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Retort

You can't be two-faced. If you were two-faced, you certainly wouldn't be wearing the one you've got on.

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The question [To What?] is written next to the title.

Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; Duplicitous ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; Wisecrack

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Retort

Ridicule:

You said it, Cabbage, you've got the head for it.

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[A Retort? To What? ] is written across the top of the card.

Original BN [B662] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

Where learned: Sanderson, Maxine

Keyword(s): Cabbage ; COMEBACK ; HEAD ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; Wisecrack

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Retort

Did your mother have any children that lived?

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[To What?] is written next tot he title.

Keyword(s): CHILDREN ; COMEBACK ; INSULT ; MOTHER ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; Wisecrack

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Retort

You're about as funny as a cigarette in a Cancer ward.

Submitter comment:

From his brother, Joe. From his friend, Brian Battersby.

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Where learned: HOME ; Cunningham, Patrick

Keyword(s): Cancer ; Cigarette ; COMEBACK ; HOSPITAL ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; Wisecrack

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Retort

You look like you have to study to qualify as a dropout.

Submitter comment:

From his brother, Joe.

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Where learned: HOME ; Cunningham, Patrick

Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; Dropout ; Graduate ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; SCHOOL ; Study ; Wisecrack

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Retort

What's wrong? Does your face hurt? It's killing me.

Submitter comment:

From his brother, Joe.

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Where learned: HOME ; Cunningham, Patrick

Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; FACE ; Hurt ; INSULT ; Kill ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; Wisecrack

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Retort

You're so skinny, you can dodge raindrops.

Submitter comment:

From his brother, Joe.

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Where learned: HOME ; Cunningham, Patrick

Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; INSULT ; Raindrops ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; SIZE ; Skinny ; Wisecrack

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Retort

You're so fat, you need a periscope to see the ground.

Submitter comment:

from his brother, Joe.

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Where learned: HOME ; Cunningham, Patrick

Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; Wisecrack

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Retort

You're so skinny, if you turn sideways and stick out your tongue, You'll look like a zipper.

Submitter comment:

From his brother, Joe.

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James Callow comment:

[To What?] is written next to the title.

Where learned: HOME ; Cunningham, Patrick

Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; SIZE ; Skinny ; Wisecrack ; Zipper

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Retort

Aw, go tell yourself your mother's calling you!

Submitter comment:

I heard this from two arguing children in SW Detroit.

The number 200.01 is written underneath the BN.

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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; Wisecrack

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Retort

I know you are, but what am I?

Submitter comment:

This retort was used by a child whenever another child called him a name e.g. brat, or pimple face. It can be used over and over again for any name at all. I learned this retort years ago from neighborhood children in SW Detroit.

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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; TAUNT ; Wisecrack

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Retort

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Blow Me!

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[To What?] is written next to the submission.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Ballinger, Gary ; Bay City

Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; Innuendo ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; SEX ; Wisecrack

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula
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Retort

Yea, she was bread in old Kentucky, but she's only a crumb up here.

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James Callow comment:

[To What?] is written next to the title.

Where learned: ILLINOIS ; O'Connor, John ; CHICAGO

Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; HORSE ; INSULT ; Kentucky ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; Wisecrack

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Retort

Do you have a match? No, not since Superman died.

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Where learned: ILLINOIS ; Berent, Greg ; CHICAGO

Keyword(s): BOAST ; BRAG ; COMEBACK ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; Wisecrack

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Retort

When I called her a two-bit she hit me with her bag of quarters.

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James Callow comment:

The retort is an action (not words)?

Where learned: ILLINOIS ; O'Connor, John ; CHICAGO

Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; Wisecrack

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Retort

That's your opinion.

Submitter comment:

Source not remembered.

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James Callow comment:

[To What?] is written next to the title.

Where learned: HOME ; Hayes, Robert

Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; Wisecrack

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Retort

She's so dumb that if you said to her "Hi, how are you?" she'd be stuck for an answer.

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[To What?] is written next to the word Retort.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Herzog, Pete

Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; Wisecrack

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Retort

He's so dumb he couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel.

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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Herzog, Pete

Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; Wisecrack

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Retort

Once in a Blue Moon

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James Callow comment:

Retort, To What?

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): Blue ; COMEBACK ; INSULT ; MOON ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; Wisecrack

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Retort

Never in a month of Sundays.

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James Callow comment:

Retort to what?

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; Wisecrack

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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