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It's your day, male parental unit!

SeñorAmorSeñorAmor Registered User regular
Are you a father? Do you have a father? Have you ever met a father?


If any of the above apply, give them (or yourself) a huge pat on the back because today is
FATHER'S DAY!
Wikipedia wrote:
Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. It is celebrated on the third Sunday of June in many countries and on other days elsewhere.

Father's Day is a celebration of fathers inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting. Father's Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide and typically involves gift-giving, special dinners to fathers, and family-oriented activities. The first observance of Father's Day actually took place in Fairmont, West Virginia on July 5, 1908. It was organized by Mrs. Grace Golden Clayton, who wanted to celebrate the lives of the 210 fathers who had been lost in the Monongah Mining disaster several months earlier in Monongah, West Virginia, on December 6, 1907.

A bill to accord national recognition of the holiday was introduced in Congress in 1913. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father's Day celebration and wanted to make it official, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would become commercialized. US President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed by the nation, but stopped short of issuing a national proclamation. Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by Congress. In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers for 40 years while honoring mothers, thus "[singling] out just one of our two parents". In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Six years later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972.


I'd post a pic of my 11 month old son, but I don't trust you geese to not photoshop it in ways I care not to think about. Instead, you can all just make your own mental picture of the goofy-ass grin I'm gonna have on my face all day while I celebrate my very first Father's Day as a dad. Yay! :)

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  • Sara LynnSara Lynn Registered User regular
    Aw, enjoy your Father's Day!

    I'm estranged from my dad, but I don't really care, so today will be cool anyways.

    Happy Father's Day, forum-dads.

  • RadiusRadius Registered User regular
    Getting a father's day breakfast with the in-laws.

    So, pretty much like the worst way to start Father's Day.

  • dbrock270dbrock270 Registered User regular
    Wish you luck on raising your son SenorArmor.

    Happy Fathers Day to every father.

  • EdcrabEdcrab Registered User
    My dad is on a business trip so me and my sis didn't get to do anything with him.

    Booooo

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter passive-aggressive raven Registered User regular
    MY FATHER IS DEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD

    now I just have to wait until my mom kicks it before I can start being the night

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  • Blake TBlake T Registered User regular
    We don't do the fathers day thing til September.

    Because I mean besides the footy finals what else happens in september?

  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    Took my dad out golfing last weekend, gonna barbeque today with him

    I like this day and am pretty stoked to eventually celebrate it for myself!

  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    Edcrab wrote: »
    My dad is on a business trip so me and my sis didn't get to do anything with him.

    Booooo

    Same here

    Plus this year I just sent him a card, cause honestly I'm a little tired of just getting him bookstore gift cards every year

    Get some hobbies or something already dad geeze

  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus The machine is broken. The universe is broken.Registered User regular
    there are five Louis L'Amour books in the mail on the way to my dad right now

    gonna call him later today and tell him he's awesome

  • AstraphobiaAstraphobia Registered User regular
    Farthest I've been on Father's Day now. He gets a humorous card of greeting and a few text messages.

    You: GOD NEVERMIND, I'LL JUST CALL THE FUCKING WONDER TWINS MAYBE THEY CAN UNITE TO FORM A FUCKING CLUE FOR YOU
  • EdcrabEdcrab Registered User
    I bought him whisky and an actual book for when he gets back.

    Not that much more original than a giftcard, really...

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  • The Geebs That Is A PonyThe Geebs That Is A Pony Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    My dad has to work today so I get his Cubs/Yankees tickets. Which I feel kind of bad about, but my siblings and I got him a laptop and he's spending like, five days fishing so I think he'll be okay. Plus he doesn't have to watch a Cubs game.

  • Blake TBlake T Registered User regular
    Edcrab.

    Am, am I you father?

  • Indie WinterIndie Winter passive-aggressive raven Registered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    We don't do the fathers day thing til September.

    Because I mean besides the footy finals what else happens in september?

    I literally shuddered when I read that bit

    fucking australian english

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  • GatsbyGatsby Last night I had a dream about you In this dream I'm dancing right beside youRegistered User regular
    I despise my good-for-nothing biological father.

    My step-dad is awesome though however like Blake said it wont be til September until I can celebrate this fact.

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  • Blake TBlake T Registered User regular
    I look forward to you giving me gifts Gatsby.

  • BeastehBeasteh RIP BIG CHRIZZLERegistered User regular
    every time i buy my dad things he chuckles then puts them aside and never looks at them/uses them

  • KeithKeith Registered User regular
    Beasteh wrote: »
    every time i buy my dad things he chuckles then puts them aside and never looks at them/uses them

    this is every single present i have ever bought my parents

    even the ones they specifically ask for

    I've stopped buying them presents

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    My dad has to work today so I get his Cubs/Yankees tickets. Which I feel kind of bad about, but my siblings and I got him a laptop and he's spending like, five days fishing so I think he'll be okay. Plus he doesn't have to watch a Cubs game.

