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The Snark Handbook: Insult Edition (Snark Series)

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by Lawrence Dorfman


  Constable, John

  Coolidge, Calvin

  Copeland, Aaron

  Cops

  Corelli, Marie

  Costas, Bob

  Coward, Noel

  Cox, Kenyon

  Cozzens, James Gould

  Crawford, Joan

  cummings, e.e.

  Curb Your Enthusiasm

  Curran, John Philpot

  Darrow, Clarence

  David, Larry

  Davies, Robertson

  Davis, Jr., Sammy

  Davis, Bette

  Dazed and Confused

  de Tocqueville, Alexis

  Dean, John

  Demaret, Jimmy

  Departed, The

  Dewey, Thomas

  Dickens, Charles

  Dickey, James

  Diller, Phyllis

  Disney, Walt

  Disraeli, Benjamin

  Ditka, Mike

  Donatelli, Augie

  Dostoevsky, Fyodor

  Drucker, Peter F.

  Dryden, John

  Duffecy, James

  Dunham, Jeff

  Duva, Dan

  Duva, Lou

  Dykstra, Lillian

  Earl of Rochester

  Eban, Abba

  Eden, Dorothy

  Ehrlichman, John

  Einstein, Albert

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  Eliot, T. S.

  Evans, Dame Edith

  Facebook

  Fadiman, Clifton

  Faldo, Nick

  Falwell, Jerry

  Family Guy

  Faulkner, William

  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

  Feherty, David

  Ferber, Edna

  Fey, Tina

  Field, Eugene

  Fields, W. C.

  Fish Called Wanda, A

  Fitzgerald, Edward

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott

  Ford, Ford Madox

  Ford, Gerald

  Ford, Henry

  Foreman, George

  Forster, E. M.

  Fosse, Bob

  FOX News

  France, Anatole

  Franny and Zooey

  Frazier, Joe

  Freedman and Barnouin

  Freud, Clement

  Freud, Sigmund

  Friars Club, The

  Friedan, Betty

  Frost, Robert

  Frosted Flakes

  Fudd, Elmer

  Furyk, Jim

  Gable, Clark

  Gabor, Zsa Zsa

  Garden State

  Gates, Bill

  Gauguin, Paul

  Gaxton, William

  Geffen, David

  George, David Lloyd

  Gershwin, George

  Gibbon, Edward

  Gilbert, W. S.

  Gilliam, Junior

  Glasgow, Ellen

  Gleason, Jackie

  Glengarry Glen Ross

  Goldwater, Barry

  Gore, Thomas P.

  Graham, Sheila

  Grant, Ulysses S.

  Gray, Thomas

  Greene, A. C.

  Griffin, Stewie

  Grimson, Stu

  Grisham, John

  Groundskeeper Willie

  Guys and Dolls

  Gypsy

  Haldeman, H. R.

  Halsey, Margaret

  Handelsman, J. B.

  HarperCollins

  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  Healy, Dennis

  Heimel, Cynthia

  Heine, Heinrich

  Hemingway, Ernest

  Henderson, Thomas

  Hepburn, Katharine

  Herford, Oliver

  Hicks, Bill

  High Society

  Hightower, Jim

  Hillary, Edmund

  Hitler, Adolf

  Holmes, Sherlock

  Honda

  Hopper, Hedda

  Hotten, On John

  Housman, A. E.

  Howells, William Dean

  Hubbard, Kin

  Hughes, Howard

  Hugo, Victor

  Hunt, Leigh

  Hunter, Torii

  Huxley, Aldous

  Ickes, Harold

  Idiot, The

  Imhoff, John

  Irving, John

  Irving, Sir Henry

  Ivins, Molly

  Jacoby, Joe

  James, Henry

  Jameson, Jenna

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Joan of Arc

  Jobs, Steve

  Joe the Plumber

  Johannsen, Jake

  Johnson, Lou

  Johnson, Samuel

  Jonas Brothers

  Jones, Henry Arthur

  Kael, Pauline

  Katz, Jonathan

  Kaufman, George S.

