In Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks there is a part where one of the Estodiens say to Quilan, 'I hope you have the wit to realise you past two little tests there, Major, not one'. It appears that I do not have the wit. Possible spoilers inside. [more inside]
posted by Nufkin on Sep 20, 2009 - 5 answers

Romeo & Juliet: I seem to remember a portion in the play where someone exhorts "wit" to help them out, or says they're running out of wit—but I can never find it when look through the stuff. Is it just a false memory, or maybe something mentioned very much in passing? [more inside]
posted by Non Prosequitur on Jul 9, 2009 - 8 answers

Anyone have recommendations re funny, satirical/barbed but also charming, romantic novels? [more inside]
posted by laumry on Dec 3, 2008 - 33 answers

How can I cultivate a quicker wit? [more inside]
posted by reenum on Jun 3, 2008 - 34 answers

What is the difference between snark and wit? [more inside]
posted by Tube on Mar 23, 2008 - 27 answers

Mefites, help me be clever yet immature on the playground of our lives. I need to know how to more effectively tell someone he's a boogerhead. [more inside]
posted by WCityMike on Jan 30, 2008 - 62 answers

How can I learn to be scathingly witty? Most of the people in my life are bright intellectuals with sharp tongues. I wish to compete with them in repartee. [more inside]
posted by Galen on Jul 2, 2007 - 69 answers

I really like the essays that David Foster Wallace collects in _A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again_ and _Consider the Lobster_. Which essayists take a similar approach? [more inside]
posted by scarylarry on Jul 28, 2006 - 12 answers

I'd like to make an interesting and funny bio web page for the student employees in a college IT department. Can anyone suggest some funny questions to include in the bios? [more inside]
posted by yogurtisgenocide on Jul 27, 2006 - 11 answers