My most frequent one so far is "So will I be seeing you on TV?" I just politely state that I only play online, so probably not.
If you guys think poker's tough, try telling people you're a competitive Scrabble player. Tournament Scrabble is about 50 times as different from living room Scrabble as serious poker is from a penny ante home game.
"Oh, I could never be good at Scrabble--I'm such a bad speller."
"That's okay. Many of the top players are Thais who don't even speak English."
"WTF?!"
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I'm always afraid to meet someone who'll be like "My dad lost his life savings playing online poker."
"Uh...my bad?"
"There's this great book called Small Stakes Holdem--I'll lend him my copy."