Buy ground, boy.
Posted on 07/04/2025 4:24:26 PM PDT by fwdude
Some advice fades with time. What sounded wise in one decade can feel laughably outdated in another. But every now and then, a piece of old-school wisdom sneaks up and reminds you—it’s still rock solid, even if the world around it has changed.
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Steve Martin - Grandmother Song
Be courteous, kind and forgiving
Be gentle and peaceful each day
Be warm and human and grateful
And have a good thing to say
Be thoughtful and trustful and childlike
Be witty and happy and wise
Be honest and love all your neighbors
Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant
Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus
Be dull, and boring, and omnipresent
Criticize things you don’t know about
Be oblong and have your knees removed
Be tasteless, rude, and offensive
Live in a swamp and be three dimensional
Put a live chicken in your underwear
Get all excited and go to a yawning festival
Dad to us kids acting up in the back seat on a road trip: “Don’t start something you can’t stop.”
Dad to me when I was about to make a bad decision: “You need that like a hole in the head.”
Here’s one I learned from an OG biker when I was a teen.
” Never, and I mean never, ride your bike angry “
I’d bet a ten spot that was a life lesson he learned the hard way. Just saying.
“Treat everyone like you might need their help someday.”
But don’t be a pushover either.
I heard a version of #2 the other day regarding checking out a potential girl friends personality.
Take her to dinner, but before arriving tell the waiter to intentionally make a mistake with her order.
So when you arrive at the restaurant with her, if she orders chicken, the waiter will giver her a burger. The goal is to see how she treats the waiter for making a mistake.
“Pray as if everything depended on God; then work as if everything depended on you.”
Buy ground, boy.
Is ground boy like veal?
Oh, yes, that one. Boiled down to one word, two syllables.
Universal solid wisdom from 3000 years ago comes from the Book of Proverbs in the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible.
Never go with a hippie to a second location.
I thought the phrase was "If you break it, you own/buy it."
John Kerry famously mangled the phrase during a debate against George W. Bush when he said "If you break it, you fix it" when referring to the Iraq War.
-PJ
I found that one not to be true at all, Not for me, anyway.
At least not for a number of years.
I am a Night Owl by nature.
“Nothing good happens after midnight.”
Grandma’s First Commandment. Still applies, too!
My dad told me 4 things when I was young.
Son, life isn’t fair and the sooner you learn that the better off you’ll be.
People don’t care how you feel, they care what you think. (Wish that was still true)
Give a man $1.10 worth of effort for every dollar you’re paid, and you’ll never want for a job. (Not sure that’s still true)
Treat everyone you meet with the same respect you’d expect. They will soon show you if they deserve it, don’t deserve it or deserve more.
#2 “Don’t make promises when you’re happy, and don’t make decisions when you’re angry.”
is a little like the teachings of St. Ignatius of Loyola.
Never make a decision to change your spiritual practice while you are in the stage of desolation. Wait until consolation which will arrive later after patiently utilizing prayer, reflection, and an awareness of spiritual influences. A method to discern God’s will.
Nothing good happens after midnight.
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Well the SUN keeps rising.
For many, it’s the hardest one.
And yet.
It’s right there in the Lord’s Prayer.
“There are two 9:00s per day.”
Something that those of us perpetually seeking good things after midnight tend not to learn until their late twenties, at the earliest.
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