Great one-liners from PF members

[pinball1970]

Nor Canadian, though context makes it clear.

What context? I think Walter broke well, or braked in a unique and innovative, lucrative yet violent way.
Jessie went backwards, the more involved he got the more detached from reality he became.
Walter was trying to protect Jessie in his eyes, just like his family but descended further and further into criminality. I AM THE DANGER!
Jessie began as a criminal but strived to escape early doors.
To become human.
A beautifully complex story and "Breaking bad" did not sum it up for me.

 

[hmmm27]

What context? I think Walter broke well, or braked in a unique and innovative, lucrative yet violent way.
Jessie went backwards, the more involved he got the more detached from reality he became.
Walter was trying to protect Jessie in his eyes, just like his family but descended further and further into criminality. I AM THE DANGER!
Jessie began as a criminal but strived to escape early doors.
To become human.
A beautifully complex story and "Breaking bad" did not sum it up for me.

Never seen it, save for a few YT clips where wossname beats the crap out of some idiot(s).

Along the lines of "breaking news", "breaking surf", "breaking wind", etc.

Guess : you think the title was too generic ? considering the current slew of criminal-POV TV.

 

[Hornbein]

. Like a quote from another movie: "The only way to win is not to play".

I don't know that one. I recall a cinematized gambler saying "You can't win if you don't play." (It was a cameo by the director of the film. I don't remember anything else about it.)

 

[Borg]

It's slightly misquoted from the movie War Games - the only winning move is not to play.

 

[Hornbein]

A two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress must propose a Constitutional amendment. If one party has at least 26% of the votes in either house, they can stop an amendment.

I knew this would happen when kids started relying on calculators.

 

[berkeman]

I took a speed reading class and then was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes.

It's about Russia.

 

[Vanadium 50]

It's not original. I think it might have been Woody Allen.

 

[Bystander]

It's not original. I think it might have been Woody Allen.

Alan King?

 

[Ibix]

If you can read War and Peace in twenty minutes you must have been Russian through it.

 

[hmmm27]

I read The Lord of the Rings : lots of names begin with 'G'

 

[pinball1970]

I read The Lord of the Rings : lots of names begin with 'G'

It's Lord of the rings, lots of characters and lots of letters.

 

[hmmm27]

It's Lord of the rings, lots of characters and lots of letters.

I was twelve ; I enjoyed the story, but who's-who was a lost cause after about halfway through The Two Towers.

 

[gmax137]

I was twelve ; I enjoyed the story, but who's-who was a lost cause after about halfway through The Two Towers.

I don't have a copy at hand but I recall the last 200 pages of volume 3 was an Encyclopedia, including who's who and who was who...

 

[hmmm27]

I don't have a copy at hand but I recall the last 200 pages of volume 3 was an Encyclopedia, including who's who and who was who...

Not the most efficient placement, for a first-time reader.

 

[gmax137]

Not the most efficient placement, for a first-time reader.

You're kidding, right? If JRR had put his encyclopedia at the start of volume 1, he would have died and remained forever an unknown obscure academic. One in ten thousand readers would have read past page 25.

 

[hmmm27]

One in ten thousand readers would have read past page 25.

I think I'd have started reading around page 201. I don't recall if I bought all 3 volumes at the same time or no, but I also don't recall thinking "Let me see if there's an encylopaedia built into book 3" (or for that matter the existence of the encyclopaedia, but that was quite awhile ago, and most of what I remember is "Why do all the character/place-names begin with 'G' ?")

 

[strangerep]

"Why do all the character/place-names begin with 'G' ?")

There are plenty that start with F and T also.
Try List of Tolkien Names.

I'm impressed that JRR could keep them sorted in his mind.

 

[pinball1970]

I was twelve ; I enjoyed the story, but who's-who was a lost cause after about halfway through The Two Towers.

Good job you didnt try out the Silmarillion!

 

[pinball1970]

I read The Lord of the Rings : lots of names begin with 'G'

On the Silmarillion and G, house of Feanor not a G in site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fëanor

 

[hmmm27]

Good job you didnt try out the Silmarillion!

I did... didn't get too far ; again, twelve. I haven't read The Hobbit either, though I imagine it's a comparatively easy read.

 

[strangerep]

I haven't read The Hobbit either, though I imagine it's a comparitively easy read.

I was exposed to "The Hobbit" in year 9 high school English class. It was one of the prescribed literature textbooks, but our teacher refused to teach anything about it. She thought it was nonsense -- far beneath her. (Tbh, I didn't like her much at all. A literature teacher who doesn't comprehend the achievements of J.R.R. Tolkien?? Sheesh.)

"The Hobbit" is interesting in that the writing starts off with a rather childish tone -- well below year 9, I'd have thought. Not to mention the silly poems/songs.

Then the tone soon becomes more mature as the chapters advance.

 

[Hornbein]

I took a speed reading class and then was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes.

It's about Russia.

That was Woody Allen.

 

[berkeman]

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to self-report, but this is from a PM discussion with a couple members after they wasted a fair amount of time and effort trying to help a user in the EE forum who mainly seemed clueless about their AC Mains project they kept asking about, but turned out to have ulterior motives...

Yeah, very sorry about that, what a waste of our time and effort. He was a help vampire and hacker hidden in clueless sheep's clothing. (That might be a record for mixing metaphors...)

 

[Vanadium 50]

Hacker hidden in clueless sheep's clothing? Maybe he's just not the sharpest cookie in the jar.

 

[berkeman]

Hacker hidden in clueless sheep's clothing? Maybe he's just not the sharpest cookie in the jar.

Doh!

 

[BvU]

Link limited to a select group !

 

[berkeman]

Link limited to a select group !

Yes, it's from a PM conversation.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Or...you can lead a gift horse to water but you can't look in his mouth.

 

[gmax137]

I always thought the gifted horses were the ones stomping out answers to arithmetic questions...

 

[BillTre]

I always thought the gifted horses were the ones stomping out answers to arithmetic questions...

They could also just be horses given to someone.

 

[Vanadium 50]

I always thought the gifted horses were the ones stomping out answers to arithmetic questions...

HorseGPT.

 

[Vanadium 50]

HorseGPT.

ChatGPY and horses have one thing in common, at least: they both produce a lot of hotses.h...er...manure.

 

[Hornbein]

HorseGPT.

That could be a winner. People like animals. Could CatGPT lie ahead?

I kind of like the idea of ChatLSD but that might get old fast. Then again, maybe not.

 

[Borg]

CatGPT would just ignore your questions.

Edit: This got me to thinking about Googling it and it turns out that CatGPT exists - https://cat-gpt.com

 

[jack action]

Could CatGPT lie ahead?

We already have it in French.