backhand(ed compliments)

11 Things: Backhand(ed Compliments)

Thursday, September 13, 2007

1. Nice clothes: Like when your girlfriend tells you she'll be doing her laundry this Saturday ...

and you tell her, "That sounds like fun."

2. Nice selection: Like when you're on a long road trip with your parents ...

and they control the radio.

3. Niiice: Like when guys are talking to each other about anything ... or girls are talking to each other ...

about guys.

4. Nice reading: Like when your cousin mentions he reads Playboy for the articles and your other cousin says,

"Yeah, they're quite informative."

5. Nice dancing: Like ...

Britney.

6. Nice hair: Like...

Paris.

7. Nice job: Like when you were channel surfing the other day and came upon the president thanking the Austrian troops ...

in Australia.

8. Nice try: Like when others can't recall why they forgave the politicians who can't recall and no one can recall and ...

can't we just recall them all?

9. Nice people: Like the smile on your face when you're communicating with a TSA agent at the airport ... right after he made you throw away your morning coffee ...

and patted down your niece.

10. Nice architecture: Like when someone tells you how much they really love that new building going up downtown and you say "Yeah, it's exciting ...

like a brand new tube of toothpaste."

11. Nice like: Like when you tell someone ...

"Yeah, like that."

- Tim Sullivan, tsullivan@sfchronicle.com

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/13/NSO2S3FOI.DTL

This article appeared on page G - 3 of the San Francisco Chronicle