Anatomy of the Put-down (Wikipedia)

Anatomies

Various typologies of insults have been proposed over the years. Desmond Morris, noting that 'almost any action can operate as an Insult Signal if it is performed out of its appropriate context - at the wrong time or in the wrong place' - classes such signals in ten 'basic categories: 1. Disinterest Signals...2. Boredom Signals...3. Impatience Signals...4. Superiority Signals...5. Deformed-compliment Signals...6. Mock-discomfort Signals...7. Rejection Signals....8. Mockery Signals...9. Symbolic Insults...10. Dirt Signals'.  

Elizabethans took great interest in such analyses, distinguishing out, for example, the 'fleering frump...when we give a mock with a scornful countenance as in some smiling sort looking aside or by drawing the lip awry, or shrinking up the nose'.   Shakespeare himself set up an insult-hierarchy of seven-fold 'degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct'.

Legal (US)

Whether or not speech or behavior is insulting in practice, and sometimes by the terms of local assault statutes, is often a product of the subjective sense of the insulted party. However, insults to one person who might not mind such derogatory speech may indirectly insult others. Many states and local municipalities enforce prohibitions against rude, offensive or insulting speech, leaving citizens, law enforcement officers and courts to decide what is and what is not an insult. The concept of fighting words as a form of prohibited speech has developed in the jurisprudence of U.S. constitutional law concerning terms of disparagement. However, the fighting words exclusion is construed in an extraordinarily narrow manner, and only the type of insulting speech which is deemed "meaningless" can be suppressed. Speech containing significant literary, artistic, political, or scientific significance cannot be suppressed (a test known to attorneys and law students by the mnemonic device "slaps"), even if it is wantonly and maliciously insulting, demeaning, or even inciting of racial, ethnic, religious or sexual hatred.

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First Place

Subject: from the book of Insomnia 6:13
Author: Zloduska
Sent: 2003-06-14

	HOW 2 BEE @ L33T V1RU$ FL@M3RZ !!~!!!##  BI Z/_0DU$K@ !!!?!!!
	U w1LL APPAER $MURT & U-BER L33T IF U D0 THEEZ THEENGZ:::
	(1)[a] Excessively use quotes belonging to and throw in names of prominent historical philosophers, making certain to spell their names incorrectly.
	[b] When quoting (in)famous works of literature, always spell their titles incorrectly as well. (ie. "Main Kampf")
	(2) When you first join a stimulating on-line congregation of intellectuals, make sure your first sure-fire attention-grabber is to insult one of the most long-standing, well-respected and intelligent members of the aforementioned group.
	(3) Clarify the obvious as much as possible. (ie. when translating "I think therefore I am.")
	(4) Simultaneously feign affection and superiority.
	(5) Spell the word "intelligence" wrong.
	(6) Ignore all traces of irony completely, even if it is slapping you in the face, fellating a midget, and giving a steamy lap dance to the beat of Michael Jackson's "Thriller".
	(7) Be sure to mention Hitler somewhere in your post, even if it makes no sense and is completely out of context. There is no such thing as a proper flame without the mention of Hitler somewhere therein.
	U w1LL APPAER $MURT & U-BER L33T IF U D0 THEEZ THEENGZ:::    NOW GO FORTH AND FLAMETH!

 

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Second Place

Source: AW Groupies

[09:31:09]  Relay Rinq: (irc:#awg) RobinC: [Secondlife Blog] Economic Spotlight: L$ Exchange Rate in Q2 2010 - http://tinyurl.com/37mqbds

[09:31:28]  Imaze Rhiano: Does Qarl have 0h tonight?

[09:32:36]  Lillie Yifu: according to the graphy, the linden has devalued by 4% roughly

[09:32:51]  Relay Rinq: (irc:#awg) Mojito: Over what time?

[09:33:06]  Lillie Yifu: from before the reorg to now

[09:33:18]  Lillie Yifu: In the space of approximately a month

[09:34:53]  Relay Rinq: (irc:#awg) Mojito: Phasing out the econometrics reports is cause for concern

[09:35:26]  Relay Rinq: (irc:#awg) Mojito: " it is not as accurate a measure of the inworld economy as we would like." could be taken to mean "It does not make us look good"

[09:35:47]  Lillie Yifu: provenance, one ofthe most important words most people don't know

[09:36:44]  Imaze Rhiano: Q2 economy report - changes to metrics again - http://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2010/09/10/second-li...

[09:38:10]  Relay Rinq: (irc:#awg) lkalif: lol they blame "ban on bots" for more than a year now for falling usage

[09:38:38]  Relay Rinq: (irc:#awg) Mojito: Repeat logins are up, but user hours are down

[09:39:54]  Relay Rinq: (irc:#awg) Mojito: Meanwhile, Xstreet sales are way up.   wtf.

