A Tribute to abra a collection of her comments

[Fudi]

I wish abra had remembered the Eureka comment that was one of her favorites!! I'd love to read what it was!

"Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel - we don't even know where the tunnel is."
— Lyndon B. Johnson


bazinga
February 24, 2014, 4:55 am
When we was growin' up, we didn't have no tunnels. And we was grateful!
dovid1946
December 12, 2014, 4:06 am
that light at the end of the tunnel is another train heading in our direction
LLapp
December 17, 2014, 3:42 pm
I'm assuming this was about the unmanageable, undeclared war in Vietnam.
abra
March 31, 2015, 11:45 am
OMgosh, bazinga, THAT made me LOL, for real. You made my husband laugh too.
kb83
March 25, 2016, 9:08 am
great comments, all!
Barnabas
January 19, 2017, 11:25 am
Sure glad it was LBJ who said that and not my proctologist.
abra
April 19, 2017, 5:40 pm
bazinga's comment still makes me laugh.
kb83
October 17, 2017, 3:41 am
Still the best comments.
mohamm1
March 29, 2021, 10:42 pm
DeLIGHTful comments. - - - 28 seconds.
oddcouple
September 5, 2021, 4:34 am
Barnabas cracks me up again.
abra
July 26, 2022, 6:36 pm
The two comments I remember most and find the funniest are this one and one by Eureka. I don't think I've ever seen Eureka's again, but I've had a few chances to enjoy this one. Thank you Barnabas/Chad.

[Eureka]

"There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough." — Nancy Spain

abra
October 10, 2016, 3:49 pm
This really is a nice quote. Those are very special people.

abra
January 10, 2021, 3:00 am
The last person I remember like this was my husband. Of course as they were born, my son and my grandsons.

[Eureka]

"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. "

— Henri Frederic Amiel


abra
January 24, 2014, 2:29 pm
Oh, I like it, I really like it. It reminds me of something, a song, or a poem, something...

jnoodles
April 15, 2015, 11:48 am
me too

mistyswiss
March 16, 2018, 2:08 pm


pickleball
November 1, 2020, 4:57 pm
so so true

LLapp
January 7, 2023, 12:42 am
Abra, this one was made for you. Rest in peace, kind lady.

[Synonymous]

I used to love it when abra would cycle back to correct a mistake she had made in a prior comment...she never got back to this one. You are missed abra.


Comments on this Puzzle:

kjmcaj
April 9, 2013, 1:58 pm
147 seconds
universalmom
March 31, 2015, 3:26 am
He looks tired just thinking about it
LLapp
January 23, 2016, 6:03 pm
This quote beautifully expresses a key moment from my life, when I was still separated but not yet divorced, and I hated him so much and for such good reasons that everyone including his own family agreed with me....and then one day, while I was ranting to a friend about his latest outrageous behavior, I just stopped short, in mid-rant, suddenly realizing that I could not listen to myself spewing hatred for one more second. I guess that was the moment when my anger stopped being productive. Sometimes the hatred doesn't ever peter out or lose power; you just have to put in down and choose a brighter road.
LLapp
April 17, 2016, 2:38 pm
... put *it* down....
vintage38
December 24, 2017, 6:36 am
92 seconds
imsoeasy
December 27, 2018, 2:13 pm
I need to up my hate so I can produce more.
montyb
June 16, 2019, 11:44 am
I hate being productive. Damn! What a vicious circle!
Synonymous
August 19, 2020, 8:27 pm
Instead of hate for my ex who did a lot to warrant my hatred, I chose indifference. Giving-up the energy used in hate I turned that energy into self-improvement and caring for my son; who needed both physical and mental medical attention. Eventually I started my own business and never looked back. It's been a good 40 years without that baggage of hate to carry around. The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Hate still carries caring to some degree.
tclcac
August 22, 2020, 7:26 pm
When I feel "Hate", I have decided that I am just angry. It is much easier to control anger than to control Hate. It is still possible to Love someone with whom I am angry. But if there is a person (or thing) that I really hate, I find that avoidance is the best thing.
hrossa
March 10, 2021, 9:45 am
There are some great comments here about getting past hatred. In my own experience, faith in God is key. True hatred is such a corrosive emotion that is difficult to handle. We can neither ignore it, nor allow it to live in our heads indefinitely.
figmo
January 16, 2022, 2:45 pm
When I was going through my divorce, my lawyer advised me to have something I could look at before entering court to remind myself of why I was divorcing him. Most of the time I felt *relief* after getting away from him rather than outright "hate." Besides, I got custody of the friends.... :-)
Synonymous
September 3, 2022, 8:17 pm
figmo, bravo!
abra
December 22, 2022, 2:22 am
Yes, good for you , figmo. I love that you got the friends. it reminded me of James Taylor's Her Twon Too.

