17-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Thursday, September 26, 1912: Excuse me, but you know there is an old saying: Don’t talk when you’ve nothing to say, so I’ll just change it to: don’t write, when you’ve nothing to write.
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Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
To keep with the theme—
Don’t blog when you’ve nothing to blog. 
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And don’t comment when you have nothing to add?
Hafta say, that “Excuse me” she begins with is endearing.
Very well said…or didn’t say.
Ha, there are days like that here too…good one!