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  • Variations on a typo

    (It turns out that "Narda" is a typo -- it should be "Narada," which was the name of a Vedic sage famous in Hindu traditions as a traveling musician and storyteller. But that's not important now.)

    "Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know, know to understand, and understand to judge." — Apothegm of Narda

    puffybob on 2010-09-22 02:57:23
    I was wondering when they were going to quote the Apothegm of Narda.

    wvwoman on 2012-07-29 23:55:45
    who, or what, is it??

    Allen on 2013-01-19 23:38:34
    WV: that is the question!

    lainie18 on 2013-03-25 03:14:19
    I love a good apothegm.

    marnita on 2016-05-08 11:20:19
    Who or what is Narda?

    SippyGurl on 2017-08-18 21:43:20
    narda you business

    kb83 on 2017-12-14 03:35:14
    There was an apothegm of Narda. The pathway of knowledge is harda, One must study to know, To learn and to grow, Don't just act like you're any smarda.

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    • "A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best. "
      — Unattributed


      maradnu on 2009-09-27 20:19:09
      Try to tell that to the survivors of torture and concentration camps.

      JCarlosCuevas on 2009-10-12 21:17:09
      To quote Jack Nicholson's character in "As Good As It Gets": "Sell crazy someplace else. We're all stocked up here!"

      bazinga on 2012-03-19 13:30:13
      Amen J and M

      montyb on 2012-03-31 21:47:17
      Key word here is "may".

      cheryljean777 on 2012-09-17 02:33:53
      So we might as well be happy.

      universalmom on 2014-02-14 03:55:40
      Good quote, JCC!

      wvwoman on 2015-11-06 02:11:51
      thanks for the reminder of that quote, jcarlos--that was the best line from that great movie!

      LLapp on 2016-08-19 07:17:36
      Anytime I see a statement like this, I think of people who have lost a child to illness, suicide, car crash, gunshot, overdose, etc. There is no way to view the loss of a beloved young person as "for the best."

      CCCookie on 2017-02-02 05:26:15
      I'm sorry -- the key word here is "everything" -- I can't think of an older adult I know who would find this statement true. It's difficult for me to imagine, for instance, how a diagnosis of cancer or the death of a beloved spouse could "work out for the best". Give me a break. Sometimes the loss of a "good" job can work out for the best, but there are too many things that happen in life that just don't work that way. One learns to have a good life after cancer or in spite of cancer, and one can live a good life after the death of ones beloved, but that doesn't mean it has worked out for the best.

      NotTooOld on 2017-06-02 13:09:03
      After all, this was only said by Unattributed. What do they know?

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      • Even as a dog person I thought this was really funny..

        "It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see."

        — Eleanor Farjeon


        tjsrc on 2015-02-13 06:24:14
        People like to say cats can see ghosts.. Because they like to stare off into space for hours.. But most of the time they're just staring at the wall.. and I think they are just spacing out rather than seeing "something."

        skeeter on 2015-07-26 16:42:59
        Maybe they're just catatonic.

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        • Monty's 18-month afterthought

          "I'm so poor I can't even pay attention." — Ron Kittle

          montyb on 2012-05-19 22:19:04
          Then charge it like the rest of us.

          montyb on 2013-12-30 13:09:15
          Oh wait, that would involve interest. Never mind.

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          • "You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket."
            — John Adams


            fredsevent on 2012-04-16 21:05:04
            Dude had big pockets or perhaps they just grew small poets back then.

            abra on 2013-07-07 21:06:32
            Kind of strange.

            dmford60 on 2014-03-01 19:36:44
            I think it's kind of a neat thought, carrying a book of poetry with you to keep you company.

            universalmom on 2014-09-24 04:46:05
            hahaha i pictured some poor little guy screaming something like "grant me thy fair egress from this foul, unvented confinement!"

            ericthirdrow on 2014-10-13 07:54:44
            Is that a poet in your pocket or are you just happy to have some alone time?

            Writeon on 2018-01-18 11:08:00
            Ring around the roses,
            A pocket full of poets
            Ashes, ashes,
            Shouldn’t have put that cigarette in there.

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            • writeon - Wow, what a great comment thread! Thanks for posting it -- I don't think I've ever seen that one. The wit at this site is remarkable.

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              • "Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain."
                Sharon Salzberg

                She said this after flunking out of her origami class. - Montyb

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                • Edited somewhat to the essential comment.

                  "America is the only country ever founded on the printed word."
                  — Herbert Marshall McLuhan

                  WRQ9 on 2014-01-07 07:20:36
                  Sheesh, we're litigious enough as it is!
                  [B][I]"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."[/I] [/B]-- Albert Einstein

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                  • Like a ghost fart.

