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    • That time when Unattributed was dead wrong.

      "A cemetery is the only place where people don't try to keep up with the Joneses. "
      — Unattributed

      susanj512
      February 21, 2009, 7:13 pm
      weird!!!

      bansaisequoia
      April 12, 2010, 10:04 pm
      My monument's bigger than your monument.

      universalmom
      September 23, 2014, 2:33 pm
      compensation

      montyb
      January 3, 2015, 11:21 am
      Epitaph envy, Bansai?

      Quizzical
      January 5, 2015, 3:11 pm
      The Joneses are a lot easier to keep up with in there. I knew a lady that used to say of her deceased husband, "At least I know where he is every night now."

      skeeter
      March 25, 2017, 8:10 am
      They just keep up with the boneses.

      maradnu
      November 12, 2017, 2:22 pm
      Bet me. Look at those who have very fancy monuments.

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      • Related to Quizzical's quote above, I have a friend who had a no-goodnik (if ever there was one - an abusive drunk/drug addict often in trouble with the law and who cost her a lot more money than he ever contributed to their household) for a husband for a time when she was young - she had two kids with him before he left. A few years later- she'd divorced him using legal reasons of abandonment by then - she got a call from social security saying he'd been found dead (drowned in a puddle after a bar fight - I know, I know, it's like a melodramatic crime novel) and that she was entitled to social security for her kids. She always said that "being dead was the best job he'd ever had." Oh ... there is a happy ending - a few years after that, she met and fell in love with a very nice sane, responsible fellow and they've lived more-or-less happily ever after since ... though her two kids from that marriage (now young adults) didn't fare so well, I'm afraid.

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        • Originally posted by Fudi View Post
          Related to Quizzical's quote above, I have a friend who had a no-goodnik (if ever there was one - an abusive drunk/drug addict often in trouble with the law and who cost her a lot more money than he ever contributed to their household) for a husband for a time when she was young - she had two kids with him before he left. A few years later- she'd divorced him using legal reasons of abandonment by then - she got a call from social security saying he'd been found dead (drowned in a puddle after a bar fight - I know, I know, it's like a melodramatic crime novel) and that she was entitled to social security for her kids. She always said that "being dead was the best job he'd ever had." Oh ... there is a happy ending - a few years after that, she met and fell in love with a very nice sane, responsible fellow and they've lived more-or-less happily ever after since ... though her two kids from that marriage (now young adults) didn't fare so well, I'm afraid.
          Wow, what a strange turn of events, Fudi. I hope her kids are able to sort their lives out and not follow in their dad's footsteps.

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          • There once were two evil brothers. They were rich and used their money to keep their evil ways from the public eye. They attended the same temple, and to everyone else, they appeared to be perfect Jews.

            One day, their rabbi retired and a new one was hired. Not only could the new rabbi see right through the brothers' deceptions, but he also spoke well and true about it. Due to the rabbi's honesty and integrity, the temple's membership grew in numbers. Eventually, a fundraising campaign was started to build a much bigger temple.

            All of a sudden, one of the brothers died. The remaining brother sought out the new rabbi the day before the funeral and handed him a check for the amount needed to complete the new building. He held the check for the rabbi to see.

            "I have only one condition," he said. "At the funeral, you must say my brother was a mensch. You must say those exact words."

            After some thought, the rabbi gave his word and took the check. He cashed it immediately.

            At the funeral the next day, however, the rabbi did not hold back. "He was an evil man," he said about the dead brother. "He cheated on his wife and abused his family. Never once did he commit an unselfish act." He railed on and on about the deceased. After nearly a half hour of the evil truth, the rabbi paused and shrugged his shoulders. Finally, he said, "But compared to his brother, he was a mensch."

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            • I'd never heard Maradnu's version. In the story I heard back when I was in college, the brother who survived was shopping for a preacher who would call the deceased man a saint. After approaching every church in town, one pastor finally agreed to call the brother a saint for $10 thousand. The rest of the pastors in town were shocked and attended the funeral just to see for themselves how this pastor could be so dishonest. The pastor in his eulogy carried on for several minutes as to the evils and lies of the deceased brother. Looking straight at the survivor, he said "Jack Thompson was the most evil person I ever knew, but compared to his brother, he was a saint."

              Same joke, different religion. Not sure which version is funnier.

