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  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Maudlin mayfly
  • RoseofsharonRoseofsharon Shipmate
    naughty nymphs
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    Obnoxious Oleander Aphids
  • Rufus T FireflyRufus T Firefly Shipmate
    Roseofsharon wrote: »
    naughty nymphs

    Dammit! That was exactly the thing I was going to go for!

    Playful Praying Mantis
  • Foaming DraughtFoaming Draught Shipmate
    Quaint Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing Butterfly
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Renowned rhinoceros beetle
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    Supercilious stag beetle
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Terminal Termites

  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Undulating Ulysses butterfly
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    Vivacious Viceroy Butterfly
  • RoseofsharonRoseofsharon Shipmate
    wronged wasps
  • Foaming DraughtFoaming Draught Shipmate
    Xenial Xylocopa 🇦🇺 🐝
  • Net SpinsterNet Spinster Shipmate
    yare yellowjacket
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    edited March 17
    Zetetic Zebra Longwing

    And now...

    Famous quotes. Abbreviated with "etc" or ellipses if needs be.

    Stay tuned...
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Asinine "Ask not what your country can do for you..."
  • Foaming DraughtFoaming Draught Shipmate
    edited March 17
    Good topic, @stetson.

    Bankable "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." Honoré de Balzac
  • March HareMarch Hare Shipmate
    Foaming Draught wrote: »
    Good topic, @stetson.

    Bankable "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." Honoré de Balzac

    ...reminiscent of Wodehouse's beautifully-crafted 'Behind every man going down in the soup for the third time, stands the aunt who pushed him into it.'

  • March HareMarch Hare Shipmate
    Clever "(The) Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. ”
    G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World (1910).
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    Desperate: "(The) darkest hour is just before dawn". Thomas Fuller, A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine (1650).
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    Easygoing: "Everything happens for a reason."
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Fatalistic "Freedom's just another word for 'nothing left to lose'"
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Grimacing "Go ahead, make my day" - Harry Callahan, Sudden Impact
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Henrician "History is bunk"
  • March HareMarch Hare Shipmate
    Ineradicable 'I have a dream...'
  • The_RivThe_Riv Shipmate
    edited March 17
    Judicious “[A] jack of all trades is a master of none, but often times better than a master of one.”
  • RoseofsharonRoseofsharon Shipmate
    Kindly "Keeping silence doesn’t show the weakness! It shows the patience to forgive."
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Libidinous "Live free or die"
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Marvelously mischievous "Make America Go Away"
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    Nuanced. "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    One swallow doesn't make a summer ...
  • March HareMarch Hare Shipmate
    Persuasive 'Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely'
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    TheOrganist wrote: »
    One swallow doesn't make a summer ...

    Adjective?
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    In the meantime...

    Questionable "Question authority"
  • The_RivThe_Riv Shipmate
    Resolute "Revenge is a dish best served cold."
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Sublimely silly "So long and thanks for all the fish"
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Tetchy "To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." (Oscar Wilde)
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Unattested "Up, Guards, and at 'em!"
  • March HareMarch Hare Shipmate
    Venerable 'Vanity, vanity, all is vanity'
  • Net SpinsterNet Spinster Shipmate
    Wise Who will watch the watchmen?
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Exhilarating "Excelsior!"

    (Stan Lee's sign-off for his editorials in Marvel Comics.)
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    Yea, you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Lyda wrote: »
    Yea, you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.

    Adjective?
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    stetson wrote: »
    Lyda wrote: »
    Yea, you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.

    Adjective?

    Uh, I took the "special" rule and slipped in "yea", an adverb. Yea wasn't in the Bible version I quoted.

    Mercy?
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Lyda wrote: »
    stetson wrote: »
    Lyda wrote: »
    Yea, you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.

    Adjective?

    Uh, I took the "special" rule and slipped in "yea", an adverb. Yea wasn't in the Bible version I quoted.

    Mercy?

    Cool. I wasn't sure if "yea" was part of the original quote.
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    It so often is. Thanks.
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    edited March 19
    Alright...

    Zealotrous "Zion, we were remembering thee when we sat down and wept by the rivers of Babylon."

    (Holy freakin' cow, whoever picked THIS topic is banned from starting the next one.)
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    Anyone for Tennis Players?

    Amazing Agassi
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Boring Bjorn Borg
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    Cool Chris Evert
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    Dull Daniil Medvedev
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