Things that Bansai left for us

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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.

[Toeprint]

"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

[Toeprint]

"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!