18 Mic-Drop-Worthy Acts Of Sarcasm

They say that the pen is mightier than the sword -- but we're going to go ahead and extend that to any instance when sarcasm works, its pure magic. Because the best way to shut someone down isn't by screaming or fighting -- it's by using biting wit to make them feel like a total germ. A small, pathetic, unloved germ.

You know, those barbs from which there there is no escape. They sting and stick to the prey, hard. It's poetry in motion, the kind of motion that crushes you like a grape and leaves you to think about it every night when you put your head on the pillow. 

In these digital times, there are just more ways than ever to clap back or settle a score that needs settling. And the thing is, those mic-drops never hit the ground - they're forever, not like those analog insults of old.

Here’s a collection of what we’re talking about…

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Irritated that the very first question of an interview about her film was if she read the book or she's too busy to read. model turned actress Cara De

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In the presidential debate with Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale in 1984, when panelist Henry Trewhitt hit Reagan with the question about being too ol

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At the Oscar nominees luncheon, a reporter told Emma Stone, You look beautiful, as always. Stone replied, Oh, thank you. That's all that matters.

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Entry by Andrea Meno

Robert M. Lee was annoyed that his fellow security professionals didn't understand SCADA (computer systems for installations like satellites and nucle

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Entry by Zanandi Botes

CRACKEDCON While Hurricane Irene was battering the East Coast in August, 2011, Chris Brown tweeted: Please pray for Virginia. ...to which TV writer

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Entry by Yaznest

President Obama notices Donald Trump in attendance during the 2011 White House Correspondents' dinner: Donald Trump is here tonight. Now I know that

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REVII Responding to a harassing email, game developer Brianna Wu wrote: If you're going to be a pathetic dickhead -be the best dickhead you can be. D

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A local attorney and season ticket holder, Dale O. Cox, wrote to the Cleveland Browns, threatening legal action because the team was not preventing ot

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Entry by Zanandi Botes

When a male reporter kept pushing Anne Hathaway about her feline fitness regime during an interview about The Dark Knight Rises, she responded thusl