Classic Comments on the Quote

[hrossa]

"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented." — Edith Sitwell

montyb
February 3, 2014, 4:42 am
In that case, I'm as pure as the driven snow. (As I write this we are expecting another 6 to 10 inches starting tomorrow.)

montyb
October 7, 2015, 5:55 pm
On top of insomnia I get this quote twice in 5 minutes.

LLapp
March 25, 2016, 7:44 am
Not surprising, monty. No Z's.

[hrossa]

RedEnoch's quip is great fun!

"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. " — Soren Kierkegaard

RedEnoch
December 5, 2022, 10:04 pm
Look at Soren. When he was born, he was named “Churchyard”. After he died, he was himself a resident.

[LLapp]

One of my favorite instances of Roxanne spinning a detailed history out of one little factoid. The first line is true.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream." — Arthur O'Shaunessey

Roxanne
December 29, 2017, 2:57 am
Four, count them four, lizard species were named after him. Seriously. Back in the nineteenth-century day you could buy a species name the way nowadays you can buy a star name. His aunt Josephine thought this was all the rage among the Victorian hipsters (like her nephew) and kept buying him lizard names for Christmas until at a big family conference in 1874 Arthur suggested that every Christmas each person pick a name of a family member out of a hat and give a present ONLY to that person the next year. By keeping his slip of paper up his sleeve, he cleverly arranged it so that each year thereafter his name was entered the lottery only after Josephine had already picked. This meant that he had to stand next to her as they toasted the queen, the Empire, etc. and make conversation with her. The people who did pick his name occasionally gave him little porcelain figurines of lizards, thinking that he enjoyed all things pertaining to them. At Whitsuntide he used to take the most recent gift-lizard out to the orchard, set it on a stone wall and use it for shotgun target practice. It became quite the sport amongst his cousins to get him some junk-store bric-a-brac lizard figurine for Christmas (even if someone else had picked his name and gotten him the latest Thomas Hardy novel) They'd all gather at his house at Whitsuntide, get him drunk, and watch him try to nail a lizard figurine with the shotgun he'd inherited from his uncle (ironically, Aunt Josephine's late husband). Sometimes he resorted to just bashing the figurine with the butt of the shotgun. In one such incident involving the plus-one of his third cousin, he met his future wife. In real reality, O'Shaughnessy was a herpetologist at the British Museum.

[LLapp]

"Golf is not just an exercise; it's an adventure, a romance... a Shakespeare play in which disaster and comedy are intertwined." — Harold Segall

abra
August 27, 2015, 11:27 am
Someone is too involved with golf. C'mon Harold, a Shakespeare play?? Another hobby might help. I'll suggest Crypograms.

kb83
February 13, 2017, 6:09 am
And anon, methought. The woods began to move.

LLapp
April 19, 2017, 10:52 am
I can just imagine one of those hushed golf commentator voices whispering, "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from green to green...."

munchlet
July 1, 2017, 3:17 am
To golf or not to golf...

Barnabas
October 21, 2017, 10:51 am
Titleist, oh Titleist where for art thou? "Tis nobler in the mind to hit thee down the fareway."

kb83
December 15, 2017, 2:44 am
Who steals my purse steals trash. But he who robs from me my good game...

DaddyOmar
March 15, 2021, 6:29 pm
I think i just invented a sport: one golf player toward the little hole, might get tackled by linebacker and if gets by he has to pass , that would be real exercise a catcher that is guarding the hole

Eureka
July 2, 2021, 4:17 pm
^I'd watch that!

kb83
May 3, 2022, 2:51 pm
All the world's a green. And all the men and women merely putters.

montyb
March 19, 2024, 8:25 pm
As far as my golf game is concerned It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. (Or so I've been told.)

[Eureka]

"Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience." — Albert Einstein

dovid1946
January 7, 2015, 7:29 am
axioms of science, axioms of ethics. It's all relative

badbob
July 2, 2016, 2:13 am
who were Einstein' relatives and did they matter?

LLapp
September 24, 2018, 3:59 pm
His Auntie Matter says they did not.

NoiseLTD
January 17, 2021, 4:07 pm
I'm not sure that Karl Popper would agree.

Ian123
February 4, 2021, 9:41 am
Karl Popper was related to Auntie Matter ?

Baylor Bears
July 4, 2021, 6:12 am
Auntie Matter was "Doesn't's mother.

[LLapp]

"The conviction that we should all drink eight glasses of water a day is the most enduring of dietary misunderstandings." — Bill Bryson

TPaineRedux
June 17, 2024, 12:11 pm
Is it OK if I dilute it with something?

[kb83]

To me, the name sounds like the new-age Gods who went on a vegetarian diet

[Eureka]

"Good laws have their origins in bad morals." — Ambrosius Macrobius

momn8r
March 28, 2016, 12:21 pm
He sounds like a Harry Potter spell.

badbob
August 9, 2018, 7:44 pm
momn8r, you are correct i waved my wand after saying his name and the cat disappeared

momn8r
March 9, 2019, 7:34 pm
@babbob: oh you crypytowizard, you! Fluffy showed up here and now he wants to go home. Im sending him back right away. POOF!

[Eureka]

Bowling humor really strikes a chord with me.

"Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying." — Baba Ram Dass

onlyinvowels
March 28, 2018, 7:09 am
It kind of makes sense... You only truly understand the things said by the part of a person you can identify with. E.g. I hear (understand) people when they talk about cryptograms, but not when they talk about bowling, because one piece of me is cryptogram fan, but no piece of me is bowling fan.

lertsek
April 28, 2018, 7:51 pm
I thought everybody liked bowling. Perhaps my mind is in the gutter, so I'll spare you my split from reality.

bigdave
April 3, 2019, 6:54 pm
OIV framed the quote nicely, really pinned it down.

[LLapp]

"The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men." — Henry David Thoreau

jnoodles
August 15, 2013, 1:01 am
Thank you. Thank you very much.

dovid1946
April 14, 2015, 3:37 am
The mythic hero usually lives his early years in obscurity and then his true heritage is revealed.

badbob
October 5, 2018, 10:15 pm
my cape is in the closet. just waiting for the call

pickleball
March 10, 2021, 3:27 pm
badbob- how you making out with no more telephone booth

badbob
August 20, 2022, 5:05 am
now I run into an Apple store and ask to use the men's room

[pj48]

"Honor is not to be won, it must only not be lost." -Arthur Shopenhauer


montyb
October 18, 2014, 6:10 am
I'm certain I put mine on the night stand last night. Now where is it?
montyb
March 28, 2015, 6:49 am
Now my keys are gone!
Roxanne
February 28, 2016, 2:33 pm
I think I saw the dog carrying it around.
montyb
June 22, 2016, 1:42 pm
Great...my honor is probably buried by now.
Eureka
January 25, 2019, 12:37 pm
LOL montyb. I do hope you find it.
Elephino
September 1, 2020, 1:31 am
I saw an ad on Craigslist today: "1 honor, 3 keys $10 OBO. The honor is in "fair" condition"
montyb
April 15, 2021, 4:45 pm
Mine was never in that good of condition.
hrossa
August 14, 2021, 5:08 pm
LOL montyb, I bet yours was fine. Maybe it's with my glasses.
rasbury
August 22, 2021, 4:14 pm
Mine is a tie.

[Eureka]

"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." — Murphy's Law

Spenser
February 11, 2015, 1:34 am
Murphy's Law? Really?

abra
June 27, 2015, 3:49 pm
It must be a different Murphy.

ruxpin66
July 3, 2015, 6:12 pm
Murphy Brown?

RS2
March 24, 2016, 7:57 am
Should be Wienberg's Second Law from "Mastering Software Quality Assurance: Best Practices, Tools and Technique for Software Developers"

LLapp
December 31, 2018, 7:13 pm
Any quote about programming that can be misattributed, will be.

[puzzleme]

An omadhaun is just an Irish boob.

"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned." — Peter Marshall

wvwoman
May 14, 2014, 4:15 pm
i first tried "small boobs"...i knew it wouldn't be right, but couldn't help making myself smile.
kb83
June 19, 2014, 8:10 am
small boobs inherited are worse than great boobs done. (Or are they?)
LLapp
September 20, 2016, 5:33 pm
No such thing as worse boobs; they are all beautiful.
montyb
April 10, 2017, 10:43 am
Aw, thanks for the kind word, LLapp. You certainly gave this boob a lift -- so to speak.
LLapp
July 16, 2018, 8:14 pm
Haha, monty.
puffybob
November 14, 2020, 12:49 am
He was great on Hollywood Squares
abra
December 5, 2021, 2:10 am
I loved the movie of A Man Called Peter, but I never read the book written by his wife. I did read her book Christie a couple times.
Wordigo
May 10, 2023, 11:53 am
This thread of comments is a booby trap.

[kb83]

There is a town in Northwest Minnesota called Climax. From Wiki: "Climax, founded in 1896, was named after a chewing tobacco company. The town's name has been a source of humor, and the slogan selected for the centennial was "Climax. More than just a feeling." Less well attested is the assertion that some unnamed local newspaper, reporting the death of a resident of a nearby town, ("Fertile, Minnesota"-- sic) ran a report of her passing under the headline Fertile Woman dies in Climax. "

[puzzleme]

Wordigo wins! (Lightly edited to remove solve times.)

"Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning. " — Karl Kraus

elsiegirl
February 25, 2015, 8:20 am
He was clearly a morning person!
RS2
October 18, 2015, 1:47 am
Hear Hear!
marnita
September 15, 2016, 10:48 am
I'm very stupid in the morning before I have my coffee.
MamaB
November 22, 2016, 6:24 am
I'm Grumpy.
blueladyblue
December 23, 2017, 11:51 am
I think stupidity stays up late partying. Talk about your happenin' events...
firstdawn
January 11, 2018, 6:34 am
REPEAT!!! I just did this yesterday!
maradnu
January 28, 2019, 5:07 pm
That's why Trump tweets at 4am
imsoeasy
February 25, 2019, 9:36 am
Maradnu & Trump are together so much, they're like opposite twins.
Synonymous
July 20, 2020, 10:37 pm
imsoeasy that is a beautiful compliment you just paid maradnu. Anybody opposite Trump is not stupid. Nice.
DrCryptell
March 10, 2023, 9:41 am
Stupidity gets up early; genius never sleeps.
montyb
March 17, 2023, 6:02 am
So here I am at 6:00 AM (local time) playing cryptos.
Wordigo
September 22, 2023, 7:52 pm
^Early nerd gets the word. ;-)