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WHAT'S THE BEST ADVICE YOU HAVE HEARD FROM YOUR DAD
6/19/16 | walkingfeather

Posted on 06/19/2016 8:18:25 AM PDT by Walkingfeather

What is the best advice you have heard from your dad or any dad ?


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To: Walkingfeather

“Don’t miss your mother and me too much.”


101 posted on 06/19/2016 9:13:13 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Walkingfeather

Being a man means knowing what needs to be done and then, you do it. No questions.


102 posted on 06/19/2016 9:13:46 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: Yaelle

Duh!...my Dad’s the smart one!


103 posted on 06/19/2016 9:14:55 AM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: dfwgator

“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”

James Mattis is your father? I met him once and as I shook his hand I formulated a plan to kill him but realized that his plan to kill me was better. So demoralizing.


104 posted on 06/19/2016 9:15:09 AM PDT by rey
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To: Walkingfeather

“One monkey don’t stop no show!”


105 posted on 06/19/2016 9:16:07 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather (Trump is exposing the fifth column in the U.S.)
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To: Walkingfeather

“Always drive like everybody on the road is a damn fool.”

That’s about it. He was no Yoda.


106 posted on 06/19/2016 9:16:52 AM PDT by Ketill Frostbeard ("Where you recognise evil, speak out against it, and give no truces to your enemies." ~ODIN~)
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To: Walkingfeather

Because I said so?


107 posted on 06/19/2016 9:17:14 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: FredZarguna; just me
Thank God there were only three channels.

Yeah but. there was that ka-chunk ka-chunk antenna rotor thingy and the rabbit ears to operate too. And the volume control. And the color controls. It was tough back then!

His words of advice when I went in the service: Obey your last order first.

108 posted on 06/19/2016 9:17:25 AM PDT by pa_dweller (Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.)
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To: headstamp 2

Nice post.

My pop drove a dogsled team in his teens because that was how remote his family lived. He fought with Patton’s army during the war and silently carried the demons the rest of his days. He helped put men on the moon. He raised a family of five strong-willed, highly opinionated kids (well, Mom did most of the raising but we inherited a ton of his character).

The advice I remember most from him growing up was “If you don’t stop fussing and whining I will give you something to cry about”


109 posted on 06/19/2016 9:17:54 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: shoff

“My. Dad told me many times “Wish in one hand, and shit in the other. See which one fills first “.”

LOL My grandmother (Bronx born) said that all the time.

Also, “You don’t trust me but I’m supposed to trust you?” when dealing with any salesman.


110 posted on 06/19/2016 9:19:31 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Walkingfeather
Dad was a great golfer....amateur nine handicap....

"Keep your eye on the ball"

and from Mother:

"Let your eye be your guide and money the last thing you part with"

111 posted on 06/19/2016 9:20:53 AM PDT by spokeshave (Somewhere there is a ceiling for Trump.....Yeah, it's called The Oval Office)
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To: Yaelle

I remember that, too.

“They all put their pants on one leg at a time.”

Then, there was “We’re all tarred on the same stick.” (also referencing our sinful nature)

He played the spoons like nobody’s business.


112 posted on 06/19/2016 9:21:05 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Walkingfeather

Never order food in a strip bar...


113 posted on 06/19/2016 9:21:10 AM PDT by Clutch Martin
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To: katana

“There are two kinds of people you never get into an argument with, Cops and Judges”

Yep, “The law is what a judge says it is”.


114 posted on 06/19/2016 9:22:01 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: dfwgator

“Wear a rubber.”


115 posted on 06/19/2016 9:23:01 AM PDT by tuffydoodle ("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
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To: Walkingfeather

Never get between a husband and wife who are fighting. They will stop going at each other, and both will turn on you.


116 posted on 06/19/2016 9:23:07 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Walkingfeather
Downsize, you have too much crap.

When my mom died in 2006 my dad just gave away her stuff. It then finally occurred to me it was all crap.

I downsized, got rid of 95% of everything in the USA, just gave my gun collection to my stepson last month.

Whew, what a load off of me.

117 posted on 06/19/2016 9:23:13 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Held my nose to vote.)
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To: Walkingfeather

Laugh first, and then everyone is laughing with you instead of at you...

Worst bit of advice: until age 7 I was extremely ticklish... he told me that if I didnt’ want to be ticklish I should just decide not to be. I spoke the words out loud: I decide not to be ticklish...
and that was it, and the spell could never be undone :)


118 posted on 06/19/2016 9:24:34 AM PDT by Katya (Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
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To: Walkingfeather

“Waste not want not”. Thanks Austin!


119 posted on 06/19/2016 9:25:08 AM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: rey

LOL


120 posted on 06/19/2016 9:25:56 AM PDT by dfwgator
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