THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)
Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: jhocking on 18 Nov 2009, 06:04
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I just read this (http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2009/10/james-cameron-is-the-nerd-michael-bay) article and it quotes James Cameron saying one of the best lines I've heard in a while to criticize one of his crew:
“Hiring you is like firing two good men,”
What are some of the best put-downs you've heard?
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"I won't insult your intelligence by assuming you really believe what you just said"-William F. Buckely, Jr. Hate the man; love the wit.
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"I liked your opera; perhaps I will set it to music" -Ludwig van Beethoven-
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It is traditional at high table in some Oxford colleges to frown on talking shop. The computer scientist Christopher Strachey on being berated for talking shop replied:
"The reason, sir, that we talk shop is that our shop is interesting."
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Her: "Maybe you shouldn't go talking behind people's backs"
Him: "I can't talk behind your back _____, its always against a mattress"
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"You're way better at _____ than I thought you were."
Perhaps that more of a back handed compliment
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Her: "Maybe you shouldn't go talking behind people's backs"
Him: "I can't talk behind your back _____, its always against a mattress"
Yes.
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"The only decent impression he can do is of the man with no talent."
Blackadder. Your number one source for all best put-downs!
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You're drunk
I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly
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"The girls come to see me,
Because they can't fuck
You'll never sell records
Because your rap sucks"
-Gary Switling, AKA Chuggo, AKA Lakeshore Boulevard's Most Wanted
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Blackadder. Your number one source for all best put-downs!
But
You're drunk
I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly
The number one source is actually Churchill.
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go. Some, whenever they go."
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
Oscar Wilde, you rogue.
Although, further to the argument for Winston Churchill as primary source of put-downs is his rejoinder to George Bernard Shaw:
“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’s response to George Bernard Shaw
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Another Churchill:
"If I were married to you, I'd put poison in your coffee."
-Lady Astor(to Churchill)
"If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
-Churchill
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Lady to Dr Johnson: "Sir, you smell".
Dr Johnson to Lady: "No madam, you smell, I stink".
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There goes the good time that was had by all. -- Bette Davis
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There's an epigram attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in response to a critic I guess:
Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.
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"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening - but this wasn't it".
"From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it".
-Groucho Marx
Fuck Churchill, the king is right here.
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actually Achewood has tons of awesome put-downs. I was just re-reading this one recently though, so it came to mind.
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Every time I see an Achewood strip and they're talking about how they're all cats or something I have to do a double-take and remind myself that they're not all bulldogs.
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I thought they were all dogs.
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That would be weird