No matter how hard you try to avoid it, a difficult aging parent will sometimes drive you a bit nuts.

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But some are unrealistic: Come on, Jack, no matter how hard you try, you'll never extinguish the speculative excesses in the market!

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No matter how hard you try to stop it, you're going to end up watching "Jerry Maguire" and "Con Air" at least 1, 300 times on cable.

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No matter how hard you try, your email box is just a never ending piece of thread that you continually tug at, only to find more, and more, and more.

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It just does, no matter how hard you try.

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"No matter how clever you are, no matter how hard you try to avoid detection, you underestimate us at your peril, " said SEC Enforcement Director Linda Chatman Thomsen in a statement Thursday.

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The joke our genes and our years play on us is to leave us, as parents, forever with this weird column of figures scribbled on our souls, ones that make no sense, no matter how long you squint at them or how hard you try to make them work.

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So go forth, friends, and use this new info to either make the switch or squeeze a better deal out of your current provider -- just remember, no matter how hard you try, you're just not gonna be able to get that unlocked GSM phone to play nice with Sprint or Verizon.

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