Inspired by the "best compliment" and "worst insult" threads, and also by a truly strange comment I received a few weeks ago. Granted, this was while contra dancing, but it still counts. Since I was dancing.
A guy I hadn't seen in a while came down the line towards me, and when he saw me said, quite enthusiastically, "Oh yeah, hey! You're scoliosis girl!"
Me: "What? Who? Um....only on Thursdays? What??"
Then he moved on, as did I. Since that's the way the dance works.
Much later on in the night, again while I was dancing with someone else, we passed each other in the rotation and he added "Sorry about earlier. For a second you looked more concave on one side than the other."
Me: blank stare of stunned confusion
As far as I, all my friends in attendance, my doctor, and my partner of that dance can tell, I'm pretty evenly concave, thanks. I hear I'm evenly convex, too.
Originally posted Tuesday, August 16, 2005 (6 years ago)
While I am purposefully trying not to recall the actual comment, I am sure that the weirdest thing ever said to me at a dance was probably from a drunken PMO at Y6A.
The velocity of Spanish is that many tables do not have sadness...
Originally posted Wednesday, August 17, 2005 (6 years ago)
It s not as much the actual comments, more the fact that they re always in German (although I ve managed to catch "danke" so I assume the comments are at least vaguely positive)
a) I m not German.
b) I don t speak any German.
c) I live in Shanghai.
d) So does the lead in question.
e) Who s Asian.
f) So have adopted smiling a lot as my lingua franca of choice.
Originally posted Wednesday, August 17, 2005 (6 years ago)
Quoted from "air" "Oh, we all call you cowboy because of the hat"
a) I had no idea people talked about me behind my back
This is really common in the swing scene. Sometimes I can't remember someone's name, or even if I say, "Ron" the leads I know will be like, who? So then I say, you know, the cowboy (bald guy, tall guy, cartwheeler, striped pants, etc). You pick out a trait that will identify them. If you are the only guy wearing a cowboy hat, and it is a regular occurence, you will gain that knickname. I don't see it as talking about someone behind their back as saying, yeah I had this awesome dance with Ron! Who? The bald guy.
Originally posted Wednesday, August 17, 2005 (6 years ago)
Quoted from "saracynthia"
Quoted from "air" "Oh, we all call you cowboy because of the hat"
a) I had no idea people talked about me behind my back
This is really common in the swing scene. Sometimes I can't remember someone's name, or even if I say, "Ron" the leads I know will be like, who? So then I say, you know, the cowboy (bald guy, tall guy, cartwheeler, striped pants, etc). You pick out a trait that will identify them. If you are the only guy wearing a cowboy hat, and it is a regular occurence, you will gain that knickname. I don't see it as talking about someone behind their back as saying, yeah I had this awesome dance with Ron! Who? The bald guy.
Yeah, I do that a lot. Pseudonyms used have included Pirate Man, Robin Goodfellow, Hyper Kid, Guy Who Talks Forever In Monotone, etc. They've all seemed to work pretty well.
Quoted from "pei_han" It s not as much the actual comments, more the fact that they re always in German (although I ve managed to catch "danke" so I assume the comments are at least vaguely positive)
a) I m not German.
b) I don t speak any German.
c) I live in Shanghai.
d) So does the lead in question.
e) Who s Asian.
f) So have adopted smiling a lot as my lingua franca of choice.
Hah. Now that's just weird. Although it would be even weirder if EVERYONE on the scene spoke to you in German.
Originally posted Wednesday, August 17, 2005 (6 years ago)
While talking about music during a swing night (saying that I have the vinyl of Strange fruit by Billie Holiday in my collection from Condors records) The guy said to me
(Quote)
My uncle has a very rare Symphony played by Mozzart
(En quote)
My reply was:
The phonographe and even electricity didn't exist in those years. How can he have something played by The Great Mozzart
Originally posted Thursday, August 18, 2005 (6 years ago)
Quoted from "Atalanta" "Did we dance before?"
"Yes, last week" you lecherous creep
"Oh, that's so funny! I didn't recognize you this week because I guess I was looking at your body and not your face!"
"So I noticed." (turning and walking away)
A true lecherous creep would have recognized your body.
Originally posted Thursday, August 18, 2005 (6 years ago)
(meeting a well-known dance instructor for the first time)
"Yeah, I know who you are... I saw pictures of you kissing my girlfriend on the internet" :oops:
Another weird one:
"Wow! Your hair is so long!"
(That's all... the end...no "and it looks so nice") :dunno:
Originally posted Saturday, August 20, 2005 (6 years ago)
Quoted from "Martini Slayer" The weirdest comments I get is when a guy askes me, "Are you dancing ??" while I am trying very hard to balance a FULL martini...
