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** He's also said; "May a camel give birth in your bunk!"

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** He's also said; "May a camel give birth in your bunk!"tent!"
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** He's also said; "May a camel give birth in your bunk!"
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* ''TheEnchantressOfFlorence'' gave us, among others, "Why don't you go and masturbate a diseased goat?" and "Tell your master to go put a hole in a picture of his late wife and fornicate with that.""

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* ''TheEnchantressOfFlorence'' gave us, among others, "Why don't you go and masturbate a diseased goat?" and "Tell your master to go put a hole in a picture of his late wife and fornicate with that.""
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* ''TheEnchantressOfFlorence'' gave us, among others, "Why don't you go and masturbate a diseased goat?" and "Tell your master to go put a hole in a picture of his late wife and go fornicate with it.""

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* ''TheEnchantressOfFlorence'' gave us, among others, "Why don't you go and masturbate a diseased goat?" and "Tell your master to go put a hole in a picture of his late wife and go fornicate with it.that.""
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* ''TheEnchantressOfFlorence'' gave us, among others, "Why don't you go and masturbate a diseased goat?" and "Tell your master to go put a hole in a picture of his late wife and go fornicate with it.""
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* Ezio gives Cesare an insult that's pretty flowery for him at the end of AssassinsCreedBrotherhood: "Che nessuno ricordi il tuo nome (May no one remember your name)"

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* This is actually really common with Arabic, as the language doesn't provide a lot of options as far as directly obscene words go. It pretty much requires creativity in order to insult someone in Arabic.

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* This is actually really common with Classical Arabic, as the language doesn't provide a lot of options as far as directly obscene words go. It pretty much requires creativity in order to insult someone in (Classical) Arabic.


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** We give the caveat "Classical," because the various Colloquial Arabics actually spoken on the street actually have a ton of more direct insults, particularly [[YourMom regarding one's mother]].
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* ''{{Goblins}}'': Kin suffers from fear-enhanced SesquipedalianLoquaciousness and comes out with some good ones. "Your existence demonstrates a flesh-to-futility ratio that is mathematically staggering!"
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---> May every tooth in your head fall out, and that one ache!

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---> May every tooth in your head but one fall out, and that one ache!
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* The insults in CurseOfMonkeyIsland venture into this territory sometimes. They're still prime examples of YouFightLikeACow...but because he's on the high seas, he has to rhyme his retort with his opponent's jibe. If you don't know the correct response, you can still give 'em a rhyme...but it's more like Flowery Idiocy instead.

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* The insults in CurseOfMonkeyIsland ''TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' venture into this territory sometimes. They're still prime examples of YouFightLikeACow...but because he's on the high seas, he has to rhyme his retort with his opponent's jibe. If you don't know the correct response, you can still give 'em a rhyme...but it's more like Flowery Idiocy instead.

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* Edmond Rostand's play, ''CyranoDeBergerac'', has a scene wherein Cyrano berates someone for being unimaginative in his insults (of Cyrano himself) and proceeds to give examples of how the man might have insulted him.


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* CyranoDeBergerac:
** A man wants to insult Cyrano, but all he can say is: "Sir, your nose is... hmm... it is... very big!" Cyrano berates him for being unimaginative, and gives examples of better insults in many different styles.
** At Act II scene I, Ragueneau gives us this gem when he reproach his practical wife Lise her judgment on his friends, the poets:
--> '''Lise''' ''(dryly):'' And am I not free to turn at last to some use the sole thing that your
--> wretched scribblers of halting lines leave behind them by way of payment?
--> '''Ragueneau:''' Groveling ant!. . .Insult not the divine grasshoppers, the sweet singers!

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* A spare but pointy exchange in ''LawrenceOfArabia'':
-->'''Auda abu Tayi''': Harith! Ali, does your father still steal?
-->'''Sherif Ali''': No. Does Auda take me for one of his own bastards?
-->'''Auda abu Tayi''': No, there is no resemblance. Alas, you resemble your father.
-->'''Sherif Ali''': Auda flatters me.
-->'''Auda abu Tayi''': You're easily flattered. I knew your father well.
-->'''Sherif Ali''': Did you know your own?
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May be caused by being from a foreign culture like the example.

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May be caused by being from a foreign culture like the example.
example. If both opponents do this, VolleyingInsults is likely to turn into a verbal {{arms race}}.

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** ''{{Timon of Athens}}'' has "[[EvenTheRatsWontTouchIt Would thou wert clean enough]] to [[SpitefulSpit spit upon]]!".



* In the book ThereWillBeDragons, the BigBad is given a magnificent dressing down in the middle of a battle, his opponent almost singing a long and eloquent combination of flowery insult and ReasonYouSuckSpeech (it's a full page in the book) that literally leaves the guy crying before he finally gets put down.

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* In the book ThereWillBeDragons, ''There Will Be Dragons'', the BigBad is given a magnificent dressing down in the middle of a battle, his opponent almost singing a long and eloquent combination of flowery insult and ReasonYouSuckSpeech (it's a full page in the book) that literally leaves the guy crying before he finally gets put down.



