My guy did something similar. We were on a trip, sitting on the airplane with a stranger next to us. My BF said something along the lines that I could power up the hills with my 'thunder thighs'. I could see the guy next to us just squirming, then start laughing and he wondered out loud something about seeing how my guy was gonna get out of this one!

On the flip side, I was doing a century a few weeks ago, and one of the SAG guys said something like I didn't look like a century rider. What the heck does that mean? I had no comeback, but my BF said that neither did the SAG guy! He recovered by saying that I was looking all fresh and happy. Yeah, whatever.