  Keane, Roy

  Keating, Kenneth B.

  Keating, Paul

  Keillor, Garrison

  Kendall, Donald

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kerouac, Jack

  Kerr, Jean

  Kerr, Walter

  Kilborn, Craig

  King, Larry

  Kingsley, Charles

  Kipling, Rudyard

  Kirby, Julie

  Kissinger, Henry

  Klee, Paul

  Knowles, Beyonce

  Kournikova, Anna

  La Bohéme

  Lady Gaga

  Lamb, Lady Caroline

  Lampanelli, Lisa

  Lanchester, Elsa

  Landers, Ann

  Lang, Andrew

  Lasorda, Tommy

  Lawrence. H.

  Leary, Denis

  Lee, Gypsy Rose

  Lee, Robert G.

  Lemmon, Jack

  Lennon, John

  Leno, Jay

  Leonard, Jack E.

  Letterman, David

  Levant, Oscar

  Leverson, Ada

  Levinson, Leonard Louis

  Lewis. S.

  Lewis, Wyndham

  Liberace

  Liddy, G. Gordon

  Lil Wayne

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Long Kiss Goodnight

  Long, Earl

  Love III, David

  Lullaby

  Luther, Martin

  Mabie, Hamilton

  Mad Men

  Madoff, Bernie

  Maher, Bill

  Mailer, Norman

  Man in Full, A

  Mankiewicz, Herman J.

  Manning, Bernard

  Mansfield, Katherine

  Mansfield, Richard

  Marshall, Bob

  Martin, Demetri

  Martin, Steve

  Marx, Groucho

  Marx, Simon

  Masefield, John

  Massa, Eric

  Mattel

  Matthau, Walter

  Mauclair, Camille

  Mayer, Louis B.

  McCain, John

  McCarthy, Charlie

  McCarthy, Mary

  McClellan, General George

  McDonald’s

  McEnroe, John

  McLaughlin, Mignon

  McManus, Seamus

  Mead, Margaret

  Melville, Herman

  Merman, Ethel

  Metcalf, Shelby

  Michaelangelo

  Midler, Bette

  Milk Duds

  Miller, Arthur

  Miller, Dennis

  Millen, Matt

  Milton, John

  Minnesota Twins

  Mitford, Nancy

  Mizner, Wilson

  Moby-Dick

  Molière

  Monkey Wrench Gang, The

  Monroe, Marilyn

  Moore, Patrick

  Moorer, Michael

  Moorhouse, Justin

  Morgan, J. P.

  Morris, Robert T.

  Morris, William

  Mother Teresa

  Munro, H. H.

  Muppet Show, The

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nbsp; Mussolini, Benito

  Nabokov, Vladimir

  Nathan, George Jean

  National Hockey League (NHL)

  Navratilova, Martina

  New York Giants

  Newman, Ernest

  Nielsen, Leslie

  Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

  Nintendo Wii

  Nixon, Richard

  Noah

  Norton, Ken

  Novak, Ralph

  Oakland Raiders

  O’Brien, Conan

  O’Brien, Kate Cruise

  O’Connor, Flannery

  O’Hara, Catherine

  O’Neil, Shaquille

  O’Neill, Eugene

  Ono, Yoko

  Oprah

  Otero, Reggie

  Palahniuk, Chuck

  Palin, Sarah

  Panzram, Carl

  Paradise Lost

  Parker, Dorothy

  Patterson, James T.

  Pep, Willie

  Peter Pan

  Pez

  Picasso, Pablo

  Poe, Edgar Allan

  Polk, Torrin

  Pope, Alexander

  Pound, Ezra

  Pride and Prejudice

  Proust, Marcel

  Pythagoras

  Raphael, Frederic

  Ratoff, Gregory

  Reagan, Ronald

  Redford, Robert

  Reed, Rex

  Reed, Thomas Brackett

  Ref, The

  Renoir, Auguste

  Richard III,

  Richards, Ann

  Rickles, Don

  Rinehart, Mary Roberts

  Rivers, Joan

  Rodgers, James W.

