Best Comebacks
At some point we've all been insulted. What's the wittiest retort you've ever uttered leaving the antagonist lost for words? Share your wisdom so that we learn, and have a come back ready for every occasion.
( , Thu 29 Apr 2004, 14:19)
At some point we've all been insulted. What's the wittiest retort you've ever uttered leaving the antagonist lost for words? Share your wisdom so that we learn, and have a come back ready for every occasion.
( , Thu 29 Apr 2004, 14:19)
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Thought of two more over a Friday lunchtime pint.
One of my favourites, though an indirect one was coined by someone famous, probably Groucho Marx: Someone said "X is his own worst enemy you know," to which he replied "Not while I'm alive he isn't" - pure class.
The other one was pure me.
I'd just started the job from hell. Packing chocolates as a temp for a famous York based chocy producer...on the night shift. Our supervisor was an evil 24 year old townie slapper who really enjoyed shouting, and would have cracked a mirror with just one glance. It's actually pretty hard to pack two chocolates in the right place in each tray as they whizz past you bumper-to-bumper at the rate of about 2 per second, so she was shouting at us to speed up. I was a bit pissed off with her attitude and said
"I'm going as fast as I can", she came back with something like,
"Any more of your back-chat and I'll make sure you don't come back tomorrow night", to which I replied quick as a flash,
"Ooh, that would make me cry" in my most sarky manner. Anyway, it shut her up for a bit and the whole production line (about 20 of us) smirked and giggled at her for the rest of the shift.
( , Fri 30 Apr 2004, 14:29, Reply)
One of my favourites, though an indirect one was coined by someone famous, probably Groucho Marx: Someone said "X is his own worst enemy you know," to which he replied "Not while I'm alive he isn't" - pure class.
The other one was pure me.
I'd just started the job from hell. Packing chocolates as a temp for a famous York based chocy producer...on the night shift. Our supervisor was an evil 24 year old townie slapper who really enjoyed shouting, and would have cracked a mirror with just one glance. It's actually pretty hard to pack two chocolates in the right place in each tray as they whizz past you bumper-to-bumper at the rate of about 2 per second, so she was shouting at us to speed up. I was a bit pissed off with her attitude and said
"I'm going as fast as I can", she came back with something like,
"Any more of your back-chat and I'll make sure you don't come back tomorrow night", to which I replied quick as a flash,
"Ooh, that would make me cry" in my most sarky manner. Anyway, it shut her up for a bit and the whole production line (about 20 of us) smirked and giggled at her for the rest of the shift.
( , Fri 30 Apr 2004, 14:29, Reply)
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