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Thoughts of Paul Harvey - a good read.

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I don't know if Paul Harvey actually wrote this or not, but I don't really care.

Paul Harvey Writes:
We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I'd like better.

I'd really like for them to know about hand me down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches. I really would.

I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated.

I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car.

And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.

It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep.

I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.

I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother/sister. And it's all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room,but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him.

When you want to see a movie and your little brother/sister wants to tag along, I hope you'll let him/her.

I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely.

On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask your driver to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom.

If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one.

I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books.

When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head.

I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a boy\girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like.

May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.

I don't care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don't like it. And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend.

I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandma/Grandpa and go fishing with your Uncle.

May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays.

I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Hannukah/Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand.

These things I wish for you - tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.

Written with a pen. Sealed with a kiss. I'm here for you. And if I die before you do, I'll go to heaven and wait for you.

Send this to all of your friends. (FFM says that part is bullsh|t). We secure our friends, not by accepting favors, but by doing them.
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harvey is a partisan whore and sellout. he doesn't even write his own stuff, he has a team of writers, and he just looks over and approves what they write.
 
"and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like."

It's not exactly yummy I'll tell ya 😛

Paul Harvey Jr writes most of the Rest of the Story copy anymore, news I don't know who sorts it, but the news itself is just selected stories. Little sidenotes and most of the commentary is his or staff suggestions. That someone else searches the wire and selects most of the stories for him doesn't make him a "sellout". He did the cub reporter gig fifty years ago. Partisan? Sure, notice 'news and commentary'

What was it, like a year or two ago when he renewed his contract with ABC for another 10 years. If I'm not an opinionated old coot at 85 I hope not to make it to that age, muchless work ten more years after that point. And I sure wouldn't be doing my own googling at that point to prepare a daily report if I didn't have to.
 
I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.
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I don't think so. Fighting can lead to the cops getting involved, which can lead to charges, which can lead to possible jail time and/or a permaneny smudge on your records. Good luck finding a job with that.

Now if he means fighting, like in the army, then all is good.
 
Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.
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I don't think so. Fighting can lead to the cops getting involved, which can lead to charges, which can lead to possible jail time and/or a permaneny smudge on your records. Good luck finding a job with that.

Now if he means fighting, like in the army, then all is good.
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You may be right, but I think he was talking about like grade school kids in the playground.

 
Originally posted by: N8Magic
".... and now you know... the rest of the story."

Paul Harvey is great storyteller.
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A few weeks ago, I heard him fvck up that part at the end of the show, then there was an akward silence before the local station picked up. It was pretty funny
 
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