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  • abra
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    "Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground."
    — Malayan Proverb

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    wobray
    November 30, 2012, 10:16 pm
    Wouldn't "grows" be more appropriate here?
    CarpeLanam
    March 15, 2013, 8:28 pm
    This demonstrates the traditional use of the subjunctive mood for conditional statements, although it has fallen into disuse in modern English.
    abra
    October 20, 2013, 6:36 pm
    I'm in awe.
    abra
    March 11, 2015, 11:51 am
    I'm still in awe, of Carpelanam, not the proverb.
    universalmom
    June 18, 2015, 10:22 am
    Spoken like a true Latin scholar, Carpe
    blueladyblue
    February 5, 2018, 1:08 pm
    I don't like autumn. Dead things, even leaves, make me sad. Though.
    LLapp
    June 12, 2019, 5:26 pm
    What makes the sentence subjunctive is that it's setting up a hypothetical situation. The subjunctive mood is the mood of possible or imagined reality, rather than actual fact. The implied word "might" fits in this one -- "Though a tree might grow ever so high" -- and there you have the "possible reality" setup.
    mohamm1
    December 13, 2020, 11:41 pm
    Though a crypto solve take ever so long... 278 seconds.
    NoiseLTD
    September 30, 2021, 12:34 pm
    wobray CarpeLanam's comment was in response to yours. The verb "grow" is subjunctive. It's like "God bless America." It's not imperative, "God, bless America!", giving God an order. More the sense of "May God bless America." "God blesses America." is indicative mood.
    Synonymous
    March 30, 2022, 10:04 pm
    (Raised Hand) Can I go to the bathroom?

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  • oddcouple
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    Abra is the star of this one.

    "You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you."
    — Dylan Thomas


    abra
    April 8, 2012, 4:11 am
    WOW!
    abra
    August 29, 2012, 6:39 pm
    It still made me say "wow".
    tskaggs6
    September 13, 2012, 9:57 pm
    She may indeed be that beautiful. But if I gotta die I'm thinking I'd like more than a kiss.
    bansaisequoia
    October 30, 2012, 4:13 pm
    Wow. He's really confused about my gender. Come to think of it, he's never kissed me.
    wjjmcjr
    June 7, 2013, 11:45 pm
    CAN I HAVE HER NUMBER?
    WRQ9
    June 9, 2013, 6:42 pm
    A vision of perfection with a trail of corpses, entropy's shining example. Hiroshima, all over again. I saw the movie in stead.
    abra
    July 2, 2014, 11:07 am
    I didn't remember this quote, and I was about to write "wow", when I saw I'd said that, twice before.
    msswitch
    July 21, 2014, 6:27 am
    madness....
    LLapp
    October 8, 2014, 12:57 pm
    This from the man who lined up 18 shots of whiskey and drank them and died the next day.
    abra
    October 23, 2014, 5:06 pm
    Well, maybe he kissed HER, between shots 12 and 13.
    ruxpin66
    January 22, 2016, 5:26 pm
    Abra, since you're here almost weekly, I thought I'd say hello.
    abra
    May 22, 2016, 1:12 pm
    I;m back ruxspin, hello. Bansai's comment is way up there, but it's REALLY funny.
    abra
    July 16, 2018, 6:51 pm
    I'm back, and I'm leaving a tray of cookies in the corner. It's starting to feel like ''my'' place. ;o)
    puzzleme
    November 24, 2018, 3:55 pm
    Abra, I think it's time for you to move on. Dylan's been dead since 1953.
    abra
    December 26, 2018, 6:11 pm
    Oh, but in my heart he's alive and saying beautiful things. I brought wine to go with the cookies.
    imsoeasy
    April 24, 2020, 1:54 pm
    If he drank that much, I wouldn't trust his vision of beauty.
    abra
    October 1, 2020, 10:05 pm
    I think we used to have a recording of A Child's Christmas in Wales. I just had to go listen to a little bit of it on Youtube. This time I read the Death section on Wiki. He was a very ill man. Besides being a serious alcoholic, he had emphysema, he had pneumonia when he died. How horrible that he died so young.
    imsoeasy
    April 17, 2021, 10:38 am
    A great pickup line. Along with his boyish good looks he must have been hitting close to 1000.
    abra
    September 24, 2021, 1:58 am
    I sort of glanced at the source and I was thinking ''this really doesn't sound like Bob Dylan''. I've restocked the wine, and washed the glasses.
    LLapp
    September 29, 2021, 12:39 am
    Abra sure knows how to throw a party! (Never mind the dead poet in the corner.)
    Descifrador
    June 4, 2022, 3:27 am
    I guess he found out the girl had bacterial meningitis.

