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  • LLapp
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    I love where this thread wound up!

    "Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book." — Madonna

    leah164
    September 26, 2009, 11:44 pm
    You can be a bookworm and a raving nymphomaniac simultaneously, you know

    bansaisequoia
    November 17, 2009, 11:38 pm
    Like George Sand, Gertrude Stein or Anais Nin?

    maradnu
    February 18, 2010, 1:54 am
    The fact that she uses her body to make money does not indicate strong sexual appetite - any more than a prostitute is a nymphomaniac.

    abra
    April 26, 2012, 2:10 am
    Some of us don't think about you at all.

    sarahk809
    August 15, 2012, 9:25 am
    I agree, Abra. Anyone who starts off with "Everyone probably thinks..." is an egomaniac

    WRQ9
    February 8, 2013, 11:44 am
    She sold herself to the public, and made her conditions clear. She has no more credibility on the subject than anybody else!

    crossland68
    April 16, 2013, 3:53 am
    There are more comments on this page than on any other page I've seen! She wins!

    cherylab1963
    November 10, 2014, 5:24 pm
    People think about you what you show them. Show them something else...and they'll think something else about you.

    abra
    October 27, 2015, 12:19 pm
    My first thought this time around was, "I wonder why they would think that". I agree with Cherylab.

    SwampySox
    June 22, 2016, 12:23 pm
    Kudos for pushing the envelope Madonna.

    LLapp
    September 5, 2016, 6:02 pm
    If I ever said, "Everyone probably thinks I'm a raving nymphomaniac," it would get quite a laugh.

    darkyr
    December 20, 2016, 6:11 am
    Of course you realize, if they are still alive, anyone whose quote appears here may also be a member of this site. Will the real Madonna please step up? We have some important questions we need answered.

    CryptoBee
    October 30, 2018, 4:13 pm
    I’m here, darkyr.

    eholland
    November 14, 2018, 5:54 am
    This is a Fred Rogers quote, not Madonna. Please change!

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  • LLapp
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    Poetry from CryptoBee

    (I've broken my own "no editing" rule and added line breaks to CryptoBee's single-paragraph comment, because to me it read like a finished poem. I couldn't help it, and I promise I changed nothing else.)

    "Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there." —- Ben Bradlee

    CryptoBee
    October 8, 2018, 2:35 pm
    I moved out of the newspaper business
    in the nineties.
    It has been suffering a slow,
    strangling death
    for the last twenty years.
    Even I read it online these days.

    No more,
    the 6 am crash
    against the front door,
    the flattened flower beds,
    the broken pottery
    on the front porch,

    all suffered for the
    wonderful little package
    that brought the world
    to the kitchen table
    to be savored
    over a cup o joe.
    Last edited by LLapp; 02-09-2020, 11:28 PM.

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  • LLapp
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    Hill areas, indeed


    "Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist." — Edgar Watson Howe

    fishbum
    July 30, 2015, 9:01 am
    "The Lord alps those who alp themselves"...Groucho Marx

    darkyr
    April 6, 2016, 8:49 am
    Alp! I'm dying over here in the foothills!

    interactiveleaf
    November 1, 2016, 6:35 am
    Alps aren't just funny, guys. They're hill areas.

    abra
    February 16, 2017, 5:41 pm
    Wow, interactiveleaf!! That was really good.

    kb83
    March 29, 2017, 4:45 am
    I am glad I am not the butte of this joke.

    Persephone59
    April 29, 2018, 12:01 pm
    I mesa well leave this alone.

    skyystorm
    July 30, 2018, 5:06 am
    To summit up, I'm glad I had a peak at these comments.

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  • LLapp
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    "We lost because we told ourselves we lost. " — Leo Tolstoy

    bansaisequoia
    April 20, 2010, 4:45 pm
    Doesn't this sound more like something a basketball coach would say?

    montyb
    July 26, 2012, 12:53 pm
    I'm not certain. As Fyodor Dostoyevsky once said, "Just wait 'til next year."

    Queethebean
    August 2, 2012, 8:20 pm
    But as Chekhov always said, "it ain't over til its over".

    bansaisequoia
    July 12, 2013, 5:30 am
    Or, as Yogi Berra said, "If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once."

    montyb
    June 17, 2015, 1:28 pm
    That Yogi always cracks me up with his malapropisms.

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  • montyb
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    "A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen."
    — Paul Valery

    badbob
    August 23, 2016, 2:38 am
    he looks like Walt Disney

    badbob
    January 5, 2018, 8:13 am
    he still looks llike Walt Disney

    abra
    July 4, 2018, 3:01 pm
    I don't see that. Maybe someone should paint it.

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  • LLapp
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    "It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker." — Alice Weaver Flaherty

    blueladyblue
    September 8, 2018, 7:30 am
    I'm not sure I agree with...click...wow, it's such a beautiful da...click...solving this cryptoi puzz...click... then afterward I'll finish the book I'm reading and...click...a modern take on "I think I'm going craz…" What clicker?

