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Tina
May 25th 08, 03:31 PM
The quality of insults on this site has really gone down (you sinners
know who you   are). Someone made a collection of higher quality
insults, and I'm including them here for your inspiration.
Do try to do better in the future.
Here's a warning for the more literate among you: don't drink coffee
while reading these, the chances are you'll ruin your keyboard.
                    *WHEN INSULTS HAD CLASS*
              *(USING NO FOUR LETTER WORDS)** *
        These glorious insults are from an era when cleverness with
  words
      was still valued, before a great portion of the English
      language got boiled down to four letter words, uttered by
      monosyllabic idiots, not to mention the same jerks, waving
middle
      fingers.
        The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:
  She said,
      "If you were my husband I'd give you poison,"
  and he said,
      "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
        A Member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die
on
      the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
  "That depends,
      Sir," said Disraeli, "on whether I embrace your policies or
      your mistress."
        "He had delusions of adequacy." -  Walter Kerr
  "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 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."
      - OscarWilde
        "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
        "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
        "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she
  always yielded
      easily."-  Charles, 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  (1844- 1912)
  "He has all of the morals of a dog in heat."-
  Unknown
      Source -  (about a previous president.)
  "He has Van Gogh's ear for music." -  Billy Wilder
      "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening but this
  wasn't it."
      -  Groucho Marx
Blanche
May 25th 08, 05:08 PM
"She ran the gamut of emotion from A to B"
Mrs. Parker, IIRC.
Personally, I've alwas believed that if you cannot discuss someone's
heritage, parentage and destination without resorting to obscenity,
profanity or invective, you have a poor command of your native language.
Tina
May 25th 08, 05:15 PM
On May 25, 11:08 am, Blanche > wrote:
> "She ran the gamut of emotion from A to B"
>
> Mrs. Parker, IIRC.
>
> Personally, I've alwas believed that if you cannot discuss someone's
> heritage, parentage and destination without resorting to obscenity,
> profanity or invective, you have a poor command of your native language.
Using your definition, poor command of the language is demonstrated
here often enough, isn't it?
Birdog
May 25th 08, 06:25 PM
"Tina" > wrote in message 
...
> On May 25, 11:08 am, Blanche > wrote:
>> "She ran the gamut of emotion from A to B"
>>
>> Mrs. Parker, IIRC.
>>
>> Personally, I've alwas believed that if you cannot discuss someone's
>> heritage, parentage and destination without resorting to obscenity,
>> profanity or invective, you have a poor command of your native language.
>
> Using your definition, poor command of the language is demonstrated
> here often enough, isn't it?
I'm having a terrible time trying to feel sorry for Teddy Kennedy and his 
present malady. He has, after all, lived a lot longer than did Mary Jo! 
Me.
Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]
May 26th 08, 12:21 AM
I preferred the list of Churchill insults that went some thing like:
Woman: "YOu sir are drunk"
Churchill "**** you bitch" 
Aide: "Sir, if I might suggest an alternative course of action"
Churchill "You want my boot up your arse, poof?"
King George: It's inspiring to see the troops so hearty" 
Churchill "What the **** would you know, poncey boi?"
An inspiring leader indeed. 
Bertie
Bertie the Bunyip[_24_]
May 26th 08, 12:25 AM
Blanche > wrote in news:1211728130.925888
@irys.nyx.net:
> "She ran the gamut of emotion from A to B"
> 
> Mrs. Parker, IIRC.
> 
> Personally, I've alwas believed that if you cannot discuss someone's
> heritage, parentage and destination without resorting to obscenity,
> profanity or invective, you have a poor command of your native language.
> 
> 
I can swear fluently in four. 
Bertie
Tina
May 26th 08, 12:38 AM
Bertie, you clearly have studied Sir Winston, in that you read between
his lines accurately.
But still, his insulting conventions are worth following because they
amuse the reader.
On May 25, 6:21 pm, Bertie the Bunyip > wrote:
> I preferred the list of Churchill insults that went some thing like:
>
> Woman: "YOu sir are drunk"
> Churchill "**** you bitch"
>
> Aide: "Sir, if I might suggest an alternative course of action"
> Churchill "You want my boot up your arse, poof?"
>
> King George: It's inspiring to see the troops so hearty"
> Churchill "What the **** would you know, poncey boi?"
>
> An inspiring leader indeed.
>
> Bertie
Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]
May 26th 08, 12:40 AM
Tina > wrote in news:3187509d-daec-48d6-9db7-
:
> Bertie, you clearly have studied Sir Winston, in that you read between
> his lines accurately.
> 
> But still, his insulting conventions are worth following because they
> amuse the reader.
Yeah, he was a fun guy. Just ask the antipodeans he got slaughtered at 
Gallipoli, the Irish he murdered, the Iragis he murdered, The people of 
Dresden,  Hugh Dowding, etc etc.... 
