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  • That time Miss Piggy got us all discussing artichokes, among other things....

    "After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking thirty or forty postage stamps."
    — Miss Piggy

    wvwoman
    October 21, 2013, 5:08 pm
    ha ha--well said, miss piggy!

    locodad
    November 4, 2013, 5:20 pm
    I heard that kermit is suing you mr. baron because you haven't put any of his quotes.

    chopstix
    February 2, 2014, 5:18 pm
    "It's not easy being green." - Kermit the Frog p.s., who cares about the artichoke? It's just there to hold all the butter and mayonnaise!

    cindidido
    March 29, 2014, 1:23 pm
    Chopstix understands artichokes!

    LLapp
    September 6, 2014, 12:27 pm
    "What? No Wikipiggia profile for moi?" (link)

    marnita
    April 12, 2015, 4:13 pm
    I love artichokes! And I eat them without butter or mayonnaise.

    kb83
    July 4, 2015, 5:14 am
    I love artichokes too, but they are an aioli or butter delivery device as well.

    marnita
    October 3, 2016, 6:32 am
    Artichoke dip - yum!

    darkyr
    February 24, 2017, 10:22 am
    Mmmmm. Postage stamps. Now I'm hungry.

    RustySkipper
    June 24, 2017, 2:42 pm
    My stamp collection album is right next to my artichoke collection album.

    marnita
    September 6, 2017, 7:06 am
    But now you don't have to lick the stamps. No food value at all. And I would certainly rather have an artichoke dip than a postage stamp dip.

    Persephone59
    December 26, 2017, 6:22 am
    I wholeheartedly agree with Miss Piggy. Artichokes are a waste of time.

    blueladyblue
    January 23, 2018, 11:23 am
    Miss Piggy is sow very wise.

    badbob
    March 8, 2018, 9:50 am
    spinach artichoke dip with pita or lavash bread

    abra
    October 30, 2018, 6:56 pm
    I've never had one, but if I did, I'd probably do butter but no mayo.

    SippyGurl
    February 19, 2019, 5:02 am
    mmm... artichoke balls

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    • That time when things got "silly-us".

      "There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality."
      — Seneca

      Altoid701
      June 16, 2012, 10:11 pm
      lubilius/lupilius/licilius ARGH

      chopstix
      April 26, 2013, 4:44 am
      me too altoid

      bazinga
      September 29, 2013, 2:41 pm
      Lucilious is difficult to come up with when all you can think of is Horatio.....

      universalmom
      June 17, 2014, 9:48 am
      "Little Lucius"

      figmo
      July 7, 2014, 12:58 pm
      Didn't they have a TV show called "I Love Lucilius?"

      dovid1946
      May 22, 2015, 2:42 am
      yes, it was on the same network that the Romans tuned in to see the Caesars- Julius, Octavius, and Sid

      SippyGurl
      October 20, 2016, 9:56 am
      lucilius im home

      LLapp
      April 6, 2017, 7:02 am
      Seneca's got some 'splaining to do.

      seastar228
      September 3, 2017, 3:10 pm
      Ricky's out. Seneca's in.

      tclcac
      November 9, 2018, 5:47 pm
      We are a nation full of anxiety sufferers! Think how bad it would be if we had people running around with the names of "Lucilius" and "Annaeus" - please forgive me if that is your name! :-)

      abra
      January 16, 2019, 10:31 am
      Lucilius took me three tries.

      Icky
      June 16, 2019, 10:40 pm
      Happily I though of Locutus of Borg and got it on my second try.

      killdozer
      August 17, 2019, 10:08 pm
      You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucilius.

      Elephino
      October 10, 2019, 11:36 am
      Was he talking to himself?

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      • Maybe it's late and I'm punchy, but I laughed pretty hard at this....

