Thursday, 4 October 2012

Quick wit

Most of us have trouble coming up with a witty retort at the right time. Usually, the clever remark only comes to us hours after the event...

Amy1, aka Ottoline, sent me a collection of very good examples of quick wit. Thank you!

Winston Churchill vs. Lady Astor



Groucho Marx vs. a contestant on “You Bet Your Life,” after the contestant revealed that he was a father of 10



Abraham Lincoln vs. Stephen Douglas, after Douglas called him “two-faced” during a debate



Pierre Trudeau vs. Richard Nixon, upon hearing that Nixon had called him an asshole



Oscar Wilde vs. Lewis Morris… Morris had just been passed over for the Poet Laureateship



Miriam Hopkins vs. an anonymous singer



James McNeill Whistler vs. Oscar Wilde, after Whistler 
had made a particularly witty observation



Bill Clinton vs. Dan Quayle, after Quayle revealed that he planned to be “a pit bull” in the 1992 campaign



Winston Churchill vs. a Member of Parliament



Calvin Coolidge vs. some random lady at a White House dinner



Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart vs. an admirer


Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Ouch!

Here's another wicked joke from our Mrsgunka:

A man got on the bus with both of his front trouser pockets full of golf balls and sat down next to a beautiful (you guessed it) blonde.The puzzled blonde kept looking at him and his bulging pockets.


Finally, after many glances from her, he said, "It's golf balls."

The blonde continued to look at him for a very long time, thinking deeply about what he had said.

After several minutes, not being able to contain her curiosity any longer, she asked, 

"Does it hurt as much as tennis elbow ?"

Thank you, Mrsgunka.

Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Lovely creatures

View_From_Here sent me a large collection of photos of various animals. As there were too many pictures for a single post, I made a slideshow, adding some Latin music especially for View. Enjoy!



Thank you, View.