[tarheelswamprat]

one of my favorite preambles to a statement or question is "with all due respect." Far from it's original respectful meaning, it's now about as close to an outright insult as you'll hear most of the time in direct conversation. It just drips with "you don't deserve any respect, you clown, so here's my smackdown..."

It's a shame we can't use Dan Ackroyd's timeless preamble from the original Saturday Night Live's "Week-End Update".

I would pay good money to see Britt Hume or Tony Snow respond "Juan (or Helen, Nina, CiCi, etc.), you ignorant slut" prior to making his rebuttals. /grin

[chiller]

"Juan (or Helen, Nina, CiCi, etc.), you ignorant slut" prior to making his rebuttals. /grin

Back in the day, I used that line on one of my employees whom I liked and joked with often, but she was too young to get the joke. I even said it Ackroyd style, so as convey the jokiness of it, but I got called in by HR, nonethelss. I said; "let me ask you a question, have you ever heard of SNL and Weekend Update with Dan and Jane Curtin?. Thank God they remembered the line. At the end of the dayit all worked out, with al due respect. LOL

[rodguy911]

rotflmao--dont do that again, I'll get the hickups.