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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 1,299 – Trading Insults.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 1,299. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful – and I do mean beautiful – Los Angeles, California.

This episode is all about insulting or saying bad things about other people. This is going to be fun. Let’s get started.

Alan: Look at you! Did you get a haircut or did your head get stuck in a weed whacker?

Doris: Look who’s talking. Maybe you should do something different with your hair, like wash it.

Alan: Oh, burn. That would have been a nice comeback if it weren’t so dumb. Who taught you your one-liners? A friend? Oh, I forgot. You don’t have any.

Doris: I think you’ve confused me with someone else – you!

Alan: You couldn’t come up with your own put-down so you