"Don't get mad! Get Glad!"

[Bill Palmer]

I never did either, but heard plenty of others.

My favorite:

"Use your head for something besides a hatrack"

Bill Palmer

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From: "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: "Don't get mad! Get Glad!"


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> I've never heard that parentism.
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> JL
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> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Does anyone else understand this slogan as a trivial rewording of the
>> old parentism,
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>> "If you're getting mad, you'd better get glad!"
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>> like unto
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>> "Don't make me come ...!"
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>> "Your head is hard as as a rock!"
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>> "Can't we have anything nice around here?!"
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>> etc.
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>> My wife says that she knows the "glad" thing only as a commercial slogan.
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>> 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
>> =96=96=96
>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"=96=96a strange complaint
>> t=
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>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>> =96Mark Twain
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