Classic Comments on the Quote

[LLapp]

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet - the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot." — Salvador Dali

ernests
August 23, 2018, 6:41 pm
The third was a poet again, but this time writing a comic verse about the second guy. The fourth was just some drunk guy. After that, pretty much everyone was doing it for a while before it went out of fashion and comparing foreheads to alabaster became the in thing.

[Fudi]

"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it. A child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
— Cyril Connolly

LLapp
April 3, 2015, 7:20 pm
Unless the child is a girl.
LLapp
January 9, 2016, 3:56 pm
As I used to tell my daughter, "Stop being afraid of noises, or you'll grow up to be a man!"
abra
June 3, 2019, 2:22 am
Right, LLapp, He should have said ''an adult', or a ''boy'' who fears noise''.
montyb
October 22, 2019, 2:50 pm
Would you all please pipe down? Geez, who can solve cryptograms with this cacophony all around?

[LLapp]

The 59th St. Bridge thread

"Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in." — Augustus William Hare

LLapp
April 27, 2017, 3:33 pm
I liked "dapples" -- very painterly.

Queethebean
September 19, 2017, 12:40 am
I also had dapples.

Persephone59
April 24, 2018, 8:38 pm
I as well. I'm not easily dazzled.

montyb
August 17, 2018, 8:15 am
Let's hear it for all us dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep people. Let the morningtime drop all its petals on us.

abra
December 30, 2018, 6:13 pm
All is groovy. Dappling sounds less painful than dazzling.

LLapp
January 18, 2019, 10:02 pm
Slow down, nanrich! You move too fast.

Eureka
April 8, 2019, 10:50 pm
And that's why I like my transition lenses.

[Eureka]

"I am become death, shatterer of worlds. "
— Julius Robert Oppenheimer

puzzleme
September 4, 2011, 2:03 am
This is not an original Oppenheimer quote. It is from The Bhagavad GÄ«ta and was quoted by Oppenheimer in an interview where he discussed his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

Kgun5
June 14, 2013, 2:33 am
His delivery of it was dynamite, though.

geeko321
February 10, 2014, 8:00 am
Is this grammar correct? Seems awkward.

dovid1946
February 24, 2015, 7:22 am
The bhagavad vita actually includes an account of a nuclear war fought by aliens above the earth milleniia ago.

CarpeLanam
October 12, 2017, 2:44 am
As for the grammar, "become" is a linking verb, meaning the subject and predicate are the same thing. I = Death. I am Death. I (have) become Death. It's similar to the grammar of French "Je suis devenu la mort." (For a transitive verb it would be "J'ai vu...") And there is an interesting article here: (link)

MamaB
March 5, 2018, 1:18 pm
Thanks, Carpe.

DrCryptell
October 5, 2018, 7:57 pm
"I am" is the shortest sentence in the English language, For another verb to follow it is grammatically incorrect. making this difficult to solve.

MamaB
February 21, 2019, 5:04 am
Tell that to the bhagavad vita. I still like Carpe's explanation.

oddcouple
May 11, 2019, 2:26 am
"I am" may be the shortest sentence, but "I do" is the longest.

Queethebean
May 20, 2019, 9:45 pm
And a rim shot for oddcouple!

abra
August 22, 2019, 8:04 pm
Great comment, kgun5.

[montyb]

"Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing."
— Albrecht Dürer

LLapp
October 12, 2018, 11:16 am
I mutter this same exact gripe every morning when I get up and stumble toward the coffeemaker.

[LLapp]

"The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks." — Rupert Murdoch

montyb
January 8, 2016, 3:22 pm
Then the bucks stay with him. So much for trickle-down economics.

kb83
April 6, 2016, 4:32 am
The buck checks with the sign that stops the guy.

Roxanne
November 28, 2018, 5:38 am
This is precisely why I now pay bills online instead of by check. On check-writing day, I used to look up from my kitchen table and there would be a six-point buck standing outside, ripping a hole in the porch screen with his antlers and grunting. This only happened outside of hunting season, mind you.

[LLapp]

"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better." — George Santayana

Johnlocke
April 1, 2019, 9:24 pm
I think Abraxas was my favorite album by him.

[Synonymous]

Laughed out loud...

[LLapp]

"Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." — Unattributed

darkyr
November 18, 2016, 9:46 am
uh-oh. I do this all the time. Why shouldn't I? There really should be a because on these quotes. Now I'll have to wait months before I get an answer, if I get an answer.

darkyr
June 30, 2017, 11:02 am
This time it took me a bit longer because I was actually holding a stone, about to throw it, when I remembered I live in a glass house. How eerie that this was the quote I was solving right at that moment.

TPITTMAN44
May 12, 2019, 7:15 am
Maybe they shouldn't throw orgies either.

[montyb]

Here is a classic stream of consciousness, involving many people and multiple paths, that makes this site so darned enjoyable!

"Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can't taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie."
— Astrid Alauda


fredsevent
December 29, 2011, 4:29 pm
Me like Twinkies. Me no like carrots. Me no like this quote.

billkeiko
January 9, 2013, 8:22 pm
this was my first online crypt. nice website. thanks

montyb
June 3, 2013, 1:06 am
Carrot cake Twinkie?

bansaisequoia
August 20, 2013, 12:49 am
Brilliant idea, monty! We'll fill the carrot cake twinkies with cream cheese frosting and make million$!

skoogie2
November 15, 2013, 3:27 pm
Oh my gosh! I want a carrot cake twinkie!

abra
February 26, 2014, 2:57 pm
I'll just eat the frosting. I don't want to taste all that carrot cake, Earth energy.

maradnu
March 26, 2015, 4:05 pm
I'd rather eat carrots than twinkies. Then again, I'd rather eat fettuccine alfredo than either of those

marnita
June 9, 2015, 6:51 pm
I don't care for Twinkies, but I could definitely go for Monty and Bansai's carrot cake version!

oddcouple
January 16, 2016, 12:38 am
There appears to be no such person as Astrid Alauda, so it very well may be a pseudonym.

abra
March 30, 2016, 9:24 am
I only eat carrots, if they're cut the right way. Three or four inch cross cut pieces for stew, cut length wise with pot roast, julienned for soup, grated for salad, never, ever diced in anything. There are no exceptions to the rules. Well there's one exception, if I'm a guest, eating someone else's cooking. In that case, I will try to discreetly mash them with my fork.

wvwoman
June 30, 2016, 3:23 pm
very interesting, abra! are you that fastidious with other foods?

SwampySox
July 22, 2016, 11:48 am
Gimme carrot cake with 1/2 in cream cheese icing, or carrots out of the garden. (They tasted soo-oo good when we raided gardens as kids.)

oddcouple
August 27, 2016, 10:41 am
This time I tried to taste a parrot. He just squawked.

marnita
September 15, 2016, 11:44 am
I still have a hankering for a carrot cake Twinkie.

SippyGurl
December 10, 2016, 8:36 am
i make carrot bread with lemon icing, mebbe next time ima put a layer of icing in the middle as well

puzzleme
March 8, 2017, 2:55 pm
oddcouple made me guffaw so suddenly I nearly choked on my imaginary carrot cake twinkie. (And I still think Astrud is the twin from whom Robert Brault was separated at birth.)

marnita
June 10, 2017, 3:26 am
No munchin' on the parrots, Odd. We may have to get the Audubon Society after you.

kb83
July 7, 2017, 6:54 am
The twinkie is a primal food. It connects us with every source of energy and harmony in the universe.

phthelen
August 5, 2017, 2:20 pm
Welcome billkeiko. Don't worry, the roomies aren't always this crazy. LOL.

maradnu
September 16, 2017, 2:45 am
Yes, we are

NotTooOld
November 27, 2017, 12:47 pm
I love raw carrots, so crunchy and sweet! Twinkies are yuck!

abra
June 13, 2018, 12:14 pm
Marnita, no, some veggies I avoid entirely, but carrots are the only ones that have ''rules''. Astrid, I think that ''Earth energy'' is actually DIRT. Do you have one of the vegetable brushes?

imsoeasy
February 10, 2019, 1:47 am
Warning! Consuming Twinkies instead of healthful carrots could be a sign of depression which could cause you to do something violent.

darkyr
May 1, 2019, 11:43 am
I really stopped to taste a carrot the other day and it made me think of cream cheese filled twinkies. Now that is some crazy earth energy.

[LLapp]

"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one." — Benjamin Franklin

lertsek
July 3, 2018, 6:58 pm
I wonder how Ben feels about being on our highest denomination of currency.

darkyr
July 31, 2018, 4:15 am
It doesn't make him happy. He was hoping to be on the 20 so he would get out more.

[LLapp]

"Clever people are always the best conversationalists." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

darkyr
June 16, 2016, 10:18 am
My shoe is on backwards.

RustySkipper
February 24, 2018, 4:15 pm
darkyr, that has got to hoethe.

[montyb]

"Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. "
— Robert Green Ingersoll

kb83
August 29, 2017, 10:19 am
In the name of the theory, and of the data, and of the null hypothesis.

