Classic Comments on the Quote

[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
Try *NEW* Crypto Fiber today!!!

[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