->May a crazed weightlifter clean and jerk your sister.
->May your only son become the goalie on a nude hockey team.
->May a camel with a weak kidney condition find your hope chest.
->May the winds of the Sahara blow a desert scorpion up your turban.
->May you fall asleep under a camel with post nasal drip.
->May you be forced to visit a near-sighted proctologist.
->May a weird holy man drop a cactus down your shorts.

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->May -->May a crazed weightlifter clean and jerk your sister.
->May -->May your only son become the goalie on a nude hockey team.
->May -->May a camel with a weak kidney condition find your hope chest.
->May -->May the winds of the Sahara blow a desert scorpion up your turban.
->May -->May you fall asleep under a camel with post nasal drip.
->May -->May you be forced to visit a near-sighted proctologist.
->May -->May a weird holy man drop a cactus down your shorts.



* Jägermonsters in ''GirlGenius'' are as good in a dirty speech as they are in a fight:

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* Jägermonsters in ''GirlGenius'' are as good [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030324 in a dirty speech speech]] as they are in a fight:


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* ''{{xkcd}}'' channel's bot has a [[http://www.xkcdb.com/?7444 rather unusual set of phrases for this purpose]].
--> (channel operator): are those insults or pokemon?
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* ''DungeonsAndDragons'' ''Al-Qadim'' setting, ''Land of Fate'' boxed set. A couple of these are found in the "Adventurer's Guide to Zakhara'':

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* ''DungeonsAndDragons'' DungeonsAndDragons quasi-Arabic setting ''Al-Qadim'' setting, ''Land of Fate'' boxed set. follows the tradition. A couple few of these are found in the "Adventurer's Guide to Zakhara'':Zakhara" (''Land of Fate'' [[{{sourcebook}} boxed set]]):
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* Christmas Snow from ''{{Shadowgirls}}'', after [[HeelFaceTurn getting a memo]] that the life isn't all high-schoolgirlish pettiness, caught a little [[TriageTyrant clinical]] [[http://www.shadowgirlscomic.com/comics/health-care/ bureaucrat]] and... used her [[TheLibby Mad Bitchy Skillz]] [[http://www.shadowgirlscomic.com/comics/health-care-2/ rather creatively]].

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* Christmas Snow from ''{{Shadowgirls}}'', after [[HeelFaceTurn getting a memo]] that the life isn't all high-schoolgirlish pettiness, caught a little [[TriageTyrant [[BattleaxeNurse clinical]] [[http://www.shadowgirlscomic.com/comics/health-care/ bureaucrat]] and... used her [[TheLibby Mad Bitchy Skillz]] [[http://www.shadowgirlscomic.com/comics/health-care-2/ rather creatively]].
creatively]] "exercised" her [[TheLibby Mad Bitchy Skillz]].
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* Christmas Snow from ''{{Shadowgirls}}'', after [[HeelFaceTurn getting a memo]] that the life isn't all high-schoolgirlish pettiness, caught a little [[TriageTyrant clinical]] [[http://www.shadowgirlscomic.com/comics/health-care/ bureaucrat]] and... used her [[TheLibby Mad Bitchy Skillz]] [[http://www.shadowgirlscomic.com/comics/health-care-2/ rather creatively]].
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* Popular in ''CaptnCrazy''. Like "Bearded ape", "roast apple".
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* Johnny Carson as Karnac the Magnificent
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** Here are some more:
---> May you turn into a chandelier, so that you can hang from the cieling all day and burn at night!
---> May every tooth in your head fall out, and that one ache!

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** Somewhat cruder than most other examples here, though.
-->''"Texas?! Only steers and queers come from Texas, and you don't look much like a steer to me, so that kind of narrows it down!"''

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"You son of a rabid bitch! Grandson of a stinking jackal! Great-grandson of a plucked vulture!"

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"You ''"You son of a rabid bitch! Grandson of a stinking jackal! Great-grandson of a plucked vulture!"
vulture!"''

Or this one:

''"A thousand dicks in your religion!"''
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* [[TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren]] refers to Stimpy as "a bloated sack of protoplasm" on occasion.
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* Klinger from {{MASH}} once said "May the Bluebird of Happiness leave a surprise in your orange juice!"
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--> "Dionys, thou art a coward. Sooth doth thou send others before thee and refrain from the strife thyself. Thou strikest women yet shirk to strike a man, lest thy pustulent skin be cut by a blade fairer than thy own. Sooth, thou art a coward, McCanoc. Dionys, thou art a braggart. Braggart thou art for naught, for in every contest thou art defeated. Fighter of weaklings and braggarts like thyself, whensoever a true knight face thee, thou runs away. Yet, in sooth, from this cowardly retreat dost thou make brag. McCanoc, thou art a braggart. Dionys, thou art smelly. Thy breath stinks of the rotten ejacula of horses, which, sooth, thou dost love as they morning drink. Thy body reeks with the stench of fear, and the manure of the asparagus-eating goats is better than the smell from thy mustache. McCanoc, thou art a stinker. Dionys, thou art ugly. The orcs doth not run forward to fight, but away from thy countenance. Sooth, in the history of the ill-favored, thy name is held in high esteem. Thy whore mother screamed at first sight of thee as the replicator burst open of its own accord in horror. The ill-fortuned persons that were forced to care for thee had to put a pork chop around thy neck to get the dog to play with thee. Further sooth, when it did, it mistook thy ass for thy face and preferred it to lick. McCanoc, thou art ugly.

