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24. Between Canada's Trudeau and Richard Nixon

Reply to opiate69 (Original post)

Tue May 22, 2012, 03:10 PM

May 2012

Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau was asked by a reporter of an insulting line thrown at him by President Richard Nixon. Nixon apparently called him an asshole.

Trudeau responded with something like: I've been called worse things by better people.

I love that comeback, there's no recovery from it.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierre_Trudeau

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Elegant and funny insults.... [View all] opiate69 May 2012 OP

There's also that legendary one about sleeping with somebody for a certain amount of money RZM May 2012 #1

The Coolidge exchange is supposedly true. Chan790 May 2012 #11

I didn't know that RZM May 2012 #12

Another Churchill gem WhoIsNumberNone May 2012 #2

Churchill ate barbs for breakfast. rug May 2012 #3

He was the master, no question... opiate69 May 2012 #5

"Are you going to keep talking while you think of something to say?" Kaleva May 2012 #4

Damn! I hope my department has another meeting soon, because that one petronius May 2012 #6

lol opiate69 May 2012 #7

"There's a name for you ladies, begin_within May 2012 #8

Quotable Bitches, never been in a kennel crunch60 May 2012 #39

Alice Roosevelt Longworth speaking of her father, Teddy Roosevelt: Rowdyboy May 2012 #9

Also from Alice-- eridani May 2012 #14

"Steel Magnolias" writer stole that line from Alice and its one of the funniest in the entire movie Rowdyboy May 2012 #15

In 1922, a woman let Dorthy Parker enter a door before her, saying... FayeKane May 2012 #10

It was no less than Claire Booth Luce hifiguy May 2012 #17

Dear Molly Ivins re George Bush sarge43 May 2012 #13

And Ann Richards KamaAina May 2012 #18

I understand Ann and Molly were good friends sarge43 May 2012 #20

They were very good friends, AFAIK, and I've always thought hifiguy May 2012 #23

They surely did exchange studied insults about the target du jour. sarge43 May 2012 #30

There would be nothing left but a pair of smoking shoes hifiguy May 2012 #31

Would have nuked the dweeb. n/t sarge43 May 2012 #32

And don't forget: lastlib May 2012 #26

IIRC Churchill also referred to Atlee as "a sheep in hifiguy May 2012 #16

A Toronto review of Keanu Reeves' Hamlet KamaAina May 2012 #19

A critic's take on Burton's performance in Anne of a Thousand Days sarge43 May 2012 #21

Stooges Style - Sorry couldnt resist benld74 May 2012 #22

Between Canada's Trudeau and Richard Nixon sharp_stick May 2012 #24

another one (also, I think attributed to W. Churchill): lastlib May 2012 #25

A Congressman for whom I campaigned many years ago... lastlib May 2012 #27

Tallulah Bankhead solara May 2012 #28

Two of my Tallulah favorites sarge43 May 2012 #29

Oh yes! solara May 2012 #33

On her deathbed, her final words were "Codeine....bourbon..." ....She was quite a woman Rowdyboy May 2012 #38

I just checked my bookshelf HeiressofBickworth May 2012 #34

lmao! America's very first teabagger freeper! opiate69 May 2012 #35

Oscar Wilde......"He has no enemies.... Rowdyboy May 2012 #36

During the last years of his second term Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke and was incapacitated.... Rowdyboy May 2012 #37