Classic Comments on the Quote

[BriddlesBob]

The one where montyb sweetly replies to pootie49, many years later. (BTW, does anyone know who p7 is?)

"It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed."
— Baltasar Gracian

LiveLoveLaugh
April 16, 2010, 11:45 pm
I often borrow other people's brains

bansaisequoia
October 9, 2010, 5:02 pm
"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking."--Ray Bolger

pootie49
July 10, 2012, 3:21 pm
bansai, p7 and montyb...can i borrow your brains for a month? i will wash them and return them good as new...k thanks.

bansaisequoia
October 7, 2012, 2:01 am
You can't wash my brain. My thoughts are too dirty.

chopstix
April 29, 2013, 3:07 pm
mmmm.... brains....

universalmom
July 1, 2014, 3:09 pm
dang it chopstix, you stole my line!

badbob
July 24, 2017, 9:57 am
apparently you can live without bruins

Persephone59
August 19, 2017, 12:38 am
You can see that Gracian didn't have to borrow other people's brains, because he had a fine Thinking Cap.

GtrZan
January 8, 2018, 6:29 am
Dr. Frankenstein, I presume?

maradnu
February 2, 2018, 1:03 pm
Dr. Frankenstein: Ah! Very good. Would you mind telling me whose brain I DID put in? Igor: Then you won't be angry? Dr. Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry. Igor: Abby someone. Dr. Frankenstein: Abby someone. Abby who? Igor: Abby... Normal.

Montyb
August 4, 2018, 6:23 am
(I wish I had gotten this puzzle while Pootie was still with us. I think she would have enjoyed this response.) No starch, please.

DrCryptell
October 16, 2018, 12:18 am
When you borrow a brain is there a checkout and return time? What if you go past the deadline? Does the brain expire?

Or i get an ERROR Message: must have 10 characters, yet mine IS longer than 10

[BriddlesBob]

The Vowel Blockage thread continues . . .



badbob
July 8, 2019, 5:07 am
vowel movement is important

Persephone59
October 26, 2019, 6:43 pm
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It seems that so many people I know must have lent their brain out too often......

[BriddlesBob]

For years, the players at Cryptograms.org have been leaving comments on quote solution pages that are often more astute, creative, hilarious, or inspiring than the quotes themselves. Here is a thread where we can save some of our favorite comments and conversations from many years of quote-commenting.

Format:

1. Always start with the quote and attribution, for context, and then paste in the comments below the quote.

2. With each comment, include the commenter's name and date/time stamp.

3. Post whatever portion of the thread that you want to include here -- it can be just one comment, or several comments, or the entire thread.

4. Quote individual comments verbatim. Don't edit, change or shorten what people have written.

5. If you post a sequence of comments, it's okay to leave out in-between comments that aren't part of the classic moment. You know, like you can skip the "87 seconds" comment and other mundane or unrelated stuff. (Or go ahead and keep them in, if you feel they contribute to the magic of the thread.)

6. Remember, this is a place to save the wonderful stuff, not the other stuff.

To show you the format, I'll open in my next post with one of my favorite comments from Pootie (who passed away before I joined the site, but whose words delight me).

For years I've tried off and on to place a remark and it never works. It says something like "too many words."

[LLapp]

"The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius." — Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

bansaisequoia
September 16, 2010, 4:04 pm
Hmmm... I still read comic books.

universalmom
February 25, 2012, 2:20 am
I love roller coasters and water slides!

montyb
May 12, 2012, 8:18 pm
I get on the floor and wreslte with my dog.

locodad
August 16, 2012, 4:45 am
I do this silly word games, what are they called? cryp, cripyo,or something like cryptograms and I am better than my kids

SippyGurl
June 2, 2014, 5:28 am
my teddy bear is sitting in the living room

marnita
June 25, 2015, 7:12 pm
I have a whole shelf of stuffed animals.

Lurker
August 9, 2015, 1:31 pm
I have a giant box of Legos and a working Atari.

LLapp
November 5, 2015, 12:33 pm
I have a bowl of finger puppets in the living room and a cow clock on the wall. (HA -- when the quote is about God or economics or government, you can see the dividing line run down the comments thread. But give us a quote about toys and we are one people.)

iltquilt
December 17, 2015, 1:25 pm
I still love to color.

momof7
January 25, 2017, 3:51 pm
I love children's books.

darkyr
August 27, 2017, 3:35 am
I make a point of running through the sprinklers each year.

vintage38
January 10, 2018, 8:18 am
48 seconds I do cryptograms.

kahvecowgirl
March 15, 2018, 10:04 am
It took me years to realize how immature the desire to be the smartest person in the room actually is. And I have a stuffed neuron on my bookshelf.

