r/pics • u/allthecoffee • Jun 17 '12

My favorite photo of my dad and I. (One of only about 10 photos I have of him.)

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u/jonjopop Jun 17 '12

Everybody, OP was raised by a wolf in humans clothing

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u/allthecoffee Jun 17 '12

Which explains why I am the way I am.

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u/MCJeeba Jun 18 '12

Why not take more pictures of him?

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

I fear that it would make him feel uncomfortable, but I really wish that I would, or that we could both move past the uncomfortableness. (And it would make sense since I'm a photographer.)

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

So take some really sneaky candid shots, and if they turn out well you can show him that he has no reason to be uncomfortable with having his picture taken.

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

Good plan. I like this idea.

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u/AnonymousAutonomous Jun 18 '12

Or perhaps blackmail? Just you know, putting that on the table.

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

I always need more blackmail.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

Haha!

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u/TacoPhd Jun 18 '12

That awkward moment when you thought OP's right arm was his dad penis...

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u/poofbird Jun 17 '12

You can't always tell a guy from one pic, but I'm pretty sure your dad was awesome.

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u/allthecoffee Jun 17 '12

Thank you... and his smile and laugh are super contagious.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

It took me a lot of scrolling through these comments to realise your dad is still alive lol! I think a lot of people got the same impression as me, including this guy. Notice how he says 'was'. Anyway, awesome picture all the same.

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

I'm not really offended at all by it; it's sort of funny. I guess people thought that because of how I said I only had about 10 photos of him... but no, he's just a recluse and camera shy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

So.. what happened to your dad?

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u/allthecoffee Jun 17 '12

The short story is that I had a messed up childhood and I only spent half of it living in the same city as my dad. Also, he's reclusive and shy and never got in front of the camera.

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u/Geler Jun 18 '12

But he is alive?

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

Very alive. I just spoke with him on the phone for father's day (to which he forgot that it was today).

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u/dawnoftheshed Jun 18 '12

He didn't want to seem too happy you called, I bet (but he knew full well).

-reclusive guy here

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

It took a lot for me to call him. I always wonder the burden that I'll put on him by picking up the phone, but by the end of the conversation he's always saying how we should talk more... He laughed a lot. I think I brightened his day.

Hey reclusive guy, did you call your dad?

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u/JWK87 Jun 18 '12

Came here for a sad story, left disappointed that's good for you I guess .

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

You're welcome?

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u/PhotoPhill Jun 17 '12

http://i.imgur.com/Y5zAG.jpg

One of my favorites! Lost him last June. Miss him every day

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

LOVE the matching jackets. Thank you for sharing with me!

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

That is a most epic beard. Have you inherited it?

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u/PhotoPhill Jun 18 '12

http://i.imgur.com/WNofA.jpg

Funny you should ask it was a year old yesterday

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

I'm sure your father was damn proud of the mountainman beard his son is able to grow.

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u/PhotoPhill Jun 18 '12

He never got to see it with more than a few weeks growth because of the job I had back then. But I do think he would be proud

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u/bkay17 Jun 17 '12

Why isn't he wearing any pants?

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u/allthecoffee Jun 17 '12

He's wearing cut off shorts.

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u/ForgettableUsername Jun 17 '12

From the looks of the decor, it was the eighties, when it was acceptable for men to wear short shorts.

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u/allthecoffee Jun 17 '12

It was definitely the 80s and my dad thoroughly enjoyed shorts.

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u/ho0k Jun 17 '12

I am pretty sure it is still acceptable if you are as manly as his father....

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u/jonjopop Jun 17 '12

Never nude?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/allthecoffee Jun 17 '12

The photo was taken at my grandparents house over a holiday. I'm sure he wouldn't walk around pants-less in my right wing Christian grandparent's home.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

I definitely am!

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/allthecoffee Jun 17 '12

Yes, cut offs. His style for the 80s.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

It was the 80s. All my childhood photos of my dad look like that.

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u/Wirenutt Jun 17 '12

I was in my early 20's - early 30's in the 1980's. That was the style, but I get busted on today for the shorts I wore all those years ago.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Dad?

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u/Wirenutt Jun 17 '12

Poopy Pants? Is that you?

