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I no longer speak to my father, but I'm trying to right his countless wrongs by being a doting dad.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 20 June 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

That's beautiful, Alex! And Happy Father's Day! Woot woot!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 20 June 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

It's slightly weird - if it didn't exist, he wouldn't give a shit. But since it does, it would be noticeable if I didn't 'observe' it. That's the insidiousness of the whole thing. Ho hum.

― Dave B (daveb), Sunday, 20 June 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I love my dad, btw. Maybe I'll call him to tell him.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 20 June 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I would. I enjoyed talking to my Dad today. We had good football chat and family larfs. I'm really pleased with my relationship with my parents.

― Dave B (daveb), Sunday, 20 June 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

How much do people actually tell their dads that they love them? I've told my dad that I love him a few times, mostly when he was having neurosurgery, because, y'know, that was a big deal. But it was always met with an awkward silence and a quick goodbye and so I just don't bother trying anymore.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Sunday, 20 June 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

We don't tell each other we love each other in our family.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 20 June 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

it sounds uncomfortable.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 20 June 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I awoke this morning to a hug and a kiss, a card that said "I Love You" and breakfast, complete with milk spilled from the kitcken all the way to the bedroom. It is truly a wonderful day. Any other single dads out there?

― rxreed (rxreed), Sunday, 20 June 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never hugged my father, I don't think.

He got shafted on a Father's Day present this year because it's impossible to buy him books or DVDs and have no clue what else to get.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 20 June 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

We always tell each other and hug too. We all take after my mum; my dad didn't, but my mum made him ;-)

― Dave B (daveb), Sunday, 20 June 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

How come fathers' day is the same date in the US and UK but mothers' day is different?

Madchen: Happy farvers day
Dad: Thanks. It's a load of commercial old rubbish, isn't it?
Madchen: Did my card arrive in time?
Dad: Uh, no.

― Madchen (Madchen), Sunday, 20 June 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

My stepfather gets a little upset when his stepson doesn't remember, so I try to find him a card, but it's so hard to find an appropriate one. I also made him a pair of socks which went over very well.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 20 June 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I got my dad Cowboy Bebop but I don't think he is very pleased. (I had reason to think it is consistent with his taste. I swear.)

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 20 June 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/clipping/image/20783.jpg

Father's Day History

― rxreed (rxreed), Sunday, 20 June 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not saying that's made up, but it reads like it. Good ole' America!

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 20 June 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd say Father's Day is right on. Just as Mother's Day. My dad's gone, but it made me think of him a little. I sometimes wonder what he was like, compared with me, at certain times in life.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 21 June 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 21 June 2004 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I called my dad and he was watching "Passion of the Christ" on his new Father's Day requisite DVD-player thingummy. I made my excuses and left

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 21 June 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

...he was watching his thoroughly bootlegged copy of said film on his DVD player? SO IMMORAL.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 June 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

quite un-Christlike, I must agree

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 21 June 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, unless he was nailing himself up in sympathy. Which would be a bit bold, admittedly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 June 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd be happy to do that for him

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 21 June 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I got my dad an Art Blakey and Thelonious Monk CD.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 21 June 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I took my dad out to lunch with his wife and her mother. My father looked like a cuban drug lord. Some sort of Cabana Shirt, with silk slacks and white shoes. He's taking this Tony Soprano thing to new heights. The plan was for him to come over to our house for a fathers day BBQ, but he decided that I owed it to him to take him out to eat. Owed him a lunch for all the years of being an asshole?

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 21 June 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...

Dad Likes Music, Right?
You bet he does. What better way to show how much you appreciate him than with the gift of sound? Regardless of what your dad is into, we have something for him in Rock, Jazz, Classical, Folk, Country, World, Vocals, or Box Sets.

― mope, Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Just wanted to wish all the daddies -- Alex, n'licious, Douglas, etc. -- a happy day.

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Sunday, 19 June 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

is it today? guess i'd better call my dad.

