at a party my roommate and i recently attended, an acquaintance of mine remarked to her- "you look like someone; who is it?....oh, i know! Pink!
an observation of this nature requires its own unique terminology, and smoky coined just the word for it - The BombPliment.
a bombpliment is basically a TOTAL DIS candy-coated with distracting words of praise. a perfect example of one of our society's time-honored bombpliments is the classic- 'you look fantastic- HAVEYOULOSTWEIGHT?' i'm curretnly examining another phenomenon, more difficult to illustrate. the concept of false modesty appears on those infrequent occasions where someone adopts the guise of humility before procceding to make a disingenuously self-effacing observation about themself, with the effect of either impressing or dissing the listener- ex."it's really great that you've got a dog, and kids, and a house! i wish i could be like you. i'm just not stable enough, with the fantastic parties, and the traveling and the men, OH THE MEN!!!" etc. this sort of thing i'm going to refer to as the 'Winsult.' but wait, maybe thats more of a bombpliment... okay. an example of someone Winsulting themself is as follows, a variation on something that happened with a friend recently (who in no way was winsulting themself. -ed.)
friend: oh no, no, you must'nt look at my record collection! i haven't updated it since i was twelve...
mccullen: lets see...holy hell, look at this stuff! stereolab, the jam, suicide, sonic youth, VU, smiths, all in their first pressing! and these colored vinyl beat happening seven-inches!
friend: oh, so embarrassing. (sinister laugh to self)