This one got my dad in real trouble.
Years ago, when young and naive in the ways of the world he was in a pub. After he finished his beer he held aloft said empty beer glass and quoth thusly:

"I'd rather see a dead baby than this sorry sight."

One can only presume he intended for one of his mates to get the next round.

What happened instead was the bloke next to him knocked him out by hitting him rather hard with the barstool he had been sitting on, his baby having died the previous week.
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