Classic Comments on the Quote

[MadDoctor]

"The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience."
— Barbara Mikkelson

universalmom
April 11, 2012, 7:42 pm
And people are often convinced by something that rhymes.

montyb
July 2, 2013, 11:48 am
Trust u-mom, for it happens all the times.

wordfairy
January 24, 2015, 8:51 pm
With my 2 cents, in I will chimes, Helping commit these poetic crimes.

jval
March 29, 2015, 6:28 am
There once was a man from Nantucket .......

LLapp
September 27, 2015, 9:30 pm
Who put all his words in a bucket...

Quizzical
September 15, 2016, 7:19 am
But when he looked in it...

SippyGurl
December 7, 2016, 1:39 am
he knew for a minute...

jimbo42
February 13, 2017, 8:44 pm
that nobody,s prepared to finish it

debzhaus
September 30, 2017, 12:51 pm
He really should give up and chuck it.

badbob
February 28, 2018, 1:48 am
I'm moving to Nantucket

[oddcouple]

"Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all."
— Robert Brault

dbs
June 1, 2011, 5:30 pm
toujours l'amour. when you swim in the sea and an eelbites your knee?THATS A MORAY !
debzhaus
August 23, 2011, 11:27 pm
Love it, dbs!
universalmom
October 30, 2012, 12:54 am
...put your hand in a crack and you don't get it back, THAT'S A MORAY
GtrZan
September 5, 2013, 8:00 am
Whaaaa?
LLapp
June 13, 2016, 6:09 pm
Even Brault can't stop a party from breaking out.
maradnu
January 6, 2017, 12:30 pm
When an eel bites your thigh and looks you in the eye, it's a moray
LLapp
September 4, 2017, 7:20 am
When in Rome you learn to do as all Romans do, THOSE ARE MORES!
zorak
September 28, 2018, 7:35 am
blech!
maradnu
July 21, 2022, 1:06 am
I think someone touched him - upside the head with a bat

[LLapp]

"Arms are instruments of ill omen. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish." — Lao Tzu

pootie49
July 6, 2012, 4:43 pm
or mustard.

tgreen517
November 16, 2014, 1:19 pm
sounds like someone needs a hug!!

Elephino
August 1, 2018, 5:00 am
but hugs require arms!

318WOZ
January 27, 2019, 9:36 am
When using only one's legs and feet to eat, any condiments are appropriate.

Wordigo
February 10, 2021, 2:07 pm
Hard to ketchup with all these witty condiments.

Anachronismatic
June 30, 2023, 9:47 pm
Sounds like Lao Tzu was in quite a pickle.

[Eureka]

"How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence." — Benjamin Disraeli

Beagle
March 1, 2015, 5:53 am
Perhaps a question mark would be appropriate?

dmford60
May 31, 2015, 7:34 pm
No, it's not a question, it's an observation.

darkyr
May 10, 2016, 8:05 am
Oh, so how fair is a garden?

LLapp
March 24, 2017, 4:53 pm
Terribly unfair, but only when you put a question mark at the end.

darkyr
January 5, 2018, 5:51 pm
Oh so how fair is a garden! Yes, you're right, much better than a question mark.

kahvecowgirl
July 1, 2019, 2:57 am
A garden can be very unfair. You can do everything right, and still get aphids, ants and caterpillars. And your plants can just not grow for no apparent reason. (I don't have a green thumb, in case anyone was wondering.)

[LLapp]

"A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something."— Avi

LLapp
August 6, 2019, 2:26 am
Right. To inspire is to breathe in.

Ian123
February 20, 2021, 8:45 am
To expire is not to breathe out.

Synonymous
February 4, 2023, 9:15 pm
^LOL

[LLapp]

I'm posting this thread here mainly so Opallady can see it.


"Being religious is quintessentially American." — Denis McDonough

opallady
October 6, 2018, 11:49 am
i'm wondering if this is the Denis McDonough who used to play with my kids in Stillwater, MN.

Eureka
October 18, 2019, 2:04 am
He was born on December 2, 1969 in Stillwater, Minnesota, opallady. Does the age fit?

