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731.1 | | AITG::DERAMO | Daniel V. {AITG,ZFC}:: D'Eramo | Fri Oct 27 1989 20:37 | 3 |
| I thought it was "glitters".
Dan
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731.2 | | PHAROS::WILSON | I'm the XTC. | Fri Oct 27 1989 20:49 | 5 |
| RE: .1
I've heard people use both "glistens" and "glitters."
I'll check the Gray poem (if I can find it!).
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731.3 | "Winning isn't everything" . . . | SHARE::SATOW | | Fri Oct 27 1989 21:03 | 13 |
| . . . "It is the only thing"
- Vince Lombardi
or slight variations thereof. Problem was, he never said it. The closest he
came (paraphrased) was "Winning isn't everything. Trying to win is."
The Churchill ". . . blood, sweat, and tears" which was actuall "blood, toil,
tears, and sweat" is in another note.
Clay
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731.4 | | HANNAH::DCL | David Larrick | Fri Oct 27 1989 21:16 | 2 |
| Also in another recent note, I believe, is "[The love of] money is the root
of all evil".
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731.5 | two more | SSDEVO::GOLDSTEIN | | Fri Oct 27 1989 22:49 | 12 |
|
Hamlet's "Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him well." is a misquote of
Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio; a man of infinite
jest, of most excellent fancy.
The time-worn "Business before pleasure" is a misquote of Thackeray's
Business first; pleasure afterwards.
Bernie
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731.6 | Movie quote | CNTROL::HENRIKSON | Be excellent to each other | Sat Oct 28 1989 00:23 | 6 |
|
In the movie Casablanca, Bogey never actually says "Play it again, Sam." I
think there is a line something like "You played it for her, now play it for
me."
Pete
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731.7 | Who's this Grey guy? | BERAQ::WHORLOW | Venturers do it in the bush | Mon Oct 30 1989 01:19 | 14 |
| G'day
In the 'Merchant of Venice' by that well known English lad from the
Elizabethan era, or thereyabouts, one William Shakespeare, Portia's
suitors must choose from a one of three caskets lead, silver and Gold.
The hero of the plot, one Antonio, the merchant of Venice, chooses
lead. Portia comments that 'all that GLISTERS is not gold'. This was an
indication that she was rapt in the choice and reckoned he done good by
choosing the lead one!
leastways that how I recall it.
Derek
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731.8 | Based on the second line, not original with the Bard | SSGBPM::KENAH | Break the pattern, break the chain | Mon Oct 30 1989 20:08 | 18 |
| Very good, Derek --
The exact context: It isn't Portia that speaks the words;
they are part of a verse found inside the gold casket. They
are actually read by the Prince of Morocco, and go like this:
All that glisters is not gold;
Often you have heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms infold.
Hath you been as wise as bold.
Young in limbs, in judgment old,
Your answer had not been inscrolled
Fare you well, your suit is cold.
Merchant Of Venice; II,vii; 64-73
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731.9 | Casting correction... | NYEM1::SCHEIBEL | Temporary Insanity | Mon Oct 30 1989 23:27 | 4 |
| RE: 731.7
Antonio is the Merchant - his young friend who wins Portia is Bassanio.
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731.10 | how far that candle throws its gleam, like a good deed in anaughty world | BERAQ::WHORLOW | Venturers do it in the bush | Tue Oct 31 1989 10:44 | 13 |
|
G'day
Re .8 - Thanks! Memory fades after 26 years out of high school....:-(
yacc = yet another casting correction..
Bassanio wins Nerissa, Portia's maid, n'est-ce pas?
And Shylock's daughter runs off with???
derek
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731.11 | Can't tell without a program... | PCOJCT::SCHEIBEL | Temporary Insanity | Tue Oct 31 1989 18:17 | 10 |
| Sorry, but no.
Bassanio wins Portia. His serving man (whose name escapes me) wins
Nerissa, who is Portia's serving woman. Lorenzo runs away with
Shylock's daughter, Jessica. Antonio, poor lad, wins no one, but
does get to keep his pound of flesh firmly attached to his body.
