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Subject: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Peter T. Date: 02 Jan 05 - 11:29 AM I was just reading an article about those stupid books about how to manage your time (a gtreat way to procrastinate is to buy some of those books), how to get organized, how to dress for success, and so on. Some of these books tell you to do it all, and others tell you to slow down and smell the roses, "Do it now", "wait!" It occurred to me that Mudcatters were the perfect people to give people better advice for life success. This is an adjunct to the earlier thread on lessons you have learned in life: How to get organized for success, Mudcat version. My initial advice tips: 1. Filing is mostly a waste of time. My advice is to get those magazine boxes, and put things in them according to broad subjects. If you want them, you can find them in about forty seconds. They are also superior to cutting out articles from newspapers -- just put the whole section in the magazine box. 2. Women do not hang out in art galleries, museums, or language classes waiting to be picked up. This is a lie put out by married men who run art galleries, museums, and language classes. 3. Most practising, etc., goes through three waves: the initial resistance to practicing, which is followed by about 40 minutes of remembering how fun this is, how straightforward much of it is, how good it is; and then wave three is The Trough. The Trough is when you realize that you have hit the usual wall, the tough stuff, the stuff that will never make you Michelangelo or Pavarotti, your parents were right that you had no talent, etc., and which your subconscious has been lying in wait to deliver (the real reason why it takes you so long to get to that damn piano practicing or whatever). If you get through the Trough, you can make real slow progress. Watch for the Trough. 4. You can do anything poorly. But that may be enough to give you a feel for what it is to do it well, and you can decide if you want to do more of it. 5. Never take a bird course. They are always far more work than you think, because they are so boring, you use up all your energy on them. 6. When people tell you that the reason they have a television is that although much of it is crap, there are good things on it, remind them that there are good things not on television, and better. The average North American spends one day a week watching television. The best stuff on TV now appears on DVDs to rent. 7. Don't listen to music unless you are going to listen to music. 8. If you are out on a date with someone who asks you your sign, don't respond with: "I doubt seriously if molten ballsof gas scattered randomly from 1 to 2 million light years away and vaguely shaped like Greek mythological characters has much interest in my personality." 9. All wine magazine articles, books, etc., are about wines you cannot afford (like over 10 dollars). Pay no attention. 10. Always keep a can of beans in the house. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Bill D Date: 02 Jan 05 - 11:40 AM If you are having dinner at a stranger's house, take an emergency kit of something YOU like, hidden in a pocket, purse etc....people simply do NOT have the same ideas of what is reasonable to consume...they cook for themselves, and often do not enquire if YOU like pickled cumquats. -------------------------------------------------------------- You cannot have too many pens/pencils tucked into various drawers around the house. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: catspaw49 Date: 02 Jan 05 - 01:16 PM I love ya' PT!!! Although you and I will never agree on TV, this is a great thread and a giant start towards the Official Mudcat Self-Help series of books! I might add that we could sell a lot of them and the tape series as well if we were to do some infomercials. Let's see if I have a couple right now to add and then come back with a few later as well. ************************************************************** >>>If you cannot remember that Cabernet Sauvignon is wine and Chateau Briand is beef, it's probably best you dine somewhere they can "supersize" your fries. >>>Never trust a pipe smoker. Pipe smokers spend almost all of their time messing around with the pipe using little tools and cleaners and the like. They actually smoke very little. This lack of commitment to a primary objective makes them extremely suspect in other fields of endeavor as well. >>>Your ability to play video games is in inverse proportion to your age. If you were born after 1980, you are probably pretty good. Born 1970 and you are probably half-assed. If you were born before 1950, don't humiliate yourself by even trying. Stick with pinball, pitching quarters, and hustling Nine-Ball. