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Retort

Following comment is made to someone who has insulted you:

"I resemble that remark."

The slip of the tongue is intentional.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs Added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Sense?

Classification?

The words Tongue Twister have been crossed out.

Where learned: NEW YORK ; Descamp, Ed ; Syracuse University ; Syracuse

Keyword(s): INSULT ; Language ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Resemble ; Resent ; RETORT ; WORDPLAY

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Tongue Twister

Following comment is made to someone who has insulted you. The slip of the tongue is intentional:

You're casting asparagus on my reputation.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs Added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Not really a tongue twister, is it?

Where learned: NEW YORK ; Descamp, Ed ; Syracuse University ; Syracuse

Keyword(s): INSULT ; Language ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Reply ; REPUTATION ; RETORT ; WORDPLAY

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Retort

Is that a water proof shirt you have on?

No, Why?

That's a pisser of a tie you've got on.

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James Callow comment:

Taste?

Where learned: Kern, Donald

Keyword(s): INSULT ; Language ; Pisser ; RETORT ; Shirt ; SLANG ; Tease ; Tie ; Waterproof

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Taunt

Drop Dead!

Go play sea hunt in the toilet!

Submitter comment:

Can't remember.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs Added by TRD

James Callow comment:

T?

Keyword(s): Dead ; Drop ; Expression ; INSULT ; INSULT ; Play ; SEA ; TAUNT ; Term ; Toilet

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Toast

Here's to you, as good as you are,
And to me, as bad as I am.
And as bad as I am,
I'm as good as you are
As bad as I am.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Marshall, Mabel

Keyword(s): Bad ; Good ; GREETING ; INSULT ; Me ; TOAST ; You

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Toast

Here's to you, as good as you are,
and here's to me, as bad as I am.

But as good as you are
And as bad as I am,


I'm as good as you are
as bad as I am

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs Added by TRD

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; Moseley, Barbara

Keyword(s): Bad ; DRINK ; Good ; GREETING ; INSULT ; Me ; TOAST ; You

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Toast

Here's to you, as good as you are, and to me, as bad as I am.
But as good as you are, and as bad as I am,
You're as bad as I am, as good as you are.

And here's to me, as bad as I am.
And to you, as good as you are.
But as bad as I am and as good as you are,
I'm as good as you are, as bad as I am

Submitter comment:

Undetermined Origin

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs Added by TRD

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROYAL OAK ; ; Carter, Mr L P

Keyword(s): Bad ; DRINK ; Good ; INSULT ; Me ; TOAST ; You

Subject headings: PROVERB -- VC870 VC870.570

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Saying

Saying About Navy Chow:

The cooks perform miraces. How else could you take good food and turn it to crap without passing it through the human body?

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Motifs Added By TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [B400] crossed out. Replaced with current classifications.

Where learned: NAVY

Keyword(s): Chef ; COOK ; Crap ; FOOD ; HUMOR ; INSULT ; JOKE ; Navy ; Rude ; Saying

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Taunt

Fatty, fatty, two by four. Can't get through the bathroom door. So he did it on the floor.

Submitter comment:

Friends

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs Added By TRD

James Callow comment:

Orignal BN [S570] crossed out. Replaced with current classification

Where learned: HOME ; Hanson, Margaret

Keyword(s): BATHROOM ; Bowels ; Door ; Fat ; Fatty ; Floor ; INSULT ; JOKE ; Large ; RHYME ; SIZE ; TAUNT ; URINATE ; WEIGHT

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Retort

If a person is called a big mouth by another big mouth he says "the donkey said that the rooster had a big head."

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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Karamanis, Peter

Keyword(s): Annoying ; Big ; DONKEY ; HEAD ; Hypocrite ; INSULT ; Loud ; Mouth ; RETORT ; Rooster ; Saying

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Retort

You're about as funny as a pay toilet in a dairy ward.

Submitter comment:

From his friend, Brian Battersby.

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James Callow comment:

Diary Ward?

Where learned: HOME ; Cunningham, Joseph

Keyword(s): Diary ; Funny ; INSULT ; METAPHOR ; RETORT ; SIMILE ; SLANG ; Toilet ; Unfunny ; Ward

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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BLESSED MOTHER BELIEF

A WHISTLING WOMAN YOUNG OR OLD IS INSULTING THE BLESSED
MOTHER OF GOD.

Data entry tech comment:

Updated by TRD

Where learned: NEW YORK ; ROCHESTER ; McGovern, John

Keyword(s): Feminine ; INSULT ; Ladylike ; Whistle ; Whistling

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief C860.432
BELIEF -- Religious hero
BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal
BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal

Date learned: 03-11-1972

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FOLK ETYMOLOGY: SHYSTER

THIS WORD IS THE CURRENT NAME OF AN UNSCRUPULOUS LAWYER. A
GERMAN LAWYER OF NEW YORK ONCE APPLIED FOR A WARRANT FOR A
CLIENT WHO HAD SLANDERED HIM BY CALLING HIM A VULGAR NAME
WHICH, AS PRONOUNCED BY THE LAWYER, SOUNDED LIKE SHYSTER.

Data entry tech comment:

Updated by TRD

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): Anti-Semitic ; ETYMOLOGY ; INSULT ; Jewish ; Origin ; Slur

Subject headings: CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Common law
SPEECH -- S478

Date learned: 11-29-1969

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WHEN SOMEONE SAYS SOMETHING PEJORATIVE ABOUT ANOTHER,
SPIT THREE TIMES ON THE BACK OF THE FIRST TWO FINGERS
OF THE RIGHT HAND TO WARD OFF THE INTENDED EVIL.

Data entry tech comment:

Updated by TRD

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): BEHAVIOR ; BELIEF ; CUSTOM ; EVIL EYE ; Fingers ; GESTURE ; INSULT ; SPIT ; SUPERSTITION ; Ward

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Curse
BELIEF -- P670 P670.88

Date learned: 03-02-1972

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