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--> "Dionys, thou art a coward. Sooth doth thou send others before thee and refrain from the strife thyself. Thou strikest women yet shirk to strike a man, lest thy pustulent skin be cut by a blade fairer than thy own. Sooth, thou art a coward, McCanoc.Mc Canoc. Dionys, thou art a braggart. Braggart thou art for naught, for in every contest thou art defeated. Fighter of weaklings and braggarts like thyself, whensoever a true knight face thee, thou runs away. Yet, in sooth, from this cowardly retreat dost thou make brag. McCanoc, Mc Canoc, thou art a braggart. Dionys, thou art smelly. Thy breath stinks of the rotten ejacula of horses, which, sooth, thou dost love as they thy morning drink. Thy body reeks with the stench of fear, and the manure of the asparagus-eating goats is better than the smell from thy mustache. McCanoc, Mc Canoc, thou art a stinker. Dionys, thou art ugly. The orcs doth not run forward to fight, but away from thy countenance. Sooth, in the history of the ill-favored, thy name is held in high esteem. Thy whore mother screamed at first sight of thee as the replicator burst open of its own accord in horror. The ill-fortuned persons that were forced to care for thee had to put a pork chop around thy neck to get the dog to play with thee. Further sooth, when it did, it mistook thy ass for thy face and preferred it to lick. McCanoc, Mc Canoc, thou art ugly.
ugly. Dionys, though art stupid. Thrice you have attacked us, and thrice have we thrown thee back, though we are but, forsooth, a fraction of thy number. Thou art unlettered and hath never read of the term "defeat in detail", for assuredly, but those few letters would require all day and the use of both of your pustulent forefingers. But the veriest simpleton canst understand thy tactics are those of a schoolyard bully held back until his tutors at last release him as a man full grown yet unable to manage fingerpainting. The very fact that thou canst breathe must be by the arts of some homunculi or hob, smarter than thou, who doth sit upon thy shoulder and whisper "Breathe in, breathe out" else surely thou wouldst cease in this vital activity for lack of thought. Canst thou walk and chew bubble gum at the same time it is asked and I cry "Nay" for I have found you, face down, the bubblegum before you upon the ground as proof. Mc Canoc, thou art stupid. And that is how a professional insults someone! Now, go away, or I'll start in on Arabic, you miserable mound of gelatinous pus!"

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* In the book ThereWillBeDragons, the BigBad is given a magnificent dressing down in the middle of a battle, his opponent almost singing a long and eloquent combination of flowery insult and ReasonYouSuckSpeech (it's a full page in the book) that literally leaves the guy crying before he finally gets put down.
--> "Dionys, thou art a coward. Sooth doth thou send others before thee and refrain from the strife thyself. Thou strikest women yet shirk to strike a man, lest thy pustulent skin be cut by a blade fairer than thy own. Sooth, thou art a coward, McCanoc. Dionys, thou art a braggart. Braggart thou art for naught, for in every contest thou art defeated. Fighter of weaklings and braggarts like thyself, whensoever a true knight face thee, thou runs away. Yet, in sooth, from this cowardly retreat dost thou make brag. McCanoc, thou art a braggart. Dionys, thou art smelly. Thy breath stinks of the rotten ejacula of horses, which, sooth, thou dost love as they morning drink. Thy body reeks with the stench of fear, and the manure of the asparagus-eating goats is better than the smell from thy mustache. McCanoc, thou art a stinker. Dionys, thou art ugly. The orcs doth not run forward to fight, but away from thy countenance. Sooth, in the history of the ill-favored, thy name is held in high esteem. Thy whore mother screamed at first sight of thee as the replicator burst open of its own accord in horror. The ill-fortuned persons that were forced to care for thee had to put a pork chop around thy neck to get the dog to play with thee. Further sooth, when it did, it mistook thy ass for thy face and preferred it to lick. McCanoc, thou art ugly.
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* ''TheThickOfIt'' is all about this trope.

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---> A similar one, not sure if I heard it somewhere or just made it up: May you have a hundred relatives, and may they all give you socks on your birthday!

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May you have a hundred relatives, and may they all give you socks on your birthday!
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* Sgt. Heartman from ''FullMetalJacket'' was able to come up with some pretty colorful insults on the fly.

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* Sgt. Heartman Hartman from ''FullMetalJacket'' was able to come up with some pretty colorful insults on the fly.

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* Former Prime Minister of Australia Paul Keating is still revered as having possessed one of the sharpest tongues ever wielded in the halls of parliament. His insults weren't all flowery gems (he could regularly be openly coarse and was often downright ''savage''), but a number of them were practically works of art. A collection of some of his best can be found [[http://www.webcity.com.au/keating/ here.]]
-->'''Paul Keating:''' I was implying that the Honorable Member for Wentworth was like a lizard on a rock - alive, but looking dead.

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