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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I think that once someone starts calling another member names, it denotes that their bit of the discussion/argument is lost....and name calling isn't big and it isn't clever.
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In general, I would agree. But ... there's always a "but" isn't there
... there is an art to insulting. Churchill was damn good at it. So was Johnson: "Sir, your wife, under the pretence of keeping a bawdy-house, is a receiver of stolen goods"
Another fav of mine is a music critic's assessment of an orchestral performance: "Last night, the Minneapolis Symphony played Beethoven. Beethoven lost."
But, as I said, in general, I agree with you. Name calling is the last refuge of those whose arguments are threadbare to begin with.