Classic Comments on the Quote

[LLapp]

"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one." — Benjamin Franklin

lertsek
July 3, 2018, 6:58 pm
I wonder how Ben feels about being on our highest denomination of currency.

darkyr
July 31, 2018, 4:15 am
It doesn't make him happy. He was hoping to be on the 20 so he would get out more.

[montyb]

Here is a classic stream of consciousness, involving many people and multiple paths, that makes this site so darned enjoyable!

"Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can't taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie."
— Astrid Alauda


fredsevent
December 29, 2011, 4:29 pm
Me like Twinkies. Me no like carrots. Me no like this quote.

billkeiko
January 9, 2013, 8:22 pm
this was my first online crypt. nice website. thanks

montyb
June 3, 2013, 1:06 am
Carrot cake Twinkie?

bansaisequoia
August 20, 2013, 12:49 am
Brilliant idea, monty! We'll fill the carrot cake twinkies with cream cheese frosting and make million$!

skoogie2
November 15, 2013, 3:27 pm
Oh my gosh! I want a carrot cake twinkie!

abra
February 26, 2014, 2:57 pm
I'll just eat the frosting. I don't want to taste all that carrot cake, Earth energy.

maradnu
March 26, 2015, 4:05 pm
I'd rather eat carrots than twinkies. Then again, I'd rather eat fettuccine alfredo than either of those

marnita
June 9, 2015, 6:51 pm
I don't care for Twinkies, but I could definitely go for Monty and Bansai's carrot cake version!

oddcouple
January 16, 2016, 12:38 am
There appears to be no such person as Astrid Alauda, so it very well may be a pseudonym.

abra
March 30, 2016, 9:24 am
I only eat carrots, if they're cut the right way. Three or four inch cross cut pieces for stew, cut length wise with pot roast, julienned for soup, grated for salad, never, ever diced in anything. There are no exceptions to the rules. Well there's one exception, if I'm a guest, eating someone else's cooking. In that case, I will try to discreetly mash them with my fork.

wvwoman
June 30, 2016, 3:23 pm
very interesting, abra! are you that fastidious with other foods?

SwampySox
July 22, 2016, 11:48 am
Gimme carrot cake with 1/2 in cream cheese icing, or carrots out of the garden. (They tasted soo-oo good when we raided gardens as kids.)

oddcouple
August 27, 2016, 10:41 am
This time I tried to taste a parrot. He just squawked.

marnita
September 15, 2016, 11:44 am
I still have a hankering for a carrot cake Twinkie.

SippyGurl
December 10, 2016, 8:36 am
i make carrot bread with lemon icing, mebbe next time ima put a layer of icing in the middle as well

puzzleme
March 8, 2017, 2:55 pm
oddcouple made me guffaw so suddenly I nearly choked on my imaginary carrot cake twinkie. (And I still think Astrud is the twin from whom Robert Brault was separated at birth.)

marnita
June 10, 2017, 3:26 am
No munchin' on the parrots, Odd. We may have to get the Audubon Society after you.

kb83
July 7, 2017, 6:54 am
The twinkie is a primal food. It connects us with every source of energy and harmony in the universe.

phthelen
August 5, 2017, 2:20 pm
Welcome billkeiko. Don't worry, the roomies aren't always this crazy. LOL.

maradnu
September 16, 2017, 2:45 am
Yes, we are

NotTooOld
November 27, 2017, 12:47 pm
I love raw carrots, so crunchy and sweet! Twinkies are yuck!

abra
June 13, 2018, 12:14 pm
Marnita, no, some veggies I avoid entirely, but carrots are the only ones that have ''rules''. Astrid, I think that ''Earth energy'' is actually DIRT. Do you have one of the vegetable brushes?

imsoeasy
February 10, 2019, 1:47 am
Warning! Consuming Twinkies instead of healthful carrots could be a sign of depression which could cause you to do something violent.

darkyr
May 1, 2019, 11:43 am
I really stopped to taste a carrot the other day and it made me think of cream cheese filled twinkies. Now that is some crazy earth energy.

[LLapp]

"Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." — Unattributed

darkyr
November 18, 2016, 9:46 am
uh-oh. I do this all the time. Why shouldn't I? There really should be a because on these quotes. Now I'll have to wait months before I get an answer, if I get an answer.

darkyr
June 30, 2017, 11:02 am
This time it took me a bit longer because I was actually holding a stone, about to throw it, when I remembered I live in a glass house. How eerie that this was the quote I was solving right at that moment.

