I derive much immature pleasure from Ogden Nash’s little ditty: “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.”
I think it is because it is one of the only things I can remember verbatim. And it makes me laugh.
What is your favourite phrase or poem or saying? What makes you smile or gives you bliss?
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Your lovely colourful pic reminds me of jellybeans ~ I’d guess the phrase I use more than any is: heh-heh ~ just to show mild amusement! heh-heh 🙂
mild amusement–how cultured
heh-heh … really? 🙂
absolutely!
“A naked lunch is natural to us
We eat reality sandwiches.
But allegories are so much lettuce.
Don’t hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg
One of my faves and short enough to remember 😉 Of course I like “Digging” by Seamus Heaney, but can never remember more than verse one.
Ya know LouAnn, liquor is quicker but candy’ll kill ya just the same…and while I enjoyed the hell outta both in my youth these days I imbibe little or not at all.
*anna
love you favourite! and alas, I too barely imbibe anymore, and try to keep away from candy as much as I can–but I still like the saying
thank god words aren’t fattening or bad for your health eh?
xo
🙂
The Emperor Caligula
Had habits most irrigular
When he sat down to lunch
He got drunk
At onch
(Ogden Nash, I think)
And this one Can’t remember what it’s called, but it’s set in New York
Toity poiple boids
Sittin on de coib
Choipn’ and a ‘boipin
And eatin doity woims
good for you — love them both–though need a bit of a translator for the second (ha ha)
Learnt them both in the second year of grammar school. I can translate for you if you wish.
😉
please do – I think I only got about half…..:)
That’s a joke, surely? Say it in a Brooklyn accent, then let me know
Oh, so THAT’s how it goes! I’d heard it as “Candy is dandy but sex don’t rot your teeth!” lol xoxoM
we all know where your mind is–not a bad place to be!
Calorie negative, too! 😉 xoxoM
maybe even works a few off!
Feel the burn…in more ways than one!
Margarita!!!!
I know, my mother always accused me of being provocative. I guess some things never change! lol xoxoM
ha ha
Hmmm… I have to think about this. Nothing is coming to mind.
I’ve heard the Candy is dandy quote before, and you’re right, it is good for a chuckle.
only thing I can remember offhand
I have two old favourites. The first is actual song lyrics from “My Fair Lady.”
Words! Words! Words! I’m so sick of words!
I get words all day through;
First from him, now from you!
Is that all you blighters can do?
The second is from “Alice in Wonderland”
The time has come,” the Walrus said
“To talk of other things
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax
Of cabbages and kings
And why the sea is boiling hot
And whether pigs have wings
oh, I love them both, but particularly the second one–so poetically nonsensical
Handier than a pocket on a shirt.—Ed Geauvreau, our dad.
perfect!
“Shooting a bunny” = breaking wind. My dad used ro say this and now my brother does (due to his frequent farting!)
we have a few people around here who have killed a few bunnies
Scary – ha!
I like that – shooting a bunny – I might have to borrow it. Around here we blame it on African barking spiders.
I can’t think of a quote straight off the top of my head, but I always liked the embroidered pillow that I used to have that said Start Slowly and Taper Off,,
I love it – Start Slowly and Taper Off – perfection –find that pillow and send it to me!
“To infinity and beyond!” ~ Buzz Lightyear
ha ha – cute–brings back memories of watching the movies with my boys when they were young
I have to go with Parker:
“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I’m under the table,
after four I’m under my host.”
she had a way with words didn’t she?
Well, this one comes to mind considering the weather we have had lately: It’s cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. My dad used to say this all the time when I was a kid, and it wasn’t until I was an adult that I found put where the expression originated. You see, the brass triangles that supported stacks of iron cannon balls on sailing ships were called brass monkeys and in cold weather the metal contracted causing the balls to fall off. LOL!! It all makes sense now :).
our funny history lesson for the day courtesy of our own Ms. Looney!
Glad I could put some humour into your day :).
as always
“If it aint a mess already, it’ll do until one gets here”
(from the book/movie”No Country for old men”)
love it
I likely have many in the recesses of my muddled mind…but off the top I think of ‘If it ain’t broke don’t fix it’……Diane
a good and simple philosophy for life — how much time has been spent uselessly?
Preposterous rhinoceros. Another Ogden Nash gem that makes me smile.
I makes you smile just to say it, doesn’t it?
Any saying my dad says because of the way he says it. Now – I find myself using those same quotes – LOL
in my family we call them “dadisms”
Love that!
Dadisms… 🙂
🙂
Can’t think of one. My brain is too tired.
thne we will use “my brain is too tired” because sometimes that is just the right explanatory phrase
Oh, I have way to many favorite quotes to go on record here! My “favorite” varies depending on the subject and mood I’m in. All time favorite quote generators, to list a very few, would be CS Lewis, Winston Churchill, Lincoln, Helen Keller…and I found a new one today that looks promising, Robert Brault. ~ Sheila
well don’t keep us in suspense,,,,,,,
Okay, be prepared to be “weirded out.” Here are a couple of my favourite ditties.
“Oh pointy bird, oh pointy, pointy. Anoint my head, anointy, nointy” (from Steve Martin’s “A Man With Two Brains).
“We can walk on coals and have ninjas fight us. But don’t ever get gingivitis.” (From Family Ties).
and of course singing George Costanza’s answer machine message set to the theme of The Greatest American Hero…
that is what I was looking for–a little weird, a little odd, but a lot funny
That’s me…a little weird and odd.
that is why I like you so much — I prefer to think of it as eccentrically classy
Oh. I like that. I think I’ll borrow it!
borrow away my friend!