lot of amazing zing scholarship itt... not
― lag∞n, Sunday, April 29, 2012 11:50 AM
lock thread pls
― am0n, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
irc, he'd require the interviewer's list of questions be submitted to him, with his responses entirely written rather than spontaneous.
Cf., Nat Hentoff's 1966 Dylan interview in Playboy, espcially Dylan's explanation of how he became a rock and roll star. From the same interview:
PLAYBOY: Did you ever have the standard boyhood dream of growing up to be President?DYLAN: No. When I was a boy, Harry Truman was President; who'd want to be Harry Truman?
― clemenza, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
no im srs lock the thread
― am0n, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
:-/
― flopson, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
someone zing amon
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
unzingable
― arsenio and old ma$e (m bison), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
I will zing him
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
...
― flopson, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
zinging mt. everest
― dayo, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
It's always some zing.
― clemenza, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
hello anon
― The Startrekman, Sunday, April 29, 2012 4:19 PM (Yesterday)
― the sunno)))boys (electricsound), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRw97mX4EMg
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
AH SAY HEY MON
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
lol Startrekman
― am0n, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
sick burn
lol that tom waits quote reminds me of casey kasem's 'these guys are from england and who gives a shit'
― balls, Sunday, 29 April 2012 04:59
p sure that was prof. wgw of this parish tho?
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Sunday, 30 September 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
This thread will belong to Mitt Romney come Wednesday.
Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2
― clemenza, Sunday, 30 September 2012 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
Noel Gallagher on Jack White“He looks like Zorro on doughnuts.”
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 30 September 2012 02:32 (eleven years ago) link
"As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that."[21]
RIP big man
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 28 December 2012 03:17 (eleven years ago) link
was Rummy ever this zingy?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 December 2012 03:18 (eleven years ago) link
no but he was a better epistemologist
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 28 December 2012 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
zinging saddam just seems too easy
― iatee, Friday, 28 December 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
and i had the best present i was going to send you
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/G7199-Modern-Postcard-4x6-General-Norman-Schwarzkopf-/370526552767
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 28 December 2012 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
tbf a few other dudes with those qualifications were more successful than norm
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 December 2012 03:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ldsUHVe.png
― 乒乓, Thursday, 21 March 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
In 1958 Winston Churchill broke his spine in a fall and was required to sleep with a bedrest, which he hated. He and nurse Roy Howells got into a heated argument in which the two swore at one another.In making up afterward, Churchill said, “You were very rude to me, you know.”Howells said, “Yes, but you were rude too.”Churchill said, “Yes, but I am a great man.”“There was no answer to that,” Howells remembered later. “He knew, as I and the rest of the world knew, that he was right.”
In making up afterward, Churchill said, “You were very rude to me, you know.”
Howells said, “Yes, but you were rude too.”
Churchill said, “Yes, but I am a great man.”
“There was no answer to that,” Howells remembered later. “He knew, as I and the rest of the world knew, that he was right.”
http://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/03/22/detente/ (!)
― s.clover, Saturday, 23 March 2013 01:56 (eleven years ago) link
Those guys grew up in L.A. and they don't have cow-shit on their boots - they just got dog shit from Laurel Canyon. - Tom Waits
accidental self zing imo
― wk, Saturday, 23 March 2013 04:36 (eleven years ago) link
XP it doesn't really work so well as a zing if the person saying it seems like a d-bag who's hard to sympathize with
― Poliopolice, Saturday, 23 March 2013 05:41 (eleven years ago) link
yeah remember all those country rock albums tom waits made
― balls, Saturday, 23 March 2013 05:54 (eleven years ago) link
In 2004 former Scottish Orange Order member Adam Ingram sued MP George Galloway for saying in his autobiography that Ingram had "played the flute in a sectarian, anti-Catholic, Protestant-supremacist Orange Order band".
