What is your best backhanded compliment?

[meaty]

You can think off

 

[Mizzoufan]

I try not to give any of those out. I do hear a lot of people say so and so looks so good for their age.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Have a Disney day!

 

[leebee]

My sister is a terrific cook and makes a seafood chowder that's better than any I've eaten in any restaurant in New England. She had friends over for lunch one day and the lady said, "That's almost the best chowder I've ever had!" Sis and I still laugh about this!

 

[#1hoosierfan]

My MIL is the best at them. Several years ago she said "DS is the cutest baby!" Immediately followed by "He doesn't look a thing like you."

FTR, I'm not going to win a beauty pageant, but I'm not ugly either.

 

[kimblebee]

I was once told by my future ex (does that make sense LOL) (he was fiancé at the time, now he's an ex) that I had nice childbearing hips. Say WHAT?!?

 

[NFLDERS]

My sister is a terrific cook and makes a seafood chowder that's better than any I've eaten in any restaurant in New England. She had friends over for lunch one day and the lady said, "That's almost the best chowder I've ever had!" Sis and I still laugh about this!

I'm known for the use of "Almost" It always garners a smile! Well, "Almost" always.

Tell me you... did not smile!

 

[loves to dive]

I was trying on a dress I had bought for a party for my honey, it was very form fitting and I was pretty slim at the time but mama's got back. I was turning in circles and he said "that makes your butt look big in a good way". I was torn between being mad, flattered and laughing. I went with a little of both and got a nice piece of jewelry because of it.

 

[Poohlove]

Met a guy I used to date at his office for a lunch date. The receptionist says "You aren't the type he usually dates, usually he dates pretty girls." When she realized how it came out probably because of the look on my face she immediately back pedaled. I'm short, brunette and have always been told that I'm cute. He apparently usually dated tall leggy blondes who she qualified as pretty.

 

[Geoff_M]

My Dad's classic example is "You don't sweat much for a fat person!"

 

[scrhsa]

You have every cowboys dream......fat calves. Yep I was actually told that.

 

[here757]

Bless your heart..

 

[princess barbara]

You have such a "pretty face"-yup overweight here

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Wow. You're uncharacteristically generous today.

Oh you two have such a handsome baby. He looks just like me.

Wow. You look beautiful. Who said you can't put lipstick on a pig?

What a nice Christmas gift. I'll have to make a trip to the dollar store to return it.

 

[gemini2727]

"You buy a hat like this, I bet you get a free bowl of soup...looks good on you, though!"
(Stolen from Caddyshack)

 

[powellrj]

My mom once told DS and his girlfriend they will have beautiful children because they are both so tall. Of course she had dementia at the time, but it was still something she would have said anyway!

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Why no that dress is beautiful. It's a great choice!!! That dress isn't what is making you look fat.

 

[tinatark]

Your daughter is "getting so pretty" (not to me, to one of my girlfriends)... it's now our standing one liner, "you're getting so pretty"!

 

[VandVsmama]

When my youngest was an infant, my mother-in-law used to say every single time she saw YDD, "YDD has eyebrows just like my mother had." Then a moment later, she'd follow it up with "Yes, just like my mother's eyebrows. My mother hated her eyebrows because they were too straight and she always said it made her look ugly."

Um...thanks for calling my baby ugly.

But 1 day, I finally got smart about it and replied with "Yes, aren't YDD's eyebrows just lovely? They really frame her gorgeous eyes just perfectly, don't they?"

And my MIL NEVER EVER AGAIN said anything passive aggressive about my daughter's eyebrows ever again!

 

[kimblebee]

"You buy a hat like this, I bet you get a free bowl of soup...looks good on you, though!"
(Stolen from Caddyshack)

Every time a hat is mentioned around my dad he always asks 'did it come with a bowl of soup'?