LLapp
September 2, 2018, 2:57 pm
A stuffed neuron? Does it have a name?

Eureka
January 29, 2019, 6:31 am
I just googled stuffed neuron images. No offense kahvecowgirl, but I prefer Hello Kitty.
stuffed neuron.jpg

[aerie]

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." — Aristotle

BeeAre
December 2, 2012, 3:52 pm
Great. I'm a cryptogram, tetris, poker playing game of solitare.

Nattygobang
April 30, 2013, 9:34 am
Haha. That makes me a bass playing, cryptogram solving, cartoonist Mother with too much time on my hands at work... Actually that's about right :/

LLapp
July 10, 2015, 4:23 pm
Aristotle, baby, does it have to be just one habit? Can't you make it seven? Like "Seven Deadly Sins" or "Seven Dwarfs"? You've got a good concept here, but I can't sell one habit. Come back with "Seven Habits" and you've got a deal.

Roxanne
December 9, 2015, 2:05 pm
Haha. The Seven Habits of Successful Philosophers.

kb83
January 19, 2017, 3:17 am
these comments make me chortle with glee. (Chortling gleefully being one of my habits.)

[LLapp]

The Vowel Blockage thread continues . . .

Maradnu Cracks Me Up!

"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it. "
— Christian Nestell Bovee

JD_1947 on December 29th, 2014
. . I got caught up in my vowels on that one . . . .

LLapp on January 3rd, 2016
Only one i!

maradnu on May 7th, 2017
It's tough when you have a vowel blockage.

marnita on December 20th, 2017
Somehow I don't think it is quite that simple.

badbob
July 8, 2019, 5:07 am
vowel movement is important

Persephone59
October 26, 2019, 6:43 pm
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[LLapp]

"What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do." — Anthony Robbins

jimdgar
February 3, 2017, 6:42 am
Anyone who can CAPITALIZE key words must be very smart.

SippyGurl
December 15, 2017, 2:05 pm
he uses motivational poster font

Eureka
January 16, 2019, 11:10 am
I can eat the whole pie and I will eat the whole pie.

Eureka
March 5, 2019, 10:12 pm
I should not have eaten that whole pie.

[Eureka]

The one where montyb sweetly replies to pootie49, many years later. (BTW, does anyone know who p7 is?)

"It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed."
— Baltasar Gracian

LiveLoveLaugh
April 16, 2010, 11:45 pm
I often borrow other people's brains

bansaisequoia
October 9, 2010, 5:02 pm
"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking."--Ray Bolger

pootie49
July 10, 2012, 3:21 pm
bansai, p7 and montyb...can i borrow your brains for a month? i will wash them and return them good as new...k thanks.

bansaisequoia
October 7, 2012, 2:01 am
You can't wash my brain. My thoughts are too dirty.

chopstix
April 29, 2013, 3:07 pm
mmmm.... brains....

universalmom
July 1, 2014, 3:09 pm
dang it chopstix, you stole my line!

badbob
July 24, 2017, 9:57 am
apparently you can live without bruins

Persephone59
August 19, 2017, 12:38 am
You can see that Gracian didn't have to borrow other people's brains, because he had a fine Thinking Cap.

GtrZan
January 8, 2018, 6:29 am
Dr. Frankenstein, I presume?

maradnu
February 2, 2018, 1:03 pm
Dr. Frankenstein: Ah! Very good. Would you mind telling me whose brain I DID put in? Igor: Then you won't be angry? Dr. Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry. Igor: Abby someone. Dr. Frankenstein: Abby someone. Abby who? Igor: Abby... Normal.

Montyb
August 4, 2018, 6:23 am
(I wish I had gotten this puzzle while Pootie was still with us. I think she would have enjoyed this response.) No starch, please.

DrCryptell
October 16, 2018, 12:18 am
When you borrow a brain is there a checkout and return time? What if you go past the deadline? Does the brain expire?

