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Viva La Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History's Greatest Wits and Wordsmiths
Dr. Mardy Grothe
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Hardcover, 304 pages; 2005
$14.95
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Viva La Repartee, from the author of Bas Bleu bestseller Oxymoronica, presents the zippiest, funniest, cleverest retorts of all time. Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill, Mae West, Groucho Marx, W. C. Fields, and George Bernard Shaw are splendidly represented, of course, but many other (sometimes surprising) slingers of wit are featured as well. Gandhi, when asked by a reporter, "What do you think of Western civilization?", answered, "I think it would be a good idea." When Muhammad Ali protested to a flight attendant that he needn't buckle up because, "Superman don't need no seat belt," she countered with, "Superman don't need no airplane either." And when a female guest at a White House dinner whispered to Calvin Coolidge, "I made a bet today that I could get more than two words out of you," "Silent Cal" replied, "You lose." The wit-filled anecdotes in this guffaw-inducing compendium are great fun to share—you might want to buy a couple of copies!
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