If I had to life my live over: I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained and the sofa faded. - Erma bombeck.

如果我能重新来过，即便地毯上有污渍、沙发褪了色，我也会邀请朋友们来吃晚餐。

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Erma Bombeck once wrote that any man who watches three football games in a row should be declared legally dead.

FORBES: Football and the Mortality of American Men

As for myself, I drank martinis last weekend and watched only the Jets-Pats game, thus steering clear of the Bombeck multi-game death sentence (although the martinis certainly created a different kind of coma).

FORBES: Football and the Mortality of American Men