Classic Comments on the Quote

[Eureka]

(In case LLapp does not get back to this puzzle)

"I want my world to be fun. No parents, no rules, no nothing. Like, no one can stop me."
— Justin Bieber

LLapp
January 4, 2019, 2:16 pm
I would like a trophy for not saying something political here. Thank you.

Roxanne
February 24, 2019, 10:59 am
And now, folks, it's time for a special award. LLapp, please come up to the podium, if you would. Is she in the audience? I don't see her. Oh, there she is! Yes, I see her in the back, she's making her way down the aisle now. Folks, for those of you who are listening at home, I'm sorry you can't see this scene before me. There's abra blowing LLapp a kiss, and montyb giving a jaunty salute in her direction as LLapp comes toward the stage. And here she is, shaking hands with maradnu and gryhnd51 as she comes forward. Please, folks, please, let's have a little quiet here, let's settle down ... shh, shh.... LLapp, on behalf of the Cryptograms Commentators Committee of the Smartass Solvers Society, may I present you with this Trophy for Not Saying Something Political. Folks, listen to that cheering. Cameras are flashing and confetti is raining down -- wait, it's not ordinary confetti, it's thousands of Oxford commas in the air around LLapp as she holds the trophy high. What athleticism! That trophy's gotta weigh 35 pounds there, and she hoists it in one hand like it's nothing. Wow, her cross-training with, I'm told, Fowler's Modern English Usage and the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition, has really paid off! Amazing!

abra
October 12, 2019, 3:20 am
So funny, Roxanne.

montyb
February 8, 2020, 4:49 pm
Woo hoo! I’m a member of the CCCSSS! Well done LLapp and Roxanne.

munchlet
June 27, 2020, 5:18 pm
Gotta love those Oxford commas.

[Synonymous]

abra, I don't think it will help him at this point. We can start a Go Fund Me page to have his casket moved from Argentina to Italy. He was born in Conflenti, Italy.

[LLapp]

"Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy." — Bertrand Russell

abra
September 15, 2020, 1:39 am
I think I'll start a GoFundMe to send Antonio Porchia to Italy.

[lvoyster]

Puzzleme, is that a pairity argument?

[skeeter]

I completely agree. These words wafted over me all night long last night, the beauty of it is so strong. I am so glad Pootie wrote this and that Montyb posted it.

[LLapp]

Montyb, thank you for posting that beautiful, wise, healing comment from Pootie. It melts my heart every time I read it.

[montyb]

I don’t know if this has already been posted, but one night when my wife was away visiting a friend I found Pootie’s comment comforting. I have edited out all subsequent comments (including my own) because ... well, just because.

"How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with."
— Charles Dickens

pootie49
June 11, 2011, 2:31 pm
I agree. Someone to sit on a bench in the garden with after a long day, and just watch the sun set and talk about your day, your dreams, your hopes. then he takes your hand and says lets go inside its late and you stand up and hold each other and think yes this is how it should be. my friend, my lover, my confessor, my hope and my future. an equal. whom you look at and without a doubt in your mind think, i love this man and he loves me...what else do we really need? that complete feeling of belonging.

[LLapp]

"One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious." — Chateaubriand

oddcouple
August 11, 2013, 1:31 pm
Yum! I wish I had a little chateaubriand on my table right now!

locodad
April 26, 2014, 3:48 pm
I don't taste anything that I can't spell

universalmom
September 21, 2014, 2:38 pm
not even the odd hors d'oeuvre?

puzzleme
October 6, 2014, 7:16 pm
I eat only even hors d'oeuvres.

[montyb]

Vintage38 gets the first and last word!

"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."
— Calvin Coolidge

vintage38
October 9, 2018, 6:26 am
68 seconds

Elephino
October 12, 2018, 12:26 pm
Say that again?

montyb
October 17, 2018, 2:23 am
Vintage38 said, "68 seconds."

vintage38
March 21, 2021, 2:47 pm
Shouldn't have said anything.

[LLapp]

"People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead." — Edith Wharton

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badbob
August 23, 2017, 9:58 am
Margaret Hamilton wants her hat back.

Wordigo
October 9, 2020, 10:07 pm
She is still paying for the hat.

[Eureka]

(This is just one of many humorous exchanges between darkyr and LLapp in the comments section.)

"When you're arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing." — Unattributed


darkyr
July 14, 2017, 6:09 am
I think he is. What do I do now?

LLapp
September 27, 2017, 11:05 am
Look at your watch, feign great surprise and urgency, say "OMG! I'm so sorry, I have to leave immediately!" and then run out the door with no explanation. Works great at deadly long meetings, provided you don't use it too often.

[Eureka]

"The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage."

— Joseph Conrad


Anachronismatic
February 5, 2021, 4:12 pm

I'm afraid to ask my wife what she thinks about this quote.

[LLapp]

"Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness - happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes, when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love." — Adela Rogers St. Johns

wordloon
May 12, 2011, 5:58 am
Correct nane: Adela Rogers St. Johns

wordloon
July 7, 2011, 2:53 pm
name

vivian1874
May 12, 2013, 2:31 am
: )

judy100
January 16, 2015, 7:00 am
: D

LLapp
September 11, 2016, 1:11 pm
: O

blueladyblue
May 31, 2018, 8:55 am
Huh? What am I missing here?

montyb
February 14, 2021, 8:33 am
Vivian is happy, Judy is joyous, and LLapp is yawning.

[Cirella]

and lo, a colon has been added

"Censor: a self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business."
Bennett Alfred Cerf


Lurker on January 6th, 2011
Perhaps there should be a colon after Censor?

gryhnd51 on November 25th, 2011
"censor" the VERB means to remove, suppress, delete, to express disapproval of. In this quote, it is NOT being used as a noun, in which case a colon would be required.

kb83 on November 14th, 2014
I vote for noun and a colon.

maradnu on January 29th, 2015
Having a colon is handy. I'd hate to be without one.

montyb on June 19th, 2015
Some censors are intimately acquainted with their own colons.

[darkyr]

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