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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-10-08 02:31 PM
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Things I Learned From My Mother


Things I learned from my mother

1. My mother taught me to APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning."

2. My mother taught me about RELIGION.
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"

4. My mother taught me about LOGIC.
"Because I said so, that's why."

5. My mother taught me about FORESIGHT.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."

6. My mother taught me about IRONY.
"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."

7. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."

8. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
"This room of yours looks like a tornado went through it."

9. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
"If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"

10. My mother taught me about the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."

11. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
"Stop acting like your father!"

12. My mother taught me about ENVY.
"There are millions of children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do."

13. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
"Just wait until we get home."

14. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
"You are going to get it when you get home!"

15. My mother taught me about MEDICAL SCIENCE.
"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way."

16. My mother taught me about ESP.
"Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you'll be cold?"

17. My mother taught me about HUMOR.
"When that lawnmower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."

18. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

19. My mother taught me about GENETICS.
"You're just like your father."

20. My mother taught me about WISDOM.
"When you get to be my age, you'll understand.

21. My mother taught me about SHARING.
" I’m going to give you a piece of my mind!"

22. My mother taught me about FEAR.
"One day you'll have a child who'll do the same things to you."

http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/hgender6.html


this link doesn't say who wrote it. i don't know who did. but they left out one MY mother used to say to me. i call it:
THE MOTHER'S CURSE:
"if you ever have a child i hope she's just like you."

happy mother's day mom!
and happy mother's day to moms everywhere.





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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-10-08 02:42 PM
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1. Happy Mother's Day to all DU moms. In your honor, a song.
Edited on Sat May-10-08 02:44 PM by faygokid
Mine was great; she left us five years ago. Happy Mother's Day, and in your honor, listen to a song in your honor, "Happy Mother's Day," by David Peel and the Lower East Side, by going here: http://www.rhapsody.com/davidpeelandthelowereastside

From the classic album, "Have a Marijuana," 1968.

http://bp0.blogger.com/_tFTMaqlQ5VI/R4DEVVaV3BI/AAAAAAAAAtA/PPMC1aNn_00/s320/Have+A+Marijuana+-+Front.jpg
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-10-08 04:18 PM
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3. thanks for the link
but i hesitate to download/install rhapsody

however, i do have the album. maybe i'll dig it up. i don't remember the song.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-10-08 03:38 PM
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2. My mother originated a few proverbs I still carry on with pride
"It's not a bargain unless you really need it."

"Nothing lasts forever, it just feels like it."

"The meek shall inherit the earth: clods of it, right in their faces."

She also taught me that horizontal stripes always look like hoops on a barrel on any woman who isn't skeletal.

This is the day I remember all the good stuff she gave me.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-10-08 05:26 PM
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4. LOL
Happy Mothers Day to all DU moms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXK0PU2ba9A
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-11-08 12:01 AM
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5. oh, just in case someone doesn't reconize that bottom picture
it's frank zappa and the mothers of invention
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-11-08 12:21 AM
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6. Yep. We're Only In It For the Money.
Sgt. Pepper inside out. That was the outside. The red part with lyrics was inside.

Frank looks quite fetching in that lace collar. :D

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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-11-08 09:47 AM
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7. Very cute, orleans !
:D
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