Pants game

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"I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. Pants - it's a different story.” - Christian Louboutin

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boy these fashion designer types really have it in for pants don't they!

here are a bunch of interesting and insightful louboutin quotes, lots of them about shoes: https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/1149-christian-Louboutin

“Sometimes women feel uncomfortable when men stare at them when they try on pants.”--Christian Louboutin

especially in store dressing rooms, I mean c'mon.

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Who knew that shoes were so sensual?... aside from Nike of course.

"The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in pants." - Mark Twain

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I have a book on shoes but its more of a visual catalog than an explanation of things. I think that topic would make for some interesting reading.

"politicians and pants must be changed often, and for the same reason."--mark twain

(I barely changed the original intent of that quote)

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Lol...

"If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his pants away." - W. H. Auden

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“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with pants.”--w.h. Auden

apparently the opposite of the fashion designers.

I knew there was a reason I struggle with poetry.

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lol... Poetry is easy, just find a pen who is a poet and write :) For the life of me I couldn't decipher Auden's original quote that I offered and substituting "pants" really threw it under the bus.

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change pants yourself." - Andy Warhol

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wait what, poets saying things readers don't understand! laughs...

"I want to die with my blue jeans on." --andy Warhol

didn't have to change a thing!

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"We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and pants." - Andre Maurois

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imagine the romantic love we might be having had pants NOT been invented?

its shockingly surprising difficult to find quotes ABOUT the middle ages as opposed to quotes FROM the middle ages. what the heck search engine??

"what progress we are making. in the middle ages they would have burned me. now they are content with burning my pants." --Sigmund freud

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Siggy - LOL!

Ah, Middle Ages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_am_of_Irlaunde

Ich am of Irlaunde,
And of the holy londe
Of Irlande.
Gode sire, pray ich thee,
For of sainte charite,
Come and daunce wit me
In pants. :)

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the funny thing there tailor is I am so unfamiliar with the original quote, "pants" seems to be fitting, no pun intended.

“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my pants.”― W.B. Yeats (it is unclear as to whether or not yeats was actually wearing pants when he penned that phrase)

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Lol, I thought the same 2x :)

"When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your pants space to ponder." - Tom Hodgkinson

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"We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-pants ourselves."--Tom Hodgkinson

well if only women didn't like money so much!

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lol...

“What would Chess be without silly pants ?” - Kurt Richter (me: I wear Hawaiian style shirts :) )

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I knew there was something weird going on when I was watching bobby fisher and boris Spassky! their pants!

“Sometimes a Pawn is enough to change the whole game and those who ignore the importance of it, are liable to lose their pants.”--Sandeep
Sharma

(a common sentiment in the little known variant of "strip chess")

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Lol!

“Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of pants that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card” - Max Euwe

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that's true, sometimes modern art just doesn't connect with the average person.

“Strategy requires thought, tactics require pants”--Max Euwe

it doesn't work running about trying things half naked.

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Not at all :)

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing pants." - Leo Tolstoy

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i interact online with lots of Russian women, they all tell me that 'pants changing' is a thankless job.

a rule bending entry today---clothes, pants---pretty close:

"Upon meeting, you’re judged by your clothes, upon parting you’re judged by your wits."-- Leo Tolstoy

it was either that or

"One must put oneself in every one’s pants. To understand everything is to forgive everything."--Leo Tolstoy

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Lol...

“Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid pants.” - Vladimir Nabokov

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dress for the job you want!

“I mean, I have the feeling that something in my pants is poisoning everything else.”--Vladimir Nabokov

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lololol !

"For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change pants." - Steve Jobs

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yes, apparently changing pants is an example of the quote "variety is the spice of life."

“Sometimes life is going to hit you in the pants with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”--steve jobs

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In Job's case a gold brick :)

"If you do not change pants, you may end up where you are heading." - Lao Tzu

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“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing pants is true wisdom." --lau tzu

ah, Chinese philosophy is as inscrutable as ever!

