| November 2, 2006 |
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Reluctant Nomad's Classic Insults
Opening  with a slap in the face to the insult itself ("they just don't make them as they used to"), Brit blogger Reluctant Nomad cobbles together a list of some of humankind's greatest zingers. In the inventory's first edition, such disgust-filled orators as Clarence Darrow, Mark Twain, and Oscar Wilde line up to let someone, or something, really have it. Groucho Marx had "a perfectly wonderful evening... but this wasn't it." Faulkner and Hemingway go taunt-to-taunt. And woe to the foolhardy individual who rankled Winston Churchill. Now, with Friday's publication of "more classic insults," women fill the ranks of verbal pie-throwers. Bette Davis abuses Joan Crawford; Virginia Woolf whacks at E.M. Forster; and Dorothy Parker takes on Katharine Hepburn: "She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B." Ouch. These literary slurs predate today's "yo' mama" jokes, but they're just as crabby, rude, and thoroughly fun. (in Humor) |
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