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  • oddcouple
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    Ted Striker: It was a rough place - the seediest dive on the wharf. Populated with every reject and cutthroat from Bombay to Calcutta. It's worse than Detroit.

    silveryaspen
    June 15, 2009, 3:30 pm
    sounds like something out of an old Humphrey Bogart movie, too
    bansaisequoia
    June 20, 2009, 11:04 pm
    Ted Striker is definitely the name of a character from "Airplane."
    Altoid701
    July 8, 2009, 8:56 pm
    Hahahahaha. I love this movie!
    DuckEverlasting
    February 14, 2011, 9:09 pm
    I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.
    Lurker
    February 23, 2011, 9:01 pm
    And don't call me Shirley!
    fishbum
    March 15, 2012, 7:51 pm
    "Go out there and win one for the Zipper." It should probably be "it was worse...".
    Altoid701
    November 16, 2012, 1:46 am
    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
    dmford60
    January 16, 2014, 4:30 pm
    It's an entirely different kind of flying...altogether.
    abra
    February 5, 2015, 11:50 am
    It's an entirely different kind of flying.
    LLapp
    April 15, 2016, 9:39 am
    This public Facebook post shows excerpts from "Zero Hour!," the film whose rights the "Airplane!" creators purchased -- for reasons that quickly become obvious when you watch the clips. (link)
    vintage38
    November 10, 2018, 4:23 am
    31 seconds
    Altoid701
    January 25, 2019, 1:27 am
    Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
    Last edited by oddcouple; 03-10-2019, 09:06 AM.

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  • LLapp
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    "The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol." — Mignon McLaughlin

    bansaisequoia
    January 30, 2012, 7:20 pm
    It must have been the Vodka talking when she wrote that.

    cuji70
    October 11, 2013, 6:14 am
    Gotten me through 33 years of marriage

    skoogie2
    August 11, 2014, 5:08 am
    So true! I've always maintained that that was the reason!

    fishbum
    March 30, 2016, 6:46 am
    cuji70 and skoogie2 are married?

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  • LLapp
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    "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." —— Napoleon Bonaparte

    montyb
    March 19, 2014, 2:54 pm
    At last -- immortality!
    Last edited by LLapp; 03-05-2019, 11:46 PM.

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  • munchlet
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    "If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you. "
    — Dorothy Parker

    LLapp
    January 25, 2016, 10:33 pm
    This quote has stayed with me for years. I think it's one her most profound observations. You rarely see a published writer acknowledge that their book is the best they could do; there is usually a little bit of "Well, I could have put more detail in this chapter but I had to attend to X instead" -- but no, the truth is that it was the best they could do, and that is just so hard to accept. Because the yearning to write is almost always so much grander and more beautiful than the finished product. And that's what grieves the writer. Oh damn, I left my book-editing job a few months ago, and I miss taking care of my authors.

    maradnu
    August 31, 2016, 10:07 am
    A writer once said that a poem is never completed, it is only abandoned. True for most any writing. You write, then rewrite, and if you are ever satisfied, you are deluded.

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  • montyb
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    "Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it."
    — Seneca

    LLapp
    June 26, 2018, 11:26 am
    Clearly the Stoics never imagined the suffering of solving a cryptogram with only one E.

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  • oddcouple
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    "If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question. "
    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


    bansaisequoia
    July 7, 2010, 10:24 pm
    Can The Rock make a god so big, even he can't lift it?
    maradnu
    September 25, 2012, 7:14 pm
    42
    JenDiaz72
    January 19, 2015, 11:38 am
    How many licks does take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop?
    dovid1946
    March 21, 2015, 5:07 am
    who put the bop in the bop-she-bop-she-bop? would pout the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong
    montyb
    June 25, 2015, 4:48 pm
    Hey folks, see maradnu's answer above.
    kb83
    June 19, 2017, 2:23 am
    Was it an answer or a question?
    fishbum
    April 16, 2018, 8:28 am
    It was a wise answer to "How many days in 6 weeks?"
    LLapp
    May 12, 2018, 12:51 pm
    Are we here yet?
    lertsek
    August 15, 2018, 5:10 pm
    How do you spell IOU?
    newatcryptos
    August 19, 2018, 2:29 pm
    What color was George Washington's white horse?

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  • Eureka
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    I agree, Roxanne's cat taking over the keyboard, priceless!! (actually posted by LLapp, so I can't take any credit for it)

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  • montyb
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    A Great Example of the Teamwork of Cryptogrammers

    "Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident. "
    — Arthur Schopenhauer

    montyb on October 23rd, 2013
    What a silly idea.

    universalmom on February 12th, 2014
    I oppose it.

    Quizzical on April 18th, 2014
    I"ll bite. It should be perfectly clear.

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  • opallady
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    (Eureka's post) Roxanne: ROFLMAO!!!!!

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