I found a list called “The 25 most popular icebreaker questions based on four years of data“. So I’m gonna post a few, and see what happens.
Your mission: answer the question in the comments with a good story.
If you don’t have a good story, you are encouraged to make one up.
What’s the best advice you’ve ever heard?
It’s a toss-up:
Never take financial advice from poor people.
Always treat guns as if they’re loaded.
Always wear your seatbelt. Driveways, parking lots, “only going a couple blocks”… doesn’t matter. Put it on. By the time you wish you HAD put it on, you’ll already be bleeding or dead.
Watch out where the Huskies go
and don’t you eat that yellow snow.
ALWAYS double-tap.
Azz, gas, or cash. Nobody rides for free.
Right there…YES! Yes, yes, yes…there!
Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame! 55
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
And you are stay’d for. There; my blessing with thee!
And these few precepts in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act. 60
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch’d, unfledged comrade. Beware 65
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear’t that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 70
But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; 75
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. 80
Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!
Never play cards with a man named “Doc”.
Never eat at a place called “Mom’s”.
Never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.
Never take a drink when you’re feeling sorry for yourself.
Never eat at a place with sliding doors unless you’re crazy about raw fish.
Trust the dealer, but always cut the cards.
leave the gun, take the canoli
Don’t eat gas station tuna salad.
“Don’t touch that!” [Too many instances over the course of a lifetime to elaborate.]
“Don’t go there.”
“If you have to explain, it’s not funny.”
“If you have to ask the price, you can’t afford it.”
“If it doesn’t affect you, leave it alone.”
“Don’t back up further than you have to.”
If it ain’t broke…don’t fix it.
First rule of big government-If it is broke, fix something else.
Second rule of Government, if it isn’t broken fix it in such a way to break several other things that will then require you fixing them in a manner which does not fix the original problem but then create several more. Repeat until the heat death of the universe.
You get what you inspect, not what you expect.
Best advice I ever heard or best advice I ever took? Hmmm: I asked a preacher how to know if you’ve found the one to marry; he replied, when you’ve found her, you’ll know. He was right.
Never mix your whiskey with anything but water.
Always tell her she’s beautiful, especially if she’s not.
In the immortal words of Barry Fitzgerald’s character from The Quiet Man
“When I drink whiskey I drink Whiskey, when I drink water I drink water.”
“If you’re good at something, never do it for free…” – The Joker
Nobody cares. Except for immediate family and maybe one or two very close friends. If you think they do you’re wrong.