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              • "Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."
                — Abbe Dimnet

                Dynamite
                March 1, 2009, 8:13 pm
                Never a truer quote!
                badfrog
                April 14, 2009, 4:15 pm
                The author is Ernest Dimnet
                bansaisequoia
                June 23, 2009, 1:18 pm
                Abbe is a title for a French clergyman.
                montyb
                December 24, 2012, 6:33 pm
                So if one writes to him for advice, one should write to "Dear Abbe"?
                agatha
                May 26, 2013, 12:59 am
                That's truly funny, monty.
                agatha
                May 26, 2013, 1:05 am
                or should I say Monte
                abracadebra
                February 23, 2015, 2:10 pm
                I believe as long as the both sides are equally balanced then it is morally excepted behavioural learning therapy.
                LLapp
                February 25, 2015, 6:51 am
                How did agatha do that?
                wvwoman
                July 25, 2015, 4:24 pm
                she got the quote twice in one night, llapp.
                marnita
                March 4, 2016, 8:40 am
                I think it is possible to leave two comments, one right after the other, as long as one has not left the page. Maybe I will try it.
                marnita
                October 31, 2016, 10:30 am
                Well, I think it used to be possible, but I guess not any more.
                darkyr
                December 22, 2016, 4:42 am
                I'll just leave the one comment and I think we will all feel better for it.
                LLapp
                February 28, 2017, 2:01 pm
                Look! I made it back! Took a year and a half, but it worked.
                LLapp
                October 18, 2018, 5:46 pm
                ^^?? Okay it was 2 years.

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                • "Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife. "
                  — Proverb


                  agatha
                  January 1, 2011, 3:54 pm
                  Oh, that man again!
                  montyb
                  October 20, 2012, 10:44 pm
                  That's it. I'm outta here!
                  chopstix
                  May 8, 2013, 6:24 pm
                  "The roof's leaking AGAIN 'cause ya didn't patch it good last time!" she exclaimed after lighting up.
                  montyb
                  July 22, 2014, 1:00 pm
                  It isn't "smoldering wife"? I have got to get new glasses.
                  LLapp
                  January 1, 2015, 9:03 pm
                  Not a scalding wife?
                  saipanwriter
                  February 9, 2015, 3:21 am
                  Because if the roof is leaking, it's going to be much better outdoors...
                  kb83
                  February 18, 2015, 4:47 am
                  great comments!
                  marnita
                  May 28, 2016, 7:52 am
                  He will probably have to go outdoors to fix the roof, especially if he wants to forestall the wife's scolding.
                  universalmom
                  May 28, 2016, 12:12 pm
                  Hahaha I had smoldering wife too, or I thought I did
                  abra
                  June 22, 2017, 6:47 pm
                  I thought I had smoldering wife, but when I looked it was actually "smolding". I would think maybe the smoldering wife would keep him indoors.

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                  • "Caution is a most valuable asset in fishing, especially if you are the fish. "
                    — Unattributed

                    bansaisequoia
                    February 26, 2011, 12:19 pm
                    This applies to e-mail, too.
                    bazinga
                    October 24, 2012, 8:00 pm
                    and phishing
                    dovid1946
                    February 14, 2015, 9:21 am
                    catch any of those gefilte fish lately?
                    LLapp
                    July 1, 2016, 8:41 pm
                    Gefilte phishing is the worst kind.
                    ruxpin66
                    July 11, 2016, 7:58 am
                    I laugh every time I see your screen name, bazinga. Love it!
                    obsessedreader8
                    July 30, 2016, 2:31 am
                    49 seconds.
                    darkyr
                    August 16, 2017, 9:51 am
                    Though there is nothing like a red herring to keep you busy while you are reading.
                    skeeter
                    April 1, 2019, 3:27 pm
                    I'll mullet over and get back to you.

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                    • That time when all the comments were pure gold.

                      "Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect."
                      — Chinese Proverb

                      judy100
                      March 18, 2015, 2:32 am
                      24K gold is pure.

                      darkyr
                      January 9, 2017, 3:02 am
                      Then it is in direct violation of Chinese Proverbs and must be stopped immediately.

                      writeon
                      May 25, 2017, 9:05 pm
                      So if gold is pure, then people are perfect, and I don't have to keep going to the gym.

                      Elephino
                      August 14, 2018, 4:56 pm
                      Right on, writeon!

