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# PSA
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/5045/
- Published: 2006-09-21T12:16:55.000Z
- Updated: 2006-09-21T12:16:55.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

I was at the county fair last night (working as a volunteer mostly, but also spending some time with my oldest three children). I'm dragging today, so blogging will drag, too.

In the meantime, I offer this gem from recent reading:

> [Alexander Pope](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%5FPope?ref=thedailyeudemon.com), one of the best \[put-down artists\] in the business, clearly reveled in his own high reputation as a verbal killer:

> *Yes, I am proud; and must be proud, to see*

> Men, not afraid of God afraid of me.

> Such a boast set up its own natural rejoinder, and in a bit of put-down Ping-Pong, [Lord Hervey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FHervey,%5FLord%5FHervey?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) . . . picked up a paddle and shot back:

> *The great honour of that boast is such*

> That hornets and mad dogs may boast as much.

From Joseph Epstein, *A Line Out for a Walk*.