compliments

[runout_mick]

What's the best compliment you've ever recieved?

A good friend of mine recently passed away, and it made me think of a compliment he once paid me. He and I were team mates in a top division competitive pool league. Over the course of several years I made a point of scrutinizing his play, and incorporating the finer elements of his game into into my own. Whether he knew it or not, he was a bit of a mentor to me and I respected his opinion immensely.

Last year he had a bit of a slow start to the season. No-one mentioned it to him as we all knew he'd find his own way back. Sure enough, several weeks go by and BAM! Out of the blue his game shifts into high gear, and he's playing the best pool of his life.

I take him aside and ask how he achieved such a radical turnaround in his game.

"Mick", he says, "To be honest, I just decided to make a point of playing more like you. Any time I'd get in trouble, I'd ask myself: "What would Mick do here?"".

That may be the best compliment I have ever recieved. What's yours?

[diebitter]

My son got an 'invisible' pen for his birthday recently, and has been scribbling stuff on a pad, and then shining a UV light on it to read the message. I was checking through it the other day, and found 'Dad is awesome x2'.

That was pretty damn good.

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MDoranD

[mslif]

I love you

[diebitter]

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I love you

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Aw come on, it was a good story, but it wasn't that good.

[astroglide]

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My sone got an 'invisible' pen for his birthday recently, and has been scribbling stuff on a pad, and then shining a UV light on it to read the message. I was checking through it the other day, and found 'Dad is awesome x2'.

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hard to top ones involving parents/children.

my most recent heartwarmer came from my brother. we don't share the same father - his dad is the one that's responsible for a lot of the gruesome childhood stories i've posted. i took him to a casino for his 21st birthday with my gf and a friend. he's not talkative, and he spontaneously expressed to my gf when i wasn't around how happy it makes him that i never call him my half-brother.

[runout_mick]

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I love you

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Aw come on, it was a good story, but it wasn't that good.

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I was just gonna post a smartass reply, you beat me to it...

[jba]

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My son got an 'invisible' pen for his birthday recently, and has been scribbling stuff on a pad, and then shining a UV light on it to read the message. I was checking through it the other day, and found 'Dad is awesome x2'.

That was pretty damn good.

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i would start crying. damn that's sweet.

[Bluffoon]

I take my son to a restauraunt when he is like four. The place is packed and there is a guy there making balloon figures for all the kids. My son wants one but there is no way he is ever going to get to us so I get up and go over and slip the guy ten bucks and ask him to come over. So he comes over and he asks my son what figure he wants him to make and he says "a daddy".

I don't think the balloon man even made it home before it popped but I still have it in a drawer in my desk.

[Gunny Highway]

Pretty good ones here. (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=exchange&Number=3583288&S earchpage=4&Main=3577017&Words=compliment&topic=&S earch=true#Post3583288)

[Dominic]

"god, that's just way too big for me."

--Jenna Jameson











kidding. obviously.

[tom441lbk]

Dominic, So did you put that dildo aside and get another one?



Gotchya,

lbk

[razor]

astro,

you rule!

[codewarrior]

That is a cool story.

[tdarko]

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My son got an 'invisible' pen for his birthday recently, and has been scribbling stuff on a pad, and then shining a UV light on it to read the message. I was checking through it the other day, and found 'Dad is awesome x2'.

That was pretty damn good.

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alright i smiled. gracias.

[vexvelour]

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'Dad is awesome x2'

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That is frickin cute as hell.

[Dex]

Last weekend was my weekend with the kids, and as we were eating dinner, out of nowhere my 4 year old daughter said "You're the best daddy I ever saw." /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[craig r]

I was in the middle of this drug deal with some movie producer (not to be named) and my wife who I had just met a few days ago was with us. He had just agreed to the deal and they were getting the money. My wife handed me a note that said, "You're so cool." Those three simple words.

craig

[PokerFink]

I was hanging out with one of my buddies one night, just watching some movies. He gets a call from reslife and finds out his dad, who has been sick (cancer) for a long time, has just taken a huge turn for the worse and is on his death bed. I spent the night with him, packing up his stuff, cleaning out his room so he could go home the next day and watching movies till morning.

