Bite Me!

I've been considering this, weighing it in my mind for a while, and I've concluded that the ultimately idiotic "Americanism" is... "Bite me!," when uttered with the intention of expressing "Go to Hell!," or even "Go F____ yourself!" The reason why? At best it sounds dumb as soon as it's coming out of the mouth. Yes, "Bite me!" just has a stupid, self-defeating, perhaps even masochistic ring to it, in much the same way as "F____ ME!," - a saying apparently popularized widely by the 1994 Tarantino flick "Pulp Fiction" - sounds moronic. I mean, do you REALLY want someone to BITE you? Trust me, the outcome can't be good, for you in particular, if someone takes you at your word. Once, when I was about eight or nine years old, I was taking a serious wallop or six from a kid about five years older than I. In one of those few instances where I seriously physically retaliated against someone larger and meaner, I did just that, I bit him. Sunk my teeth right into his shoulder, hard as possible. Totally screwed him up, left him in real tears. I think it was the shock as much as the physical pain, which was also fairly severe. But Oh Man, was it ever effective! Changed his approach to me after that, oh yes he did. I think he realized he'd payed too hard and fast, risking a possible case of rabies in the bargain. Well, my four incisors are still quite sharp. But I digress: the moral of this story is: Be careful what you wish for - it may come true!