Things that Bansai left for us

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"We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. "
— Sir Walter Scott

montyb
May 10, 2012, 6:27 pm
There was enough snow in northern Indiana this last winter to build a snow bust.
bansaisequoia
October 11, 2012, 7:52 pm
There has been enough 21st Century snow in South Florida to sculpt a void.

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"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
— Marvin Minsky

bansaisequoia
August 10, 2012, 3:48 pm
That's why I read the Kama Sutra! Giggety giggety giggety!
montyb
August 1, 2013, 10:39 pm
You should try the Braille version.

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"The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret - they mainly make models."
— John von Neumann

bansaisequoia
January 9, 2011, 3:57 am
I had to Google this one. It turns out that Johann von Neumann is another name for Hungarian-born, American mathemetician and economist, John von Neumann, whose birth name was Neumann János Lajos. I was also surprised to find that he never seems to have won the Nobel Prize. (Or can someone call me to account on this?)

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"Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day."
— Stephen Jay Gould

bansaisequoia
September 26, 2010, 2:58 pm
Stephen Jay Gould is so hip, he was on "The Simpsons."

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"An audience can really lift you right up off the stage."
— Don Van Vliet

bansaisequoia
September 6, 2012, 8:11 pm
Did Captain Beefheart invent crowd surfing?(link)

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"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. "
— D.H. Lawrence

#	Player	Date	Solve Time
1.	bansaisequoia	March 12, 2011	10 seconds

mokonabarb
October 5, 2014, 3:27 am
I cant believe 19 seconds isn't enough to be the top time. Bansaisequoia is a genius! Anyhow...how about ...to save the tale from the artist through whom the Muse sang it?

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"Bad news goes about in clogs, Good news in stockinged feet."
— Welsh Proverb

bansaisequoia
October 3, 2011, 4:19 pm
My bad news comes like a double bill of Michael Flatley's Riverdance and Stomp, with special guests Megatron and the Decepticons.

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"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it. "
— H.L. Mencken

bansaisequoia
November 22, 2009, 6:43 pm
I bet he thinks he's saving humanity with his aphorisms.

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"Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. "
— Thomas Fuller

JD_1947
November 23, 2014, 9:49 am
. . good quote! . . I like it! . . . 59 seconds . . how does bansai do it . . does he have a crypto-cracker software program . . . ?
Lurker
February 13, 2015, 12:46 pm
He has the best one ever designed... his brain.
maradnu
June 22, 2016, 5:45 am
He is very smart, has a good memory for quotes, has good solving skills, a fast internet connection, and is a touch typist. Killer combination.
Shirli
November 17, 2017, 12:00 pm
I still think he is a bot
LLapp
June 7, 2019, 1:59 am
If he were a bot, he would solve in 2 seconds, and he would have a 100% success rate.

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"You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home. "
— Alexander Pope

bansaisequoia
August 5, 2010, 6:20 pm
What if he means there's no corpse in the house?

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"When you are seventeen you aren't really serious. "
— Arthur Rimbaud

bansaisequoia
September 10, 2009, 8:19 pm
"When I was seventeen It was a very good year."--Ervin Drake (just don't listen to the William Shatner version)

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"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. "
— George Eliot

bansaisequoia
September 25, 2009, 12:19 am
Good thing she never met Isaac Asimov.

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"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? "
— Friedrich Nietzsche

bansaisequoia
July 31, 2012, 4:09 am
"Wisdom is the domain of the wis."--Dale Bozzio

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"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. "
— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

bansaisequoia
December 6, 2009, 10:58 pm
Same here, duder.
LLapp
June 5, 2021, 4:35 am
Bansaisequoia, aka Joseph Kartheiser of Boca Raton, left us at age 57 on September 24, 2019. His comment at the top of this thread gave me a big lump in my throat. His sense of humor really was a godsend for him. (link)

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"By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me."
— Andrew Schneider

bansaisequoia
June 11, 2009, 11:47 pm
Mid-November is when I breathe a sigh of relief that hurricane season is finally over.