A Tribute to abra a collection of her comments

[LLapp]

"The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves." — Abraham Lincoln

abra
March 26, 2015, 8:24 am
I have a close relative, who suffered a spinal cord injury and is a paraplegic. I have never seen his wife do anything for him that he could do himself. Yet, she is right there to help him do what he cannot do. I am so thankful to God, that she is his wife.

[LLapp]

Until I found this website, I thought I was the only living person who remembered the Grant-Temple "You remind me of man" routine or the 1947 movie it came from. I was so delighted to find out that Abra knew it too.
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"The Korean War has shown quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower." — Prince Aly Khan

darkyr
November 6, 2018, 2:26 am
Let's not forget firepower and willpower.

Wordigo
August 31, 2020, 9:49 pm
The prince is out of sync. The Second World War showed that economic and technological power outweigh manpower and horsepower.

Newbe Here
December 15, 2020, 6:25 am
And don't forget the power of hoodoo.

LLapp
July 12, 2021, 11:34 pm
Who do?

abra
April 25, 2022, 2:08 am
(link) You do!

[hrossa]

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. " — Alan Watts

WRQ9
August 14, 2013, 8:00 pm
Nickel=5 dime=10 quarter=25 Suzy B.=50. Simple.

wvwoman
April 18, 2014, 6:35 pm
kennedy = 50, suzy b = 100.

puzzleme
February 16, 2015, 4:25 pm
wvwoman, you are my hero. Not only are you correct but you actually knew what the heck WRQ9 was talking about in the first place!

wvwoman
January 2, 2016, 10:59 pm
haha--that was one of the only times i understood a wrq9 comment!

abra
October 1, 2016, 11:34 am
Great answer WRQ9, even if Suzy = 100. You've figured out the change, but are you dancing?

[RedEnoch]

The girl with the…
Now THAT was Stockholm syndrome.

[Synonymous]

A gem from abra:

"One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. "
— Edward Forster


Comments on this Puzzle:
bazinga
January 13, 2012, 11:41 am
It is somewhat akin to Stockholm Syndrome.
kb83
May 19, 2014, 6:11 pm
great comment, bazinga!
abra
August 10, 2014, 8:53 am
I agree great comment.
abra
November 11, 2014, 10:21 am
I felt like this after reading Under the Dome, Stockholm Syndrome seems accurate.
LLapp
June 3, 2015, 9:51 am
I have no problem putting down a book that tries to hold me hostage.
Persephone59
April 1, 2017, 9:47 am
Try reading Hermann Hesse's Magister Ludi. It's worth it, but it will cause you problems.
Marboy
April 14, 2017, 6:26 pm
I remember once leaving a book just a dozen pages from the end - just as a demonstration of how bad I thought it was.
abra
April 24, 2019, 5:24 pm
About a year ago I was reading a book that held me hostage. I hated it so much, but it was a gift and I'd asked for it, so I felt compelled to finish it. I probably left at least three comments on here about how awful it was.
Roxanne
October 18, 2020, 12:19 pm
What was the book, abra, in case I don't run across your comments?
jbb33054
December 7, 2020, 6:26 pm
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Jrdad
September 11, 2021, 4:52 pm
I struggled through to the end of The Goldfinch just to see why it won the Pulitzer; I'm still wondering.
abra
February 27, 2022, 10:29 pm
Roxanne, The Witches: Salem, 1692. And by the way Monty left a comment that he thought it was a good book, so maybe it was just me. I thought it was disorganized and it didn't answer the questions it would answer. For me it was a drudgery to read, but because I asked for it, I felt I had to finish it.
abra
June 21, 2022, 9:18 pm
*and it didn't aswer the questions it said it would answer. I just wrote on my last puzzle, that I gave up on The Name of the Rose, about a third of the way through. No Stockholm Syndrome there. I was glad to pick out a new book.

[LLapp]

"Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes." — Sara Teasdale

abra
July 17, 2020, 9:59 pm
I don't know a lot about poetry, but I like Teasdale's poems. I've mentioned before, okay probably more than once, that when I was in HS I used to have a notebook where I copied poems, mostly love poems. I liked hers.

[JedMedGrey]

The mug or shirt that says "I don't have a favorite child, but if I did it would be my daughter-in-law." would have been a good gift for abra.

