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#16 (permalink) Tue Jan 16, 2007 23:26 pm Just 'golden' :)

Tamara wrote:

Well. My next phrase on the topic.
There is actually more than one – at least two, quite different – wordings for the so-called golden rule:

1. "Treat others as you would like to be treated."
2. "Treat others as you would like to be treated, if you were them"

The most common English wording of the Golden Rule is, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

More golden stuff: When I was a little kid, we used to eat a cereal made of honey-coated puffed wheat that was called Sugar Crisp. Then my generation grew up, and they found the idea of giving kids sugar for breakfast to be quite revolting. The manufacturer changed the name of the cereal to Super Golden Crisp, so now the parents give their kids the same tooth-rotting cereal they loved as children, but they don't feel bad about it.

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#17 (permalink) Tue Jan 16, 2007 23:47 pm Just 'golden' :)

is that the one with the frog on the cover? _________________ Billie Jean is not my lover. Hee.

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#18 (permalink) Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:28 am Just 'golden' :)

prezbucky wrote:

is that the one with the frog on the cover?

It's always had a bear of one kind or another on it. When I was a kid, the bear's name was Sugar Bear. Now I think he's just a generic cartoon bear. It was (and is) a Post cereal.

Kellogg's makes an identical cereal that used to be called Sugar Smacks and had a seal on the box. Evidently, honey sounds healthier to old hippies than sugar does, so the cereal is now called Honey Smacks, and its box has a frog on it.

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#19 (permalink) Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:33 am Just 'golden' :)

Golden honey, golden sugar, yes.
Tasty collocations. Smile

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By the way, golden bear seems to be highly popular in the modern world

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about 14,600,000 for golden bear

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In the original version it's assumed that people want to be treated well.
But…

Yes, prezbucky. But not only to a true masochist. Smile

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The problem with the first version is that it makes great emphasis on the people’s similarity and doesn’t take into account their actual difference.

Just rephasing the popular proverb: 'what's good for the goose is not good for the tiger'. Smile

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That's true, isn't it?

There were lots of situations in my life when people kindly treated me within the first version of rule (in fact, just making the direct transfer of their own wishes), but, in fact, often just paving by their good intentions the very famous road…

I don’t want to be ‘well’-treated by the first version of the rule.
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#20 (permalink) Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:36 pm Just 'golden' :)

Tamara wrote:

Just rephasing the popular proverb: 'what's good for the goose is not good for the tiger'. Smile

Smile

That's true, isn't it?

Hi Tamara!

I think there are some other dependency(dependencies) as the goose possibly might be good for the tiger. Shocked

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By the way, prezbucky seems to be good for me? Laughing

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