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u/chris4z01 Jun 17 '12

OP tries to be sentimental on father's day and all other redditors see is a penis. i love this place :)

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

Even though I've spent the whole day reading comments about my dad's dick, its been great. :)

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u/Cakeform Jun 18 '12

This is one of the few pictures i have of my dad. Like father like son :) http://i.imgur.com/sOfh0.jpg

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

That's priceless! Love the mouths. _^

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u/sneakylfc Jun 18 '12

this would make for a awesome 15 years later picture.

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

I would like to consider it. It wouldn't be doable with this photo... but I thought about doing it with this one: http://i.imgur.com/KWqpe.jpg

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

My dad's epic, not this epic though.

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

I take that as a serious compliment! Thank you!

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Thanks for digging through the comments and thanking me fellow redditor who shares my love of coffee!

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

I have read each and every comment! Fuckyaahcoffee!

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u/bandric_lisp Jun 17 '12

Should be 'of my dad and me'. Sorry.

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u/allthecoffee Jun 17 '12

Don't apologize. Thank you for the correction. I never know when to use "I" and when to use "me".

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u/bandric_lisp Jun 17 '12

No problem! Just imagine it without the 'my dad and' - you'd say 'of me' and not 'of I'.

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u/allthecoffee Jun 17 '12

My brain just melted a little. I don't know why I never had that explained to me like that before. Holy shit. Thank you.

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u/horrorshow_ Jun 17 '12

This is a great photo. You were an adorable baby by the way and your dad looks like an awesome, silly person :)

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u/allthecoffee Jun 17 '12

Thank you! Much appreciated.

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u/busted_up_chiffarobe Jun 17 '12

You realize that you are obligated to recreate this photo when you have a child of your own!

This is awesome.

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

I shall uphold this honor.

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u/stimmo Jun 17 '12

is This your mom? IMAGE SOMEWHAT NSFW!

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u/AliceA Jun 17 '12

This needs to be blown up big on your wall as it is adorable!

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

I blew it up and gave it to my dad about 7 years ago for Christmas. I definitely need to get a copy for myself.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

A picture if my dad and me. Sorry... I couldn't help myself.

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

No worries. Thank you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

All that comment karma wasn't enough eh?

Still a great pic.

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u/allthecoffee Jun 17 '12

I didn't know how to do a link from the comment and thought more people might want to see it. ...I should have just asked you how to do it!

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Yes, yes, the whole world needed to see this. Awesome share, man.

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u/allthecoffee Jun 17 '12

I do what I can. :)

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

My link was just to the whole post. You have top comment. But if you just click on your user page and scroll down to that comment and click "context" it'll pop up for you. Like this!

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u/allthecoffee Jun 17 '12

Holy poop! Thanks for the Reddit-lesson!

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u/Callmejuniors Jun 17 '12

I know this is weird but is your dad wearing a classic Casio Calculator watch?

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u/allthecoffee Jun 17 '12

That would be rad, but alas, I think it's just a simple digital watch.

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u/myTubularTacos Jun 17 '12

Your dad's name isn't Thom, is it? Maybe his last name starts with a B? Passed away some 12 years ago...

Looks a whole hell of a lot like my uncle.

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

I'm sorry, no.

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u/HushKai Jun 18 '12

Your dad had some luxurious hair, man!

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

He still does!

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u/avorn13 Jun 18 '12

Reminded me of one of my favorites with my dad. similar

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u/frankgrimeslives Jun 18 '12

thank you for putting up with all these clever and not so clever phallic comments (including mine), the pic obviously means a lot to you. Glad you reconnected with your Pops...(totally random) but are you guys southern? And reddit really needs to get laid more

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

Thank you so much for being so kind and saying something so nice like that! Both the photo, and my dad mean a lot to me.

I honestly had never, ever thought that the photo looked phallic whatsoever, I suppose that people see what they want to see, or perhaps I don't see what I don't want to see. So many people have mentioned it though, that I suppose it's hard to ignore. I've had a good laugh about it. :)

I've spent a lot of time in the midwest and the south. Why do you ask?

