Chubbo
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I consider Mark Twain, champion of the art.
Chubbo
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Inspired insults!
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One of my old favorites and W.C. Fields has plenty was:
"I've got a woman to blame me for my drinking, I never had the chance to thank her"
"I've got a woman to blame me for my drinking, I never had the chance to thank her"
GB
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I have a friend that use to say, when peeved: "Your feet stink! And you don't love the baby Jesus!"
My Question ...
My Question:
When he was born, what did they do with the front half of the horse?
My Question:
When he was born, what did they do with the front half of the horse?
DWalt
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Another insult attributed to Churchill (but it really didn't happen), concerning a verbal repartee with a woman who was not on good terms with him:
"If you were my husband, sir, I'd give you a dose of poison in your tea!"
Winston looked at her and said "If I were your husband, madam, I'd happily drink it!"
"If you were my husband, sir, I'd give you a dose of poison in your tea!"
Winston looked at her and said "If I were your husband, madam, I'd happily drink it!"
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Said to Abraham Lincoln about a colleague: He's such a modest man.
Lincoln's reply: Well, he has a lot to be modest about.
Lincoln's reply: Well, he has a lot to be modest about.
DWalt
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Something very similar was also reported concerning a purported conversation between Harry Truman and Winston Churchill regarding the post-WWII British Prime Minister Clement Atlee:
Harry Truman: Clement Attlee came to see me the other day. He struck me as a very modest man.
Winston Churchill: He has much to be modest about.
Churchill found his way into many such aphorisms, but few if any of them have been proven as factual.
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Grayfox
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"My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle." - Malcolm Reynolds
riverrat38
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The following dialog has been repeated many times over the years, only the names have been changed to protect the guilty:
"Would it not be wonderful if we could have a child who had your brains and my beauty?" His reply was, "Yes, but supposing the child had your brains and my beauty!"
73,
Rick
"Would it not be wonderful if we could have a child who had your brains and my beauty?" His reply was, "Yes, but supposing the child had your brains and my beauty!"
73,
Rick
DWalt
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He could have been sober the next day…..but probably wasn't.
While Churchill was widely portrayed as a heavy drinker (usually Gin Martinis) and often in an alcoholic stupor, the fact is that he was a very moderate drinker, favoring whiskey heavily diluted with water (just enough whiskey to slightly flavor the water). And he didn't even like Gin.
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gjgalligan
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"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
I would say that is a compliment rather then an insult.
I hate writers (including news media writers) that use words that the average person doesn't know.
I would say that is a compliment rather then an insult.
I hate writers (including news media writers) that use words that the average person doesn't know.
In my youth I drank with an Irish Friend. We both met later under the table. I went to work the next day & he didn't.
I once, out of frustration, told a coworker, "a monkey is smarter than you." Later got called into the boss's office and asked why I'd called her a monkey. I said that I never called her a monkey, but I did say a monkey was smarter than her. At that point I noticed that the boss had to fight to keep a straight face.
No, it wasn't a Churchillian insult, but it was the best I could do at the time.
No, it wasn't a Churchillian insult, but it was the best I could do at the time.
DWalt
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I somewhat agree. Most of Hemingway's prose was written using short declarative sentences, a minimum of adjectives, and he avoided pretentious words. Personally, I was never much taken with Hemingway's works. Especially his later ones. I have never understood why he became so popular.
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Grayfox
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He can use more words to say less than anybody I've ever known. 
LoboGunLeather
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"Delusions of adequacy", I have used that description for years and now I know its source.
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