DeBanne (who once played Portia, and does remember with whom she ended
up in the final clinch)
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731.12 | The price of Glister is $357 per ounce | BERAQ::WHORLOW | Venturers do it in the bush | Wed Nov 01 1989 02:04 | 18 |
| Ahhh G'day,
_NOW_ I know why I failed Eng. Lit. first time thru!...;-)
I remember seeing M o V at 'The Old Vic' in London as a schoolkid. When
Portia and Nerissa appeared in, what appeared to be, low cut gowns, all
that could be heard through the auditorium was the sound of sixpenny
pieces being pushed into the slots so that the opera glasses could be
brought into play!
My favourite character was Lancelot Gobbo. (or is he in Macbeth?)
derek
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731.13 | Or how far DOES your candle gleam? | PCOJCT::SCHEIBEL | Temporary Insanity | Wed Nov 01 1989 21:25 | 7 |
| Lancelot Gobbo is M o V. Forgot to look up the name of Bassanio's
sidekick, though. To be continued...
Are you downunder, or is g'day general pleasantry?
DeBanne
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731.14 | I felt sorry for Shylock - needed a good lawyer! | BERAQ::WHORLOW | It's darkest just before it goes totally black | Thu Nov 02 1989 00:44 | 14 |
| G'day,
Yup, I'm Darnunderr - A Pom in self imposed exile... ;-)
been on my head for 11 years now and am even considering having
'the Op' ie becoming neutralised (naturalised)!
...and my candle gleam _is_ like a good deed in a naughty world!
(or so I would like to think)
derek
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731.15 | The Final Vows | SSGBPM::KENAH | Break the pattern, break the chain | Thu Nov 02 1989 03:15 | 4 |
| Gratiano is Bassanio's manservant -- he woos and wins Nerissa,
Portia's lady-in-waiting.
andrew
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731.16 | Which TV Network? | SEAPEN::PHIPPS | | Thu Nov 02 1989 21:39 | 1 |
| Uhhh-h-h- Is this on ABC or CBS?
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731.17 | | SSDEVO::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Fri Nov 03 1989 00:17 | 1 |
| Most likely PBS, after 10pm.
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731.18 | But is it happily ever after...? | PCOJCT::SCHEIBEL | Temporary Insanity | Fri Nov 03 1989 20:25 | 14 |
| All right, then! Before this totally degenerates into a rathole...
Who ends up with ...
Portia - Bassanio
Nerissa - Gratiano
Jessica - Lorenzo
Antonio - His pound of flesh (still attached)
Shylock - Christianity
The End!
DeBanne
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731.19 | | SEEK::HUGHES | Fenestration+Frustration=DECwindows! | Tue Nov 07 1989 02:14 | 10 |
| .17> Most likely PBS, after 10pm.
^^^^^^^^^^
... or as people used to say in the UK, after the Council Houses have gone
to bed.
Meaning the inhabitants of Public Housing. (Don't blame me for casting
aspersions, I merely report the usage .)
Jim
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731.20 | Elementary, my dear Watson? | SHARE::SATOW | | Wed Dec 06 1989 22:10 | 10 |
| Another note is devoted to puns on
Elementary, my dear Watson.
I don't want to rathole that note, so I'll enter my question here. Isn't this
a misquote? I know Basil Rathbone said it many times, but can anybody quote a
passage from a Conan Doyle short story or novel in which Holmes says,
"Elementary, my dear Watson"?
Clay
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731.21 | | THEWAV::MIKKELSON | Elvis spotted in Malta! | Thu Dec 07 1989 00:06 | 5 |
|
That is correct. The canon contains no such quote.
- David
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731.22 | | WAGON::DONHAM | Nothing up my sleeve... | Tue Dec 12 1989 22:04 | 6 |
|
And, if you'd known that bit of trivia, you could have been in the
running for one week's use of the Car Talk t-shirt! (It was the
answer to the Car Talk Puzzler two weeks ago.)
