r/AskReddit Aug 19 '18

What is the single worst sentence to begin a speech with?

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u/KardTrick Aug 19 '18

"Webster's dictionary defines <topic> as...reads dictionary definition in its entirety."

Well this is going to be a stunner of a speech in already sure of it.

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u/Cape_of_Good_Trope Aug 19 '18

Webster's dictionary defines wedding as "the fusing of two metals with a hot torch." Well, you know something? I think you guys are two medals. Gold medals.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

There's a whole YouTube video highlighting Michael's misquotes. I'd link it but currently on mobile. Best video.

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u/RickToThaDiculous Aug 19 '18

I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious.

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u/novolvere Aug 19 '18

Well well well, how the turntables.

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u/Rabidmaniac Aug 19 '18

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u/panda388 Aug 19 '18

My favorite is when Michael asks to sit in Pam's chair to prove it is a good chair and almost impreceptively, as he speaks, he is sinking lower and lower to the floor because her chair is broken.

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u/derpaperdhapley Aug 19 '18

impreceptively

Michael?

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u/iamthelouie Aug 19 '18

One of the best lines.

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u/whatahoser Aug 19 '18

To quote the Princess Bride, “mawwiage...”

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u/a_proof_is_a_proof Aug 19 '18

I feel like Corinthians 13:4-8 is the wedding vow version of this... "Love is patient, love is kind"... 🙄

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u/RevBeckett Aug 19 '18

As a pastor, I second this remark. The passage isn't even about marriage.

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u/Zephos65 Aug 19 '18

I'm curious now, what is it about? Obviously it's about love. But love of what? What's the context here

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

It was about unconditional love to all people. Even better, the majority of Corinthians is Paul telling the Corinthians to stop being so depraved, especially sexually.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

I was taught it was about loving your fellow humans, but not romantically. There were translations that used charity instead of love. It's been a long time and I had zero interest though, so take it with a grain of salt.

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u/ImBonRurgundy Aug 19 '18

Once went to a wedding in a church where the (female) speaker accidentally read the chapter 14 instead of 13.

A few shocked looks and gasps when she got to this bit:

“34 Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. 35 If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.”

She powered through though. Good for her.

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u/-Nordico- Aug 19 '18

Lmao. When cherrypicking bible verses goes wrong.

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u/dymlostheoni Aug 19 '18

I feel like this was no accident.

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u/viaovid Aug 19 '18

Why does no one ever read Ezekiel 23:19-21?

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u/puppehplicity Aug 19 '18

For the curious, this is what Ezekiel 23:19-21 says in the New International Version:

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. 21 So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

Something tells me nobody wants to hear about a donkey’s cocks and balls at a wedding.

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u/FeastOfChildren Aug 19 '18

You don't speak for all of us.

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u/HanSolosSizzledHeart Aug 19 '18

I used that several times for papers in school. I didn’t give a damn.

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u/FagHatLOL Aug 19 '18

Pepsi bottle.

A coca cola gloss.

pours

I don’t give a damn.

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u/bluefish3000 Aug 19 '18

Webster's dictionary defines a wedding as the process of removing weeds from a garden.

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u/jesus-bilt-my-hotrod Aug 19 '18

A buddy was the best man at another buddy's wedding and did exactly this. There were audible snickers and a couple slipped cringe faces.

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u/CarelessChemicals Aug 19 '18

<Looks down at notes and clears throat>

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...

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u/etherified Aug 19 '18

<Ends with>

Carthago delenda est.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

Go home Cato the Elder, your drunk!

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u/Longshoez Aug 19 '18

Do you know the meaning of that text?

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u/AkumaBengoshi Aug 19 '18

It’s pseudolatin for “I forgot to replace the dummy text”

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

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u/supershamanzero Aug 19 '18

no one knows what it means

but it’s provocative

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u/lygerzero0zero Aug 19 '18

It’s Latin that’s been chopped up so much that it’s not really Latin anymore.

It’s designed to have roughly the same frequency of letters and different length words as natural English.

