 etotheipi  | 09 Aug 2017 10:43 a.m. PST |
"Was my maternal parent aware, in a word, of my absence from the domiciliary residence?"
- Edgar Allen Poe, Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841) Your personal fave from a notable/quotable source? |
| Okiegamer | 09 Aug 2017 11:12 a.m. PST |
"Never pass up a good chance to shut up!" – Will Rogers |
| MajorB | 09 Aug 2017 11:21 a.m. PST |
I fart in your general direction! |
Extrabio1947  | 09 Aug 2017 11:41 a.m. PST |
My dear, you are ugly. But in the morning I shall be sober, and you will still be ugly. – Winston Churchill |
| Winston Smith | 09 Aug 2017 11:41 a.m. PST |
The Dauphin sending young Henry V tennis balls was pretty classy. In retrospect, maybe not so much.
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Mountjoy the herald shows on his face how much it backfired. |
| cavcrazy | 09 Aug 2017 11:57 a.m. PST |
"That boy would sell his car for gas money."
"When GOD put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good rectum." |
| rmcaras | 09 Aug 2017 12:21 p.m. PST |
"It is my conjecture that your mother is no stranger to the intimate embraces of barnyard animals" |
| Captain Dunsel | 09 Aug 2017 12:48 p.m. PST |
"May your Perrier water be secretly bottled in Tijuana." -Carnac the Magnificent |
 McKinstry  | 09 Aug 2017 1:02 p.m. PST |
Somewhere there is a village missing an idiot. |
 T Callahan | 09 Aug 2017 1:09 p.m. PST |
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt."
- Mark Twain |
| foxweasel | 09 Aug 2017 1:34 p.m. PST |
"If brains were dynamite, you wouldn't have enough to blow your nose" or "If brains were chocolate, you wouldn't have enough to fill a smartie" |
| Wackmole9 | 09 Aug 2017 1:43 p.m. PST |
Quote from the Professinals J.W. Grant: You Bastard!
Rico: In my case a Accident of Birth. But you sir are a self made man. |
| Timbo W | 09 Aug 2017 2:30 p.m. PST |
From a Biblical era war-game in a History Today style: - Do you see this box of matches? - Yes I am aware of it's existence - That's your general's chariot that is, that's his mode of transport. |
| 23rdFusilier | 09 Aug 2017 2:33 p.m. PST |
Ugarte: You despise me don't you?
Rick Blaine: Well if I gave you any thought I probably would. |
| Gunfreak | 09 Aug 2017 2:35 p.m. PST |
You've been beaten so much with the ugly stick. The stick is now a toothpick. |
| Dynaman8789 | 09 Aug 2017 3:27 p.m. PST |
My dad had my favorite, when he commented on The Uncle Floyd Show. "It is good to see a guy with that much talent being able to make a living" |
| Toaster | 09 Aug 2017 4:54 p.m. PST |
You are just the sort of man that the reverend Dr Spooner himself would have called a shining wit. |
| Cardinal Ximenez | 09 Aug 2017 6:13 p.m. PST |
Always liked "Brave as a flea on the lip of a lion." |
| Chuckaroobob | 09 Aug 2017 7:01 p.m. PST |
"Did your father tell your mother his name the night he stayed with her?" |
| Jeigheff | 09 Aug 2017 7:26 p.m. PST |
"I'm not talking with you, I'm talking AT you", spoken by Christopher Lee in "The Three Musketeers. |
| Winston Smith | 09 Aug 2017 7:27 p.m. PST |
Yes. Few insults here are "elegant".  |
| Jeigheff | 09 Aug 2017 7:30 p.m. PST |
Yikes! A minute ago, I deleted "DID YOUR MOTHER HAVE ANY CHILDREN THAT LIVED?!?" from my first post because I admitted that it wasn't elegant. Winston Smith caught my comment anyway. Jeff |
| Patrick R | 09 Aug 2017 9:59 p.m. PST |
"Here's a quarter honey, go buy yourself a clue." |
| carne68 | 09 Aug 2017 11:43 p.m. PST |
Charles Lee referred to Gen. Abercromby as someone who was "sunk so far in idiocy as to be obliged to wear a bib and bells." |
| infman | 10 Aug 2017 2:52 a.m. PST |
"poor old Costello, he's all tip and no iceberg" – Paul Keating former Australian Prime Minister |
| War Panda | 10 Aug 2017 8:57 p.m. PST |
Lady Nancy Astor:
"Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your coffee."
Winston Churchill:
"Nancy, if you were my wife, I'd drink it." |
| War Panda | 10 Aug 2017 9:09 p.m. PST |
Ok not intending to offend but my actual personal favourite "elegant" insult is a story a Drogheda friend of mine shared with me of Pope John Paul II's visit to Ireland in 1978 when he visited the border town of Drogheda. There was a small group of ulster unionist protesters chanting "Everything the pope blesses goes to Hell" The Pope glances over to them and with a smile he gives them his papal blessing |
