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01-14-2007, 08:05 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | Favorite Back-handed Compliments
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I know you've got some. I did read the entire fart thread for the record. So here goes. What's you're favorite back-handed compliment, or back-handed compliment story. For the record, a back-handed compliment is a compliment that happens to subtley insult the person at the same time. Here are a couple of examples to get us started.
For a dumba$$, that was pretty clever.
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You look good in those jeans, even if you do have a fat a$$.
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For a Carvin, that sounds pretty good.  (That one gets me all the time). 
Let's see where this goes. Remember to play nice. So nothing like this.
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01-16-2007, 12:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Townsville | | | Wow! You're pregnant??? I couldn't tell
You have very unique tastes
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01-16-2007, 01:41 AM
|  | I Know Nothing | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia River Gorge, WA. | | | That set was...interesting. |
01-16-2007, 01:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Chicago | | | you're pretty fly for a white guy |
01-16-2007, 05:00 AM
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01-16-2007, 06:53 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Morristown, TN | | | I've been known to hand this one out when we're learning a new tune.
"That was pretty good for the first time through."
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01-16-2007, 07:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Virginia | | Not exactly a backhanded compliment, but I like to tell anyone before they go for a performance on stage or a presentation or a speech, "Don't screw up!" 
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01-16-2007, 01:37 PM
| | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | You guys are pretty much as good as us... |
01-16-2007, 02:06 PM
| | encridublee smatr | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | After hearing us for the first time a colleague of mine said,
"Until I heard you guys, I didn't picture you being able to play that well".
Ouch.
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01-16-2007, 02:15 PM
|  | Registered User
Owner/Retailer: Jive Sound | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alexandria,VA | | | "You should have heard this guy who was playing last night. He sounded totally different from you. He was good!" |
01-16-2007, 02:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Frederick, Maryland | | | "you guys sound really, um, unique" |
01-16-2007, 02:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Houston | | | Directly copied from an email I got from some weird guy at work.
"Seriously. It sounds great. Well, it “sounds” crappy, but the music is good."
(refering to a recording done with a mini-camcorder) |
01-17-2007, 06:04 AM
| | | | (This is best said to a fat man)
Walk over to them, pat their belly and say, "Is it a boy or girl?" |
01-17-2007, 12:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jive1  "You should have heard this guy who was playing last night. He sounded totally different from you. He was good!" |
Best.
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01-17-2007, 09:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Fort Wayne, Indiana | | | A producer I have occasionally worked for used to (I think jokingly) say, "I like what you guys are trying to do in there", when a take was close but not quite
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01-18-2007, 11:17 PM
| | I Know Nothing | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia River Gorge, WA. | | | That song makes me want to feel good. |
01-18-2007, 11:40 PM
|  | So much flame, it burns............ | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Las Vegas, NV. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bradjonesbass A producer I have occasionally worked for used to (I think jokingly) say, "I like what you guys are trying to do in there", when a take was close but not quite | I constantly use this on guys who somewhat (humorously) hit a wrong note or two (three?) during their solo: "Hey. I really liked what you were trying to do there."
or: "Hey. I really liked that solo you started...." 
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01-19-2007, 08:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Wimberley, TX | | "that was some... interesting improv" |
01-19-2007, 08:26 AM
|  | Secret Member | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Nashville, TN | | | A direct quote from my father-in-law after he heard my band for the first time:
"Wow, you're much better than I thought you'd be. It's almost like a real band."
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01-19-2007, 09:47 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Passinwind That song makes me want to feel good. | This is the winner. I love it!  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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