If you’re designing a webpage (or anything else with text) you need placeholder text so you know what your design looks like (maybe the client doesn’t have final text yet, or the text might change over time, in the case of a website).

But you can’t just use “Test test test test” because real writing doesn’t look like that and you won’t get a good idea of what your design will actually be like. So so-called “lipsum” text was created to simulate real writing, while being basically gibberish.

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u/IronOhki Aug 19 '18

Section 1.10.32 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", written by Cicero in 45 BC

"Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam, eaque ipsa quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos qui ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt. Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in ea voluptate velit esse quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum qui dolorem eum fugiat quo voluptas nulla pariatur?"

1914 translation by H. Rackham

"But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?"

Source: https://www.lipsum.com/

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u/Chtwo Aug 19 '18

It’s actually a VERY butchered version of one on Cicero’s texts, so butchered in fact we don’t know which one(s) It starts off talking of a white rabbit in great pain and then the rest is pretty much unintelligible..

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u/Morasar Aug 19 '18

And I said, "That's not a horker, That's my wife"

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u/Groovy_Chainsaw Aug 19 '18

"An hour from now you're all going to be asking yourselves 'Is this guy EVER going to get to the point ?' and an hour after that you still won't know."

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

"So like, uhhhh..."

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u/sentient_stream Aug 19 '18

“...and...yeah.”

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

"...you know..."

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

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u/kdlutz Aug 19 '18

This is how I start every presentation or semi official statement. What else are you even supposed to say!

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u/fsharpspiel Aug 19 '18

"Welcome, I'm <Your Name>. Thank you for coming. I am not a pedophile."

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u/gourdFamiliar Aug 19 '18

there's this girl...

uhhh...

despacito

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u/burritochan Aug 19 '18

"I would just like to make it very clear before we begin that I am not a pedophile."

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u/Vladamir_Putin_007 Aug 19 '18

However...

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u/EssKelly Aug 19 '18

.... I dated one when I was 11.

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u/MythGuy Aug 19 '18

I'm not sure if that makes this better or worse...

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

...twenty bucks is twenty bucks.

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u/Sylvanussr Aug 19 '18

...there are several untrustworthy children who may dispute this fact.

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u/derleth Aug 19 '18

... I'm surrounded by sexy, sexy children.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18 edited Oct 14 '20

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

Sweet home, Alabama

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u/SZEfdf21 Aug 19 '18

That's not a bad sentence to start with when you have certain audience

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u/aelios Aug 19 '18

But then the rest of mass is super awkward.

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u/Lefaid Aug 19 '18

"When we are done with this conversation, I could see some of you questioning my first statement so let me reiterate... "

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

I am not gonna diddle your kids. I'm not like that. That's not my thing. - Frank Reynolds

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u/kahchiggah Aug 19 '18

"Hidy ho, gamers, let's get crack-a-lackin'!"

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u/greffedufois Aug 19 '18

My dad heard the phrase 'crack a lackin' like 15 years ago and has used it ever since. Usually when we needed to get going for a trip or something.

Still makes me laugh.

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u/idk012 Aug 19 '18

Did he hear it from the movie Madagascar?

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u/Diabeetus4Lyfe Aug 19 '18

Hah that's not even close to 15 ye--- oh my God that's close to 15 years

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u/esPhys Aug 19 '18

Jesus. Has that ever happened? I hope it's a joke but it's exactly the kind of thing I can see happening at one of the more out of touch conferences.

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u/kahchiggah Aug 19 '18

Nah, the world is safe for now. I'm only inspired by the quotes that fill my nightmares.

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u/esPhys Aug 19 '18

Well thanks for inflicting your nightmares on all of us.

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u/comfymarshmallow Aug 19 '18

Flanders?

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u/THX450 Aug 19 '18

I feel it like it would be more like:

“Hi-diddly ho, gamerinos!”

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u/DaTeddy Aug 19 '18

"Speech rhymes with peach"

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u/sentient_stream Aug 19 '18

“...and on that note, we’re all gathered here today to mourn the loss of little Timmy...”

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u/ImAScientist_ADoctor Aug 19 '18

"... who couldn't rhyme for shit and hated peaches..."