        "Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills." — C. Neil Strait

        kat
        April 4, 2009, 6:02 pm
        busyness!!! That messed me up!

        saipanwriter
        June 17, 2009, 5:16 am
        Busyness?!!

        bansaisequoia
        June 20, 2009, 1:49 am
        This quote has definitely interfered with my pursuit of happyness.

        kat
        July 10, 2009, 4:16 pm
        It did it again! Crap!!!!

        kat
        February 3, 2010, 4:17 pm
        I remembered the 'y' this time, but it still took me 43 seconds. Crap!

        kat
        February 21, 2010, 7:26 pm
        And 64 seconds this time! Crap I say!

        bansaisequoia
        August 11, 2011, 3:29 pm
        23 FTW!

        abra
        May 2, 2012, 10:05 pm
        BUSYNESS! phew, finally got it.

        abra
        July 18, 2013, 1:03 am
        I can't believe that I was here before, and I didn't remember "busyness". AARGH

        SippyGirl
        August 4, 2013, 3:21 pm
        had to google the curiosity away - see where i was going wrong... busyness. 262 seconds

        puzzleme
        September 24, 2013, 8:13 pm
        In future, I must make it my business to remembeer busyness!

        Allen
        January 9, 2014, 8:30 am
        I'm too busi to worry about it.

        beerfan95
        April 3, 2014, 1:25 pm
        Did anyone else have trouble with busyness?

        wvwoman
        April 10, 2014, 4:42 pm
        gee, no, beerfan95--did you?

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        • What happens when you offer a website full of introverts a hug . . .


          "A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange." — Unattributed

          saipanwriter
          July 31, 2012, 3:18 am
          Gag me. Greeting card blather. Ick.

          montyb
          July 2, 2013, 1:15 am
          Try it with "hog" instead of "hug".

          jnoodles
          August 7, 2013, 3:18 pm
          Who would exchange a hog? And for what? A marmot?

          universalmom
          April 28, 2014, 2:07 pm
          well, for some bacon and pork chops obviously!

          cryptospiridiagram
          March 5, 2016, 7:47 am
          For another hog. You just go down to HogCon and show him off.

          marnita
          April 7, 2016, 7:51 am
          How does one size of a hug fit all sizes of people?

          Nautilus
          June 9, 2017, 1:24 am
          A hag is a great gift, too. Not so easy to exchange though.

          mmfs83
          November 26, 2017, 4:16 am
          I almost went with rug. I guess I should think about vacuuming. But I'm not doing that until all the holiday decorating is done. In the meantime, I'll do cryptograms.

          Persephone59
          January 8, 2018, 6:54 pm
          I love that phrase, "I should think about...". That means it hasn't gotten anywhere NEAR the to do list yet!

          marnita
          June 9, 2018, 12:40 pm
          What good does it do to think about vacuuming? If I thought about it, I would never do it.

          NotTooOld
          November 18, 2018, 6:21 am
          Thinking about vacuuming is a great way to get cryptograms done.

          Eureka
          March 22, 2019, 12:46 pm
          Vacuuming is the great "double u" word!

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          • "It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ." — Wystan Hugh Auden

            PianoManGidley
            February 17, 2011, 11:54 am
            Shouldn't it be "...AND a good deal..."?

            montyb
            July 8, 2013, 3:00 pm
            The syntax is typically British.

            LLapp
            February 5, 2015, 9:26 am
            The construction is a quasi-poetic device that's used frequently in written English. Plus, Auden was a poet, so he has a license.

            maradnu
            October 14, 2016, 3:19 pm
            I heard his license was revoked for drunken rhyming.

            badbob
            June 26, 2017, 6:14 am
            step out of the car Mr Auden and put your nose on the roof

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            • NotTooOld speaks for us all....

              "We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods." — Seneca


              NotTooOld
              April 10, 2019, 10:11 am
              I pray to lose weight but I really want to eat more mashed potatoes.

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              • "Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly."
                — Saint Francis de Sales