I mean Sheesh Isn't it obvious that I am not dancing?? He shouldn't disturb me in the middle of dinner like that! :evil:
On a vaguely similar topic--
again during a contra dance (the same dance when I got the first scoliosis comment), a random guy in the line stopped in the middle of dancing, looked at me, and asked "Would you like to dance?" holding out his hand as if he expected me to abandon my partner and dance with him RIGHT THEN. I tried to say something about maybe later, but I was so confused that no words came out until I'd been swept back into the dance.
Originally posted Monday, August 22, 2005 (6 years ago)
I got the stare during the whole dance, no smile, no spark in the eyes, then at the end, no thank you no smile, just a "you're funny"... in a kill joy, totally even monotone voice at that! It was like dancing with Frankenstien. Grrrr... And he needed a breath mint.
Originally posted Monday, August 22, 2005 (6 years ago)
There's this guy who comes to Java Jive in Chicago every week and is the kind of lead girls run away from. Anyway, he has this tendency to tell girls that it's his birthday. That's it. He'll just say, "You know it's my birthday." Even though he may have said it last month or last week and then be completely silent for the rest of the song.
And he does this really low dip and just kind of holds you there practically lying on the floor until the next song starts and then expects you to dance with him again.
Originally posted Monday, August 22, 2005 (6 years ago)
A lead I've never danced with before does a fairly normal and polite non-verbal dance request (loud music, as I'm sitting by the speaker). Just after we start dancing, and prior to my saying anything that would rationally have lead to any of these questions, indeed, prior to my saying anything at all, he initiates the following exchange:
Him: "Are you Canadian?"
Me: "No, I live in New York."
Him: "Are you French?"
Me: "No. As I said, I live in New York. And I'm from Ohio."
Him: "Your not British, are you?"
Me: "No."
Him: "Oh. Well, then."
No further explanation or substantial conversation was offered. I'm baffled.
Originally posted Monday, August 29, 2005 (6 years ago)
Quoted from "SwingKid570" While I am purposefully trying not to recall the actual comment, I am sure that the weirdest thing ever said to me at a dance was probably from a drunken PMO at Y6A.
I remember Marcelo shouting at every girl who walked in, asking if she was kimpossible :lol:
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Inspired by the "best compliment" and "worst insult" threads, and also by a truly strange comment I received a few weeks ago. Granted, this was while contra dancing, but it still counts. Since I was dancing.
A guy I hadn't seen in a while came down the line towards me, and when he saw me said, quite enthusiastically, "Oh yeah, hey! You're scoliosis girl!"
Me: "What? Who? Um....only on Thursdays? What??"
Then he moved on, as did I. Since that's the way the dance works.
Much later on in the night, again while I was dancing with someone else, we passed each other in the rotation and he added "Sorry about earlier. For a second you looked more concave on one side than the other."
Me: blank stare of stunned confusion
As far as I, all my friends in attendance, my doctor, and my partner of that dance can tell, I'm pretty evenly concave, thanks. I hear I'm evenly convex, too.
So. You tell.
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While I am purposefully trying not to recall the actual comment, I am sure that the weirdest thing ever said to me at a dance was probably from a drunken PMO at Y6A.
The velocity of Spanish is that many tables do not have sadness...
"Oh, we all call you cowboy because of the hat"
a) I had no idea people talked about me behind my back
b) I really wasn't going for the cowboy look.
b) For some reason I was flattered that people talked about me behind my back....
Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?
It s not as much the actual comments, more the fact that they re always in German (although I ve managed to catch "danke" so I assume the comments are at least vaguely positive)
a) I m not German.
b) I don t speak any German.
c) I live in Shanghai.
d) So does the lead in question.
e) Who s Asian.
f) So have adopted smiling a lot as my lingua franca of choice.
This is really common in the swing scene. Sometimes I can't remember someone's name, or even if I say, "Ron" the leads I know will be like, who? So then I say, you know, the cowboy (bald guy, tall guy, cartwheeler, striped pants, etc). You pick out a trait that will identify them. If you are the only guy wearing a cowboy hat, and it is a regular occurence, you will gain that knickname. I don't see it as talking about someone behind their back as saying, yeah I had this awesome dance with Ron! Who? The bald guy.
Yeah, I do that a lot. Pseudonyms used have included Pirate Man, Robin Goodfellow, Hyper Kid, Guy Who Talks Forever In Monotone, etc. They've all seemed to work pretty well.
Hah. Now that's just weird. Although it would be even weirder if EVERYONE on the scene spoke to you in German.
