Your Best Compliments Ever!!!

POSTED BY: PhyreLight
UPDATED: Thursday, January 24, 2008 21:17
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PHYRELIGHT

Saturday, January 5, 2008 12:10 AM

This comes with two questions:

Q1) What is the best complement you've ever received?

Q2) What is the last complement you've given?

My answers...

A1) Shortly before the holidays, a friend was asked in one of those pass-along quizzes on Facebook what kind of drink I would be, and she said, "She'd be the type of drink that would make you feel good without rotting your teeth or getting you wasted."

A2) One of my guy friends asked himself a very serious question about himself, "What kind of girl would I be?" I replied, "Boy? Girl? Frankly, it doesn't matter. Either way, you're still pretty awesome!"

"I swear, having you guys in my corner is like being friends with Zorro."
-Joss on us fans and our persistent reputation
Thanks, Joss!

CHRISTHECYNIC

Saturday, January 5, 2008 12:32 AM

I don't keep track of either giving or receiving.

One I've gotten sticks in my mind. Unfortunately the exact wording escapes me so I can't really communicate it well. I was talking to a classmate and I pointed out that I can't play video games (well) because my reaction time is so slow I'm always a few seconds behind the rest of the world. Her response was that she had noticed this, but if you gave me a few seconds I would, and this is where I've forgotten the wording, more or less she said I was witty and insightful but it was so much more meaningful than that. Was it the best complement I've ever received? I'm not sure, but it meant a lot.

ALLIETHORN7

Saturday, January 5, 2008 1:41 AM

I remember that someone one said that I was channeling the spirit of Skakespeare (I believe it was on this very site, point 'o fact). That made my week, I have to say.
Best I've given? Hard to say,as I give 'em out in spades. I think one of the higher ups is telling my friend that she's a cute lil' Polar Bear.

-Danny

and every time I play with passion I start breaking strings,
and my voice cracks when I sing from my heart
guess that's the price I've got to pay to know that I'm alive
this melody is tearing me apart

THRICE RULES!!!!!!!!!
Gott weise ich will kein Engel sein.
http://www.myspace.com/otherrandomdude

SHAMROCK

Saturday, January 5, 2008 3:01 AM

I don't normally keep track of compliments, unless they all happen at once. Chances are I won't be hearing them for a while. But there are a few that stick out. One is particular:

1) "You are you. That's good enough. Any guy would consider themselves lucky to be with you."

Made me feel all fuzzy and shit. Haha!

2) "I believe that you are probably the best friend I've ever had. I believe that so much that I want you to be the only friend I'll ever want."

What's best is that he replied with "I've thought that for a long time. We're...perfect!" He was an old co-worker of mine. One of my best friends.

It was like a Simon/Mal-Kaylee/Inara friendship. He looks like Simon, acted like Mal, and I am a combo of Kaylee and Inara.

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"You are pretty funny."
"And you're pretty...pretty."
"What did you just say?"
"I said that you were pretty."

OVEROBSESSED765

Sunday, January 6, 2008 2:15 AM

Ever received? Well I don't really know. I'm a big fan of calling myself a geek, and everyone disagrees which is cute I guess. I had a guy friend of mine describe me as "Beautiful. Ask any straight guy who isn't shy. Trust me" That was really sweet.

Given? I told my friend the only thing more beautiful than her was her soul. True too. Beautiful soul.

If nothing else, I will always believe in the fans of Firefly/Serenity.

We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Wednesday, January 9, 2008 5:21 AM

I can't recall the best I've given, don't keep track of them. Don't really keep track of those gotten, either.

For gotten, probably all the "You will forget more about (this subject) in your lifetime than most people will ever learn." First time was my math teacher, about math.

One I've never understood was "You wear life like a loose suit."

LEXAN

Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:57 AM

I love the misspelling and the answers I could give if I replied to what these questions imply in terms of how they are presented...But I'll answer according to the intention of the questions...

1) I can't say I have one compliment which is paramount to all I have ever received but one of my favourites was said by my adopted cousin, who said I was like I was from another planet and made people nervous sometimes. I know that sounds weird but in the context it was, albeit strangely, very adulatory.

2) The last compliment I've given to a person? That is what I'll take the question to be implicating. Well, I complimented the actress Ellen Page in a post a few minutes ago but most of the compliments I give to people I know in real life I give in my head. Actually saying them out loud is just too weird for me.

REGINAROADIE

Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:19 AM

Best one's I've ever received? There are two that spring to mind.

My first real celebrity encounter, Don McKellar. To make a long story short, I went to a movie at a local theater, bumped into Don McKellar, left my movie early so that I could intercept, asked if he could go for coffee before he went to his thing, he said yes, and we talked about making movies and all that. He told me that Quentin Tarantino is exactly like me. That, so far, has been the best compliment of my life.

My second best compliment I got was from the last couple whose wedding I videographed. They actually thanked me in the toasts saying that I was recording their memories and for that they were thankful. And I even managed to dance with the bride, which I pretty much never do, at least when I wasn't on the job. When I thanked her for mentioning me in the toasts, I told her that I'm not really a guest, but more of a hired hand. She then told me that she considered me a guest. Me, a complete stranger whose doing this one last time for the money. But just that thank you was enough for me, although the money doesn't hurt.

In terms of compliments I've given, I told a girl that I was into that she was without a doubt the most awesome and fascinating person I've ever met. And over the years in the film program I've told various classmates that I thought specific aspects of their shorts were fucking incredible.

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"And it starts with a sentence that might last a lifetime, or it all might just go down in flames. If I let you know me, then why would you want me? Each day I don't is a shame. Each day I don't is a great shame."

Loudon Wainwright III - "Strange Weirdos" off the "Knocked Up" soundtrack

AGENTROUKA

Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:42 PM

Great thread idea! :D What a way to make people feel good. :)

1) Most fondly remembered: Theater friends asked amateur me to participate in a project of theirs, completely out of the blue. Weeks later I gathered up the courage to ask why. "Because you're good." It was just such a simple and honest confidence boost. I think about it whenever I'm unhappy.

2) It'd be up to the recipients to rate, but most heart-felt on my part, "My life choices four years ago were the stupidest possible. But they also led me to you guys and that makes it all worth it."

Now I'm getting sappy. Oy. *g*

LYSANDER

Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:49 PM

The best one I've received came in a text message. She could not say it to my face until she knew how I felt. The text said that she never knew what the guy of her dreams would be like until she met me. Have to say, it left me speechless.

Simon: What if he(Mal) tells you to kill me?
Zoe: (without hesitation) I kill you.

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