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Funny parenting moments, or funny growing up in the 80’s moments. Being a skank, a dumbass, a dummy, that stuff.

About 15 years ago, my dad gave me a four-page article on procrastination. I assume that it outlined some common reasons why people procrastinate, and what steps we should take in order to overcome it. I use the word “assume” because I never read it. I never read it and it was only four pages […]

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My father’s father was an engineer and an inventor. He made, and lost, millions of dollars during his lifetime through a variety of business ventures.  I remember my dad and I having a conversation when I was about 13 years old about what I wanted to be when I grew up. Back then, I wanted […]

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It’s funny to think back and feel like the year 2000 wasn’t very long ago, and then realize that the freak-out over Y2K ended more than 13 years ago. I remember 1999. People were worried that the world would end due to a computer overtaking us because we were too dumb to realize that the whole […]

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Ah, the 80’s.  They were a time in my life that brought so much remembered change. They seemed to last forever. (Insert Bryan Adam’s Summer of 69 here). From 1979 and having braless nub-boobs to 1989 when I was old enough to drink 3.2 beer legally. Good times. 1980-1982: Middle school. Puberty. My last year […]

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Remember Simon and Garfunkel?  They were awesome, huh?  Bridge Over Troubled Water was one of my favorites, ever. Here’s a little story for you about two dudes in the 70’s – I imagine they were listening to this song while having the following conversation. “Hey Pal, what’s up?” the guy in the stunning purple bell […]

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Man, the 70’s were like a Petri dish of bad taste.  Seriously, avocado and marigold yellow were the only acceptable modern color choices for the gigantic appliances that dominated an already vomit-ugly kitchen?  What’s up with that?  Plaid high-water pants were in, as were ugly shoes and Winnie-the-Pooh raincoats.  Well, maybe they weren’t actually “in” […]

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