[Eureka]

"It's really difficult for fanatic churchgoers to understand God can't help me. I'm the only one who can help me." — Chuck Yeager


abra
December 26, 2019, 10:03 pm
I remember in The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe said that all airline pilots imitate Chuck Yeager, a calm voice with a slight drawl. He was one of my son's boyhood heroes.

[Synonymous]

One of her best!

Comments on this Puzzle:

opallady
August 22, 2009, 10:05 pm
It isn't nice to lie to friends.
afulton
January 26, 2012, 3:29 am
I agree. Tell him small truths, if you want to test him.
montyb
February 27, 2012, 11:56 am
If you follow this advice, why would he ever trust you again?
universalmom
October 12, 2014, 3:08 pm
Lousy way to treat a friend.
abra
January 11, 2015, 10:05 am
The "Proverbian" had trust issues.
abra
March 25, 2015, 2:43 pm
Proverbist?
abra
May 5, 2015, 11:26 am
Proverbtitian
dddeedee
August 7, 2015, 12:28 am
Its often a good idea to lie - Do you like my new sweater? Does this make me look fat?
LLapp
November 12, 2015, 11:57 am
abra, your comments cracked me up.
pegxpeg
July 21, 2016, 12:47 am
If you are testing the trust of another person, than that person is not your friend.
vintage38
May 21, 2018, 11:22 am
38 seconds
marnita
May 25, 2018, 8:42 am
Lots of people just can't keep secrets. That doesn't mean they can't be good friends.
nelnose
June 11, 2018, 2:48 pm
If a friend followed this advice, I would never trust him to be my friend.
LLapp
August 11, 2018, 7:32 am
I like afulton's comment. That's how you build any personal relationship anyway -- by starting with small bits of your personal trust and seeing how it goes, not by entrusting your whole story to a new acquaintance.
lertsek
October 22, 2018, 2:02 pm
Speed things up and tell a lie about your friend.
jbb33054
December 25, 2018, 2:32 am
66, my time beaten by vintage38 yet again.
abra
December 29, 2018, 1:35 pm
Probmatician!
maradnu
February 13, 2019, 4:09 pm
dddeedee - My reply to such is to tell my wife she has more flattering things than those.
rasbury
September 25, 2020, 1:55 pm
Proverbitarian: Someone who only speaks in proverbs. Proverbationist: Someone dedicated to keeping proverbs alive, even some that we should probably let go of (like the one in question) Proverbialist: Someone who believes in talking a lot on principle (see also, converbialist, antiverbialist, averbialist) Pronouns: one of the chief ideological opponents of proverbs (see also proadjective, proadverb, propreposition, proconjunction)
blueladyblue
August 20, 2021, 8:59 pm
I just automatically trust anyone, friend or acquaintance, until I'm proven otherwise. If I'm telling a casual acquaintance something that shouldn't be shared, I will mention that. I don't see the need to test anyone. If I find out someone tested me, I will probably never trust that person because they themselves lack trust.
gracefulghost
September 26, 2021, 5:04 pm
.Those who know my secrets are all dead; those who don't know will never know--whos 'left to tell them?

ADD YOUR COMMENTS:

[Eureka]

(To abra's son: yes, she's the one who said it!)


"The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path." — Mason Cooley


abra
April 21, 2015, 11:03 am
Sewing machines self destruct in my hands. There is something about me, that a sewing machine,doesn't love.


gryhnd51
June 11, 2015, 9:30 pm
Or perhaps something about a sewing machine that YOU don't love, Abra! It helps to have had a grandmother who taught you all the basics, though.


abra
February 27, 2016, 1:33 pm
My grandmother was a wonderful seamstress, and extremely good at all needle crafts. She never taught me anything. I wish I'd live nearer to her.


marnita
October 22, 2016, 4:26 pm
I sympathize, abra. I used to sew and enjoyed it very much, but then my machine died. I bought another and it died almost immediately. I think they just don't make them the way they used to. Or maybe you just have to get a really expensive one?