TPITTMAN44
May 12, 2019, 7:15 am
Maybe they shouldn't throw orgies either.

[Synonymous]

Laughed out loud...

[LLapp]

"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better." — George Santayana

Johnlocke
April 1, 2019, 9:24 pm
I think Abraxas was my favorite album by him.

[LLapp]

"The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks." — Rupert Murdoch

montyb
January 8, 2016, 3:22 pm
Then the bucks stay with him. So much for trickle-down economics.

kb83
April 6, 2016, 4:32 am
The buck checks with the sign that stops the guy.

Roxanne
November 28, 2018, 5:38 am
This is precisely why I now pay bills online instead of by check. On check-writing day, I used to look up from my kitchen table and there would be a six-point buck standing outside, ripping a hole in the porch screen with his antlers and grunting. This only happened outside of hunting season, mind you.

[montyb]

"Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing."
— Albrecht Dürer

LLapp
October 12, 2018, 11:16 am
I mutter this same exact gripe every morning when I get up and stumble toward the coffeemaker.

[Eureka]

"I am become death, shatterer of worlds. "
— Julius Robert Oppenheimer

puzzleme
September 4, 2011, 2:03 am
This is not an original Oppenheimer quote. It is from The Bhagavad GÄ«ta and was quoted by Oppenheimer in an interview where he discussed his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

Kgun5
June 14, 2013, 2:33 am
His delivery of it was dynamite, though.

geeko321
February 10, 2014, 8:00 am
Is this grammar correct? Seems awkward.

dovid1946
February 24, 2015, 7:22 am
The bhagavad vita actually includes an account of a nuclear war fought by aliens above the earth milleniia ago.

CarpeLanam
October 12, 2017, 2:44 am
As for the grammar, "become" is a linking verb, meaning the subject and predicate are the same thing. I = Death. I am Death. I (have) become Death. It's similar to the grammar of French "Je suis devenu la mort." (For a transitive verb it would be "J'ai vu...") And there is an interesting article here: (link)

MamaB
March 5, 2018, 1:18 pm
Thanks, Carpe.

DrCryptell
October 5, 2018, 7:57 pm
"I am" is the shortest sentence in the English language, For another verb to follow it is grammatically incorrect. making this difficult to solve.

MamaB
February 21, 2019, 5:04 am
Tell that to the bhagavad vita. I still like Carpe's explanation.

oddcouple
May 11, 2019, 2:26 am
"I am" may be the shortest sentence, but "I do" is the longest.

Queethebean
May 20, 2019, 9:45 pm
And a rim shot for oddcouple!

abra
August 22, 2019, 8:04 pm
Great comment, kgun5.

[LLapp]

The 59th St. Bridge thread

"Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in." — Augustus William Hare

LLapp
April 27, 2017, 3:33 pm
I liked "dapples" -- very painterly.

Queethebean
September 19, 2017, 12:40 am
I also had dapples.

Persephone59
April 24, 2018, 8:38 pm
I as well. I'm not easily dazzled.

montyb
August 17, 2018, 8:15 am
Let's hear it for all us dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep people. Let the morningtime drop all its petals on us.

abra
December 30, 2018, 6:13 pm
All is groovy. Dappling sounds less painful than dazzling.

LLapp
January 18, 2019, 10:02 pm
Slow down, nanrich! You move too fast.

Eureka
April 8, 2019, 10:50 pm
And that's why I like my transition lenses.

[Fudi]

"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it. A child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
— Cyril Connolly

LLapp
April 3, 2015, 7:20 pm
Unless the child is a girl.
LLapp
January 9, 2016, 3:56 pm
As I used to tell my daughter, "Stop being afraid of noises, or you'll grow up to be a man!"
abra
June 3, 2019, 2:22 am
Right, LLapp, He should have said ''an adult', or a ''boy'' who fears noise''.
montyb
October 22, 2019, 2:50 pm
Would you all please pipe down? Geez, who can solve cryptograms with this cacophony all around?

[LLapp]

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet - the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot." — Salvador Dali

ernests
August 23, 2018, 6:41 pm
The third was a poet again, but this time writing a comic verse about the second guy. The fourth was just some drunk guy. After that, pretty much everyone was doing it for a while before it went out of fashion and comparing foreheads to alabaster became the in thing.

