What is the funniest/most stupid comment you ever got? [Part 2]

[CosmosMpower]

Went to a local burger place with big glass windows, happened to snag a spot right out front and a few people stared as I get out. I order my food and am waiting for it to be made and see a big table with some parents and teenage kids. After a few minutes I saw one a boy tapping one of the girls on the shoulder and bugging her. He did it for a minute or so until the girl stands up, looks at him and goes "I DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT STUPID LOTUS, LEAVE ME ALONE".

5 minutes later a late 40's looking woman walks by and goes "cute car". I responded with "cute wrinkles"

[sleeprfocus]

I was pulling out of my garage last weekend and this group of younger girls walked by the gate before I pulled out. One of them yelled out "COOL CAR!" and the rest of them giggled. I just smiled and waved.

Something about the whole incident made me feel like a dirty ol' perv... I need a shower.

[6_speed]

At a stop light over the weekend...

Guy in Explorer: hey, hey
Me: hi
Guy: what you got it up to?
Me: about 120
Guy: what can it do?
Me: about 150
Guy: i had a (Honda) CRX once that was like yours
Me:

It's moment like those I wished I was in a Boxster

[TimMullen]

Originally Posted by D Britt

Not really funny or stupid, but odd:

50-ish guy at stop light shouting across his car: "Nice ride. I once had a 1967 Austin-Healey with that exact same engine in it."

Not are out of whack as you may think...

In the '70s Healey (the Healey part of Austin-Healey) worked with Jensen to design and build the Jensen-Healey - a front engined two seat sports car. The car was powered by the first version of the Lotus four cylinder engine that was later improved and used in the various Esprits. Being a first version, those engines had lots of "teething" problems (it was nice of Jensen-Healey to do the beta testing for Lotus ).

So, I'm just betting that he had the general facts down, but is messed up on the details (probably wasn't a real car guy in the first place), and he remembers his Jensen-Healey (commonly confused by many people with the Austin-Healey name) with his Lotus engine that was used for years in all Lotus cars.

Crazy? No, just mixed up on his details...

[ace10]

Originally Posted by CosmosMpower

Went to a local burger place with big glass windows, happened to snag a spot right out front and a few people stared as I get out. I order my food and am waiting for it to be made and see a big table with some parents and teenage kids. After a few minutes I saw one a boy tapping one of the girls on the shoulder and bugging her. He did it for a minute or so until the girl stands up, looks at him and goes "I DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT STUPID LOTUS, LEAVE ME ALONE".

5 minutes later a late 40's looking woman walks by and goes "cute car". I responded with "cute wrinkles"

if you lived in california, your story would have been prefaced by an apology about the choice in food.

[JohnnyQuik]

Originally Posted by xtn

South Carolina is "down here?"

I thought that was the "North East."

xtn

Wow. Those aren't just fightin' words around here. Them might be killin' words. For some reason a lot of people around here are still fighting the Civil War and don't understand our "little furrin" cars.

JohnnyQuik

[PhoneBoy]

Originally Posted by ChicagoMikeW

It's like porn only better

You need better porn.

[alil'britdifferent]

Originally Posted by JohnnyQuik

Wow. Those aren't just fightin' words around here. Them might be killin' words. For some reason a lot of people around here are still fighting the Civil War and don't understand our "little furrin" cars.

JohnnyQuik

Civil War? What's that?

..............oh the war of Northern Aggression!!

[alil'britdifferent]

You guys are just like all of the odd "softies" that I work with............odd

Originally Posted by Conan

It's not just "down there." Pretty much the entire country has the logic:

if(goingToTheTrack){
    event = dragRace | oval;
}

[I'm such a geek ]

Originally Posted by nockpoint

actually... that isn't a bad idea. We can code up a little lotus fan or nascar fan quiz. The if statements for which might be even more humorous than the questions we pose to users.
If(!moron) {
gotoAndPlay("twisties");
}

Originally Posted by FVRacer

Guess what crappy language I spend my day using.

