Classic Comments on the Quote

[aerie]

"Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. "
— George Orwell

bansaisequoia on 2010-02-03 19:34:55
This ode is not for shirkers,But earthly common workers, What bliss it is to be on, The level of a peon.

universalmom on 2013-01-14 22:34:47
Hahaha...that's awesome

bazinga on 2013-10-27 17:38:59
β€œThere's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.” He would have loved Selby.....

LLapp on 2014-12-11 19:10:46
Bansais, did you write that? It's excellent.

skeeter on 2015-08-15 09:52:10
I wish my pup would be on / The papers meant to peon.

universalmom on 2016-01-22 13:55:39
Even better, skeeter!!

abra on 2016-06-28 14:32:53
Such poets!! LOL, Skeeter.

[LLapp]

"Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks." — Henri Bergson



montyb on 2014-01-26 07:10:15
So fellow cryptogrammers, judging by Bergson's portrait, would you say laughter or crankiness was the driving force in his life?

skoogie2 on 2014-02-18 08:22:25
Oh I definitely see that laughter hiding behind that smirk!

kb83 on 2015-02-18 06:22:55
This photo may have been taken before the advent of "cheese".

[LLapp]

This was about the fifth time Abra made me laugh today...

"Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses." — William Butler Yeats

skoogie2 on 2013-09-22 02:29:14
I love the idea of taking those words and setting them free of conventions! haha Words gone wild!

abra on 2013-12-06 15:26:17
Great idea, until it's YOUR words, up there flashing, on Young Words Gone Wild.

[imported_Tilottama2003]

from astronauts to exercise.

From America's good boy and Russia's deafeat, welcome the moons first comtempory human visitor: Neil Armstrong!!

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

- Neil armstrong

puffybob on 2011-03-26 04:00:57
Of course, exercise actually lowers one's heart rate overall, so this would be a miscalculation even if true.

reader4 on 2011-08-29 05:01:06
"Like many a quote which gets printed once and therefore enshrined in the libraries of all newspapers and magazines, this particular one was erroneous. Neil recalled having heard the quote, and he even recalled having repeated it once. He did not subscribe to its thesis, however, and he only quoted it so that he could disagree with it." From "First On The Moon," edited by Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin, 1970.

kjmcaj on 2013-04-07 17:56:49
61 seconds

abra on 2013-05-15 17:40:43
That explains it, reader. It didn't make sense because as an astronaut he would have been in excellent physical shape.

oddcouple on 2015-01-27 00:38:53
That's why I'm content with one small step.

tgreen517 on 2015-03-01 12:56:29
So, if this quote is in error, and that was pointed out in 2011- i guess someone is constantly monitoring the comments and fixing the mistakes!

Quizzical on 2016-07-10 14:44:56
d. 2012

LLapp on 2016-07-20 09:16:26
oddcouple -- pretty funny.

[ddph]

"Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil."
— Aldous Huxley

Highpoint on 2014-12-24 18:05:33
I use chocolate pie for the same purpose. Works very well.

wordfairy on 2015-02-26 19:16:10
Ah, the chocolate pie fix. I like it!

montyb on 2015-05-18 14:58:26
I've painted a chocolate pie. It took two coats, though.

[ddph]

"I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal."
— Eugene Delacroix

Allen on 2013-09-13 04:05:42
And he kept it locked in a closet in the hall.

Highpoint on 2014-09-02 15:39:25
I bury my bodies in the backyard. Otherwise they begin to smell.

Jalapenoman on 2015-01-19 13:07:10
My body isn't too silent. Right now, for example, my stomach is growling for its dinner.

marnita on 2015-06-15 08:10:27
Mine may be exacting, but it is not showing any signs of being eternal.

[BriddlesBob]

Were you THAT cold, monty?

[BriddlesBob]

Two Coats to make Chocolate Pie?

Were you THAT cold, montyb?

