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[LLapp]

Meta-Monty

"Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us." — Orison Swett Marden

tgreen517 on January 1st, 2015
A funny comment would be perfect here!

marnita on November 5th, 2015
We will have to wait for one of Monty's witticisms.

darkyr on July 18th, 2017
montyb on 2015-06-10 11:59:57 "I guess Mr. Wright doesn't realize that can openers are designed to be operated with opposable thumbs." I suppose context might make that funnier, but it's the best I can do on such short notice.

[LLapp]

"It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born." — Ulysses

ernests on April 26th, 2010
From the novel 'Ulysses' by James Joyce

saipanwriter on June 5th, 2013
thanks, ernests.

puzzler86 on April 14th, 2014
97 seconds

locodad on May 30th, 2014
64 seconds

Beagle on October 30th, 2014
Some might ask... is there a difference?

montyb on September 22nd, 2016
Yes, the difference is 33 seconds.

kb83 on September 1st, 2017
I thought it probably wasn't said by the original Ulysses.

[aerie]

"Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart. "
— Phyllis McGinley


blueladyblue on March 24th, 2018
Sticks and stones can break my phones, and texts you oft misspell. So call me names; emoji bad memes. Just please don't hurt my cell.

[aerie]

"It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it."
— Wystan Hugh Auden


Barnabas on March 17th, 2012
There once was a poet named Hugh In dollars he earned so few But when he wrote or he spoke The poverty dam broke And like weeds his money just grew

montyb on April 3rd, 2012
Nice, Barnabas! I love a good limerick. Heck, I even like bad ones.

abra on September 21st, 2013
I'm always amazed that there was a time when people made money writing poetry. Nowadays, it would have to be set to a tune. Or are there bread winning poets out there still?

JD_1947 on December 4th, 2014
There once was a poet but you wouldn't know it, He wrote and spoke trying to show it, Though the dollars came in, He just couldn't win, No one read the lines that he writ . . .

[TimmyTee]

There once was a man from Japan,
Whose poetry no one could scan.
When once asked about it,
He said, "I don't doubt it."
Because I always, positively try to get as many words into the last line as I possibly ... can.

[wvwoman]

good one!

There once was a man from Japan,
Whose poetry no one could scan.
When once asked about it,
He said, "I don't doubt it."
Because I always, positively try to get as many words into the last line as I possibly ... can.

big grin from me!

[LLapp]

The James Gang

"The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life." — Henry James

nevadasmith68 on September 10th, 2013
His brothers, Frank and Jesse robbed the Noon Day Train.

abra on November 20th, 2014
Who knew?

montyb on February 8th, 2015
While brother Harry provided background music.

jimdgar on March 23rd, 2017
And sister Etta sang the blues.

LLapp on April 26th, 2017
Such a talented family!

Barnabas on May 2nd, 2017
And, of course, there's LeBron.

phthelen on October 2nd, 2017
There was even a British king or two.

[BriddlesBob]

and one wrote an entire Bible

[LLapp]

"To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks." — Alan Alexander Milne

montyb on June 29th, 2016
Let's hear it for "Six-Sticks" Milne!

[LLapp]

"May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty." — Irish Proverb

saipanwriter on May 18th, 2013
sounds like bad greeting card content.

mazereeuw on October 7th, 2014
Aw come on Saipan. There's something earthy and appealing about hinges and rust.

JD_1947 on December 25th, 2014
. . May our friendship always carry WD40 . . .

tgreen517 on April 3rd, 2016
Like the tin man!

kb83 on April 13th, 2016
And let neither of us become unhinged.

[montyb]

Maradnu Cracks Me Up!

"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it. "
— Christian Nestell Bovee

JD_1947 on December 29th, 2014
. . I got caught up in my vowels on that one . . . .

LLapp on January 3rd, 2016
Only one i!

maradnu on May 7th, 2017
It's tough when you have a vowel blockage.

marnita on December 20th, 2017
Somehow I don't think it is quite that simple.

[gryhnd51]

seriously....a "vowel blockage"??? Made me laugh out loud! THAT is just such a wonderful play on words.

[montyb]

You Have to Love the Banter

"Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends."
— Philip Dormer Stanhope

montyb on August 5th, 2012
Or, as I affectionately refer to them, the little people.

universalmom on January 20th, 2013
montyb, I seem to be following you around!

badbob on February 1st, 2017
I need minions

LLapp on March 25th, 2017
Stanhope needed to get with a nicer crowd.

GtrZan on October 2nd, 2017
Doesn't sound like deserved them

746tiger on January 27th, 2018
I had some minions. Traded them in for a henchman and a few lackeys. Things are working out.

[aerie]

" There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it. "
— Alfred Hitchcock


dovid1946 on April 1st, 2015
there is no terror in a wand, only in the anticipation of it- spoken by Hermoine to Harry in the recently published novel taking place forty years after the seventh book - 'Harry Potter and the Enlarged Prostate'

[aerie]

"Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar."
— Robert Brault


kjmcaj on 2013-06-06 16:54:51
You need a professional to decipher all the fine print. 133 seconds.

montyb on 2014-11-02 13:23:43
That's why you should trust the folks at POEM, the Professional Organization of English Majors.

LLapp on 2015-04-30 07:59:08
Injured? Victim of medical negligence? Call me! I understand sequence of tenses and I'll beat any lawyer's price!

Labole on 2015-08-01 03:11:50
Hmm. Funny. Does he really believe that?

kb83 on 2015-08-21 04:38:46
Yes grammatical mistakes are a gateway offence.

abra on 2015-10-25 12:06:07
Of all the stupid Robert Brault quotes, this must be the most stupid. Either that, or I'll find myself in prison, for reckless but not willful misplacement of commas and semicolons.

momn8r on 2016-03-30 10:27:40
i"ll bake you a cake with White Out inside!

marnita on 2016-05-04 14:02:40
I would not send you to prison for your indiscriminate use of commas, abra, but I might sentence you to some compulsory training sessions with LLapp.

abra on 2016-08-11 09:36:23
momn8r, thank you. More and more I realize I'm going to need that cake, oh and the White Out too.

abra on 2016-09-13 12:27:14
If he was serious, this says terrible things about the workings of his mind. I've never even had a traffic ticket. I've never broken a law, willfully or otherwise. Grammar, now that's an entirely different thing.

kb83 on 2016-09-15 10:10:39
Once you start splitting infinitives, it is a slippery slope.

momn8r on 2016-11-18 13:22:03
abra, chocolate or vanilla?