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  • oddcouple
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    Abra made me laugh on this one:

    "When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole."
    — William M. Thackeray


    abra
    May 5, 2012, 2:13 pm
    Awww, kind of sweet.
    abra
    April 2, 2013, 9:26 pm
    I still think it's sweet.
    abra
    December 14, 2013, 11:35 am
    and still...
    abra
    February 19, 2014, 1:29 pm
    I think there's an echo in here.
    montyb
    July 30, 2014, 4:21 pm
    ...in here...in here...in here...in here...
    abra
    September 18, 2014, 4:52 pm
    Wow, ya know, I think this one is kind of sweet.
    pegxpeg
    December 16, 2015, 11:10 am
    I'm glad it was buttonhole, or these comments would have gone in a different direction.
    abra
    May 2, 2016, 6:49 pm
    Well, it's been a while since I've been here.
    Hawthorn
    December 20, 2016, 1:50 am
    I hope he was making that exact face when he said it.
    Persephone59
    January 23, 2017, 6:15 pm
    He looks a bit like Grumpy Cat (Tartar Sauce). But I agree with all those Abras; it is a kind sentiment.
    skeeter
    February 7, 2017, 2:12 am
    Ah . . . the ubiquitous "buttonhole" pattern clenched it for me right away.
    marnita
    September 3, 2018, 10:41 am
    Amazing, Abra has had this one at least 6 times, and I don't recall ever seeing it before.
    mtvoyager
    December 11, 2018, 6:11 am
    abra how much time do you spend doing this?
    Elephino
    April 14, 2020, 9:38 pm
    haha pegxpeg! a flower in one's hole would make it more difficult to walk... I think
    LLapp
    June 15, 2020, 1:36 am
    mtvoyager, you have asked a forbidden question.
    marnita
    December 1, 2020, 7:05 pm
    Well, I still don't remember seeing it before, so who knows how many times I may have seen it?
    imported_bees
    April 25, 2021, 7:25 am
    My comments are secretly to myself to say "yes you have seen this before" I certainly never recognize them in time to improve my time.70/288
    abra
    October 9, 2021, 10:41 pm
    He's played by Miles Jupp, in The Man Who Invented Christmas. mtvoyager, I probably spend twenty or thirty minutes here a couple of times a week. I just get this one a lot. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. )
    Celsus
    October 16, 2021, 10:58 pm
    BUTTON hole. [Head smack] I've been putting it in the wrong spot.

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  • LLapp
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    "The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life." — Henry Ford

    blueladyblue
    February 4, 2018, 1:08 pm
    Whose life? If it's for the betterment of the life of the moneymaker, then yawn, what else is new? And I really don't think most wealthy people are willing to use their money for the betterment of everyone else's life. Sorry, I'm cynical.

    jimbo42
    November 4, 2018, 7:53 pm
    cynical, let's get cynical

    Eureka
    November 16, 2018, 3:01 am
    Let me hear your money talk, your money talk.

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  • oddcouple
    replied
    "The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex."
    — Wynonna Judd


    montyb
    March 18, 2013, 11:33 am
    Oh really? Obviously she has never experienced the guy's butt-LaZboy-cable remote relationship.
    puzzleme
    October 1, 2013, 5:46 pm
    Monty, that's not a relationship; that's a menage-a-trois.
    geeko321
    February 18, 2014, 8:59 am
    That's not a menage-a-trois, that's a bonding at the molecular level.
    SippyGurl
    August 20, 2015, 6:20 pm
    that's not a bonding at the molecular level, that's a mother-daughter relationship ??
    darkyr
    June 5, 2017, 10:56 am
    If only Wynonna had met you monty, her quote might be so complexly different.
    SippyGurl
    July 18, 2017, 11:09 am
    lol hubs just took the remote and retired to the recliner
    montyb
    March 5, 2018, 12:34 pm
    Your hubby is my kind of guy, SippyGurl!
    mistyswiss
    March 12, 2018, 11:51 pm
    Monty, whatever that relationship is - it's not complex.
    jbb33054
    November 2, 2018, 8:34 am
    31
    rnodding
    December 28, 2018, 10:28 am
    30
    jbb33054
    January 27, 2019, 3:23 am
    43
    skeeter
    March 10, 2019, 9:09 pm
    These last three comments are deep, man, deep.
    mohamm1
    June 4, 2019, 4:03 am
    Had to Google this one.
    montyb
    June 24, 2019, 10:54 pm
    Wait Misty, 532 channels is not complex?! Then there is that SD/HD decision.
    RedEnoch
    March 31, 2022, 1:58 am
    Especially when you throw in concert tours, publishing and performance rights, music industry lawyers, various exes and THEIR lawyers…

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  • LLapp
    replied
    "You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention." — Buzz Aldrin

    Eureka
    November 11, 2018, 3:04 am
    I need more context to understand what he means.

