My Father's Advice

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[nq:1]My father gave me three pieces of advice, and **** it if each one hasn't proven well-founded: 1. Nothing good happens after 10:00 pm, so go home; 2. Leave before the fight starts; and 3. Avoid women with tattoos.[/nq]
Never argue with drunks or fools.
cd

The difference between immorality and immortality is "T". I like Earl Grey.

[nq:1]My father gave me three pieces of advice, and **** it if each one hasn't proven well-founded: 1. Nothing good happens after 10:00 pm, so go home; 2. Leave before the fight starts; and 3. Avoid women with tattoos.[/nq]
I don't know about that third one. Obviously he never saw the Marx Brothers in "At the Circus" -
Music by Harold Arlen. Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg.
Oh Lydia, oh Lydia,

[nq:2]3. Avoid women with tattoos.[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't know about that third one. Obviously he never saw the Marx Brothers in "At the Circus" -[/nq]
To say nothing of the fact that it's hard to find women without tattoos these days.

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you've got something to say."
F. Scott Fitzgerald

[nq:1]My father gave me three pieces of advice, and **** it if each one hasn't proven well-founded: 1. Nothing good happens after 10:00 pm, so go home; 2. Leave before the fight starts; and 3. Avoid women with tattoos.[/nq]
But what if the fight involves women with tattoos? Wouldn't you want to stay after 10 PM for that?
Gene

If your father was a young man today, I fear you would never be born as a consequence of point 3.

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"Now is the time the tries men's souls." Tom Paine

Marc

Never trust a man with no vices.
Don't mess with the Constitution.
Do your chores everyday.
Listen.
Don't go to extremes (although I still do this one - have not learned).

[nq:1]My father gave me three pieces of advice, and **** it if each one hasn't proven well-founded: 1. Nothing good happens after 10:00 pm, so go home; 2. Leave before the fight starts; and 3. Avoid women with tattoos.[/nq]
1. Finish.
2. Never let anyone else define you.
3. No work is beneath you.
4. You've got enough trouble running your own life without trying to runsomeone else'

[nq:1]1. Finish. 2. Never let anyone else define you. 3. No work is beneath you. 4. You've got enough trouble running your own life without trying to run someone else's. 5. No one expects the best from you, so always give it.[/nq]
Another great list, Ron.
More "food" for my pre-frontal cortex.
Here's something from my list of one:
1. Always be willing to take one of life's many les

[nq:2]My father gave me three pieces of advice, and **** ... before the fight starts; and 3. Avoid women with tattoos.[/nq]
[nq:1]1. Finish. 2. Never let anyone else define you. 3. No work is beneath you. 4. You've got enough trouble running your own life without trying to run someone else's. 5. No one expects the best from you, so always give it.[/nq]
Those are great.
My dad worked so

[nq:1]we kept seeing interesting litter on the roadside a cast-off deck of pornographic playing cards, two cigarette butts with a lot of lipstick on them, shotgun shells, a nearly brand-new pair of cowboy boots...[/nq]
Sounds like a date in Mississippi.
Ahem...
Suzy?

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you've got something to say."
F. Scot