Synonymous
January 11, 2020, 11:55 pm
Th...Th...Tha...That's All Folks. Quintessentially! I'm through for the night.

abra
January 19, 2021, 1:51 am
It sounds like this might be the childhood friend of Opallady's kids. Let us know.

Eureka
August 1, 2022, 12:44 am
I was really hoping opallady would have come back by now!

[Synonymous]

A classic from abra:

"Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty."
— Alfred Victor de Vigny
Comments on this Puzzle:

Persephone59
October 27, 2018, 7:00 pm
That was rather effete. (I thought I'd attack him with French.)
Synonymous
April 5, 2021, 10:56 pm
Carney or Linkletter?
abra
August 30, 2021, 5:49 pm
Buchwald or Garfunkel?

[LLapp]

"The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of disease." — Edward Jenner

RedEnoch
November 11, 2022, 2:16 pm
On the other hand, deaths from falling out of trees have decreased dramatically.

[hrossa]

"If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also."— Assyrian Proverb

LiveLoveLaugh
November 13, 2009, 9:50 pm
arf

LiveLoveLaugh
May 3, 2010, 1:06 pm
arf

LiveLoveLaugh
July 22, 2010, 3:19 pm
arf

montyb
April 4, 2012, 12:04 am
What the heck. Arf.

gryhnd51
March 9, 2013, 1:16 am
Yip ..Yip...Yip!!

Lily H
May 2, 2013, 2:03 am
bow-wow

nanrich
December 7, 2013, 2:37 am
Slobber, wag, arf

chopstix
May 7, 2014, 6:03 am
LOL LLL!

lainecap
March 27, 2015, 4:23 pm
I think you guys are barking up the wrong quote.

wvwoman
March 30, 2015, 6:09 pm
woof.

marnita
October 7, 2015, 12:03 pm
Meow.

GtrZan
November 20, 2015, 3:36 am
only if my dog agrees

jimdgar
March 15, 2016, 8:28 am
and give him a bone too

kb83
March 28, 2016, 3:43 am
But not a host to his dog's fleas, hopefully.

abra
October 20, 2016, 1:50 pm
As long as your dog doesn't have fleas, and you clean up after it.

maradnu
December 2, 2016, 12:34 pm
That is not my dog

[Eureka]

"Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved. " — Peter Ustinov

JenDiaz72
January 6, 2015, 9:34 am
foreplay... foreplay.... foreplay

montyb
July 5, 2015, 2:26 pm
I like to take it gradually; oneplay, twoplay...

LLapp
November 3, 2015, 11:01 am
As a wise friend once said, foreplay begins with taking out the garbage.

LLapp
September 30, 2017, 6:01 pm
And then, of course, coming back in the house again.

montyb
July 10, 2019, 9:57 pm
Sans garbage?

LLapp
February 26, 2020, 6:05 pm
Yes. Bringing the garbage back into the house would definitely kill the mood.

blueladyblue
April 19, 2020, 7:17 pm
Unless you're into that sort of thing.

abra
May 17, 2020, 7:54 pm
What two consenting adults do with their garbage is not our business.

marnita
January 8, 2021, 7:16 pm
Lol, Abra.

jbb33054
February 16, 2021, 4:33 pm
115

Synonymous
October 31, 2021, 4:35 pm
One mans garbage is another mans foreplay.

universalmom
January 19, 2022, 7:57 pm
LOL all of you

imsoeasy
August 24, 2022, 1:49 am
These are XXX rated comments.

[Eureka]

"Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality - the other, a matter of time." — Marabel Morgan

montyb
March 20, 2020, 12:39 pm
They must be fraternal twins because they really don’t resemble one another.

pickleball
April 10, 2020, 12:37 pm
waldo

montyb
June 13, 2020, 9:25 pm
Nor do they resemble Waldo — wherever he is.

Synonymous
November 12, 2021, 12:30 pm
He's on page 7 near the bottom right corner.

