All Purpose Advice

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  1. Clyde

    Clyde Orange

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    What good advice could you give to anyone? All variety of advice is welcome.

    • Stay in school
    • Go ugly early
    • Unplug power tools before cleaning
    • Credit cards are bad
    • Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
    • Don’t mess with the people who handle your food
    • Everything’s negotiable
    • Socks before shoes but only after pants
    • Don’t tug on Superman’s cape
    • Never buy an extended warranty
    • Swim parallel to the shore in a riptide
    • There is only one political party
    • Never try to baptize a cat
    • If the elevator tries to bring you down, punch a higher floor
    • Marijuana is the best cure for a hangover
    • There’s a difference between understandable and acceptable
    • It’s never about you
    • Tattoos are a permanent solution to a temporary problem
    • Measure twice cut once
    • Regularly change the water in your bong
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  2. Techman

    Techman Still smilin' Deceased Member

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    A stitch in time saves nine.
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  3. Clyde

    Clyde Orange

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    An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
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  4. Techman

    Techman Still smilin' Deceased Member

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    Bad idea.

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  5. Mandi

    Mandi Bow Before Lord Voltaire

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    amen ;)
  6. Quincunx

    Quincunx anti-anti Staff Member Administrator

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    I often put my socks on before my pants. Does that make me a freak? :unsure:



    I guess I would add the Satchel Paige triptych:

    Work like you don't need the money.
    Dance like nobody's watching.
    Love like you've never been hurt.

    :)
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  7. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Unsolicited politeness is a show of strength.

    Rely on yourself first, and whenever possible.

    Always be suspicious of generousity.

    Never trust a weather man or a politician.

    Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.

    Question everything. :diacanu:
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  8. Mrs. Albert

    Mrs. Albert demented estrogen monster

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    Take a little time every day to be grateful for what you have. You might not have it tomorrow.
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  9. shootER

    shootER Insubordinate...and churlish Administrator

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    It depends with this one.

    The first time I ever purchased an extended warranty was from Best Buy when we bought my oldest daughter's iPod Mini a couple of years ago.

    Within a month or so of buying it, it quit working for some reason and we got it replaced with no hassle at all.

    I've gotten the extended warranty with every piece of electronics I've bought from them since then. Fortunately, I haven't had to use it again (knock wood).
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  10. Patch

    Patch Version 2.7

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    Live your life happy with what you have, and if you ever find yourself wanting more- try for it, instead of just wanting. If in the end you fail, and you can not achieve the goals you have set forth, you can take pride in the fact that you put forth your very best effort.
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  11. Mrs. Albert

    Mrs. Albert demented estrogen monster

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    Fat people and spandex do not mix. :nono:
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  12. Sunshine

    Sunshine Little Miss

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    If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
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  13. Nautica

    Nautica Probably a Dual

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    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

    Fasten, then zip.

    Moderation in all things, including moderation itself!

    The best way to make a friend is to be one.

    Wherever you go...there you are!

    Chicks don't screw nice guys, but they will eventually marry them. And then you're screwed.

    It's true what they say about Preacher's Daughters.

    and about Redheads!

    There's always something more to be experienced.
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  14. Clyde

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    Well Apple does have a one year warranty for iPods.

    So basically you've never needed an extended warranty.

    I found a bit more info about extended warranties:

    Personally I've never purchased an extended warranty and I've never had any trouble exchanging defective products.
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    Aurora Vincerò!

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    People and spandex do not mix. IMHO.
  16. Mr. Plow

    Mr. Plow Fuck Y'all

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    Don't eat yellow snow.





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  17. Marso

    Marso High speed, low drag.

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    If you can't be quiet, don't be new.

    Never pass up an opportunity to STFU.

    If you enter a room mid-conversation, listen for a minimum of two minutes before opening your pie-hole.
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  18. phantomofthenet

    phantomofthenet Locked By Request

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    Marso High speed, low drag.

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    And never match wits with a Sicilian, when death is on the line! MWAHAHAHA....MWAHAHAHAHA.....MWA- :necro:
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  20. Nautica

    Nautica Probably a Dual

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    Never bring a knife to a gunfight!
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    Lethesoda Quixiotic

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    Never replace macadamia nuts with sunflower seeds. Hotels notice that sort of thing.
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  22. Volpone

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    Ugly women try harder. But if you're smart you'll just find a hot woman who thinks she's ugly. :techman:
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    Paladin Overjoyed Man of Liberty

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    If at first you don't succeed...bungee-jumping is probably not for you.
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  24. Talkahuano

    Talkahuano Second Flame Lieutenant

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    Calling the French teacher a dirty lesbian is only a short-term solution to your French-learning problems.
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  25. Ramen

    Ramen Banned

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    Money buys happiness.
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  26. Lethesoda

    Lethesoda Quixiotic

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  27. The Exception

    The Exception The One Who Will Be Administrator Super Moderator

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    Soooo....not at all?
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  28. Tamar Garish

    Tamar Garish Wanna Snuggle? Deceased Member

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    Marriage is not a fairy tale. It is the highest highs you will ever know as well as the lowest lows and nothing else in the world is as worth the work as this is when you are with the right person.

    Children are not band-aids for broken marriages.

    Asking for help is not weakness, marinating in your inability to accomplish is.
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  29. shootER

    shootER Insubordinate...and churlish Administrator

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    The Best Buy warranty is three years and it's only around $40.
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  30. Nautica

    Nautica Probably a Dual

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    The only place to find items more overpriced than at a 7-11 is in your hotel minibar.
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