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Midchuck Date: 02 Jan 05 - 01:27 PM Friends don't go to jams or gigs or whatever without extra strings and then ask someone else to break up a set to let them have a replacement when they break one. Peter |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: wysiwyg Date: 02 Jan 05 - 01:38 PM 1. Stay off Mudcat as much as possible except to do research for well-paying gigs or gigs that come with a free night's stay with a Mudcatter. 2. If you must go to tMudcat for other things, stay out of the BS section. 3. If you must go to the BS section avoid advice threads like the plague they are. :~) 4. If you must go to the advice threads in the BS section, avoid any that are about Success. 5. If you get caught in a Success thread-- sign off immediately and do penance, such as getting a room/bed ready for a traveling Mudcatter. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Willie-O Date: 02 Jan 05 - 01:39 PM 1. Never start a thread at the Mudcat Cafe. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Bill D Date: 02 Jan 05 - 03:06 PM 1. Never start a thread at the Mudcat Cafe 2. If you do start a thread, never assume anyone will read what others have posted after the initial post....they will often just repeat YOUR post, joke or advice. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: wysiwyg Date: 02 Jan 05 - 03:10 PM 1. Never start a thread at the Mudcat Cafe. 2. If you do start a thread, never assume anyone will read what others have posted after the initial post, or indeed the intial post itself (going instead for a purely reactive post from the misread thread title). 3. Further, assume people will often just repeat YOUR post, joke or advice-- or tell you about the old threads already in existence on the very same topic (some of which you may have started or perpetuated at the time). ~Susan (hi Bill) |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: CarolC Date: 02 Jan 05 - 03:19 PM 1. have fun 2. have fun 3. have fun 4. spread around some beauty, love, and joy (there's an infinite supply for the purpose of spreading) 5. have fun 6. have fun 7. have fun 8. have fun 9. learn to play the accordion 10. have fun |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Helen Date: 02 Jan 05 - 03:43 PM There is a good (yes, it is, honestly) ad on Oz tv aimed at women. It goes through all the contradictory advice that people get about good health, happiness etc - don't eat too much, eat little and often, etc. The advice gets more insistent and contradictory, and the pictures are flipped faster and faster until the scene changes to a woman lying on a massage table, relaxing. However, the ad isn't that good, because I can't for the life of me remember what the product is that is being advertised. Mainly because I get fascinated by the way the woman in the last part manages to talk as if she is chewing a mouthful of very chewy toffee. She does some strange and unnecessary manipulations of her face, mouth, etc which do not in any way help me to focus on what she is saying. So, as a penance for me for indulging in thread creep I suppose I have to offer my tips for success. 1. Do what you love and the money will follow. 2. Spend nearly 5 decades trying to figure out what you love most and how to make money out of it when you find it, and meanwhile spend 3 decades working for the government in its various forms being told what to do by mindless, anachronistic bureaucrats. 3. Never believe that casual work will magically transform itself into permanent work with sick leave, annual leave, and all the other conditions and benefits that we unionists have fought for all our lives and thought we had achieved - that is until the business owners and their political buddies ganged up on us and invented casual/temporary labour schemes which benefit the labour hire companies (i.e business owners) and screw the workers. (Whew! Rant switch - OFF!) 4. Life is a lot better with someone to share it with you. Friends, family, your partner, your workmates, fellow musicians and music lovers. 4. Without a plan you are just a tourist AND If you don't much care where you are going then it doesn't matter which road you take. So make some life plans, set some goals, work out what you need to do to actually achieve them, work out some manageable steps to take, starting is 9/10ths of the work, and just go for it. I'm sure I'll come up with some more later. Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: GUEST,Auldtimer Date: 02 Jan 05 - 03:50 PM NEVER home without at least three sheets of kitchen towel. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 02 Jan 05 - 03:52 PM However hard the breakup or severe the argument, stay open and stay friends. Burnt bridges are bloody hard to replace. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: pdq Date: 02 Jan 05 - 04:01 PM *Decide what 'success' is first. It's hard to achieve something if you aren't sure what it is. *Buy lots of 'high E' strings, maybe a few extra 'B' strings. The others will eventually accumulate like belly button lint. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Micca Date: 02 Jan 05 - 04:02 PM 1 "You can either make money at a job you hate so that in your time off you can do what you enjoy, or do a job you enjoy but you wont make much money at, it is almost impossible to do both" 2 When all else fails , Read the instructions 3 Sometimes sucess is measured by how intact you and your spirit remains at the end |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Rapparee Date: 02 Jan 05 - 05:56 PM 1. Always know where your clothes and weapons are. 2. Do your best not to shoot anyone when you're naked, but don't be fanatic about it. 3. Don't be fanatic about anything, except about what's right. 4. Try to have some traveling money, 'cause you can't tell when you might have to get out of town fast. 5. Keep your gas tank at least half full. 6. It is usually better to than never. 7. Joy shared increases geometrically; sorrow shared decreases logarithmically. 8. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. 9. If you drop it, don't try to catch it. 10. Never hate anyone. It's too close to love, and makes it hard to kill them if you have to. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: dianavan Date: 02 Jan 05 - 06:40 PM success tips #1 - Never let anybody 'rain on your parade' #2 - If at first you don't succeed, try, try again #3 - Eat right and get enough sleep #4 - Treat others the way you like to be treated #5 - If you have a problem with something that somebody said or did - discuss it with them directly (don't gossip) #6 - Choose friends who enrich your life #7 - Balance your personal and professional life #8 - Remember that learning is life-long quest #9 - Do at least one good deed a day #10 - Exercise daily |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Bobert Date: 02 Jan 05 - 08:48 PM Ahhhh, how are we defining success here? I'm serious... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 02 Jan 05 - 09:02 PM In my experience, success is making it to the end of the day without having wanted to kill someone.... A great success is when you are still smiling the next day! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: SINSULL Date: 02 Jan 05 - 09:02 PM Hug a cat or a puppy at least once a day. Tell a child that he or she is beautiful, smart. clever. looks older than they are. Tell someone you love them and mean it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Dharmabum Date: 02 Jan 05 - 09:16 PM Always remove your fingerpicks before going to the bathroom. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Amos Date: 02 Jan 05 - 09:31 PM Maybe success is defined by the degree you have intended to make something occur and have made it occur. 1. Never forget the map. 2. Confront the territory, not the map. 3. Be willing to experience unmapped territory. 4. Offer to others only those experiences they are willing to experience. I have been ridiculously short on applying these sometimes. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Rapparee Date: 02 Jan 05 - 09:36 PM I was going to ask the same question, Bobert. What do you mean by "success"? Material wealth? Good health? Being able to triple tongue at G above the staff? Remembering where you last put your dentures? Realizing that this time the bullet didn't have your name on it? Winning the blue ribbon at the county fair for your pickled zucchini? And doesn't success vary with time? After all, there's the old saying "be nice to the people you meet on the way up, 'cause you'll meet them again on the way down". |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: freda underhill Date: 02 Jan 05 - 10:34 PM This is a useful tip fo foot success. so as not to totally "waste" time on Mudcat, try this double action pleasure technique: with the top half of your body, read Mudcat, laugh, type, think, relax, learn. while engaging in this experience, sink your feet into a bucket of warm water (as I am doing right now) with water - addition of