-Perry
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731.23 | Give them an inch... | REVEAL::LEE | Wook... Like 'Book' with a 'W' | Thu Dec 21 1989 23:11 | 6 |
| Most would finish this with "... and they'll take a mile."
I believe the correct quote is "... and they'll take an ell." but I don't know
where the quote comes from.
Wook
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731.24 | You mean I've had it wrong for all these years?! | SEAPEN::PHIPPS | | Fri Dec 22 1989 03:16 | 6 |
| I would agree with the first version but what the ell...
What is an "ell" anyway?!
>I believe the correct quote is "... and they'll take an ell." but I don't know
>where the quote comes from.
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731.25 | | PROXY::CANTOR | Go ahead; quote my say. | Fri Dec 22 1989 08:52 | 3 |
| An ell is like a cubit, but it's not the same size.
Dave C.
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731.26 | Oh, an ell | WELMTS::HILL | Technology is my Vorpal sword | Fri Dec 22 1989 12:45 | 3 |
| An ell is a measure of cloth, it's about 45 inches.
Nick
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731.27 | So why did I ask? | SEAPEN::PHIPPS | | Sat Dec 23 1989 01:09 | 6 |
| And an ell is a wing of a building that sticks out at right
angles. (Or it wouldn't be an ell would it?)
What was the question? 8^)
Mike
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731.28 | enchanting movie, btw | LEZAH::BOBBITT | invictus maneo | Sat Dec 23 1989 06:34 | 7 |
| And there's the quote from "Sebastian", the conductor crab in the new
Disney Movie "The Little Mermaid"....
"teenagers....give 'em an inch and they swim all over you"
-Jody
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731.29 | More goodies... MisPrintNuncios? | NEMAIL::KALIKOWD | Nutcracker Protocol Honeymoon Suite | Sat Jan 05 1991 07:17 | 69 |
731.30 | Some MisPrintNuncios on my own nickel, this time... | NEMAIL::KALIKOWD | Nutcracker Protocol Honeymoon Suite | Tue Jan 08 1991 19:29 | 18 |
731.31 | Mais Oui, I *know* TEMPURA is Japanese...:-) | NEMAIL::KALIKOWD | Nutcracker Protocol Honeymoon Suite | Wed Jan 09 1991 05:36 | 22 |
731.32 | | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Wed Jan 09 1991 12:24 | 7 |
731.33 | | PRSSOS::MAILLARD | Denis MAILLARD | Wed Jan 09 1991 12:42 | 6 |
731.34 | Thanks, Denis & ::MONAHAN... | NEMAIL::KALIKOWD | Nutcracker Protocol Honeymoon Suite | Wed Jan 09 1991 16:37 | 25 |
731.35 | Then the semi-Pelagians | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Wed Jan 09 1991 22:38 | 5 |
731.36 | | PRSSOS::MAILLARD | Denis MAILLARD | Thu Jan 10 1991 12:27 | 4 |
| Re .35: Sorry not to have mentionned that acception of the term, but I
thought Pelasgianism had been dead and forgotten for about 14 or 15
centuries now... I try to be more exhaustive next time.
Denis.
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731.37 | that's GREAT! | TLE::RANDALL | Where's the snow? | Thu Jan 10 1991 20:40 | 6 |
| Re: .35
You just caused my two neighbors on the other sides of my cubes
to look up to see what I was laughing so hysterically at . . .
--bonnie
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731.38 | Hic Hoc - this wine | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Fri Jan 11 1991 22:16 | 3 |
| IN HOC SIGNO VINTES - Fine wines sold whereever you see this symbol.
Ann B.
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731.39 | | COOKIE::DEVINE | Bob Devine, CXN | Fri Jan 11 1991 23:08 | 13 |
| l'eclair, c'est moi == you are what you eat...
vax populi == VAX of the people
toot LeMond == honk your bike horn at Greg LeMond
Dominus vobiscuit == God gives you a biscuit
eat two Brute == dig in!
bon motormouth == the exact word said too quickly
und so waiter == waiters, etc
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731.40 | | SHALOT::ANDERSON | Noli me vocare, ego te vocabo | Sat Jan 12 1991 00:36 | 6 |
|
au reservoir == see you at the lake
hasta lumbago == see you at the chiropractor's
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731.41 | maybe it's the joke that needs hospitalized | TLE::RANDALL | Now *there's* the snow! | Tue Jan 15 1991 00:55 | 3 |
| Sick transit Gloria -- get her to the hospital fast.
