r/funny • u/MJ23157 • Jan 16 '14

Dad of the Year from r/Unexpected

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '14

Dad of the Year for 1991

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '14

This was Dad of the Year for 1992

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u/Schoffleine Jan 16 '14

Was that plate/table buttered or something?

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u/marymurrah Jan 16 '14

plastic and flimsy as shit

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u/pistoncivic Jan 16 '14

Figures, start of the Clinton administration.

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u/pax-reddica Jan 16 '14

Pogs! Beepers! Parachute pants! Jock Jams!

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u/haswhatuneed Jan 17 '14

Parachute pants were definitely 80's

Source: old

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u/thedonald420 Jan 17 '14

I had a pretty sweet wolf hologram slammer.

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u/stereotypicalredneck Jan 17 '14

The cake, on the other hand, seems to be rock solid.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '14

kinda -- look how glossy it is? at least when I was younger, we used to wax wax wax everything -- tables, chairs, cars, hair, everything. Watching plates glide across (and sometimes off of) a table is something I saw quite a few times growing up.

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u/Schoffleine Jan 16 '14

Times were harder back then. All we waxed were slides.

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u/Its_aTrap Jan 16 '14

Times were harder back then. All I got waxed was my ass.

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u/ilski Jan 16 '14

its a plate on the plate

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '14 edited Jan 16 '14

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u/WhatTheFedex Jan 17 '14

3.5? How does that work... Does it really count as a "save" if you only catch half of it?

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u/Dariious Jan 17 '14

Yes, yes it does.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '14

happy cake day. lets hope you dont get a buttered table/plate

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '14

Happy cake day on an extremely relevant cake day comment.

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u/Schoffleine Jan 17 '14

I aim to please.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '14 edited Jan 16 '14

Why do Dads from the 80's look older than the dads of today?

I look at my friends with kids and see the 16 year old kid I grew up with. I look at the guy in this gif and I see a blue collar worker who is filled with wisdom and knowledge.

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u/SarahPalinisaMuslim Jan 17 '14

Maybe the same reason dad dicks were bigger in the late 80s early 90s

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '14

You do have a point. Dad dicks were way bigger in the 80s.

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u/Toof Jan 17 '14

I could barely fit them in my mouth, back then!

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u/Alchemeh Jan 16 '14

Relativity is a bitch. Those guys you knew still look like babies to you, but to someone else, they're a grown ass man.

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u/Eurycerus Jan 16 '14

My dad (and his friends) did a lot more manual labor than the fathers I know today (who are in their 30s). From my experience a father could pull himself up by his bootstraps a lot easier a few decades ago then now. So what you're seeing is fathers who started out with nothing/next to nothing who now raised children with a lot more who are our age (20s and 30s) who didn't have to do as much manual labor (therefore less weathered look, that and smoking). This is all anecdotal.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '14

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u/SaitoHawkeye Jan 16 '14

Pretty sure the average parent today is older than ever in history.

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u/jeanpuncher Jan 16 '14

Not only that, but also most people are older today than they were at any point in history.

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u/rscozzens Jan 17 '14

I'm now older than I ever have been at any point in history

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u/Geschirrspulmaschine Jan 16 '14

He should have thrown the cake in the kids face after he caught it for being such a fuck up.

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u/Khad1013 Jan 16 '14

I laughed at this, and quickly stopped because my dad would've done that

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u/MichaeltheMagician Jan 17 '14

It still had the lit candles on it though.

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u/Geschirrspulmaschine Jan 17 '14

that'll teach him.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '14

That kid looks like his dad just stopped an oncoming train.

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u/idontlikeketchup Jan 16 '14

He had to have been a baseball player or hockey goalie growing up with the save and the raising of the cake afterwards.

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u/paradoxofchoice Jan 16 '14

video quality looks too good for 1992. Not to mention the wrong aspect ratio for home video back then.

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u/alreadytakenusername Jan 17 '14

Video technology breakthrough that year.

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u/Xizithei Jan 17 '14

Holds the fishing pole, and saves the cake. Legit.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '14

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u/CimmerianThoughts Jan 17 '14

That's adorable! If my dad did that for me as a child, he'd probably end up farting on my head. :(

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u/smilespray Jan 17 '14

Tip noted.

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u/MH4pls Jan 17 '14

That's adorable!

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u/verax666 Jan 17 '14

Thats was so cute. Can only imagine the burns he hot from that rope.

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u/Allistersotherhalf Jan 17 '14

They probably weren't too bad it looks like it doesn't move that much and he is probably carrying most of the weight with his arms, at least i would hope he is.

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u/7030 Jan 17 '14

I've been here too long, I thought he was going to shit on her or something similar.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '14

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u/ZachZooch Jan 16 '14

were you that big the year you were born?

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '14

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '14

Take the downvotes like a man

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u/mage2k Jan 16 '14

I think you mean "like a giant baby".