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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Re: three columns #60833 03/12/02 11:41 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 872 Birmingham, Alabama M milum old hand milum old hand M Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 872 Birmingham, Alabama I must be dazed or something here, but I don't count three columns in the insulting list. Dern WordWind, must you be so literal? What Slithy Slove was saying was... Insults should never be original. They must be clearly understood by the in-group, otherwise they fall flat in their effect. I think. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: three columns #60834 03/13/02 12:03 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 K Keiva Carpal Tunnel Keiva Carpal Tunnel K Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 Attempting here to format slithy's columns, as tsuwm suggested. The merit here belongs solely to slithy; I'm merely the scrivener. Combine one word from each of the three columns below, prefaced with "Thou": Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 artless base-court apple-john bawdy bat-fowling baggage beslubbering beef-witted barnacle bootless beetle-headed bladder churlish boil-brained boar-pig cockered clapper-clawed bugbear clouted clay-brained bum-bailey craven common-kissing canker-blossom currish crook-pated clack-dish dankish dismal-dreaming clotpole dissembling dizzy-eyed coxcomb droning doghearted codpiece errant dread-bolted death-token fawning earth-vexing dewberry fobbing elf-skinned flap-dragon froward fat-kidneyed flax-wench frothy fen-sucked flirt-gill gleeking flap-mouthed foot-licker goatish fly-bitten fustilarian gorbellied folly-fallen giglet impertinent fool-born gudgeon infectious full-gorged haggard jarring guts-griping harpy loggerheaded half-faced hedge-pig lumpish hasty-witted horn-beast mammering hedge-born hugger-mugger mangled hell-hated jolthead mewling idle-headed lewdster paunchy ill-breeding lout pribbling ill-nurtured maggot-pie puking knotty-pated malt-worm puny milk-livered mammet quailing motley-minded measle rank onion-eyed minnow reeky plume-plucked miscreant roguish pottle-deep moldwarp ruttish pox-marked mumble-news saucy reeling-ripe nut-hook spleeny rough-hewn pigeon-egg spongy rude-growing pignut surly rump-fed puttock tottering shard-borne pumpion unmuzzled sheep-biting ratsbane vain spur-galled scut venomed swag-bellied skainsmate villainous tardy-gaited strumpet warped tickle-brained varlet wayward toad-spotted vassal weedy urchin-snouted whey-face yeasty weather-bitten wagtail -- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter for instance #60835 03/13/02 12:36 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass milum muses Insults should never be original. They must be clearly understood by the in-group, otherwise they fall flat in their effect. if brains were gasoline you wouldn't have sufficient to drive once around a cheerio on a moped. http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: for instance #60836 03/13/02 12:51 AM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean consuelo Carpal Tunnel consuelo Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean Ooooooh, that sounded suspiciously like a gauntlet being thrown. You guys picked your seconds yet? This I gotta see. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: for instance #60837 03/13/02 12:56 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 K Keiva Carpal Tunnel Keiva Carpal Tunnel K Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 tsuwm, when Mark Twain's wife -- attempting to cure him of swearing -- repeated his own invective back at him, Twain calmly replied: "You have the words, dear, but you lack the tune." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Real insults #60838 03/13/02 01:32 AM Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 688 A Angel addict Angel addict A Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 688 wwh (Dr. Bill) says: That reminds me of a Winston Churchill story... But it is signed: the Duncster Hey...you two sharing the same brain today? I know men are half wits, but you two together don't make a whole wit! [ducking for cover in the spirit of the thread-e] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Real insults #60839 03/13/02 03:57 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... The quality of insult is not strained. --Jonathan Swift Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Real insults #60840 03/13/02 04:10 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... weird insults... You heavyweight crock of greasy vulture gizzards. You sterile assortment of congealed hamster droppings. You grotesque basin of fornicating carrion. You illiterate gob of seething camel hairs. You bad breathed wheelbarrow-full of soppy weasel warts. You dumb excuse for moth-eaten Wookie hair. You saucy shovel-full of malignant rodent droppings. You glutinous plethora of radioactive cancerous anal polyps. You outrageous bunch of embarrassing sweat-socks. You dismal heap of manky dog urine. You uncultivated cake of noxious dirty underwear. You crotchety descendant of mealy lizard bums. You heavy-duty flob of petrified rubbish. You dirty toilet-full of cheesy toad tumors. You brutish mountain of imitation chicken waste. You psychotic skip of fungus-covered slime-mould. You perfidious chunk of fly-covered fish lips. You undignified ball of vile carp guts. You superficial tub of mutilated bug parts. You pea-brained pool of fusty zit squeezings. You vile drum of rancid sludge. You useless bucket of fermenting frog fat. You inhuman bag of gross rotting vegetation. You idiotic apology for dirty sweaty socks. You selfish cesspit-full of sun-ripened ass hairs. You boorish sack of wormy ape puke. You whiney pot of decayed whale waste. You opinionated accumulation of old cat furballs. You spotty cup of synthetic skunk waste. You goofy lorryload of cute parrot droppings. You insulting sliver of sloppy athlete's foot scrapings. You blundering crate of dusky toe jam. You pompous swamp of moldy sweaty jockstraps. You obese collection of ancient rectal hair. The one highlighted in bold is my favorite. I mean, what could someone possibly say back to you if you say that to them? They might even say "thank you" for it! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Real insults #60841 03/13/02 02:47 PM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA TheFallibleFiend veteran TheFallibleFiend veteran Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA I usually use shithead or a pismire. Sometimes I'll say coprocephalic imbecile. My kids call each other coprolites. In recent years I've begun to ponder the question Mr Sammler asked, "Who made shit a sacrament?" Frau Edie told us one of the worst things you could call someone in German was "eine sau," a sow. Apparently it has some sexual connotations. During cultural revolution in PRC a big insult was son of a dog. My wife told me that one way to insult another person was to tell him you were his grandfather. Both of these seem pretty mild and I wonder if she is sheltering me from the really juicy stuff. k Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Real insults #60842 03/13/02 03:21 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park re:one way to insult another person was to tell him you were his grandfather. Both of these seem pretty mild and I wonder if she is sheltering me from the really juicy stuff. I dunno, i have had sexist managers, younger than me, call me "Young Lady" (in a certain tone of voice..) and let me tell you , it was very clear they were being insulted. in past years, Blacks, in this country, no matter what there age, where insultingly called "Boy". if i claim to be your grandfather, i am claiming more prestige, and claiming i should be ranked higher.. (and if i am a street sweeper, or other lowly person,or just younger than you) that could be insulting. It's no insult to call a char woman "a lady", but in the movie, Mrs. Brown, the court was shocked when Mr. Brown called the queen "Woman!" words are used to define status, and if i verbal lower your status, i have insulted you! call a doctor by his first name (HI Dr Bill!) you are informal. but call a doctor Dr. Quack! and you are insulting! insults vary depending on context. You can be as wise an an owl, or bird brain.. as strong as an ox, or as dumb as one! Except in Animal Farm, i can't think of anywhere, where pigs came out on top!-- my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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