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If Shakespearean Insults Were Used Today
youtube ^ | 9-24-14 | Anglophenia

Posted on 10/03/2014 8:28:25 PM PDT by smokingfrog

Siobhan Thompson reacts to everyday office frustrations with some barbs from the Bard.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: justforfun
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1 posted on 10/03/2014 8:28:25 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog

Methinks the lady doth insult too much.


2 posted on 10/03/2014 8:32:02 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Now is not the time for fear. That comes later.")
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To: smokingfrog

“nobody mocks you”


3 posted on 10/03/2014 8:40:04 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: smokingfrog

Bump.


4 posted on 10/03/2014 8:42:14 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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Barack Obama
Barack Obama

Thy paunchy full-gorged vassal hath a boil-brained malt-worm.
Thou art a warped toad-spotted bugbear.
Thy dissembling dizzy-eyed coxcomb hath a hedge-born baggage.
Thou art a bootless ill-breeding codpiece.
Thou art a saucy rough-hewn haggard.
Enter your name to be insulted:


Mode:
One of 325 million Shakespearean insults by Insult-O-Matic

5 posted on 10/03/2014 8:49:49 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: onedoug

Ping


6 posted on 10/03/2014 8:52:45 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: smokingfrog
Barack Obama

Thy pig-hearted death-token hath a hell-raising spawn fire.

7 posted on 10/03/2014 9:10:52 PM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: smokingfrog

Hey obama and all his worshippers: Get thee to a headshrinkery!


8 posted on 10/03/2014 9:20:09 PM PDT by Vision Thing (obama wants his suicidal worshipers to become suicidal bombers.)
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To: Vision Thing
Leading from behind runs in your family


9 posted on 10/03/2014 9:33:31 PM PDT by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: spokeshave

Please tell me that’s ‘Shopped.


10 posted on 10/03/2014 9:34:57 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Country Songs Don't Have Happy Endings" - http://youtu.be/W93nc95j1KY)
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To: smokingfrog

And when exactly did “fishmonger” become an insult?


11 posted on 10/03/2014 9:43:51 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: spokeshave

aye, there’s the rub...


12 posted on 10/03/2014 9:44:48 PM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

50BC Gaul


13 posted on 10/03/2014 9:57:13 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (In Soviet Russia, Police say "please" when demanding papers.)
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To: smokingfrog

Prithee thee bitest me.


14 posted on 10/04/2014 3:27:15 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Surf music is the naked truth)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

I’d say that insult would be a reference to the distinctive odor a fishmonger would have had in Shakespeare’s day.


15 posted on 10/04/2014 3:32:54 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: smokingfrog

It feels good to refer to Obama as a “puling caitiff.”


16 posted on 10/04/2014 4:56:10 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Feeling fine about the end of the world!)
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To: smokingfrog
While perhaps not an 'insult' per se, there's a certain timelessness to this one:   First, we kill all the lawyers ...
17 posted on 10/04/2014 5:41:09 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: Fresh Wind

Well I actually like the smell of rotten fish. But enough about me.


18 posted on 10/04/2014 9:42:46 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: smokingfrog

An underappreciated exchange:

ABRAHAM
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

SAMPSON
I do bite my thumb, sir.

ABRAHAM
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

SAMPSON
[Aside to GREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say ay?

GREGORY
No.

SAMPSON
No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.


19 posted on 10/04/2014 9:49:33 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (You know what, just do it.)
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To: smokingfrog
I'd let her bite my thumb 'n such. At least nibble a little.

“Mistress, you know yourself, down on your knees, And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love ”--As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 5

20 posted on 10/04/2014 10:12:25 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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