Terminalcoffee discussion

Are you good with quick comebacks? My friends and I clown on each other (it's good-natured fun), and I always have a hard time with coming up with something IMMEDIATELY, but I always get them back later.

I've always wanted to be good at quick comebacks, but I gotta think about it. But I've gotten better at it, and sometimes I'm on fire, sometimes I'm just like, "Man, whatever man, shut up." AND THEN I think of a comeback like, 5 hours after the exchange happened. There's a term for that! Here's the wikipedia link to prove it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'es...

Gus is... He wins.

I am when I write it down. FTF, I'm still obsessing over what I should've said 3 days later...

It's hit and miss with me -- something over which I have little control. It's something I can't plan on or rehearse, of course -- but I find that things pop into my mind and out of my mouth on occasion that surprise even me. Sometimes they are zingers, too -- but I find it hard to take credit for them. Sometimes my spontaneity depends on the person I'm responding to or interacting with.

I usually am - somedays I just don't have the energy to verbally joust with someone.

This reminds me of the Seinfeld where George flies back to another city because he finally thought of a good comeback.

Britt's plight reminds of that Seinfeld episode where George spends a week trying to invent a comeback against Reilly, a fellow employee with the NY Yankees. When he finally comes up with one - "The jerk store called...they're running out of you." - Reilly immediately replies, "What's the difference? You're their all-time best seller!"

You gotta have it in you. I can come up with a snappy comeback pretty quickly, but the trick is to just go ahead and say something, and not think about it. Even if it's borderline offensive. Okay, maybe not.

Jim wrote: "I usually am - somedays I just don't have the energy to verbally joust with someone."

Too much cheerleading?

Nice crosspost, by the way.

Here's a clip of that scene, by the way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA0i_I...

Sarah Pi wrote: "Jim wrote: "I usually am - somedays I just don't have the energy to verbally joust with someone."

Too much cheerleading?"

Something like that :-)

it is a talent that can be used for evil as well as good

GUS!!! Did you even see my post?! I totally had your back in this thread. I'll take it back! I swear I will!

Hours later I can come up with a zinger, but usually I am left without much to say

I can come up with a MEAN comment really quick, and I can engage in clever, sort of flirtatious repartee, but what's typically thought of as comebacks, no.

i had some good ones sunday night, but that was because i was tired and didn't monitor what was coming from my mouth. i usually think way too much to have good comebacks.

Sometimes my comebacks flow easily; other times my mind goes blank.

My FB friends already heard this, but I ran into Senator Barbara Mikulski in the liquor store on Saturday. Literally, since they were having a big wine sale and the aisles were crowded. She told Zu she thought there should be traffic lights in the store. Then I got in her way, and she said "beep beep" and I got out of her way, but she just stopped and looked at me and said "I have no idea whether I should go left or right" and I got to say "go left!" which absolutely made my week.
(She did then go left, but I think I led her astray with my wittiness, since left was beer, and judging from her cart in line later, she was there for wine.)

Deadly.

So two of my coworkers were discussing part of a project and one of them, male, said to the other of them, female, "it's harder than it looks." Before I could stop myself I said "I can only imagine how many women have heard you say THAT."

Oh SNAP! hehehe

Heidi, I must have been writing my comment when you posted your post. Thanks for the big ups!

sometimes I'm "spot on", sometimes just a complete blank ,what did you just say to me and how the heck an I going to reply? if I am passionate about the person or the situation, I can usually say something halfway witty and clever. my problem is I tend to be sarcastic if my response to the comment made to me is negative.