"Don't get mad! Get Glad!"
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jun 1 01:59:14 UTC 2010
Does anyone else understand this slogan as a trivial rewording of the
old parentism,
"If you're getting mad, you'd better get glad!"
like unto
"Don't make me come ...!"
"Your head is hard as as a rock!"
"Can't we have anything nice around here?!"
etc.
My wife says that she knows the "glad" thing only as a commercial slogan.
OTOH, I know the slogan as a disturbing reminder of a parentism often
followed up by an ear-boxing, if I failed to delete any indication of
anger - or even of mere annoyance - from my face quickly enough;
-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain
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