What is the right comeback when someone so obviously misses the sarcasm you're trying to deliver?

[The Backlash Cometh]

Try to follow this conversation:

Me: He's intelligent enough to carry a political conversation.

She: No, he was uncomfortable with the topic.

Me: He's the one that brought the subject up and he was doing just fine.

She: I assure you, he hated every second of it.

Me: Okay, fine, he's too stupid to carry a political conversation.

She: I can't believe you think he's stupid!


What do you do when the person misses the sarcasm completely?

[FarLeftFist]

1. You say "I guess you're not fluent in sarcasm, huh?"

[Rex]

2. Looks like a counter to me.

Are you sure that wasn't some counter-sarcasm?

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14. I assure you, no it wasn't.

[Zorra]

3. Don't know the right comeback, but Monte Python may use that

in a sequel to "The Argument Sketch".

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. No they wouldn't.

[Zorra]

5. They would so!

[Kennah]

6. Splitters!

[Zorra]

7. The Judean Third Way People's Liberation Status Quo, eh?

en garde!

[Kennah]

8. We fucking get things done!

[Tesha]

9. Don't use sarcasm as a communications method -- it's too readily misunderstood.

This is especially true in electronic communications but also true
face-to-face.

Tesha

[Fumesucker]

12. For me quite often these days it's sarcasm/snark or start throwing things..

That whole "gladly suffering idiots" thing is becoming roughly as attractive as a case of ebola, I've heard the stupidity too damn much, fingernails on a chalkboard doesn't come close to how annoying it is.

I delete posts here before I press the "post message" button constantly and I bite my tongue in public constantly and I still end up snarking a lot.

[Tesha]

13. I know *EXACTLY* you feel.

I too "delete before posting" very frequently!

Tesha

[The Backlash Cometh]

15. Unless, of course, you're on a british newsgroup where you're failure

to pick it up brands you as a hopelessly uneducated American.

[Edweird]

10. "I'm sorry. What I meant to say was _______. I was trying to be funny and it failed"

[ChairmanAgnostic]

11. Never apologize. Only democrats and libruls apologize.

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16. LOL! So true.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

19. even when they do, it is along the lines of,

"I am sooooo sorry you caught me with that naked 12 year old girl, a baggie of meth, and me wearing my wife's nylons while I visited my baptist church."

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20. I'vvvvee sinnnnned,

weep, weep.

[tosh]

17. "Now, where is my sarcasm thingy?" nt.

[lovemydog]

18. Going for a walk

It's better for your health. :)

[customerserviceguy]

21. Bill Engvall says, "Here's your sign!" n/t