Bertie
Dan Luke[_2_]
May 26th 08, 12:42 AM
"Bertie the Bunyip"  wrote:
>I preferred the list of Churchill insults that went some thing like:
>
>
> Woman: "YOu sir are drunk"
> Churchill "**** you bitch"
>
> Aide: "Sir, if I might suggest an alternative course of action"
> Churchill "You want my boot up your arse, poof?"
>
>
> King George: It's inspiring to see the troops so hearty"
> Churchill "What the **** would you know, poncey boi?"
>
>
> An inspiring leader indeed.
Haw-haw!
Beauties.
Jim Logajan
May 26th 08, 01:45 AM
Bertie the Bunyip > wrote:
> Tina > wrote in news:3187509d-daec-48d6-9db7-
> :
> 
>> Bertie, you clearly have studied Sir Winston, in that you read between
>> his lines accurately.
>> 
>> But still, his insulting conventions are worth following because they
>> amuse the reader.
> 
> 
> Yeah, he was a fun guy. Just ask the antipodeans he got slaughtered at 
> Gallipoli,
Actually, Kitchener was the one who had ordered the attack on Gallipoli, 
and the one who was most responsible for arguing against an evacuation once 
the attack bogged down. Yes, Churchill did fight against an evacuation too, 
but by that time the decision was an army one, not navy. For that matter, 
Kitchener was the one who sent the navy on its own to attack the 
Dardanelles. And the local commanders, Carden and then de Robeck, who 
showed remarkable lack of backbone. But there were many hands involved in 
creation of such a disaster.
Who did what is covered in painstaking detail in David Fromkin's book "A 
Peace to End All Peace - The fall of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of 
the modern Middle East"
All that said, Churchill's WWI actions do appear to have been those of an 
amoral pompous ass. But I think that made him one with the crowd in power 
at the time - he didn't appear to be any different in these characteristics 
than many of his peers.
Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]
May 26th 08, 02:08 AM
Jim Logajan > wrote in
: 
> Bertie the Bunyip > wrote:
>> Tina > wrote in news:3187509d-daec-48d6-9db7-
>> :
>> 
>>> Bertie, you clearly have studied Sir Winston, in that you read
>>> between his lines accurately.
>>> 
>>> But still, his insulting conventions are worth following because
>>> they amuse the reader.
>> 
>> 
>> Yeah, he was a fun guy. Just ask the antipodeans he got slaughtered
>> at Gallipoli,
> 
> Actually, Kitchener was the one who had ordered the attack on
> Gallipoli, and the one who was most responsible for arguing against an
> evacuation once the attack bogged down. Yes, Churchill did fight
> against an evacuation too, but by that time the decision was an army
> one, not navy. For that matter, Kitchener was the one who sent the
> navy on its own to attack the Dardanelles. And the local commanders,
> Carden and then de Robeck, who showed remarkable lack of backbone. But
> there were many hands involved in creation of such a disaster.
No doubt about it, Kitchener would have been hung out these days for his 
various roles in history. 
> 
> Who did what is covered in painstaking detail in David Fromkin's book
> "A Peace to End All Peace - The fall of the Ottoman Empire and the
> creation of the modern Middle East"
> 
> All that said, Churchill's WWI actions do appear to have been those of
> an amoral pompous ass. But I think that made him one with the crowd in
> power at the time - he didn't appear to be any different in these
> characteristics than many of his peers.
Oh yeah. I agree. They were a pack of Imperialist hyenas. Not sure if 
the word "peers" is one I'd use. not because it;s innacurate, but 
because it tends to gloss over the savagery of those creeps. 
Bertie
Bertie
BakedandFried
May 26th 08, 03:47 AM
"Tina" > wrote in message 
...
> On May 25, 11:08 am, Blanche > wrote:
>> "She ran the gamut of emotion from A to B"
>>
>> Mrs. Parker, IIRC.
>>
>> Personally, I've alwas believed that if you cannot discuss someone's
>> heritage, parentage and destination without resorting to obscenity,
>> profanity or invective, you have a poor command of your native language.
>
> Using your definition, poor command of the language is demonstrated
> here often enough, isn't it?
Which one was it that went something like
"He's a moron studying hard to be a halfwit...and failing the course"?
and
"He think's he's a wit; but half right is better than totally wrong."
Stealth Pilot[_2_]
May 26th 08, 03:17 PM
On Sun, 25 May 2008 22:21:27 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip >
wrote:
>I preferred the list of Churchill insults that went some thing like:
>
>
>Woman: "YOu sir are drunk"
>Churchill "**** you bitch" 
>
>Aide: "Sir, if I might suggest an alternative course of action"
>Churchill "You want my boot up your arse, poof?"
>
>
>King George: It's inspiring to see the troops so hearty" 
>Churchill "What the **** would you know, poncey boi?"
>
>
>An inspiring leader indeed. 
>
>
>
>
>Bertie
bertie stop aiming so low. you know you can hit it every time without
even aiming.
....the quotes arent even correct, unless we are thinking of a
different churchill.
"you sir are a drunk."
"madam tomorrow morning I will be sober, you will still be ugly."
the others? no you faked those.
