Things that Bansai left for us

[Deanna48]

I know that Will0416 has had some at 2 seconds.

[LiveLoveLaugh]

I'm grateful that we get to leave comments so I can read and remember what a marvelous human being he was and always will be. Love you Banny!

[xenia]

"We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one! "
— Ronald Reagan

bansaisequoia
May 3, 2010, 3:42 pm
It's the other way around. We have so many fat people who cry that the thin are taking advantage of them, and that they need more fat.

bansaisequoia
December 29, 2010, 2:24 am
A study by the World Institute for Development Economics Research at United Nations University reports that the richest 1% of adults alone owned 40% of global assets in the year 2000. This is in effect saying that 1% of the population works 66 times as hard as 99% of the population. If you believe that, keep on voting to give tax breaks to the wealthy. I ain't such a sucka.

[xenia]

"It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. "
— Margaret Thatcher

bansaisequoia
January 25, 2012, 8:32 pm
Of course, an idiomatic definition of "lay an egg" would be "epic fail." (link)

[Toeprint]

"To live outside the law, you must be honest. "
— Bob Dylan


bansaisequoia
May 26, 2009, 10:09 pm
Either that or an outlaw.

[Toeprint]

"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth. "
— Walter Lippmann

pootie49
March 30, 2009, 6:35 pm
Deep!!

bansaisequoia
October 17, 2012, 8:10 pm
Can he use that word on a family website?

WlayneM
March 13, 2013, 11:53 pm
Bansai, my thoughts exactly. lmao!

LLapp
February 21, 2015, 6:31 pm
Anywhere you have a stimulating introduction, it's a good idea to have prophylactics.

blueladyblue
January 31, 2018, 1:24 pm
You do NOT want an error with your prophylactic! Uh uh, no sir.

ruxpin66
May 2, 2018, 2:43 am
Yes, the prophylactic was deep.

Roxanne
July 13, 2018, 12:41 am
Reading these comments is like going back in time to one of those moments in high school when the English teacher could not control the class.

pickleball
January 25, 2020, 7:24 pm
pity on the substitute teacher

[LLapp]

Amen, KittyKatMeow.

"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it." — Lord Byron

kat
November 17, 2009, 9:08 pm
Stinging snakes?

kat
December 20, 2009, 4:34 pm
Again I say, stinging snakes?

bansaisequoia
January 10, 2010, 1:32 am
I can't believe he said it either. Leapin' lizards!

kat
March 29, 2010, 4:03 pm
Ah those stinging snakes and leaping lizards....

fishbum
March 31, 2012, 9:59 pm
I got bite by a snake once and it stung like hell.

Lurker
July 10, 2012, 11:27 pm
How small are the snakes in England? For that matter, how big are the bees?

JenDiaz72
July 10, 2015, 12:15 pm
Aw... I've been bitten by them a few times during feeding days (my fault though... I didn't wash my hands well enough after I handled the mouse). They are just small corn snakes and the bite is like a needle pricking you... It's the sudden strike that scares the hell out of you...

montyb
January 24, 2016, 12:20 pm
I hate it when snakes go on strike.

LLapp
June 3, 2016, 8:32 pm
Jen, in response to your comment: EEEEK!!

pegxpeg
June 21, 2016, 12:56 pm
Self-love sounds like narcissism, but it smells like team spirit.

abra
October 22, 2016, 10:48 am
I'm not sure about the stinging snakes, but George was probably an expert about self-love. He doted on himself.

MamaB
May 29, 2017, 2:28 am
Peg, I would have thought self-love sounds like team-spirit but smells like narcissism!

marnita
August 16, 2017, 12:00 pm
I don't see any team spirit in self-love. I agree with abra about George being an expert in it.

blueladyblue
April 28, 2018, 8:17 am
From stinging, creeping snakes to team spirit in 10 comments. Hokey Dokey.

KittyKatMeow
June 6, 2020, 5:34 pm
I was Kat once upon a time, and I am bringing it back 'round to stinging snakes, and in tribute to our fallen companion in cryptograms, Leapin' Lizards. Bansai - cheers to you wherever you may be. Your brilliant light is missed.

[Toeprint]

"Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse."
— James Cagney

bansaisequoia
March 31, 2010, 9:56 pm
Searching the net, this quote seems to have first been said by John Derek in the 1949 film, Knock On Any Door." In the movie, the quote was, "Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse." It also may have been in the 1947 novel of the same name by Willard Motely. I just remember this line because Christian Slater and Val Kilmer say it in Quentin Tarantino's "True Romance."

[Toeprint]

"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
— Earl Mac Rauch

bonsaisequoia
February 12, 2010, 1:23 pm
He wrote the screenplay to "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension," from which this quote is taken.

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"We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
October 8, 2012, 12:42 am
That's from that Buckaroo Bansaisequoia movie.

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"Attention, attention, there are monkey-boys in the complex."
— Buckaroo Banzai

fredsevent
March 10, 2012, 10:11 pm
I always label/call bansaisequoia buckeroo bansai in my little brain.

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"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening."
— Gertrude Stein

fredsevent
January 29, 2012, 1:45 am
Except how effing fast Buckeroo Bansai solves these things. I was all over this one and yet not even close to his time. Sir, I salute you.
Lily H
April 21, 2012, 11:31 pm
He's really hard to beat, but I came within three seconds of his record. That's the best I can hope for, so I'm happy with my time.
lainie18
December 19, 2012, 1:30 am
Is Bansai a man or a woman?
wvwoman
March 24, 2013, 3:33 am
a manly crypto-solving man! haha! seriously, do a search in the forum section for "youtube" and find some links to folks solving. (it's the only way i'll ever see that little airplane!)

[Toeprint]

"Everything that can be invented, has been invented."
— Charles H. Duell

bansaisequoia
July 13, 2009, 12:07 am
So where's our cold fusion reactor that will put a stop to global warming and eliminate dependence on Middle Eastern oil?

[Toeprint]

"When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: "I wish no gifts, only presence.""
— Unattributed


bansaisequoia
February 1, 2012, 8:42 pm
...so the Maharishi says to the hot dog vendor, "Make me one with everything."

[Toeprint]

"In my experience, there is no such thing as 'luck.'"
— George Lucas

bansaisequoia
April 20, 2011, 6:45 am
In my experience, someone who directs one space opera movie, which spawns 5 sequels, two of which weren't directed by him, and who has a net worth of $3 billion, damn well ought to believe in luck. Howard the Duck. What a great film.

[Toeprint]

"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them. "
— Ronald Reagan


bansaisequoia
October 24, 2009, 5:16 pm
There's an irony to government officials making statements of this nature, because they're decrying their own incompetence, thereby invalidating the substance of their statement.

[Toeprint]

"The whole problem is to establish communication with one's self. "
— E. B. White


bansaisequoia
December 16, 2009, 3:33 am
Brought to you by the world wide web: (link)

[Toeprint]

"I'm not sure what makes pepperoni so good - if it's the pepper or the oni."
— Ulrik Stephens

oddcouple
April 20, 2013, 5:45 pm
Three seconds off bansai's time. I don't know how he does it.

bansaisequoia
June 21, 2013, 9:54 pm
(link)