I figured it was the least I could do. He's a close friend.

He later told me it was one of the the nicest thing anyone ever did for him and that it probably kept him from doing something really drastic/bad that night.

[craig r]

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I was hanging out with one of my buddies one night, just watching some movies. He gets a call from reslife and finds out his dad, who has been sick (cancer) for a long time, has just taken a huge turn for the worse and is on his death bed. I spent the night with him, packing up his stuff, cleaning out his room so he could go home the next day and watching movies till morning.

I figured it was the least I could do. He's a close friend.

He later told me it was one of the the nicest thing anyone ever did for him and that it probably kept him from doing something really drastic/bad that night.

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Well, now I feel like shite for ripping off a movie plot. That must have felt good for you.

[imported_anacardo]

"You're the only person in the world I want to talk to right now. You're the only sane person I know."

This made me feel proud, and strong, and good.

[jakethebake]

You are my personal clown.

[man]

when my dad told me I'd become a man in his eyes, sometime in my freshman year in college. I cried.

(#500 w00t)

[jba]

ok i just resurrected an old computer and found this old IM that I got years ago while I was asleep, from a crazy ex whom I had dumped a couple of weeks prior after sneakily discovering she was not on the pill as she had claimed (childish anyone??)

crazy ex: i'm [censored] right now and can't be held reso[opnsible for anything I say because i';m drunk and hig
crazy ex: i burned my lip on a joint how bad its that
crazy ex: whatefer you're never there when I [censored] need you anyways so lates
crazy ex: nevermind I take that back you used to always be there for me and I loved you for it but I understand that things are different and I'm sorry i hurt you and I just wish ik hadn't, but since I did I'm sorry and i just whish we could at least be some sort of friends again sometime, i think you're being [censored] childish about this but it's not my call, maybe you do desreve better than me and maybe I deserve someone better than you, thatn's just how it goes but I hope that we can at least han gout once in a while because I think we had some good times other than theamazing z sex which good lord jonny you [censored] me like no ther and I'll always love you for that



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[surfinillini]

after I graduated school I was going to apply for the US Marine Corps officer candidate program to be a fighter pilot.

Along the way I needed to get 3 professor recommendations.

I was able to get one from the dean of my unit, he was the head professor too, he wrote the books on the subject.

He was an extremely straight forward guy, this man testified before congress after 9/11 regarding aviation security. He wrote me the best recommendation I think I could ever get and even pointed out I received an A+ in his class as a sophmore when the class was designed for grad students and senior undergrads.

I still have the letter to this day even though I didn't sign w/the military.

[Alobar]

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My son got an 'invisible' pen for his birthday recently, and has been scribbling stuff on a pad, and then shining a UV light on it to read the message. I was checking through it the other day, and found 'Dad is awesome x2'.

That was pretty damn good.

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alright, I cant find a way to word this that doesnt come off like me being an ass....but at what age do you stop snooping through your kids personal stuff?

[Voltron87]

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My son got an 'invisible' pen for his birthday recently, and has been scribbling stuff on a pad, and then shining a UV light on it to read the message. I was checking through it the other day, and found 'Dad is awesome x2'.

That was pretty damn good.

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alright, I cant find a way to word this that doesnt come off like me being an ass....but at what age do you stop snooping through your kids personal stuff?

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lmao, awesome post

[Blarg]

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I was in the middle of this drug deal with some movie producer (not to be named) and my wife who I had just met a few days ago was with us. He had just agreed to the deal and they were getting the money. My wife handed me a note that said, "You're so cool." Those three simple words.

craig

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Is your wife Patricia Arquette?

I hope you're enjoying Mexico.

