this thread is where you can tell stories and recant times past about your pap.
my pap lost the use of his left eye while in the movie theatre in 1968
My pap wears blue jeans and carries a shovel, always.
My pap plays bridge on Wednesday nights and calls me once a month with a pre-paid calling card
my pap is a super-computer designed in the 80's to calculate tips.
my pap took Sundays VERY serious
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My pap only dances to the Jim Croce song, Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.
My pap hauls metal rods and hates ice cream.
My pap has giant hands and a tractor.
My pap uses cologne stored in a big green bottle shaped like a horse head.
my pap is a dragon
My Pap knows how to barbecue..........Deer!
my pap decided that Vicks Vapo Rub should never be used as a sandwich spread
My Pap trims his finger nails with his pocket knife.
My pap makes pills in his basement.
My Pap likes to rake the yard so that he can make a big fire.
My Pap got stung by 14 wasps last summer when he was cleaning out the eaves troughs.
My Pap likes to take me for drives around the farm in his tractor.
My pap garbles his soup.
When my Pap eats his steak he only uses a fork.
my pap uses a wooden golf bag for his Tuesday Elks League
My Pap eats at Cracker Barrel for breakfast, lunch and dinner and we play checkers and that game with the golf tees and the wooden triangle before each meal.
My Pap has a dog named Wylie and he's missing his left pointer finger, so sometimes he draws a smiley face on the stump.
my pap looks down his nose at me when i talk about the internet
My pap is confused by "Compact Diskettes"
my pap would fucking hate this thread
My pap speaks with an accent
my pap has really gotten into forklifts
My pap drinks george dickel and talks about how yankees suck :)
My pap undoes his fort. :-/
my pop loosens his tie at the end of the month
My Pap got me hooked on Hee-Haw.
My Pap just bought a villa in Spain.
QuoteMy Pap just bought a villa in Spain.
my pap needs to make friends with your pap.
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my pap needs to make friends with your pap.
LOL!!! ;D
My Pap played the drums in a band called Burgundy Wine.
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LOL!!! ;D
My Pap played the drums in a band called Burgundy Wine.
I would love to taste some pinot noir at your pap's villa. pinot noir is a challenging grape to grow, you know. they don't call it the 'heartbreak grape' for nothing.
My pap invented the papsmear.
My Pap says wine is for the skirts.
I lost my pap this year to a heart attack. he was 63.
He smoked Kool Filter Kings, drove loud, fast cars, and worked in a steel mill his entire life. He was a Vietnam vet who kind of lost his innocence over there. He really liked steak. He really loved hunting and the outdoors. He played the lottery incessantly. His vision of me was frozen at age 17, when I enlisted in the Army. He loved some very strange and different music-A Flock of Seagulls was his favorite band, but by the same token, he turned me on to Santana, Johnny Cash, The Everly Brothers, Fats Domino, Steve Miller Band, and for some reason he really dug ZZ Top as well.
My entire life, I wasn't John, as his name was John as well....I was "boy". I swore my name was "goddmanit boy!" until I was old enough to realize what he was saying!
His last visit here was great for him-my buddy at work took him for a ride in his Pantera (no, not the band)...he never stopped talking about how cool that was.
His CB handle was "Muleskinner", and he talked on the CB till the day he died.
RIP, Muleskinner... :'(
QuoteRIP, Muleskinner...
Here, here.
my pap always lets you know when enough is enough
My pap drilled himself in his leg once - and decieded not to go see a doctor, 'cause doctor's are for pussies.
My pap used to pitch whiffle balls to waxy and I with his shirt off
My pap fries bologne in a pan for dinner
my pap can't run like he used to
my pap is a shrink who decided that screwing one of his patients and eventually marrying her was more important than raising his own 5 kids...
My pap changed the oil in his car regardless of whether it needed it or not.
My pap canceled his telephone service because of the "looters"
My pap was a truck drivin' man, teamsters local 753.
