Pithy Putdowns in Comments Section

These were responses to a newpaper op-ed piece in the NY Times:

• Please, a fistful of Xanax and a liter of Absolut vodka do not constitute a good breakfast.

• Okay, class. The assignment was to write a story about a current news figure, using as many puns and hyperbole as will fit on the page. Make is short, make it stupid.

• You can take the lass out of the shanty, but you can't take the shanty out of the lass.

• If you took her brain and magnifed it 10,000 times -- stuffed it up a gnats behind - it would rattle like a BB in a boxcar.

• You put the gas in gasbag.

• She probably jotted down all these pithy one-liners on a booze-soaked cocktail napkin while watching reruns of Jackass.