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Wise man Lao Tzu.

"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your pants, keep intact your roots. - Victor Hugo

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you know, its been years since ive read the hunchback of notre dame but I don't recall hugo ever having quaisimodo change his pants. maybe that's why people didn't like him so much.

"He never went out without a book under his pants, and he often came back with two."--victor hugo

is that a book in your pants or are you just happy to see me?

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lol...

"The only way to make sense out of pants is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." - Alan Watts

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alan watts was credited for being an inspiration for the john Travolta character in Saturday night fever!

“The only pants you’ll find on mountain tops are the pants you bring up there with you.” – Alan Watts

its true---mountaineers never leave their spare pants for the next climber.

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AW - Cool

lol...

“There are far better things ahead than the pants we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

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I wonder if I miss some of my childhood pants. maybe not the bell bottomed ones so much though.

"When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his pants"--
C. S. Lewis

everyone knows you cant jump off a cliff without pants on.

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Bellbottoms were ridiculous.

Lol... so true !

Hoping this wont be flagged as being political:

"I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a pants controversy." - President James K. Polk

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"It is confidently believed that our pants may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits." --James polk

apparently some people, especially the Indians during the westward expansion, disagreed, some vehemently, thus, the aforementioned "pants controversy."

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Agree: manifest destiny, schmanifest destiny... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny
Hence the term, as stated elsewhere: "... pants on fire" by the indigenous peoples everywhere.

“While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the pants of society.” - President Abraham Lincoln

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isn't it funny tailor how sometimes the "adjusted" quotes seem to still work fine?

“Surely life has taught you that pants can be both beautiful and vile.”--Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

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Lol... so true.

(lol) I've been tempted to watch AL:VH but have yet to do so.

"Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without pants?" - Marcel Marceau

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it doesn't have a high IMDB rating, only 5.9, but I really liked it. I enjoyed the book too. by contrast, I couldn't finish pride and prejudice and zombies (same author) but I really enjoyed the movie, even though it only got a 5.8 rating. apparently im easy to please movie wise.

that's a really good example of the quotes still making sense!

"What is important in mime is pants"--marcel marceau

you simply cannot have naked mimes running about!

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(lol) Never! BTB, I found a factoid where MM spoke 1-word in the movie Silent Movie.

"I fear all we have done is to pants a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." - Isoroku Yamamoto

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yes, its another common knowledge thing that giants don't take well to being pantsed!

"In war, there is no time for pants."--isokuru yamamoto

is why the Japanese soldiers were so often badly dressed and had pants that were in disrepair.

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IY - lol.

"If you are not too large for the pants you occupy, you are too small for it." - President James A. Garfield

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apparently Garfield doesn't believe pants are like goldilocks and the three bears---there are no third pants that are "just right."

"He who controls the pants supply of a nation controls the nation."--James Garfield

some scholars believe it was this extremely unpopular position that led to his assassination.

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Lol... most assuredly!

"The road of excess leads to the palace of pants." - William Blake

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“My mother groaned, my father wept,
into the dangerous pants I leapt.” --wlliam blake

I should find the rest of that poem. im curious what dangerous pants are!

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lol... poem: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/infant-sorrow/

"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my pants on fire." - David Bowie

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why, there is nothing else about pants in the poem at all, let alone dangerous ones. we've been gyped!

no pants word-exchange in this one but rather a sequel to your quote.

"I've been putting out the fire with gasoline."--david bowie

from the soundtrack of cat people, the movie that gave me a crush on nastassia kinski.

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lol...

"My friends tell me I have an pants problem. But they don't really know me.” - Garry Shandling

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that's right, to know someone is to walk a mile in their pants.

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"No, I don't think my generation got into this pants thing." - Walter Cronkite

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you never did really see walter Cronkite outside of sitting down at his desk!

remember the tv show he did you are there?

"Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our pants." --walter cronkite

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O.