    Eureka
    February 18, 2019, 9:09 am
    Look at me!!!

    Eureka
    May 28, 2019, 10:28 am
    That Eureka. Always looking for attention!

    Eureka
    October 16, 2019, 12:05 pm
    This comment section is for Eureka only. No others need apply.

    Eureka
    November 17, 2019, 10:22 am
    Glad to see that everyone is towing the line.

    puffybob
    November 27, 2019, 3:45 am
    My guess is that he was referring to moon landing deniers. So instead, he punches them in the face. (link) (Sorry, Eureka, I couldn't resist posting the link.)

    318WOZ
    January 30, 2020, 10:21 pm
    I'm delighted, Eureka! You held the floor here for over a year!

    hrossa
    June 20, 2020, 9:30 pm
    I've found it!

    abra
    September 13, 2021, 7:54 pm
    Thanks for holding the fort, Eureka. That was amazing. I'm paying rapt attention.

    hrossa
    June 17, 2022, 10:12 am
    Now I don't remember what I'd found. Come back, Eureka!

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  • LLapp
    replied
    "Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are." — Oscar Wilde

    kb83
    November 29, 2016, 11:57 am
    Venus de Milo was.

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  • oddcouple
    replied
    "The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments."
    — Mad Magazine


    nevadasmith68
    July 31, 2013, 3:45 pm
    HAHA--True!
    montyb
    December 30, 2013, 2:43 pm
    What about white elephants?
    LLapp
    September 27, 2014, 5:03 pm
    Yes - a quote from MAD! More, please.
    gryhnd51
    April 12, 2015, 9:10 pm
    So true....so sad.
    opallady
    August 29, 2017, 11:00 am
    You can get all the things you seek/ For a dollar down and a dollar a week.
    Persephone59
    January 21, 2018, 9:36 pm
    I tried to hide it from the neighbors, but it kept trumpeting from the back yard!
    vintage38
    March 12, 2018, 7:13 am
    35 seconds
    blueladyblue
    April 22, 2018, 9:49 am
    Mad is not right. My elephant only cost peanuts. Still, I had to put it on layaway at Walmart. When I finally brought it home, I put it in the backseat of my car and the trunk in the trunk.
    letfreedomring
    August 16, 2019, 5:53 pm
    My first job in HS was in a credit department of a major department store. I leaned about credit accounts before I graduated and throughout my life found ways to get a zero % interest card to effect changes needed to my home. Suze Orman is right when she tells people to get rid of their credit card debt.
    Synonymous
    February 4, 2021, 10:42 pm
    blueladyblue very funny...
    jbb33054
    April 2, 2021, 7:24 pm
    34
    abra
    September 14, 2021, 8:44 pm
    It would scare me to have credit card debt. Suze is a smart woman. Credit cards are very convenient, but don't stack up the debt.
    jbb33054
    November 15, 2021, 6:40 pm
    49
    figmo
    March 16, 2022, 4:51 pm
    Even better, if you can figure out which MAD writer wrote the quote, it'd be great! A friend of mine was a Senior Editor of MAD for more than half of its existence.

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  • LLapp
    replied
    The disappearing first comment...

    "What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult, or even return the blow, but simply ignore it." — Seneca

    chopstix
    October 16, 2012, 2:36 am
    Very observant of you MissLynx... and it's still there!

    Allen
    October 22, 2013, 1:25 pm
    What would we do without Miss Lynx's observation?

    CarpeLanam
    April 16, 2017, 11:14 am
    From "De Constantia Sapientis (the firmness of a wise man)" "'At sapiens colapho percussus quid faciet?' Quod Cato, cum illi os percussum esset: non excanduit, non uindicauit iniuriam, ne remisit quidem, sed factam negauit; maiore animo non agnouit quam ignouisset." Cato, the quintessential Stoic philosopher, was once accidentally struck by a stranger in the bath, who apologized profusely. But Cato rose above the potential insult and ignored it, to his own and the stranger's benefit. This was quite a fun quote to research!

    SippyGurl
    September 5, 2018, 2:46 am
    what became of MissLynx's observation?

