Glorious Insults

Over at Coming Anarchy, Curzon posts “glorious insults from the Golden Age of the English language.”

Brilliant stuff, all.

I do have one complaint, though. If you’re going to include former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating (a dubious inclusion to a Golden Age of the English language list, even great fans of the man such as we are forced to admit), surely, you must include late New Zealand Prime Minister Rob Muldoon:

When questioned about increased levels of emigration from New Zealand to Australia, Muldoon responded that these migrants “raised the average IQ of both countries”.

Rob Muldoon, showing us how it’s done.

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6 Comments

  1. stafford your flag
    Posted March 8, 2008 at 4:26 pm | Permalink

    This one is also another Rob Muldoon favourite:

    It was an act of cowardice and I consider it appropriate that the Australian team were wearing yellow

    I think he was talking about a certain cricket game that I’m not going to mention….

  2. hoju_saram your flag
    Posted March 8, 2008 at 6:10 pm | Permalink

    oh alright then, i’ll metnion it for you:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.....ident_1981

    Poor old Trevor Chappel, 25 years on, still hounded by it.

    Funny, I had a game of cricket in the Chollas not too long ago. The other team needed 2 to win, and my final delivery happened to be to a kiwi friend. Guess what I did?

  3. Mr Kim your flag
    Posted March 8, 2008 at 6:46 pm | Permalink

    One from Gough Whitlam’s memoirs:

    Never in the House did I use the word which comes to mind. The nearest I came to doing so was when Sir Winton Turnbull, a member of the cavalleria rusticana, was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: “I am a Country member”. I interjected “I remember”. He could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides.

  4. Arghaeri your flag
    Posted March 9, 2008 at 9:58 pm | Permalink

    Another Winston Churchill, this time a multi parter…paraphrased as I don’t recall the exact words…

    Winston to socialite at a party “If I gave you a million pounds would you sleep with me?”

    Socialite “Of course darling”

    Winston “Ok, heres 10 pounds lets go shall we?”

    Socialite “10 pounds!! What do think I am ?”

    Winston, “We’ve already established what you are, now we’re just haggling over the price”

  5. Arghaeri your flag
    Posted March 9, 2008 at 9:58 pm | Permalink

    Another Winston Churchill, this time a multi parter…paraphrased as I don’t recall the exact words…

    Winston to socialite at a party “If I gave you a million pounds would you sleep with me?”

    Socialite “Of course darling”

    Winston “Ok, heres 10 pounds lets go shall we?”

    Socialite “10 pounds!! What do you think I am ?”

    Winston, “We’ve already established what you are, now we’re just haggling over the price”

  6. aaronm your flag
    Posted March 10, 2008 at 12:46 pm | Permalink

    Number 1, you’d do well to remember Richard Lowe (whose family name was most appropriate) smashing Paul Carozza’s jaw with a late elbow after scoring a try some years back. But while we are on the subject of cricket, for great insults, nothing beats this one. Australian fast bowler Glen McGrath was struggling to dismiss Zimbabwean Edo Brandes in a test match and decided to employ sledging as a tactic to unnerve his portly opponent. “why are you so fat?”, The Australian enquired. “Because every time I fuck your wife, she gives me a biscuit”, was the reply to the stunned Aussie.

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