YAT - vaguely... used to tape record "The 21st Century" I think it was called and remembering I was going to be soooo old in the year 2000 (lol).

"Alimony is like buying pants for a dead horse." - Groucho Marx

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there are a bunch of you are there episodes on YouTube tailor, I bet youd really like them.

that's interesting, because groucho marx was in a movie called horse pants.

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I'll check them out :)

Addendum: watched one episode here... https://www.google.com/search?q=you+are+there+walter+cronkite+youtube&newwindow=1&client=opera&hs=xVL&sca_esv=c14839b164416a05&biw=852&bih=390&tbm=vid&sxsrf=ADLYWIKgOXlBsdkxA-Xr9BXsaVacoPgp-g%3A1723494434671&ei=InC6ZqDWKLrTp84Pn5m8sAQ&oq=you+are+there+cronkit&gs_lp=Eg1nd3Mtd2l6LXZpZGVvIhV5b3UgYXJlIHRoZXJlIGNy b25raXQqAggBMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgsQAB iABBiGAxiKBTIIEAAYgAQYogQyCBAAGIAEGKIEMggQABiABBii BDIIEAAYgAQYogRIhHlQowlYoSpwAHgAkAEAmAHvEKABlFGqAQ s1LTEuNS4wLjIuMbgBAcgBAPgBAZgCCaACuFHCAgoQABiABBhD GIoFwgIFEAAYgATCAgsQABiABBiRAhiKBcICCBAAGBYYHhgPwg IIEAAYogQYiQWYAwCIBgGSBwk1LTQuMi4yLjGgB6E2&sclient=gws-wiz-video#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:6e63ffbf,vid:AeMNdPeDiVg,st:0... seems Bones time traveled again and used 23rd century technology on the sly to bring in an early 20th century oil well :)

lol

“I've got a fever… and the only prescription… is more pants!” - Bruce Dickinson

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* Edit bug reared its head: Note: Not the Iron Maiden Singer Bruce Dickinson; Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Cowbell

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im glad you watched an episode tailor, that's kinda neat.

I love time travel stories. on the topic of star trek, ive lately, though mostly slow and delayed, been really enjoying the animated series, lower decks, and picard.

I love more cowbell!

"There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and pants."--Christopher Walken.

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Time travel is my favorite genre :)

"There's something..." - a truism if I ever read one :)

Didn't change a thing, lol...

"I may have a feather duster down my pants." - Johnny Depp

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no wonder he and amber heard got divorced! but I don't think she ever brought up the feather duster in the public proceedings.

"I am a firm believer that you can have the pants you want, only to the extent that you're willing to work for it."--Amber Heard

I liked her in aquaman

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Lololol !

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic pants.” - Rumi

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"Check out our ecstatic dance pants selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our women's clothing shops."--an etsy ad

they should get rumi to write for them, although I understand he's been gone quite awhile.

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lol...yeah, a little bit.

“Television is chewing gum for the pants.” - Frank Lloyd Wright

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"This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for pants than we do for chewing gum."--Elbert Hubbard

the naked barbarians!

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So true... lol

"Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in pants." - George Sand

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what, not skirts or dresses? who is advising these women??

although albert Schweitzer seems to agree:

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and pants."

or "pants and cats."

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Lol... so true

“Tough times never last, but tough pants do.” — Robert H. Schuller

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he must shop at carhartt or Duluth trading company.

"Let your pants, not your hurts, shape your future."--robert schuller

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:)

“Finality is not the language of pants”- Benjamin Disraeli

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yes but Miguel de Unamuno said:

"The only way to give finality to the world is to give it pants."

so who are we to believe??

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I'd go with the poet :) Addendum: Both were poets, but Disraeli is known mostly for his statesmanship.

(From Mork and Mindy): Exidor: "Pepe, pepe. You call yourself a tailor? Just lengthen the pants don't clip his nails."

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pam dawber was a cutie!