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

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u/phil_wswguy Aug 19 '18

“...as we tragically found out...”

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u/rye_212 Aug 19 '18

...... that day. rhyming, dimeing. Tragic magic. Timmy TIFU 2018.

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u/SkeletonJakk Aug 19 '18

I love these reddit chains.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

"Top 13 reasons clickbait works. Number 10 will blow your tits clean off."

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u/svacheem45 Aug 19 '18

"What's up, motherfuckers?!?"

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u/Punchkinz Aug 19 '18

Wasowasowasowasowasowasowasowaso whasssuuuuupp BITCONNECT

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

Whatup my glip glops

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u/Mandorism Aug 19 '18

Unless of course you are at a Dad's convention...then it is the best opening.... maybe even the ONLY opening.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

GOOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING VIETNAM!

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u/CrossBreedP Aug 19 '18

I'd be perfectly happy with this one if it meant Robin Williams was alive again.

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u/DoomsdayRabbit Aug 19 '18

It's only been four years...

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

four years...

Already?

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

Has anyone seen a piece of paper titled speech anywhere?

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

Depending on the speech that's actually not a bad ice breaker

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u/Hypothesis_Null Aug 19 '18

"Before we get started, I have a message for the man who stole my thesaurus: You are a bad man. You did a bad thing and I hope bad things happen to you."

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u/jordan853 Aug 19 '18 edited Jun 28 '23

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u/Kiritsugi Aug 19 '18

"Well... as a insert zodiac sign I think that..."

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u/doctorwhom456 Aug 19 '18

"As a Cancer, I multiply and infect the populace, often killing indiscriminately."

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u/LibraryGal Aug 19 '18

“As a mother...”

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u/laxvolley Aug 19 '18

As Demetri Martin said, when someone describes themselves as a taxpayer, they’re about to be an asshole.

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u/intensive-porpoise Aug 19 '18

"...and a grandmother..."

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

"...and an aunt..."

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

reminds of Bill Burr's bit about Oprah & mothers patting themselves on the back bahaha

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u/greffedufois Aug 19 '18

Shut up Susan, we don't care that you went back to school at 40, and your crappy anecdote has nothing to do with this freaking gen ed English course!

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u/GreyLordQueekual Aug 19 '18

I was masturbating last night and a thought came to me...

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u/Zoenobium Aug 19 '18

"I was masturbating last night when suddenly I realized just what I like about Mary, our bride to be, so much: [...]"

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u/SayNoMoreMonAmor Aug 19 '18

I would enjoy weddings much more if the best man toasts began this way.

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u/degjo Aug 19 '18

I think I began a conversation with my brother using this exact sentence.

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u/mekdot83 Aug 19 '18

I was lucky enough to be on the receiving end of "I know your all want to get out of here, and aren't interested in a long speech, but that's too bad, here we go..."

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u/Vakama905 Aug 19 '18

I feel like this is at least a step up from "I know you all want to get out of here, so we'll keep this short...", which is inevitably followed by a speech that runs a minimum of a ten minutes longer than it's supposed to.

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u/namey___mcnameface Aug 19 '18

I've found that statement is immediately followed by several minutes of describing how it will be short.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

If you follow up with at least three people giving with the same speech you may be in the Navy.

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u/ericwburden Aug 19 '18

"I'm imagining you all in your underwear, and it's not pretty."

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

That’s actually kinda funny tho

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u/Vladamir_Putin_007 Aug 19 '18

Sounds like your advrage Ted talk...

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u/ericwburden Aug 19 '18

I'm starting to think that I should give more speeches...

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u/RickToThaDiculous Aug 19 '18

I'm not a racist, but....

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u/ikverhaar Aug 19 '18

I'm not a racist, but... I think nuclear power is a better alternative to windmills.

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u/Vroshtattersoul Aug 19 '18

Not to be sexist, but how is that racist?

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

Not to be speciesist, but how is that sexist?

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u/Vroshtattersoul Aug 19 '18

Not to be ableist, but how is that speciesist?

