This Sunday, half of the parents across the country will be hoping for breakfast in bed and to be showered with gifts, yes, it’s Father’s Day.
You can tell it isn’t Mother’s Day, bins of discounted socks and car wash gift packs confront you in every shop. Don’t worry the kids and I have managed to resist such blatant marketing.
Fortunately, we have also managed to resist buying anything actually dangerous. Unfortunately the sons of Frank Roots of Ohio didn’t really think through their gift back in 1953.
They got their dad a two-foot alligator for Fathers Day…
That can’t go well, can it? I have to say that Frank took to their present more amiably than you would expect, tickling its tummy. Obviously the alligator gift wasn’t wrapped tightly enough, and what should have been a happy Fathers Day ended in hospital with a nipped nose. Thanks for nothing, kids!
The Courier-Mail 22 Jun 1953 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50560065
What would we do without our dads? I for one would have never been introduced to science fiction, giving me a love of it that has never left.
I was taken to the cinema to see Star Wars at a very early age (the Wampa gave me nightmares for years). Since then Dad and I have seen every movie in the franchise at the cinema together, not all of them have been good, as we all know, but the tradition remains.
Because of our shared love of sci-fi the rest of the family had to endure watching those cheesy seventies sci-fi television series, Star Trek, Buck Rodgers, Battlestar Galactica, Land of the Giants…. oh, there were so many!
For flashback purposes and your (very dubious) pleasure, here is the intro to Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century. So cheesy, I can almost hear the mice….
And of course my personal favourite, the classic Battlestar Galactica;
Happy Fathers Day to all you Dads out there. Have a great day. 😀
Buried words and Bushwa. 
That’s so true, and I’m guessing where I got my love of westerns from, and dubious comedies. Dad & I laughed through Benny Hill, Paul Hogan, re-runs of Dad’s Army etc… even Dave Allen although I may have been a bit young.
We don’t always manage to catch up with my Dad on Fathers Day but this year I got organised and made plans to drive the couple of hours up to Dad’s on Saturday after the G.O. finished work, but my Dad true to being a good Dad rang last night and gave us an out option because my stepmother has the dreaded lurgy… so we’ve postponed.
I hope you have a great day enjoying it with the dads in your life 🙂
It is the new way of the world isn’t it? Bonding over tv shows and movies. I am very excited that Doctor Who is on at 7.30 every night at the moment (finishing most perfectly at the boys bedtime of 8.30). The kids and I have been watching it religiously, to the point where we have raced home from something to be there on time. We are starting our own new tradition! 😀
I hope your belated Fathers Day is a good one too, whenever you get to have it. 🙂
I don’t remember much of Battle Star Galactica but I was most definitely a Star Wars fan – version 1 at least. I was also a Star Trek fan – how could I not love Spock? Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there. 🙂
And who would have thought the character of Spock would be so beloved and long-lived? 😀
lol – you’re right! I’m sure he was only created to be a foil for the Shatner character. It’s amazing what a terrible haircut, pointy ears and a poh face can do. 😀
Get me a crocodile sandwich and make it snappy!
Chomp chomp!
Sorry Lorne Greene was on our screens for so long in Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica was like Bonanza in Space. I kept expecting Adam, Hoss or Little Joe to pop up.( We were close with Adamus weren’t we). Planet of the Apes and Buck Rogers always good for a laugh though.
xxx Huge Hugs xxx
The Man and I watched some of Buck Rodgers fairly recently. It was a lesson to me, never go back…… 😉
Hugs to you, and happy first Pops Day to you. 😀
Among other things, I got my love of Bugs Bunny from my dad, who used to watch the same cartoons when he was a kid, although he saw them at the theater whereas I watched them on the television.
I got to say, any kid who would get their dad a gator is a pretty cool kid in my book. 😉
I bet their mum wasn’t so pleased about it, especially when she was left at home to deal with it while he was off getting patched up. 🙂
And isn’t that the way it usually is? 😉