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The 10 Most Devastating Insults [Actually Comebacks] of All Time
Cracked.com ^
| 12/1/08
| Michael Swaim
Posted on 12/01/2008 11:32:48 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
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WARNING: Contains strong language, blasphemy, confusion of James Garfield with Grover Cleveland.
To: Slings and Arrows; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
Strangely enough, there's no entry for "What's your DU screenname?"
To: Slings and Arrows
Winner and still champion:
“There you go again...”
To: Slings and Arrows
The French call it lesprit descalier, or staircase ghost. To the rest of us, it is known simply as the comeback, ...This is completely stupid. The expression is "the spirit of the staircase", in the sense of inspiration. It means retorts or witticisms thought of after the fact, too late, when retiring.
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posted on
12/01/2008 11:37:20 PM PST
by
dr_lew
To: dr_lew
This is completely stupid.Note the article source.
To: Slings and Arrows
Pretty funny.
By the way, that’s a nice haircut you gave yourself.
To: dr_lew
Yeah, well the jerk store called and they’re out of YOU.
To: Lancey Howard
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posted on
12/01/2008 11:47:17 PM PST
by
dr_lew
To: Slings and Arrows
I don’t know. Seems like the original, quick-witted comebacks are the best. I think the “Cracked” guys were smoking some crack - and/or 14 year-old boys.
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posted on
12/01/2008 11:57:28 PM PST
by
21twelve
To: Slings and Arrows
One of my favorite putdowns was in the movie KISS KISS BANG BANG:
Val Kilmer: Look up "idiot" in the dictionary. You know what you'll find?
Robert Downey Jr.: A picture of me?
Kilmer: No! The definition of the word idiot, which is what you are!
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posted on
12/01/2008 11:58:12 PM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(Atheist Pro-Lifer)
To: Lancey Howard
By the way, thats a nice haircut you gave yourself.Thank you for taking your head out of your *** long enough to notice.
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To: Loupgarou
You could tell the author, but that would be cruelty to the retarded.
To: Slings and Arrows
Some good ones there! Then there are some that I would not have included on a top ten list......
For instance, the Keith Moon one is not particularly funny, I don’t find — it’s of interest b/c of how spectacularly wrong Moon was about the prospects for such a band and that Moon himself provided the name for the band (if that’s what he actually said in a drug-induce haze). But I don’t find it to be a great, hilarious “zinger”..... maybe that’s just me.
btw, the opening bit about “L’esprit d’escalier” misunderstands the point of that expression, since it has to do with what someone DIDN’T say as a comeback, but only thought of too late, on the stairway, while departing the premises. Thus, it is not the expression to use in referring to these ten comeback zingers which all were (allegedly) uttered at the time, not thought of after the fact.
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posted on
12/02/2008 12:04:09 AM PST
by
Enchante
(Countless Innocents in Mumbai, India Suffer the "Religion of Peace" in Action)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
12/02/2008 12:08:12 AM PST
by
Mojave
(http://barackobamajokes.googlepages.com/obama_funny)
To: Lancey Howard
What’s the difference? You’re their biggest seller!
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posted on
12/02/2008 12:13:40 AM PST
by
LifeComesFirst
(Until the unborn are free, nobody is free)
To: Enchante
For instance, the Keith Moon one is not particularly funny, I dont find its of interest b/c of how spectacularly wrong Moon was about the prospects for such a band and that Moon himself provided the name for the band (if thats what he actually said in a drug-induce haze). But I dont find it to be a great, hilarious zinger..... maybe thats just me. I'm inclined to agree. Maybe we don't take enough drugs to appreciate it.
To: Slings and Arrows
"If I've offended your sensibilities.....reexamine them"
Works on some Democrats but not most.
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posted on
12/02/2008 12:23:39 AM PST
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhaul Congress! It's the sensible solution to restore Command to the People.)
To: BIGLOOK
To: Slings and Arrows
Anyone remember “The Ultimate Flame” thread? I had it bookmarked but it’s been gone for years I guess.
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posted on
12/02/2008 1:00:44 AM PST
by
orlop9
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