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@ Thursday, 18. Sep, 2008 – 17:56:58
What are the strangest compliments you've ever received? Mine include:
'You don't eat, you make love to your food'
and Mr Penry's marriage proposal:
'We get on really well. I love you and think we should get married. I think we'd be as happy as pigs in sh*t.' Virtually every anniversary card he has sent me has a pig on it.......
So........what are the strangest/niciest/weirdest compliments you've ever received?
Kibitz
tylluanpenry
Hi Adam, thanks for visiting my blog and posting here. Weirdly, my father often used to pretend he was Jewish.... said it was a good way of getting rid of doorstep preachers. I've no idea why though!
lostjohnny
gee thats a hard one I get sooooo many NOT!
Oddest????
I really do not know.
la_spice
Phew - I thought that was the compliment! 
lostjohnny
Well modesty aside I get complimented on my eyes, my physique, my smile....
The oddest if I am to be honest is how nice I am!
la_spice
Oh and your modesty of course!!!
lostjohnny
Of course 
At a wedding about 20 years ago, an elderly woman (related to the wedding couple), who I had never met before, said to me: "You are not at all like they said! They must have been lying!" Even today, I wonder who "they" were and what they had said about me, but surely nothing good anyway... 
tylluanpenry
Oh dear - that was definitely what we call a 'backhanded compliment!'
Well, even but I am sure she meant it as a compliment, it did have the opposite effect on me! 
Usksider
Pro In a previous life I was a trade union representative and went to see a female member who was suffering bullying in the workplace. I sat her down and talked to her... she became emotional... I handed her tissues, made her a coffee and made all the right noises. At the end of the interview I got up to leave and she said, "Thanks for being here. I was a bit afraid when you came in you might be a bloke!"
tylluanpenry
Good grief! Clearly she found you very sympathetic then!
Usksider
Pro Or something! 
menhir
An indirect compliment came from someone many years ago, who withdrew a complaint about a description I wrote; when he was told I wasn't a local person. "Oh well, that's alright then."
I honestly am trying to recall. There must have been some other oddity oddities, but...
tylluanpenry
That's a good one, Menhir! 
menhir
There is so much to read into it. I found it better and easier to accept what was said at face value.
ganesharocks
It's too early to think of one just yet...but I'm enjoying reading the others!
I need more coffee.
tylluanpenry
Glad you're enjoying the posts!
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The oddest compliment I've ever received.
From an American tourist. On a plane bound for Israel.
Said in a way which clearly implied - This is a very good thing.
"Take it from me kid. You don't look Jewish."
I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Adam ... x