Persephone59
August 15, 2017, 9:51 pm
I have my grandmother's old treadle machine, which I put an old Japanese all metal electric machine into. I was a seamstress, doing home dec, so I could stay home with my kids. I sewed my finger with Granny's machine, and the veneer is gone from the top because she hung her canary's cage above the machine, and he did love to take baths. Funny, I have a bird in my sewing room now... wonderful memories.


gryhnd51
October 12, 2017, 5:38 pm
I still have my grandmother's sewing machine, converted into one with a "knee peddle" and in a wonderful cabinet. That VERY old Singer will sew through ANYTHING, and I can't bear to part with it. I watched my Nana put the needle thru her finger and I've done it a few times myself....funny how it really doesn't hurt that much.

[Eureka]

(Some quotes were just made for abra.)


"I don't care how small or big they are, insects freak me out." — Alexander Wang


abra
June 21, 2020, 6:09 pm
I'm with you Mr. Wang.


abra
September 26, 2021, 2:05 am
I think I promised in a comment somewhere, that I would stop talking about creepy crawlies. I guess I kind of like lady bugs, the old kind, not the new ones that bite. Of course I like butterflies. That's all I can think of.

[Eureka]

(I hope abra's family continues to enjoy her bbq sauce and gravy for generations to come.)

"Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation." — Sid Taylor


SippyGurl
February 16, 2017, 9:01 pm
all those grandmas who just wouldn't give up the missing ingredient(s) in their recipes...


NotTooOld
July 5, 2017, 1:19 am
My grandma taught me how to make her meatloaf, but one of the ingredients was Aunt Lily's chili sauce and Aunt Lily didn't show me how to make that.


abra
September 1, 2017, 2:27 pm
My daughter-in-law, loves my bbq sauce, and my gravy. Her grandmother told her I would leave something out of the recipe. I showed her how to make both. I don't have any prize winners with secret ingredients. If I did, I wouldn't want them to die with me.


badbob
November 20, 2018, 10:25 pm
how did we get from wisdom to recipes?


LLapp
July 9, 2019, 4:00 am
Every great recipe is packed with wisdom, that's how.

[Eureka]

"Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss." — Dwight Eisenhower

abra
August 3, 2019, 1:20 am
Because I am a person who believes in prayer, I do spend some time at the end of the day giving thanks. Most days it's pretty easy to find things to be thankful for. Things that were fun, things that brought joy. I'm always thankful for my family and for my home, even on sad days.

[Eureka]

"The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. " — Arthur Schopenhauer


maradnu
September 20, 2013, 11:58 am
I'm past forty, but still writing the text.

Fudi
August 26, 2019, 2:26 pm
I hate texting. I'm sort of long-winded. No way I could get that first 40 years into a mere 160 characters.

abra
November 25, 2021, 2:33 am
I hate texting. I text one character at a time with my forefinger. I only like to text with my grandsons. They're fun to talk to, and they're always glad to hear from me.

LLapp
January 20, 2022, 1:50 am
I text with my pinky because it fits the tiny phone keyboard more easily.

[LLapp]

abra
May 15, 2020, 10:11 pm
You've shrunk. You'll have to get higher stools for you kitchen.

See? That's Abra (or abra to be case-correct). She remembered that I'm short and that I need stools in my kitchen so I can reach shelves and work at the sink. She appreciated everyone here and remembered specific things about each of us, like old friends do. And chances are that we may have disagreed about some political thing on some other quote only minutes before she got to this one, and still she was warm and friendly.

[Synonymous]

"The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter."
— George Santayana
Comments on this Puzzle:

LLapp
September 7, 2015, 6:28 pm
So what the hell, let's stick around.
BriddlesBob
August 6, 2016, 7:24 am
Go ahead, LLapp, try it!
llapp
March 6, 2019, 9:59 pm
Still here.
Eureka
March 18, 2019, 2:44 pm
Still here, but you've lost your capitals.
abra
May 15, 2020, 10:11 pm
You've shrunk. You'll have to get higher stools for you kitchen.
jbb33054
September 12, 2021, 6:39 am
69
LLapp
October 12, 2021, 5:14 am
Phew, got my capitals back.
hrossa
October 8, 2022, 3:04 pm
abra and hrossa don't have capitals and right now no punctuation reminds me of e e cummings

ADD YOUR COMMENTS:

[Eureka]

"The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers." — Denis Diderot

LLapp
November 11, 2018, 5:56 pm
How did he determine this? Did he get a grant?


Synonymous
February 24, 2020, 3:44 pm
Of course, peeping Tom.


abra
August 5, 2021, 3:00 am
He had a lab coat and a clipboard and no one ever asked what he was doing there.

[hrossa]

Awesome! Best smile of my day.