A Tribute to abra a collection of her comments

[Eureka]

"Stop looking at the walls, look out the window." — Karl Pilkington

abra
August 22, 2015, 2:10 pm
It made me think of the eighth grade. My math teacher called me "Bird Watcher" for looking out the window.

abra
September 7, 2019, 3:06 am
Eighth grade math teacher also called me Dagger Eyes, I guess because I didn't like being called bird watcher.

[LLapp]

"Men never remember, but women never forget." — Unattributed

dovid1946
April 13, 2015, 5:05 am
She remembers EVERYTHING

LLapp
May 28, 2015, 5:28 pm
Brain cells, our secret weapon.

marnita
June 23, 2015, 1:48 pm
I just reminded my husband that our anniversary is the day after tomorrow. He was quite surprised.

abra
August 16, 2015, 3:33 pm
Why do husbands insist on telling a story, get all the details wrong, and then get upset, when the wife (okay, me) tries to tell it the right way. I'm learning though, I ask myself, "Does it really make a difference." If not, I squirm and keep my mouth shut.

LLapp
April 15, 2016, 6:47 pm
abra, that was adorable.

montyb
June 19, 2016, 4:33 am
Ah yes, the little gray cells are getting grayer every day.

larry149
August 24, 2016, 7:07 am
My wife says I forget things. I say she makes stuff up.

marnita
June 10, 2018, 10:52 am
Abra, it's especially annoying when it's a joke they are telling, and they mess it up and it's not at all funny.

NotTooOld
August 14, 2018, 7:13 am
I have sometimes regretted the 'wrong details' I've let me husband tell. I hate to correct him in front of others but there can be consequence that have to be dealt with later.

Capy
October 3, 2018, 12:49 am
If we made generalities about women as the women above have made about men - we would be labeled sexist and brought in front of a tribunal or something!

LLapp
November 30, 2018, 8:09 pm
Oh Capy, you even got the details wrong on that one. Sigh.

Eureka
February 28, 2019, 11:13 am
I wouldn't call them generalities, but real examples to back up the quote, Capy. You might be the exception to the rule, but I'd say most people would agree with this quote, male and female.

badbob
January 1, 2020, 11:39 am
I remember that one time when we were the casino and .....oh wait. that wasn't you never mind

Synonymous
December 15, 2020, 8:18 pm
Great comments. I forgot the quote already.

abra
January 8, 2022, 2:41 am
LOL, badbob.

[hrossa]

Me, too, Abra

[LLapp]

More from the sewing sequence...

"Sewing: A creative mess is better than tidy idleness." — Unattributed

abra
June 1, 2020, 5:04 pm
If I had a whole room to devote to sewing, I wouldn't. Sewing machines self-destruct when I get too close to them.

[Eureka]

"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. " — Plato

LLapp
December 6, 2019, 3:54 am
I saw this lovely explanation in social media, of why you should read to babies: "The crazy thing about babies is that like, some people would think that reading a baby a book about farm animals is teaching them about farm animals, but really it’s teaching them about the concept of a book and how there’s new information on each page of a single object, but really, beyond that, it’s teaching them how language works, and beyond that it’s really actually teaching them about human interaction, and really really it’s them learning about existing in a three-dimensional space and how they can navigate that space, but actually, above all it is teaching them that mama loves them."

abra
August 19, 2020, 9:04 pm
The days when your baby is just big enough to sit in your lap and look at picture while you read, are so sweet. I loved your comment, LLapp.

[Synonymous]

Excellent thread LLapp and a good memory of abra. image.png

[LLapp]

This one is rated PG-13.
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"There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be." — Norman Mailer

kb83
August 5, 2014, 5:47 am
great quote!

JD_1947
December 31, 2014, 1:30 pm
. . not even when your alone . . . my neighbor tells me . . . .

abra
January 30, 2015, 9:58 am
I'm not sure, it seems like there are times when it's pretty safe.

ruxpin66
November 24, 2016, 1:53 pm
nope, JD_1947. You could lose an eye.

tavi5280
January 17, 2017, 6:15 am
JD, my mama told me I'd go blind doing that... I asked if I could until I just needed glasses.

nelnose
May 14, 2018, 7:27 pm
Shhhhh

abra
July 22, 2018, 5:42 pm
Be committed, stay together, it's pretty safe.

abra
August 10, 2018, 1:54 pm
...but once the bed broke, but all were safe.

LLapp
June 9, 2021, 1:31 am
Abra - Now there's a great memory.

abra
October 10, 2021, 1:21 am


hrossa
January 8, 2023, 11:28 am
LOL, I have a similar memory

[LLapp]

After we all tried, abra put Kierkegaard into plain English so anyone could get it.
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"Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances." — Soren Kierkegaard

LLapp
September 18, 2016, 8:42 pm
Kierkegaard never makes any sense to me.

marnita
January 7, 2018, 3:26 pm
This particular quote sounds like gibberish to me.

MissKitty
March 3, 2018, 11:15 am
lost in translation. Kilroy 43

blueladyblue
June 27, 2018, 10:03 am
Yeah, it's puzzling. I think the outward appearance of any dead person is anything but transparent.

imsoeasy
February 20, 2019, 9:36 pm
Most people deal with death only at solemn occasions and pontificate on its meaning. Other people deal with the decaying corpse and unforgettable stench.

