Insults? You don't sweat all THAT much.

[Marv Walker <Marv@MarvWalker.com>]

At 04:44 PM 3/21/01 -0500, RhndLev@cs.com wrote:
>I just had to share a comment someone made to me recently because I
>considered the comment a compliment and my husband thought it was insulting.
>A person we know casually was asking us where we live.  I told her the
>general area where we live and she said, "Oh, you live near that person with
>the crappy house and the incredible horses.  Do you know who that is?"  I
>said, "What horses?"  She went on to describe both the house and the horses
>involved.  I said, "That's my crappy house and my incredible horses."  She
>says, "No, you're an attorney; you don't live in this house.  It's tiny.  And
>the horses are really amazing -- all different breeds, but each horse is
>REALLY good for its breed."  I said the house at such and such address (my
>address) and the woman says yeah.

That reminds me of the story Art Linkletter tells.  He was at a banquet
and feeling unusually mean.  He nudged the guy beside him and said,
"That has to be the ugliest woman I've ever seen."  The guy responds,
"That's my wife."  Linkletter said, "I never missed a beat and said, 'No,
I know your wife, I'm talking about the woman sitting next to her.'"
Whereupon the guy said, "That's my mother."

Linkletter said, "I just turned to him, held my hands up and said, 'Take
your best shot.'"

I once told a cop investigating a hit and run where both the driver and
the victim disappeared, "He was a bit on the heavy side, like you."

Marv "He ain't ugly, Father. He's my brother." Walker