Classic Comments on the Quote

[xlr8r]

Andy Rant hits a nerve on New Year's eve

In response to this quote:

"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"— Erich Fromm

Andy451 went on an extended rant about his opinion of public education and the people who provide it. I won't include Andy's comment because it was typical Andy451.

What really caught my attention was LLapp's response, which i assume was directed at Andy's wonderful comments in general. It occurred on the last day of 2016, a time when the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it was expected to happen in January 2017 and was probably the culmination of many years of LLapp withholding her comments to Andy:

LLapp on December 31st, 2016
OMG, stop it!!

[Phoenicopterus82]

The '' make history '' thread...

[LLapp]

Okay it's late and maybe I'm giddy, but this tickled me.

"He who does not say too much has too much to say." — Unattributed

marnita on August 29th, 2018
Does this even make sense?

kb83 on September 13th, 2018
This is misquoted. Unattributed never said this.

[wvwoman]

ummm...floss?!

if you're sensitive to "blue" humor, just overlook this one!
( but it was too good not to share! )

"You know, sometimes a man just can't satisfy all of a woman's desires. Which is why God invented dental floss." — Unattributed

gryhnd51 on October 1st, 2012
Is this meant to be kinky? I don't get it. Do any of you ladies have an explanation that can be written here? If so, PLEASE send me a PM....only God knows when I'll get back to this quote!

universalmom on March 6th, 2013
What in blazes does this mean??

gryhnd51 on April 15th, 2013
Well, here I am. More than a year later. And I'm so bummed that I still don't understand this quote.

slow1 on August 11th, 2013
soooo, quotes are sometimes repeated? That might explain how some folks who've been doing this a while - get them so quickly. BTW, this quote is stupid. No wonder they don't take credit for it.

abra on November 4th, 2013
Maybe we're just looking at it the wrong way. Maybe dental floss is just for flossing your teeth. This is an unattributed quote, so maybe it's just stooopid. But I'd like to be in on that PM otherwise.

Barnabas on November 8th, 2013
Remember that movie (can't recall the title) in which Rosie O'Donnell is asked, "Tell me your fantasy," and she responds by saying, "Paint my house." Maybe the quote is something along those lines. Sometimes a person's desire isn't always sensual in nature. Or maybe in this case... it's just kinky. Who knows?

kb83 on July 17th, 2014
Maybe the floss is for the man who is feeling inadequate.

shari2468 on August 16th, 2014
I think perhaps this may be the best example of "context is everything" that I have come across on this site.

Spenser on January 16th, 2015
I'll have to ask my wife about this one.

abra on April 9th, 2015
I still don't know what the dental floss is for, but I think I know the movie, Barnabas means. I think Rosie says that line to Dan Akroyd, in Exit to Eden.

wvwoman on April 14th, 2015
i just looked it up in the urban dictionary. oh, mercy!

droosy on May 26th, 2015
Heteronormative, and also weird.

dovid1946 on May 26th, 2015
my curiousity is whetted. I have to check out the urban dictionary too. I suspect the quote has something to do with oral sex- and I don't mean talking about sex. Now, I wonder who this can be attributed to. Maybe someone like George Carlin?

JenDiaz72 on July 17th, 2015
I was thinking the same thing Dovid1946 but I didn't want to be the first one to bring it up... I was thinking of the fact of using dental floss to clean up after oral sex...

pegxpeg on April 16th, 2016
Researched the first patent for dental floss. Oddly, it wasn't god.

bkmcincinnati on January 6th, 2017
Oh my, folks. Your comments sent me on an internet search. I finally found the quote attributed to a person but I can't find anything about who the person is. Here's a link: (link) (Apologies and a warning to anyone who cares to look at the link--it's a whole lot of quotes about men that are meant to be funny, but all lumped together in one place feel very sexist)

Persephone59 on July 2nd, 2017
Yeah, the quote has to do with getting hair out of your teeth..

phthelen on August 14th, 2017
Holeeeeee, Persephone. Thanks for that warning.

fishbum on October 31st, 2017
Maybe flossing can be an excuse for not going to bed.

seastar228 on January 5th, 2018
Hmm. I never put the dental floss idea with sex before.... I won't be able to floss without a smile ever again.

gryhnd51 on August 30th, 2018
Here I am, after almost 6 years, and your comments all point at KINKY! How can it be that I sometimes get the same quote twice in a row and the ones I don't understand take so long to come back?? About as weird as thinking about sex and dental floss in the same moment!

