Word: insultingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Thursday, I was dropping virtual water balloons on taxis, bicyclists and innocent pedestrians traversing my computer screen. Or why I spent 10 minutes answering a detailed online questionnaire only to discover that (according to whoever wrote it) I have the personality of a pug dog. But I won't insult your intelligence. The truth is, I was goofing...
...Triumph, the Comic Insult Dog, a hand puppet that threatens to poop on guests...
...demanding director; he'd fire actors and, before the sentence was finished, rehire them. Yet he was as loved as he was respected. Generous and easily weepy, he was also, in Guinness' words, "brilliantly tactless," dropping the brick of an insult that he could make vanish with a blithe demurral. In his 90s, when he might have sat at home with his lover Martin Hensler and his beloved Times crosswords, this old theatrical cat was often on a film set, spinning anecdotes of the legendary actor-managers Henry Irving and Herbert Beerbohm Tree. "When I was young," he said...
...that good manners bring on hardship but that good fortune inspires bad manners). There is even evidence that rudeness may be good for business. Inspired by the success of restaurants and nightclubs at which customers are treated so rudely that they offer the staff bribes to ward off insult, many industries have learned to sell ordinary service as a luxury item. Such marketing concepts as first-class travel, executive floors in hotels, and personal shoppers in stores are based on the idea that decent treatment and efficient service are not what the ordinary customer should expect...
Chemi Whitlow, a Maynard parent on the steering committee, called the process an "insult...