  Rodman, Dennis

  Rolling Stones, The

  Romeo and Juliet

  Ronstadt, Linda

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  Roseanne

  Ross, Jeffrey

  Rossini, Giovanni

  Rowling, J. K.

  Roxanne

  Ruskin, John

  Russell, Bill

  Saint-Saens, Camille

  Salinger, J. D.

  Sarte, Jean-Paul

  Saturday Night Live

  Sayers, Dorothy L.

  Sayle, Alexei,

  Schrute, Dwight

  Scott, George C.

  Scott, Sir Walter

  Shakespeare, William

  Sharapova, Maria

  Shaw, George Bernard

  Sheen, Charlie

  Simon, Carly

  Simon, John

  Simon, Neil

  Simpson, Jessica

  Simpsons, The

  Sinatra, Frank

  Sitwell, Edith

  Skinny Bitch

  Slave Ship, The

  Smart, Christopher

  Smigel, Robert

  Smith, Harvey

  Smith, Juliana

  Smith, Margaret

  Smith, Sydney

  Smollett, Tobias George

  Smyth, Dame Ethel

  Snead, Sam

  Snoop Dogg

  Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

  Stallone, Sylvester

  Stanwyck, Barbara

  Star Wars

  Statler and Waldorf

  Stein, Gertrude

  Steinbeck, John

  Steinem, Gloria

  Stevenson, Robert Louis

  Stewart, Jon

  Stewart, Rod

  Stilwell, Joseph

  Stone, Irving

  Stone, Sharon

  Stooges, The Three

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher

  Stravinsky, Igor

  Superman

  Swift, Jonathan

  Talleyrand, Charles Count

  Taylor, Elizabeth

  Tennyson, Lord Alfred

  Terence

  Texas A&M

  Thatcher, Margaret

  The Edge

  The Office

  Theismann, Joe

  Thomas, Dylan

  Thompson, Hunter S.

  Three Lives

  Thurber, James

  Tiny Tim

  Titanic

  Tolstoy, Leo

  Tomlin, Lily

  Tracy, Spencer

  Tree, Herbert Beerbohm

  Trevino, Lee

  Triumph the Insult Comic Dog

  Truman, Harry S.

  Trump, Donald

  Turner, J. M. W.

  Turner. Ted

  Twain, Mark

  Twitter

  Tynan, Kenneth

  Tyson, Mike

  U2

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  University of Houston

  University of Pittsburgh

  Updike, John

  Van Doren, Mamie

  Vidal, Gore

  Village People, The

  Vonnegut, Kurt

  Waits, Tom

  Wall Street Journal, The

  Warhol, Andy

  Warner Brothers

  Waugh, Evelyn

  Webster, Jean

  Webster, Noah

  Wells, H. G.

  West Side Story

  West, Mae

  Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

  Whistler, James McNeil

  Whitehorn, Katharine

  Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

  Wilde, Oscar

  Wilde, Percival

  Wilder, Billy

  Wilhelmina Modeling Agency

  Wilkes, John

  Williams, Ralph Vaughan

  Wilson, Edmund

  Winchell, Walter

  Wodehouse, P. G.

  Wolfe, Tom

  Wolfgang Von Goethe, Johann

  Wonder, Stevie

  Woods, Tiger

  Woolf, Virginia

  Yeats, William Butler

  Young, Andrew

  Youngman, Henny

  YouTube

  Zola, Emile

  1 Who are you, Sherlock Holmes?

  2 See example A, The Snark Handbook, for subtle snark.

  3 It can even cut the chase.

  4 By no means complete, like a hundred politicians at the bottom of the ocean, it’s a good start.

  5 Groucho’s father, Simon, worked as a tailor, but since he refused to use a measuring tape, his customers were seldom satisfied. True story.

  6 Yeah, there’s two masters ... what about it?

  7 Hey Kurt, relax. If Attila the Hun were alive today he’d be a critic.

  8 1. C., 2. B., 3. F., 4. A., 5. D., 6. E.

