nov 2006 22:38
or the person doesn't have two dads....or mums for that matter...

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Posted: 22nd Nov 2006 22:43
Oh yeah, that's possible these days isn't it? Imagine making a "Your mum" joke and the person asking "Which one are you refering to?".


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Posted: 22nd Nov 2006 22:45 Edited at: 22nd Nov 2006 22:45
oh yeah, actually i did make a big mistake once with something like that...

I was talking to a adopted kid, and he was saying "well how do you know I'm not so and so's kid?"
i knew for certain he wasn't and said so...
he replied "well what if he had adopted me and you didn't know?"

so i stupidly replied "ok, so you're not his real kid."

he was adopted but not by the guy we were talking about, but i had forgot so for the moment

anyway, the kid is a jerk so i didn't feel too bad...

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Posted: 22nd Nov 2006 23:37
Quote: "the kid is a jerk so i didn't feel too bad..."

Why are you having interactions with kids?

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Posted: 22nd Nov 2006 23:39 Edited at: 22nd Nov 2006 23:39
when i said kid i actually meant teenager who is only a few months younger than me

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Posted: 22nd Nov 2006 23:49
Hehe, ok. I just didn't understand why you were talking to some kid about how if you knew if his real parents were someone else (I probably said that all wrong, but you get it. ).

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Posted: 22nd Nov 2006 23:59 Edited at: 23rd Nov 2006 00:00
A fair few years ago I was talking to this really bubbly American girl I knew and the subject turned to how cold it had been at that time over here in Portugal.

She said something to the avail of "Yesterday, it was so cold I had to hop off the bed to put on an extra sock!"
I turned to her and replied "Surely, you mean put on _a pair of socks_?"
She smiled at me and said "Well, not really..." and looked down...

Only then I remembered that she actually only had one leg!

This is an absolutely true story - because she was such a happy person and so nonchalant about her disability I totally and utterly forgot about it! Of course I was absolutely mortified with the situation but she just burst out laughing!

What an example to us all!

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Posted: 23rd Nov 2006 02:14 Edited at: 23rd Nov 2006 02:18
I think you indirectly paid her a complement.

Edit: That reminds me of yet another one. I once told a girl I thought her contact lenses looked dodgy. She actually had a disorder of the pupils which made them look like deformed cats eyes. Numb nutts.


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Posted: 23rd Nov 2006 18:38 Edited at: 28th Nov 2006 00:22
Ha same thing here, i talked to this girl who had one blue and one brown eye and commented on her probably lost one of her contact lenses. Turns out it she didn't wear contact lenses.....

Edit: Image removed for various reasons.

Pretty cool though.

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Posted: 23rd Nov 2006 22:04
i used to know someone with those type of eyes too.. they are pretty cool
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My wife and I were shopping at a grocery store about 2 years ago (before she was my wife). My wife looks at the checker and says "When are you due?" The checker says "What?"... "When is your baby due?"... "I'm not pregnant.". My wife starts apologizing... I start laughing. The checker still has to go through all the groceries (our cart is full to the top and she just barely started). The last words the checker said before we left was... "Well that made my day."

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Posted: 24th Nov 2006 00:21
Grog, LOL!


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Posted: 24th Nov 2006 00:23
OMG! I thought that only happened in movies, lol.

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That girl with different eye colors is creepy. Could you imagine sleeping with a girl like that and waking up with that in you bed!? She looks like Quasimodo or Maryln Manson (neither of which I would like to sleep with)!

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Posted: 24th Nov 2006 00:51 Edited at: 24th Nov 2006 00:51
hey

Were not togheter, but were friends and i would like you to take that back okay? Comparing her to Marilyn Manson is a step to far. Creepy at first i agree, but you get used to the eyes.



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It is unusual, yes, and I can imagine it may be somewhat distracting at first talking to someone with different eye colours, but I think that particular girl is cute and the different colours somehow don't make her look weird at all.

Manticore, you really need to let me know where your waste bin is so I can have a rummage around...

