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DENNIS MIN

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I'll be darned,

I caught myself saying the words of my Dad. Too bad back in the day I wasn't listening very well.

Any wisdom that you miss? I had a thought that was purely from my Dad. He truly had a gift of describing what kept him alive and well.

D.
 
My dad and I were never close enough that I would wish to emulate him.

He lived his life, I live mine.
 
Goose,

My Dad and I were not that far apart, I was just a teen that did not listen. He's been a decent, albeit imperfect, man.

Sounds like you've made an improvement on the original. Good for you. I kind of think that's the way of it should be.

D.
 
My dad died when I was 11. He had just started to take me fishing and hunting. But he failed miserably telling me about the birds and the bees. That is the only thing I remember that he failed at.
 
Dad wasen't too careful backing up as he got older. I am the same way now. Smacked a couple things already in the past year or so backing up. Stan
 
This cold weather reminds me what Dad used to comment when he would come in from the fridged weather, "It's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey out there." I often wondered what cold had to do with brass monkeys untill I looked it up and found out that brass monkeys were the racks that you stacked cannon balls on to keep them from rolling around on the ship deck. When it got severly cold the brass monkey would shrink faster than the cannon balls forcing them out of their places and off they would go. hense the saying. I think its even funnier now that I know the meaning of it.
 
I still remember exactly where I was the day I looked down and realized that my hands look like my father's. That was a sobering moment. They look more like his every day. Must be the liver spots.
 
Of all the things my dad said to me, Two things, I will always remember and have said these two things to my three kids:

"If you just waite long enough, you will find what you are looking for at a price you can be happy with"

"Satisfy your needs before your desires"
 
"When it got severly cold the brass monkey would shrink faster than the cannon balls forcing them out of their places and off they would go. hense the saying."

You know, I've heard that before. I would like to see Mythbusters see if that was really possible.

Hard to believe something shrinking a few thousandths of an inch could cause a pyramid of cannon balls to fall.

If that stack were that fragile, wouldn't the rocking of the ship cause them to fall?

Why would they be stored in such a way to start with? I've seen them that way in pirate movies, but really? Wouldn't that be asking for trouble? A bunch of cannon balls rolling around at the worst possible time, as in a battle or storm...
 
Two things My Dad taught Me that I've remembered
and took to heart,
"Dead right or dead wrong, Dead is dead!

If You get Yourself in jail, You get Yourself out! Don't Call Me.

Steve A W
 
(quoted from post at 23:54:42 01/24/14) "When it got severly cold the brass monkey would shrink faster than the cannon balls forcing them out of their places and off they would go. hense the saying."

You know, I've heard that before. I would like to see Mythbusters see if that was really possible.

Hard to believe something shrinking a few thousandths of an inch could cause a pyramid of cannon balls to fall.

If that stack were that fragile, wouldn't the rocking of the ship cause them to fall?

Why would they be stored in such a way to start with? I've seen them that way in pirate movies, but really? Wouldn't that be asking for trouble? A bunch of cannon balls rolling around at the worst possible time, as in a battle or storm...
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Already been proven wrong.
They wouldn't have been stored on deck due to corrosion.
Still, that is one of the accepted origins of the term.
 
"Engage your brain before engaging your mouth."
Dad was a wise man.
Somewhere along the line he decided to stop learning though.
I hope to avoid that, unless I become wise enough to understand
why he made that choice!
 
I think we all at sometime become a lot like our Dad's. I always thought I never would, but I have become about a perfect match. My wife thinks so also. I've noticed my son, about middle aged is also becoming a lot like me. Not completely, but a lot of similarities.
 
Every generation is the badest, the coolest that there ever was or will be, and no matter how hard our parents try, they just never were and never will be cool, so we all think. One day I'm working with a fella and he's telling me about his daughter in college and the things that her generation does that he just doesn't understand. Then he looks at me and asks, "I never saw uncool coming at me, geez, when did I become my parents?". He was really upset too. He really was.

Mark
 
If I can become 3/4 the man my Dad was I would be a heck of a person.
The 1/4 I would prefer to not be is the part where he died of M.S.
In life if someone needed some help he would do what he could. In death he did what he could to help another out. He donated himself to science to further the research of M.S.
It is my plan in the end to be just like him tho... ashes, as I too plan on being donated. LOL
 
My dad had a few sayings that have come in handy over the years. yea he told me to engage my brain before my mouth which helped me out greatly while in the army. He also preached that if I didn't have time to do it right when was I going to find time to do it over. Also Check, recheck and then recheck again.

When my kids were still young and dad was still alive he would teas me when a kid misbehaved "it all comes back to me now". I telling my kids the same things he told me. I don't mind being like him one little bit.

Sure he made some mistakes but we all do that.

Rick
 
You got to behave yourself where ever you are. Some one is going to know you.
I have learned that so many times.

Fred
 
We didn't realize what a reputation our Dad had until after he passed away. My brother & I went in to talk to the banker about handling the estate money. He made the comment: "You 2 are just like your Dad, so whatever you want to do just go ahead and do it".

Note: That same banker wouldn't have loaned a dollar to our 2 older brothers.
 
I was just out of high school when dad passed. Being a teen we were not that in tune with each other, but I was coming around. At his funeral some 300 people showed up. Given I knew maybe 30 of them, mostly relatives, I had to ask my mother who was who.

Turns out that the majority of them were people he did business with. To this day I still wonder just what kind of person you had to be to have that many unrelated folks take the time to come see you off.

As for me becoming him, in some ways, I hope so........
 
I tell my wife and she agrees that I look more like my daddy everyday! My sisters say the same and they're looking like Mama used to! She'll be gone 14 years in Feb. and Daddy, 23 years in July. My Daddy taught like someone above said to "do it right the first time!". Some of the knuckleheads I work with don't have a clue about doing some things I come up with at work. Then I remind them, I've been working on tractor/trailers for almost 37 years now, not counting my teen years helping Daddy in the shop! One thing he didn't teach me was to keep smoking, a habit I never picked up.
 
(quoted from post at 04:59:24 01/25/14) I think we all at sometime become a lot like our Dad's. I always thought I never would, but I have become about a perfect match. My wife thinks so also. I've noticed my son, about middle aged is also becoming a lot like me. Not completely, but a lot of similarities.
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My wife says I'm just like my Dad was. He was a great guy so I take it as a compliment. She also says our son is getting to be more like me. Sometimes when my son and I are facing each other I'll tell him it's just like looking in a mirror. Since I'm old, fat and bald he isn't amused.
 
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