That is like 140 in Dog Years - A Comments Thread?

[jcorn]

The above was part of an actual comment I got, not even among the funniest when one considers comments with typos and Freudian slips. Anyone care to share funny or potentially funny, odd, surreal or bizarre comments they've gotten? I have a soft spot for the unintentionally funny ones but anything goes, of course. I have a feeling here'd be no holding anyone back at this site anyway. So why even set parameters?

For the record, the comment "that is like 140 in dog years" appeared on a semi-serious article I wrote for engaged couples - and those buying wedding presents for them. I started musing about all the wedding gifts we'd once wanted, over 20 years ago (evoking the "140 in dog years" comment).

Somewhere in that article I admitted that plenty of our desired gifts were mistakes which we regretted immediately, including a certain set of Dansk dishes (wincing as I write this, even now, gag...hate those dishes, even in memory). The dishes are history and passed on to some other poor souls. Maybe I should have broken them instead and spared someone the aesthetic insult.

Our best presents were ones we didn't even register for, including a really bizarre collage that would probably offend anyone with religious sensibilities but it grew on us. Also, a HUGE ficus tree that simply...grew. A piece of architectural salvage that fell off a wall and broke a blood clot in a child's brain, sparing him from surgery (true). We liked it before then, anyway.

[Chris M.C.]

This wasn't a comment, but someone joined AC to PM me about my Ovaltine article. They wanted to know if I thought the taste had changed since the 50's. I had to break it to them that I was not alive in the 50's.

[theBarefoot]

I wrote an article specifically to see what kind of comments would be left. The comments are the best part of the whole exercise. There are a lot of "you're a waste of space" comments, but my favorite is "Brother, i like you, whoever you are." Nice to know that article found it's way out there. I love that little struggler.

[jcorn]

Hey, where is the article? You know any writer with a grain of inquisitiveness is going to want to see that one. I should have titled my Death by Q-Tip article as Death by Q-tip and taken my chances. I wrote a far different take on it at a different site and THOSE comments are funny. Except for the stalker who only emails me and doesn't leave comments. I know he reads the articles because the emails are about them.

[jcorn]

Oh, yeah, not on Ac but when I wrote a blurb about cotton swabs and the risk of ear infections (some guy got meningitis from a Q-tip OR other type of cotton swab, someone wrote :
" I always use the Q-tips from the non-meningitis pile so I am safe.
I have the cleanest ears in my town. They had a contest. Really they did."

I found that amusing. Really. I did.

[Chris M.C.]

" I always use the Q-tips from the non-meningitis pile so I am safe.
I have the cleanest ears in my town. They had a contest. Really they did."


LMAO!!