great zings throughout history

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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

trump sorely missing from this thread

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


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