“Take care now” was my Mom’s usual good-bye. Other sage advice from the same source: “Look both ways when crossing the street.” “Always wear “good” underwear in case you are in an accident.” “Use the bathroom before you leave the house, just because.” ” In three years, you will laugh about this.” My favorite on the occasion of moving to the big city at 18 yrs old…”Make friends with the police and the bartenders.”
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/daily-prompt-take-care/
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nice articles
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” Don’t go swimming for at least 30 minutes after eating ”
great post topic. Thank you for liking my posts on my Barefoot Baroness blog. You have a fun and friendly blog, not sure how I missed following it before. Rectifying that now. ~
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Mind your P’s & Q’s confounded me for years, my least favorite was : because I said so.
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I remember hearing it but what does Ps & Qs mean?
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My Mum said some of those too!
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I loosely had some idea as a kid it meant “don’t be a jerk”, but I had to look it up again for the particulars.
Evidently P’s & Q’s have a long tale to tell: from mind your Pints and Quarts tab at the bar; to proper cursive squiggles in handwriting class to differentiate letters; to what my mother (I think) meant – “mind your manners”.
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ahhh here we go…!
Snopes clears it up
http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/pqs.asp
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Pints and Quarts is not an answer I might have expected but I can see the relation. Thanks
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Fun to remember all those old “Mama says”
Thanks 😎
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I remember those admonisions. Funny how familiar it seems. Hugs, Barbara
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