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Posted: 7/9/2002 4:57:08 AM EDT

Ok 40+ years only on this one.

If you could send a message back to your self when you were 19 what would it be?

Message limit: 3 Sentences only.

Posted: 7/9/2002 5:11:41 AM EDT

[#1]

Go to Seattle and find that punk-azzed kid, Bill Gates, and become his 'very, very best friend for all times!'

Oh, yeah, and go in 50-50 with that slick Dallas computer salesman, H. Ross Perot, when he left IBM!

Use the money to buy up every AR15 in Texas!

Eric The(IfOnly!)Hun[>]:)]

Posted: 7/9/2002 5:16:02 AM EDT

[#2]

Buy Microsoft stock, by the thousands!

Posted: 7/9/2002 5:19:56 AM EDT

[#3]

Hmm maybe I should have excluded financial info....

Posted: 7/9/2002 5:22:47 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Ok 40+ years only on this one.

If you could send a message back to your self when you were 19 what would it be?

Message limit: 3 Sentences only.

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If you love someone, let them know it while they are alive.

Control your emotional impulse spending and save for things you want.

Quit doing things that don't improve your life. In my case this would have included drugs, alcohol and tobacco.

Jim

Posted: 7/9/2002 5:27:55 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
Hmm maybe I should have excluded financial info....

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[b]See![/b] That's why we're the 'old farts' and you are the 'punk azzed kidz.'

Money, Son, it's all about money!

Enough money and you can have the life you want![:D]

[b]If someone tells you that money can't buy happiness, I say that person just doesn't know where to shop![/b]

Eric The(Older,Wiser)Hun[>]:)]

Posted: 7/9/2002 5:29:24 AM EDT

[#6]

Eric,

Or, at least we'd be willing to gather the statistics.

Posted: 7/9/2002 5:30:04 AM EDT

[#7]

Get my azz in college and stay till they through me out.

Posted: 7/9/2002 5:30:44 AM EDT

[#8]

Buy a couple of hundred bucks worth of penny stox like McDonalds...
Texas Inst. and Casio... (Microsoft wasnt an ipo then)...use that money to buy Apple Intel Microsoft etc etc etc....
use that money to buy 10/22 mags for a buck apiece or less... direct from Butler Creek.sell when the price hits 50 bucks
Oh and never never never let the little head tell the big head what to do.....

Posted: 7/9/2002 5:31:05 AM EDT

[#9]

[:D]

Posted: 7/9/2002 5:33:02 AM EDT

[#10]

i'd tell Mom & Dad to save more for my inheritance [:D]

ERICTHEHUN,

10-4 on that one..!!! it's all about money..., i just spent most of my inheritance on Colt Ar-15s

Posted: 7/9/2002 5:35:36 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Get my azz in college and stay till they through me out.

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So if a Genie came out of a lamp and gave you 3 wishes you would only use 1??!
Or is it a bit early to think that hard?

Posted: 7/9/2002 5:36:48 AM EDT

[#12]

How does that old song go, wish I knew ,what I know now, when I was younger, I think thats says it all for me.

Posted: 7/9/2002 5:39:39 AM EDT

[#13]

don't hang out with those guys. they aren't your friends.
don't mess around with those women. they don't care about you.
life is short. get a purpose, and work on it.

Posted: 7/9/2002 5:42:30 AM EDT

[#14]

"Computers, computers, computers."

Posted: 7/9/2002 5:54:12 AM EDT

[#15]

1) [0:)] Don't punch-out the 1st Lieutenant.

2) [:(!] Tell that bitch Kathy to "F" off!

3) [:D] Buy real estate.

Posted: 7/9/2002 6:00:46 AM EDT

[#16]

At 19 I don't even have a penny to spend...so, forget about investing in stock.

Should I become a consultant and give people advises?....Nah! they think that I am just a dumb kid.

The beauty of being 19 is [b]being 19[/b]...enjoy life as a 19 see it. Wealth is nothing if you don't have the health and someone to spend it with.

Posted: 7/9/2002 6:35:50 AM EDT

[#17]

Post from Ar_Rifle -

Wealth is nothing if you don't have the health and someone to spend it with.

