Famous Quotation Friday - Music Lyrics

Now that a short spring vacation is in our past.  Allow us to start posting again with our now traditional Famous Quotation Friday.  My aim was to maintain rhythm and rhyming, but I couldn't always accomplish that.  Two old songs, a youngish song, and a fourth (third in this list) that splits old from young, sort of.  Striking up our band . . . now:

• I'm picking up good vibrations.  This girl's providing all my titillation. (Ooh, bop bop good, good vibrations)
•  I split from my housing in Atlanta . . . aiming for that Frisco Bay . . . Had nothing in this world worth striving for . . . and look as though nothing's gonna blow my way.  Sitting on a dock of this bay . . . watching our moon pull that liquid away.  I'm just sitting on a dock of this bay . . . wasting hours.
• With all lights down . . . it's not as hazardous . . . all of us got to this spot, do an amusing thing.  I am stupid . . . and contagious . . . all of us got to this spot, do an amusing thing.
• So I won't dillydally additionally.  It cannot wait . . . I don't doubt.  No grounds for disarray . . . our clock runs short . . . this is our lot . . . I'm yours. 
  

Lots of outstanding artists in that list - Brian Wilson, Otis, Kurt Cobain, and Jason Mraz - that this blog looks upon with favor.  And just for fun, an additional fab four songs from John, Paul, Harrison, and Ringo.

• Oh, I . . . will say a thing . . . I think you'll think is grand . . . as I . . . say a fun thing . . . I want to hold your hand.  I want to hold your ha-a-a-and.  I want to hold your hand.
• Aurally distinguish (doo dah doo), do you want to know hush hush information? (doo dah doo)
• Day prior to last, all my difficulty was so far away.  Now it looks as though that difficulty is around to stay.  Oh, I still trust in that day prior to last.
• As I find yours truly in days of worry . . . Mama Mary talks to this man . . . Passing on words of wisdom . . . Allow it to stand.  And in my hour of caliginosity* . . . that woman is standing right in front of this man . . . Passing on words of wisdom . . . allow it to stand.

* Not from my normal vocabulary, I admit.  Had to look it up.

Famous Quotations - Film

This could go on and on, so I'm stopping at six.

• Frankly, my darling, apathy is my primary antiphon to that.
  
• It's living!  It's living!
• Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through this world, son.
• You had this girl at "Howdy".
• You can't wrap your mind around what's actually factual.
• If you build it, your dad will show up.

I'm hoping I didn't spoil that last film for you.  OK, an additional six of common origin.

• Of any gin joint in any town in this world, this girl walks into my gin joint.
• This is to looking at you, kid.
• Louis, I think this is a start to a pulchritudinous companionship.
• Play it again, Sam.  Play "As Days March By".
• Round up our usual suspicious individuals.
• You and I will always think back fondly on Paris.

Famous Quotations - Sports

Lombardi: Winning isn't a totality of things, it's a singular thing to such a point that no ancillary things count.

Ali: Float a la a moth's cousin, sting a la a bug from an apiary.

Unknown: It's not if you win or don't win, it's how you play a sport.

Lou: Today, I am appraising yours truly, this world's primary lucky guy.

Yogi: Nobody visits that location, it's too full of folks.

Notification of Autonomy

On various occasions during human history, an obligation falls on a polity to annul that which bound said polity with a distinct polity and to adopt among all nations of this world, a distinct and homologous station to which all Laws of Cosmos and of Cosmos's God grant to that community, a fitting valuation of mankind's opinions insists that said polity should proclaim that which prods it toward disjunction.

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History in its making

What could possibly goad us on, you may ask?  What might put such a task in motion?

Our story won't blow you away, but it starts with an affinity for playing trivia.  Around dusk on any particular day, you can probably find us at a bar taking random stabs at which running backs had 2000 yards rushing but did not win NFL MVP* and things such as that.  Normally, such nights pass prosaically.  But not that particular night.

That night, an inquiry was "What was uncommon about Gadsby: Champion of Youth, a fifty thousand word book from 1939?"  You probably know by now.  Upon additional cogitation on such a colossal task - writing a full book with such a constriction! - a trial was laid out: could our group avoid that symbol in our communications for a span of 7 days?

Initial whacks at this did not always go smoothly.  As an illustration, this is an actual IM transcript from your unassuming authors:

Flo: Stuck w folks w whom I work
Flo: Trying to go
Gadsby: No rush.
Flo: Must find out
Flo: Can go in short bit
Flo: Is local spot at 830 or 8?
Gadsby: Sweet.  I'm ok with [this location] or [that location]. Soon > not soon, though.
Flo: Is [this location at] 830?
Flo: If so, can find you at 815 in vicinity of your abode
Gadsby: Ha. That last is bad. Wyoming is at 830. Plan sounds good.
Flo: F
Flo: Habitat
Gadsby: Much, um, good.
Flo: Must find car. Will in four. Will find you in (four + four) - (four/two).
Gadsby: ? I think digits should work.
Flo: K. 6 from now.
Flo: Just finding outward canal

No doubt that difficult phrasing abounds in all that.  Particularly amusing: my pointing out Flo's flaw just down from an unconscionably atrocious miss of my own.  But all is not lost.  Improving is a major goal of ours.  Will it occur?  Who knows?


* This guy and this guy.