The stupidest thing you can remember someone saying to you?

[Imran Siddiqui]

"This sends a clear message that we will never cease in our efforts to hunt down all terrorists, foreign or domestic, and stop them from harming the innocent"

How is that stupid? He maybe trying to take some credit for it... but the manhunt was still continuing. It isn't like they decided forget it and went home.

After all, why do you think he was trying to find food in the garbage anyway?

[Victor Galis]

Well, Ashcroft is crediting the manhunt with catching Rudolph, when really it was blind luck. He makes no effort to connect the manhunt to Rudolph looking for food in a dumpster (which he could have done to make his statement somewhat less of a non sequitur). Also, if you read the news, you will find that the way Rudolph was dressed when he was apprehended tends to imply he had some supporters willing to help him hide. He certainly didn't look like a man that had just spent 5-6 years hiding out in the woods.

Man, I actually remember when they first started looking for him. One of my mom's friends at the time was one of the many FBI agents sent to North Carolina in the attempt to track down Mr. Rudolph. I think he was only wanted for the abortion clinic bombings at the time though.

[Imran Siddiqui]

you will find that the way Rudolph was dressed when he was apprehended tends to imply he had some supporters willing to help him hide

Then why was he looking for food in a dumpster?

[Victor Galis]

Then why was he looking for food in a dumpster

-You're asking a guy who was so convinced that Rudolph had already fled to Mexico or someplace where he wasn't being sought.

[Imran Siddiqui]

What? You thought he fled to Mexico?

Anyway, if I was the Attorney General, I'd say roughly the same thing. We never let up on him and he's had his picture plastered all over. So the cop recognized him, etc, etc.

[Victor Galis]

But the cop didn't recognize him. They didn't figure out who he was until the cop took him back to the police station and many cops saw him, one of whom recognized him.

[Victor Galis]

What? You thought he fled to Mexico?

-If hundreds of people were actively searching for me in one very specific place, I would do my best to be anywhere but there.

[Gangerolf]

back in highschool this girls asked the teacher if he had a picture of the big bang

[Guest]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
One time I went to the restaurant and asked for a cheesburger without cheese.

I work in a movie theatre and we have a New York Fries concession.
The tradition is if an employee comes to see a movie, he goes to the New York Fries, asks for a poutine (fries with gravy sauce and cheese, specialty around here) without carrots.
Working employee : Im sorry sir we dont have carrots
"Customer"(very mad): I SAID I DONT WANT ANY CARROTS DONT YOU UNDERSTAND
Working employee : We never put any carrots sir Im sorry
"Customer"(madder than mad): WHATS WRONG WITH YOU, I JUST TOLD YOU I DONT WANT ANY CARROTS IN MY POUTINE..
etc...
Its half prepared, half improvisation
Looking at the faces of the other customers is hilarious as they try to disappear while the "customer" is getting crazy over carrots....

[Dis]

This is a good thread to state that I say a lot of stupid things. But that doesn't make me a stupid person. Often I just say stupid things because I don't think before speaking or I'm just trolling. But like I said that doesn't make me stupid. I still claim to be the smartest man who has ever lived at any point in the history of the planet Earth.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Great thread. Some favorites (only one said directly to me, but still):

In college -- an Ivy League university, mind you, though I won't besmirch its good name by telling you which one -- a girl I knew stopped a conversation dead by asking me, "Really? Chicago is in a state? Which one?"

In high school, as an exam was being handed out in my European history course, I heard a panicking girl ask her friend, "Quick, who fought in the Franco-Prussian War?"

A couple of years ago a colleague of mine caught a student cheating on a midterm and, of course gave her a "0" on the test. When grades were posted, a friend of hers came to see the teacher and said, "Ma'am, the grade you gave Deniz is very unfair. We were all cheating; it is not right to punish her just because she got caught."

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Dissident
This is a good thread to state that I say a lot of stupid things. But that doesn't make me a stupid person. Often I just say stupid things because I don't think before speaking or I'm just trolling. But like I said that doesn't make me stupid. I still claim to be the smartest man who has ever lived at any point in the history of the planet Earth.

You think out loud a lot.

RTF, you have to admire the honesty though.

[JCG]

Someone telling me to kill him...both stupid and seriously ****ed up.

[Inverse Icarus]

again, not to me, but in my presence.

in biology class, the professor was going over the reproductive system and related things, and she described that semen contained a lot of sugars.

one of the girls in the class then proceeded to ask, "then why doesn't it taste sweet?"

there was dead silence, then an uproar of laughter. then the professor told us all to hush up, with this smirk on her face that made me want to start laughing all over again.

she then proceeded to say "because there are no tastebuds on the back of your throat."

[Arrian]

she then proceeded to say "because there are no tastebuds on the back of your throat."

Your professor has a sense of humor.

-Arrian