                kjmcaj
                April 8, 2013, 8:13 pm
                163 seconds
                Barnabas
                March 31, 2014, 5:48 pm
                Unless, of course, you're a serial killer.
                montyb
                November 6, 2016, 2:05 pm
                I can kill a box of cereal in 4 days.
                LLapp
                January 7, 2017, 5:10 pm
                It worked for Popeye: (link)
                tavi5280
                February 7, 2017, 6:33 am
                I don't see why I couldn't do it "fervently" ( except the "N" on 2 different letters - but hey, nobody's perfect
                pj48
                November 6, 2017, 5:58 am
                I can kill a bottle of Malbec in 2, monty.
                writeon
                February 23, 2018, 3:03 am
                You could be perfect with not wishing to be anything.
                abra
                June 18, 2018, 10:05 am
                Gotcha, St Francis, I've got this one covered. I am me to a Tee.
                oddcouple
                June 22, 2018, 11:04 pm
                Or like the sweet potato said to the stuffing "I yam what I yam".
                BriddlesBob
                December 13, 2018, 6:23 am
                "But that's not very a-pealing," Mr. Potato.
                pickleball
                August 6, 2019, 7:02 pm
                i yam what i yam
                jbb33054
                September 6, 2019, 12:41 pm
                59
                jbb33054
                September 22, 2019, 6:50 pm
                61
                momof7
                October 23, 2019, 4:08 pm
                So far, I've done it better than anyone else.

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                • "The whole problem is to establish communication with one's self." — E. B. White

                  maradnu
                  November 25, 2009, 12:07 am
                  Hey! Are you in there? I wanna talk.

                  bansaisequoia
                  December 16, 2009, 3:33 am
                  Brought to you by the world wide web: (link)
                  https://mightyredpen.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/charlottes-web.jpg














                  montyb
                  April 7, 2014, 12:22 pm
                  All I ever get is a busy signal.

                  montyb
                  July 7, 2014, 4:08 pm
                  And the roaming charges....

                  LLapp
                  June 9, 2016, 9:00 pm
                  My self called me "some pig." Not sure if that's a compliment or what.

                  Spellbinder44
                  October 18, 2016, 2:45 pm
                  Solved the crypto and tapped "Reset" button instead of "Check it" button. Communicated expletive laden message to oneself , succesfully.

                  maradnu
                  October 14, 2017, 5:08 am
                  I tried calling repeatedly. My self blocked my number, won't call back or answer texts or emails.

                  badbob
                  October 30, 2018, 7:38 pm
                  self and i aren't speaking right now

                  badbob
                  October 6, 2019, 8:12 pm
                  OK we are talking but i finally realize what a loser he is.

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                  • Sometimes a rhetorical question demands an answer.Enter Redforce.

                    "The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death."
                    — Oscar Wilde

                    LLapp
                    November 17, 2016, 5:40 pm
                    How do you know which mystery is bigger? How do you measure a mystery?

                    Redforce
                    December 6, 2018, 6:14 am
                    Well, LLapp, the Imperial British unit is the Holmes. 1 Holmes = 2.25 minor clues. It takes an average of 2 KiloHolmes to solve a major mystery. The Belgian unit is the Poirot, which is roughly 1H = 1.62P. Comparatively, the American measurement unit the Columbo is 1H = 1.98C. Clouseaus were briefly used by the French, but fell out of favor since calculations tend to be full of mistakes.

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                    • imsoeasy proves monty's point....

                      "The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement." — Unattributed

                      Lurker
                      May 5, 2010, 1:57 pm
                      Why is there a comma?

                      montyb
                      August 12, 2013, 12:51 am
                      To leave some room for improvement.

                      marnita
                      June 2, 2014, 9:22 am
                      My favorite part of doing cryptograms is Monty's comments.

                      LLapp
                      March 1, 2015, 11:15 am
                      ERROR: Please delete the comma!

                      universalmom
                      March 25, 2015, 8:20 am
                      Hahaha monty

                      montyb
                      October 13, 2017, 1:38 pm
                      Don't remove the comma! That would ruin my joke!

                      tgreen517
                      September 7, 2018, 8:33 pm
                      The comma is gone, but the joke is still funny!

                      imsoeasy
                      July 7, 2019, 10:13 pm
                      What joke?
                      Last edited by LLapp; 11-26-2019, 02:37 AM. Reason: Add a heading.

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                      • "Isn't it funny how we'll look out the window at the moon, and then we notice it's not the moon but a streetlight?" — Jack Handey

                        Prezkot
                        July 18, 2014, 4:54 am
                        What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the streetlight? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the streetlight, Mary.

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                        • "It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go." — George Washington

                          mmfs83 on November 8, 2016, 3:17 am
                          Did anyone else have hell instead of well?