I liked garek the "tailor" on deep space nine. I think you liked him too.

"It’s hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife in your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my pants."---robin Williams.

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G - Enjoyed his absolute complexity of character :)

I was reminded of RW's passing recently... what a treasure lost :(

"I'm willing to bet that you've brought one of those famed Starfleet engineers who can turn rocks into pants." - Vorta Keevan, "Rocks And Shoals"

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im reminded of john donne---any mans death diminishes me, for I am caught up with mankind.

i remember that episode, that was a really good one. the vorta were pretty good villains on the slimy front weren't they? and I bet the Starfleet engineers could do that!

"I cannot change the laws of pants, Captain! A've got to have thirty minutes!"--montgomery scott.

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Vorta... Loved the continuing arc of Weyoun's death and replacements by clones :)

Lol... gotta love Scotty !

"Imagination is more important than pants." - Albert Einstein

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yes, that was an innovative aspect of them.

scotty was indeed a treat.

I think I used to have that on a poster!

and yet..."Einstein was a man of great simplicity and pants." --niels bohr

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So true, lol... https://www.google.com/search?q=was+neils+bohr+boring&newwindow=1&client=opera&hs=QNi&sca_esv=170c5e6fca5d2d21&biw=1162&bih=533&tbm=vid&sxsrf=ADLYWIIuH3LG8w9jvFhGw3DnlP7yDoawyA%3A1725806 636246&ei=LLjdZufmDpnJwN4PzIK7WA&ved=0ahUKEwjnrITcyrOIAxWZJNAFHUzBDgsQ4dUDCA4&uact=5&oq=was+neils+bohr+boring&gs_lp=Eg1nd3Mtd2l6LXZpZGVvIhV3YXMgbmVpbHMgYm9ociBi b3JpbmcyBBAhGApIgFJQAFjtS3ABeACQAQCYAesJoAHJnAGqAQ c2LTEwLjEwuAEDyAEA-AEBmAIPoALZeKgCAMICDhAAGIAEGLEDGIMBGIoFwgILEAAYgAQ YsQMYgwHCAgUQABiABMICCxAAGIAEGIYDGIoFwgILEAAYgAQYk QIYigXCAgoQABiABBhDGIoFwgIIEAAYgAQYxwPCAgcQABiABBg KwgIGEAAYFhgewgIFECEYnwXCAgcQIRigARgKmAMCkgcGNi0xM C41oAfXWQ&sclient=gws-wiz-video#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:3f266948,vid:i76dfPNP0Rk,st:0

"It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human pants in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man." - - Richard P. Feynman

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that's funny---had you remembered that clip from your own watching or did you go in search of something and found that?

hmm, Richard feynmans quote is reminding me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfwBC7MiO2Q

“pants are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do.”--elvis Presley

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Lol, Googled "Niels Boring" :)

IJBOL !!!... Oh, my... The (modified) quote I selected was from 1963 - much after the great gyro-hipster's debut, but fits perfectly...

re: Elvis' quote: lol.

"You seem to think warfare an English invention. Have you never heard of Chandragupta Maurya? He slaughtered all the armies left in India by Alexander the Great. India was a mighty nation then while Englishmen still dwelt in caves and painted pants blue." - Guru from Gunga Din

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don't forget this as the elvis prequel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJslCsekjIg

so apparently jimmy buffet knew prehistoric English history: "We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue pants."

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lol... Wonderful movie clip :)

Yeah... Jimmy was quite the renaissance man, lol.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's pants." - Anaïs Nin

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i have a book by anais nin. I wonder if that quote is in the book?

have you ever read her?

"The best protection any woman can have... is pants."--Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Anais - No, I haven't read her, only her bio... which made me blush.

"If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Pants. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.” - Dorothy Parker

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so Dorothy isn't too sanguine on writers but is a big fan of pants.

by the way, did you know the author of that is the same fellow who wrote charlotte's web?