My pap was tall and lean and smoked big boy cigarettes on the porch that he built
my pap took pride in his lawn
my pap came back all clear. no more herpes for me!
My pap is the one who touches you in the line at the grocery store.
my pap always knows the "ins and outs" of the high school football team
my pap backs into his parking spaces
my pap has been "on the pipe" for about 4 years now.
My pap got his report card signed.
my pap warned me about paper cuts.
My pap told me tonight that he's a multimillionaire, but that he doesn't like doing money business with family.
My pap gets grossed out from stories about crap and from the smell of nailpolish.
my pap ate a small child once.
My pap folds his slices of pizza :/
QuoteMy pap changed the oil in his car regardless of whether it needed it or not.
this is a lie :-/
my pap just lets the good times roll
My pap listened to the "hit parade" on AM Radio.
my pap never got over-excited when he reached "pay dirt."
My pap says you never joke about money
My pap taught me the importance of changing your windshield wiper blades every 6 months.
my pap used to save toothpicks because "you never know."
My pap weeds his yard every spring.
my pap has no hair on his head.
i have.
my pap ate a small child once.
Quotemy pap has no hair on his head.
i have.
Me, too! It migrated.
my pap knows the value of a hard days work
my pap always went back for another piece of pie
My pap boiled his drinking water.
My pap saves the Sunday edition newspaper for Wednesday nights
my pap always asks "whats the good word?"
My pap fought in a war.
My pap never believed in having too many hats
dystentary?
My pap wears Ruggled Brand jeans.
My pap's fingernails were squared off at the ends
My pap studies the Bible.
my pap thought it was important to "stay ahead of the curve."
My pap never used slogans.
I pap read the paper from front to back, daily.
QuoteI pap read the paper from front to back, daily.
Hoggie?
My pap chokes up on his bat.
my pap has been known to get "hot under the collar" while watching the evening news
My pap thinks John Elway still plays for his favorite team, the Denver Broncos.
My pap was a LAZER VIKING.
or. a viking with a lazer gun.
My pap shaves every other day
my pap kept two extra nails pursed between his lips while working around his home
My pap washed his paneled walls with lemon scented oils.
My pap calls his feet "dogs"
my pap would make up songs with no words and just hum the hell out of them during the day
My pap "let's 'em fly" into his leather chair.
while in the yard, my pap always waved at no matter who drove by
My pap likes to fuss with the circuit breakers
My pap bought his Pork Picnic from the A&P
My pap likes to wrestle on the side of a hill.
My pap never turned on his light for Halloween :(
My pap calls the toilet a "stool"
my pap has a TV that sits on the floor and has knobs
my pap has a porcelain jesus figurine that sits on top of the organ in his house
My pap hates his scented bathroom
my pap don't know right from wrong ;)
My pap wears his socks pulled up real high.
my pap belt sanded the skin off his leg
My pap drives a truck and uses a blackberry.
my pap treats his Buick like it was a BMW
My pap saved his stale bread for the birds.
My pap appreciates large tints.
My paps recliner was made of burlap :/
My pap buys things from telemarketers because he gets confused :(
my pap dines at Rudy's every Thursday night and orders the spaghetti special every single time.
My pap had a rotary phone until the day he died.
My pap sleeps in a separate bed
My pap always used to say "C'mere, ya stinker!"
my pap always used to say "you better behave or i'll cloud up and rain all over you."
My pap had a foil ashtray in his Cutlas Supreme
my pap took the men of the family out for lunch every Christmas eve
My pap agrees with no swearing during supper.
My pap never used plastic hangers.
My pap uses his thumb to increase flow from his hose :-/
My pap had a clock radio that he never turned on :-/
my pap had an old Maxwell House coffee can overflowing with nails, nuts, bolts and the like.
My pap built the foundation for our house
My pap made everyone watch when he cut down his maple tree
My pap called his jeans, dungarees.
My pap only shakes hands
My pap had hair in his ears.
My pap is stern
my pap didn't put up with any sass
My pap wore a argyle sweater every thursday.
