Creative & Mundane Vituperation

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D. Spencer Hines

Creative & Mundane Vituperation

Legg inn av D. Spencer Hines » 29 jul 2005 07:07:02

Don't forget Ambrose Bierce, Voltaire, Oscar Wilde and H. L. Mencken.

Masters of the Art of Creative Vituperation.

Don't call them "INSULTS" -- that is girly-man language, as Arnold might
well say.

They are SALLIES, RIPOSTES & QUIPS.

D. Spencer Hines

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Vires et Honor

Peter Stewart

Re: Creative & Mundane Vituperation

Legg inn av Peter Stewart » 29 jul 2005 07:07:03

Hines wrote:

Don't forget Ambrose Bierce, Voltaire, Oscar Wilde and H. L. Mencken.

Masters of the Art of Creative Vituperation.

This art is not the preserve of men only - Dorothy Parker, for
instance, cut a mean swathe through fools she could not suffer, gladly
or otherwise.

Don't call them "INSULTS" -- that is girly-man language, as Arnold might
well say.

They are SALLIES, RIPOSTES & QUIPS.

"Sally" sounds rather more girlish to me.

Peter Stewart

Peter Stewart

Re: Creative & Mundane Vituperation

Legg inn av Peter Stewart » 29 jul 2005 07:08:37

Hines wrote:

<snip>

Add Dorothy Parker to the list -- and Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

Margot Asquith belongs with them too, and I'm sure there are countless
other women with tongues as sharp tongues and aim as deadly.

Peter Stewart

D. Spencer Hines

Re: Creative & Mundane Vituperation

Legg inn av D. Spencer Hines » 29 jul 2005 08:02:01

Fair Enough...

Add Dorothy Parker to the list -- and Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

Further, anyone who doesn't appreciate the usefulness of the excellent
and apposite English word _SALLY_ in this context -- can use _PARRY_
instead -- if they want something more phallic.

Compensation for their other deficiencies as it were....

DSH

D. Spencer Hines

Re: Creative & Mundane Vituperation

Legg inn av D. Spencer Hines » 29 jul 2005 08:49:01

Margot Asquith and Helena Bonham Carter are related how, if at all?

Margot Asquith is HBC's Great-Grandmother?
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"The t is silent, as in Harlow."

Margot Asquith

[To Jean Harlow, who mispronounced her first name.]
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"What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever
mentioned it. "

Margot Asquith

DSH

Margot Asquith Quotes:
-----------------------------------

"Ettie is an ox: she will be made into Bovril when she dies."
..
Margot Asquith

"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that
they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and
stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

Margot Asquith

"He could not see a belt without hitting below it. "

Margot Asquith

"It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while
infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few
cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die. "

Margot Asquith

"Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his
head."

Margot Asquith

"Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never
original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate
means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty."

Margot Asquith

"She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake."

Margot Asquith

"The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise
titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There
is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would
not be tolerated in England for a week."

Margot Asquith

"The t is silent, as in Harlow."

Margot Asquith

"There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent
and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it
needs -apart from discernment -a certain greatness to find him."

Margot Asquith

"What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever
mentioned it. "

Margot Asquith

Michilín

Re: Creative & Mundane Vituperation

Legg inn av Michilín » 29 jul 2005 15:31:03

On 28 Jul 2005 22:18:45 -0700, "Peter Stewart" <p_m_stewart@msn.com>
wrote:

Hines wrote:

Don't forget Ambrose Bierce, Voltaire, Oscar Wilde and H. L. Mencken.

Masters of the Art of Creative Vituperation.

This art is not the preserve of men only - Dorothy Parker, for
instance, cut a mean swathe through fools she could not suffer, gladly
or otherwise.

Don't call them "INSULTS" -- that is girly-man language, as Arnold might
well say.

They are SALLIES, RIPOSTES & QUIPS.

"Sally" sounds rather more girlish to me.

Peter Stewart

0/10.




Mìcheil
S' an tir na deòir 's e 'n eug ar dualchas
In the land of tears death is our heritage

John Brandon

Re: Creative & Mundane Vituperation

Legg inn av John Brandon » 29 jul 2005 15:47:22

My favorite retort from Dorothy Parker --

Woman, standing aside to allow Dorothy to pass: "Age before beauty."

Dorothy Parker: "Pearls before swine."


Which is actually a somewhat apt commentary on this newsgroup ...

Glenallan

Re: Creative & Mundane Vituperation

Legg inn av Glenallan » 31 jul 2005 03:30:53

"D. Spencer Hines" <poguemidden@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:7mkGe.178$Uz1.627@eagle.america.net...
Margot Asquith and Helena Bonham Carter are related how, if at all?

Margot Asquith is HBC's Great-Grandmother?
-----------------------------------------------------------------

"The t is silent, as in Harlow."

Margot Asquith

[To Jean Harlow, who mispronounced her first name.]
-------------------------------------------------------------------

"What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever
mentioned it. "

Margot Asquith

DSH

Margot Asquith Quotes:
-----------------------------------

"Ettie is an ox: she will be made into Bovril when she dies."
.
Margot Asquith

"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that
they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and
stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

Margot Asquith

"He could not see a belt without hitting below it. "

Margot Asquith

"It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while
infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few
cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die. "

Margot Asquith

"Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his
head."

Margot Asquith

"Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never
original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate
means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty."

Margot Asquith

"She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake."

Margot Asquith

"The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise
titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There
is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would
not be tolerated in England for a week."

Margot Asquith

"The t is silent, as in Harlow."

Margot Asquith

"There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent
and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it
needs -apart from discernment -a certain greatness to find him."

Margot Asquith

"What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever
mentioned it. "

Margot Asquith

May I request that you consider soc.culture.scottish

to be off-limits to your goodself.

Your comments add nothing to an otherwise moribund group.

Please fillern off, o' wise one.

G
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Glenallan

Re: Creative & Mundane Vituperation

Legg inn av Glenallan » 31 jul 2005 03:31:09

"D. Spencer Hines" <poguemidden@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ESiGe.174$Uz1.730@eagle.america.net...
Don't forget Ambrose Bierce, Voltaire, Oscar Wilde and H. L. Mencken.

Masters of the Art of Creative Vituperation.

Don't call them "INSULTS" -- that is girly-man language, as Arnold might
well say.

They are SALLIES, RIPOSTES & QUIPS.

D. Spencer Hines

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Vires et Honor


May I request that you consider soc.culture.scottish
to be off-limits to your goodself.

Your comments add nothing to an otherwise moribund group.

Please fillern off, o' wise one.

G
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