--bonnie
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731.42 | | SSGBPM::KENAH | The heart of the matter... | Tue Jan 15 1991 18:43 | 3 |
| Hic Transit Gloria -- Careful, she's driving drunk again!
andrew
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731.43 | | LYRIC::BOBBITT | each according to their gifts... | Tue Jan 15 1991 19:57 | 2 |
| sic transit gloria thursdi - thus passes the glory of payday?
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731.44 | ad nauseum | SSDEVO::GOLDSTEIN | | Wed Jan 16 1991 00:04 | 3 |
| Sic gloria transit mundi - Gloria threw up on the bus Monday.
Bernie
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731.45 | Hey, good idea... | DDIF::RUST | | Wed Jan 16 1991 05:18 | 10 |
|
CARPET DIEM - The day they promised to deliver the new rug.
ID NAUSEUM - Needs a psychiatrist. (Or has a really bad one!)
TABULA RASTA - Don' be erasin' ma tablet, mon.
MOTOR DOLOROSA - My car's engine on _really_, _really_ cold mornings.
-b
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731.46 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | This note is illegal tender. | Wed Jan 16 1991 07:32 | 1 |
| MISS QUOTATION - The newspaper columnist who brings us these.
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731.47 | Cosy Fond Tooties | STAR::RDAVIS | Just like medicine | Wed Jan 16 1991 22:35 | 16 |
731.48 | pooe | TLE::RANDALL | Now *there's* the snow! | Wed Jan 16 1991 23:44 | 1 |
| Dic transit Gloria -- They eloped.
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731.49 | Not sure where the first of these goes; dual citizenship! :-) | NEMAIL::KALIKOWD | LibR8 Q8 | Thu Jan 31 1991 04:13 | 7 |
731.50 | Greece meets West? | WOOK::LEE | Wook... Like 'Book' with a 'W' | Sat Feb 02 1991 01:57 | 3 |
| STABIT MATER Clytemnestra from Electra's point of view.
MERCHI BEAUCOUM Fried anchovies (If you speak Korean, that is.)
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731.51 | off-by-one, not quite famous characters | RDVAX::KALIKOW | Partially sage, and rarely on time | Tue Jun 23 1992 17:22 | 19 |
| Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 19:30:4 EDT
From: jyoung@fieldofdreams.npirs.purdue.edu (Joan Young)
Organization: Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information
Systems, Purdue University
Subject: MISSPELLED CHARACTERS
DESCRIPTION OF PERSONS WITH NAMES ALTERED BY ONE LETTER:
LITTLE BOA PEEP - shepherdess who absentmindedly ate her own
flock.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACHE - Wall Street baroquer.
MOOSES - Hebrew prophet who parted the Maine woods.
PERRY MASSON - television lawyer who will solve no case before
its time.
EVICTOR HUGO - French landlord and author, "Lease Miserables"
XEROXES - Persian photocopy king.
ERICH MARINA REMARQUE - author, "All Quiet On The Waterfront."
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731.52 | Cliches we'd like to see | ESGWST::RDAVIS | Carp per diem | Wed Jun 24 1992 15:10 | 8 |
| "Flagging a dead horse" -- a futile attempt at hitchhiking
"There's no such thing as a free launch" -- Robert A. Heinsightlein's
famous argument against the space program
"90% of anything is hit" -- Surgeon's Law (specialist in traumatic
injuries)
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731.53 | Another character (off by one) | HLFS00::STEENWINKEL | R80ST | Thu Jun 25 1992 09:59 | 1 |
| Ludwig van Beathoven - he's into symphonic rock music
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731.54 | | ESGWST::RDAVIS | Carp per diem | Thu Jun 25 1992 12:08 | 2 |
| Ah, that reminds me of MC Sturgeon's Law, "90% of everything is rap."
