Entries Tagged “Literature”

Funny Quotes

1. "Taste My Sherry and Biscuits."

Best line from Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo. Insulting if used in the right context. "Oh yeah? Well I suggest you taste my sherry and biscuits!" See also Food, French, Literature.

Added by mellojello on March 6, 2010| Comment | You Like This |

Funny Names

2. Wackford Squeers

A major antagonist in Charles Dickes's satirical novel Nicholas Nickleby. His character is as bizarre as his name—a sadistic one-eyed Yorkshire schoolmaster, obsessed with beating children. See also Fictional, Literature.

Added by a Guest on July 7, 2009| Comment | You Like This |

Funny Insults

3. Domeless Wonderboy

From the book A Clockwork Orange, dome refers to one's head; to be domeless therefore is to be brainless and stupid, and a wonder that you manage to do anything at all, making you a wonderboy... a domeless wonderboy, that is. See also Literature.

Added by mroboubiat on March 2, 2008| Comment | You Like This |

Funny Toys

4. Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy

Playground game of the future as described in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. See also Literature.

Added by a Guest on January 20, 2008| 1 Comment | You Like This |

Funny Animals

5. Sorrel Nag

I once called a friend a "sorrel nag," and he responded, "I'm not a sorrel nag, you're a bay mare." I had no reply to that. See also Literature.

Added by Tyler on January 15, 2007| Comment | You Like This |

Funny Euphemisms

6. The Euphemism

As in, the bathroom. See George in Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf: "Martha, will you show her where we keep the, uh, euphemism?" See also Literature, Movies.

Added by a Guest on July 25, 2006| Comment | You Like This |