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[LLapp]

Everybody's a ǁʤϡ�G diacritic

"It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character." � Dag Hammarskjold

bansaisequoia on 2009-06-20 20:10:49
This former UN Secretary General's name is actually Dag Hammarskjöld.

bansaisequoia on 2009-08-19 23:39:00
The author of this quote is Dag Hammarskjöld.

bansaisequoia on 2009-09-05 02:06:13
Let's try this again without a diacritic. The author of this quote is Dag Hammarskjold.

bansaisequoia on 2009-12-23 18:18:16
With an umlaut over the "o."

Lurker on 2013-01-21 22:16:21
Hammarskjöld

Lurker on 2013-01-30 19:36:22
Nuts. It looked right when I typed it!

puzzleme on 2013-05-25 04:32:04
You two people are crazed!

chopstix on 2014-01-31 05:49:08
hahaha!

318WOZ on 2014-05-02 04:02:39
This quotation is actually from Dag Hammarskj€©∞λ≥÷ƔǁʤϡѾ‰₩⓴.

montyb on 2016-07-03 13:33:35
Look folks, I don't mind a spirited discussion, but let's leave the ©∞λ≥÷ƔǁʤϡѾâ� �°â‚©â swearing out.

[Queethebean]

I keep scrolling my mouse to press the like button on these quotes and then realize . . . oh that's that other site!

[ddph]

Of cats and gas

"There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling."
� Douglas Adams

WRQ9 on 2012-12-16 02:30:48
Apparently, "farticular" is not a word.

jnoodles on 2013-05-24 12:52:34
"FARTICULAR"!!!!! Wonderful!!!! You have just become immortal by coining this one. I plan to use it often. "I seem to detect a farticular odor."

kjmcaj on 2013-05-26 19:40:01
40 seconds.

Allen on 2014-04-30 11:46:51
Sir, your farticulosity is worthy of acclaim!

JD_1947 on 2014-11-21 02:45:26
. . ho hummm . . . I'm not farticularly fond of cats . .

tskaggs6 on 2015-10-20 18:42:28
Farticular is a perfectly cromulate word.

Quickly on 2016-04-21 12:47:50
hahahahahaha I will be using that word whenever possible. My dog is farticularly offensive tonight.

darkyr on 2016-12-29 05:22:48
Some farticles travel faster than the speed of sound.

mmfs83 on 2017-04-17 07:24:02
Siamese cats are very strange. I catsit one once for a week. I was overjoyed when the owners came home. And I like cats.

Persephone59 on 2017-06-03 06:26:36
There is an upper manager at work who recently was on a business trip across the country, and had a catsitter (from work). He found out while at a layover, that the sitter could not find the cat. He actually flew back home out of concern, and it was under the bed. LAME catsitter!

[LLapp]

One of my favorite threads ever

"I'm so rarely the arbiter of what all women want. I'm usually quite the outlier on that chart." � Rachel Maddow

maradnu on 2013-11-22 06:22:49
Well, yeah.

SippyGurl on 2014-05-28 04:35:44
i can think of at least one way

abra on 2015-08-28 10:01:55
I guess, she probably wants a nice house and a nice car, me too. After that, it get's iffy.

MatthewReynolds on 2015-11-01 01:29:55
Being male I would not presume to have an opinion on what all women want. Women are individuals, and they all want different things. However, in my experience, all women seem to want lots and lots of shoes.

abra on 2015-11-27 11:40:08
Wrong MatthewReynolds. I'm not a "shoe person", I need only four pairs or five pairs, of really comfortable shoes. They're just not a biggy in my life.

LLapp on 2016-04-09 18:05:07
Let's see, I'm a woman and I have one pair each of walking sneakers, garden sneakers, flipflops, warm slippers, and snow boots. Plus three pairs of nice shoes for board meetings or in case somebody dies. But usually I wear flipflops.