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731.55 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | bad wiring. That was probably it. Very bad. | Thu Jun 25 1992 23:39 | 4 |
| On a bad day, you could say "0% of everything is crap" and be off by 1.
[In case there's any doubt, that 1 means 100%.]
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731.56 | | GOOEY::RUST | | Mon Jul 13 1992 10:55 | 10 |
| Inspired by somebody's phonetic spelling of a foreign phrase:
ESPRIT DECOR - choosing the colors of one's aura,
or,
the satisfaction of knowing that all of one's fellow
Marines look stunning in their dress uniforms.
-b
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731.57 | To keep from misquotation, I'm looking for a brainpick... | LJSRV2::KALIKOW | SERVE<a href="SURF_GLOBAL">LOCAL</a> | Wed Dec 21 1994 13:18 | 10 |
| Someone (Disraeli? Churchill? Einstein?) was once visiting the lab
where a new & apparently worthless but later-to-be-proven-absolutely-
seminal invention was being shown. When he asked the inventor "What
USE is it?" he was cleverly rebuffed by the retort "What use is a
baby?"
Or maybe it was the other way around.
Anecdote, please! And no Misquotations! Tnx, Dan
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731.58 | It might be in _Ben_Franklin_Laughing_ | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Tue Dec 27 1994 12:27 | 7 |
| The oldest version of that that I know:
After the Framers had finished hammering together the U.S. Constitution,
a non-participant asked what it was good for, and Benjamin Franklin
gave the socratic answer, "Of what use is a newborn baby?"
Ann B.
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731.59 | A thousand thanks, Ann... :-) | LJSRV2::KALIKOW | SERVE<a href="SURF_GLOBAL">LOCAL</a> | Tue Dec 27 1994 13:59 | 1 |
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731.60 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | segmentation fault (california dumped) | Tue Dec 27 1994 20:16 | 9 |
| Re .58
Can you supply a citation? Considering that the Constitution was
designed as a solution to known severe problems with the Articles
of Confederation, it seems hard to believe that anyone would doubt
its purpose. Doubts about its legitimacy of course, and viability
maybe, but purpose? Really hard to believe.
-- Norman Diamond
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731.61 | | ALLVAX::GELINEAU | fear, surprise, and an almost fanatical devotion | Sat Dec 31 1994 14:14 | 4 |
| norm, have you been talking to steve leech (of womannotes notoriety)
lately? :)
--angela
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731.62 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | segmentation fault (california dumped) | Wed Jan 04 1995 21:52 | 13 |
| >norm, have you been talking to steve leech
Never heard of him.
>(of womannotes notoriety)
Oh. Never heard of her.
Anyway, my request for a citation was sincere, because I really
find it hard to believe that the quoted question would have been
asked about that document. What is objectionable about my request?
-- Norman Diamond
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731.63 | | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Thu Jan 05 1995 13:06 | 9 |
| Norman,
I remember it as one of the documented quips from _Ben_Franklin_
_Laughing_, but I don't remember if it was about the Constitution,
the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independance, or
the Table of Contents. And I haven't found the book yet. I'd like
to think it isn't in a box in storage.
Ann B.
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731.64 | | ALLVAX::GELINEAU | fear, surprise, and an almost fanatical devotion | Fri Jan 06 1995 13:17 | 9 |
| Norman,
there is nothing objectionable about your request...
Mr. Leech is an ardent admirer/scholar of the constitution
as well, and your writing styles (not your noting styles)
seem very similar to me. I thought that you might
know him through notes.
--angela
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731.65 | | FORTY2::KNOWLES | | Fri Jan 13 1995 09:08 | 9 |
| If it was Ben Franklin, Stevenson should have it - Book of Home
Quotations or Book of Home Quotations or something - better
(or at least bigger) than any other compendium of N. American
Quotations. Its main flaw (apart from various misquotations
and misreferences - one _horrific_ one whose details I forget)
was `Marry in haste, repeat at leisure' (not in the text, but in
an index entry).
b
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731.66 | It may have been nice of you but it was bigamy. | RICKS::RICKS::PHIPPS | DTN 225.4959 | Fri Jan 13 1995 13:31 | 1 |
| Are you sure it isn't `repent at leisure'?
