"Talking Smack" Topic

The guy says he's going to beat me "six-ways-to-sunday" in our next game.

If he tries, I'll steamroller him!

If you don't play like Betty White.

Sink him like a three foot putt.

Beat him 'til candy falls out.

That's smack?

"You can only envy the past . . . NOW you can only fear the future! I own you!"

"The myth is real! Let the legend grow!"

"Take your time setting up. After the game starts, the only place everyone will get to see your figures in in the box!"

Then there is the more personal smack:

Your going down like a 16 year old on prom night!

Your chances of winning are about as good as Michael Jackson's chances of opening a day care center!

You are going down like a lawyer on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney.

Of course there is the 'unmentionable' smack which generally should not be used in a gaming environment:

You can tell them where they can go, how to get there and what will be done to certain body parts along the way. A few descriptive words about family lineage and/or ethnic background can also be added.

Generally this kind of smack is applied to the opponent's army (nationalistic comments about Napoleonic armies are generally always in vogue such as "White Mice" when referring to Austrians).

mjc

Just bring it!

As a buddy said before a Star Wars "Clones vs. Droids" game: "This time, it's impersonal!"

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Whenever your opponent gets a 'miss', cheer him up by pointing out that he "couldn't hit a cow on the arse with a banjo."

You're as doomed as a poodle at Michael Vick's house.

I'd feel sorry for you if I thought you ever had a chance.
But really, I just pity you.
Take your dice bag home to your mommy.
Tell her the big bad world SPANKED YOU!

I like the one from the creator of Mechaton: "I do to you now the enormous hurt."

Well, just make sure you have your lunchbox and book bag 'cause I'm taking you to school!

You talkin' to me?

Going hit him so hard his grandchildren will feel it.

When playing a multiplayer game, each time your opponents fight each other yell "I win!". Guess that is more petulant than smack.

I think its "your children will be born bruised!"

Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?

When I'm done with you, your lead soldiers won't be fit to line a fallout shelter in a cheap New Orleans house…

Yo paint job is so ugly, yo own mama think they look like you.

"I'm gonna whip you so bad your driver's license photo'll have a bloody nose!"

"Are those your minis, or did somebody set your crayons on fire?"

"Are you playing in character today or did you just forget to shower?"

"Your face looks like St. Lo/Falaise."

"If your mom finds out how bad you lost today, she'll feel vindicated for selling you to the Gypsies when you were little."

I'm going to SPANK you so HARD. Your Momma won't be able to sit down for a WEEK!

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You should take your Prozac NOW. You're gonna need it!

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When I get through with you Depression will be the least of your worries.

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When I'm done. Your momma will will wish she had a girl.

Oh I'm sorry you ARE a girl!

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You should go back to playing 40K and leave historical's to us MEN!

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Come'On you don't really expect to keep up with those little lumps of lead do you?

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'talking smack'

This must be a transatlantic phrase.

Over here 'smack' is something rather different. Smoke or inject?

Is that it? Is that all you've got? Sheesh, my grandma has coughed up better things than this.

Never got the point of it, really. If I just wanted a fistfight, I wouldn't have had to paint all these little models, first.
-Kle.

You were beat before you got out of the car

did you bring another charecter, one that can do something.

Why don't I lend you some of my figures since you can't do anything with yours.

According to the rules people that look like you are losers

Yeah and those are my crappy dice

and another +1 cuz you're ugly

you play like you smell

thanks for the warm up can we play for real now?

Your figures asked if they can stay here cuz they're tired of losing.

I could go on…

Losers buy the next round… Ooops… You are a loser -- you buy!

Here's a buck. Go buy some real dice.

Here's a buck. Go buy some strategy.

Maybe your next army will be more beardy/cheesy. Good luck with that.

"Sure. Right. Uh huh."

"Whatever"

Or my personal favs…. "Get bent" or "Go yerself". But I save these for 'special' occasions…

Smack?????

a, to strike with an open hand

b, an illegal drug

They sound like they are talking about something else…..

Does any of this really happen? I've never come across anything like it across the gaming table…or in real life either!

Only with close friends. I find the better you know each other, the more of a wind-up you can enjoy.

I would certainly never tell a stranger that his best troops were mere rounds away from becoming intimately acquainted with my force's regimental mascot.

To those unaware "Talking Smack" is a term used initially by athletes in the course of a game, primarily basketball, consitting of taunting and teasing in effort to make your opponent lose concentration.

Get wit da program.

The term has not made it across the Atlantic yet!

Never engaged or witnessed it myself. It's some urban legendary stuff that the movies get packed with for laughs. Talk like that even to your gaming buddies and more than dice will roll, promise….

Knock him into next week and tell 'im to wait for you with a bacon sarnie and a cup of tea,If not then knock 'im into next month and better have a sunday roast waitin or else.

Nice one Pachinko Parlor Royale for this one
Are those your minis, or did somebody set your crayons on fire << LOL

I prefer to simply win the game; quietly. A smile is about as close as I come to "smack" talking.

If you need to vocalize, I always figured it was compensation or nervousness about other areas of your performance.

Winston Churchill would agree with that, Augustus; especially the smiling while you fight, part….

"You're going home in Larrey ambulance!!!"
(To be sung, football styly)

I have a .wav file on my mobile phone

When playing AK47 I play the .wav when an opponent's tank gets destroyed

The .wav says Scorchio!

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I see smack talked across the table all the time while playing "Fire and Maneuver". The system is so easy to learn that by the third turn you're talking smack across the table while planning how to deliver.

One of my favorites wasn't smack as such, but a great line nonetheless. After having devastated a unit with a large number of hits at close range after double firing his artillery unit, my friend said, "An extra ration of rum for those gun crews!"

I think we call it sledging in the UK (but never heard it over a wargame). I think we picked it up off the Aussies.