If I call you a name, I’m hurling epithets.
If I put some zippy sayings on your tombstones, I’m carving epitaphs.
Despite the first sentence in this post, THEY ARE NOT THE SAME THING. The ability to hurl epitaphs is limited to the Hulk and people who own trebuchets.
I’m picturing the tea-baggers hurling epitaphs. It’s an entertaining thought.
Just so they don’t start hurling epigrams.