Things friends don’t let friends do...

THE ORIGINAL FAMOUS QUOTE
“Friends don’t let friends drive drunk.” 
     Ad slogan created by the Outdoor Advertising Association of America 
     First used shortly before New Year’s Eve in 1982

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SOME VARIATIONS TO KEEP IN MIND
FOR THE NEW YEAR...

“Friends don’t let friends watch Friends.”
     Les Roberts, The Best-Kept Secret (2000)

“Friends don’t let friends drive naked.” 
     Will Hobbs, Jackie’s Wild Seattle (2004)

“Friends don’t let friends wear polyester.”
     April Sinclair, Ain’t Gonna Be Same Fool (1997)

“Friends don’t let friends take home ugly men.”
     Ray Foley, Beer Is the Answer...I Don’t Remember the Question (2007)

“Friends don’t let friends wear ugly shoes.”
     Naomi Judd, Naomi’s Guide to Aging Gratefully (2008)

“Friends don’t let friends sing in public when they cannot even sing in private.”
     Tim Delaney, Shameful Behaviors (2008)

“Friends don’t let friends wear their iPods on their belts.”
     Mac Life Magazine, August 2008

“Friends Don’t Let Friends Drink & Tweet.”
     Perez Hilton, blog post about celebrities who tweet drunk

“Friends don’t let friends drink and dial.”
     Dave Singleton, Behind Every Great Woman Is a Fabulous Gay Man (2005)

“Friends don’t let friends wear Speedos. These should only – only! – be worn
by the likes of Ryk Neethling and other Olympic swimmers.”
     Dennis Cavernelis, 293 Things Every South African Man Should Know (2006)

“Friends don’t let friends date other friends’ boyfriends.”
     Randi Reisfeld, Extreme Sisterhood (1999)

“Friends don’t let friends wear fanny packs.”
     Cathy Hamilton, Dieting and Other Weighty Issues (2001)

“Friends don’t let friends forget where they came from.”
     Bill O’Reilly, A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity (2008)

“Friends don’t let friends wear puffed sleeves.”
     Carol McCormick, The Missing Piece (2003)

“Friends don’t let friends drink chardonnay.”
     Michele Anna Jordan, The Good Cook’s Book of Days (1995)

“Friends Don’t Let Friends Reanimate.”
     T-shirt slogan, BuyZombie.com

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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Which should never be brought to mind? Drinking, abstinence or Sarah Palin?

FAMOUS NEW YEAR’S QUOTE: “Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? We’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet, For auld lang syne.”        Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796)        His poem “Auld Lang Syne” (1788)         Popularized by Guy Lombardo's musical version

ABSTINENCE COUNTERQUOTE: “Let drinking customs be forgot And never brought to mind. Come, moderate drinkers, topers, sots, And leave your cups behind.”        Quoted by Henry Lee        In his book How Dry We Were: Prohibition Revisited (1963)

ODDLY ANTI-ABSTINENCE QUOTE: “Can abstinence be now forgot, And never brought to mind? Can abstinence be now forgot, And mercy to mankind.”        The Standard Book of Song for Temperance Meetings (1883)        Edited by Thomas Bowick

NEW YEAR’S WISH QUOTE: “Should Sarah Palin be forgot and never brought to mind...? Lord, please let it be so...”         Comment posted by “NoonCat”        On the Inside Dope blog

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Deck the halls with Buddy Holly – and Lady Gaga Gaga Ga, Ga Gaga Ga…

FAMOUS CHRISTMAS QUOTE: “Deck the halls with boughs of holly,       Fa la la la la, la la la la. ‘Tis the season to be jolly      Fa la la la la la, la la la.”           Traditional Christmas song “Deck the Halls”          Original writer unknown

CHRI$TMA$ COUNTERQUOTE: “Deck the halls with advertising,      Fa la la la la, la la la la. ‘Tis the time for merchandising,      Fa la la la la, la la la la. Profit never needs a reason,      Fa la la la la la la la la. Get the money, it’s the season,      Fa la la la la la, la la la.”           Stan Freberg (b. 1926)           American comic genius          His satiric song “Green Chri$tma$” (1958)

ORDINARY GENTLEMAN’S QUOTE: “So, ‘tis the season where we annually get into the inimitable argument over whether people should be saying, ‘Merry Christmas’ or ‘Happy Holidays’…It’s time for the War on Christmas/Pluralism — depending on your point of view.”        Blogger Scott H. Payne        On The League of Ordinary Gentlemen blog, Dec. 17, 2009

LADY GAGA QUOTE: “Light me up, put me on top Let’s fa la la la la, la la la la.”        Outré musician Lady Gaga        Her XXXmas song “Christmas Tree” (2008)

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“The evil that men do” makes headlines – and annoys women

FAMOUS QUOTE: “The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.”        William Shakespeare (1564-1616)         Mark Antony’s famous funeral oration for Caesar in Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2

TOUCHY TIGER WOODS QUOTE: “There is a famous quote by Julius Caesar which states, ‘The evil men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.’ Tiger Woods cheated on his wife. His career is over. And golf is still boring.”        Author and blogger Robin Westmiller        In her column on Examiner.com, Dec. 20, 2009        Misattributing (and misusing?) Shakespeare’s quote

TOUCHÉ COUNTERQUOTE: “Yet with all the genderless demands the once fair sex insists upon one they have chosen to ignore is protesting the saying, ‘The evil that men do.’ I guess the ladies feel they do no evil, or at least they are not about to admit to it.”        Columnist Norm Cukras        In his column in the Highlands Today, Dec. 18, 2009

ACCLAIMED CRITIC’S QUOTE: “The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.”        Brooks Atkinson (1894-1984)        American drama critic and author        In his book Once Around the Sun (1951)

ACCLAIMED HIPSTER'S QUOTE: “The bad jazz that a cat blows, Wails long after he’s cut out. The groovy is often stashed with their frames.”        Lord Buckley (1906-1960)        The legendary hipster performer        His version of “Marc Antony’s Funeral Oration”

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“A specter is haunting Europe” – it’s Hugo Chavez at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference!

FAMOUS QUOTE: “A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of Communism.”        Karl Marx (1818-1883)        Opening words of The Communist Manifesto (1848)         Sometimes translated as "A ghost is haunting Europe…” and "specter" is often spelled the British way, as "spectre"

HUGO CHAVEZ QUOTE: “To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants to mention it...Socialism, the other specter Karl Marx spoke about, which walks here too, rather it is like a counter-specter. Socialism, this is the direction, this is the path to save the planet, I don’t have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell, to the destruction of the world.”        Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez         At the U.N. Climate Change Conference, Dec. 16, 2009

CHAVEZ COUNTERQUOTE #1: “Hugo Chavez , who paraphrased Marx in assigning blame for climate change...That's from the leader of a country whose economy is based largely on the export of particularly dirty oil. Awkward.”        Newspaper columnist Stephen Stromberg        Washington Post, Dec. 17, 2009

CHAVEZ COUNTERQUOTE #2: “When he [Chavez] said there was a ‘silent and terrible ghost in the room’ and that ghost was called capitalism, the applause was deafening...It's especially ironic that Chavez would berate free-market nations for causing catastrophic climate change when he helps fund his own Bolivarian Revolution by selling his country’s oil and natural gas to the United States.”        Newspaper columnist Paul Thornton        Los Angeles Times, Dec. 17, 2009

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