zing

it was only good because the best zing anyone could come up with vs. Alex (other than the obvious fact that he was being disrespectful to the recently deceased) was that he was being "predictable"

tbf, tho, the 'predictable' zing is like 80% of zings

I had no idea until the past 48 hours on ILX that one had to walk around on eggshells in regard to Michael Jackson.

you've been zinged by a smooth criminal

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, February 2, 2008

shit pp hasnt heard yet

haw

wht have u got against ur og screen name forksclovetofu

― cozwn, Saturday, June 27, 2009 8:13 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nothing, i just look at these as vanity license plates.

― wacky out of context phrase is the worst look (forksclovetofu), Sunday, June 28, 2009 1:13 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

then keep them to 7 letters plz!!!!

― carpathian florist (roxymuzak), Sunday, June 28, 2009 1:16 AM (14 seconds ago)

haw i think it might be 8 though :/

anyway, my point is not that abuse is good, but rather that this sort of parental pressure might magnify innate talent.

― Mike Crandle, Financial Analyst, Bear Stearns, New York, NY 10185 (res), Wednesday, July 1, 2009 1:41 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i hope someone beats you up and it makes your posts better.

― the shock will be coupled with the need to dance (jim), Wednesday, July 1, 2009 1:42 PM Bookmark

hahhaha

Oh that's just textbook zinging.

My chances of getting a job there at the time were monumentally slim at best. Danyel Smith was none too impressed with my witty banter, alas. Also, given the fact that I really don't give the slightest whiff of a damn about 99% of the stuff they covered, it once again should be noted that it would not have been a good fit for any of the involved. Still, I lament that they're yet another music mag that has surrendered.

― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, July 1, 2009 10:06 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

maybe you should've practiced your witty banter on ILM now and again.

― some dude, Wednesday, July 1, 2009 10:40 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh that's just textbook zinging.

― Milijas now living will never die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, July 1, 2009 4:47 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no way, that was a perfect re-purposing

No, textbook as in "exemplary".

"textbook" is the highest compliment available to the Briton

that or "tophole", and you don't really wanna use tophole in mixed company

xD

ahhhh

do british people really like textbooks?

they use them for reference the odd time

Do Americans like pickup trucks

thats a pickup truck zing right there

And one

brits are strangely fixated with education, e.g.:

something exemplary is "textbook",
a foolish mistake is a "schoolboy error",
being fired is "getting your jotters".

i am sure there are more.

head of Conservative Party is "witless Public School boy"

lol

finding out that your girlfriend is cheating on you with your brother is being "late for prep"

being sent to jail for upwards of 10 years is "a seeing-to round the back of the fives courts"

that happens enough to brits that it has its own phrase? xp

i feel like i'm being played here lj

failing to justify one's absence from a party is "tuckshop robbery"

^^^late for prep

Xp

an ill-fated love-affair is a "morning break crush"

A dose of gonorrhea is "spotted dick with pink custard"

losing a limb in an industrial accident is "missing the form assembly"

Having your bank cards taken off you and cut in half by the bank manager is a "field trip"

hey, this is thread that stopped being funny

Travelling over 200 miles to save a marriage Explaining humour to Americans is "double Geography"

right i'm off to the "dorm" for a bit of "prefect's cane"!

british humour has an extra letter that makes it incompatible with american humor

sounds like a problem with u

i think i got a humor from an american girl once, and very nice it was too

put me in right good humour, in fact

shush we can't hear the bingo numbers

i regret my last post

Would've posted Curtis' last one here, but demurred to excelsior

Look, Morbs, if you blow a gasket and your brain explodes, it won't be because you were using it.

― bad hijab (suzy), Thursday, July 2, 2009 8:30 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

woooooooooooooooow

you misspelled blaow