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When Insults Had Class cubic61052 sent these to me...
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." -- Winston Churchill "A modest little person, with much to be modest about." -- Winston Churchill "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." -- Clarence Darrow "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." -- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway) "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?" -- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner) "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." -- Moses Hadas "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." -- Abraham Lincoln "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." -- Groucho Marx "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." -- Mark Twain "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." -- Oscar Wilde "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend... if you have one." -- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second...if there is one." -- Winston Churchill, in response "I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here." -- Stephen Bishop "He is a self-made man and worships his creator." -- John Bright "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." -- Irvin S. Cobb "He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others." -- Samuel Johnson "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." -- Paul Keating "He had delusions of adequacy." -- Walter Kerr "There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." -- Jack E. Leonard "He has the attention span of a lightning bolt." -- Robert Redford "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." -- Thomas Brackett Reed "He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." -- James Reston (about Richard Nixon) "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." -- Count Talleyrand "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." -- Forrest Tucker "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" -- Mark Twain "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." -- Mae West "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." -- Oscar Wilde "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts...for support rather than illumination." -- Andrew Lang "He has Van Gogh's ear for music." -- Billy Wilder ... 
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okay, where's yours? | |
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starkitty said: okay, where's yours?
Sorry, don't get it. tA Tribal Disorder
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i'd like to see you cook up a flavorful insult. | |
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... .... ..... shit i got nothin' | |
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"I need your charity like I need your cock in my ass." | |
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 Thank you TA..thank you for sharing- needed a laugh and some pure cleverness If you have to ask, it's more than worth it. | |
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"Some people are like slinkys... not really good for anything but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs."
Ouch! If you have to ask, it's more than worth it. | |
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dancinggyrl said: Thank you TA..thank you for sharing- needed a laugh and some pure cleverness You're welcome. Hope you've been well. tA Tribal Disorder
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starkitty said: i'd like to see you cook up a flavorful insult.
OK, here's one... Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one. Unfortunately some folks have two and use one of them to talk through. ...First line standard, second line improvised. tA Tribal Disorder
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"This thread is Imago-like." -- Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich
Oh, that's cold! | |
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2the9s said: "This thread is Imago-like." -- Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich
Oh, that's cold!  Should I consider that a personal insult?
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theAudience said: 2the9s said: "This thread is Imago-like." -- Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich
Oh, that's cold! Should I consider that a personal insult?The worst kind.  | |
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starkitty said: "I need your charity like I need your cock in my ass."
was that a Prince song?Le prego di non toccare la macchina per favore! | |
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starkitty said: "I need your charity like I need your cock in my ass."
I'm sorry it's not what tA meant but  | |
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theAudience said: "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend... if you have one." -- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second...if there is one." -- Winston Churchill, in response | |
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theAudience said: cubic61052
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." -- Mark Twain "I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here." -- Stephen Bishop He has Van Gogh's ear for music." -- Billy Wilder ...
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theAudience said: starkitty said: i'd like to see you cook up a flavorful insult.
OK, here's one... Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one. Unfortunately some folks have two and use one of them to talk through. ...First line standard, second line improvised. tA Tribal Disorder
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that's me 
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dancinggyrl said: "Some people are like slinkys... not really good for anything but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs."
Ouch! Stretching his hand out to catch the stars, he forgets the flowers at his feet. | |
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"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
-- Moses Hadas wasted many an hour on a bad book (but i have ocd when it comes 2 books- i HAVE 2 finish it ,good or bad 
"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." -- Paul Keating
i loved it when keating was in politics- always a laugh around the corner seems that i was busy doing something close to nothing, but different than the day before   | |
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AndGodCreatedMe said: theAudience said: OK, here's one... Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one. Unfortunately some folks have two and use one of them to talk through. ...First line standard, second line improvised. tA Tribal Disorder
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that's me
You said it, not me. 
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We English are still that good at them.  | |
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i have a good mind to join a club and hit you over the head with it
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theAudience said: AndGodCreatedMe said:
that's me
You said it, not me.
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My stomach is hurting I laughed so much. Thanks a million tA  | |
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Dorothy Parker - I've never been a millionaire but I just know I'd be darling at it. | |
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BlackAdder7 said: i have a good mind to join a club and hit you over the head with it
Groucho Marx
I just wish I could be quick enough at appropriate momoents to remember to repeat some of these....
How fun.....  "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."
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There's another notable Churchill response (allegedly)...
??? - "If I were your wife, I'd poison your tea" Churchill - "If I were your husband, I'd jolly well drink it!" "..My work is personal, I'm a working person, I put in work, I work with purpose.." | |
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senik said: There's another notable Churchill response (allegedly)...
??? - "If I were your wife, I'd poison your tea" Churchill - "If I were your husband, I'd jolly well drink it!"
Legend has it was said by Lady Astor.... "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."
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senik said: There's another notable Churchill response (allegedly)...
??? - "If I were your wife, I'd poison your tea" Churchill - "If I were your husband, I'd jolly well drink it!" | |
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