  9 Christopher Smart on Thomas Gray

  10 Ezra Pound on T. S. Eliot

  11 e.e. cummings on Ezra Pound

  12 T. S. Eliot on Henry James

  13 W. H. Auden on Robert Browning

  14 Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Edward Gibbon

  15 W. H. Auden on Edgar Allan Poe

  16 Juliana Smith on Noah Webster

  17 This is ridiculous. Everyone knows you can’t type on toilet paper.

  18 Truman Capote on William Faulkner

  19 Theodore Roosevelt on Henry James

  20 Gore Vidal on Truman Capote

  21 Virginia Woolf on Henry James

  22 Gore Vidal on Gertrude Stein

  23 F. Scott Fitzgerald about Ernest Hemingway

  24 Noël Coward on Edith Sitwell

  25 1. E., 2. B., 3. D., 4. A., 5. F., 6. C.

  26 This from the guy who wrote Peter Pan?

  27 Nowadays having “only” two faces would make him a paragon of nobility.

  28 Henry James on Edgar Allen Poe

  29 Dylan Thomas on Edith Sitwell

  30 Evelyn Waugh on Marcel Proust

  31 Mark Twain on Jane Austen

  32 Katherine Mansfield on E. M. Forster

  33 James Gould Cozzens on John Steinbeck

  34 Anatole France on Émile Zola

  35 James Dickey on Robert Frost

  36 Just remember that I’m a razor in comparison.

  37 You may not understand them, but they certainly sound insulting.

  38 1. E.,
2. C., 3. A., 4. D., 5. F., 6. B.

  39 Edward Abbey on Anton Bruckner

  40 Gore Vidal talking about Andy Warhol

  41 Joan Rivers on Yoko Ono

  42 Camille Mauclair on Paul Cézanne

  43 George S. Kaufman to actor William Gaxton

  44 Camille Saint-Saens on Dame Ethel Smyth

  45 Aaron Copland on Ralph Vaughan Williams

  46 Mark Twain on J. M. W. Turner’s The Slave Ship

  47 1. E., 2. C., 3. D., 4. A., 5. F., 6. B.

  48 [If I were reincarnated ...] I’d come back as my wife and leave me the hell alone.—Jeff Dunham

  49 Mamie Van Doren about Warren Beatty

  50 Johnny Carson about Chevy Chase

  51 John Simon on Walter Matthau

  52 Howard Hughes about Clark Gable

  53 Rex Reed on Sylvester Stallone

  54 Barbara Stanwyck about Marilyn Monroe

  55 That’s not to say he wouldn’t touch you if you were a thirteenyear-old girl.

  56 1. F., 2. E., 3. D., 4. A., 5. B., 6. C.

  57 Even though the shiny part had actually peeled off.

  58 James T. Patterson on Thomas Dewey

  59 Gore Vidal on Ronald Reagan

  60 Clement Freud on Margaret Thatcher

  61 Bette Midler on a member of the Royal Family

  62 Alice Roosevelt Longworth on Calvin Coolidge

  63 Ann Richards on George Bush

  64 Irving Stone on William Jennings Bryan

  65 Harry S. Truman about Dwight D. Eisenhower

  66 Aneurin Bevan about Neville Chamberlain

  67 No, this isn’t a compliment meant for politicians!

  68 1. D., 2. E., 3. B., 4. F., 5. A., 6. C.

  69 Yeah, that’s right. Sometimes dogs are smarter than you.

  70 1. C., 2. E., 3. A., 4. F., 5. D., 6. B.

  71 Clearly a man with a death wish but the newer, gentler Mike would at least do it fast.

  72 Muhammad Ali to a young boxer

  73 Joe Frazier to Ken Norton

  74 David Feherty, the Irish former golfer, on Jim Furyk’s swing

  75 Willie Pep, the American featherweight boxer, when asked by an old opponent if he remembered him

  76 Bob Costas about Dennis Rodman

 

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