Who Said It: A Vintage Greaser-Bully In A Stephen King Story, Or The President Of The United States?

Sean Gill
2 min readOct 25, 2020

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I have a country-fair understanding of how such men rise…” Stephen King

1. “Little pencil-neck… He’s got the smallest, thinnest neck I’ve ever seen.”

2. “We’ll let [him] beat up the foureyes el punko a little bit and then we all go about our business. What do you say?”

3. “Here’s some rocks, Rock Man! You want rocks? Okay! Okay! Okay!”

4. “The hatred that clown has for me is unbelievable…”

5. “I loved beating her, she was easy”

6. “I’m gonna run him right the fuck outta town. Gonna shut him down. Gonna send him to the Cadillac Ranch.”

7. “We’ll get you, creepo.”

8. “Wake up, punchy!”

9. “Come on, take the bet, show your friends and family… that you’re not ‘chicken shit’”

10. “You’ll go to jayy-ail!”

11. “He was dumb as a rock and I couldn’t get rid of him fast enough.”

12. “You s-s-say something, B-B-B-B-B-Billy? Dumb stuttering freak.”

13. “What’s it to you, Gerber Baby?”

14. “Be a man, Jimmy!”

15. “I actually gave a teacher a black eye. I punched my music teacher because I didn’t think he knew anything about music…”

16. “You believe that, happy crappy?”

17. “He’s a sleeping son of a bitch, I’ll tell ya!”

18. “We’re gonna rack you, baby”

19. “These are the slicers, they slice people up!”

20. “We’ll get you hard… We’ll hurt you… We’ll put you all in the fuckin hospital with fuckin ruptures.”

21. “Let’s fucking kill him! Let’s go in. Let’s kill the fucking lot of them.”

22. “Then don’t talk, do it, asshole!”

23. “Any guy that can do a body slam, he’s my kind of guy.”

24. “Boom, boom, boom, I’ll beat the crap out of you.”

25. “Death to the shitters of the world!”

Donald Trump: 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15 (The Art of the Deal), 17, 19, 21 (Fear: Trump in the White House), 22, 23, 24

Stephen King bullies: 2 (“The Body”), 3 (It), 6 (The Stand), 7 (“Sometimes They Come Back”), 12 (It), 13 (“Low Men in Yellow Coats”), 16 (The Stand), 18 (“The Body”), 20 (“The Body”), 25 (Christine)

Both: 10 (“The Body”) and at the October 9, 2016 Presidential Debate

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Sean Gill

Sean Gill is a Primetime Emmy-nominated writer and filmmaker. His work appears in The Iowa Review, McSweeney’s, Michigan Quarterly Review, ZYZZYVA, & elsewhere.