Fun_People Archive
5 May
Elizabethan Insult Kit - Upgrade Now Available
Date: Thu, 5 May 94 14:21:03 PDT
To: Fun_People
Subject: Elizabethan Insult Kit - Upgrade Now Available
[The first half of this item is a reposting of the Fun_People distribution of
the Elizabethan Insult Kit (you've probably seen this already). The second
half is the new upgrade kit (probably new) ... -psl]
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Forwarded-by: dante@microsoft.com
Forwarded-by: Ruediger Asche <ruediger@microsoft.com>
Forwarded-by: Stan Chalicki
Forwarded-by: Brad Thompson
<further fwds hath gone the way of all drivellous bile...>
CREATE YOUR OWN SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS by Jerry Maguire, who teaches
English@Center Grove High School in Greenwood, Indiana.
Combine one word from each of the three columns below, preface with
"Thou" and thus shalt thou have the perfect insult. Let thyself
go--mix and match to find a barb worthy of the Bard!
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
artless base-court apple-john
bawdy bat-fowling baggage
beslubbering beef-witted barnacle
bootless beetle-headed bladder
churlish boil-brained boar-pig
cockered clapper-clawed bugbear
clouted clay-brained bum-bailey
craven common-kissing canker-blossom
currish crook-pated clack-dish
dankish dismal-dreaming clotpole
dissembling dizzy-eyed coxcomb
droning doghearted codpiece
errant dread-bolted death-token
fawning earth-vexing dewberry
fobbing elf-skinned flap-dragon
froward fat-kidneyed flax-wench
frothy fen-sucked flirt-gill
gleeking flap-mouthed foot-licker
goatish fly-bitten fustilarian
gorbellied folly-fallen giglet
impertinent fool-born gudgeon
infectious full-gorged haggard
jarring guts-griping harpy
loggerheaded half-faced hedge-pig
lumpish hasty-witted horn-beast
mammering hedge-born hugger-mugger
mangled hell-hated jolthead
mewling idle-headed lewdster
paunchy ill-breeding lout
pribbling ill-nurtured maggot-pie
puking knotty-pated malt-worm
puny milk-livered mammet
quailing motley-minded measle
rank onion-eyed minnow
reeky plume-plucked miscreant
roguish pottle-deep moldwarp
ruttish pox-marked mumble-news
saucy reeling-ripe nut-hook
spleeny rough-hewn pigeon-egg
spongy rude-growing pignut
surly rump-fed puttock
tottering shard-borne pumpion
unmuzzled sheep-biting ratsbane
vain spur-galled scut
venomed swag-bellied skainsmate
villainous tardy-gaited strumpet
warped tickle-brained varlot
wayward toad-spotted vassal
weedy unchin-snouted whey-face
yeasty weather-bitten wagtail
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Forwarded-by: Matthew Freedman <mattf@cac.washington.edu>
From: Daniel Prior <shiva@cct.bishkek.su>
Subject: latter-day bardish
HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, PART CCLVVII
CREATE YOUR OWN LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY INSULTS
Select one from column A, one from column B, and one from
column C, preface with "you", and you've got the perfect insult.
Mix and match; express your self!
Column A Column B Column C
goddamned fucking asshole
© 1994 Peter Langston