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Dumbest thing someone has ever said to you?

Here's another one. I was shopping in a market, at the checkout. Those were the days where the checker weighed things to get a total price, from what the butcher wrote as the price/pound. I had a large, long piece of pork wrapped by the butcher. It was too long to fit into the weighing tray. So I placed it in the tray, with the two ends of the meat extending over the walls of the weighing tray.

The checkout woman told me that I can't do that. She proceeded to make sure all the meat is inside the edges of the tray. Then she said that the parts sticking out the tray wouldn't get weighed.
 
Something I said when buying a record at an opshop (charity shop) that might have been considered to be dumb (but just my dumb sense of humor):

The LP was Nat King Cole's "Unforgettable". When I put it on the counter I pointed to the record and said "I don't think I will ever be able to forget this one". Blank look in response.
 
AudioFeline said:
A "cat" is afro-american slang from the jazz age, respectfully referring to a cool person. eg "That cat can wail a mellow saxophone".
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My thoughts where... “if I have to explain it....”
Especially for people of our demographic :beatnik:
 
BamaBilly said:
I’m not sure it was an “African-American” thing. Pretty sure it was common saying back then.
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I wasn’t commenting about that, just the slang, I was going to explain but I always look at profiles, then I decided what’s the point ;)
 
BamaBilly said:
I’m not sure it was an “African-American” thing. Pretty sure it was common saying back then.
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My understanding that it was part of the jazz-speak speak slang culture, which was predominantly (to my understanding from the other side of the world) to be Afro-American (as an example, refer to Slim Gaillard's Vout-O-Reenee Dictionary). It's my understanding that many of these words were adoped by the broader community by those who wanted to appear cool, until now where many are part of mainstream language.
I also hope I haven't cause any offense with the Afro-American reference, no disrespect was intended.
 
Upon seeing my middle bedroom and the shelves full of books a young lady asked me "have you read all those books"? My reply was yes, "If you look at the books you'll see that I've read all the words right off the pages".:D

AudioFeline said:
My understanding that it was part of the jazz-speak speak slang culture, which was predominantly (to my understanding from the other side of the world) to be Afro-American (as an example, refer to Slim Gaillard's Vout-O-Reenee Dictionary). It's my understanding that many of these words were adoped by the broader community by those who wanted to appear cool, until now where many are part of mainstream language.
I also hope I haven't cause any offense with the Afro-American reference, no disrespect was intended.
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None taken. It's well known but not always admitted that the vast majority of American slang comes from the Black community.

Even the word Jazz came from Black slang. Back then extended improvisation was new to the black community. It started as "jass" as in don't jass up the music. jass was not a positive term.

It didn't always have a good beat and wasn't easy to dance to. (Paraphrased from an American Bandstand song review)
 
AudioFeline said:
My understanding that it was part of the jazz-speak speak slang culture, which was predominantly (to my understanding from the other side of the world) to be Afro-American (as an example, refer to Slim Gaillard's Vout-O-Reenee Dictionary). It's my understanding that many of these words were adoped by the broader community by those who wanted to appear cool, until now where many are part of mainstream language.
I also hope I haven't cause any offense with the Afro-American reference, no disrespect was intended.
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Yes, jazz and other related music, Diz' and Miles, on to Sinatra, etc.
Went hand in hand with the "beat" phenomenon, literature, art, music (particularly cool and free jazz), poetry, language, fashion, ect. Greenwich village in NYC was a nexus. The original MAD magazine had a great time lampooning beats and beat clichês thru those years.
 
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May not be the dumbest, but it's close to the top.

Fall of 1992. I was a college freshman and I was at a music store ( CDs, albums, cassettes etc) just browsing trying to just kill time. Some guy literally comes running in and runs over close to me and starts frantically looking for a CD. Finally he says aloud FOUND IT, to which I pick my head up and look at him. He said "dude you need to buy this album it's going to be huge, this guy is going to be a megastar". I looked over and it was the debut album of the Canadian rapper Snow, with the hit "informer" on it.



I did not buy the album and Snow was a 1 hit wonder.
 
Several times I have heard “What's the worst that could happen?” which is generally rather quickly followed by something bad. Kind of up there with “Come on, no one will ever know...”
 
No Money said:
Several times I have heard “What's the worst that could happen?” which is generally rather quickly followed by something bad. Kind of up there with “Come on, no one will ever know...”
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"Don't worry folks, I've done this before, I'm a professional. "
 
One of the dumbest things I read on forums is when someone calls a Technics SL-1200 "a toy".

No bias on my part, I don't own one but I've operated and listened to one and "toy" would be the last word that comes to mind.
 
Vintagear said:
One of the dumbest things I read on forums is when someone calls a Technics SL-1200 "a toy".

No bias on my part, I don't own one but I've operated and listened to one and "toy" would be the last word that comes to mind.
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Heard the same about Rega and other low mass turntables. If some are to believed if a turntable can't be dropped down a set of stairs, or weigh as much as bag of bricks it's a toy.
 
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