“To achieve style, begin by affecting pants.” --eb white

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No... interesting factoid :)

Agree with EBW.

“Permit yourself to change your pants when something is no longer working for you.” - Nedra Glover Tawwab

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yes, I noted she also wrote:

"pants is a part of the process."

and

"discomfort is a part of the pants."

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Very wise.

Ahead of his time: "Do not trap yourself into an owl’s pants; learn to twit like a sparrow." - Rudyard Kipling

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now ive read the jungle book and I don't remember that quote!

“The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders at our quaint pants.” – William Shakespeare

finally a Shakespeare quote I understand.

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Lol...

"What do I know of man's pants? I could tell you more about radishes."- Samuel Beckett

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tailor are you suggesting that Samuel beckett went through life in women's pants?

from harry potter:

"Like her father, Luna was wearing bright yellow robes, which she had accessorized with a large sunflower in her hair. Once you got over the brightness of it all, the general effect was quite pleasant. At least there were no radishes dangling from her pants." --jk rowling

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re: Beckett - hmmm... dunno, did they button on the opposite side?

Loved Luna's character in HP :)

"Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your pants." - Buddha

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its interesting to consider why mens and women's clothing attaches on opposite sides.

I liked luna too. she was a good minor character.

"If we fail to look after others when they need pants, who will look after us?"--Buddha

one of the extra bonuses of contributing to thrift stores and clothing drop boxes!

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True.

"If you do not change pants, you may end up where you are heading." - Lao Tzu

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ah, Taoism continues to remain inaccessible!

"By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the pants of your director."--Jodie Foster

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Lolololol!

"When I just decided to be myself, that's when you get questions like, 'How do you feel about pants?' And I have no idea; this is just when I decide what I'm not tolerating and what I genuinely think and a little bit in between." - SZA

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tailor im gonna have to let the folks at metallica, nirvana, scorpion, et al, that you are quoting sza.

"By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your pants."--Jodie Foster

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Ahhhhhh... one must be eclectic (just don't tell Satch). I've only listened to one of her songs, and that was after my research... learned what "cuffing season" is of all things, lol.

I see... lol

“What greater gift than the pants of a cat.” - Charles Dickens

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that must be where the phrase "the cats pajamas" came from!

“I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The pants of cats are infinitely superior.” – Hippolyte Taine

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Exactly!

Lol!

"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking towards me, without pants."- Jean Cocteau’s last words

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I think you cannot have a quote that implies nakedness coming from a fellow who has "coc" in his name!

"The fear of death follows from the fear of pants." --mark twain

maybe that is why death doesn't wear pants.

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Lol... I think it's metaphorical.

... there we go! :)

"Literature and pants are the two sweetest passions known to man.” - Vladimir Nabokov

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literature, pants and lolitas.

and clothes based on books is a real thing. who would have thought:

https://active-service-group.medium.com/unveiling-the-magic-clothes-based-on-books-at-literature-meets-fashion-22a776546ecc

and then look at this one:

https://www.writingmastery.com/blog/how-to-pants-a-novel-tips-for-writing-as-pantser

"Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with pants, is inconceivable."--Gertrude Stein

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Interesting links, especially the one about writing by the seat of one's pants... though Gertrude might disagree (the plotter!) :)

“Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest ’pants’ which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess is supposed to be” - Vladimir Nabokov

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i think we had some earlier quotes about pants and chess players didn't we?

“Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange pants.”― Gustave Flaubert

hmm, is that counterintuitive?

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chess... yes

lol...
hmmm, prolly so for the most part, but then there's https://yizzam.com/collections/salvador-dali/products/salvador-dali-the-voyeur-1921-womens-leggings?variant=506382811161

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without pants." - Salvador Dali

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as if we needed any more reason to look at women's legs??!

and birds need pants!

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own pants." — William Blake

(as opposed to some other bird's pants?)

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Lol...

