Well with the arrival of some posters around here and the waiting for Jan. 7th, this board has gotten a little hostile.

Well I got this email today and I thought it would benefit some of you to learn that we don't have to use name calling. I am kidding but I thought it was funny either way!

WHEN INSULTS HAD CLASS

The exchange between Churchill and Lady Astor:
She said, "If you were my husband, I'd give you poison,"
and he said, "If you were my wife, I'd take it."
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Gladstone, a member of Parliament, to Benjamin Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."

"That depends, sir," said Disraeli, "On whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

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"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr

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"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Winston Churchill

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"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." - Winston Churchill

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"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow

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"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"
- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

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"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas

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"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
- Abraham Lincoln

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"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
- Mark Twain

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"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." - Oscar Wilde

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"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, in response.

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"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
- Stephen Bishop

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"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." - John Bright

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"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb

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"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others."
- Samuel Johnson

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"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul Keating

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"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure."
- Jack E. Leonard

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"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt." - Robert Redford

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"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." - Thomas Brackett Reed

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"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
- Charles, Count Talleyrand

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"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker

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"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
- Mark Twain

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"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." - Mae West

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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde

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"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

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"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder

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"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx

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No hostilities here! I am a lover and not a fighter which serves to believe that the therapy is working well. :thumb:

You make me laugh everytime you use that one!

Are you "calling me out"?

Yea verily, I doth miss ye olden insult. A simpler time it was, 2 months of this year ago.

In spirit of those days gone by, i herby declare a "Yo Mama" fight with our friends from the ohio commonwealth, to begin on the 5th of January.

I say, my dear chaps and ladies, we should give them a right pantsing!

I am not sure you want to go in that room after John.

Alright enough already! If you don't stop I am going to have to report your post...crap nevermind!

Always remember to be careful how you swear while in the room......

I have heard tales about those "Private Rooms" here at TF. Grad's last statement indicates they aren't so private. Any chances we can get some transcripts posted in the "Best Of" thread?