But I would generally advise against retaliation: critics are writers and if you say something on impulse, they've got all the time in the world to think of some witty riposte.
Some stinging riposte involving Burnley or Chorley was called for, but a third Arsenal goal in the 36th minute provided the cue for a rousing chorus of 'You might as well go home.' Bergkamp, who will be told today whether he is required to drive to Germany, started the move by finding Wiltord on the left.
But many Iranians say the campaign's raucous tone is due largely to Mr. Ahmadinejad's unexpectedly fierce rhetorical attacks, which have infuriated his rivals and their supporters, and drawn some blistering ripostes.
It's hard to say whether he'd be tickled or ticked off by this tribute, for which the dealer Francis M. Naumann has tracked down some notable ripostes to Duchamp's painting and invited further responses from a diverse group of contemporary artists.
The move was seen by some as a riposte to Sirius' major coup: Signing blue maestro.
Though as Clint himself wasn't exactly shy in his gentle riposte to some Toronto attention last week, that issue may be moot during this game.
The win, which moves them to within four points of the leaders Surrey, was a neat riposte to some pre-final psychology from the Worcestershire chief executive, Mark Newton.
Her riposte to some of the nonsense it contained is so devastating that I simply reproduce it here (because it deserves as wide an audience as possible): This is possibly not a national talking point, but, damn it, it should be.
The politicians get their summits, to which this transcontinental playwright/theatre-twinning endeavour is some sort of answer, one riposte to the flight from democracy in the EU, and from the flight from the EU in the UK.
Loosely at its centre is Jane Rosenal, a wisecracking single New Yorker who is suffering at the dating frontline and in some senses this book is a riposte to The Rules – a brutal and demoralising dating manual published five years earlier.
