Big Fat Lies. (we tell kids).

Of course it does. What else could it be? I think purplehorseshoe is having us on. :rolleyes:

You’re right. Of course you’re right. Thanks for clearing that up.

If that was the case the midwest would make Las Vegas look like the Vatican. Quick run and fuck your married neighbor before the corn wilts!!!

Life is fair.

Hard work never hurt anybody.

That’s a big one!

Not me. My kids know that fair is where pigs compete for ribbons.

Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

They say for every boy and girl, there is just one love in this whole world. The perfect boy or girl? Hows that for forcing someone to live up to high expectations?

Oh yeah, I detest that one almost as must as the one that says: God/life only gives us challenges that we can cope with, so that we can develop abilities/strengths whatever.

Hoh-kay! Some of the stuff here seems like some folks are just really bitter. Another thing: I never thought “You can do anything” was meant to be taken literally. If so, it is most certainly a lie. I’ve always interpreted it as “More things are possible than you think, if you have undying determination.” Maybe they should phrase it that way, then, I guess. That said…

A lie to end all lies.

Not without the help of a shitload of other people, they can’t.

No kidding. I was kind of a little monster in junior high school, but in my defense, can you name one junior high aged girl who isn’t? I was constantly told that my behaviors would doom me permanently, and they almost certainly would have had I continued them, but they kept making it seem like everything I did in 7th grade would haunt me for the rest of my life. Everything was going on some permanent record somewhere. Well if there is some record, no one I know has ever seen it. Suck it, Mrs. Krebs!

Yeah, the “permanent record” thing is bunk! (not that I did anything that’d be on one) It seems to be jsut a threat to keep us on the straight and narrow.