Classic Comments on the Quote

[ddph]

Of passwords and toothbrushes

"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months."
— Clifford Stoll

Scorpion451 on January 9th, 2014
excellent advice.

oddcouple on April 25th, 2015
But then you got another one to try to remember. I have about 20 different password and I can't remember half.

montyb on July 12th, 2015
But I bet you know where your toothbrush is, oddcouple.

abra on April 8th, 2016
Years ago, I saw Clifford Stoll on one of the morning news shows, probably GMA, after he had tracked down a KGB hacker. He seems WAY hyper, but he's a really interesting person.

oddcouple on March 28th, 2017
Yes, monty. I know where my toothbrush is. But I only have to keep track of one.

LLapp on April 18th, 2017
And when you go to the store and buy the exact same kind of toothbrush, nobody stops you and says you can't pick the same toothbrush as you did for the last six toothbrushes.

tgreen517 on August 13th, 2017
Maybe you should write your password on your toothbrush!

marnita on February 14th, 2018
So far nobody has tried to hack my toothbrush.

SippyGurl on September 27th, 2018
lol tgreen! awesome

[ddph]

Llapp makes this tread for me.

"The only limits are, as always, those of vision."
— James Broughton

bansaisequoia on October 16th, 2012
I am nyctalopic, myopic and presbyopic.

wvwoman on October 22nd, 2012
ahh, the 'over 40' condition!

montyb on December 24th, 2012
Welcome to the club, Bansai. Except, instead of nyctalopia, I am chromatically challenged.

tjsrc on November 8th, 2013
Everyone's a geezer on this site geez.

abra on June 26th, 2016
I swear, it happens on your fortieth birthday.

LLapp on September 15th, 2017
I was 42. I remember it vividly: the optometrist at Lenscrafters was going on and on in the little dark room about my "two precriptions" and I said, "Why do you keep saying TWO prescriptions?" and then she used the foreign word "presbyopia" and mentioned near vision and far vision, and that's when I shouted "Wait . . . are you tellin' me I need BIFOCALS?!" and she said "I'm . . . I'm so sorry." I went back out to the store, where my two children were having fun trying on frames, and told them "Hey! Guess what I need! It starts with a B." My son said, "Uh....boxer shorts?" I said "It starts with a B and it ends in an old age home!" "Okay, I'm guessing bifocals," he said. "RIGHT," I barked. He laughed. Now he's 34 and balding. Hah.

BrainCellKeeper on December 31st, 2017
At around age 48, I needed to start dying my hair to cover the gray and wearing cheaters to read small, blurry letters.

marnita on January 7th, 2018
40, yep, that sounds about right. The good news is that my eyes haven't gotten much worse since then (I''m pushing 75). Except for the incipient cataracts, of course.

NotTooOld on August 3rd, 2018
My first pair of glasses were trifocals. Talk about a hard adjustment.

[LLapp]

Monty's excellent comeback, plus a bonus word list

"The fatter the flea the leaner the dog." — Proverb

chopstix on August 1st, 2013
eewww

jnoodles on March 9th, 2015
Very eeewwww

kb83 on July 22nd, 2015
Comma after "flea". And what is the higher lesson in this proverb?

montyb on July 24th, 2015
That fleas are too busy with their ectoparasitic ways to punctuate properly?

SwampySox on February 29th, 2016
They sucked it right out of the quote.

GtrZan on July 6th, 2017
I'll take "4-letter words that end in A" for 1000, Alex

LLapp on October 26th, 2017
4-letter words that end in A? Gosh, after "flea," I have no idea.

badbob on February 19th, 2018
idea, lava coma sofa saga papa mesa rota

xlr8r on September 4th, 2018
PLUS: gila kiva kola mica mila nova pica plea puma sera sima siva soda soma soya tuba tuna urea visa vita whoa yoga zeta.

lewisengr on October 1st, 2018
iota

[ddph]

"Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good. "
— Elbert Hubbard

universalmom on October 28th, 2014
Good job not splitting that infinitive

dovid1946 on February 13th, 2015
Another intelligent quote from the cool Cat in the Hat

darkyr on April 22nd, 2016
I split an infinitive once. It took several weeks to heal.

maradnu on April 6th, 2017
How many stitches did it require?

skeeter on November 5th, 2017
An infinite number.

Barnabas on August 16th, 2018
Nothing worse than a 7 / 10 split infinitive.

[ddph]

Simon and Garfunkel get Hammered

"It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. "
— Proverb

puffybob on March 31st, 2013
The original meaning of this comparison was that it is better to be the anvil: the hammer eventually wears out and breaks, but the anvil never does.

JD_1947 on November 7th, 2014
Yep! There's lots of stuff out there 'bout hammers but not much on anvils . . .

LLapp on November 20th, 2014
"If I Had an Anvil" never made it to the top ten.

petname on April 14th, 2015
Nope! "I'd rather be an anvil than a hammer, yes I would..." wouldn't do so well either!

dovid1946 on April 18th, 2015
and I'd rather be pissed off than pissed on

oddcouple on October 11th, 2015
Hm. I always that the comparison was to the hammer and the nail.

LLapp on May 8th, 2016
I'd rather be an allen wrench. They're cool.

abra on May 20th, 2016
I just got a Dremel tool, way cool.

GtrZan on July 26th, 2016
"...sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!" - Dire Straits

Roxanne on May 3rd, 2017
I'm a detail sander and when I grow up I want to be an asphalt cold planer.

Beagle on May 16th, 2017
I'm with oddcouple. The saying is that it's better to be the hammer than the nail. If it's between the hammer and the anvil, I'll pick anvil every time.

skeeter on August 16th, 2017
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail. Yes I would. If I could, I surely would.

abra on August 29th, 2017
El Condor Pasa.

montyb on October 10th, 2017
It is not better to be the hammer than the Advil.