[09:40:47]  Hermit Barber: Mojito: Because search is/was so broken that people selling in-world are/were screwed.

[09:41:20]  Lillie Yifu: Search isn't broken, it is simply not accessible in 2.0

[09:41:29]  Lillie Yifu: and it works as desgined: you ahve ot pay money to LL to be found

[09:41:36]  Patrick Muggins: How is it not accessible???

[09:41:37]  Hermit Barber: Mojito: And LL's rather transparent attempts to eliminate awareness of competitive web sales systems have been quite effective.

[09:41:48]  Patrick Muggins: Ctrl + F <<< as it ALWAYS was

[09:42:07]  Patrick Muggins: as well as in the upper right (as it usually is in most "browser" environments.

[09:42:38]  Imaze Rhiano takes some popcorns... this is going to be fun!

[09:42:55]  Relay Rinq: (irc:#awg) Mojito: Another thing that hapened was the collapse of slapt.me

[09:43:32]  Hermit Barber: Patrick: The answers are sufficently random as to be meaningless, and the loss of pointer information on TP means that if you are not listed on the first pitifully small page of results, nobody is ever going to see you.

[09:43:41]  Lillie Yifu: Patrick, ae you being snarky, or are you really that stupid?

[09:44:11]  Hermit Barber: Lillie: Could be a combination :-P

[09:44:21]  Lillie Yifu: In a VR we don't have all those clues to tell the difference between someone being clever and failing, and someone being stupid and acheiving success

[09:45:02]  Patrick Muggins: Lillie, I'd LOVE to tear you a new one, but since you appear to Be on, why bother??? :)

[09:45:19]  Lillie Yifu: Ok you really are a moron then

[09:45:20]  Patrick Muggins: *one excuse my slow computer. :)

[09:45:49]  Patrick Muggins: LEts explore that, shall we?

[09:46:02]  Lillie Yifu: tell me how your interview for next CEO of LL goes. They can use idiocy like yours

[09:46:04]  Patrick Muggins: accessability to Search.  Its easy (for me.) Tell us how YOU do it please.

[09:46:12]  Lillie Yifu: no thank you patrick, you are a complete waste of organic material

[09:46:43]  Lillie Yifu: and in a more orderly universe your molecules would be rainign down on some distant moon creating attractive patterns on frozen lakes

[09:46:44]  Patrick Muggins: awwww, what a bity bit you are. :)

[09:47:17]  Patrick Muggins smells a troll.

[09:47:25]  Lillie Yifu: no patrick, I've just been paid to deal with enough dickheaded jerks to not do it for free. SO go back to feeding or delusions of adequqcy and don't bother people who think

[09:48:04]  Hermit Barber: Lillie: ++++ Classic quotable.

[09:48:10]  Lillie Yifu: and if you smell a troll that means you really need a shower

[09:48:40]  Hermit Barber: 2nd best put down I have ever seen.

[09:49:00]  Imaze Rhiano: what was best?

[09:49:13]  Patrick Muggins: I'm still waiting for your explaination how Search in 2.0 isn't accessable.

[09:49:50]  Lillie Yifu: Hands patrick a kindergarden reader. Start with reading that, then work your way through grammar school, and then graudate high school, then we can talk

[09:50:08]  Morgaine Dinova: Don't reply to him, Lillie, it's nearly as pointless as replying to Prok.  It's the only thing he's ever "contributed" to discussions since he arrived here.

[09:50:25]  Lillie Yifu: for all I know he could be prok

[09:50:35]  Lillie Yifu: you never know who anyone is

[09:51:45]  Hermit Barber: I'm cross-posting. Will give address in a few.

[09:51:53]  Morgaine Dinova: Nah, he can form a sentence, while prok merely abutts words.  But he never uses the ability for anything constructive.

[09:52:20]  Patrick Muggins: Lillie, I asked you in simple enough English (ESL perhaps?) to give me an example of how you can't acess Search in SL 2.0 Easily. There are two ready ways. Fast and friendly.  NO, there's NO Happy Search Button in baby blue at the bottom of my screen.  DO YOU need one of those or can you learn the big boys method?

[09:53:00]  Patrick Muggins senses a sorry Emerald user here.

[09:53:03]  NullSubset Burner: simply being tauntalogical isnt a actual reasoned position-if i remeber right last time patrick was defending emerald--what next dude- anti-gravity or perpetual motion perhaps?

 

[09:54:37]  Bronson Blackadder: oddly enough there is a shiney black button that says search on teh bottom of my screen

[09:54:54]  Patrick Muggins: Null, you're 0 for 1 man (manette).  I never have defended Emerald.

