— The writing implement is more potent than the claymore.
- The Pen is Mightier than the Sword.
— When there are visible vapors having the provenience in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.
- Where’s there’s smoke there’s fire.
- NOTE: interestingly enough the source of this material spelled “provenience” wrong. The source had the spelling “prevenience” which is duh, obviously, wrong. The pen is pretty mighty. I concur. I win.
— A plethora of individuals wither expertise in culinary techniques vitiated the potable concoction produced by steeping certain comestibles.
- Too many cooks spoil the soup.
- NOTE: I didn’t find the word “coupestibles” in the dictionary and was wary of the spelling. I think the author wanted to use the word “comestibles” so I made the correction. Source will be below.
- In my hands words are like artillery. Get ’em wrong and I’m certain to spew and confirm my superiority by reaching over my glenohumeral joint and confidently percussing my trapezius. Too much? That was actually decent…
Those above are the ones I either immediately knew or figured out after a moments reflection. The three below I either didn’t figure out or am not sure if I got right. Sure, I could easily go on the web and get the answer, but anyone could do that. I’ll let you guys fill me in on the answers in the comments if you would.
— All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
- Just because is its shiny doesn’t mean it’s gold.
- NOTE: Obviously I didn’t quite get the quote on this one. I just kinda decoded the words. Please comment below with answer.
— The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.
- He who laughs first laughs loudest?
- NOTE: I think I’m close, but not sure of the answer to this one. Comment below with the answer. Please let me know if you are unable to leave a comment because of a site error.
— Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
- No clue.
- NOTE: This is another where I’m not sure of the quote. a mendicant is someone who survives by charitable contributions and interdiction is like military interception but no clue on this one. Knowing the words did not help me with figuring out the intended quote.
I’m a full on Linux geek. Unix geek however would be more correct. Linux is not Unix, it is Unix like. I could get petty and say the only things that can be called Unix are operating systems based on the original Bell Labs (AT&T) Unix source code like Microsoft’s Xenix, which was properly licensed, but the license didn’t cover the name. Then someone might bring up Multics and then I would confirm the perfection of a trap soo brilliantly set. But I digress…
The quotes above, or more succinctly, the “riddles” above are hiding common quotes through obfuscation and/or grandiloquence in a manner to either confuse, demean, or possibly ingratiate (that pen eh?) the reader. There’s a fun little computer program called “fortune” on Unix like platforms and each time I log into a terminal session on my Ubuntu Linux box, a “fortune” is revealed to me for contemplation. That’s the source of where I found these interesting sophistries. (Damn, I’m good).
Anyways, just something I ran across. I guess maybe I should have expended the effort to find out who the quotes are attributed to but it was at that point I felt it was too much work.
Sometimes you can just tell it’s not AI.