                    "So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent! "
                    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


                    jnoodles on 2016-11-20 03:01:57
                    sbd (silent but deadly)

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                    • "A moment's thought shows that man's feeling of isolation has no foundation, biologically or sociologically. We grow out of the Universe, we are an expression of it."
                      — Paul Ingram

                      montyb on 2012-09-07 00:55:29
                      Of course there are times when I seem to be the most obscene of all expressions the universe could muster; the profanity of all creation.

                      montyb on 2013-07-07 02:23:58
                      I must have been really bummed when I wrote that.

                      windsong on 2014-11-02 03:50:22
                      It was apparently a moment's thought with no foundation! : )

                      LizardLeap on 2016-03-04 00:34:25
                      biologically or sociologically

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                      • Great example of camaraderie and wit.

                        "It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. "
                        — Thomas Hardy

                        bansaisequoia on 2009-07-19 00:06:25
                        Then why is Altoid putting me in the dust?

                        Altoid701 on 2009-08-01 19:32:10
                        Sorry, Bansai. Mwahaha.

                        momof7 on 2011-03-27 05:50:47
                        On this cryptogram, I think that you left everybody in your dust, bansai

                        pootie49 on 2011-04-21 00:34:05
                        I dont know I think we manage pretty well. He leaves us all in the dust.

                        montyb on 2012-05-14 19:30:17
                        Compared to you folks, I'd be happy to get up to the dust level.

                        Barnabas on 2013-08-20 22:16:50
                        We are the dust, and Bansai is the Swiffer!

                        montyb on 2015-07-04 14:05:16
                        Barnabas, philosopher extraordinaire.

                        marnita on 2018-01-16 02:54:41
                        I just got Swiffered.
                        [B][I]"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."[/I] [/B]-- Albert Einstein

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                        • "This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind." — Herbert J. Muller

                          saipanwriter on 2012-11-01 05:20:36
                          ugh--why not just say a not very bright or reliable cosmic bellhop...

                          chopstix on 2014-06-22 15:48:58
                          because it's a dis on top of a dis, rather than one big dis.

                          kb83 on 2017-06-11 14:02:12
                          The service is terrible in this universe. It's so hard to find good help these days.

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                          • "I have a spelling checker. It came with my PC. It plainly marks four my revue mistakes I cannot sea."
                            — Janet Minor


                            kat on 2009-04-09 16:18:26
                            Deliberately misspelled words in a crypto? That's a little below the belt.

                            pootie49 on 2011-05-07 21:44:44
                            ohhh this is evil to put this in. just evil.

                            lainie18 on 2012-06-15 23:31:17
                            Hey, it's witty. Lighten up.

                            montyb on 2013-07-03 13:21:00
                            I LOVE this, especially with the misspelled words. Ah, technology! It helps you make bigger mistakes faster and more efficiently.

                            iltquilt on 2013-07-06 14:38:36
                            It would be even more evil if it read: I halve a spelling chequer. It came with my pea see. It planely marx four my revue miss steaks I can knot sea. Not trying to give you any ideas Admin.

                            SKEHR98 on 2013-12-24 05:23:31
                            Watt misspellings???

                            marnita on 2015-07-20 16:26:27
                            What fun!

                            susanith on 2016-10-02 10:07:42
                            Fun. Iltquilt, I think your sentence would have been unsolvable.

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                            • Laughing at my own expense.

                              "The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit."
                              — Friedrich Nietzsche

                              jnoodles on 2013-07-25 10:17:47
                              Degree and kind?

                              montyb on 2014-10-05 04:22:12
                              I have a Master's degree.

                              marnita on 2016-07-13 05:22:47
                              In sexuality, Monty?

                              kb83 on 2017-01-04 05:26:40
                              You have a Masters for your Johnson, Montyb?

                              maradnu on 2017-06-30 15:35:52
                              Good one, kb83

                              BrainCellKeeper on 2017-12-31 11:13:07
                              25 seconds!! I realize bragging about that doesn't make my sexuality sound very impressive

                              LLapp on 2018-01-21 10:31:46
                              Hooray, BrainCellKeeper!! I know you were incredulous for a long time about the fast solving speeds, and now you finally got one! What a great way to start the new year!
                              [B][I]"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."[/I] [/B]-- Albert Einstein

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                              • "Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher. "
                                — Don Marquis


                                pootie49 on 2009-04-21 19:48:55
                                They have one - its calle a wife/husband

                                dbs on 2012-04-09 13:18:23
                                necessity is the mother of invention-she must have been too busy with dignified stuff.

                                abra on 2015-03-20 16:11:52
                                We had one, but we lost it. Where does one go to buy a new backscratcher? Where could ours possibly have disappeared to? I think it must have been in the couch we sent to the Salvation Army. Otherwise, it would have popped up again.

                                darkyr on 2017-03-24 06:11:58
                                I went to the Salvation Army to buy a couch, came home with an outstanding backscratcher. Nothing in my science textbooks prepared me for the surprise.

                                abra on 2017-10-29 18:49:12
                                darkyr, you're welcome.

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