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Posted: 24th Nov 2006 00:57
Yeah, a bit harsh me thinks! She looks fine to me.

Anyway, you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're stoking the fire.


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I think she's kinda hot. I go out with her lol.
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Posted: 24th Nov 2006 01:03
It's okay, but who's Quasimodo? it sounds farmiliar but i can't connect it to anything atm.

I'm guessing Quasimodo must be wierd looking?....as you placed "it" next to Marily Manson, that guy give me the creeps.

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It's pretty harsh mate ... the hunchback of Notre Dame.


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.......oh *cough*lol*cough*

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Posted: 24th Nov 2006 18:31
Quote: "Manticore, you really need to let me know where your waste bin is so I can have a rummage around... "
Ok, I really have no idea how you got that. But I would prefer you stay away from my waste bin anyway.

Quote: "Anyway, you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're stoking the fire. "
That acctually made me laugh out loud.

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Posted: 24th Nov 2006 18:33
My friend has a dog with eyes like that
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Posted: 24th Nov 2006 18:45 Edited at: 24th Nov 2006 18:46
Quote: "My friend has a dog with eyes like that "
Then I don't think I'd like to sleep with your freinds dog either.

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Yeah, I think the comment was a bit harsh; but being fair, the appearance of her eyes is made somewhat 'worse' by the red eye caused by the camera flash (assuming of course her eyes really isn't red in the centre... )

But yeah... without the 'red eye' it wouldn't look that bad. On a slight tangent, one of my eyes is a slightly different colour from the other - only very subtle though, one is lighter green than the other, but only noticeable up-close. If I remember correctly though, your eyes are never 'truly' the exact same colour... but that may or may not be true :s (can't remember where I heard that one)

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Posted: 24th Nov 2006 19:28 Edited at: 24th Nov 2006 19:32
Quote: "Quote: "Manticore, you really need to let me know where your waste bin is so I can have a rummage around... "
Ok, I really have no idea how you got that. But I would prefer you stay away from my waste bin anyway."


LOL. That was actually a literal translation of a Portuguese saying: When a person says that someone of the opposite sex is ugly and the person he's talking to clearly things otherwise, the later normally says "you really need to let me know where your waste bin is so I can have a rummage around..." - because the former really must be in the habit of throwing away good stuff!

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Well I guess I just had a brain fart and forgot my Portugese sayings for a second there.

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Quote: "Well I guess I just had a brain fart and forgot my Portugese sayings for a second there."


I am an area of the US heavily populated by Portugese people, and they have alot of sayings, like;

Quote: "Hey you kids next time you cut through my yard, go around."


and my all time favorite

Quote: "Throw me down the stairs my sweater."


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Posted: 25th Nov 2006 00:48
@Miguel - lol. Cheers for explaining that. I had no idea what you were on about, but now it makes perfect sense. Our equivilent saying would be "One mans trash is another mans treasure".


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Posted: 25th Nov 2006 01:43
Quote: "Then I don't think I'd like to sleep with your freinds dog either."


Interesting that the basis for you not sleeping with the dog is the colour of its eyes, as opposed to, you know, the fact that it's a dog.


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Not everyone can understand humour I guess...

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Quote: ""One mans trash is another mans treasure""


Yeah, that sounds about right, ehehe

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Quote: "Not everyone can understand humour I guess..."


You may wish to consider including yourself in said populace.


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Posted: 25th Nov 2006 21:15
Did you utilise such large statements prior to this declaration. For I cannot recolect for certain.

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Quote: "You may wish to consider including yourself in said populace."

Well all I'm saying is that his message was funny, yours wasn't.

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Posted: 25th Nov 2006 22:55
Quote: ""Throw me down the stairs my sweater.""

Any chance of a translation?
That double eye colour thing is neat. It would be better if they were blue and green though. I´m not a fan of brown eyes.

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Quote: "Quote: ""Throw me down the stairs my sweater.""
Any chance of a translation? "


Despite being Portuguese myself, I can safely say that I cannot reverse-translate Hobgoblin Lord's sentences into anything that reminds me of a Portuguese saying.

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