| 1001 Insults, Put-Downs, & Comebacks Contributor(s): Price, Steven (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1599210738 ISBN-13: 9781599210735 Publisher: Lyons Press OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2007 Annotation: An insult can be offensive and infuriating, but we' ve all had those moments where we just wish we had come up with a good one. Even better, having the perfect comeback to one of these rude remarks brings us all the personal satisfaction in the world. 1001 Insults, Put-downs, & Comebacks gathers together the very sharpest of these barbs from a wide variety of sources with some of the wickedest put-downs from the literary, political, and entertainment worlds, along with many others, including: " He has become the oldest living cute boy in the world." -- Anna Quindlen on Paul McCartney " I' ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn' t it." -- Groucho Marx " When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price?" -- David Letterman Clare Booth Luce stood aside and gestured Dorothy Parker to precede her through a door, saying " Age before beauty." Parker swept on, saying only " Pearls before swine." " George Steinbrenner is the center of evil in the universe." -- Ben Affleck on the New York Yankees owner |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Humor |
| Dewey: 818.540 |
| Series: 1001 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.08" W x 6.86" (0.81 lbs) 360 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."--Groucho MarxAn insult can be offensive and infuriating, but it means nothing if you have a better comeback. 1001 Insults, Put-Downs, and Comebacks gathers together the very sharpest of these barbs from a wide variety of sources, with some of the wickedest put-downs from the literary, political, and entertainment worlds, along with many others. |