My pap does not do the dishes
my pap LOVES long division.
my pap is a meat and potatoes kind of guy
My pap stands up to wipe.
my pap has hair on his elbows
My pap shows me how a turkey peeps a log. It's not fun, and neither were the SWITCHES!!!! :'(
my pap never let the flag touch the ground
my pap wears a union suit
My pap is Waxy.
My pap keeps his peanut butter in the fridge.
my pap marks his TV guide for the programs he wants to watch every sunday afternoon
My pap is grandpa and he drinks Bavarian Beer.
my pap thinks the jews invented halloween
That's enough.
My pap wears Old Spice every week for church.
My pap sleeps on a waterbed :(
my pap calls E.S.P.N "Espen."
My pap does not recycle
my pap doesn't understand gays
my pap has oil paintings that might be worth "a shitload".
my pap doesn't put money in my b-day cards anymore
my pap doesnt have the same pep in his step that he used to. :-/
My pap used to get his tomatos from a guy named "Jute."
My pap rebelled by marrying a German girl.
my pap lost a mediocre pair of shoes in quicksand once.
My pap stores things in his front shirt pocket
my pap vowed to never wear a neck tie again
My pap puts a tarpaulin over his car.
my pap says he can't get around the way he used to but he has grown to love internet porn
My pap never used cornholders when he ate corn on the cob.
my pap has a lot of old baseball cards
My pap's guinea tee's were stained yellow because he was a man.
My pap likes to hand me scraps of paper.
my pap always had pink mints in a glass bowl
my paps shoes were always tied in a bow.
My pap has a velcro belt
my pap is going to give me his slide projector and screen when he dies
my pap told me this: "what did the spanish fire fighter name his two twin boys?"
"jose (hose A) and josb (hose B)."
my pap likes old hitchcock movies
Quotemy pap told me this: "what did the spanish fire fighter name his two twin boys?"
"jose (hose A) and josb (hose B)."
my pap would like this joke about "beaners" as he calls them.
my pap ate the black seeds in watermelon, but he told me if i did, a watermelon tree would grow in my tummy.
my pap has trifocles
My pap has never been in a rotunda
my pap never opened his paycheck while he was at work
My pap does not like the names "Tucker" or "Tyler"
my pap was a big fan of a good hand-shake
My pap likes to talk about his gold retirement watch.
my pap doesn't like mechanical pencils
my pap tells stories that have no beginning, middle, or end
my pap is goulet
My pap brings freshly picked tomaters for Thanksgiving meals.
my pap has two hands.
My pap does not understand cordless appliances.
My pap uses Lava soap as face wash.
my pap always brings a covered dish to church
my pap coined the phrase 'whatever trips your trigger'.
My pap used a straight razor :-/
my pap always kept his old catchers mit lying around in case we decided to have a game of "catch."
My pap was so tall that he was hired by the telephone company to prune the trees around the telephone wires.
My pap dislikes baskets
my pap told me that "mowing the lawn" and "moving those rocks around" was good for me.
My pap lights his cigarettes with matches only.
My pap taught me how to use a soldering iron.
My pap never drank tap water.
my pap was not the first one to tell me that bach is dead.
QuoteMy pap taught me how to use a soldering iron.
(I love using soldering irons.)
My pap just got a new dog.
When my pap phones, he says "Hey daughter, it's yer pap."
fo real.
my pap calls a telephone a "white plastic devil".
my pap spends most of his time in his "easy" chair
My pap doesn't know the difference between assertive & agressive when he complains.
My pap's standard of living was expressed in his casual-wear.
My pap gets his hair trimmed with clippers.
my pap always calls my grandma over to the computer when he's got "mail" from the "kids."
my pap just got cable
My papthought my hair looked good when it was "short"
my pap saved toothpicks because "you never know."
My pap said "Hi-Talian" instead of "Italian"
my pap passed away while i was at a foo fighters concert
My pap used to build foo fighters.
