Things that Bansai left for us

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"If you have a brain in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself in any direction you choose."
— Dr. Seuss

bansaisequoia
September 10, 2010, 7:59 pm
'...to the city of Boola Boo Ball On the banks of the beautiful River Woo-Wall, Where they never have troubles! No troubles at all! So I started to go. But I didn't. Instead... I did some quick thinking Inside of my head. Then I started back home To the Valley of Vung. I know I'll have troubles. I'll, maybe, get stung. I'll always have troubles. I'll, maybe, get bit By the Green-Headed Quail On the place where I sit. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going To have troubles with me!'
CarpeLanam
September 28, 2020, 4:44 pm
And Bansai was quoting "I had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew," always a favorite of mine. 500 hats off to Dr. Seuss!

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"It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. "
— Oscar Wilde

bansaisequoia
August 14, 2009, 10:48 pm
Dogs playing poker and Black Velvet Elvis?
Lurker
October 16, 2009, 5:15 pm
Ever see Antiques Roadshow?
bansaisequoia
October 25, 2009, 2:18 am
Everything in your attic is worth millions! Honest.
Lily H
August 4, 2011, 1:23 am
Too bad I don't have an attic or a basement.
bansaisequoia
October 14, 2011, 7:14 am
They'd be worth millions if you did. Honest.

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"We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. "
— Brigham Young

bansaisequoia
May 27, 2010, 8:43 pm
I'm willing to use a butane lighter or a butcher knife, but as a loving father, I would not put them into the hands of a four-year-old.

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"Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community."
— Richard Milhous Nixon

bansaisequoia
May 14, 2010, 10:53 pm
Wouldn't it follow, then, that violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of government?

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"In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. "
— Thomas Carlyle

pootie49
April 11, 2009, 1:16 am
OOOH Curse you Carlyle!!!
bansaisequoia
July 1, 2009, 5:42 pm
Curse you, Red Puzzle Baron!
joma1944
December 8, 2013, 7:56 am
Bless you pootie!

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"Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word "academic" in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation."
— Myron Tribus

haverwench
June 20, 2010, 10:57 pm
Beaten by two seconds! Curse you, bansaisequoia!
bansaisequoia
September 5, 2010, 5:34 pm
Curse you, Red Puzzle Baron!

[Toeprint]

"Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards."
— Charles W. Chesnutt

bansaisequoia
October 16, 2009, 10:29 pm
(link)

[Toeprint]

Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember. "
— Virgil

bansaisequoia
July 7, 2010, 3:05 am
It depends upon the "this."

[Toeprint]

"Ever notice that 'what the hell' is always the right decision?"
— Marilyn Monroe

bansaisequoia
August 5, 2010, 11:55 pm
Works for me.

[Toeprint]

"It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf."
— H.L. Mencken

bansaisequoia
October 2, 2009, 7:29 pm
It is impossible to imagine Willie Mosconi or Tiger Woods being good at writing drama or composing music.

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"Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof. "
— Unattributed

pootie49
March 3, 2009, 7:06 pm
pretense
bansaisequoia
June 5, 2009, 3:02 pm
If the speaker of the quote is from the British Isles, that is the correct spelling.
Quizzical
March 14, 2014, 5:26 am
Pootie, even though you are gone, you are still with us through your comments. Thanks for being a part of Cryptograms.
blueladyblue
April 25, 2018, 12:08 pm
It's unique to the Baron, I think, that people can maintain this strange type of distant friendship through years of solving puzzles. Quizz left that comment about Pootie 4 years ago and it's still touching.
LLapp
March 24, 2019, 1:57 am
This is a magic zone.
Wordigo
September 7, 2020, 9:38 pm
Yes we are communicating across time.
hrossa
April 28, 2021, 10:48 pm
My favorite thing about these comments - the years of conversation!

[Toeprint]

"The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is. "
— Pablo Picasso

bansaisequoia
October 15, 2009, 10:56 pm
Does he advocate technique, or implore you to abandon it?

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"Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate. As we voyage along through life, 'tis the set of the soul that decides its goal, and not the calm or the strife."
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

bansaisequoia
September 21, 2009, 12:14 am
Don't the Pirates of the Caribbean sing this one?

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"A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. "
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Lurker
September 10, 2009, 6:46 pm
Why trilobites? Why not crocodiles or dinosaurs?
bansaisequoia
September 5, 2010, 6:45 pm
Crocodiles are still around.
pootie49
July 19, 2012, 7:31 am
I consider myself to have above average intelligence, yet in the presence of monty and bansai I suddenly feel a bit like Homer Simpson or more fitting "a dumb blonde" ...I wouldnt know a trilobite if it er bit me. Lucky Im goofy eh?
gryhnd51
December 1, 2013, 8:20 pm
Trilobites are a well-known fossil group of extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. Trilobites form one of the earliest known groups of arthropods. Wikipedia

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"If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed."
— Lily Tomlin

bansaisequoia
July 10, 2012, 8:46 am
If I read a lot, I'm considered bookish. But, since I'm making bad wordplay, should you punish me?

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"I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science."
— Heinz Pagels

bansaisequoia
May 24, 2013, 3:43 pm
Read some of his work in the '80s. Never realized he died younger than me. (link)