I (TRACK="DRAG")!(TRACK="OVAL") D
. G RACE

hint I am an app dev in a health care field.

Originally Posted by doma

I think I see a bug You use '|' which is bitwise OR. That means you are or-ing dragRace and oval together. The result is that event is both a dragRace and an oval.

Right, so if
#define dragRace 0x01
#define oval 0x02

then event becomes equal to 0x03.

Perhaps instead did you intended to use logical or? '||'. Then, as long as you either have an oval, or a dragRace, you will then get event set to true.

So instead...

if(goingToTheTrack){
    event = dragRace || oval;
}

Sorry... I'm home sick today and going bonkers.
I'd like to submit my above comments as the 'most stupid' comment. :-)

[Dmbrown34]

Originally Posted by TimMullen

Not are out of whack as you may think...

In the '70s Healey (the Healey part of Austin-Healey) worked with Jensen to design and build the Jensen-Healey - a front engined two seat sports car. The car was powered by the first version of the Lotus four cylinder engine that was later improved and used in the various Esprits. Being a first version, those engines had lots of "teething" problems (it was nice of Jensen-Healey to do the beta testing for Lotus ).

So, I'm just betting that he had the general facts down, but is messed up on the details (probably wasn't a real car guy in the first place), and he remembers his Jensen-Healey (commonly confused by many people with the Austin-Healey name) with his Lotus engine that was used for years in all Lotus cars.

Crazy? No, just mixed up on his details...

Its funny to see the difference in a car buff and a car guy...great history lesson.

So was it the same basic engine in the Healey all the way to the S4S?

[uclacyc]

Originally Posted by CosmosMpower

5 minutes later a late 40's looking woman walks by and goes "cute car". I responded with "cute wrinkles"

I like that. Nice back-handed compliment. Gotta remember it for next time. Supplement the compliment with anything else like chin, belly, junk in the trunk.

[rraicu]

Originally Posted by jlj3394

Yesterday I had a college chick say "I would ____ your brains out for that car." I kept the car.

"I'll trade you pinks."

[Conan]

Originally Posted by 6_speed

At a stop light over the weekend...

Guy in Explorer: hey, hey
Me: hi
Guy: what you got it up to?
Me: about 120
Guy: what can it do?
Me: about 150
Guy: i had a (Honda) CRX once that was like yours
Me:

It's moment like those I wished I was in a Boxster

Maybe a better respoonse would have been, "Better than 1 g."

[sleeprfocus]

Originally Posted by rraicu

"I'll trade you pinks."

No pink is worth $50K.

[tandemracer]

Originally Posted by sleeprfocus

No pink is worth $50K.

Spitzer spent $80k

[milehitom]

Originally Posted by sleeprfocus

No pink is worth $50K.

Divorce lawyers would disagree!

Tom

[TimMullen]

Originally Posted by Dmbrown34

Its funny to see the difference in a car buff and a car guy...great history lesson.

So was it the same basic engine in the Healey all the way to the S4S?

Yep. It was used in the '70s Elise, Excell, Esprit, Turbo Esprit, etc. - up until Lotus made the V8.

There were different versions (and different numerical designation - but I never paid much attention to that aspect as I wasn't into Esprits), but the basic engine platform was the same. Lots of detail changes and improvement along the way that increased power output and increased reliability at the same time. Kind of like a Small Block Chevy that started life as a 283 cubic inch push rod V8 in the 50's and is still in production in various forms today.

[cudacharlie]

Dude - Is that a hybrid?
Me - Yep. It burns both gas and rubber.

(stolen from a never-used Dodge print ad...)

[FLuXeXigeS]

^good one^

[snuggles1]

Two boys on bikes come up to me while getting gas. Top off, car had been at track, blue painter's tape still applied.

One boy says:

"Are you a movie star?"