[270] in Humor
Speaking Shakespeare's Language
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wizbab@merle.acns.nwu.edu)
Mon May 16 18:43:30 1994
From: wizbab@merle.acns.nwu.edu
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 16 May 94 17:37:33 CDT
This is for all you techie people at MIT who need something creative from
someone in a liberal arts school who loves theater!
> > > CREATE YOUR OWN SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS by Jerry Maguire, who teaches
> > > English@Center Grove High School in Greenwood, Indiana.
> > >
> > > Combine one word from each of the three columns below, preface with
> > > "Thou" and thus shalt thou have the perfect insult. Let thyself
> > > go--mix and match to find a barb worthy of the Bard!
> > >
> > > Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
> > >
> > > artless base-court apple-john
> > > bawdy bat-fowling baggage
> > > beslubbering beef-witted barnacle
> > > bootless beetle-headed bladder
> > > churlish boil-brained boar-pig
> > > cockered clapper-clawed bugbear
> > > clouted clay-brained bum-bailey
> > > craven common-kissing canker-blossom
> > > currish crook-pated clack-dish
> > > dankish dismal-dreaming clotpole
> > > dissembling dizzy-eyed coxcomb
> > > droning doghearted codpiece
> > > errant dread-bolted death-token
> > > fawning earth-vexing dewberry
> > > fobbing elf-skinned flap-dragon
> > > froward fat-kidneyed flax-wench
> > > frothy fen-sucked flirt-gill
> > > gleeking flap-mouthed foot-licker
> > > goatish fly-bitten fustilarian
> > > gorbellied folly-fallen giglet
> > > impertinent fool-born gudgeon
> > > infectious full-gorged haggard
> > > jarring guts-griping harpy
> > > loggerheaded half-faced hedge-pig
> > > lumpish hasty-witted horn-beast
> > > mammering hedge-born hugger-mugger
> > > mangled hell-hated jolthead
> > > mewling idle-headed lewdster
> > > paunchy ill-breeding lout
> > > pribbling ill-nurtured maggot-pie
> > > puking knotty-pated malt-worm
> > > puny milk-livered mammet
> > > quailing motley-minded measle
> > > rank onion-eyed minnow
> > > reeky plume-plucked miscreant
> > > roguish pottle-deep moldwarp
> > > ruttish pox-marked mumble-news
> > > saucy reeling-ripe nut-hook
> > > spleeny rough-hewn pigeon-egg
> > > spongy rude-growing pignut
> > > surly rump-fed puttock
> > > tottering shard-borne pumpion
> > > unmuzzled sheep-biting ratsbane
> > > vain spur-galled scut
> > > venomed swag-bellied skainsmate
> > > villainous tardy-gaited strumpet
> > > warped tickle-brained varlot
> > > wayward toad-spotted vassal
> > > weedy unchin-snouted whey-face
> > > yeasty weather-bitten wagtail
> > >
> He remembered "rump-fed" but forgot "runion," as in "rump-fed runion"
> (see Macbeth, I think.)
>
> :)
