Thought of a great insult

mid-morning on Monday, the 18th of June 2007 by Jason

so I’ve been playing with the concept of “joke grenades,” where you tell a coupla pieces of a joke that someone will get when they’re exposed to the critical piece of information later on. Often I’ll make references to stuff that I read on the local news online, but people won’t see until they get home and watch the evening news.

The other day I came up with my first insult grenade. It functions in two stages. The first stage introduces the insult, but without understanding the last piece of information it doesn’t make sense. When the person looks it up, they not only understand the scope of the insult, but will probably have a negative physical reaction.

“If you were any bigger of an asshole, it’d be your picture on goatse.cz”

sure, you’ve called them a name, but you’ve put a qualifier on it they’re (hopefully) not familiar with so they won’t know how to respond. Later on, they’ll hit the webpage and
1) throw up a little
2) understand exactly what you meant
which is why you shouldn’t hurl it at someone who can affect your career path. Go ahead and give it a try. I suggest using it at church… :-)

–jason