
Sometimes, 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.
( , Thu 19 Jun 2008, 16:16)
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A wise old relative came out with some of the best advice I ever received, which was this:
Never start something that you can't fini - oooh, look, a cloud shaped like a cock! Fancy!
Taught me all I know, did my Gran.
( , Mon 23 Jun 2008, 21:19, 4 replies)

In the US civil war:
"Don't worry men, they couldn't hit an elephant from this dist..." and never finished, because he'd been shot in the eye.
( , Mon 23 Jun 2008, 23:58, closed)
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