                          LLapp on December 30, 2018, 8:09 pm
                          Yes, but not while I was solving the quote.

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                          • "The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. "
                            — Frederick W. Robertson


                            badbob
                            January 12, 2016, 11:37 am
                            feel truly what?
                            LLapp
                            January 25, 2016, 1:17 pm
                            Hello, you have reached the Office of Poetry. To hear rhyming iambic pentameter, please press 1.
                            montyb
                            March 28, 2016, 8:18 am
                            To hear lecherous limericks, press 2.
                            abra
                            July 3, 2016, 9:27 am
                            "The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." -- Robert Frost So THIS must be the office he was talking about.
                            universalmom
                            July 8, 2016, 3:20 pm
                            Is that anywhere near the Ministry of Silly Walks?
                            kb83
                            February 13, 2017, 8:44 am
                            Thanks, LLapp. The poet is "in."
                            Persephone59
                            January 2, 2018, 7:01 pm
                            Soothing, esoteric haiku is option 3.
                            vintage38
                            March 15, 2018, 6:31 am
                            33 seconds
                            Eureka
                            July 18, 2019, 12:09 pm
                            Press zero to hear free verse from our operator.
                            LLapp
                            July 26, 2019, 10:58 pm
                            Press the star key to hear any of these options accompanied by bongos.

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                            • "No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow."
                              — Proverb

                              greenacres
                              May 2, 2011, 12:28 am
                              Not where I live!
                              wvwoman
                              October 13, 2012, 4:09 am
                              where are you, greenacres?
                              ulua
                              April 30, 2014, 6:25 am
                              green acres is the place to be!
                              abra
                              December 1, 2016, 3:00 pm
                              Farm livin' is the life for me --
                              autumngirl
                              February 27, 2017, 3:22 pm
                              land spreadin out so far and wide...
                              wshanley@sbcglobal
                              April 27, 2017, 4:54 am
                              Today we are calling it global warming.
                              slow1
                              August 24, 2017, 7:52 am
                              Those comments appear to be one right after the other, but they are years apart. Fun!
                              kahvecowgirl
                              June 1, 2018, 10:00 am
                              "...and Winter gave Spring and Summer a miss and went straight on into Autumn"

                              BTW, greenacres is from North Dakota.

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                              • The one where montyb sweetly replies to pootie49, many years later. (BTW, does anyone know who p7 is?)

                                "It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed."
                                — Baltasar Gracian


                                LiveLoveLaugh
                                April 16, 2010, 11:45 pm
                                I often borrow other people's brains

                                bansaisequoia
                                October 9, 2010, 5:02 pm
                                "Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking."--Ray Bolger

                                pootie49
                                July 10, 2012, 3:21 pm
                                bansai, p7 and montyb...can i borrow your brains for a month? i will wash them and return them good as new...k thanks.

                                bansaisequoia
                                October 7, 2012, 2:01 am
                                You can't wash my brain. My thoughts are too dirty.

                                chopstix
                                April 29, 2013, 3:07 pm
                                mmmm.... brains....

                                universalmom
                                July 1, 2014, 3:09 pm
                                dang it chopstix, you stole my line!

                                badbob
                                July 24, 2017, 9:57 am
                                apparently you can live without bruins

                                Persephone59
                                August 19, 2017, 12:38 am
                                You can see that Gracian didn't have to borrow other people's brains, because he had a fine Thinking Cap.

                                GtrZan
                                January 8, 2018, 6:29 am
                                Dr. Frankenstein, I presume?

                                maradnu
                                February 2, 2018, 1:03 pm
                                Dr. Frankenstein: Ah! Very good. Would you mind telling me whose brain I DID put in? Igor: Then you won't be angry? Dr. Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry. Igor: Abby someone. Dr. Frankenstein: Abby someone. Abby who? Igor: Abby... Normal.

                                Montyb
                                August 4, 2018, 6:23 am
                                (I wish I had gotten this puzzle while Pootie was still with us. I think she would have enjoyed this response.) No starch, please.

                                DrCryptell
                                October 16, 2018, 12:18 am
                                When you borrow a brain is there a checkout and return time? What if you go past the deadline? Does the brain expire?


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