best put-downs

When I was a sophomore in HS I was being hasseled by a bully and was too afraid to fight him. One day as I got up to leave after class he made some threatening/insulting remark (as usual) and I turned and flipped him a quarter saying, “tell your mom thanks for last night… and she can keep the change.”

I’d been working up to saying it for a while and it wasn’t as smooth a presentation as I’d hoped (I was nervous), but all he came up with was, “so I can keep the quarter?” to which I said something not too witty like,“it’s for your mom.”

I’m was very glad I did that. :slight_smile:

PC

Steve Martin to a heckler: “Yeah, I remember when I had my first beer!”

Obnoxious former co-worker:
Go fuck yourself and do it the hard way – don’t use your hands!

My reply – never said because of ethical considerations:
OK, so your life sucks and your lover don’t!

CJ
Who only looks like a nice person.

“Ooh, clever! How long have you been rehearsing that little witticism?” It’s a great sail-emptier.

Abstracted co-worker: … Sorry, I was lost in thought there.

Me: Unfamiliar territory?

(I couldn’t resist it.)

For the sake of completeness, I include the following. My personal introduction to it was when The Toxic Avenger unloaded it on Boursy in alt.recovery.catholicism, though it’s apparently been floating around the net in one form or another for quite a while:

You worthless bag of filth. As they say in Texas, I’ll bet you couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel.

You are a canker. A sore that won’t go away. A fetid pus-oozing festering boil on the anus of humanity. If the universe were nothing but K-Y jelly, you would be a grain of sand in it.

You are a fiend and a sniveling, spineless coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you. You are a bloody nardless newbie twit protohominid chromosomally aberrant caricature of a coprophagic cloacal parasitic pond scum. And I wish you would go away.

You’re a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a putrefaction, a big suck on a sour lemon with a lime twist.

You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in regret for what they had done.

I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformation. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, a ferment, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell?

If you aren’t an idiot, you made a world-class attempt at simulating one.

You snail-skulled little twit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs.

You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You’re a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won’t have sex with you. Your hand refuses autoerotism. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. You are the epitome of conceit; the flea, floating down a river with an erection, screaming to those that care, “Open up the damn drawbridge”.

And what meaning do you expect your delusional self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake?

You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile, one-handed, slack-jawed drooling meat slapper.

On a good day you’re a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go.

If the sum total of all the knowledge, experience and wisdom that you have acquired in your stay thus far on earth were rolled into one great big ball and shoved up a gnat’s asshole, there would be enough room left over for it to roll around like a BB in a boxcar.

I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid rendered so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on the warm side of Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid; some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I’m sorry. I can’t go on, this is an epiphany of stupid for me. After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I don’t have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of your drivel.

Maybe later in life, after you have learned to think, read, write, spell, count and wipe your ass you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us “normal” people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are “challenged” persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known that this was the case I would have never read your post. It just wouldn’t have been “right” – sort of like parking in a handicapped space.

You, sir, have shown yourself to be an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebro, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ityphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose, mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquilian, rebarbative, saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephaloous, yirning zoophyte.

IOW,you are you an impotent, conceited, obscene, hairy-buttocked, brainless, wicked, toadying, goatish, indecent, stable-smelling, hunchbacked, thicklipped, stinking, turnip-shaped, feeble-minded, pimply, trashy, repellent, smarmy, foul-mouthed, greasy, gluttonous, loathsome, wooden-headed, whining, extremely low form of animal life.

In short, if I traded you for shit, I would lose the container I brought you in.

May you be cornholed nightly by mushroom-colored dwarves.

Otherwise, have a good day.

I could wade through your deepest thoughts and not get my ankles wet.

“Excuse me sir, could you please turn down your shirt?”

“You’d have a one-track mind, if only they’d lay the track!”

“Where you born an asshole, or have you been taking lessons?”

Wonder what your life would have been like if you had gotten enough oxygen at birth?

Ahhh, you people are hilarious! :slight_smile:

Did anyone see that ‘Family guy’ Episode where the little dancing girl, said some thing around the lines of ’
You are, the weakest link."
And then Stewie replied with a 20 second speech about how origanal that was. I’m sure someone can type it up for us to see.

Family guy rules.

This is one of my favorites that I use quite often.

One of my co-workers was struggling with one of those legal sized boxes that have to folded in a particular way in order to attain their ultimate shape. Apparently the directions printed on the box were somewhat confusing as she continued to struggle with the task. At which point I asked her if she wanted a tip. She replied sure, seeing that I had made 4 or 5 while she worked on hers. I replied:

“The trick is to be smarter than the box.”

She stared at me for a second and then threw the box down and stormed out.

One of the folks I (lamentably) hung out with in high school used to like to holler at bike riders wearing helmets:

“Hey, there’s a turtle on your head”

That wasn’t the cool insult.

One time an old man, possibly ninety years old looked back at him and said, “Shut up Uncle Fester!”

We all cracked up. He really was an ugly kid.

I once told another female who was being an obnoxious flirt to, “Go lay by your dish, bitch!”

I’ve also responded to being informed that I was “fat” by telling my antagonist that, “I may not win any beauty contests, but you couldn’t even win a dog show.”

Neither was received well by the intended, though the spectators thought it was hysterical.

Syl

This doesn’t even compare with others here but I grew up in a smallish town far from a large city. A friend had an insult that he would shout and it really pissed people off. It was good, IMO, because many times it was true:

“Where did you learn how to drive, a farm?”

Ol’Gaffer: Cool post/sig combo!

Billy Connolly to a Heckler:
“DON’T tell me how to do my job! Do I come round to your work and tell you how to sweep up?”

George Wallace, on last night’s Hollywood Squares: I could have been your brother, but your mother didn’t have change for a dollar.

When told “Fuck YOU!”, my friend replies, “I’d just lie there.”

In one of the many long rants here on the SDMB, “President of the Carrot Top fan club” was used.

It would take two of you to make a complete idiot!

Overheard at a call center I worked in (said in a very calm tone): I’m not making you crazy ma’am; you were in that state before you called.
A story my father loves to tell about my stepmother. They had come to New York and were staying at the Marriott in Times Square. She was hungry and wanted to order in. They were going out in two hours and my dad told her to wait. Now, my stepmom is very loud and very whiny and my dad is very good at just ignoring her. It’s like he has a turn off Jackie switch in his brain and she can go on forever and he doesn’t even flinch. On the way out for dinner they found a note stuffed under the door. It read: FEED THE BITCH