Haha glad to amuse Maya. He also used to tell me the soft toy (from a Mc Donalds happy meal) that I wear around my neck attached to my stethoscope was a walking growth of MRSA. Probably true, but it works for kiddies that I have to try and amuse whilst I'm examining. And some oldies too!!!

There are plenty of other things he commented on as well....I could keep writing all night hehe....

Magda, a compliment is a compliment. Gay, straight, bi, man, woman...doesn't matter to me as long as it is said with grace and kindness.

My friend's roommate, who is gay, told me I was very good looking (not just out of nowhere, it was relevant to a conversation we were having). I smiled and thanked her for her compliment, and both of our lives seem to have continued normally. It's not like she started making advances on me or anything. Who cares? Life is too short to be that uptight!

Tam, he sounds like a real character to work with. My dad says things like that too: "Green and purple don't go together"--Oh sorry dad, I forgot I only spent 6 years in art school and you are a calculus teacher who wears knee socks with shorts and sneakers. Thanks for clarifying who the authority on the matter of aesthetics is...

This has been a very interesting thread!

I have worked around gay people my whole working career...The men seem to have a keen eye...I always take their compliments seriously:)

True that Taylor. I wish Queer Eye was still on TV. Lord knows there are a lot of straight guys who could use it.

Totally loved that show Maya. I work with a gay guy now who dresses nicer than me...so jealous!!! He is adorable.

One of my supervisors at the Met is gay. I had a crush on him before I figured it out. He is just too cute and a very snappy dresser.

Now my crush has been transferred to another coworker, who I was stalking earlier today :p I don't think he is gay. Or if he is, he is very good at hiding it.

Maya's stalking a secret crush! LOVE it... You are hysterical.....

I know, isn't it sick?

I found out he started as an intern too, and now he is employed! There is hope for me yet (to be employed, that is).

It's so rare that I see a bloke who lives up to my unreasonably high standards that when I do, I get totally infatuated. It's so awful.

funny story about clothing compliments: one of my labmates (a girl) came back from Germany with a nice new trench style belted winter coat, which another one of my labmates (a guy) pronounced to be "snazzy". The German girl and another guy in our lab, who's Chinese, didn't know what that meant, so I as the official lab slang instructor stepped in and told them...and then to kick the lesson up to the graduate level, I told them that you could combine words like "snazzy" with "spectacular" to form "snazztacular". So now that's pretty much our favorite adjective, for clothing AND for our technical stuff. The Chinese dude was especially taken by the word--he wanted to use it in a presentation (his oral qualifying exam) in front of professors, but forgot. I'm going to try to see if he'll use it in his presentation at a major conference in a few days

Haha Maya you crack me up. Green and purple is one of my fave combos of all time Tell that to your Dad!

Love snazztacular crazyone!!!