Timeline for Phrase for criticism/insults concealed with humor
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| Apr 29, 2015 at 18:41 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @DavidPugh SE frowns on chatty comments, so deleting my stuff at this end. | |
| Apr 29, 2015 at 14:32 | comment | added | Wapiti | Double-edged joke isn't bad, and it would serve, but I don't think quite as well as some of the other responses. The reason is that context is doing the necessary specifying work. In the workplace, say, I can imagine double-edged jokes that are not aggressive or inherently inauthentic (eg some joke which cuts a competitor in two ways at once). The same goes for gibe, I think. The joke I am describing is a gibe underneath, and naming it in the right context would have the desired illuminating effect. But it would leave out something important. I can also gibe the pitcher of the away team. | |
| Apr 29, 2015 at 12:08 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Hey, man! Just because you think Nicole's answer fits that's no reason to downvote all the rest of us. Give us a break.....Jeeze, two upvotes and two downvotes | |
| Apr 29, 2015 at 6:45 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 29, 2015 at 6:38 | comment | added | David Pugh | But then what would a "double-edged gibe" be? Something apparently taunting but actually intended to make nice? Two negatives make a positive? | |
| Apr 29, 2015 at 5:52 | history | answered | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |