Monday, June 1, 2009
Life / Retail Fuck You, Dads n' Grads
Posted by David Schmader on Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Seriously. Graduation and father's day have fallen in the same general time frame forever, but it wasn't until the mid-'90s or so that people wouldn't shut up about Dads 'n Grads, Dads 'n Grads, DADS 'N GRADS!
Attention humanity: Just because it rhymes doesn't make it a season.
Now please return to your seasonal shopping sprees for Oh the Places You'll Go! and inexpensive neckties.
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In before Poe. The dad in the photo isn't bad looking.
Also, they could be calling it Drads Day!
But, in all seriousness...well...aren't fathers always the ones focused on financial and educational success?
Also, they could be calling it Drads Day!
But, in all seriousness...well...aren't fathers always the ones focused on financial and educational success?
2
Crap, that's right, that's coming right up! I'm going to knit my dad a tie, just to see if he'll wear it for me.
5
Should you celebrate your Dad 'n Grad Day if your Dad molested you in order to pay your college tuition?
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Schmader, I have never heard of this Dads n Grads thing you purport is everywhere -- and I even teach at a university....
Please don't let it show up anytime soon....
Please don't let it show up anytime soon....
7
All I want is his senior project done so I can enjoy Father's Day.
Personally, this whole Dads and Grads thing was thought up by us in the advertising industry as a way to sell crap you don't need for people who don't want it, but feel obligated to thank you anyway. At least that's my recollection of it, since when it become popular my step-father was in advertising and I helped out at the newspaper ad department after school.
Personally, this whole Dads and Grads thing was thought up by us in the advertising industry as a way to sell crap you don't need for people who don't want it, but feel obligated to thank you anyway. At least that's my recollection of it, since when it become popular my step-father was in advertising and I helped out at the newspaper ad department after school.
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So if a father were graduating, would they cancel each other out? Or would it tear a rift in the fabric of the universe?
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@9 - well, you don't really graduate from it until you're dead, providing your testes continue to function.
Just ask all the 70 and 80 yo dads out there.
Just ask all the 70 and 80 yo dads out there.
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