Out of Context Quotes

[Nicky]

"I miss my ex-wife, but my aim is improving." 😐
--The Passage

[Brett]

"A short time later there was devastation where the geraniums had recently been growing and thriving."

[Richard]

Geraniums made me think of this petunia quote:

“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again”

[Michelle]

Richard wrote: "Geraniums made me think of this petunia quote:

“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again”"

I like that one!

[Brett]

@Richard - isn't that Hitchhiker's Guide?

[Richard]

Brett wrote: "@Richard - isn't that Hitchhiker's Guide?"

Absolutely. Adams was a bit of a genius in my book 🙏

BBC Radio 4 play episode 3(fit the third).
Brilliant YouTube clip of the original Whale monologue here :
https://youtu.be/THSY7-CxKnQ?si=VkN8m...

[Colin]

"You can't be hurt by a friend who's extinct."

From "The Last Days of the Dinosaurs," by Riley Black.

[Brett]

"He went on a diet of raw steak and salad and was, according to Ma, unfit for human companionship."

[Dj]

Kaladin wrote: "“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”"

Unless that brick happens to be an F4 Phantom Jet. An engineering marvel that proves with enough power even a brick can fly.

[Dj]

Richard wrote: "Geraniums made me think of this petunia quote:

“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again”"

Ah yes. A question to drive philosophers and scientists crazy.

[Brett]

That sounds like a thing Col. John Boyd once said, Dj.

[Dj]

Brett wrote: "That sounds like a thing Col. John Boyd once said, Dj."

It is a paraphrase of Douglas Adams from the same book.

[Kaladin]

Dj wrote: "Kaladin wrote: "“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”"

Unless that brick happens to be an F4 Phantom Jet. An engineering marvel that proves with enough power even a b..."

I just looked up the F4 and found out that the German Airforce calls theirs F4 "Eisenschwein" Iron Pig, and of course, Flying Brick. 🤣🤣🤣

[Richard]

Dj wrote: "Kaladin wrote: "“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”"

Unless that brick happens to be an F4 Phantom Jet. An engineering marvel that proves with enough power even a b..."

As an Air Cadet I once had a go “flying” in an RAF F4 Phantom simulator, found that when the engines flame out it does fly exactly like a brick 😱😆

[Kaladin]

Richard wrote: "Dj wrote: "Kaladin wrote: "“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”"

Unless that brick happens to be an F4 Phantom Jet. An engineering marvel that proves with enough pow..."

Must have been quite the experience. 😁 I hope jet designs have improved since.

[Bnz]

Dj wrote: "Kaladin wrote: "“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”"

Unless that brick happens to be an F4 Phantom Jet. An engineering marvel that proves with enough power even a b..."

I just looked up the F4 and found out that the German Airforce calls theirs F4 "Eisenschwein" Iron Pig, and of course, Flying Brick. 🤣🤣🤣

The real flying brick was the Space Shuttle. It not so much glided as fell in a somewhat controlled way.

[Brett]

"I should simply hate to be set on fire."

[Brett]

"It is a horrible feeling to be minus one wing at four thousand meters."

[Michelle]

I would imagine so!

[Brett]

@Michelle - it was Lothar von Richthofen, the Red Baron's brother. Fortunately for him it was a triplane so he had two spares.

[Dj]

Kaladin wrote: "Dj wrote: "Kaladin wrote: "“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”"

Unless that brick happens to be an F4 Phantom Jet. An engineering marvel that proves with enough pow..."

Leave it to the Germans to call it like it is.
LOL

[Dj]

Kaladin wrote: "Richard wrote: "Dj wrote: "Kaladin wrote: "“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”"

Unless that brick happens to be an F4 Phantom Jet. An engineering marvel that proves..."

I would say that they have.

[Dj]

Bnz wrote: "Dj wrote: "Kaladin wrote: "“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”"

Unless that brick happens to be an F4 Phantom Jet. An engineering marvel that proves with enough pow..."