your choice (I am using warm water, with tea tree oil and lavender oil in it). aaaahhhhhhhh i have some home made body lotion for my feet for later - cheap sobolene/Vit e cream from chemist, mixed with lavender oil... mmmmmmmm... freda |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: MBSLynne Date: 03 Jan 05 - 05:46 AM Carol C...I love you! If y9ou hadn't said it I would have! Success to me is achieving happiness...if you are happy then you don't need any further success. My only tip for success is: 1. Have as much fun as you can and be as happy as you can without hurting anyone else, and preferably making as many people as you can happy on the way! |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Bill D Date: 03 Jan 05 - 12:32 PM "You can't rollerskate in a buffalo herd" "You can't take a shower in a parrokeet cage" but you CAN pay attention to Carol C.. also, a small cavéat about: "Always remove your fingerpicks before going to the bathroom. ...unless you are writing your name in the snow, where creative style counts.... (hi, Susan) |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: wysiwyg Date: 03 Jan 05 - 12:36 PM Fingerpicks help when pulling open a zipper?????? 12. Remove banjo and strap before jumping anyone's bones. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Metchosin Date: 03 Jan 05 - 12:42 PM Females, as you age, make frequent trips to the bathroom, never postpone and try to "hold it", you never know when you might suddenly laugh, sneeze or cough. For those gentleman who wear puffy or pleated front slacks, always be aware of where the zipper tab is, you can't pee straight through that little square hole. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: MMario Date: 03 Jan 05 - 12:46 PM When dealing with women - always remember possession of a "y" chromosome equates to "wrong" |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Bert Date: 03 Jan 05 - 12:58 PM 1. Never regret anything. 2. Keep a pet or two or more. 3. Drink beer. 4. If a decision is difficult to make it's because the options are close enough to each other that it doesn't matter. So toss a coin (just don't let anyone se you doing it) 5. A wrong answer is better than indecision. Always answer a question. Never say I don't know or I don't mind or I don't care. 6. Drop "er!" from your vocabulary. 7. This year find twenty words that you don't know how to spell, and learn them. 8. If you're going to eat saturated fat - make it Butter. 9. Always shop for the lowest prices and best deals, especially for gas. 10.Sing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: CarolC Date: 03 Jan 05 - 12:58 PM You're never wrong, MMario. Thanks MBSLynne and Bill. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Bill D Date: 03 Jan 05 - 02:13 PM Susan...one does not wear fingerpicks on BOTH hands...*grin* |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: gnu Date: 03 Jan 05 - 03:51 PM Bert said : "5. A wrong answer is better than indecision. Always answer a question. Never say I don't know or I don't mind or I don't care." Now, I don't know about that. I've found that if you "don't know", the best answer is that you'll reserve decision and subsequent explanation upon further analysis and consideration, even though you are given to the work already laid down in your research to date, which, unfortunately, was somewhat rushed due to the unforeseen workload increase and accompanying lack of scheduled resources, the shortfall for which could not be accomodated in the time provided. Of course, if you've the gift of gab, wing it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: MMario Date: 03 Jan 05 - 04:01 PM But Carol - my sister told me that and they are never wrong - and I *do* possess a "Y" |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: CarolC Date: 03 Jan 05 - 05:09 PM So how long have you been believing everything your sisters tell you then, MMario? Anyway, I won't hold your being a partial haploid against you. We can't all be diploids. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 03 Jan 05 - 06:46 PM Always have a shufti before you have a pee.... and always check where the 'horse' is before you 'shut the barn up'.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 03 Jan 05 - 08:26 PM CAROL C.....having recently discovered that Harpy, HarpGirl, HarpSale are NOT another whiskeyed woman posting to the newsgroups but instead the male whiskered AbbySale. (ugly too)
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 03 Jan 05 - 08:30 PM BTW - I all ready own the copyright on 90% of your posting 10 Facts posting.
Let's incorporate?
