Memorable quotes from posts

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

GoodSpeak

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And this was the edited version! Reason totters.

[Pete C]

Reason totters.

Audrey Totter!

[walto]

James Henry Trotter.

[Uli]

Charlie Trotter's

[Noj]

Jeremiah Trotter

[Noj]

Cure for the trots?

[Captain Hate]

From the Barbarella 2005 thread:

Let's be honest, Rainy. OK? If I was a Catholic Priest sworn to celebacy and love for God, but I molested boys you'd be on me like white on rice, fer crissakes.

I don't know if it's the hypothetical situation or the simile that does it.

[Sergio Zamora]

From the Barbarella 2005 thread:


I don't know if it's the hypothetical situation or the simile that does it.

He he. Classic. I kinda regretted jumping thread on that one.

[Sergio Zamora]

Here's another goodie from the same thread

Perhaps it is time to consider the possibility that I am right and you may be wrong....?

Not since Cicero has this world known a greater rhetorician.

[Boris Badenov]

Not from a post, but germane to many:

“When the least obvious beauties of Vinteuil's sonata were revealed to me, already, borne by the force of habit beyond the reach of my sensibility, those that I had from the first distinguished and preferred in it were beginning to escape, to avoid me. Since I was able only in successive moments to enjoy all the pleasures that this sonata gave me, I never possessed it in its entirety: it was like life itself. But, less disappointing than life is, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best. In Vinteuil's sonata the beauties that one discovers at once are those also of which one most soon grows tired, and for the same reason, no doubt, namely that they are less different from what one already knows. But when those first apparitions have withdrawn, there is left for our enjoyment some passage which its composition, too new and strange to offer anything but confusion to our mind, had made indistinguishable and so preserved intact; and this, which we have been meeting every day and have not guessed it, which has thus been held in reserve for us, which by the sheer force of its beauty has become invisible and has remained unknown, this comes to us last of all. But this also must be the last that we shall relinquish. And we shall love it longer than the rest because we have taken longer to get to love it.”

[Gary Sisco]

It's really astonishing. Goodie manages in one 27 word sentence -- not counting intentional misspellings (one assumes) -- to make two errors of grammar and spelling and two of long-established style.

Not bad for an English teacher? :-0

A 14.8% error rate per word in the sentence.

[Uli]

Here's another goodie from the same thread


Not since Cicero has this world known a greater rhetorician.

He is a Celebracy among retroricians!

[Ron Thorne]

In response to Michael Schaumann on the "10 greatest singles" thread in The Alley:

Still, your offer to have me smell your ass was quite generous, being that is where your tastes reside.

[Scott Dolan]

THE most golden post of all time.


This should go down in the history of written word as one of the most impressive words of wisdom ever printed:

Larry Nagel
JC's Smartest Guy 2005®



Join Date: May 2003
Location: Detroit, Michigan
Posts: 7,335

[Enforcer]

Scott, I can't get the PayPal transfer to go through. I'll just pay your electric bill online instead and we'll call it even.

[Pete C]

On eai 4.0

say what you want, uli, you cant shake me this week.

....a black guy called me by name at work & said to me....'maaan, you one coool kat'...

when a black dude says that to a white guy...the white guy knows he's doing something right.............


cloud 9, babee


(& i bet ole and abbey never even talked to a black guy this week)

I posted it here because I can't find a forgettable posts thread.

[MRS]

Nagel, doesn't matter: "I made a late night run to Kroger for some Spumoni."

[Gary Sisco]

Pete -- That one also belongs in the Lamest Post thread as well as the Dumbest Post, Ever thread.

I tried to pretend I hadn't read it, when I saw it.

[Uli]

from the American Idol thread

Ron ( and Cookie )

time to re-rent "One Trick Pony".. and watch Rip Torn ..( the Clive Clone ) and Lou Reed ( the glazed over over-producer ) smear strings and background vocal goo all over Paul Simon and Richard Tees' straight ahead rock n' roll material..

in light of "Idol", that old film seems truer than ever.

[Jesse]

It would be poetic justice is someone flew a plane -- mistakenly -- into the White House and killed the lot of them.

Offered on the Gee, I Guess Newsweek Was Right...thread, a forum of reasoned debate & measured discourse.

[Scott Dolan]

On eai 4.0



I posted it here because I can't find a forgettable posts thread.

You obviously don't peruse the Alleys very often.

[Uli]

On eai 4.0



I posted it here because I can't find a forgettable posts thread.

Heheheh.

[Jesse]

Excuse me but why aren't people here more willing to tell Scott to go fuck himself? Do folks here really need friendship that badly? Jesus H. Christ. He's like wood rot on this board. First the breast cancer commentary and now this. Hey Scott, go run into another truck with your bike.

Offered on the Beyond Bad thread, a forum of resoned debate & measured discourse.

[Captain Hate]

And now, for one of two possible reasons, it exists only here.

[Gary Sisco]

Honesty is the best policy. I only say out loud in public what millions of other people think or say between themselves, privately. One thing I learned from the days when there was still a real left in the US, is that being completely out in the open with one's political ideas, actions and commentary is the best of all kinds of protection against retaliation. 1st Amendment right up in the face.

[Uli]

From the Drudge thread

Squeek squeek Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!


















I missed ya willy.

[bostontricky]

When I first read the thread title, I thought Doug was asking if anyone knew how to read nahuatl.

I thought maybe he got a parking ticket in Mexico and didn't know about the whole Spanish conquest thing.

- Sergio Zamora, post #5 in The Alley/Have You Ever Read Aztec?, June-25th-2005 04:05 PM EST

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[Captain Hate]

From the Supreme Court Property Rights Decision

Brian, there are some things in life which are not always fair to all people. I will suggest to you that tax dollars, badly needed tax dollars, will do more to give that old lady comfort in her remaining years through that SSI check and medical benefits than a house can ever provide.....

The greater good, Brian, is far more vast than I think you are willing to consider relative to your example.

[bostontricky]

It's a good thing I got "No Future" tattooed across my chest back in '77 or I'd have to be more responsible with my income......


- letchhausen, post #750 in Speak Out/WAYLT 18, July-16th-2005, 11:32 PM

[Enforcer]

I think I don't take this incredibly intelligent biz on faith is that you hear it EVERY SINGLE TIME someone gets nominated. Heard it about Thomas, Scalia, Bork, Souter, Breyer, all of them, really. It's like when the Celtics talk about how fantastically amazed they were that somebody dropped down so far they could get them in the draft. They're always beyond-themselves ecstatic. Same thing every year. So Roberts could be a freaking genius for all I know, but I prefer to have a little look myself rather than base this on the huge spin machine. What do you expect to hear--"Yeah, well maybe he's not too bright, but he's a damn nice feller and looks good in neutral-colored cottons"?

walto, post #102 in POLITICS, WORLD ISSUES & WORLD EVENTS/Edith Clement, the next Supreme Court Justice, July-21st-2005 08:56 AM EDT