Hmmmmm, let me see
Mum - just too many to list. I'm sure she doesn't mean it, but sometimes she opens her mouth and stuff falls out.

Sister - Petting lamb at farm open day. "Ooooh, this feels just like wool."

Ex-Girlfriend, on the subject of Casablanca. "I'll hate it, the special effects are crap in black and white films." It was at this point I realised that I probably hadn't been listening to a word she said for the month we'd been together, having been distracted by the fact that she was traffic stoppingly cute.

The wife, looking out at heavy downpour, and specifically at my parents fishpond. "Aaah, the poor fish will get soaked." I prefer to think of this as a symptom of her deep compassion for all living things, and not that she was dropped on her head as a baby.

Look, I don't want to sound sexist, but I just don't know any stupid men. Apart from me, but that would be telling.

... and finally, celebrity ignorance. Fiona Phillips on GMTV, having interviewed a family, obviously deeply traumatised at the fact that their daughters murderer had escaped prison. "Still, this will cheer you up"

Not only is this about the most crassly insensitive thing I have ever seen, I think the next item was actually about a high school shooting.

I swear I didn't imagine this.
(Throbbe, Fri 7 Jan 2005, 11:27, Reply)