MatthewReynolds on 2016-05-12 01:45:49
Yes, I said "in my experience" Now I have experienced abra, who is female and does not require many shoes. In the future I shall change my observation to "most women, in my own personal experience" want lots and lots and lots of shoes.

maradnu on 2016-06-27 15:30:45
My wife, only half jokingly, refers to her Imelda Marcos shoe collection. Then again, the entire master bedroom closet is filled with her clothes and shoes. Mine are in another room.

kb83 on 2016-07-01 07:23:27
Vive the outlier.

LLapp on 2016-07-14 17:40:32
Matthew, you are close though, because what all women DO want is a foot rub!

hisashiburi on 2016-08-12 04:42:52
LLapp, sorry. I hate having my feet rubbed. I like it when people pay attention to what I'm saying (they don't have to agree). Do we have any votes against that?

MamaB on 2016-12-13 04:19:09
Ummm, a foot rub!

Persephone59 on 2016-12-18 07:59:44
I don't really like people to touch my feet, either. But I have tons of shoes. The good/bad thing about being single is, there is no one to say, 'you don't need that.'

letfreedomring on 2016-12-27 14:07:32
Rather than be enlightened on who doesn't like to have their feet touched, it might be nice to discuss Rachel Madow's contribution to communication.

LLapp on 2017-01-01 09:33:44
I stand corrected! And I agree that being heard may top the list.

badbob on 2017-01-28 00:12:57
women are individuals. we can't group them together when it comes to wants and desires. since we're on the subject, I have four pair of shoes.

bkmcincinnati on 2017-02-09 23:36:58
Thank you, Rachel and everyone else. I get so tired of being forced into conversations about why women vote certain ways and having to explain that we are all actually entirely separate human beings, each with our own thoughts.

mmfs83 on 2017-02-23 10:06:00
You betcha!!!

KMMRN on 2017-04-05 00:54:43
Hiking boots, hiking shoes, slippers, tennis shoes, dressy high heels, casual high heels, snow boots, dress boots, deck shoes, sandals. One pair each. Wow! That adds up to more than I thought! Maybe I am a shoe person.

BrainCellKeeper on 2017-05-21 14:08:32
And please don't think all women love shopping. I hate shopping!

LLapp on 2017-05-31 15:50:52
Update: Lately I've been buying shoes. I can't explain it.

SippyGurl on 2017-06-15 20:25:14
lol LLapp, the female version of the trump effect

Persephone59 on 2017-06-17 04:43:15
And back to Rachel Maddow; I love her. Very insightful, very witty.

zengard on 2017-08-23 14:33:03
Add loafers and flats and I agree with KMMRN with one exception. I want each in every color. And maybe a purse to match.

gryhnd51 on 2017-08-25 18:40:26
Ooh....these comments just made me laugh! I have more shoes than I will ever need, but many of them are more than 30yrs old (mostly winter boots for hiking, snow-shoeing, skiing, ice-climbing) I think most men have FAR fewer shoes than most women do, although my husband comes close to having as many as I do. I just want to add that I find Rachel Maddow to be one of the smartest women in the world, and I couldn't care less about her wardrobe.

abra on 2017-12-03 17:39:21
About those food rubs, I couldn't stand to have "people" touch my feet, but oh how I love a foot rub from my husband.

seastar228 on 2018-01-23 17:54:58
Wow! I need to go count my shoes.

[munchlet]

"Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed." � William Jennings Bryan

agatha on 2010-12-23 14:07:22
Funny

rikabeau on 2011-08-01 14:37:33
Uh... Don't count your chickens until they hatch?

bansaisequoia on 2011-10-06 02:05:34
This maxim is as antediluvian as the natural topographical inclines.

cradle0fmexicans on 2013-01-26 15:32:48
i love sesquipedalians!

wvwoman on 2013-04-05 06:31:17
old, yes, but still good advice!

maradnu on 2013-08-21 23:30:50
Eschew obfuscation.

puzzleme on 2015-08-08 17:53:28
Gesundheit!