MDPSY19
January 5, 2020, 9:10 am
Death makes us aware of the most profound possible meanings of people's actions, and helps us to see the underlying intentions and forces within a person (passions) that may have driven those actions.

imported_bees
December 11, 2020, 12:43 pm
Gatherings of families after a death do provoke great passions . Anger is always a guest.

blueladyblue
December 19, 2020, 4:16 pm
Death is the great equalizer and revealer.

abra
August 25, 2021, 1:28 am
After our older sister died, my other sisters and I were together for the first time in two or three years. We saw a stupid commercial on TV about these balls that you could put hamsters in and let them run around the house. It was one of those times where the laughter becomes hysterical. We couldn't stop. I think my grandfather was shocked and offended, but it was involuntary. It was grieving as much as crying.

318WOZ
April 4, 2022, 10:04 pm
I can understand that, Abra.

[LLapp]

Here's one of those times when abra claimed to be non-exceptional. I'm posting this one if only to get my comment on the record.
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"Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given." — Unattributed

abra
June 16, 2019, 3:03 am
I'm kind of a dabbler. I'm a little bit good at a few things. I have no real talent at anything. Oh, Unattributed how would you measure my success?

puffybob
December 23, 2019, 9:17 pm
This quote doesn't help much, since there's no way to measure the talents you've been given.

LLapp
December 3, 2020, 4:23 pm
Abra, you have talents that are evident in your comments!! For one thing, you are a peacemaker with a talent for fairness and compassionate candor. Also, you're a natural writer.

Synonymous
June 13, 2022, 5:27 pm
A little inheritance doesn't hurt either.

[Synonymous]

Nice. Thanks for this snippet LLapp. It's good to keep our past players in our memory. They all live on here in Cryptoland thank goodness.

[LLapp]

A note for abra's family: Marnita is a Harvard-educated, retired legal secretary who loves bike-riding, reading ancient classics in the original Greek, and supporting liberal politics. She and abra engaged in honest, careful, and mutually respectful dialogue through many threads over the years. This is a tiny snippet.
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"The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class." — Paul Fussell

marnita
July 21, 2016, 11:13 am
Football is my favorite, so I guess that puts me in my place.

abra
September 5, 2016, 9:46 am
After baseball (Go Cubbies!!!) I watch figure skating, and gymnastics. I'll be having tea on the veranda.

[LLapp]

"It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own." — Pam Brown

LLapp
May 21, 2015, 10:38 am
I'm starting to wonder who this woman's sister is.

abra
March 1, 2019, 2:40 am
She must be a gem. But if you saw the things my sister posts on FB you'd think I was one too. :O)

blueladyblue
September 7, 2019, 5:09 pm
I love being with my sisters, although, frankly I wouldn't want to live with them.

hrossa
February 13, 2021, 8:19 pm
I love my sisters as much as anyone in this world, and I so miss the one who is no longer with us.

abra
April 26, 2022, 2:47 am
I feel that very same thing, hrossa.

[Synonymous]

Nice sentiment Eureka! Wonderful tribute.

[LLapp]

"History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same." — Walter Rauschenbusch

Andy451
July 8, 2015, 6:42 am
Which of you would be proud to walk down the street in the style of your grandmother or grandfather? Who would like to wear spats, a bowler hat, a stove pipe hat, or any of the hats currently worn by Queen Elizabeth? And I mean Elizabeth II, not Elizabeth I. Just because history is occasionally relevant, doesn't mean it isn't antiquated. The houses or apartments you live in today, are nicer in many respects than all of King Henry VIIIs castles and palaces. Hey, he didn't have air conditioning, central heating, the internet, or a microwave oven. Also, your car is much faster and more comfortable than his best horse. Also, show we a horse, any horse that has a kick ass stereo system as good as your Bose or Harmon Kardon with bluetooth and Wifi? There are not many horses that can do that. History is antiquated Walter. Alas!

marnita
September 10, 2015, 6:15 am
Andy, you are just talking about material things. This quote is about basic human nature - ethics, morality, relationships, desires, etc.

Eureka
November 15, 2018, 6:12 am
This is why the ancient quotes we solve here are still relevant to us. And I would like to wear Queen Elizabeth's hats, Andy. If you've got any, send them my way.

badbob
December 12, 2018, 8:45 am
when my daughter got married , the groomsmen wore spats. very classy, andy

Eureka
February 18, 2020, 11:24 am
Drat. Still waiting for those hats.

abra
July 12, 2020, 1:23 am
All we have to do is ask? Eureka, I want some of those hats. Let me know when you get them.

Elephino
October 14, 2023, 1:58 pm
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way–in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. ~ A Tale of Two Cities

Eureka
March 17, 2024, 1:13 am
I'd like to think that abra and Queen Elizabeth II are sharing hats and having a nice chat somewhere in the great beyond.

[Synonymous]

Abra in a truly humorous moment…gotta’ love it.

"Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged. "
— Herman Melville

Comments on this Puzzle:
sonofcarc
May 11, 2009, 7:54 pm
One "n" in Herman, I think.

nevadasmith68
August 26, 2013, 3:31 pm
Melville went on to write the song "Ahab The Arab".

wshanley@sbcglobal
August 24, 2015, 11:22 am
Screw 'em.

Abra
July 20, 2017, 6:44 pm
Who knew? I thought it was Ray Stevens. Let me tell you about Ahab the Arab The sheik of the burning sand He had emeralds and rubies just drippin' off 'a him And a ring on every finger of his hand

minimalistmarmoset
December 16, 2024, 3:40 pm
Sure, but what if they recover?

(Comments cut short due to political commentary afterwards)