She was in a battle of wits with the proverbial unarmed man when it comes to Swillwell.
Swalwell did respond to Greene in a now deleted tweet:
But his response was baffling: "I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed, animal food trough-wiper."
MS Green was confused: "I'm sorry, what?"
"I fart in your general direction," he continued. "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!"
"Are... are you just quoting Monty Python?" she asked, clearly baffled.
"You dirt-eating piece of slime! You scum-sucking pig! You son of a motherless goat!"
"That's not even the same franchise!" she tweeted back.
Swalwell wasn't fazed, though, telling her to "go away or I will taunt you a second time." Swalwell's twitter followers have gone up since the exchange as he's now quoting movies made within the last fifty years.*
*Excerpted from an old Bee piece