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I'm particularly fond of Shakesperian insults. Here's a link to an old thread: http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=4262In the same thread is tsuwm's abecedarian insult: "Sir, you are an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebrose, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose, mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquilian, rebarbative, saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xyloocephalous, yirning, zoophyte!"
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Carpal Tunnel
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Not an insult, but a rather funny story. Well, I thought it was funny, anyway. Once when the CEO and my general manager turned up at my desk unexpectedly and not looking happy, I said "When troubles come, they come not in single spies but in battalions". They gave a me a funny look and then went on. Turned out one of my customers had died and had I known about it? Well, no, I hadn't. Another damned funeral. The next day the CEO, who has an MBA from Harvard but who has little real learning, came back and said that he'd thought I was insulting him, and mentioned it to his wife that night. She said "From Hamlet by Shakespeare" and explained what it meant. My stocks around the place went up overnight ...  Whadda they teach 'em at Harvard, anyway?
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