[LLapp]

"Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult." — Somerset Maugham

sznndenise
September 18, 2016, 8:08 pm
Cotton sense.

Persephone59
June 26, 2017, 1:56 am
No, you're thinking of Faulkner, from the South.

Eureka
October 27, 2018, 7:19 am
Does anyone feel the pilgrimage of life is not too difficult?

Fudi
July 22, 2020, 7:49 pm
George Clooney, I bet.

LLapp
September 18, 2020, 12:58 am
Yeah, definitely.

abra
September 13, 2021, 8:25 pm
LOL.

[LLapp]

Rasbury's wrap-up is perfect!

"An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh." — Will Rogers

countessofmontecry
November 2, 2010, 7:32 pm
Sometimes a well-placed banana peel ...

skoogie2
July 21, 2013, 12:12 am
True...now fruits can make people laugh...but vegetables? I don't know..

universalmom
February 8, 2014, 10:57 am
squash can grow in funny shapes...I've seen it on the internet

Quizzical
July 10, 2014, 5:09 am
Not a vegetable, but there is a little plant that, when burned, makes people act funny.

mikehallbackhoe
January 16, 2017, 6:52 pm
stick a green bean up your nose and kids will laugh every time

Beagle
May 12, 2017, 5:33 am
Kumquat. That's funny.

marnita
May 15, 2017, 3:36 am
But a kumquat is a fruit.

killdozer
November 17, 2018, 11:07 am
Rutabaga is kind of a funny word.

abra
February 11, 2019, 2:05 pm
Pumpkins turned into jack-o-lanterns can make kids laugh.

imsoeasy
June 16, 2019, 11:49 am
"Palgrave, in his great work on central and eastern Arabia, mentions a curious plant of that country, the seeds of which produce effects analogous to those of laughing gas. These seeds grow in pods, three in each pod, are perfectly black in color and about the size of common soup beans. If pulverized and taken in small doses these seeds have a most remarkable effect. The person to whom the dose has been administered soon begins to laugh very boisterously and to sing and dance in a truly idiotic fashion. He soon falls asleep, and when he awakens remembers nothing of the demonstration made while under their influence of the singular drug." - The Sacred Heart Review, Volume 10, Number 6, 1 July 1893

LLapp
March 1, 2021, 4:07 am
Imsoeasy, what's the plant?! I'm so curious.

30RatsinaCoat
March 2, 2021, 10:20 am
i reckon turnips are pretty funny

Wordigo
August 18, 2021, 9:51 pm
LLapp, my guess is that the plant is khat. (link) “Addiction experts in psychiatry, chemistry, pharmacology, forensic science, epidemiology, and the police and legal services engaged in delphic analysis regarding 20 popular recreational drugs. Khat was ranked 17th in dependence, 20th in physical harm, and 20th in social harm.[25] Khat consumption induces mild euphoria and excitement, similar to that conferred by strong coffee.[1][26] Individuals become very talkative under the influence of the plant. Animal testing has shown that khat causes an increase in motoric activity.[26] The effects of oral administration of cathinone occur more rapidly than the effects of amphetamine pills; roughly 15 minutes as compared to 30 minutes in amphetamine.[medical citation needed] Khat can induce manic behaviours and hyperactivity, similar in effects to those produced by amphetamine.”

rasbury
May 18, 2023, 11:11 am
So, fruits can make us laugh just looking at them or talking about them, but vegetables can only make us laugh if they contain drugs. That's why Carmen Miranda wore hats with lots of fruits, but no vegetables. Thanks to her, we all have the right to wear fruit on our heads (known as our Miranda rights).

[Eureka]

"Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. " — Publilius Syrus


CarpeLanam
June 14, 2019, 10:28 am
"Audendo virtus crescit, tardando timor."


blueladyblue
August 19, 2019, 2:29 pm
I love it when you speak your native tongue, Carpe. Since I took 3 yrs of Latin way back when in Catholic high school and am practically an expert, let me have a go at translating: I hear the virtue rising; I am a tardy clock.

[montyb]

Plus the likelihood that new comments were added to the thread.