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Make the most of now! Mon Nov 06, 2006 22:48 pm  Make the most of now!		  
Hi!

Although this headline is the current slogan of a provider for electrical communication there might be a wisdom in it, mightn?t there?

Do you know any other wise idiom to request yourself every single moment? For instance: Today is the first day of the rest of my life or something else.

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Important maxims Tue Nov 07, 2006 0:14 am  Important maxims		  
    Always look on the bright side of life! Very Happy
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Make the most of now! Tue Nov 07, 2006 14:33 pm  Make the most of now!		  
Let the sun shine down on you!!! Cool
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Make the most of now! Tue Nov 07, 2006 15:22 pm  Make the most of now!		  
    * * * * * * * * *

    Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. Smile

    Mark Twain

    * * * * * * * * *
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Make the most of now! Tue Nov 07, 2006 16:43 pm  Make the most of now!		  
Hi Conchita!

Rather difficult to reply on your latter example! Like mentioned in the holy Bible:

Happy are the poor minded. They?ll reach the Heaven !

Knock...Knock....Knocking at Heaven?s Door
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Make the most of now! Tue Nov 07, 2006 18:57 pm  Make the most of now!		  
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...Don't worry, be happy....
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............ Cool ............
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Make the most of now! Tue Nov 07, 2006 19:26 pm  Make the most of now!		  
Hi,

To continue with Conchita's line:

Quote:
Always Look On The Bright Side of Life
from
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Cheer up, Brian. You know what they say.
Some things in life are bad,
They can really make you mad.
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle,
Don't grumble, give a whistle!
And this'll help things turn out for the best...
And...
the music fades into the song

...always look on the bright side of life!
whistle

Always look on the bright side of life...
If life seems jolly rotten,
There's something you've forgotten!
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing,

When you're feeling in the dumps,
Don't be silly chumps,
Just purse your lips and whistle -- that's the thing!
And... always look on the bright side of life...

whistle
Come on!

other start to join in
Always look on the bright side of life...
whistle

For life is quite absurd,
And death's the final word.
You must always face the curtain with a bow!
Forget about your sin -- give the audience a grin,
Enjoy it -- it's the last chance anyhow!

So always look on the bright side of death!
Just before you draw your terminal breath.
Life's a piece of sh*t,
When you look at it.

Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true,
You'll see it's all a show,
Keep 'em laughing as you go.
Just remember that the last laugh is on you!

And always look on the bright side of life...
whistle
Always look on the bright side of life
whistle

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Rise and shine! Tue Nov 07, 2006 20:03 pm  Rise and shine!		  
Hi

Fan of Arabian horses wrote:
Let the sun shine down on you

Rise and shine!

("Was adopted by sergeants in the British army when gently advising soldiers that is was time to get up. Soldiers were expected to shine their boots every morning.")
Laughing Smile
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Make the most of now! Wed Nov 08, 2006 0:09 am  Make the most of now!		  
Hi Everybody,
This is the one I like the best:
There's no bad that couldn't get worse.

And the other:
Just because you're paranoid it doesn't necessarily mean that no one followes you Smile

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Alwise look on the broight soide of loife Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:02 am  Alwise look on the broight soide of loife		  
Alan wrote:
give a whistle!

I used to enjoy whistling a lot. Now, you may laugh when I tell you this, but I just had to stop because I was getting wrinkles around my lips (which were bound to show up sooner or later, anyway)!

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity! Rolling Eyes
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Make the most of now! Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:15 am  Make the most of now!		  
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Just out of curiosity, is your son a whistler, too, Conchita?
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Make the most of now! Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:20 am  Make the most of now!		  
Yankee wrote:
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Just out of curiosity, is your son a whistler, too, Conchita?
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Yes, he is! Smile And so is my dad. Why do you ask?
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Make the most of now! Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:27 am  Make the most of now!		  
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That would make you whistler's mother... Mr. Green
(...as well as whistler's daughter.)
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Make the most of now! Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:09 am  Make the most of now!		  
Hi!

I like to add a nice short story about whisteling I experienced recently:

As you know I was working as a machinist at a machine-factories assembly. Well, there wasn?t much noise and it?s been pretty clean there. While working one of the machinists started imitating a birds voice. Step by step every of the other ten machinists started imitating another birds voice, too. So that If you would have entered the hall you might have been reminded to a birds cage at the zoo. Cool

Fortunately, no of the chiefs started beating about the bush. They surely were happy to hold us in their hands. Wink

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Make the most of now! Thu Nov 09, 2006 13:11 pm  Make the most of now!		  
Yankee wrote:
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That would make you whistler's mother... Mr. Green
(...as well as whistler's daughter.)
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That's a consolation, I guess! Smile

By the way, I'd have said 'That would make you a whistler's mother/daughter'. Are you using 'whistler' as a kind of proper noun here?

I'm also an ear mover (flapper?)'s mum and daughter! And, since we're at it, my daughter is able to do all those funny things with her tongue, as described in a previous thread. The only 'different' thing I can do with it is 'click' the popcorn song (really loudly)...

Fan of Arabian horses wrote:
Fortunately, no of the chiefs started beating about the bush. They surely were happy to hold us in their hands. Wink

I liked your funny anecdote, Michael! Laughing

Have you checked the meaning of 'beating about/around the bush'? I don't really understand what you mean by it here. Confused
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