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Best piece of advice my dad ever gave me:
"If people are passing you on the right, you're driving too damn slow!" (Yes, that would be "slowly" if we were writing this, but I'm reporting it the way he said it.)
Best piece of advice my mom ever gave me:
It's a toss-up between "Always wear comfortable shoes" and "A well-kept house is the sign of an idle mind/wasted life." (She said it both ways, on different occasions.)
More in re-reading: short story collection called Once Upon a Galaxy. Fairy tale themes transformed into more or less SF short stories. Some of them quite good. One very funny one, by Paul di Filippo, ostensibly based on "Puss in Boots" but containing huge elements of Cinderella with gender switches as well, but which fairy tales it is are less important than how many other things it parodies or throws nods to. The main elements are Cordwainer Smith's stories about the Instrumentality of Mankind and the Underpeople (if you haven't read those, you can't really call yourself a science fiction literate) and the Dune series. We have the animal people hybrids of Smith, here referred to as bestients, although they are also sometimes called moreauvians, which gives you an idea of the pun level right there. We have House Carrabas, and sandworms, but the House reminds me more of some of Pern's weyrs, and there's a few other nods to Pern as well. And we have a motor home/RV on legs - it's the Baba Yaga model 650P. And a nod to Walt Kelly's "Pogo" that not one in a thousand of you youngsters will catch. Oh, and you will recognize Miss Piggy when she shows up... Anyway, it's very funny.
"If people are passing you on the right, you're driving too damn slow!" (Yes, that would be "slowly" if we were writing this, but I'm reporting it the way he said it.)
Best piece of advice my mom ever gave me:
It's a toss-up between "Always wear comfortable shoes" and "A well-kept house is the sign of an idle mind/wasted life." (She said it both ways, on different occasions.)
More in re-reading: short story collection called Once Upon a Galaxy. Fairy tale themes transformed into more or less SF short stories. Some of them quite good. One very funny one, by Paul di Filippo, ostensibly based on "Puss in Boots" but containing huge elements of Cinderella with gender switches as well, but which fairy tales it is are less important than how many other things it parodies or throws nods to. The main elements are Cordwainer Smith's stories about the Instrumentality of Mankind and the Underpeople (if you haven't read those, you can't really call yourself a science fiction literate) and the Dune series. We have the animal people hybrids of Smith, here referred to as bestients, although they are also sometimes called moreauvians, which gives you an idea of the pun level right there. We have House Carrabas, and sandworms, but the House reminds me more of some of Pern's weyrs, and there's a few other nods to Pern as well. And we have a motor home/RV on legs - it's the Baba Yaga model 650P. And a nod to Walt Kelly's "Pogo" that not one in a thousand of you youngsters will catch. Oh, and you will recognize Miss Piggy when she shows up... Anyway, it's very funny.