Oh, and "The Otter" has been used before, but only between myself and one other friend.
Ooo, I have flavorcrystals now! Cool! What flavor, I wonder?
"Did we dance before?"
"Yes, last week" you lecherous creep
"Oh, that's so funny! I didn't recognize you this week because I guess I was looking at your body and not your face!"
"So I noticed." (turning and walking away)
Weirdest comment: "You're such a great follow!"
Don't know what he was smoking.
While talking about music during a swing night (saying that I have the vinyl of Strange fruit by Billie Holiday in my collection from Condors records) The guy said to me (Quote) My uncle has a very rare Symphony played by Mozzart (En quote)
My reply was: The phonographe and even electricity didn't exist in those years. How can he have something played by The Great Mozzart
I was holding my stomach not to laugh out loud
:spineyes:
Some guy comes up to me at Y6A and says--"hey I thought you were a six foot blond babe".
Duh!
And then this chick says--I thought you were Kazumi?
What the heck?
And then this asian chick says, "Do you dance with hunch-backs?"
Now I am really confused and just as I turn away Dennis Rhodman asks me if I really did spit in his girl-friends drink.
Bah-doom Bah-doom, Bah-doom Bah-doom .
Huh ? WTF ?
A true lecherous creep would have recognized your body.
So I hear...
Martinis do not contain vodka. —Rachel Maddow
You smell like my boyfriend.
arthur
Wow. These are fantastic. I'm a particularly big fan of the lecherous creep comment, and the Mozart recording.
(meeting a well-known dance instructor for the first time) "Yeah, I know who you are... I saw pictures of you kissing my girlfriend on the internet" :oops:
Another weird one:
"Wow! Your hair is so long!" (That's all... the end...no "and it looks so nice") :dunno:
"Your shirt is so soft and warm!"
ewwww...
Him: "mmmm...your hair smells pretty, may I touch it?'
Me: "No."
Him: " Too bad" grabs my hair anyway, hard!
Arrghh!! At least I stomped his foot hard. heehehee
The weirdest comments I get is when a guy askes me, "Are you dancing ??" while I am trying very hard to balance a FULL martini...
I mean Sheesh Isn't it obvious that I am not dancing?? He shouldn't disturb me in the middle of dinner like that! :evil:
On a vaguely similar topic-- again during a contra dance (the same dance when I got the first scoliosis comment), a random guy in the line stopped in the middle of dancing, looked at me, and asked "Would you like to dance?" holding out his hand as if he expected me to abandon my partner and dance with him RIGHT THEN. I tried to say something about maybe later, but I was so confused that no words came out until I'd been swept back into the dance.
"Great feet you got there!" ........uh, nice torso?
I got the stare during the whole dance, no smile, no spark in the eyes, then at the end, no thank you no smile, just a "you're funny"... in a kill joy, totally even monotone voice at that! It was like dancing with Frankenstien. Grrrr... And he needed a breath mint.
There's this guy who comes to Java Jive in Chicago every week and is the kind of lead girls run away from. Anyway, he has this tendency to tell girls that it's his birthday. That's it. He'll just say, "You know it's my birthday." Even though he may have said it last month or last week and then be completely silent for the rest of the song.
And he does this really low dip and just kind of holds you there practically lying on the floor until the next song starts and then expects you to dance with him again.
A lead I've never danced with before does a fairly normal and polite non-verbal dance request (loud music, as I'm sitting by the speaker). Just after we start dancing, and prior to my saying anything that would rationally have lead to any of these questions, indeed, prior to my saying anything at all, he initiates the following exchange:
Him: "Are you Canadian?" Me: "No, I live in New York." Him: "Are you French?" Me: "No. As I said, I live in New York. And I'm from Ohio." Him: "Your not British, are you?" Me: "No." Him: "Oh. Well, then."
No further explanation or substantial conversation was offered. I'm baffled.
"I want to have your baby."
Wasn't that a Compliment in the Best Compliment I have ever received from a dance?
Ha. The crazy ways of the world.
Here's one I heard from a guy at a West Coast Lesson.
"Lindy Hop is a bouncy farmers dance."
I wanted to ask if he knew how many farmers lived in Harlem in the 1930s.
From a complete stranger "You won't believe this, but I am completly in love with you".
From someone that was hitting on me "You are a pearl in this sea of darkness".
At least he didn't shout, "PUDDIN ONNA RIIIIIIIIZZZ!!!"
Martinis do not contain vodka. —Rachel Maddow
I remember Marcelo shouting at every girl who walked in, asking if she was kimpossible :lol:
- James
Which sets up the line "What do you bet I ____ like your boyfriend?"
- James
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