Comments on: Foot in mouth http://www.gorbould.com/blog/index.php/2006/12/foot-in-mouth/ Paul Gorbould: Words and Pictures Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:34:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Paul Gorbould http://www.gorbould.com/blog/index.php/2006/12/foot-in-mouth/comment-page-1/#comment-362 Paul Gorbould Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:40:22 +0000 http://www.gorbould.com/blog/index.php/2006/12/foot-in-mouth/#comment-362 Suddenly I'm feeling inadequate about not being to say that line to anyone. Suddenly I’m feeling inadequate about not being to say that line to anyone.

]]> By: David http://www.gorbould.com/blog/index.php/2006/12/foot-in-mouth/comment-page-1/#comment-358 David Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:14:26 +0000 http://www.gorbould.com/blog/index.php/2006/12/foot-in-mouth/#comment-358 I can tell the same story as Jayne, except it was a course in springboard diving, and I was met by my instructor, an attractive woman my age in the front of a London city bus. I'd never seen her in anything but a bathing suit, so it took a moment to register who she was before I made the same declaration: "You look different with clothes on!" Of course, she was facing forward at the front of the bus, which meant that I was facing backward, and, of course, the rest of the crowded bus. The silence was deafening, but I imagine the trip seemed longer to her than to me. I can tell the same story as Jayne, except it was a course in springboard diving, and I was met by my instructor, an attractive woman my age in the front of a London city bus. I’d never seen her in anything but a bathing suit, so it took a moment to register who she was before I made the same declaration: “You look different with clothes on!” Of course, she was facing forward at the front of the bus, which meant that I was facing backward, and, of course, the rest of the crowded bus.

The silence was deafening, but I imagine the trip seemed longer to her than to me.

]]> By: Paul Gorbould http://www.gorbould.com/blog/index.php/2006/12/foot-in-mouth/comment-page-1/#comment-353 Paul Gorbould Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:34:29 +0000 http://www.gorbould.com/blog/index.php/2006/12/foot-in-mouth/#comment-353 Great story, Jane! Not a bad pick-up line, either. Alison, here's one occasion to be thankful that it's only Photoshop. Oh, and I was trying to remember the foot-in-mouth story you told me, about the guy at the party... care to remind me? Great story, Jane! Not a bad pick-up line, either.

Alison, here’s one occasion to be thankful that it’s only Photoshop. Oh, and I was trying to remember the foot-in-mouth story you told me, about the guy at the party… care to remind me?

]]> By: Jayne http://www.gorbould.com/blog/index.php/2006/12/foot-in-mouth/comment-page-1/#comment-341 Jayne Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:45:57 +0000 http://www.gorbould.com/blog/index.php/2006/12/foot-in-mouth/#comment-341 Back in the day when I was a student at U of T, I took up the Japanese martial art of aikido. Like everyone else in the class, I would wear the traditional white cotton 'gi'. One day I was waiting outside my sociology class and a guy walked by and said, "Hey there." I had no idea who he was so I scowled and didn't say anything. A second later, it dawned on me that he was a student in the same aikido class. I immediately began to apologise for not acknowledging him. I said, "Oh sorry! I didn't recognize you with your clothes on." Everyone in the hallway just stopped and gave me the low-down durty stare of death. Of course I meant that I hadn't recognized him in regular clothes - only ever having seen him in the white ninja suit. My bad. Back in the day when I was a student at U of T, I took up the Japanese martial art of aikido. Like everyone else in the class, I would wear the traditional white cotton ‘gi’.

One day I was waiting outside my sociology class and a guy walked by and said, “Hey there.” I had no idea who he was so I scowled and didn’t say anything. A second later, it dawned on me that he was a student in the same aikido class. I immediately began to apologise for not acknowledging him. I said, “Oh sorry! I didn’t recognize you with your clothes on.” Everyone in the hallway just stopped and gave me the low-down durty stare of death. Of course I meant that I hadn’t recognized him in regular clothes – only ever having seen him in the white ninja suit. My bad.

]]> By: alison http://www.gorbould.com/blog/index.php/2006/12/foot-in-mouth/comment-page-1/#comment-337 alison Sun, 31 Dec 2006 07:08:05 +0000 http://www.gorbould.com/blog/index.php/2006/12/foot-in-mouth/#comment-337 THAT is a truly disturbing picture. THAT is a truly disturbing picture.

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