My pap has never had more then one car.
my pap sucked in his gut when it came to "cutting things clean"
My pap's name is Lawrence, but he goes by "Bud"
my pap lived most of his life in 3D
My pap would squeeze steak before he'd buy it :-/
My pap enjoys tapping his foot.
my pap used to say things like "right-O" and "wonderful...just wonderful."
my pap drove a 1984 doodoo brown Chevy van with duel A/C and shag carpet everywhere. We called it El Vanute.
My pap used to say "you got the fecal touch"
;)
My pap uses garbage as fuel for his Delorean in order to travel thru time.
My pap often listens to Huey Lewis and The News while doing said time travel.
My Pap used to wear his socks hiked up mid-shin until I figured out that was morbidly uncool and told him and he stopped.
My pap is 1000 miles away in Canada now and I miss him like crazy. Nothing like a hug from Pap...
my pap shaves by hammering in his whiskers and bitin em off from the inside.
My pap does not relenquish is seat.
my pap calls me pitzi
Quotemy pap shaves by hammering in his whiskers and bitin em off from the inside.
This gave me chills... it feels like the chills were on the inside of the left side of my neck. :-/
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This gave me chills... it feels like the chills were on the inside of the left side of my neck. :-/
did your pap say this? ;)
My pap is hatching a plan to assasinate Tony Danza.
my pap still gets "up and around"
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did your pap say this? ;)
No, but when my brother got his ear pierced, my pap put on one of my grandma's clip on earrings to mock him.
My pap has nOOdz of natives from the Pacific Rim during WWII.
my pap never really cared for TV dinners
My pap drinks whisky til he cant walk , then falls through the front door.
my pap has no time for sissies
my pap drinks tequila out of styrofoam.
My pap's the best
my grandpa insisted on being called by his name cos "grandpa" or "pop" was for OLD people
he used to call me honey
i miss him
my pa loved to look under the hood and "tinker around."
my pap one time called me and asked me, if i had a choice, which color paper i'd put my hand on. black or white.
my pap still carries around a briefcase when he wants to look important
My pap loves the Sex Pistols, The Damned and only usually wears blue...hmm...strange...
He also loves anchovies which I have not acquired the taste for yet.
13 pages back.
Quote13 pages back.
heh. i can picture your face. ;)
my pap was the type of guy that would mow his neighbors yard for no good reason at all.
my pap never used a snowblower
my pap was the type of guy that people would turn to when they were down in the dumps
My pap saw Hendrix open for Chicago. Hendrix... HENDRIX!
my pap never left food on his plate
my pap loves My Morning Jacket.
Murph wins. End of thread. :)
My pap is the one to call for directions.
my paps neck is a helicopter.
my pap sailed away on a wave of mutilation.
:/
Quotemy pap loves My Morning Jacket.
Haha, great one Sean!
My pap said, "Woah, they've got some bloody reverb on there!" when I played him Rocket Man.
My pap used to play the clarinet but would rather play the saxophone now because it's "more manly."
my pap likes Kalkum Satrauss
My pap thinks the Spanish language is called "Mexican"...
My pap loves a good Korma (nothing too spicey mind...)
my pap just got cows on his farm.
My pap eats the cows that EC's pap raises on the farm.
where i come from a pap is your grandfather, is this who your talking about or your fathers?
QuoteMy pap eats the cows that EC's pap raises on the farm.
:-/ i better not get too attached...
Come time for dessert, my pap would always say 'I scream - you scream - we all scream for ice cream!'
It's 11 o'clock and I don't know where my Pap is.
QuoteMy pap used to play the clarinet but would rather play the saxophone now because it's "more manly."
Hey! mine has a Sax too! Alto I think...
My pap just got a new zero turn radius 42" deck mower to go along with his massy brush hog for the back 40 and is a pig in shit.
My pap doesn't like "pretty boys" and wears Patchouli.
My Dad died a few weeks after my Mum. He never had any intention of going on without her. I wish I could have saved him.
