Staircase Wit

What is Staircase Wit?


1.

thinking of the right answer too late; the perfect, usually piercing, riposte that you conceive only when replaying a verbal exchange later in your head

from the French l'esprit d'escalier, the witty repartee you thought of as you're going downstairs to leave

My coworker Ann had taken to calling me "Markus", which I hate. I told her I hated it, and her response was,"It's a term of affection."

I muttered something like "Well it's not".

What I SHOULD have said:

Considering her name, "OK, to cement this 'affectionate' relationship, I'll call you An(n)us."


9

Random Words:

1. foodanglish. no real definition. use it to describe stuff. "man, thats a foodanglish vagina!" See foo, dang, lish, fart, poo..
1. in reference to the internet, or "online" I'd love to continue this discussion internettedly. See online, internet, com..
1. Kevin Bacon Alert - when a fool on the dance floor resembles Kevin Bacon in his Footloose years and really thinks he can dance but is us..