Reply to: The Best Advice Your Elders Ever Gave You

[The Lone Gunman]

Be correct you might be.

Shut up the **** you must.

Grandad always said "never regret anything you didn't do".

[ThomasSoerensen]

My father in law to be told me a few days before I married his daughter, that every day when I come home from work and I see my wife waiting at the doorstep with the slippers I should slap her once firmly over the side of her face. I might not know why I did it, but she would know. She would have done something that day to deserve it.

Although he also told me " In my family we have no divorces. We have a few widows though."

Very nice guy.

[Troll]

As me dear Aunt Maud used to say.... beneath every pony tail, there's an arsehole

[Ardesco]

'You can do anything if you put your mind to it'

I disproved this within minutes - I'm unable to levitate, be invisible or teleport, total rubbish.

you haven't worked hard enough. I can do the levitating bit with the aid of a couple of magnets. Scientists have teleported matter, only a matter of time before they manage it with larger items!!! I belive that invisibility is something that scientists are trying to find a way to do as well.

[wobbegong]

I believe the actual quote is . . . .

""No - do or do not, there is no try"

Be correct you might be.

[TheFaQQer]

Was your teacher about three foot high, green with big ears?

"There is no try, only do or do not." - Yoda

I believe the actual quote is

"No - do or do not, there is no try"

[PRC1964]

Never trust the Jesuits

[Xenophon]

Wasn't that a song done by Frank Zappa and the MoI?

Yeah it was.

"Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow"

[Dog_Yoghurt]

Don't eat yellow snow.

Wasn't that a song done by Frank Zappa and the MoI?

[Xenophon]

Don't eat yellow snow.

[wobbegong]

Yeah, my old junior school teacher used to tell us all that one. She'd say "There's no such word as `can't`, you either choose or choose not to do something" with the obvious subtext that choosing not to do something was not an option.

Was your teacher about three foot high, green with big ears?

"There is no try, only do or do not." - Yoda

[richard-af]

My Dad's advice from his army days which I've always lived by was:

Never volunteer for anything. Never sign for anything.

He had an aversion to sponsored walks, etc., then?

[Old Greg]

My teacher said I was slow but sure.

Slow to learn and sure to forget

My old granddad was ex military and always told me - Act thick and never volunteer, you will have a longer and happier existence

My Dad's advice from his army days which I've always lived by was:

Never volunteer for anything. Never sign for anything.

[thunderlizard]

Never agree to anything while on somebody else's yacht.

[Diver]

My teacher said I was slow but sure.

Slow to learn and sure to forget

My old granddad was ex military and always told me - Act thick and never volunteer, you will have a longer and happier existence