"When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy."
— Anonymous


chopstix on September 15th, 2013
time to step away from the drugs dude.

badbob on January 25th, 2016
are anonymous and unattributed realted?

abra on June 28th, 2016
First cousins twice removed. Anonymous is older and his quotes are becoming fewer. Unattributed has taken over with great vigor. His quotes are everywhere.

NotTooOld on May 2nd, 2017
Anonymous is fading and his friend Unattributed has taken his energy.

Roxanne on May 2nd, 2017
Whoa man did you ever think how weird toes are? I mean like they're totally different from fingers but ... umm what? ... yeah ... huh? ... hey are there any 'Nilla Wafers left?

LLapp on December 21st, 2017
Roxanne, don't tell anybody, but there's Ben & Jerry's in the freezer.

lertsek on June 14th, 2018
No there's not.

[puzzleme]

Dodgy Logic

"Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge."
— Benjamin Jowett

bansaisequoia on May 26th, 2012
Dodge Logics are Ram Tough.

Roxanne on August 16th, 2013
And Jowett could well a Ford to say that.

JenDiaz72 on January 20th, 2015
Dead Or Dying Garbage Emitter or Drips Oil, Drops Grease, Everywhere.

JenDiaz72 on April 15th, 2015
Got another one... Dysfunctional Organization Designing Generic Equipment.

kb83 on January 23rd, 2017
Passionate non-logicians are truly insufferable.

[oddcouple]

"Zeal: A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced."
— Ambrose Bierce

LLapp on December 2nd, 2016
Oh man - 24 seconds! I coulda been a contender, if only I hadn't stopped twice to sneeze!!

darkyr on December 20th, 2016
I caught a cold and had to wait until I was over it before I hit the submit button. I didn't want to infect the comments and get everyone sick.

phthelen on June 24th, 2018
LOL darkyr

abra on June 26th, 2018
Thank you for your sacrifice, darkyr. Computer viruses can be dangerous.

LLapp on August 7th, 2018
HAHAHA

[puzzleme]

Abra crackered me up

"The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live. "
— Albert Einstein


sidewinder on June 1st, 2010
indeed

abra on May 29th, 2014
It's amazing to me that this brilliant scientist, had such a poetic soul.

judy100 on March 30th, 2015
:-(

jval on April 18th, 2015
Yes, but it's NICE when a tragedy dies.

bookie539 on March 15th, 2018
a tragedy just died yesterday. His name was Hawking.

LLapp on March 17th, 2018
That he invalidated your world view makes him an important challenge to your understanding of the world. Your reaction does not make him a tragedy. Rest in peace, Dr. Hawking.

badbob on June 8th, 2018
it's four a.m. and i'm eating peanut butter right out of the jar while doing cryptos. this is sad.

abra on July 2nd, 2018
^Yes, you should get some crackers.

[montyb]

Edited to the essentials.

"Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on."
— Budd Schulberg

LLapp on January 3rd, 2015
Context. This is the man who wrote the screenplay for On the Waterfront - and he built it on maybe the strongest ethical core of any movie ever.

spacecoyote1966 on July 29th, 2016
200 seconds. If only I had solved it faster, I could have been someone. I could've been a contender.

[LLapp]

Fishbum's finish cracked me up.

"Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it, it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony." — Andrew Schneider

wvwoman on September 17th, 2013
throbbing and pulsating. music is not the first thing that comes to mind.

skeeter on March 12th, 2015
Yes, wvwoman! On my screen, the last word was below my line of sight so at first all I could see was "one big pulsating . . . ." My mind reeled with possibilities until I scrolled down and saw "symphony."

universalmom on May 28th, 2015
LOL wv and skeeter, shame on you!

abra on August 21st, 2016
What they said. ^^

darkyr on January 25th, 2018
Is that a symphony in your pocket, or did you get a new ring tone?

fishbum on July 8th, 2018
I keep mine on vibrate.

