Word: insultable
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Your review of this fine picture is positively nauseating, and an insult to the hundreds of thousands of scouters who devote their time, talents and energies to the youth of this nation. They do this, just as did "Scoutmaster MacMurray," because they believe adherence to the scout oath, or promise, by the youth of today will make better citizens tomorrow...
...Korean. Spectators poured out of the stands. Lee Byong Hae, a member of the South Korean Parliament, was beaten by police when he tried to break up the brawl. Four Korean players were carted off to a doctor with broken teeth, cuts, bruises, and other assorted injuries. Adding insult to injury, the referee announced that because the Koreans were unable to continue play, the game was forfeited to Thailand. As a final fillip, somebody threw a dagger at one of the Korean players...
...show that the giver is an intellectual, not because the recipient might actually enjoy them. The situation is happily reversed if it is the recipient who is struggling to prove his intellectual status-then the book becomes a compliment, where Valley of the Dolls would have been an insult. This is particularly true with very good-looking girls, who always want to be taken seriously for their intellect (plain girls must never be given books, except possibly love poems...
...provoke? Even the Lampoon's toothless progenitor, Punch, doesn't shy away from talking politics. Nor should the Lampoon, which never takes a stand, never catches you unawares, never makes you drop your jaw and the magazine at an outrageous line. In olden days, jesters felt obliged to insult monarchs. It is time that the Lampoon lived up to its cap and bells...
...requirement is annoying not because it insists upon exercise but because it demands adherence to rules in the same paternalistic spirit as compulsory chapel or class attendance. PT has in fact become more flexible in recent years. Still, the system is an insult and inconvenience to students, not to mention the administrative burden of keeping tabulations on each freshman and sending warnings to laggards until the end of their sophomore year...