A Burn!

Sometimes people just get right down to it with the perfect insult. There is nothing petty about it, it strikes a true chord, all around it is an utter and perfect burn. This is a place to give praise to skillful slams.

Apr 30, 2009 12:39pm
“ Nickelback : Michelob Ultra — They say it’s rock and roll; we call it carbonated urine. ” - From this DRAFT Magazine article comparing rocks bands to beers.  Such a wondrous burn.
Apr 30, 2009 7:45am
“ A monotonous, shallow and inarticulate character, used as a story device linking pointless action scenes. None of the charisma of the great superheroes ” - Roger Ebert in this review of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.” While I will credit Ebert in the sense that he is probably correct, I would like to remind him that if Wolverine were real, he would probably have little qualms about claw slicing the fuck out of the reviewer.
Apr 7, 2009 7:25am
“ Apologies to residents of the Lower East Side; Williamsburg, Brooklyn; and other hipster-centric neighborhoods. You are not as cool as you think … ” - Oh snap!  Such a burn.  Via this article by Melena Ryzik in the NY Times.  It seems of late I have been reading a lot of aggression toward the whole hipster culture (or lack there of), it makes me slightly uncomfortable, especially considering I have been described as a hipster by some.  I must change my ways. I must reassert my individuality.
Mar 11, 2009 6:44am
From this “Questionable Content” comic by Jeph Jacques.  The Radiohead comment is pretty good, but personally I am more of a fan of the comment that followed the comic in my RSS reader, which said, “Exposure to Coldplay while a teenager is linked to being a useless waste of humanity in later life.”  So, true … Coldplay is lame.

From this “Questionable Content” comic by Jeph Jacques.  The Radiohead comment is pretty good, but personally I am more of a fan of the comment that followed the comic in my RSS reader, which said, “Exposure to Coldplay while a teenager is linked to being a useless waste of humanity in later life.”  So, true … Coldplay is lame.
Mar 6, 2009 12:28pm
“ I reserve the right to consider it idiotic to live in a tent on a sidewalk for several weeks to be first in line for the next “Star Wars” movie. ” - Roger Ebert in response to an angry letter
Feb 13, 2009 10:16am
“ … and the other was a defunct Soviet communications satellite (is there any other kind?) ” - Lev Grossman, in this short piece talking about a recent satellite collision.  It is funny because those Soviet’s were so wacky with their satellites and their lack of maintenance.
Jan 28, 2009 4:02pm
“ Why is it that so many of us feel it is possible to say Billy Joel is—well—just bad, a blight upon pop music, a plague upon the airwaves more contagious than West Nile virus, a dire threat to the peacefulness of any given elevator ride, not rock ‘n’ roll but schlock ‘n’ roll? ” - Ron Rosenbaum in this article on Slate.com.  Really you should read the entire piece as it is one long and scathing burn.  It is hilarious and I don’t even foster that much vehemence for Billy Joel (a little now and then but I have always kind of liked “Piano Man”).
Jan 28, 2009 6:54am
XKCD is awesome, and Mencia sucks … and space elevators would be great.  Enough said.

XKCD is awesome, and Mencia sucks … and space elevators would be great.  Enough said.
Jan 20, 2009 11:31am
“ wow…the first lady and Cheney’s harpy are getting booed. ” - From Evan, on reporting the happenings of Obama’s Inauguration
Jan 20, 2009 6:58am
The burn is at the end … cracks me up.  Good Ol’ Doonesbury

The burn is at the end … cracks me up.  Good Ol’ Doonesbury
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