Classic Comments on the Quote

[aerie]

"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger."
— Dan Rather


JCarlosCuevas on 2009-10-22 18:50:58
Or that Mickey and Donald cartoon where the orchestra gets caught inside a tornado.

bansaisequoia on 2010-01-19 19:43:33
I'm more likely to think of "A Clockwork Orange."

bansaisequoia on 2010-05-06 06:07:11
I can listen to "Flight of the Bumblebee" and not think of the Green Hornet.

nevadasmith68 on 2013-08-08 02:36:11
I can't listen to the "Blue Danube" without thinking of Rocky and Bullwinkle.

Barnabas on 2014-05-02 08:28:14
I can listen to "Who Are You" and not think of CSI

Allen on 2014-08-21 12:42:54
I can listen to anything and not think of CSI.

kb83 on 2015-04-16 10:19:00
I cannot listen to the Psycho music and not think of Psycho.

LLapp on 2015-09-13 20:49:15
I can't listen to "Free Fallin'" and not think of washing dinner dishes with my daughter sitting on the stool and telling me all about kindergarten.

wvwoman on 2016-03-03 19:55:05
i love that, llapp!

marnita on 2016-04-24 13:28:15
Perhaps the William Tell Overture will outlast the Lone Ranger.

[ddph]

"To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend - to read it a second time is to meet an old one."
— Selwyn Champion

DuckEverlasting on 2010-08-04 05:17:44
Cool name.

SippyGirl on 2013-09-03 17:03:39
said duckeverlasting ; )

oddcouple on 2016-07-02 12:01:27
said sippygirl

[ddph]

"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."
— Van Wyck Brooks

fredsevent on 2011-08-21 18:30:47
Dang, I've been trying to have the courage of my *platypuses*. I misread that years ago and it's just too late. I'm going to cry now.

ZeebaNeighba on 2012-08-17 19:12:18
I don't have that, but I do have the courage of my plongitudes

Barnabas on 2013-10-03 05:19:12
Changes in attitudes, changes in platitudes... wait a minute, Jimmy Buffett is a successful man.

universalmom on 2014-04-25 14:38:23
fred, that's hilarious

locodad on 2014-04-25 16:31:21
we are having a spelling test tomorrow on all the hard, weird words we find in this cryptos

puffybob on 2014-11-27 11:13:25
Ha, this quote describes all of the blowhards who are quoted on this site about "success."

JD_1947 on 2014-12-29 04:32:28
. . I have the courage but I think I lost my platitudes some where . . . . . must be with my car keys . . . .

dovid1946 on 2015-05-09 08:02:57
Who put the apircot? Why is the Hottentot so hot? What have they got that I ain't got? COURAGE

LLapp on 2015-06-12 21:05:42
"plongitudes" -- very clever.

puzzleme on 2017-02-07 17:36:08
Top definition of "plongitude" in Urban Dictionary: A platitude made for the express purpose of moving the conversation away from an uncomfortable topic.

[montyb]

"Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. "
— Napoleon Hill

chopstix on 2014-04-07 07:38:00
but we don't need light in order to conceive!

universalmom on 2014-06-10 05:58:07
…i'd be willing to bet most of were conceived...oh never mind

Allen on 2014-09-06 04:07:46
Inconceivable!

dovid1946 on 2015-01-16 04:56:48
I found my thrill, on Napoleon Hill

SippyGurl on 2015-10-06 06:25:25
mmm... napoleons

abra on 2017-05-29 18:45:02
LOL, Umom. I'll bet your right.

[ddph]

"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
— Peter Steiner

gryhnd51 on 2010-08-04 04:09:15
first time i've seen this one....I LOVE IT!!

chriscrojam on 2011-01-27 18:11:27
Dang it! My cover's blown.

Barnabas on 2011-09-21 03:49:33
But if you're eating at a Chinese restaurant they can figure it out by studying the paper placemat.

locodad on 2012-03-13 17:05:51
Woof,woof, who me?

montyb on 2014-03-22 16:32:32
They would if they checked out my profile picture.

judy100 on 2014-10-04 23:31:26


JD_1947 on 2014-11-22 07:47:20
Only a 15% Success Rate . . . think how many people missed out on a good laugh . . !

dovid1946 on 2014-12-10 14:14:07
or a god, if you happen to be dyslexic

LLapp on 2015-04-06 17:42:52
This was the caption of a cartoon in the New Yorker in the 1990s. Here it is: http://www.carta-straccia.it/files/tcb-22230.jpg

abra on 2015-06-30 13:25:56
There probably weren't nearly as many dogs on the internet back then.

Unattributed on 2016-06-24 04:42:19
You have to expect at least some dogs on the internet. It's where all the cats live.

marnita on 2016-09-20 04:08:35
Only if you refrain from sending selfies.

[aerie]

"The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels."
— Hazrat Inayat Khan


Barnabas on 2015-11-20 05:18:49
Not at the pawn shop.

montyb on 2016-06-10 08:24:27
I once pawned a dictionary.

[LLapp]

Better link for Oddcouple's "Noboy knows you're a dog" thread

That link I posted seems to be dead. Here's another link to the same cartoon: https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_480w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/comic-riffs/StandingArt/STEINERinternetdogs.jpg?uuid=Cn7v6vmREeKOhMVnMaIC-w

[puzzleme]

Take one Sippy and call me in the morning...

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." — Indira Gandhi

bansaisequoia on 2009-10-11 03:04:52
Actually, people are known to do it that way. http://www.nrk.no/banden/wp-content/...fist_bump1.jpg

Unattributed on 2016-06-14 02:25:11
"A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab?" ~ Fox News

LLapp on 2016-09-30 22:33:28
bansais's link went to a page that said, "Omforladels. Vi kunne ikke finne siden De leter etter." Google translates this mean: "Omforladels. We could not find the page they're looking for."