― jody l'anti-vierge (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 19 June 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

It is indeed today. Tried calling mine but nobody's home.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 June 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

my dad called me this afternoon, which made me feel very guilty. in fairness: i was going to ring him in the evening. the impatient sod ;)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 19 June 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

Happy father's day, fuckwit, in your hovel.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 19 June 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Erm, should I ask?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 June 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

i sent my dad an e-card. i was afraid that if i called him he'd start lecturing me about something.

― jody l'anti-vierge (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 19 June 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

its not father's day here. september.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 19 June 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

Unfun, Jody. :-/

Called my dad and he was in fine spirits and enjoyed his card. Got him a belated gift or two today he will enjoy. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 June 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

I visited Dad's gravesite with Mom on Father's Day. We were able to score two beautiful bunches of flowers at Wal-Mart for $3.69 each, which meant plenty of flowers for my dad and her dad, i.e. Grandpa, who is buried in the same area that Dad's buried in (they even share the same tombstone). Oh, and we also took our little puppydogbabby along. We all spent like 5 - 10 minutes at the gravesite, then picked up a pie and a soft pretzel at the Sam's Club close to the house -- the pie so that we could take something to a barbecue we were invited to later on that day and the pretzel so we could snack on something. Both were insanely good, BTW.

So, yeah, Father's Day was enjoyable overall. With the exception of the "God, it's so incredibly SUNNY!" weather, which you guys will probably already know causes me to grumble.

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 20 June 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

we went to a garage sale, fathers day is really difficult, because i dont like him and we have been really raw with him

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 20 June 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

its not father's day here. september.

yeh, here neither. not on june 20th it isn't.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 20 June 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday we managed to pull my father away from whatever MMORPG he's playing these days long enough to eat a huge meal of roast beast and sauted spinach and drop biscuits and stuff, then he took me and Lukas for a ride in the back of a truck, Taliban style. Then we went and caught like 4 small-mouth bass.

And Lukas made me this thing at his day camp out of a picture of himself and popsicle sticks that said "HAPPY FATHER'S DAY DUDE".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 20 June 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

That does sound marvellous, m'licious!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 20 June 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Happy Father's Day to all my fellow dads, as it says at the beginning of the thread (I haven't read the rest): new dads like Pleasant Plains, classic dads like Alex in NYC, Rock Hardy, lovebug and nickalicious, I've-got-a-surfeit-of-dadness dads like Haikunym, britishes and UK dads like Tom, Noodle Vague, Onimo and Grout, and all the other dads I've forgotten to mention.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 17 June 2007 02:36 (eighteen years ago)

Although this doesn't seem like the Father's Day thread that I remember, the one where Beth P. told me to mow the @#!&%*!-ing lawn!

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 17 June 2007 02:37 (eighteen years ago)

Which somehow reminds me that I forgot to that other new dad, crossword Matt.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 17 June 2007 02:38 (eighteen years ago)

mention

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 17 June 2007 02:38 (eighteen years ago)

oh yeah, and skot

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 17 June 2007 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

and, god bless him, xhuxk

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 17 June 2007 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

thanks, k.

― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 17 June 2007 03:06 (eighteen years ago)

You're quite welcome.

Sorry that I also forgot Michael Jones, PJ Miller and, on this side of the Atlantic, gypsy mothra.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 17 June 2007 03:14 (eighteen years ago)

I want to be a dad someday. Have a good day dudes!!!!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 17 June 2007 03:14 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks Ken, I got a great present when the kiddo went to London, had a fantastic time for a month, then came home safe. Getting breakfast in bed tomorrow will be nice too, though.

Happy Solidarity Day to the ILXor dads out there. Hit one golf ball or something.

― Rock Hardy, Sunday, 17 June 2007 03:17 (eighteen years ago)

Skipping 32 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Also Happy Fathers Day to Ned's Dad and my dad and Rock's dad and all dads everywhere!

with love,

Gordon Ramsey

― brownie, Sunday, 15 June 2008 02:55 (seventeen years ago)

Thanks all. The surgery was scheduled for 4 pm my time, and I'm a touch on edge in that I've heard nothing yet, but perhaps this is for the best. No matter.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 June 2008 03:00 (seventeen years ago)

Mom called, everything fine. Yay. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 June 2008 03:54 (seventeen years ago)

That's good news Ned, I'm glad it went well. Wishing him a quick and strong recuperation.