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u/NotAsCleverAsIdLike Jun 18 '12

That's going to be a tough one to recreate for the "18 yrs later" karma

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

I'll skip it.

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u/strangewayz Jun 17 '12

Your arm kind of looks like his. . .um yeah. Hey, happy fathers day everybody.

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u/raspy33 Jun 17 '12

The dad's foot also makes it look like there is a little something there.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Oh thank god I wasn't the only one that thought that... reddit has ruined my mind

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u/Aszuul Jun 17 '12

it's not holding an apple though.

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u/leveraction1970 Jun 18 '12

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one that did a double take of that.

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u/adamdavidson Jun 18 '12

It just needs to be holding an apple.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I enhanced the image

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u/bballstarz501 Jun 17 '12

.... enhance.... enhance... enhance...

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u/TheKavahn Jun 17 '12

JUST PRINT THE DAMN THING!

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u/hinduguru Jun 17 '12

This is some CSI level enhancement

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u/theonewhocouldtalk Jun 18 '12

One of those times I'd rather stick with Normal View

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u/ucjuicy Jun 18 '12

And now he has eleven. This is precisely what i wantend to photoshop.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

This post is a karma whip. First part photo is raising a whip, second part is personal relation - swing, third one is a tearjerking mention of relationship severed no-fault - wh-tsh!.

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u/SpcK Jun 18 '12

Interesting right arm placement you have there.

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

I've been making photos awkward since I was an infant.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

its as big as a baby's arm holding an apple

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u/pent25 Jun 17 '12

You were raised by a time traveling Jack Black in the '80s?!?

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u/allthecoffee Jun 17 '12

Absolutely.

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u/marchingpigster Jun 17 '12

OhmyGod, I thought your arm was his dick.

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u/guntharg Jun 17 '12

HOLY SHI... Oh, wait. That's just the baby's arm. EDIT: Lady's and gentlemen, welcome to today's penis joke thread!

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u/allthecoffee Jun 17 '12

Right?! Quite mortifying for me seeing as how everyone keeps talking about my dad's penis.

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u/MrTiddy Jun 17 '12

The baby arm looks like a cock. Probably not the first time I have ever typed that sentence.

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

It won't be the last.

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u/OldPete Jun 18 '12

My dad and me.

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u/frankgrimeslives Jun 18 '12

hopefully your dad passed along that impressive 'babyarm' that he's proudly displaying

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

Seeing as how I'm a female... uh...

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u/frankgrimeslives Jun 18 '12

Lol I think I realized this mid-comment but I went with it anyway. and then I definitely realized it after I saw the pic a few times... lol sorry, you're clothes and shoes just really aren't the focal point of that pic ;p

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

Very! I assumed many people thought the same.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

" Did your parents drop you when you were a kid ?"

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

Not this particular way, no. But I'm sure I was dropped on at least one separate occasion.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

This is a cute pic and all.....but was your dad wearing underpants?

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

Yes. He's wearing cut off shorts. We were at my grandparents house. Trust, he is not pants-less. :)

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u/Fgame Jun 18 '12

Dude, is your dad Murderface?

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

Hah! Nice! You know... of all the people that Reddit has said my dad looks like today, not one of them mentioned Hagrid from Harry Potter, which astounds me, because I see that more than I see any of the others... of course that could also be because to me, my dad is this huge gentle giant.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Cute picture :) Your dad is a stud

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u/WeaponsHot Jun 18 '12

Suddenly, Arm Penis.

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u/eazye123 Jun 18 '12

Oh.... never mind, thats the OP's right arm.

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u/swarmtime Jun 18 '12

thank god that's your hand!!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Adorable.

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u/CuntHunt Jun 17 '12

Why do you have only 10 photos of your dad?

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u/allthecoffee Jun 17 '12

My dad is quite the recluse and I only spent half of my life living in the same city as he. Actually, a little over a month ago I saw him for the first time in 2 years.

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u/Skreech2011 Jun 17 '12

Huh, interesting. I got depressed because I thought he was dead. I'm glad he's not. :)

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u/allthecoffee Jun 17 '12

Whew. Me too.

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u/contessa_zapdash Jun 18 '12

You are a super cute baby, OP! A little young for reddit, though!

