Classic Comments on the Quote

[LLapp]

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's . . .

"We are not put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through. " — Unattributed

This Cryptogram's Statistics
Success Rate: 43%
Average Time: 76 seconds
Record Time: 8 seconds (bansaisequoia)

kat on 2009-02-21 18:33:26
15 seconds for the record

bansaisequoia on 2009-03-20 20:05:32
But smashed by debzhaus. D'oh!

abra on 2015-02-26 09:15:04
And then...

skeeter on 2015-11-13 14:01:07
. . . and then he breaks away for a full-court press; he does a cross-over dribble, a behind-the-back, a spin move, and then he's up, he's up, and . . . he scores! Bansai lands an 8-pointer!

abra on 2015-11-16 16:30:20
Well, of course he did.

[ddph]

"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. "
— Moliere

montyb on 2014-05-29 11:57:04
Horse hockey! I deserve that lottery jackpot!

skoogie2 on 2014-09-24 01:49:31
Oh my gosh, montyb, I was thinking that exact thing as I clicked the solve button!

montyb on 2014-12-11 15:18:02
Great minds run in the same gutter don't they, Skoogie?

[ddph]

"You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up."
— C.A.R. Hoare

oddcouple on 2014-11-07 06:10:45
You can't even teach me bottom up.

dovid1946 on 2014-12-22 08:27:36
Does C.A.R. Hoare run a number of programming schools? and are they called Hoare Houses?

[montyb]

"I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor. "
— Leo Tolstoy

Allen on 2013-08-30 11:39:28
Mom! I keep picking on me!

skoogie2 on 2014-03-05 09:23:43
Make me stop! haha, Allen, that is too funny!

[gryhnd51]

"The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight."
— Samual McChord Crothers

chopstix on 2013-10-22 07:50:18
you can say that again!

macmilh on 2014-04-29 10:19:51
OK, chopstix "The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight."

fishbum on 2015-05-07 06:32:35
macmilh got right twice.

LLapp on 2016-03-15 19:27:28
"The test of real literature is that it will bear . . . " nah, the thrill is gone.

[universalmom]

"It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required."
— Stephen Leacock

opallady on 2013-04-04 20:33:37
Wimp. I've known little kids who rode totally sober.

[wvwoman]

good one, abra!

"Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. "
— Plato

WRQ9 on 2014-01-07 05:58:50
Not all poetry!

abra on 2015-04-30 11:55:46
Probably none that contains the word "Nantucket".

[ddph]

"It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion. "
— John Wooden

bansaisequoia on 2009-05-23 18:21:22
I view the First Amendment to the US Constitution as creating "a wall of seperation" between church and basketball. Of course, I'm not a Supreme Court Justice.

kjmcaj on 2013-06-11 16:26:10
49 seconds. Thank God......oops !!!

kb83 on 2014-05-18 09:47:45
There are no atheists in sudden death overtimes.

abra on 2015-01-30 11:08:42
When I solved the quote, I thought the comments would be much more heated. These made me smile.

pegxpeg on 2016-04-12 13:05:05
I just came here for the comments.

[ddph]

"If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me! "
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Barnabas on 2012-02-29 04:46:31
If I put my left foot in... put your left foot in. If I shake it all about... shake it all about.

kb83 on 2014-03-31 04:37:04
(...avenge me-- Unless, of course, I die because you killed me retreating.)

QuexUl on 2015-02-06 15:51:10
If I get one of these done faster than 196 seconds, cheer me!

[wvwoman]

this one SLAYS me!

"But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder." — Homer Simpson

gavinl on 2015-11-26 11:42:17
Hell Director: Hello, newcomers and welcome. Can everybody hear me? Hello? [taps microphone]
Hell Director: Can everybody... ok. Um, I am the Hell Director. Uh, it looks like we have 8,615 of you newbies today. And for those of you who were little confused: uh, you are dead; and this is Hell. So abbandon all hope and yadda-yadda-yadda. Uh, we are now going to start the orientation PROcess which will last about...
Protestant: Hey, wait a minute. I shouldn't be here, I was a totally strick and devout Protestant. I thought we went to heaven.
Hell Director: Yes, well, I'm afraid you are wrong.
Soldier: I was a practicing Jehovah's Witness.
Hell Director: Uh, you picked the wrong religion as well.
Man from Crowd: Well who was right? Who gets in to Heaven?
Hell Director: I'm afraid it was the MORmons. Yes, the MORmons were the correct answer. The Damned: Awwww..

