{"id":8904,"date":"2011-10-23T19:55:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T23:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=8904"},"modified":"2011-10-23T22:03:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T02:03:01","slug":"shakespearean-insult-kit-offers-tips-on-how-to-be-sharp-tongued-with-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/10\/shakespearean-insult-kit-offers-tips-on-how-to-be-sharp-tongued-with-class","title":{"rendered":"“Shakespearean Insult Kit” offers tips on how to be sharp-tongued with class"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you weary of giving voice to the same tired old invectives\u00a0when boorish rubes intrude upon your serenity?<\/p>\n

“Don’t you wish you could inveigh your enemy\u00a0with a genuinely classic put-down?” asks writer Pete Lewin. “Well, now you can.\u00a0With this handy-dandy Shakespearean Insult Kit\u00a0you can have the spleen of The Bard at your disposal!<\/p>\n

“The next time someone cuts you off in traffic\u00a0or a clerk behaves rudely,\u00a0stun them with your lexicographical command of vituperation.”<\/p>\n

Here is the kit.<\/p>\n

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So, have fun. When you’ve had it with that cashier who ignores you while laughing on her cellphone, smile and say: “Thou tottering, spur-galled varlot! Do thy job!”<\/p>\n

And when somebody jumps into the taxi ahead of you, scowl at them, shake your fist as they drive off and utter: “Thou pibbling, knotty-pated malt-worm!”<\/p>\n

See, you feel better already, don’t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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