[LLapp]

"Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today." — Proverb

montyb on 2015-12-17 08:55:16
Why wait? I'm wrong tomorrow.

[LLapp]

"I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer." — Friedrich Nietzsche

paulk190 on 2010-12-29 16:15:44
He should have good penmanship too, while we are at it.

montyb on 2014-02-15 05:18:50
OK, here's an idea for a reality TV show which I'll call "Dancing with the Philosophers", and it goes something like this.....

dovid1946 on 2015-01-27 14:20:16
the cha-cha with Nietzche, the can-can with Kant

LLapp on 2015-09-26 15:25:20
the mashed potato with Plato...

kb83 on 2015-11-04 04:27:45
High-kicking with Heidegger. Waltzing with Wittgenstein, Do-see-do with Derrida

Vienna on 2015-12-10 12:08:17
Monte lol

[aerie]

"The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex."
— Wynonna Judd

montyb on 2013-03-18 11:33:00
Oh really? Obviously she has never experienced the guy's butt-LaZboy-cable remote relationship.


puzzleme on 2013-10-01 17:46:41
Monty, that's not a relationship; that's a menage-a-trois.


geeko321 on 2014-02-18 08:59:20
That's not a menage-a-trois, that's a bonding at the molecular level.

[LLapp]

As foretold by Munchlet back on page 1 . . .

"That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?" — Arthur Miller

bansaisequoia on 2009-05-27 21:49:48
Let me put this in context: "Some 30 or so years ago, I spoke at Brandeis College in support of some kind of subsidy for theater in the belief that sooner or later the bottom line attitude would serve us badly. (And in fact, last year on B'way there was one non-musical play that survived current astronomical production costs-Angels in America-and even this much-praised work could not pay back its investment.) A man rose in the audience: 'I manufacture shoes: if the public won't buy enough of them, why shouldn't I demand government support?' Hard to answer that one. I could only think to ask him a question in reply. 'Can you name me one classical greek shoemaker?'"

Barnabas on 2015-08-02 04:41:11
Achilles Heels. The shop was a block and a half from the Parthenon.

munchlet on 2016-03-29 13:22:54
LOL, Barnabas. Pity you weren't in the audience at Brandeis.

[wvwoman]

a little pete seeger flashback

"As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook." — Joseph Conrad

haverwench on 2013-04-20 00:37:59
Where have all the commas gone, long time passing?

montyb on 2013-09-29 23:13:56
The, answer, my, friend, is, blowing, in, the, wind.

[LLapp]

"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music." — George Eliot

montyb on 2012-03-10 00:14:04
Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings (Op. 11) has seen me through many a grievous time.

Allen on 2013-04-27 21:26:38
"Louie, Louie" does it for me.

[ddph]

"To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. "
— Confucius

silveryaspen on 2009-04-04 19:41:05
Oh, Know!

bansaisequoia on 2009-06-12 22:25:19
Yoko Ohno?

PianoManGidley on 2011-02-01 02:35:00
I know what he means, by which I mean that I don't.

BuschMan on 2012-03-30 21:22:15
Never heard of this guy. Is he some obscure blogger?

chopstix on 2012-11-29 04:13:06
BuschMan - haha! btw - I don't know...

maradnu on 2013-09-13 08:51:03
Don't I know it

joma1944 on 2013-10-20 06:18:00
Who knows?

Highpoint on 2014-06-24 20:24:00
I didn't know that.

puzzleme on 2015-02-12 13:41:53
It's all so Confucing!

wvwoman on 2015-05-20 19:06:34
i don't think i've ever seen someone described as a thinker!

abra on 2015-07-23 10:12:11
PianoMan, LOL. I'm not sure if this makes me feel more knowledgeable, or less.

Andy451 on 2016-05-08 06:02:54
Confused + Jesus = Confucius? A pretty good paradox from the noble sage. I guess it is possible for an old dog to learn new tricks. Well done, you old boddhisattva! I like the sparkle of your china, the shine of your Japan!