[LLapp]

"Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law." — Hubert H. Humphrey

pootie49
March 10, 2009, 11:14 pm
I would like to see one quote that says successful women in it

bansaisequoia
June 7, 2010, 8:31 pm
They'd write one, but the father-in-law is so open-minded, his daughter-in-law's success would come as no surprise to him.

skoogie2
October 7, 2014, 11:35 pm
I find mothers of sons more surprised by the success of the daughter in law.

abra
April 24, 2016, 2:45 pm
My daughter-in-law is brilliant, and lovely. I wouldn't be surprised by any successful endeavor she made.

mmfs83
December 29, 2016, 4:11 am
How lucky you are abra. Not all of us are that fortunate.

abra
July 22, 2018, 5:41 pm
DIL is still brilliant and lovely. The daughter I never had.

[LLapp]

"Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five." — Paul Harvey

wvwoman
August 9, 2014, 3:41 pm
"good day!"

Quizzical
February 11, 2015, 5:17 am
Great commentator. I grew up listening to him every day at noon on AM radio.

montyb
January 29, 2019, 1:02 pm
I don't ever recall playing with Mr. Harvey, but he knows my game so well.

highbrow
July 2, 2019, 8:07 am
"And now you know the rest of the story"

montyb
November 29, 2019, 12:07 pm
Besides, it averages out in the end.

abra
October 18, 2021, 2:53 am
Zillions of years ago when we were newlyweds, our really good friends had Paul Harvey's television set. He had donated it to a thrift shop. And now you know the rest of the story.

[LLapp]

"Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own." — Logan Pearsall Smith

LLapp
July 22, 2015, 10:44 am
Great advice for parents who need to retain their own sanity while their teens metamorphose.

abra
November 12, 2022, 2:06 am
My grandsons are 19 and 17, growing up so fast, but I've watched them trying on faces, especially the 17 year old.

[hrossa]

"That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball." — Bill Veeck

abra
March 21, 2016, 1:43 pm
Cubs home opener is April 11.. Wait'll this year.

bkmcincinnati
December 25, 2016, 3:52 am
And abra, you were so right!

abra
September 24, 2018, 9:25 am
I think for 108 years Cub fans said that. It still makes me smile that I lived to see it finally happen again. Merry Christmas bkmcincinnati .

[Synonymous]

So very nice to see abra's sister here amongst us. Welcome and your sister is sorely missed. Thank you for the recognition. I hope the tree we planted in her honor is doing well.

[LLapp]

"Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar." — Robert Brault

montyb
November 2, 2014, 1:23 pm
That's why you should trust the folks at POEM, the Professional Organization of English Majors.

LLapp
April 30, 2015, 7:59 am
Injured? Victim of medical negligence? Call me! I understand sequence of tenses and I'll beat any lawyer's price!

Labole
August 1, 2015, 3:11 am
Hmm. Funny. Does he really believe that?

kb83
August 21, 2015, 4:38 am
Yes grammatical mistakes are a gateway offence.

abra
October 25, 2015, 12:06 pm
Of all the stupid Robert Brault quotes, this must be the most stupid. Either that, or I'll find myself in prison, for reckless but not willful misplacement of commas and semicolons.

momn8r
March 30, 2016, 10:27 am
i"ll bake you a cake with White Out inside!

killdozer
April 30, 2016, 8:25 am
Laws was made to be broke.

marnita
May 4, 2016, 2:02 pm
I would not send you to prison for your indiscriminate use of commas, abra, but I might sentence you to some compulsory training sessions with LLapp.

abra
August 11, 2016, 9:36 am
momn8r, thank you. More and more I realize I'm going to need that cake, oh and the White Out too.

abra
September 13, 2016, 12:27 pm
If he was serious, this says terrible things about the workings of his mind. I've never even had a traffic ticket. I've never broken a law, willfully or otherwise. Grammar, now that's an entirely different thing.

kb83
September 15, 2016, 10:10 am
Once you start splitting infinitives, it is a slippery slope.

momn8r
November 18, 2016, 1:22 pm
abra, chocolate or vanilla?

[hrossa]

Glad to have you, abra's sister! She is missed. It's why people like to post her comments!

[Eureka]

Oh, I am thrilled to see that abra's sister has visited! Welcome! I know abra mentioned her sisters a number of times. I will try to find more examples to post here.