Classic Comments on the Quote

[montyb]

"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. "
— Tennessee Williams

SwampySox on 2016-03-18 05:30:44
I'm 67,814 secs stranger than most, thanks to my sister Blanche.

LLapp on 2016-04-11 06:40:36
^ I can see why you changed your name to Stella! Can you imagine Marlon Brando standing in the street howling "SWAMPYSOX!!!"?

[LLapp]

Originally Posted by BrainCellKeeper

Thanks, LLapp!
I had no idea you would have seen my comments on that, and remembered me.
I love this thread. It's quite entertaining. Incidentally, I took someone's suggestion and went to youtube to see bansaisequioa's videos of his quick solves. That was enlightening and helpful.

BrainCellKeeper, I definitely have seen your incredulous comments about fast solving times! I was delighted to notice that at some point you seemed to discover that they are for real. (Most of us doubted the super-fast record times at first; the videos really do help.) When I saw that you posted your own 25-second solve time, on New Year's Eve no less, I was genuinely happy for you. Congratulations on sticking with it and breaking through!

[LLapp]

"Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer." — D.H. Lawrence

Barnabas on 2012-05-03 13:40:55
I wonder what a conversation between this guy and Yogi Berra would sound like?

bansaisequoia on 2012-10-16 14:58:17
Hey, D.H., let's take a look in the old pic-a-nic basket.

Lurker on 2013-01-24 00:23:54
Wrong Yogi, Ban.

[BriddlesBob]

And Yesterday's Questions are Today's......Questions

[LLapp]

"Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't --it's human." — Desiderius Erasmus


Bob Musel on 2010-12-13 20:41:13
Gives you something to think about. Very deep.

universalmom on 2014-05-29 02:09:49
Folly, illusion, deception and ignorance are our starting points - the fascinating thing about life is figuring out how to move beyond them.

montyb on 2014-06-06 08:38:02
Folly, illusion, deception is my golf game.

JD_1947 on 2015-01-05 07:16:10
. . folly . . I always liked that word . . .

marnita on 2015-09-25 07:53:02
Folly - a good name for a cat.

LLapp on 2015-09-26 17:35:22
Deck the halls with boughs of folly.

darkyr on 2017-06-02 08:47:27
It's a good set of names for four cats. Perhaps four mutant teenage ninja cats, who, in a fit of instinct, ate the wise master rat who sought to teach them.

[Annamariah]

"No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible."
— Baudjuin

montyb on 2014-01-03 15:21:14
Oh god, I'll never get this puzzle!

LLapp on 2014-09-28 16:26:53
Error: Please add comma after "success."

LLapp on 2016-08-16 08:03:44
Again: Please add the comma! It would signal that the word after it is "if" and not "of". Its absence threw me off into "of" again.

LLapp on 2017-07-13 16:41:55
Well, here I am again, no thanks to that missing comma.

LLapp on 2017-10-10 11:23:15
I think we can all agree that the comma problem is preventing me from ever solving this puzzle.

marnita on 2018-03-21 13:39:43
No, LLapp, it's your fear of failure.

[LLapp]

"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them." — Samuel Palmer

kb83 on 2015-12-11 04:36:56
reminds me of the old saying, ...

killdozer on 2015-12-17 17:28:44
I'll have to share that one on facebook.

[LLapp]

"For most folks, no news is good news - for the press, good news is not news." — Gloria Borger

WRQ9 on 2013-11-24 10:14:30
How does good news compare, in either usefulness or gravity, to bad news? I'm so tired of this redundant sentiment. If you want good news read a church newsletter.

darkyr on 2016-06-13 04:09:04
If you want gravity, move to Jupiter.

[aerie]

"The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - to others, a death toll."
— George Whelton



Queethebean on 2012-08-11 19:33:01
I played the mortal coil in high school marching band.

bansaisequoia on 2012-11-02 15:25:39
I played the death toll in the jazz ensemble.

wvwoman on 2013-08-07 13:03:42
y'all are too funny!

Decathlon on 2013-12-09 08:24:49
whee

darkyr on 2017-01-12 06:30:51
I'm sure you both slayed them.

LLapp on 2017-03-29 16:44:11
And the resounding mortal coil goes DOIIINNNGG!

[montyb]

"Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price."
— Unattributed

montyb on 2015-06-06 11:30:44
So get the best self-respect that money can buy.

lainecap on 2015-08-20 11:01:50
and be sincere...and if you can't be sincere, fake it.

blueladyblue on 2018-03-19 09:29:25
You're right, monty. I bought some self-respect at Walmart and had to return it because it was really fragile