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Tips for life
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 6:11 pm
by Cagliostro
Always pay your student loans over credit cards. If worse comes to worse, you can always get out of paying credit cards.
I said this in another thread, but it is buried amongst my blatherings, and I thought this might be a good idea for a thread.
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 7:30 pm
by aliantha
It's a great idea, Cag!
Um, let's see if I can think of something to add. Gods know I'm chock-full of good advice....
Oh, I know! This is something Magickmaker told me when I was going for a job interview:
"Wear red And look them in the eye."
I did both, and it worked. (I think she was in elementary school at the time. Scary, huh?)
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 8:13 pm
by sgt.null
don't tug on superman's cqape
don't spit into the wind
don't pull the mask off the old lone ranger
and don't mess around with jim
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 8:30 pm
by Harbinger
Never go to bed with dirty dishes in the sink.
Change your oil every 3,000 miles with heavy weight in the summer and light in the winter and even an American engine will last 250k plus.
Change your air filter every 20 k miles or so keep your tires inflated to the proper pressure and you will save money at the fuel pump.
Have sex with as many teenage girls as possible while you are a teenager.
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 8:43 pm
by aliantha
Harbinger wrote:Have sex with as many teenage girls as possible while you are a teenager.
Not advice I personally would have followed in my teens....
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 9:00 pm
by lorin
Always cook pasta a little less than you like and finish cooking it in the sauce.
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 10:20 pm
by wayfriend
Never build a wall. No matter how much those blocks look like big legos, it is not easy.
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 10:40 pm
by Savor Dam
in [i]Mending Wall[/i], Robert Frost wrote:Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:08 pm
by danlo
Don't take any wooden nickles
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:29 pm
by Damelon
Don't eat yellow snow.
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:47 am
by Cheval
Great cure for coughing fits:
Eat 5 or 6 chocolate Exlax pieces...
it won't cure the coughing but it sure will make you scared to cough anymore!
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:51 am
by Sunbaneglasses
Always delete your browsing history.
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 2:58 am
by Orlion
If you ever travel back in time, don't touch anything!
Also remember, avoid people who constantly say, "I don't like drama." They're usually the jerks that start up and propagate drama.
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 3:26 am
by lorin
Melting a teaspoon of sugar on your tongue will cure hiccups 90 percent of the time.
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 5:24 am
by Avatar
Always double-check your knots.
--A
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 5:33 am
by Cameraman Jenn
If you encounter someone who has the hiccups, ask them a random question such as, what is your middle name and it throws them off and poof, no more hiccups.
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 6:12 am
by sgt.null
a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down (in the most delightful way)
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:22 pm
by Holsety
Sunbaneglasses wrote:Always delete your browsing history.
When deleting browsing history in mozilla firefox, it reads "all history will be cleared". I always liked that, made me feel powerful.
Pennywise, poundfoolish.
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 12:47 am
by Vader
lorin wrote:Always cook pasta a little less than you like and finish cooking it in the sauce.
+ 1,000,000
Don't fry bacon naked.
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 3:46 am
by sgt.null
don't get involved in a land war in asia.