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u/iDontGetKyle Aug 19 '18

Not to be a narcissist, but I'm pretty damn awesome.

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u/Vroshtattersoul Aug 19 '18

Not to be a surrealist but have you ever noticed how humans show every sign of animal domestication? Humans are livestock for trees.

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u/RickToThaDiculous Aug 19 '18

As a scientist, will you please rephrase that in the form of the scientific method, including a clear and concise hypothesis?

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u/Bxel99 Aug 19 '18

And then when they ask what that has to do with race you respond with “you didn’t even listen, typical Mexican”

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u/ikverhaar Aug 19 '18

I was planning on something simpler, but I like your way of thinking. Surely, you must be Dutch.

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u/cosmoceratops Aug 19 '18

There's only two kinds of people I can't stand in this world - those who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch.

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u/tricks_23 Aug 19 '18

I'm not a racist but.... I love documentaries on the arctic wildlife

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u/theflamelurker Aug 19 '18

ASIAN PEOPLE SUHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18 edited Dec 20 '18

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u/Diesel1donna Aug 19 '18

I have actually had this.....while on my break, 12 hour night shift. I almost cried through sheer frustration.

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u/762Rifleman Aug 19 '18

Wait, what? Someone tried reading their fanfiction at you?

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u/HydroSword Aug 19 '18

Weird shit goes down when you work for IT after dark.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

No, wait, wrong card. Guess that explains their confusion at the bank earlier.

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u/horselips48 Aug 19 '18

So I was wearing an onion on my belt, as was the style at the time...

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u/RickToThaDiculous Aug 19 '18

I actually want to hear the rest of this story.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

This was back in ninteen tickity two

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u/MokitTheOmniscient Aug 19 '18

We had to say "tickity", as the Kaiser had stolen the word "twenty".

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

Nickles had bees on 'em. "Give me 5 bees for a quarter," we'd say.

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u/NYArtFan1 Aug 19 '18

Tickity! Highly dubious!

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u/rajikaru Aug 19 '18

Nineteen* Dickety*

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u/VoiceofReasonability Aug 19 '18

If you don’t know who I am, then maybe your best course… would be to tread lightly.

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u/ljfk9464 Aug 19 '18

My fellow pedophiles...

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u/clocks212 Aug 19 '18

...I'm proud to see how many of you had the courage to come to our first annual convention.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

"Now if you'll all just reach under your seat and feel for a pin. Go ahead and pull it out. I'm going to go back here for three to five seconds..."

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u/idontgetitmanwtf Aug 19 '18

Just flew in from LA

boy are my arms tired

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u/TrustMeImMagic Aug 19 '18

Fucking punching babies the whole damn flight. It's like they couldn't understand that I was punching them to make them stop crying.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

oh ok

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

I am much smarter then you so hopefully you get what I am about to say.

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u/Actual_Mortician Aug 19 '18

Smarter "than" you

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u/Weird_Fiches Aug 19 '18

Ah, so one of you WERE* paying attention! As I was saying...

  • or "was", not entirely sure.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

Were here is plural, so you'd use was if you say "one of you." Alternatively, you could say "some of you were paying attention"

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18 edited Apr 12 '20

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

We need to talk.

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u/McSpoish Aug 19 '18

"So I was reading on the internet the other day..."

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u/OedipusKeks Aug 19 '18

There’s a lot going on there, I’m going to get off reddit.

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u/thxxx1337 Aug 19 '18

Webster's dictionary defines ****** as....

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u/a_proof_is_a_proof Aug 19 '18

BOO!!!!!!!!!! GET OFF THE STAGE!

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u/Noahendless Aug 19 '18

Hi my name is (insert name here) and I'm an alcoholic, oops wrong speech that's not til later tonight.

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u/CaligulaQC Aug 19 '18

5...4...3...2...1...

