Cracked has a great list of the best insults- and comebacks- in history, most of which involve Winston Churchill. Except for this one, Jimmy Page vs. Keith Moon:
Setting the Scene:If that Mike Myers-starring Keith Moon biopic ever gets made, that scene had better be in it. (Though since Moon lived to be only 32 and Myers is now 45, I'm not holding my breath.) Posted by Stephen Silver at December 1, 2008 11:07 PMOne night, Robert Plant, John Entwhistle, Page and Moon were partying together at Moon’s house. We can safely presume both were high out of their minds, and at this point in the night had wearied of driving cars into pools full of groupies. Plant took the edge off by telling Moon all about his concept for a new rock band of tight-jeaned, open-shirted, long-haired men singing ten minute songs in falsetto about goblins raiding Middle Earth. Shaking off the effects of the horse sedatives he’d just taken rectally, Moon pulled himself out of the haze long enough to analogize–
The Zing:
“That idea will go over like a lead zeppelin.”
The Comeback:
The entire Led Zeppelin discography, not to mention the fact that more people associate Jimmy Page with the hard-rockin’ lifestyle than even know who the hell Keith Moon was.
The film is in production now for a 2010 release. Myers can do it bc the drugs and alcohol made keith look alot older than he was when he died.
Posted by: A at December 2, 2008 02:59 PM