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Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Happy Father's Day

fahim mohammed

fahim mohammed

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To all my dear friends ( male and female ) at OPF.

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Take care.
 
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Ken Tanaka

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Hey, drinking that stuff almost led me to fatherhood many years ago. Whew! Fortunately I managed to steer clear. Today I read that men are becoming quaint and obsolete drains on women and children. So it looks like I made the right choice, after all.

But, hey, back to the sentiment. Happy Fathers Day to you, Fahim. And to the many proud (and apparently not-yet-obsolete) pappas who nearly single-handedly support the prosumer segment of camera market by snapping billions of personally-special-but-generally-awful shots of their kids doing everything imaginable, then taking bows on photo sites. PRINT THOSE SHOTS! That's positively the only way (a) they'll have any chance of preservation to your kids' adulthood, and (b) that's the only form of evidence of fatherhood that will be admissable in most divorce proceedings.

OK, snarkiness, aside, Happy Daddy Day guys.
 
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Rachel Foster

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Shame on you, Ken! Quaint and obsolete? Well, at least not until after the genetic donation is made! All joking aside, you'll find few people who actually believe that crap.

P.S., I guess this means you're not available to babysit on our next trip to Chicago?
 
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Ken Tanaka

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Rachel...really, I just read the headline piece in the current Atlantic Monthly in which the author uses a fairly extensive (altough some dicey) studies that portray a bleak future for men, particularly in the lower s-e quartiles, and an inversely brave new world for women. Here, again, I think I arrived too late. I blew all of that money and energy on education and career-building when I might have been able to have devoted myself to becoming a jiggolo.

Re: babysitting, I reply by citing a comedy skit I saw many years ago in which a journalist is interviewing the infamous former Ugandan military dictator Idi Amin Dada.

Journalist: Mr. Dada, it's been rumored that you don't like children. Is this true?

Dada: This is nonsense. I LOVE children! In fact, I had two for breakfast today!
 
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Rachel Foster

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Haaaaaaaaaaaa! It's never too late, Ken... Re the Atlantic Monthly: Susan Faludi's message in Backlash is as timely today as it was in 1991. She points out how "research" is misstated and bastardized by the press to sell papers/magazines, etc.

As to Journalist and Dada...Methinks Mr. Tanaka might be the main course when it comes to my two spawn.
 
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Ken Tanaka

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Rachel Foster said:
As to Journalist and Dada...Methinks Mr. Tanaka might be the main course when it comes to my two spawn.
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To that I offer no challenge. I always consider myself fortunate after visiting with my niece and nephew. I'm certain that my niece (who's now 20) could have spent two decades wiping the floor with me for any whim.
 
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Rachel Foster

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Do you perchance play chess?

I cancelled our cable TV today. The children suggested we use the $100.00/month savings to visit Chicago. My son plays chess...you are hereby challenged!
 
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Ken Tanaka

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Not for many years...since I was in my late teens/early 20's.

But if your son really plays serious chess and your visit lands during the summer or early fall I know two good places for him to get some exercise.

Each summer and early fall there's been a touch & go chess match stand on Michigan Avenue, usually near the Art Institute. Nothing fancy, just good ol' chess matches for small donations. (No betting allowed.) The fellow on the left (below) operates the tables and takes on all challengers. He can really collect a crowd during good matches. He loves chess.

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Then, of course, there's the famous chess pavilion at North Avenue Beach. (Found a photo on a Flickr page.) These are permanent, sheltered concrete chess tables open to all. There are a few -regulars- who take on the world. But I've seen just as many complete pick-up matches erupt spontaneously there, too.
 
fahim mohammed

fahim mohammed

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Asher, Rachel, Ken...My good friends. Thank you for joining me.

Chess...that is serious stuff. Castles, Knights, Bishops etc. serious stuff. I have seen what they can do.
I stay away from mind games. They can become more than games. No?

Me, I am a simple person. Like to sit with three friends, enjoy their company, have fun, talk about
simple stuff. laugh a little. Others are already playing their chess games. Let's watch.

Will be interesting. I know the outcome. I might have cheated. I read History. All 10,000 years of it.
But it is mainly related to my part of world. So I could be wrong.

Here's to Asher, Ken and my beautiful friend Rachel...

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Bernard is getting my Perrier. Shall I pour?
 
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