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Why you should be careful about nonsensical comments

By Franklyn Gallup of BibleFree.org

My first thought was of course would it make sense to make an article about nonsensical comments? Would comments to an article about nonsensical comments also be nonsensical comments?

To explore for possible answers to these questions I first had to find if it had ever been done. By searching for the title for this article I quickly found that ... No results found for "Why you should be careful about nonsensical comments".

So apparently it had never been done.

Consider these nonsensical comments and consider their value:

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”

Dr. Seuss

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“Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.”

Thornton Wilder

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“A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”

Willy Wonka

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“The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.”

Winston Churchill

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“'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.”

Charles Lamb

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“There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.”

Robertson Davies

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“The nonsense that charms is close to sense”

Mason Cooley

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“I find that nonsense, at times, is singularly refreshing”

Charles M. de Talleyrand

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“For daring nonsense seldom fails to hit, Like scattered shot, and pass with some for wit”

Samuel Butler

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“Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth”

Eric Hoffer

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“There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action”

Bertrand Russell

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“Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number”

Stephen Jay Gould

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“The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense”

Henry Louis Mencken

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“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong”

Carl Gustav Jung

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“People are always talking about tradition, but they forget we have a tradition of a few hundred years of nonsense and stupidity, that there is a tradition of idiocy, incompetence and crudity”

Hugo Demartini

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“Well, India is a country of nonsense”

Mahatma Gandhi

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“Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant”

Carmina Horace

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“Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect”

Frederick Saunders

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So there you have it. A lot of nonsensical comments by some seemingly logical individuals. Is it all utter nonsense or wisdom in disguise? Be careful about your comment as somewhere, sometime someone may quote you in an article and hold you accountable for what you say.

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None of the quoted posts are 'nonsense', they are patently sensible posts about the subject of 'nonsense' - not quite what the intel title aludes to.

For me, a nonsensical comment would be 'Ooh lovely. I'm so pleased you said that' because it adds nothing to any possible discussion and treats the author like some pet that needs to be stroked. That sort of nonsensical comment you should definitely avoid unless, of course, your single celled brain has been trained to post rubbish so you can get a back link as per a guru's instructions.

If you can't post sensibly, don't post at all - after all, wisdom is to know something but know when not to share it.

My definition in this Intel is a nonsensical comment is one which contains "nonsense" and each of these comments do contain "nonsense". They also contain some wisdom. Oh I forgot. Sunday is your sense of humor day off.

I try not to post patronizing comments because as you say they add nothing to the discussion.

Each of the posts contains the word 'nonsense' but that does not make the post 'nonsensical' in the same way that posts that contain the word 'divine' do not become devinitive (Ouch!)

"nonsensical" - a property of literature designed to amuse by absurdity. a form of words that carries no meaning or inference

I can make the word mean anything I want to make it mean and there's nothing you can do about it.

(sorry for adding a mean comment ) (Or is it a comment with a double meaning?)

I currently have 59 webpages on my Qondio profile, 83 Intels and 243 followers. I don't need to do anymore.

I am on Qondio because it is FUN for me. When it stops being FUN I will stop adding comments, and Intels. If you aren't having FUN it's not my fault.

OK what does Poratyo mean?

Sometimes I feel like the little boy in the Ice Cream Story

Waugh. Esta a jibblet con alioli mas que un bone of contempt. One rotates ones rear but it is foggy when again it is rotational for cierto.

theoldcoot May 3, 2010 07:18

Or, a discussion on politics. Equally nonsensical. Good Intel.

I was thinking outside the box as I often do on this one. I went to #1 within an hour for "nonsensical comments" with or without the quotes so it was also an exercise in SEO.

Franklyn, I hate to say this, but I'm a little disappointed in this intel about "nonsensical comments". I knew you were writing it of course since we had discussed your own "nonsensical comments" previously. I kept looking for it and even screened it so I would be the first to see it.

So what don't I like about it. I was expecting a compilation of your own nonsensical comments. This intel is more of a compilation of famous people's nonsensical comments. Yours would have been funnier.

On a sort of non-related topic, do you think Google includes comments in indexing an intel for keywords? ie, would having "nonsensical comments" in this comment 6 times, cause a better Google rank if one searched for "nonsensical comments" on Google?

In answer to your second question the answer is yes and I can prove it! Search for LearnSEO.net and you will see my Free Pot Intel at #3. Notice that text under the link "You do realize that LearnSEO.net is my Qondio profile don't you?" appears in one of the comments on the page.

I can say I am a little amused at the fact that you didn't expect the unexpected in my Intel.

When I saw the title, I thought you were writing about the sort of nonsensical comments that are currently plaguing my life. I refer to the robot generated nonsense that ethically challenged marketers are using to spam the comment section on blogs and similar. Your article is much more refreshing. LOL

I think there is already a surplus of those kind of comments out there. If you need more I have some emails I can forward you.

Old Coot wanted to get into a debate with me over the definition of "nonsensical comments". Telling me I had a one cell brain and rubbish.

I not only unfollowed him but blacklisted him as well.

I cam make "nonsensical comments" mean anything I want. I chose to make it mean comments with "nonsense" in them.

OMG!! You blacklisted TheOldCoot!! I love Arthur. I actually look forward to trying to rub him the wrong way and see how he replies. Please don't black list me just because I rub you the wrong way. Arthur could use the same bumper sticker my wife got for my car. It says, "Jesus Loves me, but everybody else thinks I'm an A%#Hol#"

I do my wife the same way as I do Arthur...I say something just to see if I get some emotion. When I do my wife that way, I call it "poking the bear". You poke and run like H#LL

Sounds like the position for poking Arthur is already filled. I have better things to do with my time. Besides Arthur has enough problems. I wish him well.

I wasn't certain what to expect from the title but guessed it would be fun. It is. Thanks for sharing.

Check the external link and read my comments on there and you will know "The Rest of the Story" How this Intel came about.

If the right handle is sense and the left handle is nonsense, what does that little spigot thingy in the middle do?

It makes people like you ask questions.

I look back into the intels of 2008 and 2009 and find that they didn't gain the comments that we enjoy today.
The reactions of many, has greatly enhanced the benefits to all.
Thank you for sharing and creating the discussions, Franklyn.
Best wishes.
Frederick

I think the addition of the streaming had a lot to do with that. The screening is a lot faster too.

You get it? Now you have me worried

Such nice quotes. I like doggerel which is the name for goofy verses that do not have to make much sense.

Excellent! I was not familiar with the term doggerel but if it was good enough for Shakespeare I suppose I should look into it

Might give me some ideas for more interesting comments

You have come to the right Intel then

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