Great Quotes II: Source and Context are Key

[classical_hero]

"I've had more women by accident than he's had on purpose." LBJ on JFK.

Why would LeBron say that?

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Why would LeBron say that?

:rofl:

Lyndon Johnson! Oy!

Speaking of which:

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[Gucumatz]

More LBJ:
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."

- Lyndon B. Johnson

 

[danjuno]

Wow, you like this thread, don't you?

Who? Me? Borachio? Quote button plz.

 

[Mouthwash]

Who? Me? Borachio? Quote button plz.

The universalist.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Nobody can handle that much fun.

"A cardboard box, with the words 'FORT' written on it in felt-tip pen, and an apparatus with the words 'FUN CONTROLS' written above it which corresponds to the dials. The text representing the maximum temperature (200°C) the temperature dial can be set to has been replaced with the word 'MAXIMUM FUN', and the words 'FUN BUTTON' have been printed above the button activating the device."
-how an oven looks like with SCP-1239

 

[madviking]

"Making people laugh is the lowest form of humor."
- Michael O'Donoghue

 

[Terxpahseyton]

"At least they killed in jealousy, haste or passion. What about me? What can I say?"

The Last Hang Man

"Making people laugh is the lowest form of humor."
- Michael O'Donoghue

That makes no real sense methinks. I get the sentiment that many laughs lack genuineness or alternatively that many genuine laughs lack good humor. The quote still seems stupid.
What does this guy think humor is? His personal pet transportation of feeling smug?

 

[madviking]

That makes no real sense methinks. I get the sentiment that many laughs lack genuineness or alternatively that many genuine laughs lack good humor. The quote still seems stupid.

You kinda replied for yourself there.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I have?

What does this guy think humor is? His personal pet transportation of feeling smug?

 

[madviking]

I have?

Unless you want to get into a discussion of the finer points of humor and the human psychology, I'll just say that there's more to humor than making people laugh--which is the gist of the quote--and that a higher paradigm of humor exists. Humor that doesn't make people think rather than laugh.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Humor that doesn't make people think rather than laugh.

Do U perhaps mean:

Humor that doesn't make people laugh but rather think.

?
Otherwise you just said that humor was about not thinking but laughing - which makes no sense wherever given your previous statements?
Moreover, I didn't ask what "Michael O'Donoghue" thought humor is just to embarrass him or you; I asked because I genuinely did not know.

To me humor is the art of making people happy or at best laugh. So you see, humor to me is entirely functional. Then you arrive at the scene and proclaim in the name of some properly dead guy I don't know about that humor was about something very different and specific which wasn't within the reach of the common man (as in : to laugh is the lowest form of humor).
I inquired what the motherfreaking auntscrewing doughterpleasuring HELL this means or weather someone was just full off pretentious horse's CRAP'With The <snip>.
Am still waiting.

In any case - please please please please begging the mercy of the cultural overlord- TELL ME
What is the higher order of humor?

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[Borachio]

I think he's maybe referring to wit rather than just cracking jokes.

As for what wit truly is, I'd have to give that some very serious consideration. For the time being, let's just say I know it when I hear it.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

"It was very painful and felt like I was being chainsawed in the stomach with hot sauce on the chainsaw."
-Curie Kim, "Pair in hospital after Kismot 'killer' curry contest", BBC News Scotland

 

[Hygro]

"Making people laugh is the lowest form of humor."
- Michael O'Donoghue

I dig it.

 

[Hygro]

In any case - please please please please begging the mercy of the cultural overlord- TELL ME
What is the higher order of humor?

Well somewhere up the ladder is you trying real hard to both find out what's better than what you know while simultaneously denying there can be something better than what you've already thought of.

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

I inquired what the motherfreaking auntscrewing doughterpleasuring HELL this means or weather someone was just full off pretentious horse's CRAP'With The S H I T.

see that made me laugh...

Well somewhere up the ladder is you trying real hard to both find out what's better than what you know while simultaneously denying there can be something better than what you've already thought of.

this made me think and

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

Those who are poor, ignorant, ill-born or ill-bred are not the common herd; the common herd are all who are satisfied with pettiness and an average humanity.

......

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

"Dedicating this much paper to three cartoon detectives trying to leave an office should be illegal. But it isn't, and we are exploiting that fact to our advantage here."

- Andrew Hussie

 

[Dachs]

"Each generation writes its own history of generations."
-Alan Spitzer, "The Historical Problem of Generations" (1973)

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