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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

The French call it “l’esprit d’escalier,” or “staircase ghost.”

To the rest of us, it is known simply as the comeback, that divine and tender coincidence of all the universe’s comedic forces at the perfect moment. A truly good comeback can instantly turn tables, elevate the terminally zinged to the status of champion, and reduce the zinger to a stuttering fool.

Sadly, many of us will go our entire lives without scoring a decent comeback, doomed to pause awkwardly and mutter some pathetic variation of “your face” for the rest of our miserable lives. For us, it must be enough simply to marvel at the comebacks of the better equipped, and possibly memorize them for later personal use.

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To: Slings and Arrows

Here’s a good one that belongs on such a “top ten” list:

Lady Astor to Winston Churchill: “If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea.”

Churchill to Lady Astor: “Madam, were I married to you I would drink it!”


61 posted on 12/02/2008 10:20:42 AM PST by Enchante (Countless Innocents in Mumbai, India Suffer the "Religion of Peace" in Action)
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To: Slings and Arrows
REPARTEE:   What you think of today that you should have said last night.


62 posted on 12/02/2008 10:47:59 AM PST by Lady Jag (DONATE NOW at https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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To: Old Professer

Inside Info always adds fuel to the flame. :-)


63 posted on 12/02/2008 10:51:15 AM PST by JoeSixPack1
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To: Old Professer
But how else could a materialist imagine it?

Spirit as other than a ghost, you mean ?

Cf. Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, Chapter 3, for an interesting discourse on mind and spirit from the materialist perspective.

Furthermore, the quickened power of body and mind have vigor and enjoy life only in close conjunction together - 3.558

64 posted on 12/02/2008 4:11:05 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: Slings and Arrows
WARNING: Contains strong language, blasphemy, confusion of James Garfield with Grover Cleveland.

And no mention of Florence King.

Humph!

65 posted on 12/02/2008 4:27:21 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Faith Manages. I consider myself a bit of a purist, and proud of it.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Strangely enough, there's no entry for "What's your DU screenname?"

Or even "at least when I drive over bridges, I don't drown my lover." :)

66 posted on 12/02/2008 4:44:46 PM PST by GOP_Raider (Have you risen above your own public education today?)
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To: Slings and Arrows
That's a nice shirt. You should have bought 2 of them and thrown 'em both out.

You get a free bowl of soup with that haircut?

They sell men's clothes where you bought those pants?

67 posted on 12/02/2008 4:59:14 PM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Retort to someone who sticks out his tongue:

“No thanks, I use a scrub brush to clean my toilet.”

(BTW, doesn’t Oscar Wilde look like Snape (HARRY POTTER), played by Alan Rickman?)


68 posted on 12/02/2008 11:11:25 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Hey where’d you get that personality? A car accident!


69 posted on 12/02/2008 11:20:08 PM PST by Always Independent
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To: thefactor

I had a shirt like that! Then I got a job!


70 posted on 12/02/2008 11:20:53 PM PST by Always Independent
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To: Slings and Arrows
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71 posted on 12/06/2008 11:44:10 AM PST by Mojave (http://barackobamajokes.googlepages.com/obama_funny)
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