Insults
Last week two kids ran past me, one chasing the other. As they passed, the little boy turns to the girl chasing him and screams, "go away, you, you... you GIRLPANTS."
She stopped dead, cut to the core. Well, sort of. Anyway, we've added it to our repertoire, but are keen to expand further our sweary lexicon. What's the best insult you've heard? How effective was it? How did they retaliate?
( , Thu 4 Oct 2007, 12:48)
Last week two kids ran past me, one chasing the other. As they passed, the little boy turns to the girl chasing him and screams, "go away, you, you... you GIRLPANTS."
She stopped dead, cut to the core. Well, sort of. Anyway, we've added it to our repertoire, but are keen to expand further our sweary lexicon. What's the best insult you've heard? How effective was it? How did they retaliate?
( , Thu 4 Oct 2007, 12:48)
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The Man, The Legend, The Yarp.
These stories entail a particular customer of our humble game store, who works over in the McDonald's across the street.
THE INTRODUCTIONS:
This customer liked me. If he walked past the store and saw me inside, he would barge into the store, wave at me (from a distance of ten feet) and shout HELLO. I noticed he existed, and became his "friend". Out of his earshot, I gave him the nickname "Yarp" due to his striking (mental) resemblance to "Lurch" from Hot Fuzz.
THE FIRST INSULT AIMED AT HIS FACE:
Yarp walks up to the counter and holds a game in his hand. "Is this good?"
Without missing a beat and keeping eye contact and a smile on my face, I retort, "No, that's a bad choice for you. You're holding a game that involves thinking."
THE SECOND INSULT TO HIS FACE:
Yarp blathered on about something that resulted in my equal and opposite reaction of sarcastic excitement, with wild head bobbing. A real case of the uh-huhs and mm-hmms. He didn't catch onto this and I eventually gave up and said to him, "I'm sorry, but right now intellectual osmosis* is occuring; I'm going to go take my lunch break now."
"Okay. Can I come?"
"For the sake of future generations, I hope not."
THE UNFAIR INSULT OUT OF NOWHERE:
One day, Yarp walks into the store and I was having a bad day, and just seeing him sent me over the edge, and I said at a voice level that showed I was apathetic if he was in or out of earshot: "Why the hell haven't they turned him into twenty chicken nuggets yet? He'd serve a better purpose that way."
He figured that one out later, I was told. It broke his heart a little bit. I was the winner.
*Original source: Acts of Gord.
( , Sat 6 Oct 2007, 9:54, Reply)
These stories entail a particular customer of our humble game store, who works over in the McDonald's across the street.
THE INTRODUCTIONS:
This customer liked me. If he walked past the store and saw me inside, he would barge into the store, wave at me (from a distance of ten feet) and shout HELLO. I noticed he existed, and became his "friend". Out of his earshot, I gave him the nickname "Yarp" due to his striking (mental) resemblance to "Lurch" from Hot Fuzz.
THE FIRST INSULT AIMED AT HIS FACE:
Yarp walks up to the counter and holds a game in his hand. "Is this good?"
Without missing a beat and keeping eye contact and a smile on my face, I retort, "No, that's a bad choice for you. You're holding a game that involves thinking."
THE SECOND INSULT TO HIS FACE:
Yarp blathered on about something that resulted in my equal and opposite reaction of sarcastic excitement, with wild head bobbing. A real case of the uh-huhs and mm-hmms. He didn't catch onto this and I eventually gave up and said to him, "I'm sorry, but right now intellectual osmosis* is occuring; I'm going to go take my lunch break now."
"Okay. Can I come?"
"For the sake of future generations, I hope not."
THE UNFAIR INSULT OUT OF NOWHERE:
One day, Yarp walks into the store and I was having a bad day, and just seeing him sent me over the edge, and I said at a voice level that showed I was apathetic if he was in or out of earshot: "Why the hell haven't they turned him into twenty chicken nuggets yet? He'd serve a better purpose that way."
He figured that one out later, I was told. It broke his heart a little bit. I was the winner.
*Original source: Acts of Gord.
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