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Father's Day This Sunday - What Are You Doing To Celebrate It?
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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My wife and I are gonna grill steaks, bake some potatoes, and generally kick back and enjoy our "empty nest." It's been actually very nice getting used to being "successful parents" instead of "active parents," and it's nice to see our son succeeding on his own.
But we're just planning to be "a couple" and enjoy each other's company for Father's Day. What about everyone else? What are you doing this Sunday?
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My first as a dad, so who knows. I'll give my own dad a call but otherwise nothin much planned.
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giving my dad a card and a heli
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Mailing him some anthrax?
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
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Originally Posted by shifuimam 
Mailing him some anthrax?
Ewwwwww. Either you have a strange sense of humor or a Very Bad history... Sorry.
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We're carving a memorial for my Dad on one of the trees at their house, as this is our first Father's Day since he passed away a few months back.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
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Fathers' Day was last month, on May 21st.
IIRC, I had a rehearsal that day.
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It's the first Sunday of September in the United States of New Zealand.
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
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I had considered adding a note about the Fathers' Day I was talking about being for the US... Guess I should have done it after all.
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Father's Day is just a white holiday invented by greeting card companies, and I'm above celebrating it.
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
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...yet Mothers' Day is holy and warrants spending tons of cash on Mom? It's a "greeting card-inspired" holiday too. But what's wrong with NOT buying a card and just taking time to recognize and remember Dad?
I'm not sure what you mean by "white holiday," though...
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Originally Posted by ghporter
I had considered adding a note about the Fathers' Day I was talking about being for the US...
And the UK.
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
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Originally Posted by Doofy
And the UK.
I had figured it was a different day (if it existed at all) in the UK. Thanks for the information.
Gonna ring your Dad?
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Originally Posted by Laminar
Father's Day is just a white holiday invented by greeting card companies, and I'm above celebrating it.
and yet you bought a ring to show your love. Same concept, different situation.
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Originally Posted by ghporter
Gonna ring your Dad?
Not unless you can tell me his name and phone number, no. 
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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How is it you don't even know his name? Has he changed it?
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Originally Posted by Tiresias
How is it you don't even know his name?
I never bothered to ask it - he was long gone before I turfed up.
(And before anyone asks, I'm not bothered by this in the slightest - you don't miss what you've never had. Something akin to not missing owning a Veyron.)
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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Originally Posted by Doofy
I never bothered to ask it - he was long gone before I turfed up.
(And before anyone asks, I'm not bothered by this in the slightest - you don't miss what you've never had. Something akin to not missing owning a Veyron.)
You're lucky. Believe me.
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
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I see that I've dredged up some unpleasantness.... I'm very sorry about that. I love my dad a lot, but I understand that not everyone loves their own dad like that.
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Eh. It's not your fault. I'm just feeling emo.
At least I'm not also schnockered, or else there'd be some serious thread-crapping going on right now. 
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June is such an expensive month! Mother's birthday, father's birthday, aunt's birthday, grandmother's birthday. We'll just take the old man out for a meal.
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Working, which I rarely do on a Sunday. My own dad's been gone for 27 years, and my two girls are out of town, so I switched a day with someone else so he could have the day off for a family event.
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I was taking my dad out for a game of golf, but our golf course is still under water from heavy rains on Friday. =(
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I'll be gathering up the wife and five daughters, heading to an eating establishment with my father-in-law and stuffing myself to capacity.
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Originally Posted by shifuimam
Eh. It's not your fault. I'm just feeling emo.
At least I'm not also schnockered, or else there'd be some serious Thread-Crapping™ going on right now.
Fixed.
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"meal out" translated to large pizzas from a tiny little bistro place around here. Best pizzas in the area. Delicccious!
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Originally Posted by ghporter
I'm not sure what you mean by "white holiday," though...
It was invented by white people.
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
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Originally Posted by Laminar
It was invented by white people.
And President Obama has a very nice little article in today's Parade magazine about fatherhood and fathers' responsibilities. "Inventing" a holiday (a minor one, of course) to recognize fathers seems hardly the stuff of "the Man oppressing..." well,....anyone.
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Originally Posted by Laminar
It was invented by white people.
So was the electric can opener.
And polka music.
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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I gave my dad a few sharp jabs in the kidneys, to keep him honest.
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Originally Posted by brassplayersrock²
You can name your kid `Smart'?? 
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I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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It's also my 12th anniversary.
We're doing nothing special. My local church honored me by giving me a basket full of tools (some screw drivers, saws, chisels, pliers, channel locks, vise grips ...).
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Took my dad, my brother, and my kids shooting. Started at the house with an Eddie the Eagle (teaches gun safety), then talked some more about safety, then headed out. Good times!
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
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Well we had a nice day. I called my Dad and talked with him for a nice long while-until he had to go to my sister's house for her to cook him dinner. Then another couple came over and we had our steaks (broiled not grilled-too darn hot out!) and chatted for a while. Really a nice day.
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Originally Posted by Face Ache
So was the electric can opener.
And polka music.
MY POINT EXACTLY allcaps
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Originally Posted by Laminar
It was invented by white people.
To oppress blacks?
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Originally Posted by Gankdawg
Started at the house with an Eddie the Eagle
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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Originally Posted by Tiresias
To oppress blacks?
Precisely.
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Everybody's got a job to do. Everybody's got to move and groove.
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"One ticket to Washington, please. I have a date with destiny."
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Me and the kids took the husband to see Up. Gave my dad a call. S'about it.
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I spent 9 hours in the car with my dad...
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