Highpoint on 2015-09-02 15:41:33
Isn't "eschew" a dirty word?

montyb on 2015-12-21 11:49:40
Only if you do it with your lips open.

kb83 on 2017-01-23 12:11:53
Refrain from extensive investigation into the dental health of equine property that has been transferred gratuitously to you.

kb83 on 2017-03-14 04:14:35
Refrain from lacrimal demonstrations when confronted with unforeseen dairy overflows.

fishbum on 2017-03-21 07:54:21
Watch out for Athenians with freebies.

kb83 on 2018-01-02 03:39:10
Corrective sewing when done in an expeditious manner, prevents the need for extensive repairs later on.

spacecoyote1966 on 2018-01-09 08:57:50
For what reason did the poultry transverse the thoroughfare?

maradnu on 2018-01-26 13:23:04
I look forward to a day when poultry can cross the road without having its motives questioned.

[LLapp]

"No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power." � Charles Caleb Colton

killdozer on 2015-12-31 05:32:22
I could handle it. I'd straighten this universe out in an hour. My wife would tell me just what to do.

lainecap on 2016-04-06 15:11:30
That is what our founding fathers thought when they established the constitution.

montyb on 2016-12-07 21:59:22
How could the founding fathers know killdozer's wife?

[ddph]

"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again."
� Dag Hammarskjold

bonsaisequoia on 2009-07-26 20:34:26
The author of this quote is Dag Hammarskjöld.

bansaisequoia on 2009-09-07 18:13:08
Once again, without the diacritic. The author of this quote is Dag Hammarskjold.

jnoodles on 2013-08-10 16:59:47
Dag nab it!!!!

Allen on 2013-12-19 03:20:17
Don’t be so diacritical!

LLapp on 2015-09-24 18:05:34
I love this quote.

[opallady]

"In weightlifting, I don't think sudden, uncontrolled urination should automatically disqualify you."
� Jack Handey

Lurker on 2009-10-08 00:13:47
Someone beat my time, please! I don't want my name on this one

bansaisequoia on 2009-10-12 23:44:03
Ooooohh, I'm sorry-I just got 18 seconds.

Lurker on 2009-12-20 23:10:35
So what do I do, set a faster time! AAAHH!!

bansaisequoia on 2010-03-01 16:50:02
You put your name on this twice by leaving a comment.

Lurker on 2011-09-18 21:56:09
Good point. Well, if people don't read the comments, they'll just see your name now.

montyb on 2012-01-02 12:40:24
I like reading the comments. But this one doesn't deserve any.

bansaisequoia on 2012-07-08 14:42:21
I don't know. If I were an Olympic judge, I'm not sure I'd count him out. Depends.

montyb on 2012-10-07 19:32:30
That weightlifter would need Depends.

wvwoman on 2012-10-08 03:19:32
what ARE the rules on urination during weightlifting?

puzzleme on 2013-08-17 00:56:45
Depends.

abra on 2013-10-28 11:50:29
Very funny, puzzlemel.

kb83 on 2014-11-25 07:50:07
If done during the "clean and jerk," there are no rules.

Lurker on 2015-02-03 12:52:24
You wouldn't be clean anymore.

LLapp on 2016-01-18 21:47:21
Jerk? Please, urination during weightlifting was bad enough!

wvwoman on 2016-01-29 07:19:39
i was already grinning, reading the comments, but full-on laughed when i got to llapp's!

skeeter on 2017-09-30 13:33:15
Well, there is American weightlifting, and then there is You're-a-Peein' weightlifting.

abra on 2017-12-08 14:26:02
Ha-ha, skeeter.

Persephone59 on 2018-01-13 07:51:42
You have to admit, Handey's face goes perfectly with the stupid things he says.

[LLapp]

"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions." � Edgar Cayce

Spellbinder44 on 2015-05-08 21:39:52
Whereas Science Fiction is tomorow's answers to today's questions!

darkyr on 2016-05-27 08:45:49
Death is the final buzzer. Please put your pencils down and hand your test papers to the front.

susanith on 2016-10-01 01:23:32
I like this quote.

abra on 2016-10-24 18:34:53
I like darkyr's.

