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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    goldrush said:


    Ha!  I love it!  First things that popped into my mind:
    "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime/ you'll find/ you get what you need."
    -Jagger-Richards

    "What we want/ and what we need/ has been confused/ been confused."
    -R.E.M.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,116
    Always stand up when shaking hands.
    Always walk a woman home.
    Wear a tie even when it might be overdressed.
    Do the dishes.
    Send handwritten thank you notes.
    Err on the side of being a gentleman.
    So few seem to get it these days.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Get_Right said:
    Always stand up when shaking hands.
    Always walk a woman home.
    Wear a tie even when it might be overdressed.
    Do the dishes.
    Send handwritten thank you notes.
    Err on the side of being a gentleman.
    So few seem to get it these days.

    These are really great, thank you! 
    My wife has some interesting and somewhat unusual characteristics.  She describes herself as a "naturally liberated woman", and says that is because she learned to be that way because her G.I. generation mother was.  She's kind but firm in her opinions (when she has a strong opinion about something), capable, smart, very independent yet helpful.  But she's also "old fashioned" in some ways. She likes it when I open and close the car door for her (wouldn't anyone do that for the Queen? lol) I sometimes get funny looks from people when they see me do that, but I don't care.  It makes my wife happy and I always feel great when I do something that makes her happy.
    But then, because it has become a habit, one day I did the same for the mother of my godchildren and she grabbed the door out of my hand, glared at me, and said, "I'm capable of doing that!"  It was embarrassing, but it was also a good lesson: know what works and doesn't work for others.  As a long-time close friend, I still love my godchildren's mother, and she still loves me, and knowing her boundaries strengthens that bond. But I'll still err on the side of being a gentleman, so if I ever do that to any of you and you don't like it, reprimand gently, please, lol.  I'll remember your preference.  :smiley:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,116
    Add opening and closing the door for a woman.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Get_Right said:
    Add opening and closing the door for a woman.

    Or anyone!  Sometimes when our post office is really busy, I'll open or hold the door for someone, and then someone else comes along, and then another, and pretty soon I just tell people I'm the doorman. 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,886
    Me too . I'm a doorman I stand there sometimes while people just stream past.


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,790
    brianlux said:
    goldrush said:


    "What we want/ and what we need/ has been confused/ been confused."
    -R.E.M.
    One of my all time favourite Michael Stipe lyrics is from ‘Blue’ on Collapse Into Now. Definitely words that I remind myself of pretty regularly:

    “I am made by my times
    I am a creation of now
    Shaken with the cracks and crevices
    I'm not giving up easy
    I will not fold
    I don't have much
    But what I have is gold

    This is my time and I am thrilled to be alive”
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    Let it be.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    goldrush said:
    brianlux said:
    goldrush said:


    "What we want/ and what we need/ has been confused/ been confused."
    -R.E.M.
    One of my all time favourite Michael Stipe lyrics is from ‘Blue’ on Collapse Into Now. Definitely words that I remind myself of pretty regularly:

    “I am made by my times
    I am a creation of now
    Shaken with the cracks and crevices
    I'm not giving up easy
    I will not fold
    I don't have much
    But what I have is gold

    This is my time and I am thrilled to be alive”

    Stipe makes good words!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    Get_Right said:
    Add opening and closing the door for a woman.
    I open my gals door to the car every time she gets in it.
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,790
    Wise words from Darby Hudson, a poet and artist from Melbourne


    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    goldrush said:
    Wise words from Darby Hudson, a poet and artist from Melbourne



     I love it! (and dutifully follow those words, haha!)
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,360
    I. Don't.  Know.
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    Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
    you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
    memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,790
    brianlux said:
    goldrush said:
    Wise words from Darby Hudson, a poet and artist from Melbourne



     I love it! (and dutifully follow those words, haha!)
    Here’s another couple by Darby that I really like:




    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,955
    edited May 2024

    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,069
    To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. 

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