Classic Comments on the Quote

[LLapp]

To accompany the previous post, here's the original that darkyr tracked line by line.


The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost (1916)

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves, no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

[Fudi]

"A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on."
— Jerry Coleman

Comments on this Puzzle:

rage
March 27, 2012, 9:45 am
I think newspapers will be completely digital before they stop producing pants.
GtrZan
March 14, 2014, 2:20 am
that's just weird
nelnose
May 17, 2016, 3:57 pm
Ahhhhh, freedom.
spacecoyote1966
August 31, 2016, 9:18 am
This is especially true for those of us whose pants are made out of newspaper.
debzhaus
November 23, 2016, 3:41 pm
spacecoyote is funny. almost made me pee my newspaper.
montyb
July 18, 2017, 11:33 pm
My pants are digital...or at least binary.
lertsek
June 12, 2018, 11:21 am
So that's why so many naked people run out on the lawn to get their paper.
318WOZ
February 21, 2019, 3:45 pm
Spacecoyote1966, that's a great cost-saving measure. But I will never switch to digital pants. Nope, not for me.
Queethebean
June 29, 2019, 4:20 pm
I never thought I'd get used to my digital NYT, but I really like it now. Taking a lot longer time to get used to my digital pants.

[Fudi]

I'm not sure that Andy451 gets nearly enough love in this forum and here is a perfect demonstration of why he deserves it:

"Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world."
— Dalai Lama

Andy451
October 17, 2015, 1:50 pm
I went to high school with the guy, and not many people know, but the Dalai Lama is a huge Mets fan. He has a busy schedule, and he doesn't get out to as many games as he used to. Here you can see him at the airport, watching the fifth game of the Mets vs Dodgers championship series. You don't make a great deal of money as a Lama. But being god has its perks sometimes. Now this particular lama is no Yogi Berra, but if I was to ask you, "Who won the fifth game of the Mets vs Dodgers championship series?", could you guess who won? Do you think Pope Francis Sinatra could pull that of? Match these guys playing checkers, doing a hula hoop marathon, telling dirty jokes, playing ping pong, cheating on their taxes, levitating, astral projection, throwing Swiss cheese at a Swiss guard, and then whacking them with a halberd for charity, and I'm telling you the Dalai Lama will win four out of five of these contests every time. He's also a better middle infielder, and I once saw him play Innagoddadavida by Iron Butterfly on the ukelele. This guy rocks!
SwampySox
June 2, 2016, 11:36 am
Great insight. Thanks Andy.
kb83
September 12, 2017, 10:25 am
Hello, Dalai.
Eureka
January 5, 2019, 12:54 pm
You have a very active imagination, Andy.
abra
April 19, 2019, 10:20 pm
But what about prom Andy? Who did you take? Who did the Dali Lama take? Did someone's dad spring for a limo?
lesliecomelastly
June 13, 2019, 2:56 am
What Eureka said.

Side note, sad one ... last night, while playing cryptos, a different Andy451 got some flak from other users, followed by a comment from MamaB, which noted that Andy has passed away and that players here should give him a break. (I didn't know that Andy died and was sorry to hear it.)

[Eureka]

"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".

jnoodles
May 13, 2013, 9:59 am
Surely our opponents couldn't have won on their own account. God is, after all, on our side.

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.

Persephone59
February 3, 2018, 3:54 pm
On the eve of Super Bowl LII, Solzhenitsyn brought up deflategate....

abra
July 30, 2018, 8:24 am
Great comments, especially bansai.

[LLapp]

"He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor." — Benjamin Franklin

puzzleme
August 9, 2015, 7:19 pm
I didn't know he had such a terrible lisp.

[oddcouple]

"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. "
— Ezra Pound


locodad
June 27, 2014, 7:37 am
its against the law to have words like effluvium in the dictionary or at least in a crypto because it mess it up your time
LLapp
March 25, 2015, 1:05 pm
Please don't get up, I'm only effluving through . . .
abra
July 27, 2015, 6:33 pm
For some reason, I knew efffluvium.
maradnu
June 28, 2016, 3:09 pm
He is full of effluvium
MamaB
October 16, 2016, 3:02 am
Fill in the other things first. But do NOT let this create a picture in your mind!
wobray2
October 18, 2016, 12:42 pm
Meet the right people, and it is natural to associate 'humanity' with 'effluvium'
museoffire
January 19, 2017, 3:17 pm
My fastest time ever! 84 seconds
oddcouple
March 4, 2017, 12:21 am
Well, that stinks!
phthelen
August 16, 2017, 7:41 am
Well done, museoffire.
seastar228
November 20, 2017, 1:58 pm
Really slow, but here I am.
mmfs83
July 30, 2018, 3:08 am
I had to try all the remaining letters to get effluvium. We used to live in a village that considered themselves affluent. We old-timers called it effluent because of the failing septic systems.
kb83
February 6, 2019, 3:47 am
And we are each pieces of this?
montyb
November 19, 2019, 7:26 pm
What an arrogant way to say we're all full of s**t.
abra
January 25, 2020, 9:30 pm
I am NOT effluvium.

[Descifrador]

"It's not good to let any kid near a container that has a skull and crossbones on it, because there might be a skeleton costume inside and the kid could put it on and really scare you."
— Jack Handey


maradnu
April 23, 2009, 12:34 am
I suggest we let him open all the containers with skull & crossbones on them.

LiveLoveLaugh
August 28, 2009, 12:15 am
good plan

debzhaus
April 4, 2011, 10:49 pm
I hate it when that happens.

chopstix
December 15, 2012, 4:21 pm
What is it about Jack Handey that evokes so much irritation? I think it's because he seems to think he's being irreverent, when really he's just inane.

