Saturday, September 29, 2012

Repartée





1. Thomas Reed vs. Henry Clay
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2. Winston Churchill vs. Lady Astor
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3. NYC Mayor Ed Koch vs. Andrew Kirtzman, after the reporter insisted on pressing a point about an inconsistent statement Koch had made
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4. Groucho Marx vs. A contestant on   Y ou Bet Your Life, after the contestant revealed that he was a father of 10
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5. Abraham Lincoln vs. Stephen Douglas, after Douglas called him two-faced during a debate
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6.   Pierre Trudeau vs. Richard Nixon, upon hearing that Nixon had called him an asshole
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8. Oscar Wilde vs. Lewis Morris Morris had just been passed over for the Poet Laureateship
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9. Miriam Hopkins vs. An anonymous singer
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10. James McNeill Whistler vs. Oscar Wilde, after Whistler had made a particularly witty observation
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11. Senator Fritz Hollings vs. Henry McMastor, when challenged by his Republican opponent during a televised debate to take a drug test
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12. Bill Clinton vs. Dan Quayle, after Quayle revealed that he planned to be a pit bull in the 1992 campaign against Clinton and Gore
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13. Reverend Edward Everett Hale vs. The U.S. Senate ,   when asked if he prayed for the Senators
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14. Edna Ferber vs. Noel Coward …   Coward was remarking upon the fact that Ferber was wearing a tailored suit
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15. Henry Clay vs. Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster   after seeing a pack of mules walk by
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16. Winston Churchill vs. A Member of Parliament
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17. Calvin Coolidge vs. Some random lady at a White House dinner
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18. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart vs. An admirer
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