[09:55:32]  Patrick Muggins: I came in to leave this group, but with the Junior High mentality so pervasive here, why leave? :)

[09:56:29]  Lillie Yifu: and there are regoins labelled adult, but that doesn't mean the people you will find there are behaving like adults either

[09:56:55]  Relay Rinq: (irc:#awg) SecondLie: Actually, in Kirsten's 2.0 I've been able to browse events again... still not seeing them all, but as long as I'm in Events, it's no longer Search for "music" it's an actual event browse as in 1.x was. But still not in SL's V 2.1.x

[09:58:17]  NullSubset Burner: my mistake then sorry Patrick

[09:58:32]  Relay Rinq: (irc:#awg) SecondLie: but back in the day of Liana's triumphant "Mission Accomplished" post which was lauded by Patrick, no, it was still epic fail. it's still in recovery, not quite there yet, but I don't think Sea should be landing planes on aircraft carriers anytime soon.

[09:58:59]  Relay Rinq: (irc:#awg) SecondLie: i figure Sea will have it licked in a month or two.

[09:59:05]  Patrick Muggins: Lillie, clean out your ears dear. When the nice man said you were adult, I believe he acutally said "a dolt."

[09:59:29]  Lillie Yifu: the last time I heard that one patrick, I laughed so hard I fell off my dinosaur

[10:00:14]  Relay Rinq: (irc:#awg) SecondLie: zooby is making rideable dinosaurs? cool!

[10:00:53]  Lillie Yifu: how would we know, no one can find them in the wonderful search function aht patrick is lauding so much

[10:01:53]  Relay Rinq: (irc:#awg) SecondLie: i'm making a note to test that when i get home.

[10:02:09]  Relay Rinq: (irc:#awg) RobinC: [Secondlife Blog] The NEMO Trilogy in Second Life - http://tinyurl.com/2vgrrfo

[10:04:48]  Patrick Muggins: Lillie, I simply corrected your statement AND gave you two was to access Search. If your sources aren't smart enough to format an event description or any other that fits their needs, is it any wonder that they aren't found?

[10:05:14]  Patrick Muggins: You're either smart and can adapt to the new ways or you aren't and you fail. This gives Everyone a level playing field.

[10:05:21]  Dirk Talamasca: Search in the dev version of 2.0 is unusable because it will not release you from the constraints of the destination guide without manipulating an escape. That is inconsistent with the lauded "ease of use" or M Linden's "Delight" factor.

[10:05:28]  Lillie Yifu: you fit so little meaning inot so many words patrick, how do you do it?

[10:06:04]  Patrick Muggins: you still haven't haven't answered One Simple question.

[10:06:28]  Lillie Yifu: No one died and elected you god patrick

[10:06:33]  Patrick Muggins: Instead, you poke senseless insults at someone who really don't give a crap if you live or die crying.

[10:06:41]  Lillie Yifu: some questions are so stupid as to show the person asking them is a complete waste of time

[10:06:49]  Lillie Yifu: you are such a person patrick

[10:06:51]  Lillie Yifu: a total waste of time

[10:07:01]  Relay Rinq: (irc:#awg) SecondLie: Wait. I missed the God elections? Dang it... next time, I vote absentee.

[10:07:09]  Patrick Muggins: *hacks up a lung*

[10:07:20]  Lillie Yifu: If you don't know how search is borked, then either you area  moron, or don't us sl, and in either case, there is no point in talking to you

[10:07:34]  Identity Euler: Please keep personal talks to private Ims

[10:07:35]  Patrick Muggins: Lillie darling, I need more meat for my dog's food.  Care to give me more lip?

[10:08:06]  Lillie Yifu: sorry it just way too mny mouse clicks to mute someoen in 2.0

[10:09:40]  Patrick Muggins: Three is Such a large number.  Hard for those over-used fingers of your darling?

[10:16:06]  Dirk Talamasca: Will Gin and Tonics be served at the Malaria Update?

[10:16:42]  zazen Manbi: I could put up a TIKI bar....

[10:17:22]  Dirk Talamasca: Whatever it takes. It's for science after all.

[10:17:29]  zazen Manbi: agreed.

[10:18:32]  Lillie Yifu: pictures uploaded time for me to get back to rl work.

[10:19:24]  zazen Manbi: tiki bar is in place.

[10:22:09]  NullSubset Burner: HE superfluid with a buckyball slurry chaser-plz:)

[10:22:40]  zazen Manbi: coming up

[10:37:59]  Raz Welles: I'm getting lisp lust again >:|

[10:38:16]  Raz Welles: I want to learn lisp while using it to make an SL bot

[10:38:38]  Lor Gynoid: Well, think of FORTH, as that is claimed to be related to lISP...

[10:38:52]  Raz Welles: Noooo I'm in love with the parenthesis

[10:38:56]  Raz Welles: It's like a quiet whisper of lurve

[10:39:20]  Lor Gynoid: PostScript has got lots of parentheses...

[10:39:52]  Raz Welles: :|