[Burdzthewurd]

Various girls thanking me for convincing them not/talking them out of killing themselves (back in the early teenage years). Yeah I know, 99% of the time a girl says she is gonna kill herself, it's just a cry for attention and they aren't gonna do [censored] or cut the wrong places, but still felt good.

[Blarg]

A girl once told me, You make me feel so strong. I told her, Maybe I just let you be strong. She didn't expect the credit to be turned around and given back to her instead of slurped up greedily, I guess. Got a pretty good reaction out of her.

I grew up in a foster family. We took in all kinds of abused and emotionally distraught kids. From all that exposure, intimacy, and responsibility from a young age, I got really great with kids, kind of a pied piper but without so much gay dancing. But still it was very tough to establish trust as a male much bigger than they were with kids who had been both emotionally and literally abandoned by their fathers, and abused, often pretty violently, often sexually, by their fathers too. (Others had been abused by their mothers, there was plenty of that too.) There were plenty of times when they cried uncontrollably, and many found it very hard to trust anyone, and would bolt whenever they were afraid thinking god knows what was going to happen to them. (Actually, we usually knew the backstory and knew exactly what.)

Anyway, sometimes it took a lot of long nights of holding them while they cried for hours, but there were many small miracles along the way. A kid can be almost emotionally ruined and near unreachable at a very young age from the traumas their parents put them through, but I think it was a real lasting compliment when they made the transition from blocking out life and reacting against it to letting down their guard and letting it in and being a part of it, and began trusting me and realizing the entire world might not be such a hostile, terrifying place after all and they might actually have a friend in it and be able to love and be loved in return.

[swede123]

You're the man, Blarg. That's all.

Swede

My mom told me secretly today that she's pretty sure i'll provide her with the best grandchildren (i've got 1 bro, 2 sisters)

[TheMainEvent]

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My mom told me secretly today that she's pretty sure i'll provide her with the best grandchildren (i've got 1 bro, 2 sisters)

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Sounds like you guys are in some kind of cult.

[surfinillini]

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My mom told me secretly today that she's pretty sure i'll provide her with the best grandchildren (i've got 1 bro, 2 sisters)

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Sounds like you guys are in some kind of cult.

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4th post - he must've loved seeing this thread

[Harv72b]

Recent: Was getting in some hands the other night on Party when a guy whose screenname I didn't recognize said hello to me, and then proceeded to thank me for giving him some advice (on here, although he was smart enough not to mention 2+2) that really turned his game around. I had to play it down a lot since I was kinda trying to win some money at the time, but it was pretty cool regardless.

Not really a great compliment but I wanna look cool: "The only thing good about our relationship was the sex!" - Ex-girlfriend, apparently trying to upset me.

Real answer: Long, drawn-out story that wouldn't be worth anyone's time to read. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[diebitter]

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My son got an 'invisible' pen for his birthday recently, and has been scribbling stuff on a pad, and then shining a UV light on it to read the message. I was checking through it the other day, and found 'Dad is awesome x2'.

That was pretty damn good.

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alright, I cant find a way to word this that doesnt come off like me being an ass....but at what age do you stop snooping through your kids personal stuff?

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Oh, you're right! Well, I guess when he's old enough not to be fascinated in stuff like invisible pens.

And when I say you're right, I meant you're right, you did come off sounding like an ass /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Iplayragstoo]

Mine was most likely when The guy I used to look up too, and try and be as good as, said he could no longer play me, and he needed the wild 8. Now he needs the 7 out. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Alobar]

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And when I say you're right, I meant you're right, you did come off sounding like an ass /images/graemlins/grin.gif

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yeah I knew it would....but I figured you were a smart dude and would get what I meant (because thats not how I intended it)

[diebitter]

Yeah it was a fair point though. He's getting older now (just turned 10), and your line is a good one. He had rattled through lots just before and left it with me, so I wasn't exactly snooping - in my defence.