Nobody Can Insult Someone Like....

[HadleyH]

No one has mentioned one of the nexus insult kings: Mark Twain:

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying "flee at once - all is discovered." They all left town immediately.

hahahahahahahahahahahha lol lol lol that's priceless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jamespowers]

hahahahahahahahahahahha lol lol lol that's priceless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You didn't know Mark Twain's friends. That could well have happened.

 

[MrNewportCustom]

There's a quote in the business world that is proven true, to me anyway, everytime I go to work and deal with the flotsam that makes up the upper strata of management:

"All managers are promoted to their highest level of incompetence."

Where I work, the higher they are, the more incompetent they are.


Lee

 

[WH1]

an oldie but a goodie

"Somewhere a village is missing an idiot!"

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

There's a quote in the business world that is proven true, to me anyway, everytime I go to work and deal with the flotsam that makes up the upper strata of management:

"All managers are promoted to their highest level of incompetence."

Where I work, the higher they are, the more incompetent they are.


Lee

Known as "The Peter Principle"

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

Not sure if it's insulting but one of my favorite lines is from Paul Newman's character in "The Color of Money":

"... He's got to learn how to be himself, but on purpose."

 

[Diamondback]

an oldie but a goodie

"Somewhere a village is missing an idiot!"

Or, my riff on the theme:

*surreptitiously placing call from one cell to other, waiting for ring and "answering"*
(faux-conversation) "Yeah... yeah, he's right here. OK... I'll tell him. Out."*hang up*
(to subject) "That was your village. Seems their idiot is missing..."

Or an equally-popular alternate punchline to end the same tactic:
(to subject) "Your proctologist called. Good news--they found your head!"
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Now playing: Jerry Goldsmith - The Tank
via FoxyTunes

 

[Wally_Hood]

A variation is "The lab called: your brain's ready."

 

[enigmata-wood]

from Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy

OK not exactly 30s-40s, but the guy who made the insult was a bodyguard in a classic gangster fedora and suit - the actor Dave Prowse of Star Wars fame.
"Beat it... before I beat it for you".

 

[scottyrocks]

"The boy's about a sharp as a bowling ball."


Lee

Bugs Bunny: 'What an ultra-maroon!'

 

[MisterCairo]

From the film "Time Bandits" - "How mercifully free you are from the ravages of intelligence".

Dirty Harry - "You're truly a legend in your own mind".

Basil Fawlty [to an obnoxious friend] "You read a lot of Oscar Wilde, do you Rog[er]?"

 

[Diamondback]

From Flight of the Intruder:

Cdr. Camparelli: How old are you, son?
LTJG Barlow: T-Twenty-four, Sir.
Camparelli: You lok twelve. What they do, teach you to shave at the Naval Academy? Ahh.... "Razor"--that's your new name from now on, son.

Razor in the novel was a lot more colorful on both giving and receiving ends, unfortunately not suitable for a family-friendly forum like this.

 

[Lefty]

Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat/Bruno) - face it, you're angry that I even brought up his name. He's not an insult artist in the traditional sense, but it's not often that someone comes along who can make an arena full of people want to kill him.
(and that's why I love him)