Advice from Old PeopleSometimes, just sometimes, old people say something worth listening to. Ok, so it's like picking the needle out of a whole haystack of mis-remembered war stories, but those gems should be celebrated.
Tell us something worthwhile an old-type person has told you.
Note, we're leaving the definition of old up to you, you smooth-skinned youngsters.
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chthonic, Thu 19 Jun 2008, 16:16)
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An elderly tutor I once had at UniAlways asked us our full names and then said that he didn't like calling ladies by their first names because 'A ladies first name should only be used when you have seen the whites of their thighs.'
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chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 19 Jun 2008, 22:41,
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Sodid you wear a miniskirt and flash him?
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 19 Jun 2008, 22:48,
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But whatif the lady in question has no white bits on her thighs?
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"An elderly tutor I once had at Uni"Am i the only one who thought this meant she'd HAD had her?
The effect of last weeks QOTW still hasn't quite worn off yet...
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@ Uh?That crossed my mind as I wrote it...it's the effects of last week.
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chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 20 Jun 2008, 0:07,
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That reminds me of one of my Italian lecturers, the sorely missed Carmine, whose replacement was comparatively crapwho would differentiate between girls and boys in his classes by calling the boys "tu" (informal 'you') and girls "Lei" (formal 'you') because "girls should be put on a pedestal". Bless.
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Maladicta, Mon 23 Jun 2008, 13:08,
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