When the president asks, "Hey Hil, Whatchu doing?" she ripostes: "Running the world".
The feisty judge (Ann Cusack) surmises Rye, correctly, as "a little dim, aren't you?" Look lady, there's two ways this can go, he snarls, and she ripostes, "Oh, let me guess.
Even the grieving Lady Cecil, the widow of Royal Ascot's leading all-time trainer Sir Henry, who died aged 70 the week before, could afford an emotional celebration as she saddled Riposte to win the Ribblesdale Stakes.
She posted numerous ripostes on Twitter during the broadcast, including one that wondered ironically how Mr. Sarkozy would have sounded — especially in his attacks on the journalists asking the questions — if he had instead been delivering his remarks to a class in the poorer districts outside Paris.
The next morning, she wakes up and reads the devastating riposte she has scribbled down in the dead of night: "That's what you say".
From the compassion she showed even to those who judged her, to the brave and powerful riposte she gave directly to the immigrant-blaming visitors of the soup kitchen saying "if it wasn't for me, you wouldn't be eating today" – she epitomised many of the values we yearn for in our society.
As a riposte, she devised an evening in which the reading is banned.
In the midst of her treatment she concocted a riposte to the Booker, which expressed her comic contempt for much of the fiction flying around the place.
If she can parry, riposte and perform various other sword-swishing motions better than fellow Italian Margherita Granbassi in the semi-final, and then one more opponent in the final, she'll become the first Italian ever to win gold at three different Olympics.
They offered a platform for crushing Girls writer (and, full disclosure, one-time VICE editor) Lesley Arfin when she offered a riposte to The Hairpin's allegations of racism.
Clare Hall, where she was president for seven years until 2001, she describes as a "riposte" to traditional Cambridge college life: families are welcome, there are children at supper and no high table, so everybody can meet everybody else.
