Post by jk on Aug 17, 2021 15:21:06 GMT
Every forum should have one. To get the ball rolling, here are ten favourite quotes I posted at various websites and later reposted at EH:
1.
"Remember to keep it clean with Al Jardine by washing your hands for the amount of time it takes to sing the first verse of 'Help Me, R(h)onda'."
(Joshilyn H, in her "WIGU(TBAM)" harpsichord and Al bass video tutorial of 9 May 2020)
2.
"Boys, you may not be aware that there is an object attached to you that looks somewhat like a torch. Next time you're in the bath, look down and you'll see it. If you touch the globe part of that torch it will light up. But as you know, when you turn on a torch the batteries start to run down. And you boys only have very small batteries."
(Roald Dahl in a TV documentary recalling a sex talk given by his headmaster at primary school)
NB: This is jk's rough estimate of his more accurate transcription from memory of that anecdote as included in a comprehensive and intelligent quotes thread on The Capitol Board before its moderator saw fit to delete the topic in its entirety, effectively transporting that forum back to the Dark Ages.
With *thanks*.
3.
"Makes perfectly good sense to me! (I feel like I could collapse at times and I'm only 68.)"
(Brian Lux at Hoffman, responding to a topic whose OP begins 178-year-old British tour operator Thomas Cook collapsed Sunday night)
4.
"There's more to life than b Willy’s melodies but not much more."
(Paul Rosales, commenting at YouTube on Brian's gorgeous "Thank Him")
5.
"Don't know if this cunts, but taping over Dennis' lead vocal on Sail on Sailor. Why oh why???"
(Tony S, in "Beach Boys studio disasters and screwups?" at Smiley)
6.
"Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you."
(Gustav Holst)
7.
"I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review in front of me. In a moment it will be behind me!"
(The composer Max Reger, in response to yet another negative review by Rudolf Louis, the music critic of the Münchener Neueste Nachrichten)
Original German: "Ich sitze in dem kleinsten Zimmer in meinem Hause. Ich habe Ihre Kritik vor mir. Im nächsten Augenblick wird sie hinter mir sein!"
8.
Khrushchev was talking to some collective farmers. "How's life?" he joked. "It's great!" they joked back.
(Soviet humour)
9.
"And, of course, there's so much information they could pass along that Brian, whose recollections are frankly no more germane to the questions at hand than a random lemur's screams, simply cannot."
(Joshilyn H at Smiley, bewailing the fact that all Brian's instrumental collaborators of old are dying out)
10.
"When you click 'buy now', Amazon commissions a monk to copy the book out by hand for you."
(littlesurfer at PSF)
1.
"Remember to keep it clean with Al Jardine by washing your hands for the amount of time it takes to sing the first verse of 'Help Me, R(h)onda'."
(Joshilyn H, in her "WIGU(TBAM)" harpsichord and Al bass video tutorial of 9 May 2020)
2.
"Boys, you may not be aware that there is an object attached to you that looks somewhat like a torch. Next time you're in the bath, look down and you'll see it. If you touch the globe part of that torch it will light up. But as you know, when you turn on a torch the batteries start to run down. And you boys only have very small batteries."
(Roald Dahl in a TV documentary recalling a sex talk given by his headmaster at primary school)
NB: This is jk's rough estimate of his more accurate transcription from memory of that anecdote as included in a comprehensive and intelligent quotes thread on The Capitol Board before its moderator saw fit to delete the topic in its entirety, effectively transporting that forum back to the Dark Ages.
With *thanks*.
3.
"Makes perfectly good sense to me! (I feel like I could collapse at times and I'm only 68.)"
(Brian Lux at Hoffman, responding to a topic whose OP begins 178-year-old British tour operator Thomas Cook collapsed Sunday night)
4.
"There's more to life than b Willy’s melodies but not much more."
(Paul Rosales, commenting at YouTube on Brian's gorgeous "Thank Him")
5.
"Don't know if this cunts, but taping over Dennis' lead vocal on Sail on Sailor. Why oh why???"
(Tony S, in "Beach Boys studio disasters and screwups?" at Smiley)
6.
"Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you."
(Gustav Holst)
7.
"I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review in front of me. In a moment it will be behind me!"
(The composer Max Reger, in response to yet another negative review by Rudolf Louis, the music critic of the Münchener Neueste Nachrichten)
Original German: "Ich sitze in dem kleinsten Zimmer in meinem Hause. Ich habe Ihre Kritik vor mir. Im nächsten Augenblick wird sie hinter mir sein!"
8.
Khrushchev was talking to some collective farmers. "How's life?" he joked. "It's great!" they joked back.
(Soviet humour)
9.
"And, of course, there's so much information they could pass along that Brian, whose recollections are frankly no more germane to the questions at hand than a random lemur's screams, simply cannot."
(Joshilyn H at Smiley, bewailing the fact that all Brian's instrumental collaborators of old are dying out)
10.
"When you click 'buy now', Amazon commissions a monk to copy the book out by hand for you."
(littlesurfer at PSF)