16 things

CSM

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*16 THINGS THAT IT TOOK ME OVER 50 YEARS TO LEARN*
*BY DAVE BARRY, NATIONALLY SYNDICATED COLUMNIST*

1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

2. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved and will never achieve its full potential, that one word would be "meetings."

3. There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

4. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

5. You should not confuse your career with your life.

6. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

7. Never lick a steak knife!

8. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.

9. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

10. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

11. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.

12. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age,gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers.

13. A person, who is nice to you, but rude to a waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)

14. Your friends love you anyway.

15. Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

16. Men are like fine wine.. They start out as grapes, and it's up to the women to stomp the crap out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.

*FINAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY*

There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2030, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.

Have a great day!
 
CSM13. A person said:
not true all the time! some waiters/ waitress are jsut plain rude to begin with. and thats not with my sun shiny disposition either. therers jsut something about having a counter full of people and one of the workers there yelling bite me to the dufus in the back.... now thats real work there
 
9. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

We started daylight savings time to give farmers more daylight hours to work in the fields. We still observe it due to both momentum of tradition and so hyper little kids can stay outside until bedtime instead of wrecking their own house.

Scratch that one off the list.
 
Hobbit said:
9. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time
We started daylight savings time to give farmers more daylight hours to work in the fields. We still observe it due to both momentum of tradition and so hyper little kids can stay outside until bedtime instead of wrecking their own house.

While that may be true, neither I nor evidently the author consider it a 'compelling' reason for its continued use.
 
Zhukov said:
While that may be true, neither I nor evidently the author consider it a 'compelling' reason for its continued use.

Then you have obviously never dealt with young children. That extra hour they spend outside can be a godsend, and not just because of that one hour, but the fact that they wear themselves out in the process.
 
Hobbit said:
We started daylight savings time to give farmers more daylight hours to work in the fields. We still observe it due to both momentum of tradition and so hyper little kids can stay outside until bedtime instead of wrecking their own house.

Scratch that one off the list.

Actually, it also saves a great deal of electricity. There was an official government study done to prove the value of Daylight Savings Time.
 
Hobbit said:
Then you have obviously never dealt with young children. That extra hour they spend outside can be a godsend, and not just because of that one hour, but the fact that they wear themselves out in the process.

Why not just change school and work hours? That's what everyone else does.
 

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