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         taxi1010.com  Non-escalating Verbal Self-Defense  | 
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         "Daily Web Site teaches you how to defend yourself with words."  | 
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       BrainPower  | 
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       Insults  | 
     
       Comebacks  | 
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       "You look retarded."  | 
     
       That's all?  | 
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       "You're like a hockey puck that's kind of slow."  | 
     
       That's all?  | 
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       "That was really dumb."  | 
     
       Could be.  | 
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       "You're as dumb as you look."  | 
     
       I'm sure.  | 
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       "Can I ask you another question?"  | 
     
       Really scary!  | 
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       "If your IQ were six points higher, you could be a plant."  | 
     
       Saved again!  | 
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       "If you had half a brain, you'd be dangerous."  | 
     
       It's chilling.  | 
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       Could be.  | 
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       "Even a woman should be able to grasp basic economics."  | 
     
       The opposite.  | 
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       "It's not rocket science."  | 
     
       Well, okay!  | 
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       Well, okay!  | 
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       "To the Nikko Hotel, nice and straight."  | 
     
       Well, okay!  | 
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       "You're so stupid!"  | 
     
       Just imagine.  | 
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       "You never even heard of the IRS?"  | 
     
       Never mind!  | 
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       "Have you ever taken the wrong exit before?" [From a passenger]  | 
     
       Not often.  | 
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       "Whatever you say."  | 
     
       Doesn't hurt.  | 
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       "Whatever."  | 
     
       Doesn't hurt.  | 
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       "Whatever you think."  | 
     
       Not often.  | 
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       "Did we ask for your opinion?"  | 
     
       Sour grapes.  | 
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       "Have a little respect for your elders, will you?"  | 
     
       Doesn't hurt.  | 
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       "It's just like anything else."  | 
     
       No worse!  | 
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       "That's one possibility."  | 
     
       BELIEVE me.  | 
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       "If what you have to say can't improve the silence, please say nothing at all."  | 
     
       Just imagine.  | 
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       "I beg your pardon?"  | 
     
       Small world.  | 
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       "Duuhhh!"  | 
     
       Staggering, huh?  | 
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       "Do birds fly? Do fish swim?"  | 
     
       Staggering, huh?  | 
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       "You don't know where that is?  That's scary."  | 
     
       Protect yourself!  | 
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       "Don't you know everything?"  | 
     
       If only.  | 
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       ["They turned on the tower clock!"] "Now everyone knows what time it is."  | 
     
       Never mind!  | 
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       "You don't know how to get to Burlingame Avenue?"  | 
     
       We'll manage.  | 
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       "You don't know that? Didn't they teach you that at Dartmouth?"  | 
     
       Just imagine.  | 
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       "It's your mind I like  Say something smart."  | 
     
       What else?  | 
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       "That was smart." [Sarcastically]  | 
     
       What else?  | 
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       "You're a moron."  | 
     
       Very simple.  | 
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       "You moron!"  | 
     
       Very simple.  | 
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       "Do you know who that is?"  | 
     
       And more!  | 
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       "Do you know where it is?"  | 
     
       And more!  | 
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       "You're not going to go on 9th Street?"  | 
     
       Not always.  | 
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