Judge Lord Kingarth ruled that the phrase was 'fair comment' on the Orange Order
― should we bin tapping? (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 June 2013 11:16 (ten years ago) link
Tho he did note, tbf, that there was no evidence of Ingram ever having played the flute.
The Queen’s army caught Oilill at Log na Fola, (the bloody hollow) leading to the following “rann”:
May you have wet arsesMunster scum, evil rogues,Without benefit of sun,Or bee or flower,In a lonely hollow,Without cerements in misery,May the hordes of hell follow youRound and round forever and forever
― his LIPS !!! (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 September 2013 10:26 (ten years ago) link
not so much a zing as a Bardic Hardmen entry?
― Cap'n Save-a-Co. (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 September 2013 10:32 (ten years ago) link
they killed them immediately afterwards, idk where that leaves the balance tbh
― his LIPS !!! (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 September 2013 10:35 (ten years ago) link
agreed it deserves recognition, anyway
― Cap'n Save-a-Co. (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 September 2013 10:37 (ten years ago) link
Would work fine and dandy as a "resignation from ILX speech"
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 September 2013 11:15 (ten years ago) link
Soon after it was published, statisticians from the American Statistical Association claimed "a random selection of three people would have been better than a group of 300 chosen by Mr. Kinsey".
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 3 October 2013 13:46 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/jchjackson/status/479312749105647616/photo/1
http://i.imgur.com/jY6ftne.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
of whom was it that gore vidal said: "a writer's writer, in much the same way a butler is sometimes called a gentleman's gentleman"? still laughing at that one tbh― thomp, Sunday, April 29, 2012 1:09 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Off topic as so often, I can't resist mentioning that Gore Vidal described Nabokov (if I remember rightly) as being "a writer's writer in the same way that a butler is a gentleman's gentleman". Vidal was far better at these put-downs than as a critic or novelist.― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, April 11, 2002 7:00 PM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i was thinking about this quote today and i can't find any source for it outside of ilx. real or not??
― slam dunk, Thursday, 12 January 2017 22:36 (seven years ago) link
the quote that's been attributed to John McKay of the Bucs (but might have been someone else)...
"What do you think of your team's execution, coach?"'I'm in favor of it'.
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 12 January 2017 23:24 (seven years ago) link
xp variation of it appears in this amazon user review from 1999 (by "A Customer")
Richard Primus is a scholar's scholar. The description indicates not esotericism, as in "writer's writer," but exemplarity, as in "gentleman's gentleman."
https://www.amazon.co.uk/American-Language-Rights-Ideas-Context/dp/0521616212
also something here from 2000: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LZX7b_vh8_IC&pg=PA52&lpg=PA52&dq=%22writer%27s+writer%22+%22gentleman%27s+gentleman%22&source=bl&ots=ooNqY_UxlQ&sig=7kqfi6LOLSIkLgFrVen5FpFQdgc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMpJX84L3RAhVLuRQKHV33A38Q6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=%22writer's%20writer%22%20%22gentleman's%20gentleman%22&f=false In this
― soref, Thursday, 12 January 2017 23:31 (seven years ago) link
trump sorely missing from this thread
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 12 January 2017 23:46 (seven years ago) link
I hate Trump as much as the next guy, but his zinger response to Lindsay Graham the other day--"still waiting to get to 1% in the polls, Lindsay?"--was pretty devastating
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 13 January 2017 00:49 (seven years ago) link
Only human beings eligible for this thread.
― Treeship, Friday, 13 January 2017 00:50 (seven years ago) link
Trump seems more of an insults guy than a zings guy
― soref, Friday, 13 January 2017 00:56 (seven years ago) link
‘By God,’ said he, ‘to put it in a word,Your shithouse rhyming isn’t worth a turd!You’re wasting time, that’s what, and nothing else.I tell you flat, sir, no more of your verse!’
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 1478
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 13 January 2017 11:59 (seven years ago) link
Vidal said that John Kerry looked like Lincoln... "after the assassination."
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 January 2017 12:43 (seven years ago) link