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After closing time at the bar, a drunk was proudly showing off his new apartment to a couple of his friends. He led the way to his bedroom where there was a large brass gong and a mallet. "What's up with the big brass gong?" one of the guests asked. "It's not a gong. It's a talking clock," the drunk replied. "A talking clock? Seriously?" asked his astonished friend. "Yup," replied the drunk. "How's it work?" The friend asked, squinting at it. "Watch," the drunk replied. He picked up the mallet, gave the gong an ear-shattering pound and stepped back. The three stood looking at one another for a minute... Suddenly someone on the other side of the wall screamed, "You a**hole! It's three-fifteen in the morning!"

These wonderful insults are from a bygone era before the English language of detestation got boiled down to loathsome, vile, four-letter words: 1. "He had delusions of adequacy ” Walter Kerr 2. "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”- Winston Churchill 3. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. - Clarence Darrow 4. "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”-William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway) 5. "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner) 6. "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it.” - Moses Hadas 7. "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” - Mark Twain 8. "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” - Oscar Wilde 9. "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 10. "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.” - Winston Churchill, in response 11. "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here” - Stephen Bishop 12. "He is a self-made man and worships his creator.” - John Bright 13. "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.” - Irvin S. Cobb 14. "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.” - Samuel Johnson 15. "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up. - Paul Keating 16. "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.” - Forrest Tucker 17. "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?” - Mark Twain 18. "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” - Mae West 19. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” - Oscar Wilde 20. "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.” - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) 21. "He has Van Gogh's ear for music.” - Billy Wilder 22. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it.” - Groucho Marx 23. The exchange between Winston Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison." He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it." 24. "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln 25. "There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." -- Jack E. Leonard 26. "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." -- Thomas Brackett Reed 27. "He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." -- James Reston (about Richard Nixon) —Robert L Truesdell God save the King's English... the most expressive use of language known to humankind.