Classic Comments on the Quote

[Eureka]

That time Miss Piggy got us all discussing artichokes, among other things....

"After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking thirty or forty postage stamps."
— Miss Piggy

wvwoman
October 21, 2013, 5:08 pm
ha ha--well said, miss piggy!

locodad
November 4, 2013, 5:20 pm
I heard that kermit is suing you mr. baron because you haven't put any of his quotes.

chopstix
February 2, 2014, 5:18 pm
"It's not easy being green." - Kermit the Frog p.s., who cares about the artichoke? It's just there to hold all the butter and mayonnaise!

cindidido
March 29, 2014, 1:23 pm
Chopstix understands artichokes!

LLapp
September 6, 2014, 12:27 pm
"What? No Wikipiggia profile for moi?" (link)

marnita
April 12, 2015, 4:13 pm
I love artichokes! And I eat them without butter or mayonnaise.

kb83
July 4, 2015, 5:14 am
I love artichokes too, but they are an aioli or butter delivery device as well.

marnita
October 3, 2016, 6:32 am
Artichoke dip - yum!

darkyr
February 24, 2017, 10:22 am
Mmmmm. Postage stamps. Now I'm hungry.

RustySkipper
June 24, 2017, 2:42 pm
My stamp collection album is right next to my artichoke collection album.

marnita
September 6, 2017, 7:06 am
But now you don't have to lick the stamps. No food value at all. And I would certainly rather have an artichoke dip than a postage stamp dip.

Persephone59
December 26, 2017, 6:22 am
I wholeheartedly agree with Miss Piggy. Artichokes are a waste of time.

blueladyblue
January 23, 2018, 11:23 am
Miss Piggy is sow very wise.

badbob
March 8, 2018, 9:50 am
spinach artichoke dip with pita or lavash bread

abra
October 30, 2018, 6:56 pm
I've never had one, but if I did, I'd probably do butter but no mayo.

SippyGurl
February 19, 2019, 5:02 am
mmm... artichoke balls

[Eureka]

That time when things got "silly-us".

"There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality."
— Seneca

Altoid701
June 16, 2012, 10:11 pm
lubilius/lupilius/licilius ARGH

chopstix
April 26, 2013, 4:44 am
me too altoid

bazinga
September 29, 2013, 2:41 pm
Lucilious is difficult to come up with when all you can think of is Horatio.....

universalmom
June 17, 2014, 9:48 am
"Little Lucius"

figmo
July 7, 2014, 12:58 pm
Didn't they have a TV show called "I Love Lucilius?"

dovid1946
May 22, 2015, 2:42 am
yes, it was on the same network that the Romans tuned in to see the Caesars- Julius, Octavius, and Sid

SippyGurl
October 20, 2016, 9:56 am
lucilius im home

LLapp
April 6, 2017, 7:02 am
Seneca's got some 'splaining to do.

seastar228
September 3, 2017, 3:10 pm
Ricky's out. Seneca's in.

tclcac
November 9, 2018, 5:47 pm
We are a nation full of anxiety sufferers! Think how bad it would be if we had people running around with the names of "Lucilius" and "Annaeus" - please forgive me if that is your name! :-)

abra
January 16, 2019, 10:31 am
Lucilius took me three tries.

Icky
June 16, 2019, 10:40 pm
Happily I though of Locutus of Borg and got it on my second try.

killdozer
August 17, 2019, 10:08 pm
You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucilius.

Elephino
October 10, 2019, 11:36 am
Was he talking to himself?

[LLapp]

Maybe it's late and I'm punchy, but I laughed pretty hard at this....

"Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills." — C. Neil Strait

kat
April 4, 2009, 6:02 pm
busyness!!! That messed me up!

saipanwriter
June 17, 2009, 5:16 am
Busyness?!!

bansaisequoia
June 20, 2009, 1:49 am
This quote has definitely interfered with my pursuit of happyness.

kat
July 10, 2009, 4:16 pm
It did it again! Crap!!!!

kat
February 3, 2010, 4:17 pm
I remembered the 'y' this time, but it still took me 43 seconds. Crap!

kat
February 21, 2010, 7:26 pm
And 64 seconds this time! Crap I say!

bansaisequoia
August 11, 2011, 3:29 pm
23 FTW!

abra
May 2, 2012, 10:05 pm
BUSYNESS! phew, finally got it.

abra
July 18, 2013, 1:03 am
I can't believe that I was here before, and I didn't remember "busyness". AARGH

SippyGirl
August 4, 2013, 3:21 pm
had to google the curiosity away - see where i was going wrong... busyness. 262 seconds

puzzleme
September 24, 2013, 8:13 pm
In future, I must make it my business to remembeer busyness!

Allen
January 9, 2014, 8:30 am
I'm too busi to worry about it.

beerfan95
April 3, 2014, 1:25 pm
Did anyone else have trouble with busyness?

wvwoman
April 10, 2014, 4:42 pm
gee, no, beerfan95--did you?

[LLapp]

What happens when you offer a website full of introverts a hug . . .


