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I've heard lots of dumb stuff over the years but one that comes to mind was spoken by a coworker. She thought the animal Chinchilla was an actual cross between a rabbit and a squirrel.

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Sweet. Now we're getting somewhere. More!

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My sister-in-law's parents-in-law (follow?) are country folk and routinely say stupid things at family functions. We were having thanksgiving dinner one year and the topic came up that a family member's friend was going to adopt a baby from China. This seemed to confuse the mother-in-law and she asked "Why would she do that?" in an incredulous voice. My sister-in-law replied that the girl couldn't get pregnant, it's hard to adopt in Canada, there are millions of baby girls up for adoption in China, and so on.

The mother-in-law still seemed shocked that someone would do this, and finally asked:

"How are the parents going to understand what the baby is saying when it starts to talk in Chinese?"

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My sister-in-law's parents-in-law (follow?) are country folk and routinely say stupid things at family functions. We were having thanksgiving dinner one year and the topic came up that a family member's friend was going to adopt a baby from China. This seemed to confuse the mother-in-law and she asked "Why would she do that?" in an incredulous voice. My sister-in-law replied that the girl couldn't get pregnant, it's hard to adopt in Canada, there are millions of baby girls up for adoption in China, and so on.

The mother-in-law still seemed shocked that someone would do this, and finally asked:

"How are the parents going to understand what the baby is saying when it starts to talk in Chinese?"

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Heh. My brother asked this (almost) exact same question about the Korean boy our aunt and uncle were adopting.

Of course, my brother was only 5 at the time...

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My sister-in-law's parents-in-law (follow?) are country folk and routinely say stupid things at family functions. We were having thanksgiving dinner one year and the topic came up that a family member's friend was going to adopt a baby from China. This seemed to confuse the mother-in-law and she asked "Why would she do that?" in an incredulous voice. My sister-in-law replied that the girl couldn't get pregnant, it's hard to adopt in Canada, there are millions of baby girls up for adoption in China, and so on.

The mother-in-law still seemed shocked that someone would do this, and finally asked:

"How are the parents going to understand what the baby is saying when it starts to talk in Chinese?"

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Heh. My brother asked this (almost) exact same question about the Korean boy our aunt and uncle were adopting.

Of course, my brother was only 5 at the time...

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When a five year old asks a question like this, it's cute. When a 60 year old asks the same question, it's scary.

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I was in Veags with a friend and 2 girls he worked with. We were in the sportsbook watching college football and one of the girls asked me what state Boston College was in. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Just thought of another one...

When I was about 17, a friend of mine was trying to quit smoking. I saw him at school and he looked a little pale. I asked him what was wrong and he said that he "quit cold turkey" and thought it was making him sick.

"Why, because of the withdrawal?" I asked him.

"No, I think that eating the uncooked turkey gave me food poisoning or something."

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My sister-in-law's parents-in-law (follow?) are country folk and routinely say stupid things at family functions. We were having thanksgiving dinner one year and the topic came up that a family member's friend was going to adopt a baby from China. This seemed to confuse the mother-in-law and she asked "Why would she do that?" in an incredulous voice. My sister-in-law replied that the girl couldn't get pregnant, it's hard to adopt in Canada, there are millions of baby girls up for adoption in China, and so on.

The mother-in-law still seemed shocked that someone would do this, and finally asked:

"How are the parents going to understand what the baby is saying when it starts to talk in Chinese?"

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this is awesome.

my friend's dog has a miscolored eye. someone asked them if their dog was deaf in that eye. (maybe he just said deaf instead of blind) but then he started going on about the hearing of the dog.

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I was in Veags with a friend and 2 girls he worked with. We were in the sportsbook watching college football and one of the girls asked me what state Boston College was in. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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That's more of a geography problem than anything. She probably didn't realize what state the city of Boston was in. It would have been different had she asked what state "Alabama State" was in.

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A few years ago some friends and I were smoking weed, and discussing music. When the topic of the Beatles came up, this girl says "I hate the Beatles. Beatles is the worst music I've ever heard in my life." I immediately burst, laughing loud and hard and told her that was the dumbest thing I'd ever heard.