Caution
May 16, 2013, 11:29 am
2 in a row from him.

WRQ9
December 6, 2013, 6:51 am
I have to admit, he is off a lot more than on. Not a bad idea, just a clumsy approach.

maradnu
September 4, 2016, 3:09 pm
He is stupid and cruel without being particularly funny.

letfreedomring
May 14, 2017, 6:35 am
It just isn't funny. I utter a groan as I solve his quotes. I know it's him without looking.

vintage38
April 11, 2018, 8:38 am
38 seconds

DrCryptell
September 2, 2018, 1:14 am
It's more likely he'd drink its contents and scare the ETs taking him to the hospital.

Eureka
November 28, 2018, 4:12 am
Oh, Jack!

imsoeasy
September 5, 2019, 2:05 am
Completed without knowing author. Had a 'that's dumb" reaction to it. Typical Handey. He might occassionally hit the mark, but you've got to have a bent sense of humor to like this guy's typical tripe.

[Eureka]

"The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. "
— Johann Friedrich von Schiller

GtrZan
January 14, 2016, 6:16 am
hence, true democracy never works. i.e. 2 Wolves and a sheep democratically deciding what's for dinner

darkyr
April 23, 2018, 6:38 am
I'd like to know what the two wolves and a sheep decide on for dinner the second night.

Synonymous
June 12, 2020, 12:40 pm
darkyr Left overs.

[oddcouple]

"How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?"
— Charles de Gaulle


maradnu
June 27, 2009, 4:46 pm
And it would be easier if they only had 245?
datagawa
August 22, 2010, 12:23 am
But of curds, there is no whey you can.
Queethebean
July 19, 2012, 7:31 pm
Well, 245, yes--any idiot could govern that. But 246? c'mon---we are only human.
LLapp
December 2, 2015, 6:40 pm
Sweet dreams are made of cheese.
SippyGurl
April 15, 2018, 6:55 pm
i a brie most havartily... dunno with what but wanted to make some cheese noises
jbb33054
December 15, 2018, 12:49 am
63
Ian123
July 19, 2019, 10:10 am
I Camembert it any longer

[Eureka]

"You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor. "
— John Ruskin

puzzleme
July 20, 2015, 5:27 pm
I bet he's right.

GtrZan
October 6, 2015, 5:41 am
I'll take those odds

jason jiujitsu
February 16, 2017, 9:04 am
my neighbor is one bad poker player, too. lol

LLapp
August 11, 2018, 8:08 am
If anybody else is, like I was, wondering about that semicolon that should be a comma, I am sorry to report that the semicolon was indeed there in the original text. Not only that, but he stuck a dash immediately after it. I kid you not.

skeeter
March 9, 2019, 8:21 pm
Well, I'll be dashed!

skeeter
May 30, 2020, 11:24 am
Maybe we can give him a semicolonoscopy.

[Fudi]

"The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer."
— Victor Borge

PianoManGidley
January 22, 2011, 3:23 am
And the difference between a bassoon and a trampoline is that you take off your shoes to jump on the trampoline.
matarisa
June 5, 2011, 7:38 pm
Oh dear.
LLapp
May 29, 2015, 6:44 pm
Heard last weekend from a banjo player: "Perfect pitch is when you throw a banjo through a window and it lands on an accordion."
Beagle
April 27, 2017, 8:42 am
The difference between an oboe and a chain saw is that you could tune a chain saw if you really had to.
skeeter
April 28, 2017, 10:54 am
As someone who plays both instruments, I say Harumph. Actually, I can take a joke, and this is very funny.
writeon
May 17, 2017, 11:00 am
There's no difference between a trumpet and a harmonica. They both sound bad under water.

[Eureka]

(These extended conversations are so charming!)

"Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won."
— Unattributed

montyb
June 8, 2012, 12:39 am
So when do you quit when you are not competing?

puzzleme
May 15, 2013, 3:24 am
When it's time for lunch.

montyb
December 19, 2013, 2:24 pm
Of course. How silly of me not to have realized that. Thanks, puzzleme.

puzzleme
March 10, 2015, 5:26 pm
No problem, monty.

Annamariah
December 12, 2015, 5:51 pm
It's funny to see a conversation between two people which took them three years to finish

montyb
January 2, 2016, 2:17 am
We were having lunch, Annamariah. Would you care to join us?

figment
January 9, 2016, 5:10 am
how long is this lunch taking?!? :O

maradnu
September 17, 2016, 3:11 pm
Well, it was still going on some four years later

LLapp
October 23, 2016, 2:17 pm
Would you care to see our dessert menu? The pies were all baked fresh in 2012.

miawallace
May 1, 2017, 9:35 pm
Yes, and I would like ice cream on top, assuming it hasn't gotten freezer burn by now.

[mistyswiss]

"There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, Tomorrow, just you wait and see."
— Nat Burton

montyb onJuly 30, 2018, 2:51 pm
How do you think those cliffs got so white?

[mistyswiss]

"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."
— Adlai E. Stevenson

montyb
December 23, 2012, 7:49 pm
And that is how you win at Twister.

[mistyswiss]

"It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer."
— William Blackstone


gryhnd51
February 9, 2014, 7:38 pm
Sir William Blackstone KC SL was an English jurist, judge and Tory politician of the eighteenth century. He is most noted for writing the Commentaries on the Laws of England. Wikipedia (1723-1780)

Allen
March 15, 2014, 2:39 am
Yes, and one of his quotes appears in Cryptograms.

LLapp
February 10, 2015, 12:18 pm
I understand he was very popular with the Guilty Party.