[Deanna48]

"The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart." Robert Frost

The power of montyb over us all... LOL (see last comment)


montyb
December 31, 2012, 9:55 pm
I'm kind of a spleen man myself.
Allen
June 26, 2014, 9:50 am
Be still my spleen!
LLapp
August 7, 2016, 2:25 pm
My spleen was in my throat.
maradnu
October 13, 2016, 2:09 pm
Could you spleen that to me?
mikehallbackhoe
November 21, 2016, 5:20 pm
I'm just spleenbroken over this whole affair
Roxanne
December 30, 2016, 5:35 am
I like how you all have gotten right to the spleen of the matter.
abra
January 7, 2017, 12:56 pm
Don't wear your spleen on your sleeve.
marnita
February 16, 2017, 10:18 am
I am impressed by all these spleen-felt comments.
puzzleme
February 21, 2017, 5:22 pm
I wonder if Heart would have had such musical success if they had called themselves Spleen instead.
darkyr
June 22, 2017, 4:57 am
Bless y'alls spleens. These comments have made my day.
Fudi
May 23, 2018, 3:31 am
Spleen-did performance on my part! 39 seconds!
LLapp
May 25, 2018, 3:27 pm
Wow Fudi, that's really fast for a newcomer!
fishbum
July 30, 2018, 4:31 am
I left my spleen in San Francisco after my accident.
LLapp
October 2, 2018, 3:00 pm
This spleen-to-spleen discussion is really spleen-warming.
pj48
December 26, 2018, 3:53 pm
Thank you all, from the bottom of my spleen.
nedzeppelin1453
May 7, 2019, 5:50 pm
I'm chuckling half-spleenedly.
glassguy
July 29, 2019, 9:01 am
All these spleen comments really make my liver quiver!
Disturbed1
November 27, 2019, 1:05 pm
Apparently monty is a bad influence on all of you.

[oddcouple]

Amazed at my own humor on this one!

"Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can't taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie."
— Astrid Alauda


fredsevent
December 29, 2011, 4:29 pm
Me like Twinkies. Me no like carrots. Me no like this quote.
billkeiko
January 9, 2013, 8:22 pm
this was my first online crypt. nice website. thanks
montyb
June 3, 2013, 1:06 am
Carrot cake Twinkie?
bansaisequoia
August 20, 2013, 12:49 am
Brilliant idea, monty! We'll fill the carrot cake twinkies with cream cheese frosting and make million$!
skoogie2
November 15, 2013, 3:27 pm
Oh my gosh! I want a carrot cake twinkie!
abra
February 26, 2014, 2:57 pm
I'll just eat the frosting. I don't want to taste all that carrot cake, Earth energy.
maradnu
March 26, 2015, 4:05 pm
I'd rather eat carrots than twinkies. Then again, I'd rather eat fettuccine alfredo than either of those
marnita
June 9, 2015, 6:51 pm
I don't care for Twinkies, but I could definitely go for Monty and Bansai's carrot cake version!
oddcouple
January 16, 2016, 12:38 am
There appears to be no such person as Astrid Alauda, so it very well may be a pseudonym.
abra
March 30, 2016, 9:24 am
I only eat carrots, if they're cut the right way. Three or four inch cross cut pieces for stew, cut length wise with pot roast, julienned for soup, grated for salad, never, ever diced in anything. There are no exceptions to the rules. Well there's one exception, if I'm a guest, eating someone else's cooking. In that case, I will try to discreetly mash them with my fork.
wvwoman
June 30, 2016, 3:23 pm
very interesting, abra! are you that fastidious with other foods?
SwampySox
July 22, 2016, 11:48 am
Gimme carrot cake with 1/2 in cream cheese icing, or carrots out of the garden. (They tasted soo-oo good when we raided gardens as kids.)
oddcouple
August 27, 2016, 10:41 am
This time I tried to taste a parrot. He just squawked.
marnita
September 15, 2016, 11:44 am
I still have a hankering for a carrot cake Twinkie.
SippyGurl
December 10, 2016, 8:36 am
i make carrot bread with lemon icing, mebbe next time ima put a layer of icing in the middle as well
puzzleme
March 8, 2017, 2:55 pm
oddcouple made me guffaw so suddenly I nearly choked on my imaginary carrot cake twinkie. (And I still think Astrud is the twin from whom Robert Brault was separated at birth.)
marnita
June 10, 2017, 3:26 am
No munchin' on the parrots, Odd. We may have to get the Audubon Society after you.
kb83
July 7, 2017, 6:54 am
The twinkie is a primal food. It connects us with every source of energy and harmony in the universe.
phthelen
August 5, 2017, 2:20 pm
Welcome billkeiko. Don't worry, the roomies aren't always this crazy. LOL.
maradnu
September 16, 2017, 2:45 am
Yes, we are
NotTooOld
November 27, 2017, 12:47 pm
I love raw carrots, so crunchy and sweet! Twinkies are yuck!
abra
June 13, 2018, 12:14 pm
Marnita, no, some veggies I avoid entirely, but carrots are the only ones that have ''rules''. Astrid, I think that ''Earth energy'' is actually DIRT. Do you have one of the vegetable brushes?
imsoeasy
February 10, 2019, 1:47 am
Warning! Consuming Twinkies instead of healthful carrots could be a sign of depression which could cause you to do something violent.
darkyr
May 1, 2019, 11:43 am
I really stopped to taste a carrot the other day and it made me think of cream cheese filled twinkies. Now that is some crazy earth energy.