Also, happy Father's Day to all you ILX dads!

― Jaq, Sunday, 15 June 2008 04:51 (seventeen years ago)

I just spotted this thread (as I spend my Father's Day on emergency projects at the office; It's horrible being here today instead of with my family, but I have little choice). Ned, I'm very glad to hear your father's surgery went well. And Happy Father's Day to all the other ILX'or dads.

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 15 June 2008 15:37 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

I got given Monster Hunter Tri this morning. Sweet :D

― Yahia Trick Yahia (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 June 2010 08:22 (fifteen years ago)

http://news.dust-digital.com/post/718483034/joe-bussards-fathers-day-edition-of-country-classics
listening to this ...

― tylerw, Sunday, 20 June 2010 15:16 (fifteen years ago)

Managed to watch a Dad retrieve his lost daughter in a shopping centre at lunchtime. Top day to do it.

― BLOODY BOLLOCKS HELL! (aldo), Sunday, 20 June 2010 15:23 (fifteen years ago)

i have nightmares about situations like that.

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 20 June 2010 15:24 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0Dt9q8bkqg

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 20 June 2010 16:06 (fifteen years ago)

We've had a Wii for a couple of months now, and my wife and daughter gave me the Tiger Woods 2010 game and a MotionPlus sensor last night, an early Fathers Day present. Shot a 66 my first time out. (1st hole, quadruple-bogey; 2nd hole, hole in one. Still figuring out putting speed.)

― Grisly Addams (WmC), Sunday, 20 June 2010 16:18 (fifteen years ago)

lol, I just shot 55 at Bay Hill

― Grisly Addams (WmC), Sunday, 20 June 2010 19:29 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

Dear Father,

Using absolutely nonsensical words, I will describe you in a way only a son can:

Gorf snapuki ke de lor ordle der fordle. Urdesir no "neeneenee" for gorp. Yo blee bloo rensary fo reflorgis! "Sorg" be bor. "Norg" ni fror. Ropissnace hor "Eltor". Gleeglee de rorpilene so "freefree". Roow spinspar o "Balgoo!". Urdisnar snee gorp. Floo "dee". Floo "doo". Ropstance aborp bloopfinkle.

Rocend, Ah' nesh.

And that is truly who you are. (Through my eyes at least)

I bid you: ado, ada and adi.

Blorpfink, Rufusoosakhananorsnek

― scott seward, Sunday, 17 June 2012 14:03 (thirteen years ago)

card i got from rufus this morning. cyrus gave me his copy of Kiss's Double Platinum.

― scott seward, Sunday, 17 June 2012 14:05 (thirteen years ago)

scott meeting yr dad & talking jazz w/him was a highlight of emp

hfd dudes

― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Sunday, 17 June 2012 14:19 (thirteen years ago)

Happy dad day to you too, mark!

― scott seward, Sunday, 17 June 2012 14:30 (thirteen years ago)

and all the ilx dads!

― scott seward, Sunday, 17 June 2012 14:30 (thirteen years ago)

there are a lot more of them now then when i got here...

― scott seward, Sunday, 17 June 2012 14:30 (thirteen years ago)

hfd, everybody. That Don Martin/Swedish Chef mashup from Rufus is pretty sweet. Enjoyed reading the stories of Skot's dad dragging him to see teh jazz on that other thread. Right now enjoying watching Jazz Icons DVDs I received today

― If There's a POLL Below, We're All Going to Vote (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 June 2012 14:37 (thirteen years ago)

so much jazz when i was a kid. he didn't have any jazz friends in connecticut to go to NYC with. he just wanted company. i always made sure he promised that we could go to record stores/comic book stores/book stores in the village if i went and saw chico freeman or george coleman or cecil mcbee with him. i loved the taste of coca cola in jazz clubs. always tasted swankier for some reason.

