Posts in Humour
Wish I'd said that - August 24, 2019

“You’ve been spending too much time with him lately.”

Comment by one colleague about another in March 2002 that prompted this addition to my "That doesn't narrow the field much" file of insults (the title inspired by one of the greatest putdowns in movie history, from Clint Eastwood's character in The Eiger Sanction)

Wish I'd said that - July 27, 2019

“You will be extremely lucky to get this person to work for you.”

Another “he’s an extraordinary man” veiled insult for use in an insincere letter of recommendation [again I don’t know the source but do not claim to have invented it].