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731.67 | Not an error at all. Details herein. | SMURF::BINDER | gustam vitare | Fri Jan 13 1995 15:42 | 13 |
| Re .65
> apart from various misquotations
> and misreferences - one _horrific_ one whose details I forget)
> was `Marry in haste, repeat at leisure'
Bob, that is NOT a misquotation or a misreference. It is a shortened
version of the following line from the fantasy novel _Jurgen_ by James
Branch Cabell:
I shall marry in haste, and repeat at leisure.
-dick
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731.68 | Interesting. | RICKS::RICKS::PHIPPS | DTN 225.4959 | Sun Jan 15 1995 10:53 | 5 |
| It's Mike but thanks for the reference.
Fantasy? Hmmmm. 8^)
mikeP
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731.69 | I think so. :-) | SMURF::BINDER | gustam vitare | Sun Jan 15 1995 21:27 | 30 |
| Re .68
Er, umm, Mike, I was answering Bob Knowles' .65, not your .66.
Fantasy. Not like the modern soup-brained sword-and-sorcery New Age
fantasy - adult, intelligent stuff that is in my opinion far better.
Cabell was one of several 19th- and early 20th-century fantasy writers
that I like. I don't have all his novels, but some of them are:
Jurgen (1919)
The High Place (1923)
The Cream of the Jest (1917)
Domnei (1920)
Figures of Earth (1921)
Cabell is responsible for the following seriously profound witticism:
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible
worlds; and the pessimist fears that this is true."
Other good stuff that I have on my shelves includes:
The Boats of the Glen Carrig (1907), William Hope Hodgson
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1939), H. P. Lovecraft
Silverlock (1949), John Myers Myers
The Wood Beyond the World (1894), William Morris
The Well of the Unicorn (1948), Fletcher Pratt
Take a shot - you might like it.
-dick
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731.70 | Jump in anywhere you like she said. | RICKS::RICKS::PHIPPS | DTN 225.4959 | Mon Jan 16 1995 08:07 | 1 |
| So you were. Sorry for the distraction.
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731.71 | | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Mon Jan 16 1995 11:54 | 19 |
731.72 | Woohhh! THANX Ann!! | LJSRV2::KALIKOW | UNISYS: ``Beware .GIFt horses!'' | Mon Jan 16 1995 14:18 | 9 |
| (-: ...happy sigh... of release of long-held tension :-) -- NOW I will
be able to use that thought with an authoritative author to cite, as
well... There's still far too much "that'll never amount to much!!"
around these halls. This now-solidly-credited quote will work wonders,
at least for those of calcified brain with whom I joust who are
American, British, and/or French...:-)
Tnx again!!
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731.73 | | FORTY2::KNOWLES | | Fri Feb 03 1995 09:19 | 9 |
| Dick -
I didn't know about Cabell, but either the Stevenson index entry gave a
pointer to the wrong source (Johnson) or it was a typo (as the source
given was indeed Johnson, whose word was `repent'). If the latter, one
could fantasize that Cabell spotted it too and turned it into a
wisecrack.
b
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731.74 | | SMURF::BINDER | gustam vitare | Fri Feb 03 1995 09:42 | 6 |
| re .73
When was Stevenson collected, Bob? That'd answer your suggestion that
Cabell saw it there. Jurgen was published in 1919.
-dick
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731.75 | Later than that, I think | FORTY2::KNOWLES | | Tue Feb 14 1995 07:46 | 7 |
| Not sure, Dick. It's a while since I was au fait with this stuff. My
recollection is that I only ever handled quite recent copies of
Stevenson ('60s/'70s), but I wouldn't have used a first edition
anyway. If it _was_ post-war (I'll check when I can get to a decent
library) Cabell must have been extraordinarily prescient (!)
b
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