[oddcouple]

"We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public."
— Bryan White

Allen on January 18th, 2013
Still working on that.

skoogie2 on November 15th, 2013
Yep, some of us don't.

Barnabas on May 4th, 2015
Very true... I look forward to a new Marvel or DC movie release as much as anyone. You can steadily move the boy to the year 2015, but you can't completely remove 1970 from the boy.

fishbum on October 27th, 2015
Just read a quote on facebook: "If you haven't grown up by age 50, don't bother."

SippyGurl on November 28th, 2016
its the yuppies fault - they started wearing designer sweat suits to nice restaurants in manhattan, acting like skyscraper incinerator fodder, and it's been all downhill from there. does anyone teach their children about behaving in public anymore?

darkyr on January 19th, 2017
I behaved in public once. Very awkward.

jimdgar on May 2nd, 2018
Behaving in public is vastly overrated.

SippyGurl on July 2nd, 2018
really sippy? it's just the yuppies? lol what was u drinking

[oddcouple]

"It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind. "
— Unattributed

eis on January 12th, 2010
Unfortunately I usually find that I do so!

montyb on May 21st, 2013
I agree.

maradnu on October 16th, 2013
I'm not sure about that. Might be, might not. Let me think about it some more.

Allen on April 12th, 2014
I agree, Maradnu. Wholeheartedly!

toddcmz on August 30th, 2015
My approach to marriage might be less good than I thought

LLapp on January 20th, 2017
I'm with every one of you, one hundred percent.

MamaB on September 19th, 2018
I'm not. Except maybe t hat one...

[oddcouple]

"Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings."
— R. W. Alger

haverwench on June 19th, 2010
Now there's a word you don't see every day.

irisheyes on October 5th, 2010
WHAT is an apothegm?? I thought I had a larger-than-average vocabulary, but I've never seen this one before.

bansaisequoia on August 28th, 2011
It's a marsupial of the Western Hemisphere.

Lurker on August 30th, 2011
They carry dictionaries in their pouches.

fishbum on February 4th, 2012
A short, pithy saying.

montyb on May 15th, 2013
Boy, am I pithed!

wvwoman on July 21st, 2013
Synonyms are adage, aphorism, saying, byword, epigram, maxim, proverb, saw

abra on August 14th, 2013
Ah, so it is an aphorism. I suspected it was.

kb83 on August 25th, 2014
Rhymes with phlegm. (cough-cough).

abra on January 23rd, 2015
It doesn't roll off the tongue.

Spenser on May 30th, 2015
Don't you mean it's a marthupial?

QuexUl on March 28th, 2016
Whatever they are, they don't seem so very portable to me.

figmo on June 11th, 2017
Wall-a-by damned!

ten Y's and one S? No problem for skeeter.

"The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are."
— Norman Vincent Peale



montyb on June 7th, 2012
Therefore, rely on flights of fancy?

montyb on March 23rd, 2014
Ten Ys and only one S. There is no way those letter frequencies can occur in the English language. I'll never solve this puzzle.

Allen on June 25th, 2014
And yet you did.

tskaggs6 on November 5th, 2014
Am I wrong in thinking he's a prime example of form over function? Can't make up my mind. What do you think?

LLapp on March 25th, 2016
Clever comments. I like how monty disproves the quote.

Persephone59 on April 16th, 2017
Personally, I have little use for motivational speakers or religious leaders who don't seem to DO anything but try to advise other people. Thanks, I can figure this out.

skeeter on December 1st, 2017
Daily you yearn for yesterday yet the memory you will have tomorrow of today may bring more joy.

bigdave on April 11th, 2018
The comments are the chewy chocolate center of my Cryptogram Tootsie Pop.

"To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself."
— Simone Weil


montyb on March 14th, 2012
And not be insubordinate.

kb83 on February 12th, 2015
This really shows hot the best leaders are good followers.

LLapp on April 3rd, 2016
I am totally insubordinate to my own executive function. If I were self-employed, I would still grouse about my boss.