Your greatest compliment (Read 20340 times)

Monolith · February 29, 2008, 01:27:58 pm

After 'starring' as a Russian Cossack in an edition of UK's Worst (Journey's) circa 2004 with Nick Knowles: "It's been fun working with you, give us your number and we'll go for a beer next time I'm in Leeds". Obviously he didn't call and it wasn't much of a compliment per se but it was a weird moment I'm endeared to.

Greg C · February 29, 2008, 01:43:45 pm

Quote from: SA Chris on February 20, 2008, 08:16:52 am

Quote from: bluebrad on February 19, 2008, 07:22:13 pm
Got told at a gig in Leeds that I resembled Marti Pellow (from Wet Wet Wet for the younger members of UKB). I was suitably stunned...

Cue "shit isn't that?"

Not sure if it's a compliment mind.

Is that Ben Moon?

Monolith · February 29, 2008, 01:45:23 pm

I thought exactly the same!

SA Chris · February 29, 2008, 01:47:58 pm

Quote from: Jaspersharpe on February 29, 2008, 01:16:13 pm

2. Jasper Sharpe

Not sure how the 2008 model would rate against the wide eyed fresh faced youth that graces those 1991 pages though.

BenF · February 29, 2008, 01:50:39 pm

Quote from: Monolith on February 29, 2008, 01:45:23 pm

I thought exactly the same!

Mono, I thought isn't that Owen McShane?

Also, Monolith produced perhaps my finest compliment a few months back when he described another friend as "a poor man's Ben". Actually I'm not sure it was actually a compliment but it was indeed great because Andy (the other friend in question) took offence at the remark when he heard. Which pleased me very much.

Jaspersharpe · March 03, 2008, 03:36:18 pm

Quote from: SA Chris on February 29, 2008, 01:47:58 pm

Quote from: Jaspersharpe on February 29, 2008, 01:16:13 pm
2. Jasper Sharpe

Not sure how the 2008 model would rate against the wide eyed fresh faced youth that graces those 1991 pages though.

True enough. There's only one fresh faced chap in the family now and it aint me........

Apologies for the giant photo. Couldn't work out how to make it smaller!!

nik at work · March 03, 2008, 03:45:27 pm

Someone once asked me if I was "THE Nik Jennings".
Also got asked if I was Orlando Bloom.

Which I pressume are kind of compliments...

Otherwise I generally remain a crashing disappointment to most people I meet.

Houdini · March 03, 2008, 03:51:08 pm

(Open an account w/ www.photobucket.com. Upload pic. When online click on edit and you can resize down to avatar if so wished. I did it in 3 minutes at peak time. Piss) Cute nipper.

SA Chris · March 03, 2008, 03:55:27 pm

Indeed. Same haircut though.

lagerstarfish · March 04, 2008, 12:00:27 pm

In the schoolyard with Lagers Jnr, she turned to me and said

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I really like it that my friends think that you are a really cool dad. It makes me feel really proud of you.

Brought a tear to my eye.

When she is a mardy teenager and I am The World's Most Embarrassing Dad, we will look back at that comment and laugh.

jfw · March 06, 2008, 01:39:45 pm

my latest greatest compliment was when houdini said i looked nice in the running picure i linked

Will Hunt · March 09, 2008, 04:23:22 pm

"You look like Mac off Green Wing"

Woot. He gets all the chicks.

I dont.

Houdini · March 09, 2008, 05:42:00 pm

Quote from: c.j.d. on February 19, 2008, 06:09:06 pm

'I've never been so wet'. Some chick.

Chris man, stop pissing on women will you, it's just dirty.

grumpycrumpy · March 09, 2008, 07:13:34 pm

Quote from: Will Hunt on March 09, 2008, 04:23:22 pm

"You look like Mac off Green Wing"

Woot. He gets all the chicks.

I dont.

Ah bless ....

Doylo · March 09, 2008, 08:34:51 pm

When Ben Pritch said WCG was the best climbing film he'd seen i was vaguely pleased.

Palomides · March 10, 2008, 09:43:09 pm

When Martin Atkinson commented that I must be "the strongest man in the world to crossthrough on that" he was obviously joking...

...but it didn't stop me being a bit pleased.

Nibile · April 04, 2008, 12:04:31 pm

yesterday at the gym one of the owners told me "yo you became like popeye, your forearms are bigger than your arms".

maybe because i was deep into a 35 moves circuit on the 45° wall...

The Sausage · April 06, 2008, 05:43:31 pm

"are you jerry moffatt?"

andy_e · April 08, 2008, 09:20:03 pm

You do look ridiculously like him...

Serpico · April 08, 2008, 10:31:57 pm

Quote from: The Sausage on April 06, 2008, 05:43:31 pm

"are you jerry moffatt?"

If we got you, Jordan Buys, and Jerry together, it'd be like The Three Ages Of Moffatt.

abarro81 · April 08, 2008, 10:49:23 pm

Quote from: The Sausage on April 06, 2008, 05:43:31 pm

"are you jerry moffatt?"

I've just realised who you are (have met you randomly at remergence, secret garden and stoney before now).. and yes, you do look an aweful lot like JM, enough that me and a mate were trying to decide whether we thought you were related to him..

Jim · April 09, 2008, 06:43:52 am

Well they have both been known to climb in their underpants.

Cookie · April 28, 2008, 11:58:30 pm

Not exactly my greatest compliment, but I was once complimented at the climbing wall.

Guy: Are you a runner, or a cyclist or something?
Me: I used to be, not so much now...
Guy: Oh. Well. I noticed your calves looked muscular whilst you were climbing. I mean... slim and feminine, but still muscular. Like an athlete.
Me: Erm... thanks!
Guy: I was looking at your bottom... I mean... your legs... no, your thighs! Oh shit. Do you want to go for a drink?

nik at work · April 29, 2008, 07:44:27 am

That is brilliant bumbling greatness.

Please tell me he had floppy Hugh Grant-esque hair and you did go for a drink with him.

Houdini · April 29, 2008, 07:52:41 am

Guy: Hi, er . . . Do you work for Triumph?

Lass: I don't like motorbikes . . .

Guy: No the bra makers . . . Er . . . Your t' . . . Breasts. Er . . . They are so full and plumptious *drools* The way they jiggle when you slap . . . I said to myself . . . Er . . . She can only be in the employ of Triumph, the bra maker for ladies w/ larger, firmer, rounder breasts . . .

Ah . . . Fancy a quicky in the changing rooms?