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"That's my story and I'm sticking to it."I think something's stuck to it, all right... 
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Interestingly enough, "Attitude is everything." has been my personal mantra ( and I thought I had discovered that one on my own  ) since 1986. It really does work when you are up to your armpits in kryptonite and can't quite reach the shovel, or anytime you need a little extra strength, really.
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the "explaination" of additude that worked for me, was the "story" bit-- you know how sometimes people trade war about a bad day--'You think your day was bad, let me tell you about mine.." but when they do, they tell the story with relish, they take pride in all the endured, they work at telling a good story, until, you are rolling in laughter. you might recognize there is a small bit of exageration in the story, but it is mostly true.
If you are going to tell a war story about your experiences, if you are going to relish them in a couple of hour, days, weeks or months, why not relish and enjoy the experience as it happens? a mile long fender bender because of smog? has it closed down the road, and left you in a 10 mile long backup? Well, the day you planned is shot-- so enjoy the day you have been given!
It really hard to ruin my day now! every day is an adventure.. most of them are boring.. but every once in awhile, i have a great adventure!
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No matter how postive his attitude, it wasn't only a flesh wound.Yes it is! Come back and fight! Sissy! Girly! What a bunch of woofters you knights errant are these days! 
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It really hard to ruin my day now! every day is an adventure.. most of them are boring.. but every once in awhile, i have a great adventure!You know, that's just the approach I've taken with the whole diaper changing thing for the past three years! 
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"SMILE," they told me, "things could be worse!" So I smiled: and they were.
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But wasn't it grand while it lasted?
Jackie, this reminds me of a scene from the 1970s movie "The Man Who Would Be King" based on Rudyard Kipling's novel, directed by John Huston and starring Michael Caine, Sean Connery and Christopher Plummer. (What a cast!). Caine and Connery are Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid kind of devil-may-care rogue adventurers, and they brave a perilous trek across Afghanistan in the 1800s to conquer and loot one of the "-stan" countries at the northern border of Afghanstan. (The scenery is spectacular!) Christopher Plummer's character tells them they are mad to attempt such a journey when the last white man to return from those regions was Alexander the Great some 2200 years earlier. This convinces Caine's character that their plan is sound. Alexander was a Greek, so he is told, and they are Englishmen. What is more, they have proof of their sanity. Would a mad man do this?, demands Caine, as he produces a contract wherein he and Connery forswear the comforts of liquor and women (of whatever color) until the deed is done. At last, our heroes make it to the fringes of the territory they have come to conquer, marked by a pair of fiercesome statues looming out of a blizzard at the top of a mountain. They are down to the last of the 3 mules they have confiscated from murderous marauders and Connery is snow blind. Suddenly, the ice bridge they have just crossed collapses behind them. Then they discover that their way ahead is blocked by an impassable chasm. They sit inside a cleft in the mountain and resign themselves to death, a prospect not all that agreeable because it will be slow and chilling (and not so bracing as a good battle with slashing sword and smoking firearm in hand, one suspects). Connery turns to Caine and asks him earnestly if, knowing he is going to die in this fashion, he still considers his life worthwhile. They both agree they have performed no good deeds "worth mentioning". Then Caine says he would not trade places with a king if it meant losing all his memories. They begin reminiscing about their many adventures and, soon, they are both laughing uproariously. An avalanche begins, tumbling from above. When Caine and Connery emerge unhurt from their refuge, they discover the chasm ahead is filled ... and they resume their journey ... triumphantly, of course.
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.....when I saw the title of this thread I thought it had something to do with acolt.
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Plutrach, wasn't that "The Man Who Would Be King?"
It was "The Man Who Would Be King" film that both Connery and Caine (in interviews) cite as one of their favorite roles.
It plays every now and then on the American Movie Classics (AMC) TV channel.
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