I think this is an appropriate time to say we need to talk about the philosopher in the room.
							
						
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 "Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
 — Gilbert Chesterton
 
 maradnu on 2009-04-25 00:52:55
 I might like cheese, but I ain't writing a poem about it.
 
 bansaisequoia on 2010-01-15 02:17:03
 I think that I shall never see, a poem lovely as a Brie.
 
 LiveLoveLaugh on 2010-02-22 23:14:13
 Cheddar Mozarella Provalone Feta Brie Cambenbert Roqfort Gorgonzola Cambazola Carcacivallo Parmesan Cottage Ricotta Swiss Romano Gouda Fontina cheese cheese glorious cheese
 
 bansaisequoia on 2011-01-03 05:11:47
 Camembert is round, not square, when I'm if France, I'll eat it there. Mozzarella from the land of Tarantella. Feta from the land of Greece, gee, I'd love to munch a piece. Some might think England far better, to let us munch a hunk of cheddar. Holey cheese is really bliss, thank you for that all you Swiss. Gouda's yummy in my hands, thank you for that Netherlands. At my next wine & cheese party, I'll serve Danish Cream Havarti.
 
 beerfan95 on 2011-05-14 04:17:09
 I should right a poem about Stilton and barley wine.
 
 matarisa on 2011-07-05 17:50:49
 Mascarpone 's not baloney.
 
 Lobelia on 2011-11-11 12:15:12
 great poem bansaisequoia
 
 universalmom on 2012-02-24 10:51:16
 Hahaha...I knew that would bring out the creativity in all of you!
 
 locodad on 2013-02-04 03:41:09
 what rhymes with roses are red ,violets are blue and something about cheese?
 
 pajarito7 on 2013-02-23 01:44:48
 Roses are red, violets are blue, Do you want chocolate or cheese in your fondue?
 
 chopstix on 2013-04-17 15:03:33
 excellent!
 
 Allen on 2014-08-22 12:07:46
 BS: bueno!
 
 montyb on 2015-03-05 09:16:09
 Bansai took all the easy cheeses. I'm stuck with Stinking Bishop.
 
 abra on 2015-03-15 13:25:04
 I would wax poetic about cheese, but I haven't a poetic bone in my body.
 
 LLapp on 2015-04-06 06:47:53
 Sweet dreams are made of cheese, who am I to dis a brie?
 
 abra on 2015-04-21 09:05:25
 Great job, all of you.
 
 killdozer on 2015-06-07 17:44:25
 Cheddar is yellow, Roquefort is blue. Swiss is holey and smells like a shoe.
 
 hasselblad on 2016-04-10 07:35:27
 Oh, dear, I camembert it!Comment
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 "It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment."
 — Saint Bernard
 
 reader4 on 2011-07-26 04:01:56
 One he obviously never achieved.
 
 cknapp329 on 2011-08-09 21:01:34
 pretty cleer for a dog that carries a brandy flaskj around his neck
 
 LiveLoveLaugh on 2012-03-23 13:37:04
 LOL ck
 
 Barnabas on 2014-01-15 10:28:23
 I would imagine Saint Bernard's praises would largely come in the way of a, "Good boy" which would be quickly followed by being given a biscuit or treat.Comment
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 Such a long reaction to such a short quote
 
 "You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm."
 — Publilius Syrus
 
 Lurker on 2011-04-29 23:16:26
 I don't see you solving it faster. "bear tree" - anyone else come up with something that stupid the first time they tried to solve it?
 
 pootie49 on 2011-05-23 21:17:08
 yes...year tree. and snowking you are a jerk btw.
 
 bansaisequoia on 2011-10-04 19:44:51
 Do you go to a pine tree for pineapples?
 
 WRQ9 on 2012-08-03 16:23:00
 Who gets pears from an elk?
 
 chopstix on 2013-01-01 03:15:10
 you should go to a year tree for years, not to an elf.
 
 universalmom on 2013-03-12 22:38:26
 Hahaha...I had a bear tree AND an elk! I thought it worked fine.
 
 puzzleme on 2013-04-07 06:50:00
 Being Irish, I went to an elf.
 
 chopstix on 2013-07-24 16:32:24
 i wonder what snowking said
 
 SippyGirl on 2013-09-09 08:17:57
 i love a pearl...
 
 skoogie2 on 2013-10-04 03:22:14
 I loved it with elf in it, much funnier!
 
 judy100 on 2014-12-10 07:25:31
 I went to the bear tree for an elk.
 
 Annamariah on 2015-01-10 17:28:17
 I joined the bear tree and elk club! Great minds think alike 
 
 skeeter on 2015-02-10 02:44:12
 I, too, went to the bear tree for an elk -- and I even have a pear tree in my yard! Sheesh.
 
 Annamariah on 2015-09-11 08:54:47
 This time I thought it was a fear tree...
 
 Annamariah on 2015-09-22 19:23:24
 Third time's the charm; this time I set a new record time.
 
 killdozer on 2015-11-19 19:03:33
 I tried to get pears from an elf.
 
 LLapp on 2016-05-05 14:24:22
 This is like the more modern saying, "Don't go to the hardware store to buy milk."
 
 lainecap on 2017-01-22 10:03:18
 You can now-a-days LLapp. Found out bear trees don't got elk.Comment
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 We are so agreeable.
 