SippyGurl on 2016-12-21 08:38:42
when it comes to soup, omforladels

[ddph]

Time for a new one

"What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. "
— Henry David Thoreau

montyb on 2012-11-18 01:14:22
You cannot turn into an 8-feet tall green monster of limitless strength and limited vocabulary.

WRQ9 on 2013-03-15 16:57:13
No, but you can become the analog of it.

wvwoman on 2014-03-26 20:28:17
now, montyb--have you tried really hard?

kb83 on 2014-07-15 10:15:38
I think, in montyb's case, it was the limited vocabulary that was the sticking point.

Jalapenoman on 2015-06-24 04:20:01
Just don't make him angry. You won't like him if he's angry.

Barnabas on 2015-07-09 03:44:36
So is that what the "b" in montyb stands for? Banner?

Vienna on 2015-09-28 12:38:39
I could have been an NBA star if they didn't discriminate against short white women

[LLapp]

Time for a spoonerism

"Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane." — Unattributed

opallady on 2009-12-08 18:42:23
Catch 22.

montyb on 2012-07-09 01:22:26
Boneheaded sophistry.

jnoodles on 2013-03-27 22:49:01
Sopht headed bonestry.

nevadasmith68 on 2013-08-07 01:28:13
As an insane person I find this quote highly offensive.

montyb on 2014-11-09 14:33:17
I see your point, jnoodles.

oddcouple on 2015-10-04 01:12:30
As a sane person, I find this quote highly offensive.

[aerie]

Time for the pizza to arrive

"We don't get offered crises, they arrive."
— Elizabeth Janeway


oddcouple on 2013-11-02 11:09:58
Don't I know it!

judy100 on 2015-03-22 07:23:42
Wish that pizza does the same:-)

montyb on 2016-01-23 04:53:38
I'm with Judy!!!

wigoddess on 2016-11-24 15:44:41
Judy has pizza??

NotTooOld on 2017-04-01 07:33:04
Monty is with Judy. Must be a pizza party!

[ddph]

"When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. "
— Anatole France

LLapp on 2015-08-06 10:35:06
Anybody seen my scruple? It was here a minute ago.

bkmcincinnati on 2017-01-07 00:31:35
I think Melania Trump may have borrowed it.

[ddph]

"He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow."
— Italian Proverb

Queethebean on 2013-03-22 22:36:02
And that, my friends, is why I have never allowed a goat to be laid on my shoulders.

montyb on 2013-07-15 20:12:29
Our state legislature is laying the bull on our shoulders.

abra on 2016-04-12 14:41:01
Funny, Queethebean.

SippyGurl on 2016-12-10 04:24:11
at least there was no shotgun wedding being forced to marry the cow

abra on 2017-01-20 18:31:03
If it's a Billy Goat that's been laid on your shoulders, better send for Theo Epstein. Just sayin'.

[ddph]

"Literature is the human activity that makes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. "
— Lionel Trilling

ladie on 2012-02-12 17:39:31
never heard of variousness has anyone?

montyb on 2012-05-16 12:04:36
No, but literary critics are allowed to terminologize.

jeanering on 2013-04-05 01:24:35
it seems variety would have sufficed. He is intoxicated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

wvwoman on 2013-10-09 23:23:10
(never heard of montyb's word, either!) nicely stated, jaenering!

abra on 2015-02-05 11:03:09
Wonderful comment jeanering. So many of them are.

skeeter on 2015-04-25 10:29:01
I was perplexified by this as well.

kb83 on 2015-07-08 09:20:16
And good literature also partakes of abbreviatedness.

abra on 2016-08-16 09:50:37
LOL, good comments.

[munchlet]

"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? "
— Friedrich Nietzsche


maradnu on 2009-06-06 21:14:25
No.

hopetheturtle on 2011-09-30 10:03:54
Wisdom is not an inspiration but a virtue that one is either born with or eventually learns over time. Of course some people never become owls.

kb77 on 2011-10-20 15:54:03
substitute 'wisdom' with 'greed'. now THAT makes some sense!!

wvwoman on 2012-07-16 20:41:07
how does the raven eating make him greedy?

bansaisequoia on 2012-07-31 04:09:01
"Wisdom is the domain of the wis."--Dale Bozzio

WRQ9 on 2013-11-17 10:44:38
Or, da wiz. This might show insight if the "raven" would in most circumstances never turn to carrion again. "Nevermore".

LLapp on 2015-05-25 09:49:37
This quote sounds like a close-up view of Nietzsche's mind going mad -- suspecting even his own wisdom of being some horrid nightmare.

Mobo on 2015-10-12 02:41:01
In other words, we wise up after we nearly destroy ourselves. Is that why the league of nations and the UN were created? And look how they both succeeded, not!

JJ20paws on 2016-04-10 12:23:48
Uplifting, as usual

Barnabas on 2016-09-16 12:01:37
Doth quote the raven... "Carrion my wayward son." I think he said that in Kansas somewhere.

universalmom on 2016-10-02 14:16:20
Hahaha, second time you've cracked me up tonight Barnabas!

darkyr on 2017-02-22 06:04:39
Yes, of course, it must be, because it all makes sense now.

Persephone59 on 2017-04-15 13:23:50
This quote is a new low. But the comments are funny, especially Barnabas'.

Persephone59 on 2017-05-27 07:40:54
Well that was a pretty dark quote, even for Nietzsche.