"A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange." — Unattributed

saipanwriter
July 31, 2012, 3:18 am
Gag me. Greeting card blather. Ick.

montyb
July 2, 2013, 1:15 am
Try it with "hog" instead of "hug".

jnoodles
August 7, 2013, 3:18 pm
Who would exchange a hog? And for what? A marmot?

universalmom
April 28, 2014, 2:07 pm
well, for some bacon and pork chops obviously!

cryptospiridiagram
March 5, 2016, 7:47 am
For another hog. You just go down to HogCon and show him off.

marnita
April 7, 2016, 7:51 am
How does one size of a hug fit all sizes of people?

Nautilus
June 9, 2017, 1:24 am
A hag is a great gift, too. Not so easy to exchange though.

mmfs83
November 26, 2017, 4:16 am
I almost went with rug. I guess I should think about vacuuming. But I'm not doing that until all the holiday decorating is done. In the meantime, I'll do cryptograms.

Persephone59
January 8, 2018, 6:54 pm
I love that phrase, "I should think about...". That means it hasn't gotten anywhere NEAR the to do list yet!

marnita
June 9, 2018, 12:40 pm
What good does it do to think about vacuuming? If I thought about it, I would never do it.

NotTooOld
November 18, 2018, 6:21 am
Thinking about vacuuming is a great way to get cryptograms done.

Eureka
March 22, 2019, 12:46 pm
Vacuuming is the great "double u" word!

[LLapp]

"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ." — Wystan Hugh Auden

PianoManGidley
February 17, 2011, 11:54 am
Shouldn't it be "...AND a good deal..."?

montyb
July 8, 2013, 3:00 pm
The syntax is typically British.

LLapp
February 5, 2015, 9:26 am
The construction is a quasi-poetic device that's used frequently in written English. Plus, Auden was a poet, so he has a license.

maradnu
October 14, 2016, 3:19 pm
I heard his license was revoked for drunken rhyming.

badbob
June 26, 2017, 6:14 am
step out of the car Mr Auden and put your nose on the roof

[LLapp]

NotTooOld speaks for us all....

"We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods." — Seneca


NotTooOld
April 10, 2019, 10:11 am
I pray to lose weight but I really want to eat more mashed potatoes.

[oddcouple]

"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly."
— Saint Francis de Sales

kjmcaj
April 8, 2013, 8:13 pm
163 seconds
Barnabas
March 31, 2014, 5:48 pm
Unless, of course, you're a serial killer.
montyb
November 6, 2016, 2:05 pm
I can kill a box of cereal in 4 days.
LLapp
January 7, 2017, 5:10 pm
It worked for Popeye: (link)
tavi5280
February 7, 2017, 6:33 am
I don't see why I couldn't do it "fervently" ( except the "N" on 2 different letters - but hey, nobody's perfect
pj48
November 6, 2017, 5:58 am
I can kill a bottle of Malbec in 2, monty.
writeon
February 23, 2018, 3:03 am
You could be perfect with not wishing to be anything.
abra
June 18, 2018, 10:05 am
Gotcha, St Francis, I've got this one covered. I am me to a Tee.
oddcouple
June 22, 2018, 11:04 pm
Or like the sweet potato said to the stuffing "I yam what I yam".
BriddlesBob
December 13, 2018, 6:23 am
"But that's not very a-pealing," Mr. Potato.
pickleball
August 6, 2019, 7:02 pm
i yam what i yam
jbb33054
September 6, 2019, 12:41 pm
59
jbb33054
September 22, 2019, 6:50 pm
61
momof7
October 23, 2019, 4:08 pm
So far, I've done it better than anyone else.

[LLapp]

"The whole problem is to establish communication with one's self." — E. B. White

maradnu
November 25, 2009, 12:07 am
Hey! Are you in there? I wanna talk.

bansaisequoia
December 16, 2009, 3:33 am
Brought to you by the world wide web: (link)















montyb
April 7, 2014, 12:22 pm
All I ever get is a busy signal.

montyb
July 7, 2014, 4:08 pm
And the roaming charges....

LLapp
June 9, 2016, 9:00 pm
My self called me "some pig." Not sure if that's a compliment or what.

Spellbinder44
October 18, 2016, 2:45 pm
Solved the crypto and tapped "Reset" button instead of "Check it" button. Communicated expletive laden message to oneself , succesfully.

maradnu
October 14, 2017, 5:08 am
I tried calling repeatedly. My self blocked my number, won't call back or answer texts or emails.

badbob
October 30, 2018, 7:38 pm
self and i aren't speaking right now

badbob
October 6, 2019, 8:12 pm
OK we are talking but i finally realize what a loser he is.

[Eureka]

Sometimes a rhetorical question demands an answer.Enter Redforce.

"The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death."
— Oscar Wilde

LLapp
November 17, 2016, 5:40 pm
How do you know which mystery is bigger? How do you measure a mystery?

