Open mouth, insert foot halfway down your throat

[kellinator]

I generally don't mingle with the law students very much. I know most of them think they're better than me, and personally I kinda like my blood pressure being at tolerable levels.

But I was just downstairs dropping off some articles in the mail files, and I saw a student who had a button on her backpack that I liked (it was a Re-Defeat Bush button, if you must know), and as I walked past, I said, "I like your button." Because if it were me, I'd enjoy knowing like minds were out there.

One of her friends apparently misheard it as "I like your butt" and went into hysterics.

I headed up the stairs as fast as possible and I'll be under my desk if anyone needs me...

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[juanfandango.livejournal.com]

I once had a door held open for me by a friend of a friend. Instinctively I said 'Ta', forgetting that this is Northern England dialect for 'Thanks' and thus unlikely to be recognised in, say, Chicago (where I was at the time). She turned to my friend and hissed in outrage, "Did he just call me a tart?!"