Originally Posted by Frownland

The Units is so unoriginal of a band name even Jandek started off with that as his monicker.

Originally Posted by Black Francis

Even BDSM is a better name than WDYPAS..

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ Nice idea - some Pops Power after all the confessions of incompetence...

I´m happy to say that I can relate to your stories, Plank, Chula and BF, and I´d like to contribute a couple of scenes I´ll never forget. Here they are in the order in which they happened:-

Sorry to hear about the manic behaviour, Plankton...in calmer circumstances, I also remember my child falling asleep on my chest as I rocked in a hammock; if I spread out my hand, it´d cover his entire back, and I remember thinking, "Enjoy it while you can son, this kind of physical security won´t last forever!"

One morning, when he was walking, but not yet talking, I was at the backdoor step, sawing a piece of wood for a shelf. My son came to see what was going on, then ran off to his bedroom. A minute later he´s back with a big smile and his own little yellow plastic saw. He squeezes right in between me and the piece of wood so his saw is exactly in line with mine and then starts sawing away like me...

Even though it meant getting dirty, I liked taking my baby son into the back garden from a very early age. One morning after a tour of the garden, he sat on that same backdoor step while I took off his shoes, oozing with mud. As he watched the proceedings he suddenly said "poopoo shoe." It was the very first time he´d put two words together on his own.

Clichés are clichés for a reason, and I remember teaching my son to ride a bike, finally pushing him off on his wobbly adventure, just like you see in the movies. Later he wanted to show off his new skill, so we met his aunts, cousins, grandma in the local park and he demonstrated by doing a circuit or two of a basketball court. He ended the performance by braking in front of me and saying, "Daddy, you´re the max!" - a glowing moment of father-son pride.

So that´s up to what?, age seven, more or less, but I´ll spare you any further sacharine installments for the moment.

Originally Posted by Trollheart

The phrase is "a wolf in sheep's clothing". He uses "wolves in sheepskin". Unless you're saying "sheepskin" should be "sheep's clothing", I don't get it.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ I didn´t know that. Single Dad to a daughter must be tricky at times.

I also split from my partner when my son was small; I let her have the house and I got the child. Although I was pretty pinched for time and money for about a decade, I always knew that I had the best side of the bargain. I think my only regret was that my son was an only child - he really could´ve used the companionship of a sibling to help see him through.( All his classmates seemed to come from model nuclear families like the Cosby Show or whatever.) Is your girl an only child too?

Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Ya, I'm pretty baked.

Originally Posted by Black Francis

Mullet rating

8/10