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Post by wydy2009 on Feb 16, 2009 1:03:20 GMT -5
One of the requirements of every commencement speaker is that they offer some advice. Well, get ready, It here it comes.
Soon you will be leaving wow power leveling the company of those who think they have all the answers-your professors, instructors and counselors-and going out into what we like to call the real world. In time you will meet up with other people who think they have all the answers. Wow gold, these people are called bosses. My advice is: humor them.
A little later you will meet additional people who think they have all the answers. These are called spouses. Wow gold, my advice is: humor them, too.
And if all goes well, in a few years you will meet still another group of people who think they have all the answers. These are called children. Humor them.
Life will go on, wow power leveling your children will grow up, go to school, and someday they could be taking part in a commencement ceremony just like this one. And who knows, the speaker responsible for handing out good advice might be you. Halfway through your speech, the graduate sitting next to your daughter will lean over and ask, wow gold, "Who is that woman up there who thinks she has all the answers?"
Well, thanks to the sound advice you are hearing today and that I hope you will all pass on, she will be able to say, wow power leveling, "That is my mother. Humor her."
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Post by Tenjen on Feb 16, 2009 2:21:45 GMT -5
theres some serious levels of fail and awesome going on here..
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Post by Kristal Rose on Feb 16, 2009 7:34:36 GMT -5
Thus not deleted, I guess. I suppose they get some credit for this latest sleazy attempt.
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Post by Nixie on Feb 16, 2009 16:45:54 GMT -5
Hmph. I'll edit out the links but leave the text there and IP ban this bot, but leave the message up and move it to the spam forum.
This one does get points for power leveling children.
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Post by Nixie on Feb 21, 2009 2:43:28 GMT -5
Another kindly bot post. I edited out the links.
We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I¡¯d know better.
I¡¯d really like for them to know about hand-me-down clothes and home-made ice cream and leftover meatloaf. I really would.
My cherished grandson, I hope you learn humility by surviving failure and that you learn to be honest even when no one is looking.
I hope you learn to make your bed and mow the lawn and wash the car -- and I hope nobody gives you a brand-new car when you are sixteen.
It will be good if at least one time you can see a baby calf born, and you have a good friend to be with you if you ever have to put your old dog to sleep.
I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.
And it is all right to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he¡¯s scared, I hope you¡¯ll let him.
And when you want to see a Disney movie and your kid brother wants to tag along, I hope you take him.
I hope you have to walk uphill with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely.
If you want a slingshot, I hope your father teaches you how to make one instead of buying one. I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books, and when you learn to use computers, you also learn how to add and subtract in your head.
I hope you get razzed by friends when you have your first crush on a girl, and that when you talk back to your mother you learn what Ivory soap tastes like.
May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on the stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.
I hope you get sick when someone blows smoke in your face. I don¡¯t care if you try beer once, but I hope you won¡¯t like it. And if a friend offers you a joint or any drugs, I hope you are smart enough to realize that person is not your friend.
I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your grandpa or go fishing with your uncle.
I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through a neighbor¡¯s window, and that she hugs you and kisses you when you give her a plaster of paris mold of your hand.
These things I wish for you -- tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness.
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Post by Kristal Rose on Feb 22, 2009 12:39:39 GMT -5
Commencement speeches from seniors? Well, I'm glad some of this advice is outdated, especially the soap and slingshots.
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Post by Tenjen on Feb 23, 2009 3:28:52 GMT -5
I hope you bash my skull in with a shovel when we all catch a water borne disease thats rotting us slowly while we're surrounded by crazy town people whose deaths are inevitable anyway.
Actually. Use the lawn mower.
[sorry. just a brainspasm after readign that]
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Post by Kristal Rose on Feb 23, 2009 21:39:34 GMT -5
You had a problem with something?
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Post by Tenjen on Feb 24, 2009 0:48:34 GMT -5
ah no, i meant after reading the granma thing. the "you" was a generic "you"
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Post by Nixie on Mar 3, 2009 21:45:32 GMT -5
Another interesting post from bots.
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Post by Kristal Rose on Mar 4, 2009 2:31:55 GMT -5
I like those sorts of tales, but not particularly that one. ..mainly because it involves no transformational lesson learned on her part.
It reminds me of dialogue between a worried ruler of a kingdom and a hindu deity who pointed out that civilizations come and go like ant colonies.
If you like this sort of thing, see if there are some spiritual lectures by Clarissa Pinkola available for audio download. They include readings of such cool old fairy tales.
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Post by Tenjen on Mar 4, 2009 3:54:21 GMT -5
not the first time for such behavior from Athena.
Specially when they see her nude. That virgin really must have a great deal of sexual frustration..
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Post by Kristal Rose on Mar 4, 2009 5:44:07 GMT -5
Not nude, feathers. ..like Vegas show girls.
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Post by ongaru on Mar 19, 2009 11:02:38 GMT -5
not the first time for such behavior from Athena. Specially when they see her nude. That virgin really must have a great deal of sexual frustration.. That was Diana.
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Post by Kristal Rose on Mar 21, 2009 1:38:43 GMT -5
Now that's making a lot more sense.
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