    Billy Corgan is doing Take Me Out To The Ballgame today

    Burn those tickets

  • The Geebs That Is A PonyThe Geebs That Is A Pony Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    Mr. G wrote: »
    My dad has to work today so I get his Cubs/Yankees tickets. Which I feel kind of bad about, but my siblings and I got him a laptop and he's spending like, five days fishing so I think he'll be okay. Plus he doesn't have to watch a Cubs game.

    Billy Corgan is doing Take Me Out To The Ballgame today

    Burn those tickets

    god fucking damn it

  • GatsbyGatsby Last night I had a dream about you In this dream I'm dancing right beside youRegistered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    I look forward to you giving me gifts Gatsby.

    How does the first season box set of NCIS and a bottle of Johnnie Walker sound?

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  • Blake TBlake T Registered User regular
    See, that's why all the other fathers laugh and then act disappointed Gatsby.

    NCIS?

    Johnny Walker?

    How about Mad Men and some ardberg.

  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    My dad has to work today so I get his Cubs/Yankees tickets. Which I feel kind of bad about, but my siblings and I got him a laptop and he's spending like, five days fishing so I think he'll be okay. Plus he doesn't have to watch a Cubs game.

    Billy Corgan is doing Take Me Out To The Ballgame today

    Burn those tickets

    god fucking damn it

    Just like, trade them for Paul McCartney tickets

    They do that at Wrigley, right, you can trade any ticket there for any other ticket also at Wrigley

    This is how business works in my mind

  • SeñorAmorSeñorAmor Registered User regular
    So not 5 minutes after my OP, my wife carries my son into the room, puts him down and says, "Go say hi to daddy!" He walks over to me, I pick him up and he pukes all over me.

    HAPPY FATHER'S DAY INDEED, SON.

    He's grounded till he's twelve.

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  • GatsbyGatsby Last night I had a dream about you In this dream I'm dancing right beside youRegistered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    See, that's why all the other fathers laugh and then act disappointed Gatsby.

    NCIS?

    Johnny Walker?

    How about Mad Men and some ardberg.

    Well somebody's now getting the ugliest tie and cufflink set I can find.

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  • Blake TBlake T Registered User regular
    Going to bang your mother really loudly and graphically tonight.

  • GatsbyGatsby Last night I had a dream about you In this dream I'm dancing right beside youRegistered User regular
    Haha too bad! She's over here on the other side of the country so you'd need one hell of an enormo-

    Wait



















    Fuck

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  • Blake TBlake T Registered User regular
    It would be really funny though to use that as a threat.

    You kids better clean up your room or I will fuck your mother so hard she will scream.

  • WietWiet Registered User regular
    Together with my siblings we bought our dad a usb phonograph so he can listen to his old stash of LP records again.

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  • Baroque And RollBaroque And Roll Registered User regular
    I tried to call my dad.

    He didn't pick up.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I got the shotgun, you got the briefcase It's all in the game though, right?Registered User, ClubPA regular
    All I wanted to do today is go see Super 8 but I can't because nobody is willing to watch the kids.

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  • redfenixredfenix Registered User regular
    I don't have my son on Sundays, well, until like 8pm tonight
    and yesterday i was like, whatevs, usual drill

    but now i totally miss him, even though i saw him like, 14 hours ago

    and my dad is in Arkansas and not a very good parent

    Happy Father's Day to good fathers!

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I got the shotgun, you got the briefcase It's all in the game though, right?Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Of course Grayson said "happy daddy day" to me so it's all good.

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  • LanglyLangly Up, and to the RightRegistered User regular
    I am a dad! Happy dad day, dads.

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  • KeithKeith Registered User regular
    what did hank get you, langly

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  • LanglyLangly Up, and to the RightRegistered User regular
    He peed on me.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I got the shotgun, you got the briefcase It's all in the game though, right?Registered User, ClubPA regular
    The greatest gift of all.

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  • TamTam I hate art I love artRegistered User regular
    My father and I can not be in close quarters (the same house) for more than a week without animosity starting to foment

    but he is a Good Person overall and I have tremendous respect for how hard he's worked throughout his life, now into his sixties

  • SeñorAmorSeñorAmor Registered User regular
    The greatest gift of all.

    Methinks you missed my botp.

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood What happened to you? The Blue RouteRegistered User regular
    I bought three cigars from the humidor yesterday and smoked a couple of them with my pops last night. Weather permitting, we're going to the driving range later and then cooking some spanish dish.

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