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Posted on 08/06/2006 4:28:00 AM PDT by SLB
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To: Rb ver. 2.0
Yes, the British from the old school were masters of dry wit, and none-too-subtle putdowns.
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posted on
08/06/2006 5:09:13 AM PDT
by
backhoe
To: SLB
There was a long exchange in the U.S. Senate involving Stephen Douglas where another senator said that "no one with the upright form of man" would utter such "foul-smelling" words, "Will the Senator from Illinois please take notice?" to which Douglas said, "I will sir, and therefore will not imitate you."
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posted on
08/06/2006 5:15:28 AM PDT
by
LS
To: backhoe
Lord Chesterfeild to John Wilkes, John Wilkes to Lord Chesterfeild.
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posted on
08/06/2006 5:17:24 AM PDT
by
Little Bill
(A 37%'r, a Red Spot on a Blue State, rats are evil.)
To: LS
Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the." - - - Mary McCarthy (about Lillian Hellman)
She bellies up to the gourmet cracker-barrel and delivers laid-back wisdom with the serenity of a down-home Buddha who has discovered that stool softeners really work. - - - Florence King (about Molly Ivins)
She is a lady short on looks, absolutely deprived of any dress sense, has a figure like a Jurassic monster . . . very greedy when it comes to loot, no tact and wants to upstage everyone else. - - - Sir Nicholas Fairbairn (about Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York)
A cross between an aardvark and an albino rat. - - - John Simon (about Barbra Streisand)
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posted on
08/06/2006 5:19:16 AM PDT
by
don-o
(Proudly posting without reading the thread since 1998. (stolen from one cool dude))
To: SLB
"He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.* - Voltaire.
To: Little Bill
Lord Chesterfield to John Wilkes, John Wilkes to Lord Chesterfield. Thanks!
I swear it was also Lord Chesterfield who was famously quoted on sex, something along the lines of "The pleasure is transitory and the position is ridiculous..."
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posted on
08/06/2006 5:21:52 AM PDT
by
backhoe
To: backhoe
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posted on
08/06/2006 5:23:44 AM PDT
by
Little Bill
(A 37%'r, a Red Spot on a Blue State, rats are evil.)
To: SLB
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posted on
08/06/2006 5:24:12 AM PDT
by
Wings-n-Wind
(All of the answers remain available; Wisdom is gained by asking the right questions!)
To: Temple Owl
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posted on
08/06/2006 5:25:18 AM PDT
by
Tribune7
To: Past Your Eyes
Good stuff. There must be a collection of much more of these luscious tidbits somewhere all in one place? Non? I have a book of famous insults. My parents gave it to me when I was a teenager and I've kept it.
Winston Churchill and Mark Twain had some of the best in there.
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posted on
08/06/2006 5:26:49 AM PDT
by
Allegra
(FReeping LIVE! from "the other war zone.")
To: Little Bill
Dr. Johnson.Ah! He had a way with words, too.
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posted on
08/06/2006 5:30:05 AM PDT
by
backhoe
To: SLB
How could they omit the interchange between Churchill and MP Bess Smith:
"Winston, you're drunk."
"Bess, you're ugly, and tomorrow, I shall be sober."
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posted on
08/06/2006 5:32:14 AM PDT
by
sig226
(There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who do not.)
To: PatrickHenry; VadeRetro
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posted on
08/06/2006 5:33:43 AM PDT
by
Junior
(Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
To: sig226
"If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he surely needs, he would begin fattening a missionary in the White House backyard come Wednesday."
- H. L. Mencken talking about Franklin D. Roosevelt
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posted on
08/06/2006 5:34:05 AM PDT
by
don-o
(Proudly posting without reading the thread since 1998. (stolen from one cool dude))
To: SLB
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posted on
08/06/2006 5:35:50 AM PDT
by
aberaussie
(Ignorance has a cost.)
To: Junior
This is fun
"No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute." - Paul Gallico, US writer
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posted on
08/06/2006 5:36:51 AM PDT
by
don-o
(Proudly posting without reading the thread since 1998. (stolen from one cool dude))
To: SLB
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posted on
08/06/2006 5:39:43 AM PDT
by
hershey
To: hershey
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- - - Abraham Lincoln
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posted on
08/06/2006 5:40:48 AM PDT
by
don-o
(Proudly posting without reading the thread since 1998. (stolen from one cool dude))
To: SLB
Paging Ann Coulter, Ann Coulter to this thread internet.
Paging Howard Dean, Howard Dean to this thread.
Insult literacy contained within.
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