# Learn from my mistakes, children.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-from-my-mistakes-children/21528>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 6, 2000, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-from-my-mistakes-children/21528 "2000-06-06T07:45:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2000, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-from-my-mistakes-children/21528/1 "2000-06-06T07:45:37Z")

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Don’t eat an entire box of Banana Granola cereal in one sitting, no matter how tasty.

::stands, covers bottom with hands, and waddles to bathroom::

–Tim

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**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2000, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-from-my-mistakes-children/21528/2 "2000-06-06T08:04:38Z")

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Oh dear, sounds bad, Homer. I promise not to do that, as long as you promise not to have a large bowl of raisin bran with a big glass of apple juice as a chaser. Works the same.

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**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-from-my-mistakes-children/21528/3 "2000-06-06T16:19:38Z")

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don’t drink a gallon of fresh-pressed cider all at once either. (it’s those floaty things on the bottom that do it.)

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**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-from-my-mistakes-children/21528/4 "2000-06-07T04:41:19Z")

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Ahhh, all cleaned out.

–Tim

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**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-from-my-mistakes-children/21528/5 "2000-06-07T04:50:57Z")

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[singing] “… and away go your troubles, down the drain!” [/singing]

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**Author:** ![DVous\_Means](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@DVous\_Means](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DVous_Means)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-from-my-mistakes-children/21528/6 "2000-06-07T13:25:52Z")

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My experience from all that high fibre food is that it tends to make bricks that float. And trying to get them to negotiate the S-bend can be difficult…