Things that Bansai left for us

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"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive."
— Samuel Goldwyn

paulk190
December 27, 2010, 9:38 pm
It's like a morbid Yogi Berra quote.
bansaisequoia
March 30, 2011, 6:02 am
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours."--Yogi Berra

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"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. "
— Norman Mailer

bansaisequoia
June 16, 2009, 11:25 pm
Having read a little of the work of Norman Mailer, I'm wondering if this is in condemnation of Diane Arbus, or if he is paying her the highest compliment. ???

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bonszaisequaio

February 22, 2010

13 seconds

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bansaisequoia

June 7, 2013

26 seconds

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"Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest. "
— Marquis de Vauvenargues

bansaisequoia
July 19, 2009, 9:39 pm
Winning lotto after sitting on your can is pretty freakin' sweet, too.

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"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich."
— Alan Alda

kat
July 5, 2009, 11:10 pm
Wouldn't it be nice...
bansaisequoia
July 7, 2009, 11:28 pm
kat, if I win Lotto, I'll give you half. I've said that to a lot of people though; I'm not sure if the math works out.
bansaisequoia
September 28, 2009, 11:47 pm
At least it's a rich man being honest, instead of pretending that he undergoes travails equivalent to those of the less fortunate.
kat
November 9, 2009, 3:09 pm
Bansai, I'll do the same for you. Wait...don't you have to play to win?

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"Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. "
— Bertrand Russell

LiveLoveLaugh
July 20, 2009, 5:00 pm
Wasn't Aristotle gay?
bansaisequoia
August 14, 2009, 11:00 pm
While Greek philosophers were known to take male lovers, this did not necessarily mean they were gay. Note this entry from Wikipedia: "While in Athens, his wife Pythias died and Aristotle became involved with Herpyllis of Stageira, who bore him a son whom he named after his father, Nicomachus."
pootie49
May 21, 2011, 4:11 pm
I wonder what his wife died of...oh wait I know...frustration.

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"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them. "
— Anthony Robbins

Fudi
September 6, 2018, 2:06 pm
Who is this "bonzaisekuoia?" He/she seems similarly talented to someone I've heard about with a very similar name. Coincidence? In any case, I'm very excited to be only 6 seconds behind your 9 second record, Mr./Ms. Bonzai!
LLapp
December 6, 2019, 4:53 am
Mr. Bansai had many aliases. My favorite was what a new player once called him in a comment thread -- "that bans guy".

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"There is no point in arguing about matters of taste. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
January 30, 2011, 5:27 am
This is in very poor taste.
fishbum
March 16, 2011, 6:27 pm
I don't think so.
pajarito7
October 5, 2011, 1:06 am
Stop arguing and go to your rooms.
SillySil
January 12, 2013, 5:30 pm
OMG Someone beside that bans guy got the fastest time!
abra
July 11, 2014, 4:22 pm
Of course, someone sent that "bans guy" to his room.
universalmom
August 18, 2015, 3:01 pm
Hahaha "that bans guy"
LLapp
December 21, 2020, 5:45 am
Rest in peace, bans guy.

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"Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring."
— S.J. Perelman

bansaisequoia
September 17, 2011, 7:42 pm
That line would've given one of his Marx Brothers scripts an "R" rating.

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"If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is."
— Horace G. Hutchinson

bansaisequoia
September 22, 2011, 6:57 pm
You can put a little English on the ball or you can put a little French on the ball.

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"Winners expect to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. "
— Unattributed

silveryaspen
May 15, 2009, 3:09 pm
Isn't the correct spelling propheSy?
bansaisequoia
June 28, 2009, 11:23 pm
"Prophesy" is the verb; "prophecy" is the noun. In this instance, it should be "prophecy."
Queethebean
May 31, 2012, 8:27 pm
Unattributed never was a very good speller.
bansaisequoia
June 24, 2012, 9:41 am
Queethebean has never been the Queen of spelling beas.

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"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
— Charlie Chaplin

bansaisequoia
October 25, 2011, 5:41 pm
"I'm brave, but I'm chickens**t."--Alanis Morissette

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"A man and his art are like a fool and his king."
— Corri Alius

bansaisequoia
May 10, 2012, 8:11 pm
I think his alias is "Corey" and he used to hang with Feldman & Haim, or else he's an ancient Roman in a Shakespeare Tragedy.

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"To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. "
— Confucius

silveryaspen
April 4, 2009, 7:41 pm
Oh, Know!
bansaisequoia
June 12, 2009, 10:25 pm
Yoko Ohno?
puzzleme
February 12, 2015, 1:41 pm
It's all so Confucing!

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"Seventy-five percent of our planet is water - can you swim?"
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
September 28, 2012, 6:46 pm
Like an otter with fish gills.

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"The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius."
— Sid Caesar

fredsevent
September 5, 2011, 5:39 am
That would be funny except, I immediately realized that a one-wheeled wheelbarrow can be pretty handy at times. Especially those times when a lot of things were moved around physically by humans. As you can tell, I am the life of any party.
bansaisequoia
February 26, 2012, 7:21 pm
I'd probably find that to be the most interesting conversation at the cocktail party.
momof7
August 25, 2016, 6:34 pm
A unicycle rider would disagree with this.
LLapp
September 2, 2016, 8:45 am
Wahoo! I just beat Mr. Sequoia by 4 whole seconds!!
marnita
October 19, 2016, 6:00 am
Wow, LLapp! Way to go!
abra
March 3, 2017, 8:47 am
WTG, LLapp, you shattered it. Remember when bansai had his Wall of Titans. He would have been gunning for you.

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"To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us. "
— William Hazlitt

montyb
July 29, 2012, 6:53 pm
HAH! Less than 30 seconds off Bansai's record. I'm hitting on all cylinders now!
stripey2635
January 15, 2017, 2:39 pm
i hope one day to beat his time as well montyb but i don't think i ever will my time was 83
abra
July 1, 2018, 5:01 pm
Do you remember when bansai had his wall of titans. I never made it to the wall.

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"If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in. First, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had."
— I. F. Stone

bansaisekuoia
February 24, 2010, 2:27 am
"Rich people march on Washington every day."--I. F. Stone
bansaisequoia
April 26, 2012, 6:56 pm
'Screw you, you sons of bitches. I may be just a goddamn Jew Red to you, but I'm keeping Jefferson alive!' - I.F. Stone

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"Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many. "
— Juvenal

bansaisequoia
October 9, 2009, 1:10 am
I guess they didn't have hydrocortisone cream in his day.