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See what I mean! Even after I give them the advice of a lifetime, they continue to talk as if money means nothing!

[b]Health?[/b] How much is that triple-bypass gonna cost? How about that personal trainer? The time off work to exercise and train? How about that expensive health food?

How about no stress or tension from money problems?[:D]

[b]Someone to spend it with?[/b] You kidz gotta trust me on this one! If you have the money, you will need a large stick to beat the womenz off of you!

And that is much better than beating yourself off![:D]

Eric The(Realistic)Hun[>]:)]

Posted: 7/9/2002 6:44:12 AM EDT

[#18]

I'm guessing that your question is looking for advice we'd give ourselves to avoid past mistakes that we learned over the years.

1) Wear condums even if there isn't AIDS yet in the world. A bit of life's lessons I learned twice in The Philippines.

2) Don't drive so fast. You engine might have 340 horse power now but your brakes are still stock. Took a couple of impacts with the steering wheel before this one struck home.

3) Sometimes drugs are what the guy selling them are, other times they're not. Life's last hard lesson learned.

I've made some really good choices in life, I don't regret my Navy service, my wife or where I'm at today.

If I could add one more thing to send back to myself:

4) Watch your step on December 31, 1999 coming down the ladder into the reactor compartment.

Posted: 7/9/2002 6:53:07 AM EDT

[#19]

1) If you love someone, tell them and show
them - everyday. Don't take things for
granted.

2) Be willing to take risks whether it is
in a relationship or career or whatever,
so that when you are an old fart, you don't
have regrets about what might have been.

3) It is NOT all about the money.

Posted: 7/9/2002 6:55:37 AM EDT

[#20]

Hmm thats funny I use to work under a gunsmith named Paul who was in the Navy and worked as a welder on Nuke boats.. Hmmm

Posted: 7/9/2002 6:57:17 AM EDT

[#21]

Good post Paul, got a chuckle out of the last one... I've had a life like few have. Military at 17 (1965), out at 20. Was a rolling stone, outlaw M/C, lived in the west indies a while. Broken marriages, lots of pain (self-inflicted). Bottom line? I wouldn't change much, I am who I am because of it, and thank G*d every day for that, 'cause He was there all along keeping me alive....

Posted: 7/9/2002 7:05:51 AM EDT

[#22]

I'll be 40 in August so I'll ask for a waver and sneek in 3 weeks early
I was a 19, in the military and knew everything.

I would tell myself:
1.) That "intuitive feeling" in your gut is really God.
2.) Stay focused - All the little distractions will pass.
3.) Slow down - Please God, then yourself - everything else will fall in line much easier this way.
I must admit, I still struggle with all of these.[;)]

Posted: 7/9/2002 7:06:36 AM EDT

[#23]

Other than knowing where to put my money I really don't have any regrets.
I would have liked to finish college, But as I look back at it... it probably would have put me in a possition where I had to work for some one for a life time.Instead it put my ass into overdrive to find something that paid well and that I could call my own.
I have learned several lessons the hard way though that I wish I could have figured out at a faster rate.
Stay away from drugs.
Only you have your best interest at heart.
Other than the few people that love you everybody will expliot you for their own needs.
Never stay at a job long after you have mastered it.
If you really want something... get it.

Posted: 7/9/2002 7:17:47 AM EDT

[#24]

Having Good Health and a good family is priceless...

Believe me Eric, when I took my son to the emergency room and saw him lying there crying in pain, I pray the Lord to get him well.... and wealth was not on my prayer.

Take a visit to a local Hospital, you will know what I mean.

As for someone to spend it with, I am thinking more of a family than womenz.....I don't need money to beat them off me. At 19, I [b]had[/b] all the womenz I needed.

Posted: 7/9/2002 7:20:36 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Having Good Health and a good family is priceless...

Believe me Eric, when I took my son to the emergency room and saw him lying there crying in pain, I pray the Lord to get him well.... and wealth was not on my prayer.

Take a visit to a local Hospital, you will know what I mean.

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AR_Rifle, the old Hun was pulling your young leg, Son.

That's another habit of Old Farts!

