Not to put too fine a point on it, but some of which appears in these august forums [fora?] often has the character of The Surrealist Compliment Generator.
Following are a few selections from same:
Your cleverness ferments meat without the need of oxygen.
Soft sausages would gladly procreate in the bathwater of your verisimilitude.
Such meals that you cook! Certainly your kitchen is overrun with pestilence and vermin!
You have not yet reached the height of your depravity.
Wallets of fur would bombard a triassic keychain rather than dialyse in your equable fishtank.

I commend the site to your irrelevance.

Reminds of famous putdowns disguised as compliments.

One example:

A society matron was introduced to film star Jean Harlow and said: "Please to meet you Miss Harlot."

To which Harlow responded: "It's pronounced Har - low."

Quipped the matron: "Perhaps."

This one may not be famous, but it's still a good one:

Person 1 to Person 2: "You have the brain of a broccoli."

Person 2: "That's insulting. I insist that you take that back."

Person 1: "Very well, I take it back. You don't have the brain of a broccoli."

Somehow reminds me of Johnny Carson.

And another one (You know, we could do this for days) . . .

Winston Churchill to Lady Astor: "Madam, you are ugly."

Lady Astor to Churchill: "Sir, you are drunk."

Churchill: "True. But at least tomorrow I will be sober."

Another Winston Churchill quip:

Nancy Astor: "Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your coffee."
Churchill: "Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it."

And yet ...
My elbow sockets sharpen pencils when you pass by on divine fumes of industrial combustion.

My elbow sockets sharpen pencils when you pass by on divine fumes of industrial combustion.

Say that 5 times as fast as you can without stumbling!

This one is a bit less cryptic:

Clare Booth Luce and Dorothy Parker detested each other. At a chance encounter, Luce held the door for Parker, waved her in, and said, "Age before beauty."

As Parker walked in, she said, "Pearls before swine."

There's a reason the Algonquin Round Table was nicknamed The Vicious Circle. Wouldn't it have been great to sit in the same room at just one of those gatherings?

I heard a variation of that one:

"Age before beauty . . . and "Beauty" was a horse!

Re: "There's a reason the Algonquin Round Table was nicknamed The Vicious Circle."

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I always find it fun to play: If you could invite any 10 guests for dinner - past or present - who would they be? One could create one's own "Vicious Circle."