[oddcouple]

"No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow."
— Proverb

greenacres
May 2, 2011, 12:28 am
Not where I live!
wvwoman
October 13, 2012, 4:09 am
where are you, greenacres?
ulua
April 30, 2014, 6:25 am
green acres is the place to be!
abra
December 1, 2016, 3:00 pm
Farm livin' is the life for me --
autumngirl
February 27, 2017, 3:22 pm
land spreadin out so far and wide...
wshanley@sbcglobal
April 27, 2017, 4:54 am
Today we are calling it global warming.
slow1
August 24, 2017, 7:52 am
Those comments appear to be one right after the other, but they are years apart. Fun!
kahvecowgirl
June 1, 2018, 10:00 am
"...and Winter gave Spring and Summer a miss and went straight on into Autumn"

BTW, greenacres is from North Dakota.

[oddcouple]

"The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. "
— Frederick W. Robertson


badbob
January 12, 2016, 11:37 am
feel truly what?
LLapp
January 25, 2016, 1:17 pm
Hello, you have reached the Office of Poetry. To hear rhyming iambic pentameter, please press 1.
montyb
March 28, 2016, 8:18 am
To hear lecherous limericks, press 2.
abra
July 3, 2016, 9:27 am
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." -- Robert Frost So THIS must be the office he was talking about.
universalmom
July 8, 2016, 3:20 pm
Is that anywhere near the Ministry of Silly Walks?
kb83
February 13, 2017, 8:44 am
Thanks, LLapp. The poet is "in."
Persephone59
January 2, 2018, 7:01 pm
Soothing, esoteric haiku is option 3.
vintage38
March 15, 2018, 6:31 am
33 seconds
Eureka
July 18, 2019, 12:09 pm
Press zero to hear free verse from our operator.
LLapp
July 26, 2019, 10:58 pm
Press the star key to hear any of these options accompanied by bongos.

[mistyswiss]

"It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go." — George Washington

mmfs83 on November 8, 2016, 3:17 am
Did anyone else have hell instead of well?

LLapp on December 30, 2018, 8:09 pm
Yes, but not while I was solving the quote.

[LLapp]

"Isn't it funny how we'll look out the window at the moon, and then we notice it's not the moon but a streetlight?" — Jack Handey

Prezkot
July 18, 2014, 4:54 am
What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the streetlight? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the streetlight, Mary.

[LLapp]

imsoeasy proves monty's point....

"The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement." — Unattributed

Lurker
May 5, 2010, 1:57 pm
Why is there a comma?

montyb
August 12, 2013, 12:51 am
To leave some room for improvement.

marnita
June 2, 2014, 9:22 am
My favorite part of doing cryptograms is Monty's comments.

LLapp
March 1, 2015, 11:15 am
ERROR: Please delete the comma!

universalmom
March 25, 2015, 8:20 am
Hahaha monty

montyb
October 13, 2017, 1:38 pm
Don't remove the comma! That would ruin my joke!

tgreen517
September 7, 2018, 8:33 pm
The comma is gone, but the joke is still funny!

imsoeasy
July 7, 2019, 10:13 pm
What joke?

[Eureka]

Sometimes a rhetorical question demands an answer.Enter Redforce.

"The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death."
— Oscar Wilde

LLapp
November 17, 2016, 5:40 pm
How do you know which mystery is bigger? How do you measure a mystery?

Redforce
December 6, 2018, 6:14 am
Well, LLapp, the Imperial British unit is the Holmes. 1 Holmes = 2.25 minor clues. It takes an average of 2 KiloHolmes to solve a major mystery. The Belgian unit is the Poirot, which is roughly 1H = 1.62P. Comparatively, the American measurement unit the Columbo is 1H = 1.98C. Clouseaus were briefly used by the French, but fell out of favor since calculations tend to be full of mistakes.

[LLapp]

"The whole problem is to establish communication with one's self." — E. B. White

maradnu
November 25, 2009, 12:07 am
Hey! Are you in there? I wanna talk.

bansaisequoia
December 16, 2009, 3:33 am
Brought to you by the world wide web: (link)















montyb
April 7, 2014, 12:22 pm
All I ever get is a busy signal.

montyb
July 7, 2014, 4:08 pm
And the roaming charges....

LLapp
June 9, 2016, 9:00 pm
My self called me "some pig." Not sure if that's a compliment or what.

Spellbinder44
October 18, 2016, 2:45 pm
Solved the crypto and tapped "Reset" button instead of "Check it" button. Communicated expletive laden message to oneself , succesfully.

maradnu
October 14, 2017, 5:08 am
I tried calling repeatedly. My self blocked my number, won't call back or answer texts or emails.

badbob
October 30, 2018, 7:38 pm
self and i aren't speaking right now

badbob
October 6, 2019, 8:12 pm
OK we are talking but i finally realize what a loser he is.