Advice survey: best, worst, silliest/funniest

Tyghress · Post by **Tyghress** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:07 pm

Ah yes....and the advice from PV O'Donnell that often ends his concerts:

Live every day as if it were your last.

One of these days you'll be right!

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:18 pm

“Don’t love anything that doesn’t love you back,
and the ARMY doesn’t love you. " ---The NCOIC

I have sense extended this advice to hate.

Silly, from Catbert on forming a relationship. "Give him a dead rat and say, “unlike this rat, my love for you will never die.”"

Miwokhill · Post by **Miwokhill** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:37 pm

Best; Only fools are certain

Always have a plan B

Worst; Listen to Rush, he's really right on.

Montana · Post by **Montana** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:42 pm

Good advise:
A teacher in college told me: "You can learn things from all people. You can learn what to do from the good ones and what not to do from the bad ones."
Good and bad being the relative terms used because I couldn't think of a better way to say it. But that was the gist of it.

Bad advise (well, I don't know that it was bad advise, I just don't know if it was good advise):
"Take the engineering scholarship. You can't make any money as a musician."

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:09 pm

Best advice (from my parents): Learn to think for yourself.

Worst advice (from my peers): Singing is for sissies.

By ignoring my parents' good advice and following the bad advice of my schoolmates, I didn't discover the joys of singing until I was in college.

SteveK · Post by **SteveK** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:42 pm

I recieved the worst advice from my grandmother and mother. My grandmother advised me to be a clergyperson..minister, preacher, whatever. Definitely not a priest. They were on the hellbound train. My mother advised me to be a dentist. Fortunately for the congregations that I would have bored silly and the dental patients down whose throats I would have dropped sharp dental tools, I didn't do either of those. It's a little hard for me to remember any good advice that anyone gave me, so here's a rule that I made up for myself. When you buy a candy bar at the corner store or somewhere, don't eat it on the way home. And don't stuff the whole thing in you mouth. When you get home, unwrap it carefully and eat it slowly.

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:46 pm

Don't know if this is appropreate, but...

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 4:39 am

Denny wrote:Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity. Robert Heinlein
...

Well that's the end of the Politics forum then ...

Best advice: My old mom once said "People always give what they most need themselves"

Worst advice: What people give you that has value to them alone.

Silly advice: Anything that dosn't equally apply to goats.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 5:20 am

Never waste an erection.

Steve

khl · Post by **khl** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 5:30 am

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

dwinterfield · Post by **dwinterfield** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 5:56 am

I.D.10-t wrote:Don't know if this is appropreate, but...

Best advice: "If you don't make an a**hole of yourself at least once a day, you're not living right."

I've followed that advice every day for the past week. Before that I don't remember.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:09 am

"Hate everyone equally so you won't be accused of prejudice."

I just made that up.

Ummm. Some of the best advice I ever got was, "Either wake up or let me drive."

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:11 am

Not exactly advice, but I think it's true:

Pessimists are the happiest people because they are usually right, and they're delighted when they're wrong.

Here's another one:

Blessed is the man who expecteth little. Yea, yea, he shall not be disappointed.

MarkS · Post by **MarkS** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:12 am

When in doubt, don't.

When all else fails, read the instructions.

chas · Post by **chas** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:25 am

Tyghress wrote: Good grief, that was boring wasn't it? How about this....my best and worst whistling advice...

Best: Enjoy your music! (Bless you, Lee...its the one I always come back to!)
Worst: You'll never be as good as the average Irish player, so don't even try.

It's funny, the best musical advice I got was from Gordon on the flute board. I said something like that my goal was to be a decent intermediate-level player, and he said don't limit yourself. More than once. So I shifted a few priorities, and now I'm a better player than was my goal just a couple of years ago. And now I don't just want to, I intend to be a really good player.