Happy Father's Day

[Janice]

To any fathers here and to all of your own fathers, have a great Father's Days.

[Brent88]

Happy Father's Day to all the dad's out there, including mine, who's working the night shift right now.

[AKA]

$50 Monopoly Dollars to anyone who can tell me the city in which Father's Day was created.

[Janice]

Originally posted by AKA
$50 Monopoly Dollars to anyone who can tell me the city in which Father's Day was created.

Pay up buddy. You know my address.
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Father's Day, contrary to popular misconception, was not established as a holiday in order to help greeting card manufacturers sell more cards. In fact when a "father's day" was first proposed there were no Father's Day cards!
Mrs. John B. Dodd, of Washington, first proposed the idea of a "father's day" in 1909. Mrs. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart. William Smart, a Civil War veteran, was widowed when his wife (Mrs. Dodd's mother) died in childbirth with their sixth child. Mr. Smart was left to raise the newborn and his other five children by himself on a rural farm in eastern Washington state. It was after Mrs. Dodd became an adult that she realized the strength and selflessness her father had shown in raising his children as a single parent.

The first Father's Day was observed on June 19, 1910 in Spokane Washington. At about the same time in various towns and cities across American other people were beginning to celebrate a "father's day." In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national Father's Day. Finally in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day.

Father's Day has become a day to not only honor your father, but all men who act as a father figure. Stepfathers, uncles, grandfathers, and adult male friends are all be honored on Father's Day.


http://www.holidays.net/father/story.htm

[AKA]

Originally posted by Janice
Pay up buddy. You know my address.

One of our few claims to fame.

A deal's a deal. Here's fiddy dolla.

[¤I Love Clay Aiken¤]

Happy Fathers Day!! <333


Meangya, I still have to get cards and crap tomorrow after work. Gah.

[MaydayMalonesGirl]

My dad has to work all day tomorrow. And I'm giving him socks as a gift. I can't help but feel bad.

[Cashodeen]

Happy Fathers Day. Yay.

My dad's birthday was just last Sunday, and I gotta go and get him more gifts. Geez!

[dandelion wine]

Happy Father's Day, Dad! And here's wishing each and every father here a very happy Father's Day.

[Janice]

Father's Day Quotations

"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."
--Homer


"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."
--Anne Sexton


"When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, 'She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge.'"
--Helen Hayes


"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week."
--Mario Cuomo, former governor of N.Y.


"Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia."
--Mary Jarrell


"It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home—it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love."
--Margaret Truman


"When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes,
I was your son, high on your horse,
My mind a top whipped by the lashes
Of your rhetoric, windy of course."
--Sir Stephen Spender


"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's."
--Robert Frost


"I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."
--Margaret Thatcher


"People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad."
--Carroll O'Connor


"A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma."
--Marlene Dietrich


"My father died many years ago,
and yet when something special happens to me,
I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears,
but it makes me feel better to half believe it."
--Natasha Josefowitz

[Hollow]

mmm. two bad days in a row for me.

[Kristina]

Such a stupid "holiday". I hate my dad.

[Michael [hXc]]

I just wanted to make this post to honor my friend's father, who has been there for his son (my friend), and me when I needed it. He has always been there, and he changes my opinion of father's day a lot.

[Brent88]

Can we please keep negative stuff out of this. If you can't say something positive, don't say anything.

Deal?

[vienna waits]

Originally posted by Janice
"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's."
--Robert Frost

?? I don't get it. Mothers are supposed to love their kids unconditionally but fathers are allowed to decide whether or not they love their kids??