# How do you mock people? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 30, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-mock-people/172134 "2003-04-30T13:00:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-mock-people/172134/21 "2003-04-30T21:26:00Z")
In addition to the using Retard Voice and Exagerated Manarisms, I will come up with a nickname for them that reflects whatever trait I am mocking. ie “Smoky Smokerson” - Someone who NEEDS his cigarette every 15 minutes “Johnny Nocash” - When someone forgets money “Big-boobs Sally” - When a girl (who is named Sally) intentionally shows off her boobs to get attention. I also have Mocking Little Girl Voice. For example: “Boo hoo hoo!!! I’m scared to drink a shot of Jeiggermeister!” (in a high pitched falsetto voice). Highly effective at applying peer pressure. When mocking a close friend, a group of us will often create an elaborate running joke that will go on litterally for days. We’ll chant their name or incorporate it into odd, everday items. Sometimes we will twist local events into something that mocks our friend (like carrying placards with the guys name during an actual protest march). ---
**Author:** ![FranticMad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c68b51/32.png) [@FranticMad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FranticMad)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-mock-people/172134/22 "2003-04-30T21:44:44Z")
My, my. We’re all Einsteins of the clever insult here, aren’t we? ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-mock-people/172134/23 "2003-04-30T22:09:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NardoPolo \* > \*\*I read that as it would be siad by Beaker (the muppet). Which, ironically, would make an even better mocking voice as well. > > (hijack on the death glare) > When I was teaching, I once gave the death glare to a kid who pulled a pointer out of his nose during class. It was the first time I did the death glare, and I had practiced it beforehand. Both eyebrows raised on the ends but lowered in the middle to look like BatMan, wrinkled nose, bulging eyes, the works. The whole class shifted around in shock to look and see what could possibly make my face contort to become so evil-looking all of a sudden. The kid himself _fell out of his chair_. > > I was quite proud. > (/hijack) \*\* One of the supervisors at my job has a death stare that actually works. She was walking up behind me, holding a glass bowl, gave it her death stare and BAM, the whole thing exploded in her hands. Later that day, she killed a car that cut her off. ---
**Author:** ![FranticMad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c68b51/32.png) [@FranticMad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FranticMad)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-mock-people/172134/24 "2003-04-30T23:09:31Z")
General Patton thought he was too nice-looking to be credible, so he’d practice scowling in front of his mirror. He felt that a mean looking general would get more respect. In the film “Patton”, it is never mentioned, but George C. Scott does Patton’s manufactured scowl while looking over some unkempt US soldiers. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-mock-people/172134/25 "2003-04-30T23:22:35Z")
I wait for a straightline, which comes along more often than a lot of people realize. Last week, for the umpteenth time, I walked into in of my coworker’s office and fixed some little MS Outllok issue in about 2 seconds. She looked at me a little guiltily (because she wouldn’t take the online training course to learn some routine functions and views), and said, “Jim you must roll your eyes at us.”\* “Every single day”, I said. - meaning some in the department who’ve moved involuntarily and with some resistance learned to use as an office tool, to greater or lesser extent. ---
**Author:** ![AveDementia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@AveDementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AveDementia)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-mock-people/172134/26 "2003-05-01T01:29:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sengkelat \* > **I distort my mouth by moving my jaw to the right and placing my tongue between my teeth, while smacking the back of my right hand against my chest, fingers pointing down, elbow out.** Yeah, but can you do that while holding a knife? ---
**Author:** ![Forbin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Forbin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Forbin)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-mock-people/172134/27 "2003-05-01T02:05:20Z")
I can be very condescending. I will also persist. I invite you, my victim, to contribute. “Is there something you’d like to add?” I show attention to detail. I can remember everything, but don’t worry, I’ll remind you. I command the floor. A co-worker was giving me some trouble. He’s a cowardly piece of trash, and wouldn’t look me in the eyes when I was telling him off. He averted his eyes. “Is there something over there that I don’t know about; that I should be looking at too?” I demanded. He looked up, with a wounded look. “That’s right, look at me when I’m talking to you!” I said. Maybe that’s derision, not mockery, I don’t know for sure. Stay in my good books, or you’ll be in my hymn book… Fuck him…, and him…, and him… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-mock-people/172134/28 "2003-05-01T02:27:19Z")
Ha! You people know nothing of the deathly glare! I’ve mastered the art of facial expression altogether People know exactly what I’m thinking just by the look on my face. I don’t even have to talk anymore. In fact, I haven’t spoken a word in _months_. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-mock-people/172134/29 "2003-05-02T05:07:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FranticMad \* > My, my. We’re all Einsteins of the clever insult here, aren’t we? \*\* Easy…Mr. Sarcasm. ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-mock-people/172134/30 "2003-05-02T05:49:28Z")
## quote: ## Originally posted by Sengkelat I distort my mouth by moving my jaw to the right and placing my tongue between my teeth, while smacking the back of my right hand against my chest, fingers pointing down, elbow out. Yeah, but can you do that while holding a knife? _applause_ ---
**Author:** ![sajwalke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@sajwalke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sajwalke)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-mock-people/172134/31 "2003-05-02T06:11:24Z")
I ask them to explain their thought process bit by bit. “Now explain this to me… beacuse I’m a little confused here. You wanted to turn in front of me but you _didn’t_ indicate. Why was that? Did you forget that if you turn in front of a moving car you could get killed? Did you think you were supposed to indicate where you’re _not_ turning? Are you retarded? Suicidal? Or, just maybe, you’re a FUCKING MORON! Now which is it?” ---
**Author:** ![sajwalke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@sajwalke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sajwalke)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-mock-people/172134/32 "2003-05-02T06:12:52Z")
I have had a bad experience or two in cars, you see. And I’ve only been driving for about a year! There are too many idiots in this world. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-mock-people/172134/33 "2003-05-02T09:37:54Z")
IRL, I’ll only mock people that I know well enough and to be sure it will be taken in good humour; I tend to go for a two-pronged approach, something like: “Are you going to stop asking pointless inane questions, or am I going to stab you in the head with a pair of scissors?” \ “Perhaps on second thoughts though, I should aim for a vital organ” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-mock-people/172134.md?page=1)