"drink? I've got more out of the bottle than it has ever got out of
me"
Stealth Pilot[_2_]
May 26th 08, 03:18 PM
On Sun, 25 May 2008 22:40:46 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip >
wrote:
>Tina > wrote in news:3187509d-daec-48d6-9db7-
:
>
>> Bertie, you clearly have studied Sir Winston, in that you read between
>> his lines accurately.
>> 
>> But still, his insulting conventions are worth following because they
>> amuse the reader.
>
>
>Yeah, he was a fun guy. Just ask the antipodeans he got slaughtered at 
>Gallipoli, the Irish he murdered, the Iragis he murdered, The people of 
>Dresden,  Hugh Dowding, etc etc.... 
>
>
>
>Bertie
mere character building :-)
Stealth Pilot[_2_]
May 26th 08, 04:03 PM
On Sun, 25 May 2008 15:38:32 -0700 (PDT), Tina >
wrote:
>Bertie, you clearly have studied Sir Winston, in that you read between
>his lines accurately.
>
>But still, his insulting conventions are worth following because they
>amuse the reader.
>
>
>
I see that the project to make him into a wit is only half
complete....
(as an example bertie ...as an example :-)  )
Stealth Pilot
Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]
May 26th 08, 04:34 PM
Stealth Pilot > wrote in 
:
> On Sun, 25 May 2008 22:21:27 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip >
> wrote:
> 
>>I preferred the list of Churchill insults that went some thing like:
>>
>>
>>Woman: "YOu sir are drunk"
>>Churchill "**** you bitch" 
>>
>>Aide: "Sir, if I might suggest an alternative course of action"
>>Churchill "You want my boot up your arse, poof?"
>>
>>
>>King George: It's inspiring to see the troops so hearty" 
>>Churchill "What the **** would you know, poncey boi?"
>>
>>
>>An inspiring leader indeed. 
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Bertie
> 
> bertie stop aiming so low. you know you can hit it every time without
> even aiming.
> 
> ...the quotes arent even correct, unless we are thinking of a
> different churchill.
No ****! 
That's what he was thinking though... 
Bertie
Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]
May 26th 08, 04:35 PM
Stealth Pilot > wrote in 
:
> On Sun, 25 May 2008 22:40:46 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip >
> wrote:
> 
>>Tina > wrote in news:3187509d-daec-48d6-9db7-
:
>>
>>> Bertie, you clearly have studied Sir Winston, in that you read 
between
>>> his lines accurately.
>>> 
>>> But still, his insulting conventions are worth following because 
they
>>> amuse the reader.
>>
>>
>>Yeah, he was a fun guy. Just ask the antipodeans he got slaughtered at 
>>Gallipoli, the Irish he murdered, the Iragis he murdered, The people 
of 
>>Dresden,  Hugh Dowding, etc etc.... 
>>
>>
>>
>>Bertie
> 
> mere character building :-)
> 
Well, to you lot, maybe! 
"Ya ain't a man till you;ve had yer bollox blown off, mate! "
Bertie
clint
May 27th 08, 08:05 AM
You must be a seniour to have only done a half-assed job! Stealth Pilot 
was thinking very hard but lost his choo-choo train of thought while 
whacking his pee-pee:
> I see that the project to make him into a wit is only half
> complete....
clint
May 27th 08, 08:07 AM
Bertie is a grrls name, if she wa 88!
Stealth Pilot formulated the following :
>> Bertie
> bertie stop aiming so low.
Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]
May 27th 08, 02:37 PM
gregvk > wrote in 
 :
> Bertie the Bunyip > wrote in news:g1ehpq$qp2$1
> @blackhelicopter.databasix.com:
> 
>> Stealth Pilot > wrote in 
>> :
>> 
>>> On Sun, 25 May 2008 22:21:27 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip 
>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>I preferred the list of Churchill insults that went some thing like:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Woman: "YOu sir are drunk"
>>>>Churchill "**** you bitch" 
>>>>
>>>>Aide: "Sir, if I might suggest an alternative course of action"
>>>>Churchill "You want my boot up your arse, poof?"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>King George: It's inspiring to see the troops so hearty" 
>>>>Churchill "What the **** would you know, poncey boi?"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>An inspiring leader indeed. 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Bertie
>>> 
>>> bertie stop aiming so low. you know you can hit it every time 
without
>>> even aiming.
>>> 
>>> ...the quotes arent even correct, unless we are thinking of a
>>> different churchill.
>> 
>> No ****! 
>> 
>> That's what he was thinking though... 
>> 
>> 
>> Bertie
> 
> I wonder if Churchill ever spent a whole day repeating everything 
anyone 
> said to him, using a sarcastic, falsetto tone.  That would have been 
> hilarious.
> 
Hmmm, well he did die about the time Kenneth Williams became popular.... 
Bertie
Bertie the Bunyip[_24_]
May 27th 08, 02:44 PM
clint > wrote in :
> Bertie is a grrls name, if she wa 88!
88 DD, in fact. 
Bertie
> Stealth Pilot formulated the following :
>>> Bertie
> 
>> bertie stop aiming so low.
> 
> 
>
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