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An Oral History of Hannigan, the Shady, Fast-Talking Traveling Salesman from ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’

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5 Infamous Insults That Used to Mean Something Totally Different

When picking a new insult to throw at someone, current comedic convention suggests you string together a series of random incongruous words. You type, “Yeah, like I’m going to take advice from a lopsided milk-stained piss plank.” People read that and supposedly laugh, so long as they don’t think about it too hard and don’t catch on to the formula.

Such insults don’t roll off the tongue too well. When we want an insult that people can use over and over, we instead take a single existing catchy word and repeat it till its meaning mutates over time. Inevitably, it ends up describing our enemies exclusively, and soon, no one remembers what it originally meant.

More Insult Reads:

• 15 Unbearably Brutal Public Burns

• 5 Political Insults With WTF Origins You Never Saw Coming

• 35 Scathing Insults You Might Forgive, But Can Never Forget

• 8 Highly Descriptive Burns

• 15 Times Highly Distinguished Persons Dropped Sick Burns

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