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WHEN INSULTS HAD CLASS
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Posted on 08/06/2006 4:28:00 AM PDT by SLB

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To: SLB
"People who enjoyed a merely superficial acquaintance with my nephew Archibald were accustomed to set him down as just an ordinary pinheaded young man. It was only when they came to know him better that they discovered their mistake. Then they realized that his pinheadedness, so far from being ordinary, was exceptional. Even at the Drones Club, where the average intellect is hot high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers."

P.G. Wodehouse.  Fiction, but one of my favorites.

 

61 posted on 08/06/2006 6:27:18 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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To: Northern Yankee

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde


62 posted on 08/06/2006 6:31:55 AM PDT by Carolinamom (Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue. ---Barry Goldwater)
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To: Carolinamom
LOL...

I like it!

63 posted on 08/06/2006 6:32:46 AM PDT by Northern Yankee ( Stay The Course!)
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To: Carolinamom

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
H. L. Mencken


64 posted on 08/06/2006 6:33:06 AM PDT by don-o (Proudly posting without reading the thread since 1998. (stolen from one cool dude))
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To: don-o
I once met a friend of my grandfather who told me "Your grandfather said you were a real wit. I see he was half right."

Shalom.

65 posted on 08/06/2006 6:35:02 AM PDT by ArGee (The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
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To: Northern Yankee
My dad was aWill Rogers fan. He met him once on the rodeo circuit and left me a large collection of Will Rogers prints.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924),

66 posted on 08/06/2006 6:40:26 AM PDT by SLB (Wyoming's Alan Simpson on the Washington press - "all you get is controversy, crap and confusion")
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To: ArGee

Actually, Vinnie Barbarino was brilliantly played by John Travolta. He had to play an uneducated, self centered buffoon whose knowledge was short on content and long on delivery. Travolta took that acting job to heart, and so well that he continues to this day.


67 posted on 08/06/2006 6:40:37 AM PDT by Loud Mime ("Countdown": A documentary about Keith Olbermann's dwindling IQ.....)
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To: backhoe

Yes, my personal favorite, Dr. Johnson on second marriages, "The triumph of hope over experience."


68 posted on 08/06/2006 6:43:23 AM PDT by appeal2
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To: Loud Mime
That's not good acting. That's good casting.
69 posted on 08/06/2006 6:43:23 AM PDT by VadeRetro (Faster than a speeding building; able to leap tall bullets at a single bound!)
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To: appeal2
"The triumph of hope over experience."

That also describes the game of golf.

70 posted on 08/06/2006 6:44:34 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
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To: backhoe
He would not allow Scotland to derive any credit from Lord Mansfield; for he was educated in England. "Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.", Dr.Johnson
71 posted on 08/06/2006 6:45:11 AM PDT by Little Bill (A 37%'r, a Red Spot on a Blue State, rats are evil.)
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To: jocon307

He is a man of finite talents.


He is a legend in his own mind.


There's a lot less here than meets the eye.


72 posted on 08/06/2006 6:45:44 AM PDT by appeal2
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To: Northern Yankee

A walk in the seas of his knowledge will scarcely get your feet wet.

Basil Fawlty to his wife: If you would make use of that dormant organ you keep hiddin within that rat's nest (points to her overly-styled hair).....


73 posted on 08/06/2006 6:46:17 AM PDT by Loud Mime ("Countdown": A documentary about Keith Olbermann's dwindling IQ.....)
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To: The Drowning Witch

Over here .....


74 posted on 08/06/2006 6:47:40 AM PDT by Jackknife ( "It's not a real party 'til somebody breaks something.")
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To: ovrtaxt

Of all the insults I have read on this post, that's the worse! I think I've seen her a couple of times in bars, dances, parties, etc.


75 posted on 08/06/2006 6:48:48 AM PDT by ops33 (Retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant)
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To: VadeRetro

The only experience this man has had with stage and screen was when his leg was in a cast.


76 posted on 08/06/2006 6:48:52 AM PDT by Loud Mime ("Countdown": A documentary about Keith Olbermann's dwindling IQ.....)
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To: SLB

Dorothy Parker and a young actress both approached a doorway at the same moment. The actress stepped back and said to Parker, "Age before beauty."

Parker sailed through the door saying, "Pearls before swine."


77 posted on 08/06/2006 6:50:58 AM PDT by kitkat (The first step down to hell is to deny the existence of evil.!)
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To: SLB

Fantastic! Thanks!


78 posted on 08/06/2006 6:51:21 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Loud Mime
Brevity is the soul of lingerie. -Dorothy Parker

I am not young enough to know everything. -Oscar Wilde

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? -James Thurber

79 posted on 08/06/2006 6:54:40 AM PDT by Carolinamom (Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue. ---Barry Goldwater)
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To: NormsRevenge; glock rocks; tubebender; NYTexan; WestCoastGal; SouthTexas; AGreatPer; ...

ping


80 posted on 08/06/2006 6:54:43 AM PDT by don-o (Proudly posting without reading the thread since 1998. (stolen from one cool dude))
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