― scott seward, Sunday, 17 June 2012 14:42 (thirteen years ago)

couldn't really properly explain to my teachers why i was so groggy sometimes at school. uh, dizzy was really wailing last night and we had to stay for the second set...

― scott seward, Sunday, 17 June 2012 14:44 (thirteen years ago)

four years pass...

HFD to all Ilx0r dads, especially Aimless.

― Poe, I know all about Ulalume (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 June 2016 16:56 (nine years ago)

Wow! Thanks for the shout. I happily spent the day with my daughter yesterday and will shortly leave to a family gathering out of town. Happy fathers day to all who qualify!

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 19 June 2016 17:00 (nine years ago)

Happy Father's Day, Dads of ILX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPrJKUvom1s

― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 19 June 2016 17:37 (nine years ago)

― Poe, I know all about Ulalume (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 June 2016 20:22 (nine years ago)

whoop whoop

― calstars, Sunday, 19 June 2016 20:28 (nine years ago)

eleven months pass...

*bump*

― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 June 2017 18:51 (eight years ago)

Today is my first Fathers Day! Baby Snrub will be posting to ILX in no time.

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 18 June 2017 19:02 (eight years ago)

Congrats!

― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 18 June 2017 19:24 (eight years ago)

Baby Snrub will be posting to ILX in no time.

Fatherhood will give you a chance to teach baby snrub the importance of carefully curated challops to raising your ilx profile.

― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 18 June 2017 19:34 (eight years ago)

I got a free beer at lunch.

― El Tomboto, Sunday, 18 June 2017 19:36 (eight years ago)

wish I had a dad

― boxedjoy, Sunday, 18 June 2017 20:37 (eight years ago)

Welcome

― Mark G, Sunday, 18 June 2017 23:02 (eight years ago)

four years pass...

Happy Father’s Day, Aimless et al!

― Rich Valley Girl, Poor Valley Girl (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 June 2021 16:00 (four years ago)

I see James Redd et al. has started a minor tradition of giving me a shout out. I feel honored to accept it and would like to pass on my best wishes for the happiness to ilx and ilx-adjacent fathers everywhere.

― What's It All About, Althea? (Aimless), Sunday, 20 June 2021 18:24 (four years ago)

eleven months pass...

Lot of fellow dads on this board, happy day to you all!

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 19 June 2022 17:02 (three years ago)

I can't remember if I told you when my father died in 2008. I probably did, if I wasn't on one of my years-long breaks from here.

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 19 June 2022 17:33 (three years ago)

Yes, also happy Father's Day in memory of fathers no longer with us. (I'm fortunate to still have mine, talking to him in just a few minutes.)

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 19 June 2022 17:35 (three years ago)

Yeah, my wife's dad died in 2002, mine died in 2014. We may no longer have fathers, but I like being a father. This pretty much sums it up:

Happy Father’s Day! 😊 pic.twitter.com/Ns9bndWkex
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) June 19, 2022

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 June 2022 17:54 (three years ago)

eleven months pass...

Happy Father’s Day, Aimless et al!

*bump*

I know this one has its extra-special challenges for you. No need for you to comment if you don’t want to.

― Holly Godarkbloom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 June 2023 13:43 (two years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZwyKkv36dc

― Holly Godarkbloom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 June 2023 20:09 (two years ago)

when i came downstairs this morning my dad told me i was a good father. he lives with me. it wasn't like a fathers day surprise or anything. i knew he'd be there. but still. felt nice. he just turned 88.

― scott seward, Sunday, 18 June 2023 21:15 (two years ago)

❤️

― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 18 June 2023 21:18 (two years ago)

Happy Father's Day to me cause some of y'all fuckers my seed
— the guy who be doing drill music playing apex zaza (@josenworldv2) June 18, 2023

― calstars, Sunday, 18 June 2023 21:19 (two years ago)

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