[ddph]

"People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom."
� Peter Ustinov

jnoodles on 2013-06-01 13:27:38
I must be highly qualified.

kb83 on 2015-03-12 12:02:22
retain, detain.

oddcouple on 2015-04-24 16:18:43
retain, detain

abra on 2015-12-17 12:03:03
retain, detain

Highpoint on 2016-11-28 05:13:56
Detain?

badbob on 2017-02-13 01:58:23
detain what?

abra on 2017-02-22 17:32:36
Again, retain/detain.

obsessedreader8 on 2017-11-13 08:50:02
retain detained me from reaching detain

BrainCellKeeper on 2018-01-04 12:11:49
ditto, obsessedreader8

mistyswiss on 2018-02-16 06:13:31
I wish this quote wasn't retained on this site. It makes no sense to me either way. retain/detain

[LLapp]

"If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs." � Assyrian Proverb

afulton on 2012-01-14 21:59:42
Riiiigt.

kjmcaj on 2013-03-23 17:19:11
Is that so!!!! hmmmm

fishbum on 2013-06-27 05:35:19
They just might because some chickens do change sex.

abra on 2013-08-30 00:34:05
I never knew THAT!

dovid1946 on 2015-03-03 09:49:07
those Assyrians were so folksy- what ever happened to them, anyway.

montyb on 2016-12-24 11:44:10
I'm afraid their civilization collapsed during the Great Egg Famine.

[ddph]

"To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon."
� Chinese Proverb

bansaisequoia on 2010-01-25 19:32:12
That worked for me the last time I wrote a friend's name on the wings of a dragon.

pootie49 on 2011-05-06 16:44:41
me too cept the darned pencil kept bursting into flames?

universalmom on 2013-03-15 20:57:35
I was right there with this proverb until we got to the dragon part.

gryhnd51 on 2014-01-25 18:02:07
Does anybody know where I can find that dragon? The one Bansai and Pootie knew?

Quizzical on 2014-05-21 14:00:08
I think this one had all of us draggin'.

montyb on 2014-10-22 10:36:48
No dragons in Indiana. Could I substitute a restroom stall?

Annamariah on 2014-11-06 23:29:09
Ask Daenerys, I've heard she's got three of them!

jeanering on 2015-02-27 11:10:42
These comments are dragon ' on...and on..

wordfairy on 2015-03-04 22:24:12
heehee - you guys are the best! xD

wordfairy on 2015-03-17 21:14:35
deja vu!

marnita on 2015-11-06 09:35:14
If I ever meet up with a dragon, I doubt my first impulse will be to write anything on its wings.

abra on 2016-06-29 14:18:30
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, has a lot of dragons too. You'll find him in Berk. Which I think is inhabited by English speaking Vikings.

susanith on 2017-08-23 13:04:48
Good advice until you get to the dragon part. Does that mean it is impossible to attract good fortune?

[ddph]

Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason."
� Stanislaw I. Leszczynski

judy100 on 2015-01-05 01:19:13
Finally a quote makes SENSE:-)

montyb on 2015-01-15 14:36:55
And REASON!!!

montyb on 2015-12-31 08:48:34
And is easy to digest!

GtrZan on 2016-06-24 01:42:05
Scientifically speaking, of course

darkyr on 2016-12-27 06:02:45
I think I have a touch of indigestion.

LLapp on 2017-11-02 15:24:14
Munch on this test tube and call me in the morning.

[LLapp]

Can't stop laughing at this one...

"As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private." � Edgar Watson Howe

dovid1946 on 2015-04-19 10:16:28
but who is he sleeping with? a drill instructor?

universalmom on 2015-07-13 14:54:52
Hahaha dovid, one hopes not!

darkyr on 2017-07-18 09:29:13
You call that snoring? I've heard better snoring from a hamster! And what are those? Pajamas? Your mama isn't here to dress you anymore!

[mistyswiss]

The Full Monty

"In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax."
� John Simon

maradnu on 2010-12-27 21:03:31
What is wrong with taxing sin?

cheryljean777 on 2011-01-12 14:48:27
Clever answer, maradnu.

montyb on 2012-07-13 16:24:06
It goes against the current politically correct mantra: "No nude taxes!"