My boss (resident of 221b Baker Street) is very insulting. Poor Mrs Hudson can barely stand him and dear John and most of his other 'friends' just have to put up with him most of the time. (He's not very sympathetic!)
He is the most knowledgeable person I know, in fact i do sometimes call him Spock, as does dear John.
He doesn't even know his own friends names, and sometimes gets very angry and says he doesn't have any friends!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LUW2h322ps
How ever funny the insults might be it's not funny for the person being insulted. My boss is very slowly learning that you should treat people the way you want to be treated yourself. It is always better to laugh with your friends even though it is easier to laugh at them and sometimes it is better to keep your thoughts inside you head rather than let them escape out.
Saying that, here are some of my favourite quotes from William Shakespeare, the master of insults!
- I do desire we may be better strangers.
As You Like It (3.2.248) - More of your conversation would infect my brain.
Coriolanus (2.1.91) - The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.
Coriolanus (5.4.18) - Take you me for a sponge?
Hamlet (4.2.13) - I scorn you, scurvy companion.
2 Henry IV (2.4.115) - Away, you mouldy rogue, away!
2 Henry IV (2.4.117) - Hag of all despite!
1 Henry VI (3.2.54) - I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,
And with the other fling it at thy face.
3 Henry VI (5.1.51-2) - Out, dunghill!
King John (4.3.91) - You juggler! you canker-blossom!
A Midsummer Night's Dream (3.2.293) - Thou lump of foul deformity!
Richard III (1.2.58)
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