Thread: What should a man know?

Hooper: [trying to get the fishing line secure] It may be a marlin or a stingray... but it's definitely a game fish.
[Hooper pulls as the lines snaps and he crashes his head into the wall]
Quint: [picking up the line] Gamin' fish, eh? Marlin? Stingray? Bit through this piano wire? Don't you tell me my business again! You get back on the bridge...
Hooper: Quint, that doesn't prove a damn thing!
Quint: Well it proves one thing, Mr. Hooper. It proves that you wealthy college boys don't have the education enough to admit when you're wrong.

Originally Posted by zepplin

A man must know his limitations!
- Dirty Harry

exactly, and you have to ask yourself, do you feel lucky, well do you...
thats when i put the tools away and just have another cold one.

Where's Socrates and Glaucon when we need them?

I think a man should know the requisite knowledge (mental and physical/practical) to be able to learn how to do almost any traditional art to a reasonable level within a relatively short time. Inability to do that indicates he has not learned to think clearly, to feel, and to observe - which is very unmanly, IMHO.

Originally Posted by Frankenstein

Where's Socrates and Glaucon when we need them?

I think a man should know the requisite knowledge (mental and physical/practical) to be able to learn how to do almost any traditional art to a reasonable level within a relatively short time. Inability to do that indicates he has not learned to think clearly, to feel, and to observe - which is very unmanly, IMHO.

I like this one

A man should know how to hold his head up high and feel manly in the company of other men.

+1 to everything that's been said.

Also, know how to drive a bloody stick shift!

According to my maternal great-grand-mother, whom I unfortunately never met, a man should know of nothing but should eat of everything.

I think a man should be able to fix all the simple things around the house. In the last 4 years, I have been fixing everything but the central heating in this house.

As Oddball said to Sgt. Kelly, when asked why the tanks were not running:

Hey Man! I just drive them, I don't work on them.

Catch a few rays, have a little wine and cheese.

Got to go, wife wants some things fixed around the house.

Originally Posted by aragornelessar86

+1 to everything that's been said.

Also, know how to drive a bloody stick shift!

LOL I like that one. Even my wife picked up driving a 3 on the tree in a day of driving and she has never driven a manual transmission car before. she liked mine so much we went out and got her a 54 chevy.

I think a man should know that he has to either do anything that his wife requires or have the number of a guy who can.

I think a man should be able to surround him self with people who he can help and can help him in return.

In short, it's not what you know, it's who you know!