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Pat B
Ha ha! That would indeed have been the
perfect response! Funny funny! Maybe you can use it in a story someday!
posted by
Helen_Bach
on March 7, 2007 at 9:08 AM
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Troosha
A backspace on the tongue! Now, somewhere up there, the Great Creator of All is pounding his head on a cloud shouting, "Darnit! I knew I forgot
something!"
posted by
Helen_Bach
on March 7, 2007 at 9:06 AM
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Thank You
posted by
1TimeSoldier
on March 7, 2007 at 3:15 AM
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What a positve and encouraging influence you are luv.
posted by
Kabu
on March 6, 2007 at 4:10 PM
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We have some awesome company, Helen
Read what Saint Paul writes about what others say about him in 2 Corinthians 10:10
For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
posted by
cpklapper
on March 6, 2007 at 4:04 PM
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I think it's the element of surprise that makes us think of the
perfect answer after it's too late. When we're writing a conversation between two characters, there's no off-the-wall thing that makes us tongue-tied. I had two babies born 51 weeks apart (Irish twins). One was blonde and fair, the other was dark-haired. One took after the German grandmother on daddy's side of the family, and the other took after the French Canadians on mommy's. A woman in the supermarket made a point of asking if the two were brothers. Had I been married before? and finally did they have the same father? Only next day did I have the perfect answer, which would have been "Yes, they have the same father: Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde."
posted by
Pat_B
on March 6, 2007 at 2:51 PM
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Helen
I think it's because there's no backspace key on our tongue. We can always delete or white-out a written word but once a word is spoken it can't be edited.
posted by
Troosha
on March 6, 2007 at 2:35 PM
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Whinge
Well, we
had to have the full tourist experience when we were there! Of course, not only did we click away with the cameras like a group of Japanese tourists (I am, after all, half), we also bought the full-colored glossy of my nostrils pressed against the germy stone surface!
posted by
Helen_Bach
on March 6, 2007 at 2:53 AM
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I didn't even kiss the Blarney Stone, it's way too slimy up there.
I was wearing heels, and kept sole surfing in the wet around the top of the castle. There was no way, I was upending myself in a plummetting crab position, have my top slip down to my ears exposing my stretchmarks and natty bra.
Also the fella holding the kissers looked like he needed a good feed, and to practise more with some weights, or bags of coal or something. I didn't trust him to not let me slip, and have my head wedged down by the bars.
As for wit, somewhat ok, or maybe people just laugh politely. Like yourself, way better on paper, so not rapier, just paper/papier wit.
posted by
CringeintheUSA
on March 6, 2007 at 2:47 AM
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Whacky
Hope they wake up feeling happy and refreshed!
posted by
Helen_Bach
on March 6, 2007 at 2:28 AM
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Hi there Kasthu!
That club of introverts must be quite a wild party! Well, drinks are on the house! Beneath still waters and all that, you know!
posted by
Helen_Bach
on March 6, 2007 at 2:26 AM
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Kabu, Kabu
After reading that little bit about "Alex", I don't believe a word of it! Don't know about witty dialogue, but you write a mean narrative! I quite liked it!
posted by
Helen_Bach
on March 6, 2007 at 2:23 AM
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Aerial 70
Oh yeah! Forgot about that! Well, guess that proves that the Blarney Stone is a big phoney! Either that, or hanging upside down while kissing the slimy thing caused all that eloquence to sink down to my fingers!
posted by
Helen_Bach
on March 6, 2007 at 2:21 AM
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Just hope your fingers don't take a nap right in the middle of a witty...
comment!ZZzzzzzzzz
A rose
from Bo =^..^= and one
from me!
posted by
Whacky
on March 5, 2007 at 8:26 PM
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I'm a die hard introvert, too
Welcome to the club!
posted by
Kasthu
on March 5, 2007 at 6:19 PM
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Helen you are indeed a kindred spirit. Because I write people wait for me
to be funny and quick with the wit but I aint. actually I admire you cos I can't even be original with the wit when I write.
posted by
Kabu
on March 5, 2007 at 2:11 PM
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Helen
Simple, my dear ; inside you is a smartarse motormouth trying to get out. Just let her go, and she'll be another face that launches a thousand quips.
Shoor, wasn't it yerself dat was after kissin' the Blarney stone ; after a night on the poteen?
posted by
ariel70
on March 5, 2007 at 1:28 PM
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You have a captivating style .
posted by
afzal50
on March 5, 2007 at 1:05 PM
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