“My father used to say, ‘Don’t raise your pants. Improve your argument.'” —Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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hah, this is totally for your desmond tutu quote tailor!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbxW9nhb90k

sorry, I have to do a mic drop on that one.

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Lolololol!

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“I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other’s pants off.” — Elizabeth Taylor

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Lol! That Liz was a wild one.

"Let's have days and days of brilliant pants, etched and limpid, cool and surgical." - Richard Burton

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concerning Elizabeth taylor:

“A girl sitting on the other side of the pool lowered her book, took off her sunglasses and looked at me,” [Richard] Burton, then 28, poetically recalls in his diary. “She was lavish. She was a dark, unyielding largesse. She was, in sort, too bloody much, and not only that she was ignoring me.” He ended his ode to the violet-eyed screen siren with, “Her pants were apocalyptic, they would topple empires.”

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Liz made a great Cleopatra.

MLB: The “Shohei Ohtani rule,” a team can list a player as the pitcher and designated hitter on the days he starts, then remove pants in one role but not the other.

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hmm, I don't think I would watch half-naked baseball no matter who wasn't wearing them!

"I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the pants and if it keeps up, I change pants."--yogi berra

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lol...

"After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my pants down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases." - Mickey Mantle

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pitcher: well that guy just crushed my pitch for a home run but at least my penis is larger than his!

I recently saw a YouTube video with mickey mantle, duke snider and willie mays, talking about sandy Koufax and don Drysdale. it was pretty neat.

"I was afraid if I started to hit home runs, my pants would drop."-- Asdrubal Cabrera (its unclear what Cabrera's penis size is)

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... MM, DS, WM re: SK & DD - cool :)

"Imagination means nothing without pants." - Charlie Chaplin

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"imagination is more important than pants" --albert Einstein.

or do we like

"pants are more important than knowledge?"

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#1 :)

All men's miseries derive from pants being able to sit in a quiet room alone. - Blaise Pascal

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those pesky trouble making pants!

“In difficult times carry something beautiful in your pants.” --blaise pascal

that one actually sounds like it has some truth to it.

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Lol... I think Blaise has something there :)

“Success is as dangerous as failure.
Hope is as hollow as pants.” - Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching)

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I had a high school classmate named blaise. maybe next time I run into him i'll ask him if maybe he was named with pascal in mind.

I was recently thinking that "cheese" would work in the same absurd way that "pants" does. maybe i'll throw that in every so often.

noooo, hope is the best thing!

"The people are hungry: It is because those in pants eat up too much in taxes." --Lao Tzu

its a little known fact that the peasants in lao Tzu's time didn't have pants!

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Lol... A friend of mine played a game in HS where a quote was made and the ending was always added with "between the sheets"... prolly not appropriate for most quotes, but maybe I'll throw one in on occasion starting now.

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow, between the sheets. - Li Bai

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the comedy show whose line is it anyway? had some schticks were odd things would be inserted into dialogs, usually to comic effect.

"To find pleasure in life, make the most of the cheese."--li bai

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Lol...

“If the face says nothing, listen to the cheese.” - Mò Xiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]

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this is just for you tailor!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TqJ2qK2AmBg?feature=share

"I am often lost in my own pants, with a frown on my face."--Hayley Atwell (I don't know if that's erotic or not!))

or

"I am often lost in my own world, with cheese on my face." --Hayley Atwell

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Hahahahahahahahahahaha !

Either works, lol :)

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your pants.” - Aldous Huxley

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cheese!!!

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is between the sheets.”--Aldous Huxley

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Lol...

I like hard, aggressive cheese. - Lemmy

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oh tailor, you set me up for that one!

I like hard aggressive between the sheets!--lemmy

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Lol...

Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own pants. - Leonard Mlodinow

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ever see the little incomplete newsblurbs how we're paying for sexual harassment lawsuits that we never hear about against members of congress?

"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite between the sheets."---Thomas Jefferson

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Sadly yes.