[aerie]

*Some Frog*

"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it."
— E. B. White

opallady on 2009-05-31 16:50:29
The frog is supposed to be dead before you start.

bansaisequoia on 2009-09-21 20:08:13
If the frog is alive, it is vivisection, not dissection.

kjmcaj on 2013-05-05 05:26:43
197 seconds.

montyb on 2013-08-10 12:17:19
No frogs were harmed in the above analyses of this humorous quote.

tjsrc on 2013-11-12 12:23:07
The joke, however, was severely damaged and is in critical condition.

SippyGurl on 2014-06-09 04:50:25
lol folks

kb83 on 2014-08-14 04:27:13
I think E. B. White would have been amused by these comments.

montyb on 2014-11-16 08:48:09
Probably, had he dissected them.

LLapp on 2015-04-26 19:35:10
And there would have been a spider web in the lab, spelling out: SOME FROG.

abra on 2015-06-08 09:35:57
If the frogs are euthanized in order to be dissected, doesn't that make Mr. White's statement correct? The frog does die. I hated dissecting that frog. I could have learned as much by looking at pictures, or one of those awful movies, they showed us back then. Many frog lives would have been saved.

marnita on 2015-11-04 11:56:34
I cut class five times and got a D in biology in college to avoid dealing with one of those dead frogs.

LLapp on 2016-02-27 13:47:16
I have a good friend who made headlines back in the late 1980s for designing software that allowed a high school bio student to virtually dissect a frog. The student, like you marnita, was penalized because she refused to dissect the real frog, and she sued the school district and demanded an alternative method. With the software available, the state ruled in her favor.

marnita on 2016-03-04 15:01:02
You have restored my faith in progress, LLapp!

abra on 2016-03-14 12:58:36
I must have missed the SOME FROG comment before. I love it. How appropriate.

[imported_nanrich]

"The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows."
— P. G. Wodehouse

bansaisequoia on 2012-03-27 16:28:26
Those butterflies are real party animals. And they're always blasting Heart's "Dog And Butterfly" from the speakers of their tricked out vehicles as they go to keggers and raves. Not to mention Elton John's "Someone Saved My Life Tonight."

vivian1874 on 2012-04-28 04:30:08
hahaha!

montyb on 2012-12-16 21:12:04
I can attest to those loquaciuos lepidopterans. They stay quiet until you complete your back swing. Then they cut loose.

abra on 2014-02-14 09:59:46
Do they really have a fondness for Elton John? I never knew that.

dovid1946 on 2015-01-06 09:30:40
golf- a good walk spoiled- mark twain

Vienna on 2015-08-30 16:10:29
I think golf would be more fun with a little rock and roll

[abra]

I thought these were clever.

"He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions. "
— Unattributed

montyb on 2012-07-10 13:19:42
And he who knows all the questions should go on Jeopardy".

momof7 on 2014-07-08 17:02:30
He who has all the answers is probably a teenager.

JD_1947 on 2014-11-11 08:30:27
. . bio - Unattributed was a verb (whatever country that is) and was often found in the company of Nouns (whoever they are) . . .

Unattributed on 2015-06-28 12:09:11
What, me and Nouns? No...why, did Nouns say something about me?

tgreen517 on 2015-08-28 17:46:42
The adjectives described it all!

[marnita]

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. "
— Oprah Winfrey

bansaisequoia on 2012-07-13 19:35:55
Sure. Oprah takes the bus when her limo breaks down. And I have to pilot the space shuttle when the matter/antimatter reintegrator pods have bollixed up the dilithium crystals on my starship.

montyb on 2012-07-23 21:31:40
You too?!

[ddph]

"If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend."
— Doug Larson

chriscrojam on 2011-10-02 04:33:56
I love this one.

agatha on 2012-02-03 09:59:18
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be April 15th.

sgardzal on 2013-09-01 08:15:47
I got this on labor day weekend 2013!!

Allen on 2014-11-12 07:30:05
Remembering Dorothy Parker as best I can right now: “if all the co-eds at the Yale-Harvard game were laid end-to-end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.�

abra on 2014-11-20 10:42:55
That IS one of Dorothy Parker's snarkiest and funniest quotes.