Monday 1 May 2023

Auntie Debra is IN










39 comments:

  1. I like the herring trick. I think that would work well in keeping most people away and from getting their unsolicited advice too!

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  2. No one seems to ask for advice any longer.

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  3. I'm beginning to wonder if I came to the right place?

    And Happy May Day sweet cheeks!

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  4. Tequila always tells me I can dance.
    Tequila is usually wrong.

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  5. Debra is this post reflective of your eating habits - Pringles, Bugles, Oreos and cookie dough?

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  6. A Garland of Precepts

    by Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978)

    Though a seeker since my birth,
    Here is all I’ve learned on earth,
    This the gist of what I know:
    Give advice and buy a foe.
    Random truths are all I find
    Stuck like burs about my mind.
    Salve a blister. Burn a letter.
    Do not wash a cashmere sweater.
    Tell a tale but seldom twice.
    Give a stone before advice.

    Pressed for rules and verities,
    All I recollect are these:
    Feed a cold to starve a fever.
    Argue with no true believer.
    Think-too-long is never-act.
    Scratch a myth and find a fact.
    Stitch in time saves twenty stitches.
    Give the rich, to please them, riches.
    Give to love your hearth and hall.
    But do not give advice at all.

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  7. @ Lady M -- I've enjoyed all of those delicacies in the past but have reformed my wicked ways now -- at least for the moment.

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  8. @ Frank -- Thanks for the poetic advice, lol!

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  9. The last one is more of a warning than advice. You should also start with "I'm not sure, but..." and still end with "But IDK tho".

    You'll also see one of these next Saturday.

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  10. These are all so hilarious! The Pickled Herring. 😳😳😳😳
    Just proves that no one knows what they're doing, so don't ask anyone for advice.

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  11. Love the Herring>>>Phew!!!
    I guess I should stop talking to myself as well...good point!!

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  12. The Universe works in mysterious ways. That pizza, wine, nap, selfie, wait person will probably be the one to buy a lottery ticket, win millions on the first try. Thus, proving doing what one loves works.

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  13. Excellent advise and obviously an excellent advise giver!

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  14. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I didn't come to the right place.

    An aside: One of my pet peeves — people who make statements like “Do what you love and money will follow.”

    Another aside: I have a dear old friend who married and became Mary Worth. And, except for the fact that my friend doesn't wear her hair in a bun, they look exactly alike.

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  15. My best advice, don’t give advice!

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  16. I copied the money advice. Love and money are not related. Some do love money even though money can not love them back.
    Hey do my thoughts qualify me as a sage?

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  17. Sagely advice, Debra. Thank you.
    I especially like the one about spelling your name with your butt, and this last one. Will take it to heart (and butt).
    Cheers.
    Have a great week.

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  18. The herring trick is probably related to wearing garlic around your neck to avoid colds. Also people.

    The advice is as good as most of the columns I follow.

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  19. I definitely would not turn down $100,000 for free and it sounds better than $2,000 I have worked for

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  20. These are most excellent and made me giggle!

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  21. I love the subtlety that everyone wants to be heard or a sounding board no matter who they are

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  22. I wish I'd known about spelling my name with my butt the one time I went to a dance in high school. I absolutely could not dance. Hopeless. Absolutely hopeless.

    Love,
    Janie

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  23. Well, between the Vodka and spelling my name with my bum, I have realized I CAN indeed dance!
    Woot woot!

    XOXO

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  24. I'm thinking of reading, What To Say When You Talk To Your Self.
    Coffee is on, and stay safe.

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  25. The pickled herring will keep most people away, but probably not Swedes. Let's hope Swedes don't get the measles.

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  26. "Attack while they're distracted" shall be my new motto.

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  27. Enough vodka and I'll dance in celebration of the porcelain god.

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  28. There is no use asking me for advice
    I’m living life by the seat of my pants

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  29. The one about the essential oils! BAHAHAHAHA I can actually see someone trying this.

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  30. That herring trick will definitely do the trick. Oh my. I almost gag when Mrs. Shife eats a can of sardines. I don't know what I do around this smell. I also feel like I am the "me" in a lot of those advice scenarios. Definitely done the Bugles and mozzarella sticks.

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  31. Mary Worth, i used to use that as an oracle, back when she was still here. Not saying that she was a good oracle, but every once in a while Mary Worth did save the day.
    My other was that RCMP guy, with handy tips about how to start a fire, how to read tracks, how to be a boy.
    I had to figure it out for myself. No way could i tell the RCMP.
    So far, it is okay, and i thank Mary Worth.

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  32. Fermented herring should keep the neighbours away, but it might attract millions of cats.

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  33. Oh lordy! Those are a hoot!

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  34. Attack while they're distracted. A much better punch line!

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  35. I love the "what does a cat say one."😂
    -Quinley

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  36. haha loved it
    i have seen how enthusiastic people feel to give free advices mom would say listen to all but do what your heart says :)

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  37. I actually smelled that Swedish pickled herring. Ghastly smell. Couldn't eat any.

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  38. Pickled herring all the way. I discovered years ago that a sardine sandwich before bed acted as birth control.
    Frank, I am stealing that poem.

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