Redforce
December 6, 2018, 6:14 am
Well, LLapp, the Imperial British unit is the Holmes. 1 Holmes = 2.25 minor clues. It takes an average of 2 KiloHolmes to solve a major mystery. The Belgian unit is the Poirot, which is roughly 1H = 1.62P. Comparatively, the American measurement unit the Columbo is 1H = 1.98C. Clouseaus were briefly used by the French, but fell out of favor since calculations tend to be full of mistakes.

[LLapp]

imsoeasy proves monty's point....

"The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement." — Unattributed

Lurker
May 5, 2010, 1:57 pm
Why is there a comma?

montyb
August 12, 2013, 12:51 am
To leave some room for improvement.

marnita
June 2, 2014, 9:22 am
My favorite part of doing cryptograms is Monty's comments.

LLapp
March 1, 2015, 11:15 am
ERROR: Please delete the comma!

universalmom
March 25, 2015, 8:20 am
Hahaha monty

montyb
October 13, 2017, 1:38 pm
Don't remove the comma! That would ruin my joke!

tgreen517
September 7, 2018, 8:33 pm
The comma is gone, but the joke is still funny!

imsoeasy
July 7, 2019, 10:13 pm
What joke?

[LLapp]

"Isn't it funny how we'll look out the window at the moon, and then we notice it's not the moon but a streetlight?" — Jack Handey

Prezkot
July 18, 2014, 4:54 am
What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the streetlight? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the streetlight, Mary.

[mistyswiss]

"It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go." — George Washington

mmfs83 on November 8, 2016, 3:17 am
Did anyone else have hell instead of well?

LLapp on December 30, 2018, 8:09 pm
Yes, but not while I was solving the quote.

[oddcouple]

"The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. "
— Frederick W. Robertson


badbob
January 12, 2016, 11:37 am
feel truly what?
LLapp
January 25, 2016, 1:17 pm
Hello, you have reached the Office of Poetry. To hear rhyming iambic pentameter, please press 1.
montyb
March 28, 2016, 8:18 am
To hear lecherous limericks, press 2.
abra
July 3, 2016, 9:27 am
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." -- Robert Frost So THIS must be the office he was talking about.
universalmom
July 8, 2016, 3:20 pm
Is that anywhere near the Ministry of Silly Walks?
kb83
February 13, 2017, 8:44 am
Thanks, LLapp. The poet is "in."
Persephone59
January 2, 2018, 7:01 pm
Soothing, esoteric haiku is option 3.
vintage38
March 15, 2018, 6:31 am
33 seconds
Eureka
July 18, 2019, 12:09 pm
Press zero to hear free verse from our operator.
LLapp
July 26, 2019, 10:58 pm
Press the star key to hear any of these options accompanied by bongos.

[oddcouple]

"No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow."
— Proverb

greenacres
May 2, 2011, 12:28 am
Not where I live!
wvwoman
October 13, 2012, 4:09 am
where are you, greenacres?
ulua
April 30, 2014, 6:25 am
green acres is the place to be!
abra
December 1, 2016, 3:00 pm
Farm livin' is the life for me --
autumngirl
February 27, 2017, 3:22 pm
land spreadin out so far and wide...
wshanley@sbcglobal
April 27, 2017, 4:54 am
Today we are calling it global warming.
slow1
August 24, 2017, 7:52 am
Those comments appear to be one right after the other, but they are years apart. Fun!
kahvecowgirl
June 1, 2018, 10:00 am
"...and Winter gave Spring and Summer a miss and went straight on into Autumn"

BTW, greenacres is from North Dakota.

[Eureka]

The one where montyb sweetly replies to pootie49, many years later. (BTW, does anyone know who p7 is?)

"It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed."
— Baltasar Gracian

LiveLoveLaugh
April 16, 2010, 11:45 pm
I often borrow other people's brains

bansaisequoia
October 9, 2010, 5:02 pm
"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking."--Ray Bolger

pootie49
July 10, 2012, 3:21 pm
bansai, p7 and montyb...can i borrow your brains for a month? i will wash them and return them good as new...k thanks.

bansaisequoia
October 7, 2012, 2:01 am
You can't wash my brain. My thoughts are too dirty.

chopstix
April 29, 2013, 3:07 pm
mmmm.... brains....

universalmom
July 1, 2014, 3:09 pm
dang it chopstix, you stole my line!

badbob
July 24, 2017, 9:57 am
apparently you can live without bruins

Persephone59
August 19, 2017, 12:38 am
You can see that Gracian didn't have to borrow other people's brains, because he had a fine Thinking Cap.

GtrZan
January 8, 2018, 6:29 am
Dr. Frankenstein, I presume?

maradnu
February 2, 2018, 1:03 pm
Dr. Frankenstein: Ah! Very good. Would you mind telling me whose brain I DID put in? Igor: Then you won't be angry? Dr. Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry. Igor: Abby someone. Dr. Frankenstein: Abby someone. Abby who? Igor: Abby... Normal.

Montyb
August 4, 2018, 6:23 am
(I wish I had gotten this puzzle while Pootie was still with us. I think she would have enjoyed this response.) No starch, please.

DrCryptell
October 16, 2018, 12:18 am
When you borrow a brain is there a checkout and return time? What if you go past the deadline? Does the brain expire?