Real sorry to hear that Susan.
Very, very sad but in a sense, beautiful that your parents were still so much in love. I don't know what my Dad would do without my Mum, I can't imagine life without Miki (my wife).
QuoteMy Dad died a few weeks after my Mum. He never had any intention of going on without her. I wish I could have saved him.
That does sound like
true love. I will remember that Susan....
It was tragic to lose them both like that but he never would have survived without her - not that he was weak, or anything, he was quite tough really, he just made a decision not to go on. I like to think of him in heaven shooting the shit with John Conaway's dad, who was quite similar to him in many ways :D
QuoteIt was tragic to lose them both like that but he never would have survived without her - not that he was weak, or anything, he was quite tough really, he just made a decision not to go on. I like to think of him in heaven shooting the shit with John Conaway's dad, who was quite similar to him in many ways :D
what a nice thing to say...perhaps they're enjoying some smokes up there? :)
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what a nice thing to say...perhaps they're enjoying some smokes up there? :)
Undoubtedly :D
My pap likes singalong songs.
my paps a nun.
my pap had a john deere hat.
Quotemy pap had a john deere hat.
i am starting to think a lot of us came from farming backgrounds/areas. no?
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i am starting to think a lot of us came from farming backgrounds/areas. no?
Well, my pap did. I'm just a regular suburban dude.
not so sure about face though.... ;)
My pap hurt my dogs on purpose.
My pap's a preacher.
My pap was killed in a car accidently shortly before my birth. :-/
QuoteMy pap was killed in a car accidently shortly before my birth. :-/
Hey Red,
real sorry to hear that. You never met him but you must still miss him?
My pap is addicted to Elvis. I used to wake up to the sound of him blasting Blue Suede Shoes on the stereo from downstairs. Occasionally I could hear him singing along to it, which means he was singing pretty loud. haha
QuoteMy pap is addicted to Elvis. I used to wake up to the sound of him blasting Blue Suede Shoes on the stereo from downstairs. Occasionally I could hear him singing along to it, which means he was singing pretty loud. haha
Your Pap is the coolest Pap I know ;D
My pap only said two words to me: "David Lies".
***wait! I just remembered something! Random but SPIDER_BEARD reminded me of this ---- YOu guys thought I was a creation of Horko and Alligator, half etc! hhahhahaha. You tried to get me banned! Me, too! hahahahh. that was like , what, a year ago? weird rememberances. weird weird weird****
ok bye.
my pap is the best thread
super edit: my pap has become much more emotional as an older man.....the fact that i am growing older makes him sad
My pap bought himself a jacuzzi for Xmas.
My pap told me to bump this thread.
:-/
Wow. I didn't think I'd see this again.
My pap approves of this bump.
My pap finally called me back after Ive been waitin for hime to mail me back the title to 'my' car so I can register it in another state.
Thanks pops!
my pap favors snap front shirts.
My pap almost wrote a book....... Sums up that side of the family, really. ;D
My pap took out the electricity of half his hometown whilst drunk driving when he was 15.
My Pap had to bury his Mom today.
damn. sorry for your and your dad's loss, james. :-[
Thank you. The last few weeks, but especially the last couple days have made me really appreciate a lot of things in life and brought that entire side of our family closer together.
My Pap takes me to Ducks games and we always eat hotdogs while we're looking out onto the parking lot. And he hates that I smuggle in Wild Turkey and drink it with my Diet Pepsi. Then my mom picks us up at the parking lot afterwards.
i almost lost my Paps in November when (3 months into his retirement) he was struck by a car when he was out for a run (he was an elite marathoner) serious injuries, including a broken leg, arm, neck--the recovery was long and his mobility is limited now---but
sunday we finished a marathon together--he's no longer running elite class for 60 year olds because i caught him at mile 24 as he was struggling and i ran in w/him---it was one of the best things ever :-) yet completely sad at the same time
...but life is short :'(
I miss my Paps, It's been about a month and a half since he passed. My brother and I are going up to northern wisconsin this weekend to go thru all his things with my step mom. I'm going to bring back some of the things that my dad wanted me to have. When he was going through treatment for chemical dependency back in the 80's he did alot drawing with chalks, pencils and Inks. Mostly landscapes and portraits. It is going to be hard for me to go back. We are also going to pick out his headstone for his grave.