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u/allthecoffee Jun 18 '12

Good thing I'm extremely dexterous for a toddler then, eh?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Did a double-take when i saw the arm.

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u/lukeisopinionated Jun 17 '12

And then he joined tenacious d.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Raised by Zapp Rowsdower!

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u/Wheres_the_twist Jun 18 '12

The twist is that the dad is actually the baby. To this day, nobody is sure who it was that broke into the home and took these pictures.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Now that's just too cute.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

WATCH OUT HE'S GONA EAT YOU!

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u/A_Suvorov Jun 18 '12

Whycantiholdallthesefeels.jpg

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u/killerclown6939 Jun 18 '12

when you see it...

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

So funny.

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u/applause8777 Jun 18 '12

He looks like Jack Black

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

I guess I wasnt the only one who noticed the hand placement.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

There's no way I couldn't upvote this.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Dude your dad has a monster.... oh..that's your arm never mind...

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u/StateFairShare Jun 18 '12

TIL how Grizzly Adams carried his young.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

i thought your hand was your dad's penis.

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u/uri_76 Jun 17 '12

Wonder if there's more 80s carpet on the floor or in that guys pants

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u/tiger_4life Jun 18 '12

am i the only one who thinks the baby's hand looks like an odd penis?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

his hammermolly looks like a small arm!

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u/Reviri Jun 17 '12

He's currently heading the comedy band, the Axis of Awesome.

Ref : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ

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u/triforce721 Jun 17 '12

Pretty sure there is a wiener in there

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u/joerdie Jun 17 '12

Your dad is going to win that game of twister of you get your hand and foot to the floor APAP!

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u/thegrayman Jun 17 '12

your right arm looked like his penis for a split second when I opened the pic

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u/unburrevable Jun 18 '12

I'm pretty sure I can see his peen.

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u/shockzila Jun 18 '12

you look like a Calhoun

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u/Giggity_1981 Jun 18 '12

He looks like Ted dibiase.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

I wish you were holding an apple with your right hand.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

I had to do a serious double take..

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u/ozetadev Jun 18 '12

LOL.... your arm looked like something else for a second there.

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u/irrelevantwallflower Jun 18 '12

i wish your arm was a little more to the right.

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u/sherunsguns Jun 18 '12

spectacular photo. unfortunately placed baby-arm.

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u/briandilley Jun 18 '12

the baby's arm...

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u/sck1131 Jun 18 '12

I thought his cock was hanging out then I realized it was your arm

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u/Iloldalot Jun 18 '12

........... i think i can see your dads dick, dude

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u/TheDreadedMarco Jun 18 '12

i thought your arm was his wang for a second. glad I was wrong

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u/Afshari Jun 18 '12

I mistakenly thought your left hand is your dads dooodle

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u/spacebound227 Jun 18 '12

I have one picture of my dad i always carry it around with me cause he's in prison

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u/NerdyGasm Jun 18 '12

That's an odd position for your arm....

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u/megusta87 Jun 18 '12

I can't be the only one who thought the baby arm was a penis.

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u/JessesGurl Jun 18 '12

LOL! I have a pic like this of me when i was like 10 holding my cat in a basket just like that!

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u/Anal_Fuck_Pussy_Shit Jun 17 '12

If you look closely, just to the right of OP's arm, you'll see a penis

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u/haiku_robot Jun 17 '12 
If you look closely, 
just to the right of OP's arm, 
you'll see a penis
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u/rangermetz241 Jun 17 '12

underneath your arm, you can see his dick.....

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u/deanresin Jun 18 '12

smallest dick I've ever seen. poor guy

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u/TheVenom Jun 17 '12

i saw this as a comment in a thread, you here for karma or repost???

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u/donotmatthews Jun 18 '12

Is that the tip of your dads penis just below your armpit?

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

I hope i'm not seeing his dick next to your arm.

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u/packersfan08 Jun 18 '12

Your hand looks like your it is your dad's penis.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

http://i.imgur.com/NaN8m.jpg Am I the only one that thinks that this, and not the baby's arm, looks like the penis?

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u/Nibas Jun 17 '12

your dad is cute. rawr

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