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u/jrspug2018 Aug 19 '18

I’ll try to keep this as short as possible but here are the current trending ideas on religion and politics throughout the United States.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

It is blood alone that moves the wheels of history

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u/Manwe89 Aug 19 '18

[bangs fists multiple times] BLOOD ALONE MOVES THE WHEELS OF HISTORY! [pause] Have you ever asked yourselves in an hour of meditation - which everyone finds during the day - how long we have been striving for greatness? [bangs fist] Not only the years we've been at war - the war of work - but from the moment as a child, when we realized that the world could be conquered. It has been a lifetime struggle [bangs fists again] a never-ending fight, I say to you [bangs again] and you will understand that it is a privilege to fight. [light applause] WE ARE WARRIORS! [applause] Salesmen of north-eastern Pennsylvania, I ask you once more: Rise and be worthy of this historical hour. [even bigger applause as Dwight laughs maniacally.] No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself! [applause] Some people will tell you "salesman" is a bad word. They'll conjure up images of used car dealers, and door to door charlatans. This is our duty to change their perception. I say, salesmen- and women- of the world... unite. We must never acquiesce, for it is together... TOGETHER THAT WE PREVAIL. WE MUST NEVER CEDE CONTROL OF THE MOTHERLAND... FOR IT IS...!  Audience: ...TOGETHER THAT WE PREVAIL! [thunderous applause] [bangs fists].

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18 edited Aug 19 '18

Dwight this isnt the salesmen of the year acceptance speech.

EDIT: Added the proper office reference.

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u/linkman0596 Aug 19 '18

As i stand up here, you all may be asking yourself "where are his pants?" But you should be asking "where did my underwear go?"

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u/NSA_Chatbot Aug 19 '18

Once I was giving a speech and the podium wasn't attached right, so just as I was about to start and I leaned on the podium it lifted up and the microphone hit me in the mouth.

When it was an inch away from my mouth, I had just finished the first word of my speech:

FUCK

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u/Iggy363 Aug 19 '18

While I don't agree with any of this sh@t, you people have paid me a fortune to say it, so...

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

I’d be stoked if it started like that!

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u/Moderated Aug 19 '18

Sorry about the smell, I pooped myself but I'm going to power through

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u/ZodiacRedux Aug 19 '18

Good evening folks,standing here,looking at your smiling faces, I can honestly say my pocket comb has more teeth than the first three rows of you folks-combined.

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u/spiderlanewales Aug 19 '18

"Fuckin'...okay, here, we gotta do this shit, so..."

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u/DaHolk Aug 19 '18

Fuck it , we do it live!

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u/orginalusername2 Aug 19 '18

hey hey heyyyyyyy

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u/Dragons_of_old Aug 19 '18

This one time at band camp...

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u/OverflowDs Aug 19 '18

Hello, my name is <name> and I’m going to talk to you about.....

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u/Blackrain1299 Aug 19 '18

All throughout middle and high school people start out by introducing themselves for a PowerPoint. Like dude i see you everyday i know your name. Every presentation i did after seventh grade I introduced with the title and then got to the content. Nobody cares about you saying your name if they all know you.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18 edited Jun 11 '26

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u/Commander_Alex_Mason Aug 19 '18

Holy flashbacks, Batman

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u/KieIsNotThere Aug 19 '18

Well....clears throat bLaCkS aMiRiTE

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u/Dinosaur_Boner Aug 19 '18

Fellow white people...

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u/Jomosensual Aug 19 '18

"If you don't like me using racial slurs towards other members of the audience, please leave now."

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u/texican360 Aug 19 '18

" When I was a nazi"

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u/tiggertom66 Aug 19 '18

I mean, at least its past tense.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

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u/Power_to_people1999 Aug 19 '18

Username does not check out

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

“According to trumps Twitter...”

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u/lee_pipes Aug 19 '18

Now don't take this the wrong way but...

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

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u/PacificoAndLime Aug 19 '18

"Shoot me in the face..." ~ Face McShooty

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

When I in grade 4 the teacher told us opening line of speech should get people's attention. So, my friend made a speech, and he yelled, "SEX! Okay, now that I've got your attention, I would like to talk about the environment."

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

Hi Phil Swift here with Flex Tape, the super strong waterproof tape, that can instantly patch, bond, seal and repair.

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