I guess you're too young to know that![:D]

Yes, as one who has buried four grandparents, two parents, and an aunt and uncle, all of whom I loved dearly, I know precisely what it feels like to stand in the corridor of an Emergency Room, when a rather glum looking physician comes walking down the hall towards you!

All the money in the world will not help you then, only you're relationship with the Creator can bring you safely through such times.

I was actually in the ICU, cradling my Mother in my arms when she passed away. Reading to her, from memory, of her favorite Bible verses, I felt like I was handing her off to the Almighty when she died.

And I was.

Eric The(ButThatWasIn1993AndI'mStillPayingHCAPlanoOnThatBill!)Hun[>]:)]

Posted: 7/9/2002 7:25:29 AM EDT

[#26]

Post from AR_Rifle -

As for someone to spend it with, I am thinking more of a family than womenz.....I don't need money to beat them off me. At 19, I had all the womenz I needed.

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Now, who's pulling whose leg?[:D]

'All the womenz' you needed? Son, there is no such thing!

Well, at 19, I might have thought so, too, but when you get older, say 20, you will need all the help you can get and [b]jack will get you jill[/b] quicker than anything!

Remember the Old Hun's Motto:

[b]'Some is good, More is better, and Too Much is just right!'[/b]

I saw that on a t-shirt worn by a very lovely and pulchritudinous young lady in 1973, and I haven't forgotten it since!

You may apply it to anything good in your life!

Eric The(OldFartsRule!)Hun[>]:)]

Posted: 7/9/2002 7:34:46 AM EDT

[#27]

Eric, I am not your son...so don't call me son.

You think that you are older? He! He! He! You don't know me.

And no, I am not pulling anyone leg. [:)]

Posted: 7/9/2002 7:35:18 AM EDT

[#28]

1) You are at your Peak at this moment, use it now, cause it's downhill from here.

2) There will be a disease out in a few years that will kill you for having sex, so have all of it now, then get married to a virgin, stupid, mute, woman, who thinks 12" is whatever you tell her.

3)Find that thing in life you truly love, and pursue it with a vengeance, and persistance, as though your life depended on it. Trust me on that one!

Posted: 7/9/2002 7:40:12 AM EDT

[#29]

Post from AR_Rifle -

Eric, I am not your son...so don't call me son.

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Thanks for the warning. In the South, among Old Farts, that is a term of endearment, but maybe you didn't know that!

I'm sorry for using a term of endearment on you!

But wait! Your sig-line shows Virginia, the Old Dominion, as your residence!

You from Virginny and don't know what 'Son' means?

I smell a Yankee transplant![:D]

Eric The(Suh,ThusMeansWar!)Hun[>]:)]

Posted: 7/9/2002 7:47:52 AM EDT

[#30]

Thanks Eric for your [b]"term of endearment"[/b]. I appreciated that.

And I am far from being a "Yankee". Where I came from, "son" means totally different. Sorry, if I offended you. [:)]

Posted: 7/9/2002 8:34:12 AM EDT

[#31]

Hey this is a good topic! Hmmm... where do I start?

Okay, how 'bout these:

BUY that Colt SP1 at Montgomery Ward for $189. DO NOT listen to Keith! The Mini-14 is NOT a superior rifle!

Or... buy a HK91 NOW while it's less than $200.

Ask out the good looking blonde in the white Firebird who used to race me all the time in my Monte Carlo. I saw her dozens of times, even followed her home one day and talked a few hours, but never dated her. Her old man was an officer and it spooked me. [:(]

On that double date with Norman when the girls went skinny dipping, GET IN THE DAMN WATER.

When Norman came in the base movie theater to get me to go with him because he had a couple of hot chicks outside in the car with him, GO! (The aforementiond blonde and an ex-GF were both at that movie with their dates and me, being a dumbass, wanted to keep an eye on them)

Get laid more. I got laid plenty but there were alot more I could have sowed my wild oats with.

Keep flying airplanes and stay proficient, no matter how expensive it gets.

At 23, take that government contract job and go to Saudi Arabia for a year, instead of Eastern Air Lines. They will be bankrupt within ten years.

Buy a Harley-Davidson and ride the hell out of it.