Flying in reference to the Space Shuttle was a bit overstated. It was a seriously overpowered Glider.

[Economondos]

He took his hands out of his pockets and he raised them like Bruce Lee and then he smiled like Le van Cleef.

[Brett]

Though uninvited, he felt like an honored guest at their picnic, which was confirmed when they offered him the eyeballs right out of the sheep's head.

[Colin]

Brett wrote: "Though uninvited, he felt like an honored guest at their picnic, which was confirmed when they offered him the eyeballs right out of the sheep's head."

Sounds like svid (pardon the "d" letter) in Iceland.

[Brett]

@Colin - this was Yugoslavia, but the things must be good because they're a delicacy everywhere apparently.

[Dj]

Brett wrote: "Though uninvited, he felt like an honored guest at their picnic, which was confirmed when they offered him the eyeballs right out of the sheep's head."

Uhm, yeah, a little more Le Black Jack over here, like maybe the whole fifth. Thanks

[Brett]

"I don't question his courage, but his ability to handle people and retain their respect was nonexistent."

[Dj]

Brett wrote: ""I don't question his courage, but his ability to handle people and retain their respect was nonexistent.""

Picking on Braxton Bragg is too easy

[Brett]

ISWYDT.

[Trude]

Brett wrote: "ISWYDT."
I see what you did there

[Economondos]

It is true that money doesn't buy happiness, but it does buy chocolate which is kind of the same thing.

[from a jigsaw puzzle]

[Michelle]

Economondos wrote: "It is true that money doesn't buy happiness, but it does buy chocolate which is kind of the same thing.

[from a jigsaw puzzle]"

That's a pearl of wisdom if I've ever heard one :)

[Brett]

"A keen sport fisherman, his idea of fun was to leave a shark on a friend's doorstep, knock and run."

[Jemppu]

Brett wrote: ""A keen sport fisherman, his idea of fun was to leave a shark on a friend's doorstep, knock and run.""


Gyo

[Dj]

Brett wrote: ""A keen sport fisherman, his idea of fun was to leave a shark on a friend's doorstep, knock and run.""

Saturday Night Live. The Landshark Skit

[Brett]

"Candygram..."

[Dj]

Brett wrote: ""Candygram...""

LOL. Pizza...\

[Economondos]

"Land shark . . ."

[Trude]

It is a fact well known to those who know it well that we can only truly know what we personally experience, and beyond that, it’s all just guesswork and conjecture. Of course, there are those who will take issue with this evident profundity. They will say, ‘Ah, but what do we really understand by truly know and personal experience?’ But to those issue takers we must say, ‘Get a life and get a girlfriend’.

[Economondos]

"Knowledge is power, power is energy, energy is matter, matter is mass, and mass changes time and space."

[Brett]

"Once, when the King got bored, he amused himself by throwing sugarplums at his guests "

[Dj]

Brett wrote: ""Once, when the King got bored, he amused himself by throwing sugarplums at his guests ""

The Nutcracker.

[Dj]

That Bear ate my Pants

[CBRetriever]

Dj wrote: "That Bear ate my Pants"

That Bear Ate My Pants!: Will Boy Become Man? Or Will Boy Become Breakfast...?

[Brett]

@Dj - Alison Weir's biography of Henry VIII.

[Dj]

Brett wrote: "@Dj - Alison Weir's biography of Henry VIII."

Well, that does sound very funny, but no. It is actually the name of a book about a guy who goes to Ecuador to an animal rescue place to become a man and the out-of-context quotes pretty much from the title.
I haven't gotten very far into it but I am enjoying it.

[CBRetriever]

Dj wrote: "Brett wrote: "@Dj - Alison Weir's biography of Henry VIII."

Well, that does sound very funny, but no. It is actually the name of a book about a guy who goes to Ecuador to an animal rescue place to..."

yep, that's the book I posted the link to. I quite enjoyed it.

[Jason]

"Don’t be mean; we don’t have to be mean, cuz, remember, no matter where you go, there you are."