The Lost Art of the Insult

Time ^ | 14 Jul 2003 | JOSEF JOFFE

[Dimensio]

How appropriate. You fight like a cow.

[Grut]

A great story can stand repeating!

[Guillermo]

I fight like a cow?

What does that mean?

[cowtowney]

Yo mama so fat when she sits around the house, she SITS AROUND THE HOUSE!

Yo mama so fat she eats Wheat Thicks

Yo mama's so fat, when she hauls ass, she has to make two trips

[Dimensio]

Sorry. It's a semiobscure reference to a computer game where one element involved crafting proper insults. Sword fighting, for example, depending as much upon skill as it did upon the ability to toss -- or counter -- a good insult. When a buckaneer shouted, "You fight like a dairy farmer!", the appropriate response was "How appropriate, you fight like a cow". That particular line became something of a running gag through the game series.

Somewhat obscure, but it seemed fitting for the discussion at hand.

[cowtowney]

Yo mama's so fat, when she leaves the beach everybody shouts "The coast is clear."

[cowtowney]

Yo mama's so fat, her college graduation picture was an aerial.

[cowtowney]

Yo mama's so fat, when she wears heels, they're flats by the afternoon.

[weegee]

Just don't tell anyone to DROP DEAD...

MSNBC fires Savage after anti-gay remarks

[weegee]

Double standard BUMP

[Sir_Ed]

"Woman, to lexicographer Samuel Johnson, "Why Dr. Johnson, you smell."

"No madam, I stink, you smell."

I thought that was Noah Webster...

Ed

[proud American in Canada]

Interesting article, thanks for posting it. And a very funny thread...

After reading several threads on Lawrence v. Texas, I'd say that the art of the insult is alive and well here on FR!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Google search on

"I stink" "Noah Webster" "you smell"

returned no results.

"I stink" "Dr. Johnson" "you smell"

returned 10 results (we have omitted...).

Take yer pick.