Word: insults
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...beloved by all. To them, pinning someone is not as important as hurting them, and their victory dance is a spectacle that every man should behold: with a chesty snort, they raise their arms and thrust them downward, forming an X over their groin. Their battle cry--part insult, part exhibition of their enviable virility--is unmistakable: "SUCK IT!" I'd witnessed it a hundred times on TV, but seeing it in person has an unexpected effect on me--I develop an abrupt desire to buy one of those novelty foam hands that's giving the finger. They suddenly seemed...
...Both words, after all, are slurs, oddly similar in that they are formed by referring to a part of the body (neck or back) and adding a short, morally neutral word (red or wet) to form an insult...
Nowadays, "charisma" has come to mean little more than "charm" or "attractiveness." It is in this spirit that a Seattle Times reporter recently dubbed the Indigo Girls a "charismatic duo," and the Minneapolis Star Tribune called Minn. Gov. Jesse Ventura "a man so charismatic, he can insult and inspire in the same breath...
...After harassment and insult, altercation and despair, Knobler.com has been back online...
...imitate the weather in running to extremes: Thus, for example, we insult the past by overestimating the present's enlightenment and wonders, denigrating much of what came before; or else, reversing the error, we insult the present by imagining it to be dramatically worse (more depraved, for example, more satanic, even) than the past was. I'll have the best of times, please, but if those are not available, make it the worst of times...