                      MadDoctor
                      October 31, 2018, 8:00 pm
                      24K gold is 99.99% pure. Almost, but not quite.

                      montyb
                      December 1, 2018, 5:43 am
                      Writeon, You could go to Gold's Gym.

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                      • "When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats." — Claude Swanson

                        BrainCellKeeper
                        September 1, 2014, 7:43 am
                        That's what they did on the Titanic.

                        Hash
                        October 2, 2014, 12:28 am
                        Yeah, why go down alone?

                        susanith
                        July 8, 2017, 12:41 pm
                        Alas, I had trouble with upper. Did they really follow the rats on the Titanic?

                        Queethebean
                        June 9, 2018, 9:58 am
                        Only the first class rats.

                        DavidinKenai
                        August 3, 2018, 11:16 am
                        To the lobsters in the kitchen, the sinking of the Titanic was a miracle.

                        badbob
                        July 5, 2019, 3:01 pm
                        how do you think the unthinkable? with an ithberg

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                        • "Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit."
                          — Augustus William Hare

                          fishbum
                          June 3, 2014, 6:25 pm
                          Usually the hyphen is a given character.
                          dovid1946
                          May 26, 2015, 3:39 am
                          The biography failed to mention that Mr. Hare was a distant cousin to Bugs Bunny, esq.
                          damsel22
                          June 28, 2015, 8:55 am
                          I think this is the first time I have ever seen the word "hyphen" in a quote.
                          tgreen517
                          November 13, 2015, 8:19 pm
                          I think life is more of an ! than a -
                          kb83
                          March 29, 2016, 3:57 am
                          If a German agreed with him, he/she would say, "Hear, hear, Herr Hare."
                          debzhaus
                          April 3, 2016, 6:09 am
                          hahaha, "hear hear, Herr Hare"
                          318WOZ
                          May 30, 2019, 12:53 am
                          I kind of like the quotation, but the comments are delightful.
                          LLapp
                          July 23, 2019, 10:32 pm
                          If a German liked his joke, he/she would say, "Hear, hear, Herr Hare, har har har."

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                          • "When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. "
                            — Germaine de Stael

                            montyb
                            March 18, 2015, 12:43 pm
                            All right! Let's hear it for those days of immorality. Now where did I put my glasses?
                            dovid1946
                            May 6, 2015, 12:13 pm
                            I think I found your glasses, monty. You can see them the next time you solve a crypto from Carl Jung. He has them on his forehead.
                            oddcouple
                            May 9, 2015, 2:04 am
                            l right! I'm not gettnig old, just immortal
                            oddcouple
                            December 11, 2015, 3:10 pm
                            Wow! Can't believe my typos from last time. Must have been late at night.
                            Persephone59
                            May 4, 2019, 11:12 pm
                            No, oddcouple, you really are just getting closer to immortality.

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                            • "The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before." — Gilbert Chesterton

                              kjmcaj
                              January 28, 2013, 5:27 pm
                              I accidentally do that very often- and it sucks !!

                              kb83
                              March 26, 2015, 9:20 am
                              Piet Hein: "'It ought to be plain how little you gain by getting excited and vexed. You'll always be late for the previous train, and always on time for the next.'

                              judy100
                              February 17, 2017, 10:34 pm
                              Learned from missing a flight

                              Eureka
                              February 26, 2019, 10:57 pm
                              I like it, kb83!

                              badbob
                              July 7, 2019, 7:48 am
                              i am so slow that i always come in first in the race behind me

                              badbob
                              July 24, 2019, 2:46 am
                              my ancestors came over on the Juneflower

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                              • "Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years."
                                — Robert Oxton Bolt

                                PianoManGidley
                                February 19, 2011, 4:20 pm
                                Ah, the old ball and threads!
                                chopstix
                                March 2, 2014, 8:12 am
                                haha!
                                montyb
                                May 11, 2015, 3:20 pm
                                Or a needle and chain.
                                maradnu
                                September 7, 2016, 3:24 pm
                                I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider web is fastening my ankle to a stone. - Leonard Cohen
                                kb83
                                April 25, 2017, 2:13 am
                                mine is sew-sew.
                                kb83
                                August 27, 2018, 7:27 am
                                On the mend.
                                LLapp
                                July 9, 2019, 4:06 am
                                Quit needling me.

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