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  • "A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. "
    — H.L. Mencken

    bansaisequoia
    September 26, 2009, 1:19 am
    Bilbo Baggins was an honest burglar.

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    • "There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs."
      — Oliver L. North

      bansaisequoia
      June 20, 2010, 6:52 pm
      Ten stars for laughably hypocritical. Who were the idiots who actually voted for him as Virginia Senator?

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      • "Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time. "
        — Publilius Syrus

        bansaisequoia
        September 18, 2010, 7:48 pm
        My cryptogram solutions must, therefore, be very imprudent.

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        • "You can't milk a cow with your hands in your pants. "
          — Unattributed

          bansaisequoia
          April 15, 2010, 8:42 pm
          Should this be marked offensive?

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          • "He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow. "
            — Proverb

            kat
            March 9, 2009, 3:55 pm
            I hate when that happens.
            bansaisequoia
            November 1, 2009, 4:48 pm
            Don't have a cow, man.
            bansaisequoia
            January 5, 2010, 9:16 pm
            I fought the law and the law won.
            kat
            May 8, 2010, 4:49 pm
            Still pining for my lost cow...
            bansaisequoia
            June 1, 2010, 11:49 pm
            kat don't have a cow!
            kat
            October 24, 2010, 4:26 pm
            Don't rub it in Bansai! I KNOW I don't have a cow! That's why I'm pining...

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            • "The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. "
              — Proverb

              bansaisequoia
              July 16, 2009, 11:59 pm
              I was Stephane Grappelli live in Miami when he was 77. No argument here.
              bansaisequoia
              August 17, 2009, 6:13 pm
              saw
              bansaisequoia
              March 3, 2010, 3:52 am
              One of my Facebook friends, jazz violinist Samuel "Savoir-Faire" Williams, recommends the late, great Johnny Frigo.
              abra
              February 24, 2017, 10:06 am
              I'm glad bansai came back to clarify that was/saw thing. I wasn't sure if he was telling us of a past life, or if he was leading a double life.
              skeeter
              July 2, 2017, 1:48 pm
              As an old fiddler myself, I should have gotten this one faster than I did. Bansai, I saw Grappelli play live when he was in his 80s. Surely his hands were kissed by the Devil.

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              • "Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. "
                — Wallace Stevens
                10. banszaisekuoia February 27, 2010 12 seconds
                BrainCellKeeper
                December 8, 2014, 12:02 pm
                51 seconds - What happened to bansai;s name? I smell an imposter!
                Lurker
                February 13, 2015, 9:58 am
                That would have been the month he created a new userid every day for two weeks.
                figment
                September 12, 2016, 10:48 pm
                LOL "banszaisekuoia" this amuses me.
                ulua
                February 8, 2017, 12:54 pm
                Maybe he was studying Hungarian at the time?
                abra
                April 8, 2017, 6:39 pm
                A long time ago, I thought bansaquoia and bonsaquoia were an item. I pictured them both being so extremely good, and still being sympatico. LOL! (and I probably spelled both names wrong).
                blueladyblue
                December 28, 2017, 10:27 am
                This version of his name sounds either French or American Indian.
                Eureka
                January 16, 2020, 11:35 pm
                I hadn't seen that version of bansai's name before.
                hrossa
                July 11, 2021, 10:21 am
                If you search the member list for bans, bons, bonz, etc., you see a great many possible bansai pseudonyms. Including bonsaichainsaw

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                • "It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth."
                  — Miguel de Cervantes

                  bansaisequoia
                  March 19, 2010, 3:01 am
                  He's got me pegged. I try to combat suicidal depression while exploding with mirth!

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                  • "In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"
                    — Leslie Caron

                    kjmcaj
                    March 4, 2013, 6:35 pm
                    you don't know white, if you can't see black.
                    bansaisequoia
                    January 27, 2017, 11:33 am
                    I can be red/green color blind and still know purple very well.

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                    • "Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure."
                      — Don Wilder and Bill Rechin

                      bansaisequoia
                      January 4, 2012, 2:10 pm
                      I could've solved this crypto faster if it wasn't so lame. And the sun got in my eyes because I was distracted after the dog ate my homework.
                      universalmom
                      February 11, 2012, 11:27 pm
                      16 seconds and he's complaining. Really bansai? Really? lol
                      montyb
                      April 5, 2014, 10:01 am
                      Does this mean that excuses can be constructive?

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                      • "I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks, and it can't fly very high."
                        — Wilbur Wright

                        bansaisequoia
                        July 17, 2010, 6:20 pm
                        Someone should have told him about mynas, cockatiels, budgerigars and macaws.

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                        • "Nothing we human beings do is without emotion."
                          — Pete Townshend

                          bansaisequoia
                          September 24, 2012, 1:41 am
                          Nothing we Vulcans do is with emotion.

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                          • "My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists."
                            — Jean Rostand

                            bansaisequoia
                            July 4, 2009, 8:00 pm
                            Yeah, I bet you think I'm insincere.

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                            • "I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."
                              — Johann Kepler

                              bansaisequoia
                              January 11, 2011, 10:27 pm
                              Johannes Kepler.
                              montyb
                              December 13, 2013, 2:29 pm
                              Perhaps not the sharpest criticism there Bansai, but at least it was from an intelligent man.

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                              • "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
                                — George W. Bush

                                bansaisequoia
                                May 13, 2010, 5:24 pm
                                I've repeated this Bushism on this site before, and now Stephen has actually added it to the quotations. Woot! Woot!

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