[anon(3732391)]

And WHOOP on the 1 after that! (whatever you guys call it)

[anon(3732391)]

WHOOP on the TRIPLE 9'ers

Thanks LB!

[anon(3732391)]

WHOOP on the TRIPLE Zer000's

Thanks LostBoy! Really, it was NuFFiN!!

[anon(3732391)]

And WHOOP on the 1 after that! (whatever you guys call it)

Thank Me! Thank Me... all of Me!
I couldn't have done it without me!

[anon(3732391)]

and now a few more words about Fathers Day!

[anon(3732391)]

THE ORIGIN OF FATHERS DAY.
(truly interesting stuff )


On June 19, 1910, the governor of the U.S. state of Washington proclaimed the nation’s first “Father’s Day.” However, it was not until 1972, 58 years after President Woodrow Wilson made Mother’s Day official, that the day became a nationwide holiday in the United States.

MOTHER’S DAY: INSPIRATION FOR FATHER’S DAY
The “Mother’s Day” we celebrate today has its origins in the peace-and-reconciliation campaigns of the post-Civil War era. During the 1860s, at the urging of activist Ann Reeves Jarvis, one divided West Virginia town celebrated “Mother’s Work Days” that brought together the mothers of Confederate and Union soldiers. In 1870, the activist Julia Ward Howe issued a “Mother’s Day Proclamation” calling on a “general congress of women” to “promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, [and] the great and general interests of peace.”
However, Mother’s Day did not become a commercial holiday until 1908, when–inspired by Jarvis’s daughter Anna, who wanted to honor her own mother by making Mother’s Day a national holiday–the John Wanamaker department store in Philadelphia sponsored a service dedicated to mothers in its auditorium. Thanks in large part to this association with retailers, who saw great potential for profit in the holiday, Mother’s Day caught on right away. In 1909, 45 states observed the day, and in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson approved a resolution that made the second Sunday in May a holiday in honor of “that tender, gentle army, the mothers of America.”
ORIGINS OF FATHER’S DAY
The campaign to celebrate the nation’s fathers did not meet with the same enthusiasm–perhaps because, as one florist explained, “fathers haven’t the same sentimental appeal that mothers have.” On July 5, 1908, a West Virginia church sponsored the nation’s first event explicitly in honor of fathers, a Sunday sermon in memory of the 362 men who had died in the previous December’s explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines in Monongah, but it was a one-time commemoration and not an annual holiday. The next year, a Spokane, Washington woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, one of six children raised by a widower, tried to establish an official equivalent to Mother’s Day for male parents. She went to local churches, the YMCA, shopkeepers and government officials to drum up support for her idea, and she was successful: Washington State celebrated the nation’s first statewide Father’s Day on June 19, 1910. Slowly, the holiday spread. In 1916, President Wilson honored the day by using telegraph signals to unfurl a flag in Spokane when he pressed a button in Washington, D.C. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge urged state governments to observe Father’s Day. However, many men continued to disdain the day. As one historian writes, they “scoffed at the holiday’s sentimental attempts to domesticate manliness with flowers and gift-giving, or they derided the proliferation of such holidays as a commercial gimmick to sell more products–often paid for by the father himself.”

FATHER’S DAY: CONTROVERSY AND COMMERCIALISM
During the 1920s and 1930s, a movement arose to scrap Mother’s Day and Father’s Day altogether in favor of a single holiday, Parents’ Day. Every year on Mother’s Day, pro-Parents’ Day groups rallied in New York City’s Central Park–a public reminder, said Parents’ Day activist and radio performer Robert Spere, “that both parents should be loved and respected together.” Paradoxically, however, the Depression derailed this effort to combine and de-commercialize the holidays. Struggling retailers and advertisers redoubled their efforts to make Father’s Day a “second Christmas” for men, promoting goods such as neckties, hats, socks, pipes and tobacco, golf clubs and other sporting goods, and greeting cards. When World War II began, advertisers began to argue that celebrating Father’s Day was a way to honor American troops and support the war effort. By the end of the war, Father’s Day may not have been a federal holiday, but it was a national institution.