Have a slush fund, or mad money socked away. Some great deals on guns and stuff will come along and you will be flat broke.

Use the GI Bill for education to the fullest before time runs out. That's probably the one I regret the most.

Posted: 7/9/2002 8:41:08 AM EDT

[#32]

1. Don't Drink

2. Don't Drink

3. Don't Drink

Sgtar15

Posted: 7/9/2002 9:11:59 AM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
1. Don't Drink

2. Don't Drink

3. Don't Drink

Sgtar15

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THAT would've been a good place to start.
"Go ahead and join the Air Force. Be a cop. Invest your money. Don't hang out with LOSERS.
Don't be pussywhipped...[rolleyes] Go to church.
Everything else will fall into place, Young Self."

Looking back with 20-20 hindsight just means you see with the Big Brown Eye...
Now, I'm just a middle-aged asshole that knows better! [;D]

Posted: 7/9/2002 9:30:07 AM EDT

[#34]

1. Keep it up, you're doing great. Everything you do then is responsible for where I am now. Don't change a thing.

2. See #1

3. See #2

Posted: 7/9/2002 11:47:27 AM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
Hmm thats funny I use to work under a gunsmith named Paul who was in the Navy and worked as a welder on Nuke boats.. Hmmm

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I'm a former Interior Communications Technician (IC) now an Electrician's Mate.

Posted: 7/9/2002 11:52:33 AM EDT

[#36]

Ah heck - forgot to tell myself to not sell the '73 cuda and to also buy that '66 Red Mustang for $600!

Posted: 7/9/2002 11:56:42 AM EDT

[#37]

Don't marry the bi..h, buy Microsoft stock!

Posted: 7/9/2002 12:00:25 PM EDT

[#38]

Three sentences:

1. Buy CLass III's and assault rifles as soon as you're 21, you'll be rich in the 90's!
2. When you leave here in 1990 take your guns with you idiot! (she hocked them)
3. Buy stocks with the goal to open a gun shop!

Posted: 7/9/2002 12:01:47 PM EDT

[#39]

Three sentences:

1. Buy CLass III's and assault rifles as soon as you're 21, you'll be rich in the 90's!
2. When you leave your 1st wife in 1990 take your guns with you idiot! (she hocked them)
3. Buy stocks and land with the goal to open a gun shop and to fund your younguns!

Posted: 7/9/2002 6:22:44 PM EDT

[#40]

#1. Don't waste the next 2 years with the SLUT Wendy

#2. Learn to dance and chill out.

#3. Don't sweat the small stuff.

I've had a Good time so far!

Posted: 7/9/2002 7:01:42 PM EDT

[#41]

I was 19 back in 1966. If I could go back and give myself advice:

1. Tell that stupid Army recruiter from Lakeland Florida to fuck off.

2. Go get close to Vivian. (She was a skinny bitch in 1966 with a crush on me, by 1970 she was one of the most beautiful women in the county and wouldn't give me the time of day)

3. Go find that shit ass kid from Arkansas by the name of Bill Clinton and beat his sorry ass.

Posted: 7/9/2002 7:04:36 PM EDT

[#42]

Hey AlBob, Put down the table, and step away from the bong.
AB

Posted: 7/9/2002 7:05:56 PM EDT

[#43]

Don't jerk around in school!

Posted: 7/9/2002 7:06:19 PM EDT

[#44]

I would tell myself to buy all the acreage on Hilton Head Island I could afford. It was about $50-$75 an acre back then. Some of it is not over $1M an acre.

Posted: 7/9/2002 7:17:53 PM EDT

[#45]

That girl you are gonna meet at billy's is married!!!!and her husband is 6'6"
Remind self to tell cousin not to drive home from new york city new years eve,(he still limps from that wreck)

Posted: 7/9/2002 8:40:13 PM EDT

[#46]

1.Go with that new major in computers. You can do the math and playing with those punch cards cant be that goofy. There are easier ways to starve to death than working in radio or TV.

2. Spend a few more hours in the books. The Pub and .25 cent beer will still be there after the test.

3. Go ahead and walk on and see if you can make the team. That way you wont spend the rest of your life saying "what if" or "if I had only tried."