[Eureka]

"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams."
— Jonas E. Salk

bansaisequoia
November 2, 2009, 10:42 pm
This man is an inspiration. When he developed the Polio Vaccine, he gave it to all humankind and did not apply for patent. When asked why, he said "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" All the pharmaceutical company executives we see in the Fortune 400 should open up their eyes and start thinking of the enrichment of the world, not the enrichment of their assets.

wvwoman
September 23, 2012, 6:14 am
they probably wouldn't understand that concept.

wvwoman
December 2, 2013, 11:02 am
and well said, bansai.

skeeter
April 25, 2015, 4:26 am
I think of him whenever I recall all the children of my childhood who had to wear the polio braces. It was a common sight then, but an extremely rare one now.

abra
June 6, 2015, 10:54 am
Those of us who are old enough to remember children with Polio, know how great this man was. I didn't know the information that bansai gave us. It makes him a giant. We need more giants.

Capy
July 3, 2016, 9:35 pm
Thank you for that Bansai

SippyGurl
December 10, 2016, 9:49 am
thanks bansai! now i understand more fully why so many hold him in such high regard

LLapp
February 4, 2019, 8:24 pm
I was born in 1956, and I lived until age 5 on a street where I sometimes watched my sister and other older girls jump rope on the sidewalk. All these years later, there are still two sights I've not forgotten. First was the two girls jumping in and out of Double Dutch -- my first experience of jaw-dropping spectacle. And second was our quiet "steady ender" -- the young girl in the wheelchair, legs paralyzed by polio, glad to be turning the rope at her end.

letfreedomring
September 18, 2019, 12:33 pm
^A nice reminder, as we bicker politically, to take a step back to count our blessings.

[LLapp]

"When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach." — French Proverb

puffybob
October 14, 2011, 1:43 am
From the French translation of Stephen Stills.

[LLapp]

"Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal." — Horace Mann

darkyr
January 6, 2017, 5:42 am
But Knowledge is deaf and has to ask Patience to translate for him.

Eureka
October 24, 2018, 11:58 am
And Patience has no sense of smell, so has to ask Kindness if the milk is okay to drink.

momn8r
March 23, 2019, 3:38 pm
Tap,tap...tap...flap,flap,flap. Tap..flap,flap. Tap, tap,tap,...tap, tap...flap,flap, SPLAT!

blueladyblue
November 19, 2019, 5:20 pm
But Kindness, being deaf, can't hear Patience asking him to smell the milk, so Patience asks Love to taste the milk, even though Love has no taste.

[LLapp]

Parental advisory: Immature content.


"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth." — Walter Lippmann

pootie49
March 30, 2009, 6:35 pm
Deep!!

pocahontasaurus
December 26, 2009, 2:30 am
STUPID

bansaisequoia
October 17, 2012, 8:10 pm
Can he use that word on a family website?

WlayneM
March 13, 2013, 11:53 pm
Bansai, my thoughts exactly. lmao!

montyb
May 11, 2013, 1:56 am
Of course he can use "prophylactic"; it has some positive connotation about milk, doesn't it?

kjmcaj
June 13, 2013, 4:23 pm
63 seconds. Prophylactic as a verb? Never heard of it.

montyb
June 14, 2013, 3:03 am
I think he is using it as an adjective here.

WRQ9
August 19, 2013, 1:57 pm
Technically an adverb, but is it celsius or fahrenheit?

marnita
June 14, 2014, 9:50 am
It's an adjective, and the basic meaning is just "preventive" or "protective," from a Greek word meaning guarding in advance or warding off. The more specialized use with a sexual connotation is quite modern, I think.

kb83
January 19, 2015, 8:00 am
The study of prophylactic error serves as a truthful introduction to the study of the highest degree of stimulation.

LLapp
February 21, 2015, 6:31 pm
Anywhere you have a stimulating introduction, it's a good idea to have prophylactics.

dovid1946
April 2, 2015, 9:50 am
Only about half of the people understood even a quarter of what Lippman wrote

Persephone59
August 3, 2017, 11:36 pm
This gentleman would have been the life of any cocktail party.

marnita
January 27, 2018, 2:20 pm
Apparently no one on this site can envision guarding against anything other than pregnancy or STDs.

blueladyblue
January 31, 2018, 1:24 pm
You do NOT want an error with your prophylactic! Uh uh, no sir.

ruxpin66
May 2, 2018, 2:43 am
Yes, the prophylactic was deep.

Roxanne
July 13, 2018, 12:41 am
Reading these comments is like going back in time to one of those moments in high school when the English teacher could not control the class.

LLapp
November 8, 2018, 4:05 pm
Roxanne -- perfect.