Rules to live by

you can pick your friends, but you can't pick your siblings- Took me a long time to understand this

you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but rarely can you pick your friends nose

thank you...dj will be here all week...
thanks for coming to the show folks....


watch your step on the way out....

Diana, You don't seem to have too much respect for men.

i don't generally go for "rules" type things, but the sunscreen thing from the 90's is still pretty cool (favourites in bold)




Everybody's Free
(to wear sunscreen)

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '97... wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be IT.

The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

You are NOT as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium.

Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't, maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't, maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself, either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's. Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings; they are your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography in lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.

what makes u say that they only one that actually says something about men is rule# 10?.....i am sorry if i give that impression i really didn't mean for it to come off that way.....

thanks do u have a story of how u figured that out that u might want to share.....like what happened to make u come to understand this

idk about u bit i wouldn't want to pick my friends nose...lol....do u live by this code...lol

Yes, my ordeal with my brother. I kept thinking..."I would never hang around with this Bozo in the real world....Oh yeah, he's mu brudder, I gotta tolerate him"

i graduated in 99 so i kinda remember that thanks for sharing cause that things is so true

I remember that that particular bit of folk wisdom was originally attributed to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and actually reprinted as a guest editorial in several newspapers under Vonnegut's byline. He had to issue a statement denying authorship. Not sure if the actual author has ever been identified.

I would add rules #16 and #18.

Also, I am not sure if I understand rule #27, although I sense it might somehow be related to rule #10.

Mary Schmich of the Chicago Tribune.

Nothing to be sorry about, ebrown's extra quick to make sure that men always get a fair shake, as he sees it.

Kinda like a militant anti-militant-feminist on steroids. I thought I had the market on anti-wimminhood cornered till I saw how sensitive he is to any perceived man-slight. Now he's leading that crusade.

1. Trust everyone
2. Always cut the cards
3. Always flush the toilet - you will leave a yellow stain
4. Never flush at night - you'll wake people up.
5. Never turn down sex.
6 Never sleep with someone who has more problems than you.

1- (and only) - Live an let live..

At my age . . .
Never pass a urinal.
Never trust a fart.

And if we wish to subtract?

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i think your trying to divide