In 1972, in the middle of a hard-fought presidential re-election campaign, Richard Nixon signed a proclamation making Father’s Day a federal holiday at last. Today, economists estimate that Americans spend more than $1 billion each year on Father’s Day gifts.


Did I mention that these are referred to a Hallmark Holidays........

[jaydee5799]

WHOOP on the TRIPLE 9'ers

Congrats on all that postwh0ring

[jaydee5799]

THE ORIGIN OF FATHERS DAY.
(truly interesting stuff )


Did I mention that these are referred to a Hallmark Holidays........



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no i think i mentioned that

[jaydee5799]

Anyway, i am getting things ready for dinner with the kids. They should be here within the hour.
I get to man the grill....ALERT the FD

[jaydee5799]

Let's hope we have propane....never did check that!

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Anyway, i am getting things ready for dinner with the kids. They should be here within the hour.
I get to man the grill....ALERT the FD

You into cross-dressing, too??

[anon(3732391)]

Congrats on all that postwh0ring

Thanks JD!

Just for the record..... I'm no Wh0re. I'm an upstanding gentleman with a touch of S!ut

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no i think i mentioned that

Actually, I mentioned it first, then you mentioned that i mentioned it and I mentioned it again just now with you mentioning that you thought YOU had mentioned it but I mentioned it first!

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Let's hope we have propane....never did check that!

Minor detail! Besides, a REAL grill uses charcoal. Just saying......

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HOLY MEMBER SHOUT OUT, BATMAN!

I knocked the halfling out of 1st place.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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He is now a bonafide SLACKER
I think he's going for the most titles.
The winner gets a Dumb phone and an Elf On The Shelf

[Carjackd]

Happy Father's Day pantless dad's!

Hammy!!

[Carjackd]

I wish I could take Frank on walks but he's a cat and they don't seem to like that.

Grover!!!

[Carjackd]

Oh man! You're just gonna wimp out on me, this easy?

I never have any fun! It';s just not fair!

I would have loved to stay and chat but I had shirt to do

[Carjackd]

I suppose I should say a little sumpin ...seeing how it's Fathers Day! Well, I'm not a father (at least not that i know of......)

Hummm... well, let's see. One great thing about fathers day is that the day after fathers day is officially the 1st day of Summer.

There should be an Anti-Fathers day...Ya know, A Bad Dad's Day. That way you could truly say "You're The Best!" And of course you could have an anti Mothers day, too.
I mean we need some new holidays, right.
The same old ones we've been using are really getting old and I know you're hearts aren't really into it.

I mean, Dad already knows you're gonna take him to dinner at his favorite place. What fun is that! Take him somewhere different that is really nice and expensive and when the check comes
let HIM pay for it because it IS, afterall, HIS day. That'll make him feel like a REAL dad.

So, in the spirit of this Hallmark Holiday...... Happy Doodle Daddy's Day!

Well, I think of these things because they're so far fetched ,they actually sound like good ideas!

Yep, I got a few things for father's day and essentially, I paid for them

[Carjackd]

Originally Posted by Lostboy5151 http://forums.crackberry.com/images/...post-right.png
MAke me an offer!!


Make it 1 and 1/2!! What'd I just buy?????

I have no idea

[Carjackd]

You did too? Only you didn't???

I know..... You were trying to include other zones, right?
Like 10 Eastern and 9 central.

She thinks she is CBS

[Carjackd]

Oh sure! Shoot the messenger! Tell me YOU didn't get him a card? And the ipad is just a coincidence??????

Use and app and make him a card as a screen saver for the ipad , what???? Now you are leaving it up to the doofus to think of everything? This place just got real scary!

[Carjackd]

Thanks JayDee! (even if I am the only one who rants!)

Well, Jackd rambles. We'll count that for now, for the sake of the neighbors kids!

Cluck the kids!