Sincerely,
Therefore, we would own 100% of the fun....think of the billions we could make!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: CarolC Date: 03 Jan 05 - 08:36 PM LOL |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: wysiwyg Date: 03 Jan 05 - 09:52 PM Go git 'im, harpsis! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: CarolC Date: 03 Jan 05 - 10:39 PM ...anyway, ,.gargoyle, I've met harpgirl and she's definitely not a man. Don't know about those other harps though. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Bert Date: 04 Jan 05 - 04:15 AM Well gnu, that advice comes from many years of marriage. When asked "What do you want for dinner?", "Er I dunno" is not an acceptable answer. Say "Fish and Chips" or "Hamburger" or "Crawfish Gumbo" or even "Bouchees a la reine". Similar logic applies to ANY question that your dearly beloved asks. The slightest hint of indecision will land you in the doghouse - often without supper. The same thing applies if your boss or a subordinate at work asks a question. It is far better to be wrong occasionally than to appear indecisive. And don't forget, If THEY ask YOU, it's because THEY don't know anyway so they'll probably never even know if you are wrong. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 04 Jan 05 - 04:18 AM Mustn't forget the classic... Don't eat yellow snow. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: gnu Date: 04 Jan 05 - 05:43 AM bERT... POINT WELL TAKEN. i MYSELF....SHITE CAPS LOCK!!! I myself was married for thirteen years, five months, seventeen days and fourteen hours (I rounded off the hours). I understand the need to provide a clear, concise answer to any question posed by the better half... if only to give them another alternative to eliminate. I developed standard answers but didn't have your wisdom regarding clarity. The results proved your sage advice. By example, early in the marriage, when asked "What do you want for dinner?", my response was, "If you name it, I'll cook it and I'll do the dishes." Of course, after being accused of not liking her cooking, I had to change that to, "Whatever you want, I'm sure it will be delicious and I'll help you with the cooking and cleanup." Condescending. Then, "Whatever, I'm so easy to get along with, I'd eat shit on a stick if you cooked it." Lastly, "I'm going have a sandwich and enough beer to be able to ignore your constant whine. What are you having ?" That last one was clear and concise and now I have whatever I want for supper... and I do the dishes... sometimes I let them dry over night on the counter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: MMario Date: 04 Jan 05 - 08:36 AM Carol - since recovering from the severe beatings of my childhood (*grin* - okay - I may not believe everything they tell me - but have learned it is much safer not to contridict them!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: *Laura* Date: 04 Jan 05 - 04:04 PM Aim low - then you'll never be disappointed. :-) xLx ooh - and don't put your socks in the toaster. I found this one so useful. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: CarolC Date: 04 Jan 05 - 05:42 PM Pobrecito, MMario. ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: Bert Date: 05 Jan 05 - 03:05 PM 11. watch out for that DAMN CAPSLOCK! |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: mg Date: 05 Jan 05 - 03:32 PM Take the vegetable drawers out of your refrigerator and don't use them. It just invites stuff to rot. Get Tupperware and put it there instead. Get a steam cleaner and avoid chemicals. Have lots of fresh air at work and at home. Keep emergency food and blankets and tools in your car. Go to lots of music camps. Read the National Enquirer. Short hair is not easier to take care of for women (at least some, at least me). Wipe off the edges of your soy sauce etc. bottles. Keep an ironing board up at all times. Don't fret about whether the toilet seat is up or down. Adopt children if you can or take in foster children. Check the oil in your car every now and then. Well, that is all for now. mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: darkriver Date: 05 Jan 05 - 08:23 PM Satchel Paige's Rules for Staying Young 1. Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. 2. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 3. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. 4. Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society -- the social ramble ain't restful. 5. Avoid running at all times. 6. Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 10 Mudcat Advice for Success Tips!! From: JennieG Date: 06 Jan 05 - 05:15 PM 1. Pat a cat every day. Several times a day in fact. Or several cats. Or all of the above. 2. Avoid very strong sunlight when wearing a sleeveless shirt. 3. Aloe Vera lotion is very soothing to sunburnt skin. 4. Sarcasm is wasted on small children, tell it like it is. 5. Just because you have children doesn't mean you will have grandchildren. 6. There are only 56 hours in a day, make the most of them. 7. Women don't usually have to make The Big Decision: to sit or to stand? (that's according to my husband) 8. When sitting at the computer, don't waste time. Drink coffee and eat chocolate as well. 9. Don't lose touch with old friends. 10. Your childhood was a long time ago. Get over it. Cheers JennieG |
