Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there! If you’re reading this on Monday (because who wants to spend their holiday online?), you may not have seen that Google featured one of their famous “doodles” in honor of Father’s Day, with a clean, simple design inspired by one of the lamest Father’s Day gifts ever: the necktie.
No offense if you got your husband or father a tie this year, but let’s talk about some more unique Father’s Day gifts. Did you send your Dad skydiving? Take him on a fishing vacation? Clean his garage? I thought we could make this an open thread where each of you gets to brag about how creative and awesome you are when it comes to gift-giving. What have you gotten Dad that absolutely blew him away? Which of your gifts tanked?
I’ll start by sharing that my siblings and I always strove to get our Dad gifts for every occasion that would impress him, and he always, always, always complained about everything we ever bought. ”What’d you go and spend money on a thing like this for?,” he’d ask. ”You’re only gonna ask me for gas money when you leave!” (So. True.)
Tell me about your favorite Father’s Day memories in the comments below!
2011年6月19日 星期日
2011年5月2日 星期一
Varadkar happy to make cuts in his spare time
MINISTER FOR Transport, Tourism and Sport Leo Varadkar was taking a hands-on approach at the weekend by participating in a post-election clean-up of his Dublin West constituency.
Assisted by voluntary labour from local branches of Fine Gael, the Minister devoted his spare time to removing 10,000 cable-ties which remained in Blanchardstown and Castleknock after election posters were taken down.
“We had a very busy election, as you know, and one of the things that people complain about the most is all the cable-ties that are left on the poles after election time.
“Some of my campaign workers felt that we’d make a special effort to put in a few weeks of work after the election taking down cable-ties from all parties in Dublin West.
“We’ve taken down over 10,000 cable-ties in the Blanchardstown and Castleknock areas, making the place look a little bit better before the tourist season begins.
“And we’re encouraging other people to do the same in their communities,” he said.
The Minister adopted a cross-party approach to the task by removing cable-ties from all the different parties.
“The black ones are Fianna Fáil,” he said.
Assisted by voluntary labour from local branches of Fine Gael, the Minister devoted his spare time to removing 10,000 cable-ties which remained in Blanchardstown and Castleknock after election posters were taken down.
“We had a very busy election, as you know, and one of the things that people complain about the most is all the cable-ties that are left on the poles after election time.
“Some of my campaign workers felt that we’d make a special effort to put in a few weeks of work after the election taking down cable-ties from all parties in Dublin West.
“We’ve taken down over 10,000 cable-ties in the Blanchardstown and Castleknock areas, making the place look a little bit better before the tourist season begins.
“And we’re encouraging other people to do the same in their communities,” he said.
The Minister adopted a cross-party approach to the task by removing cable-ties from all the different parties.
“The black ones are Fianna Fáil,” he said.
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