Classic Comments on the Quote

[wvwoman]

montyb...again!

"Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. "
— Publilius Syrus

universalmom on 2012-05-23 23:09:47
Retailing your privacies can get you in a lot of trouble!

chopstix on 2013-12-20 07:12:07
the tabloids

kb83 on 2014-04-22 21:02:33
Thus revealing wholesale secrets?

montyb on 2014-11-20 09:14:20
I think he is talking about selling your undergarments as souvenirs.

[ddph]

"Golf is life. If you can't take golf, you can't take life."
— Unattributed

montyb on 2013-03-16 16:59:52
AMEN!!!!!!!!

kb83 on 2014-04-04 06:26:16
take? tame? tape?

LLapp on 2014-09-27 16:25:57
Way too many 'f's, but I had faith that this had to be a gold quote.

abra on 2014-10-14 14:24:35
All those Fs. Kind of surprising.

montyb on 2014-11-12 08:38:26
I use a lot of "F" words when I play golf.

universalmom on 2014-11-18 14:01:10
LOL monty

wvwoman on 2015-12-11 22:20:29
monty, that made me howl!

spacecoyote1966 on 2016-03-29 08:46:17
I feel the same way about bowling.

[ddph]

"A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. "
— Raymond Chandler

bansaisequoia on 2009-09-18 00:36:02
I'll drink to that. (Give me 10 stars for campiness)

fredsevent on 2012-02-14 20:00:32
Betelgeuse, Sirius, Vega, Rigel, Antares, Deneb, Polaris, Algol, Spica and Arcturus. Enjoy camping!

montyb on 2012-05-29 21:13:08
Orion, Canis Major, Lyra, Orion (opposite corner from Betelgeuse), Scorpius, Cygnus, Ursa Minor, Perseus, Virgo, and Bootes are their respective constellations. Keep looking up.

SippyGurl on 2015-10-22 16:33:38
okole maluna!

[LLapp]

"A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. "
— Raymond Chandler

bansaisequoia on 2009-09-18 00:36:02
I'll drink to that. (Give me 10 stars for campiness)

fredsevent on 2012-02-14 20:00:32
Betelgeuse, Sirius, Vega, Rigel, Antares, Deneb, Polaris, Algol, Spica and Arcturus. Enjoy camping!

montyb on 2012-05-29 21:13:08
Orion, Canis Major, Lyra, Orion (opposite corner from Betelgeuse), Scorpius, Cygnus, Ursa Minor, Perseus, Virgo, and Bootes are their respective constellations. Keep looking up.

SippyGurl on 2015-10-22 16:33:38
okole maluna!

Wow! That's excellent!

[universalmom]

SippyGurl on 2015-10-22 16:33:38
okole maluna!

Okay this thread was bound to go meta eventually - I was delighted to see this from Sippy Gurl in the above post! It's a toast that you hear in the Hawaiian islands all the time, and it means something like "your a** to the moon!" Great way to say "bottoms up," don't you think??

[abra]

Thanks for the translation, universalmom.

[ddph]

When I solved the quote for the stars and bansai's campiness, I was impressed by sippygurl's okole maluna! I left a follow up comment that it was nice to see that she knew Hawaiian.

[ddph]

This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. "
— Wolfgang Pauli

montyb on 2012-06-06 00:32:49
Pauli is referring to any hypothesis that cannot be falsified by experiment. Usually he applied it to various pseudosciences.

Allen on 2013-05-01 14:28:01
I used to be a pseudoscientist, but so many pseudos were harmed during testing that I gave it up.

abra on 2015-01-19 11:23:06
Funny! Allen.

[LLapp]

"The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination." — Gaetano Salvemini

Caution on 2013-05-15 23:44:29
This completely justifies my Napoleonic Wars/My Little Pony crossover.

[ddph]

If you burn your neighbor's house down, it doesn't make your house look any better. "
— Lou Holtz

Kgun5 on 2014-06-11 01:25:32
I wonder if he said this in a post-game press conference after a loss.

abra on 2015-04-28 15:20:23
Nah, it comes from the booklet 10 Easy Steps for Selling Your House. JK

LLapp on 2016-03-23 17:29:08
Haha, abra!


Edit: Just noticed that I now have hit 100 posts and my status changed from a junior member to a senior member. Do I get an extra discount for being a senior?

[ddph]

"The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. "
— Adlai E. Stevenson

Guest on 2009-02-13 20:37:45
COOL

blies on 2011-01-31 20:45:51
trammeled is a new word for me

Lurker on 2011-03-22 00:21:26
Untrammeled? And not a typo. That's the real quote.

montyb on 2012-06-21 23:44:58
Trammel: a hinderance.

ruxpin66 on 2015-06-07 03:09:03
I learned a new word! I learned a new word! "Free." What is this?

Unattributed on 2015-08-07 03:40:38
Free (adjective): untrammeled.

pegxpeg on 2016-01-16 07:22:39
Hey Unattributed, I'd love to talk to you about some of your quotes.

LLapp on 2016-03-21 19:36:27
You guys crack me up.

[ddph]

Thanks Llapp

Thanks for starting this thread. It's brought a lot of smiles to my face over the past several weeks. I suspect it will stay alive for quite a while.

[universalmom]

It is one of the best threads ever, Llapp! Here's more of monty's delightful wit:

"Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. "
— Florence Scovel Shinn

montyb on 2013-10-16 15:03:39
Ask any lemming.

[LLapp]

It takes a village to make a thread

Oddcouple and Universalmom, and others too, thanks for throwing me a thank-you! For a while before I started this, I was fairly bursting with the need to put some of this group's brilliant retorts and message-in-a-bottle conversations in one place. The group has really gotten into it, and it is SO gratifying!! You folks have made this thread into a delightful repository in a fairly short time. I have laughed out loud many times just scanning through the posts.

Lisa

[LLapp]

A reminder about posting classic comments . . .

Hey youse guys,

This thread has been more fun than I ever expected. And now that we are on page 26 (unbelievable -- in 8 weeks), I want to put out this reminder about posting.

You don't have to post every comment from the quote's comment box.

In other words:

* You can post just a single comment out of a longer thread, or some, or most, or all of them. Your choice.

* You can omit in-between comments that are unrelated to the magic.

* Do keep each comment itself just as it was, though.

I personally prefer the pared-down-thread approach when preserving a "best of" moment. BUT paring down the thread is just an option. If you like the unabridged approach, go for it -- there is also magic in seeing a classic moment against the background of everyday banter. Kinda like the setting for a diamond.

Thanks, everyone, for this amazing thread.

Lisa