    Fudi
    January 29, 2020, 12:21 pm
    It was given a blow, apparently. We should ignore it, I guess.

    Synonymous
    May 20, 2020, 12:43 am
    SippyGurl, She's now the Missing Lynx.

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  • LLapp
    replied
    "What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!" — Terence

    montyb
    November 25, 2019, 8:09 am
    I always tried to be fair and supportive to my son, Prisoner 694322.

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  • LLapp
    replied
    "The honorable gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one." — Charles Tupper

    Eureka
    December 1, 2018, 11:12 am
    This quote definitely needs context to make any sense.

    kb83
    April 22, 2019, 3:12 pm
    The argument was over someone questioning the concept of storing foods in plastic.

    abra
    October 6, 2019, 5:34 pm
    LOL, my mom was a Tupperware lady for decades.

    kb83
    January 20, 2020, 1:12 pm
    Actually he was a Canadian Statesman and a "father of confederation," i.e. of unifying the British colonies in North America. He coined the phrase "Keep a lid on it."

    Eureka
    October 16, 2020, 9:36 pm
    LOL kb83!

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  • LLapp
    replied
    "All things may be bought in Rome with money. " — Juvenal

    maradnu
    November 23, 2013, 8:08 am
    Most places, for that matter.

    LLapp
    October 23, 2015, 7:30 am
    Without context, I wonder whether he meant that even political influence could be bought or that you can't go into town and expect to be buying things with chickens.

    judy100
    November 30, 2015, 12:40 pm
    Money talked 2000 yrs ago, and talks louder now.

    Persephone59
    October 11, 2017, 1:10 am
    Love, sex, political influence. People, too, I suppose (slaves). The usual.

    judy100
    March 31, 2018, 11:12 pm
    Silence too.

    imsoeasy
    December 11, 2018, 1:23 am
    I've been to Rome. They used to accept chickens, now its Euros.

    Wordigo
    August 12, 2020, 9:46 pm
    Follow the money.

    Ian123
    May 4, 2022, 1:26 am
    Follow the chickens.

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  • LLapp
    replied
    "Tell us your phobias, and we will tell you what you are afraid of." — Robert Benchley

    DrCryptell
    June 27, 2019, 2:19 am
    Tell me your name and I will tell you how they call you to dinner.

    blueladyblue
    August 6, 2019, 4:53 pm
    Tell me your height and I will tell you how tall you are.

    montyb
    September 15, 2021, 2:50 pm
    Tell me your bank account number and I’ll get back to you later.

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  • LLapp
    replied
    "People have always scared me a bit - they're so complicated. I suppose that's why I prefer horses." — Separate Tables

    kb83
    April 24, 2015, 3:41 am
    Who is Mr. or Ms. Tables?

    montyb
    August 5, 2015, 2:28 am
    I don't know, but I believe they are now separated.

    SippyGurl
    September 26, 2015, 4:16 pm
    Seppy, for short

    BriddlesBob
    December 1, 2015, 10:08 am
    Well, the bit in the horses mouth is complicated and scary too!

    wvwoman
    June 20, 2018, 1:14 pm
    wiki says: Separate Tables is a 1958 American drama film starring Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Burt Lancaster, and Wendy Hiller, based on two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan that were collectively known by this name. Niven and Hiller won Academy Awards for their performances. The picture was directed by Delbert Mann and adapted for the screen by Rattigan, John Gay and an uncredited John Michael Hayes. Mary Grant and Edith Head designed the film's costumes.

    mtvoyager
    December 28, 2018, 7:31 am
    I remember that movie.

    abra
    October 12, 2019, 4:00 pm
    I don't know if I ever saw it, but I do remember that there was such a movie.

    blueladyblue
    June 27, 2020, 6:51 pm
    I think Separate Tables was married to Patio Tables. Their children, Dinner and Multiplication, went on to great careers -- one was a chef and the other a zookeeper. We can't always live up to our name.

    kb83
    November 22, 2020, 8:43 pm
    great retort, Montyb!

    Jrdad
    March 24, 2022, 1:38 pm
    Separate's brothers, Billiard, Craps, and Turnthe, worked for the Mob in Vegas.

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  • Eureka
    replied
    (Sometimes an author's name elicits some pretty funny comments, too! )

    "Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?"

    — Ashleigh Brilliant

    kb83
    January 16, 2017, 5:49 am
    He had siblings Oddleigh, Naturalleigh, and Simpleigh.

    SippyGurl
    March 3, 2017, 7:14 pm
    ...and the runt of the litter, hardleigh

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