 Aribeth says: "All of them—along with many, many hundreds more—appear in my Viva la Repartee book." Pope John XXIII One of the few pontiffs in history with a rich sense of humor, Pope John XXIII once reported to an interviewer that important problems would frequently come to mind in the middle of the night, disturbing his sleep. Half awake, he'd make a mental note: "I must speak to the pope about that." "Then," he confessed, "I would be wide awake and remember—I am the pope!" Once asked by a journalist, "How many people work in the Vatican?" the pontiff pondered the question, giving the impression that he was trying to come up with an accurate estimate. Then, with a straight face, he answered: "About half." (more at the source) Great website  Viva El Pape ( La Pope..?) I must confess, I'm genuflecting as I say it... i love good tepartee, but I'm terrible at it...until later when alone I can really think up great ones...I'm usually the victim, since I'm so naive (or useta be)...When I told a woman friend I once dated that I was celibate, she told me "you're not celibate, you're deprived!" Ouch! @Sheroug thx @carrie lol @papananook ouch indeed  seems great idea & great site. will thoroughly check when Time allows me.. -)) 10x. The whole site looks like a place to put more life into language. That's the thing that can help fire the imagination, and quick comebacks can be more devastating than a shotgun.. Of course they're a lot funnier Papananook, I sometimes think of the witty thing to say after the moment has passed. In French, this is called l'esprit d'escalier (spirit of the staircase - pardon my French spelling) and in German Treppenwitz (stairway witch). Both refer to situations in which you're at a fancy party, have a chance to make a devastatingly witty remark, but the muse doesn't strike you until you're on the staircase as you're leaving. I think one of my best occurred when I was at my sister's house for a family event. The kids were watching THe Flintstones, and my brother-in-law walked past, looked at the TV and said, "Oh, yum! Bronto burgers!" Without dropping a beat, I said, "Since you r... Aribeth thanks for the super-clip Good stuff! What about this reply: Hegel, the philosopher, was lecturing philosophy on his student. One of the students stands up and says to the teacher: "Your facts do not fit to the theory!!!" Hegel ironically replies: "If my facts do not fit to the theory, the worse for the facts!" It's my favorite reply, seems like a result of Hegel's ego. Just like the 1943 novel by Ayn Rand "The Fountainhead", has a statement that says "Man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress." |
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