TJ was very enlightened :)

“I love cheese. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

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well I didn't know douglas adams wrote about flying cheeses!

"For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to cheese." ---Wilbur wright

ah, if only he had lived long enough to see his dream come true...

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Lol...

"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to pants ourselves." - Viktor E. Frankl

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yes but:

"progress is impossible without pants!" ---George Bernard shaw

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So true!

Fudging a bit: “Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with pants and cheese.”
― Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor

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now, its been many years since ive read billy budd but I have to confess I don't remember that line!

I found this quote about colors I really liked:

"All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites."-- Marc Chagall


“All colors arouse specific associative ideas between the sheets…”--Yves Klein

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Chagall :)

Lol!

“See how elastic our pants grow when once love comes to bend them.” - Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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is a little known fact apparently about ahab:

“I try all things, I achieve what I can between the sheets.” --Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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Lol...

We cannot solve problems with the kind of pants we employed when we came up with them. - Albert Einstein

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there it is! that's why einsteins lab assistants frequently found him wandering around with no pants!

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards cheese."--albert Einstein

apparently he was quite the cheese connoisseur

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Lol... Wasn't he the author of Of Mice and Men ?

"Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have pants." - Steven Wright

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john einsteinbeck?

I caught a mouse last night and relocated him further into the woods this morning.

I used to love steven wright.

"I eat swiss cheese from the inside out."--Steven wright

didn't have to change a word! laughs...

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Lol :)

"The fact that the great scientist believed in flying pants was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies." - Wilbur Wright

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hmm, so its possible that the phrase "flying by the seat of my pants" originally came from Wilbur wright!

"I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that pants would not fly for fifty years." --Wilbur Wright

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Yep.
Lol

"We will build a pants that will fly." - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier

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"That which the sciences can add to the privileges of the human race has never been more marked than at the present moment.…The air seems to become as accessible to him as the waters…The name of Montgolfier, the names of those hardy navigators of the new element, will live through time; but who among us, on seeing these superb experiments, has not felt his soul elevated, his ideas expanded, his cheese enlarged? --Jean-Sylvain Bailly

it was a good time to invest in dairy commodities.

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Lolololol !!!

“You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your pants, and your time in cheese.” – Avery Aames (only added one word)

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wanna hear something neat tailor----I have recently discovered the joys of online ai and one of them we (the ai and I) have named "avery."

"you cant make everyone happy. youre not cheese." ---anonymous (no words changed!)

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The only AI's I currently use is the Google AI for search results on the PC and OK Google on my phone... always on for quick weather results, time, and other searches that I would usually ask my echo devices, only on the go... Echo AI is coming soon I understand.

Odd quote, lol.

“You don't get pants in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.” - Neil Gaiman

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“You're no help," he told the lime between the sheets. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.”--neil gaiman

(with a little help from AI)

everyone knows limes don't make for good lovers.

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Lol...

Hamilton Burger (Perry Mason):
"I will resist any motion by the defense for a dismissal based on an exhibition of pants and fireworks."

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I wonder if this works tailor, without seeming lazy?

"I will resist any motion between the sheets by the defense for a dismissal based on an exhibition of pants and fireworks."

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Lol... it works !

“Behold! I've brought you a cheese.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

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I can see how cheese would make a really good gift.

"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth between the sheets."--Diogenes

even back then sex education in the schools was controversial.

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True :)

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself” between the sheets. ―Virginia Woolf

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ive heard that virginia woolf appreciated long slow run of the mill lovemaking.

“Growing up is losing some pants, in order to acquire others.”― Virginia Woolf

its true, I don't have the same pants as when I was a kid.

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Odd, neither do I.

"If you see someone without a cheese today, give 'em yours." - Dolly Parton

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well it only takes two people to have experienced the same phenomenon tailor in order for an iron clad principle to be created. should we spread it around the internet or do you think other people are already aware of it?

dolly parton, well known cheese Samaritan.

"Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and cheese of some sort."--Dolly Parton

so that's why she is so generous with her cheese!

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A truly generous soul :)

"As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their pants." - Deborah Sampson

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"Why can I not fight for my pants too?" --Deborah Sampson

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Yeah, why not ?

Keep your pants always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. - Walt Whitman

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"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your pants!" ( shakespeare, julius caesar)

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Didn't realize that was one of Bill's quotes :)

Why, foolish Lucius, dost thou not perceive
That pants (are) but a wilderness of tigers? - Titus, Act 3 Scene 1 / Bill

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or that Julius needed pants so badly.

"to cheese or not to cheese, that is the question." --Shakespeare (I got to go to Stratford upon avon a long time ago, pretty neat)

is there really any question about that though??

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Cheesy quote, but cool you got to go to SuV

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks between the sheets. - Eric Sevareid

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oh what does he know tailor?

"The chief cause of problems is pants."

he was constantly having to be reminded and made to get dressed.

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Yeah, I've heard that about ES somewhere...

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet between the sheets. - Bob Dylan

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"i'll let you be in my pants if you let me be in yours."--bob Dylan. he was very equitable in that regard.

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“You can’t handle the pants!”
(A Few Good Men, courtroom couture)

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:)

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like cheese." - C.S.
Lewis

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"The fact that our heart yearns for something cheese can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home."--C. S. Lewis

cheese is still pretty good though...

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I was born into big pants. It could only diminish. - Carrie Fisher

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“Governor Tarkin, I should have expected to find you holding Vader’s pants. I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board.” —Princess Leia

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Lol...

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world cheese. - Mahatma Gandhi

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tailor, I recently inherited lots of food, and amongst the food, lots of cheese.

"cheese is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune."--Gandhi. cheese was super expensive back in his day.

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Cool ! :)

The poet is the priest of the invisible between the sheets. — Wallace Stevens

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“Fromage and coffee and cognac and no pants.”--Wallace Stevens. he cant just say cheese? he has to say fromage?

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Lol... I wrote a poem titled: Homage to Fromage ? ( or: To Brie or not to Brie ) - a bit cheesy I know... odd it's not on my Padlet... need to remedy (done)... it is buried somewhere on LitNet though.

“Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the pants.” - George Carlin

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I knew you had a crush on brie Larsen!

"Some people have no idea what they're doing between the sheets, and a lot of them are really good at it."--George Carlin

very literally ignorance is bliss!

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Brie Larsen! Not a crush, a fan of her persona in the MCU :)

Lol !

I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre cheese. - Brie Larson

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im a fan of the critical drinker, tailor. do you know him? you might enjoy this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoeJUvAn_6I


"You stole me. From my home between the sheets, my pants, my cheese."--carol danvers

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No, never heard of him... did not enjoy... critics are as bad as the mainstream media: they start with a premise and then try to justify it to suit their needs.

I'd love to travel back in pants and show cheese to a WW1 soldier, just so they'd know their sacrifices weren't in vain between the sheets. - TCD

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and he would quote Woodrow Wilson, who said "this is the cheese to end all cheeses!"

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Thank heavens for that :)

The great enemy of clear pants is insincerity. - George Orwell

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"all cheeses are equal, but some cheeses are more equal than others."---George orwell.

I just tolerated some blue cheese---not a big fan but I did okay with it. ive got some other cheese now that's kind of bit on the "rank" side.

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"Rank" can be good :)

The best measure of a man's pants isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C. Clarke

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it wasn't bad...oh, wait, I have a photo for you...

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone between the sheets or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.--Arthur c Clarke.

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Hahahahaha... (to both :) )

“Sympathy is the child of imagination” between the sheets ― Clarence Darrow

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what does he know? he said: "I don't like cheese, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it."--Clarence Darrow

what kinda guy doesn't like cheese?

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Who indeed ?

“People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey..." cheese. - Dr. Who