Getinhaven, I know what your going thru and my thoughts are with ya.
When you know someone is close to death time seems to stand still as you watch them slip away. But the clock never stops and we have to keep going. Otherwise life will pass you by.
My pap met my mam at a square dance for Martin Luther's 500th birthday.
My pap once worked in a liquor store; even took a bullet one night.
That last part could go in the "Complete and Udder Lies!!!" thread. ;)
I'm trying to convince my pap to go to Graceland with me next summer.
My pap's band opened for Buddy Holly :o
My pap voted for Barack Obama.
My pap can skin a buck and run a trot-line.
QuoteMy pap can skin a buck and run a trot-line.
;D
My pap would spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye.
QuoteQuoteMy pap can skin a buck and run a trot-line.
;D
My pap would spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye.
;D My pap would shoot him with his old 45!
My pap is about to eat dinner.
My pap worked his way up from teller to the president of a bank without a college degree in 42 years.
We should have some sort of indicator to show which of these are true and which are bullshit. I know I like to mix it up.
My pap never understood the meaning of "is".
My pap didn't invent the mustache, but he made it cool.
My pap's pap killed fidy men.
QuoteI miss my Paps, It's been about a month and a half since he passed. My brother and I are going up to northern wisconsin this weekend to go thru all his things with my step mom. I'm going to bring back some of the things that my dad wanted me to have. When he was going through treatment for chemical dependency back in the 80's he did alot drawing with chalks, pencils and Inks. Mostly landscapes and portraits. It is going to be hard for me to go back. We are also going to pick out his headstone for his grave.
Getinhaven, I know what your going thru and my thoughts are with ya.
When you know someone is close to death time seems to stand still as you watch them slip away. But the clock never stops and we have to keep going. Otherwise life will pass you by.
Tater-sorry I was not more supportive when that happened. After losing mine a year ago, I realize so much more how important that kinda' stuff is...
I'm so lucky to have mine. Supposedly I'm just like him...I can see that in lots of ways. I wish I had his mechanical and electrical smarts though! I'm not nearly as handy. Other than that...yeah, we're scary-alike.
Except he's not so into music. Skynyrd, Floyd, Zeppelin, ZZ Top, Allmans...that's about it for him.
He had a '74 Duster growing up...black...it was pretty sweet. That's how he met my mom. She showed up at the local bar and they had some common friends...said she'd like to dance with whoever owned "that black car"...now I have a black '69 Firebird...hasn't happened yet, but wouldn't that be crazy! I've been thinking lately that if I come into some money, I'd like to find Dad's old Duster and buy it back and fix it up for him and mom to cruise around in.
QuoteI'm so lucky to have mine. Supposedly I'm just like him...I can see that in lots of ways. I wish I had his mechanical and electrical smarts though! I'm not nearly as handy. Other than that...yeah, we're scary-alike.
Except he's not so into music. Skynyrd, Floyd, Zeppelin, ZZ Top, Allmans...that's about it for him.
He had a '74 Duster growing up...black...it was pretty sweet. That's how he met my mom. She showed up at the local bar and they had some common friends...said she'd like to dance with whoever owned "that black car"...now I have a black '69 Firebird...hasn't happened yet, but wouldn't that be crazy! I've been thinking lately that if I come into some money, I'd like to find Dad's old Duster and buy it back and fix it up for him and mom to cruise around in.
My dad had a brown Duster! 73 I think. Born the same year as I. Wish I just had a picture of that bad boy.
Skynyrd is good enough for me! Freebird foreva' baby... :)
QuoteMy pap didn't invent the mustache, but he made it cool.
No way, my dad did that! :P