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The best advice someone gave you.

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The best advice someone gave you.
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#21
RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 2, 2019 at 2:55 pm
To make a small fortune at a casino, start out with a large fortune.

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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 2, 2019 at 2:58 pm
If you go to Las Vegas in a $50,000 Cadillac, you might leave in a $250,000 bus.
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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 2, 2019 at 3:09 pm
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

I forget where I got that from, truthfully. But it is a very helpful piece of advice for my own mental well-being.
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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 2, 2019 at 7:13 pm
“If you’re gonna be dumb, ya gotta be tough.”

I don’t remember the origin of the phrase, but my dad would rattle this off whenever we kids did something stupid.
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#25
RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 2, 2019 at 7:15 pm
(April 2, 2019 at 2:58 pm)Yonadav Wrote: If you go to Las Vegas in a $50,000 Cadillac, you might leave in a $250,000 bus.

That's like the old Aussie joke, "How do you give a Kiwi a small business?"



"Give him a big business and wait six months."

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"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 2, 2019 at 7:19 pm
(April 2, 2019 at 7:15 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(April 2, 2019 at 2:58 pm)Yonadav Wrote: If you go to Las Vegas in a $50,000 Cadillac, you might leave in a $250,000 bus.

That's like the old Aussie joke, "How do you give a Kiwi a small business?"



"Give him a big business and wait six months."

Yeah, sounds like a joke an old Aussie would tell.

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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 2, 2019 at 7:41 pm
(April 1, 2019 at 8:26 pm)chimp3 Wrote: Elderly retired Naval officer in a nursing home told me : "You know, if you really want people to think you're busy you should carry a clipboard". I thought I was very busy as I was the Director of Nursing but the old salt may have seen right through me. I now routinely carry a clipboard.

When I was working for a large US insurance company I noticed a guy walking around with a clipboard. Every time he saw somebody looking at him he became "industrious". I called security and they accosted him. He opened fire with a 9mm. He had been looking for his soon to be ex-wife. Apparently he had stolen one of her building passes.

She didn't have to worry about him after that.
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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 3, 2019 at 1:53 am
I've gotten to live a pretty cool and interesting life by ignoring everyone's advice. Pretty much doing the opposite of what i was told. What wisdom i've received came from books not people i've encountered.
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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 3, 2019 at 3:42 am
(April 2, 2019 at 7:41 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(April 1, 2019 at 8:26 pm)chimp3 Wrote: Elderly retired Naval officer in a nursing home told me : "You know, if you really want people to think you're busy you should carry a clipboard". I thought I was very busy as I was the Director of Nursing but the old salt may have seen right through me. I now routinely carry a clipboard.

When I was working for a large US insurance company I noticed a guy walking around with a clipboard. Every time he saw somebody looking at him he became "industrious". I called security and they accosted him. He opened fire with a 9mm. He had been looking for his soon to be ex-wife. Apparently he had stolen one of her building passes.

She didn't have to worry about him after that.

THAT must have made the news.


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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 3, 2019 at 4:22 am
(April 2, 2019 at 1:22 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(April 2, 2019 at 12:10 pm)Sal Wrote: Everyone has given me bad advice.

If you'll pm me your banking info, I will send you back some guaranteed good advice.

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