 "He that is over-cautious will accomplish little. "
 — Johann Friedrich von Schiller
 
 kat on 2009-10-12 00:54:14
 There shouldn't be spaces around the hyphen separating over and cautious. It should be over-cautious, not over - cautious.
 
 kat on 2010-01-04 15:55:00
 I have to agree with myself there.
 
 jimdgar on 2011-03-18 23:40:32
 I must agree with kat
 
 pegxpeg on 2015-05-29 07:31:36
 "I have to agree with myself..." - vintage Kat.
 
 abra on 2016-08-01 09:56:08
 LOL, pegxpeg.Comment
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 "Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities." — Frank Lloyd Wright
 
 Altoid701 on 2009-07-23 21:52:55
 I guess he doesn't realize that "necessities" include food.
 
 montyb on 2012-06-27 00:43:46
 Now the Simon & Garfunkel song "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" makes sense.
 
 maradnu on 2013-11-21 09:02:33
 Food, water, air...
 
 abra on 2014-11-02 14:25:36
 Just give him a box of Godivas, a bottle of Dom Perignon, and some four ply tissue and let him sit in a vacant lot.Comment
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 "I have learned that the less I pay attention, the more often I am pleasantly surprised." — Raymond Justice
 
 irisheyes on 2014-04-18 05:16:45
 And even more often unpleasantly surprised.
 
 universalmom on 2014-04-24 07:55:52
 Surprised one way or another, for sure
 
 chopstix on 2014-06-21 12:47:01
 Huh? WHOA!
 
 montyb on 2015-01-27 12:12:32
 Hey Ray!!! Watch out for that open manhol...never mind. SURPRISE!!!
 
 wordfairy on 2015-07-27 19:35:32
 xDComment
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 "To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination."
 — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
 
 LLapp on 2016-12-27 11:52:36
 Oooh, 1 second off the record!
 
 universalmom on 2017-01-23 12:33:24
 Stop comparing yourself to your colleagues LLapp  Comment
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 "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 on 2014-06-27 07:37:25
 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 on 2015-03-25 13:05:49
 Please don't get up, I'm only effluving through . . .
 
 abra on 2015-07-27 18:33:20
 For some reason, I knew efffluvium.
 
 maradnu on 2016-06-28 15:09:57
 He is full of effluvium
 
 MamaB on 2016-10-16 03:02:52
 Fill in the other things first. But do NOT let this create a picture in your mind!
 
 wobray2 on 2016-10-18 12:42:20
 Meet the right people, and it is natural to associate 'humanity' with 'effluvium'
 
 museoffire on 2017-01-19 15:17:58
 My fastest time ever! 84 secondsComment
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 Hear! hear! darkyr.
 
 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force." — Patrick Henry
 
 
 rushbabyno1 on 2010-04-02 11:33:44
 amen
 
 WRQ9 on 2012-10-09 11:02:17
 A lonely battle these days.
 
 abra on 2015-09-19 09:12:43
 I sort of glanced over this as I was solving it, and I thought Patrick was talking about defending the Public Library.
 
 darkyr on 2016-04-12 08:37:39
 Give me a library, or give me death!Comment
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 Skeeter's ode to "Thy"
 
 "Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire." — Arab Proverb
 
 universalmom on 2012-02-21 23:17:38
 Thy...dang it!
 
 locodad on 2013-10-06 23:38:24
 I hate thy word
 
 SippyGurl on 2014-03-21 07:01:21
 o me o thy
 
 skeeter on 2015-02-22 02:59:40
 Oh, me, oh, my, when "the" is "thy," Methinketh me is going to cry.
 
 LLapp on 2015-07-23 13:17:34
   
 
 wvwoman on 2016-01-18 18:39:00
 funny, skeeter!Comment
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 "It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice - there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."
 — Frank Zappa
 
 montyb on 2012-04-07 21:05:22
 Gee, I sure miss the way people talked about the end of the world when I was young. Those were the [end] days.
 
 chopstix on 2014-08-06 09:12:46
 I'm going to write that down so I can reminisce upon it later.
 
 LLapp on 2016-06-15 10:27:18
 chopstix, I'm afraid you'll need to rewrite it on Form NR(1P) [Nostalgia Report (1st Person)] and submit it for review by the Imagined Past Department. If you do not receive approval for your memory within 21 days, you can file a request for a Nostalgia Advocate, who will make a credible effort to join you for tea and a shared smile.Comment
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 Ennui has me in its grip... Think I'll take a summer trip
 
 "There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel."
 — D.H. Lawrence
 
 Lobelia on 2011-12-02 11:58:04
 My ennui has been bothering me lately.
 
 montyb on 2012-04-30 20:47:46
 Take two trips and call me in the morning.
 
 vivian1874 on 2013-04-27 12:17:50
 take a shower
 
 abra on 2014-03-04 11:29:41
 If Cryptograms don't help, enuii has you in it s grasp.
 
 marnita on 2016-01-12 04:48:45
 There are a lot of things left out of this list.
 
 maradnu on 2016-08-10 15:24:48
 Who cares ennui
 
 Spellbinder44 on 2016-10-20 19:09:03
 And what about sex as cure for your ennui.? I mean , no boredom for, at least, for the next 10 mins.LOL
 
 maradnu on 2017-01-01 14:46:56
 You're done in ten minutes. You have my deepest sympathy.Comment
























 
	
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