What Was the Best Advice Your Father Ever Gave You?

[Tammy8]

They got me! Hard to tell satire now as crazy as the real stuff is...

[null and void]

Oh yeah.

The most challenging job these days is writing satire!

I’ve been gotten scores of times. (It probably doesn’t help that I run the Nut-Job Conspiracy Theory ping list...)

[Atticus]

My Dad told me never to throw away an old necktie — eventually it will come back in style.

He also taught me the importance of a firm handshake and eye contact when meeting someone.

Also, not advice per se, but when I went off to college in 1981, he bought me subscriptions to two magazines: National Review and The American Spectator. Those magazines were in their prime then. Not like today.

[Crucial]

My Dad always said the same thing. But he always said there’s no such thing as a free ride.

[Crucial]

The world doesn’t owe you anything.

The world will beat your brains out if you let it.

Always use leverage.

[Oatka]

“Save 10% of everything you earn.”

And, someone HAS to say it: “Drink your Ovaltine”.

[Osage Orange]

You can always get more money...you can’t get more time.

[MayflowerMadam]

Basically, but not verbatim, “If you have sex before you’re married, I’ll kill you.”

[Mears]

“At 85 years of age and after more than 50 years, I still miss dad.”

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Hurray,I finally found someone older than me——I won’t be 85 until September(God willing).

My dad has been gone for 79 years.

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[upcountry miss]

I will be 86 by then and God willing, will have celebrated my 69th wedding anniversary. It’s been a great life, with all its ups and downs, having wonderful parents and a loving, caring hubby.

[Mears]

Happy birthday in advance——and happy anniversary too.

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[Terry L Smith]

publius911 has written responses to what my father has told me, when I was in my youth. From the editorial attempts of publius911, it echoes that publius911 comes from a different generation than I, or my dad's. To my first quote, publius911 wrote: "That presumes facts not in evidence. It presumes that the liar has sufficient control and excellent knowledge of his environment to be convincing to the civilized man..' <> To my second quote: publius911 extends an absurdity, in an attempt to "do a Rush Limbaugh", which, if it were to be a 'response', could have been written as a 'vanity' of his own submission. To my third quote: "The only advice that reveals the character flaw of the advice giver. The belittling of literacy as a noble human trait. Impossible to explain this item as rational." Here is where publius911 demonstrates coming from a different generation, and "not getting it". Too bad, too.