Happy Birthday Old Man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dad is sixty, the big 6-0, four times the age of his youngest child, 10 years closer to being a century old than he is to being a new born, so old...well, you get it.
Happy Birthday Dad, in honor of you here is a card.
and here is the Key.
1)A NASCAR car, I don't know if you like the Jimmy Dean number 10 car or not, but I figured it embodied the NASCAR spirit more than, say, the M&M's.
2)Self explanatory
3)A Fraggle, for those of you who aren't closely related this will make no sense. But man it's funny to those of us who do get it!
4)It's a potato.
5)It's a spatula and it represents your love of cooking.
6)It's a happy kidney. I got the picture from this kinda creepy website.
7)A Gretsch. Not only do you play one of these dad, but it also represents all music, from credence clearwater revival (one band I associate with you) to John Denver, to your apparent new found love of Bright Eyes.
8)This typewriter is because you write, and you do it very, very, very well. Which has helped us all out a great deal (cus we got some of that talent, and you've written a couple of +A papers for my classes).
9)It was a long time ago so you might not remember, but you were in the Air Force.
10)It's a horse, or it's supposed to be. I guess it could be a cow. It goes along with the big picture of Idaho.
11)I think a common memory for us is you and pepsi. I tried to draw something that looked like you driving with a coke or pepsi in a paper cup and one hand out the window, but it didn't really work, so I just used a pepsi bottle.
12)It's you. You may wonder why you are square and wearing a sleeveless t-shirt that says "Dictionary." Well, it's not a t-shirt, it is a dictionary, because you are a walking fount of knowledge.
You may be wonder where the most important part of you life is, your kids. We're there, right underneath the "ti-" in "dictionary." We're in your heart old man.
Happy birthday, enjoy it cus the next big one is 70!!!
*again, these cards are only a sampling of memories and are by no means meant to represent the entire life of the subject.
Happy Birthday Dad, in honor of you here is a card.
and here is the Key.
1)A NASCAR car, I don't know if you like the Jimmy Dean number 10 car or not, but I figured it embodied the NASCAR spirit more than, say, the M&M's.
2)Self explanatory
3)A Fraggle, for those of you who aren't closely related this will make no sense. But man it's funny to those of us who do get it!
4)It's a potato.
5)It's a spatula and it represents your love of cooking.
6)It's a happy kidney. I got the picture from this kinda creepy website.
7)A Gretsch. Not only do you play one of these dad, but it also represents all music, from credence clearwater revival (one band I associate with you) to John Denver, to your apparent new found love of Bright Eyes.
8)This typewriter is because you write, and you do it very, very, very well. Which has helped us all out a great deal (cus we got some of that talent, and you've written a couple of +A papers for my classes).
9)It was a long time ago so you might not remember, but you were in the Air Force.
10)It's a horse, or it's supposed to be. I guess it could be a cow. It goes along with the big picture of Idaho.
11)I think a common memory for us is you and pepsi. I tried to draw something that looked like you driving with a coke or pepsi in a paper cup and one hand out the window, but it didn't really work, so I just used a pepsi bottle.
12)It's you. You may wonder why you are square and wearing a sleeveless t-shirt that says "Dictionary." Well, it's not a t-shirt, it is a dictionary, because you are a walking fount of knowledge.
You may be wonder where the most important part of you life is, your kids. We're there, right underneath the "ti-" in "dictionary." We're in your heart old man.
Happy birthday, enjoy it cus the next big one is 70!!!
*again, these cards are only a sampling of memories and are by no means meant to represent the entire life of the subject.
posted by Christopher Clifford at 11:33 AM
4 Comments:
I'm not sure whether I'm happier that it's Dad's birthday or that Christpher made this card.
bravo to both of you!
Now we all better understand what the terms "a heart full of joy" and "a full heart" are about. Thank you, Christopher, and thank all eight of you. "Old Man" doesn't sound so bad if it's your old man.
yeah surriously.
our dad is the bomb diggity.
Just as an FYI,
The creepy kidney website has a link to the Kidney myspace page where you can leave heartfelt messages to both your old and new kidneys.
The idea of speaking directly to you organs opens up new avenues in health care alternatives I've never considered.
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