Classic Comments on the Quote

[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.

[oddcouple]

"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly."
— Saint Francis de Sales

kjmcaj
April 8, 2013, 8:13 pm
163 seconds
Barnabas
March 31, 2014, 5:48 pm
Unless, of course, you're a serial killer.
montyb
November 6, 2016, 2:05 pm
I can kill a box of cereal in 4 days.
LLapp
January 7, 2017, 5:10 pm
It worked for Popeye: (link)
tavi5280
February 7, 2017, 6:33 am
I don't see why I couldn't do it "fervently" ( except the "N" on 2 different letters - but hey, nobody's perfect
pj48
November 6, 2017, 5:58 am
I can kill a bottle of Malbec in 2, monty.
writeon
February 23, 2018, 3:03 am
You could be perfect with not wishing to be anything.
abra
June 18, 2018, 10:05 am
Gotcha, St Francis, I've got this one covered. I am me to a Tee.
oddcouple
June 22, 2018, 11:04 pm
Or like the sweet potato said to the stuffing "I yam what I yam".
BriddlesBob
December 13, 2018, 6:23 am
"But that's not very a-pealing," Mr. Potato.
pickleball
August 6, 2019, 7:02 pm
i yam what i yam
jbb33054
September 6, 2019, 12:41 pm
59
jbb33054
September 22, 2019, 6:50 pm
61
momof7
October 23, 2019, 4:08 pm
So far, I've done it better than anyone else.

[LLapp]

NotTooOld speaks for us all....

"We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods." — Seneca


NotTooOld
April 10, 2019, 10:11 am
I pray to lose weight but I really want to eat more mashed potatoes.

[LLapp]

"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ." — Wystan Hugh Auden

PianoManGidley
February 17, 2011, 11:54 am
Shouldn't it be "...AND a good deal..."?

montyb
July 8, 2013, 3:00 pm
The syntax is typically British.

LLapp
February 5, 2015, 9:26 am
The construction is a quasi-poetic device that's used frequently in written English. Plus, Auden was a poet, so he has a license.

maradnu
October 14, 2016, 3:19 pm
I heard his license was revoked for drunken rhyming.

badbob
June 26, 2017, 6:14 am
step out of the car Mr Auden and put your nose on the roof

[LLapp]

What happens when you offer a website full of introverts a hug . . .


"A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange." — Unattributed

saipanwriter
July 31, 2012, 3:18 am
Gag me. Greeting card blather. Ick.

montyb
July 2, 2013, 1:15 am
Try it with "hog" instead of "hug".

jnoodles
August 7, 2013, 3:18 pm
Who would exchange a hog? And for what? A marmot?

universalmom
April 28, 2014, 2:07 pm
well, for some bacon and pork chops obviously!

cryptospiridiagram
March 5, 2016, 7:47 am
For another hog. You just go down to HogCon and show him off.

marnita
April 7, 2016, 7:51 am
How does one size of a hug fit all sizes of people?

Nautilus
June 9, 2017, 1:24 am
A hag is a great gift, too. Not so easy to exchange though.

mmfs83
November 26, 2017, 4:16 am
I almost went with rug. I guess I should think about vacuuming. But I'm not doing that until all the holiday decorating is done. In the meantime, I'll do cryptograms.

Persephone59
January 8, 2018, 6:54 pm
I love that phrase, "I should think about...". That means it hasn't gotten anywhere NEAR the to do list yet!

marnita
June 9, 2018, 12:40 pm
What good does it do to think about vacuuming? If I thought about it, I would never do it.

NotTooOld
November 18, 2018, 6:21 am
Thinking about vacuuming is a great way to get cryptograms done.

Eureka
March 22, 2019, 12:46 pm
Vacuuming is the great "double u" word!

[LLapp]

Maybe it's late and I'm punchy, but I laughed pretty hard at this....

"Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills." — C. Neil Strait

kat
April 4, 2009, 6:02 pm
busyness!!! That messed me up!

saipanwriter
June 17, 2009, 5:16 am
Busyness?!!

bansaisequoia
June 20, 2009, 1:49 am
This quote has definitely interfered with my pursuit of happyness.

kat
July 10, 2009, 4:16 pm
It did it again! Crap!!!!

kat
February 3, 2010, 4:17 pm
I remembered the 'y' this time, but it still took me 43 seconds. Crap!

kat
February 21, 2010, 7:26 pm
And 64 seconds this time! Crap I say!

bansaisequoia
August 11, 2011, 3:29 pm
23 FTW!

abra
May 2, 2012, 10:05 pm
BUSYNESS! phew, finally got it.

abra
July 18, 2013, 1:03 am
I can't believe that I was here before, and I didn't remember "busyness". AARGH

SippyGirl
August 4, 2013, 3:21 pm
had to google the curiosity away - see where i was going wrong... busyness. 262 seconds

puzzleme
September 24, 2013, 8:13 pm
In future, I must make it my business to remembeer busyness!

Allen
January 9, 2014, 8:30 am
I'm too busi to worry about it.

beerfan95
April 3, 2014, 1:25 pm
Did anyone else have trouble with busyness?

wvwoman
April 10, 2014, 4:42 pm
gee, no, beerfan95--did you?

[Eureka]

That time when things got "silly-us".

"There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality."
— Seneca

Altoid701
June 16, 2012, 10:11 pm
lubilius/lupilius/licilius ARGH

chopstix
April 26, 2013, 4:44 am
me too altoid

bazinga
September 29, 2013, 2:41 pm
Lucilious is difficult to come up with when all you can think of is Horatio.....

universalmom
June 17, 2014, 9:48 am
"Little Lucius"

figmo
July 7, 2014, 12:58 pm
Didn't they have a TV show called "I Love Lucilius?"

dovid1946
May 22, 2015, 2:42 am
yes, it was on the same network that the Romans tuned in to see the Caesars- Julius, Octavius, and Sid

SippyGurl
October 20, 2016, 9:56 am
lucilius im home

LLapp
April 6, 2017, 7:02 am
Seneca's got some 'splaining to do.

seastar228
September 3, 2017, 3:10 pm
Ricky's out. Seneca's in.

tclcac
November 9, 2018, 5:47 pm
We are a nation full of anxiety sufferers! Think how bad it would be if we had people running around with the names of "Lucilius" and "Annaeus" - please forgive me if that is your name! :-)

abra
January 16, 2019, 10:31 am
Lucilius took me three tries.

Icky
June 16, 2019, 10:40 pm
Happily I though of Locutus of Borg and got it on my second try.

killdozer
August 17, 2019, 10:08 pm
You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucilius.

Elephino
October 10, 2019, 11:36 am
Was he talking to himself?