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[montyb]

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.

[Eureka]

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

[oddcouple]

"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?

[montyb]

"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.

[munchlet]

"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.

[LLapp]

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

montyb
March 19, 2014, 2:54 pm
At last -- immortality!

[LLapp]

"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?

[oddcouple]

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?

[LLapp]

"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?

[montyb]

"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.

[LLapp]

"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.

[LLapp]

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.

[LLapp]

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.

[LLapp]

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!

[BriddlesBob]

My lord, what have I created?

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade."
— Rabindranath Tagore

montyb on 2012-08-28 00:58:18
I can't quite get a handle on this one.

wvwoman on 2012-12-06 17:16:45
the full quote is: "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it." is that helpful? (it doesn't help me much.)

geeko321 on 2013-10-21 09:17:20
Monty's comment was a joke. And a quite clever one I might add.

universalmom on 2014-06-09 12:46:46
(can't believe I even got here…:P)

chopstix on 2014-07-03 06:38:51
hahahahaha to the thread of the first 3 comments!

kb83 on 2014-10-20 06:46:57
As a user of logic, I feel shafted.

tjsrc on 2015-02-19 06:39:03
And a mind without any logic is like a knife with no blade: useless.

LLapp on 2015-07-04 14:02:36
And a mind all anecdotal evidence is a knife all handle. (What a fun metaphor -- it can work all kinds of ways.)

judy100 on 2015-07-27 12:14:47
There are many dull logicians.

GtrZan on 2016-05-06 04:47:15
a) I really like this quote. b) I really like montyb's comment, very punny. c) I got nuthin' to add but Mr Spock would love this conversation

I don't get the point!