Comments on: Qualified LOL

By: padraig

padraig — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:50:44 +0000

Maybe he’ll use the Thompson Twins and be forced to explain why there were three of them?

By: James Pollock

James Pollock — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:24:52 +0000

Even if a modern 16-year-old recognizes Cher as a singer (and not an actress) they probably don’t know that Sonny married her while she was still a teenager.

By: Powers

Powers — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:03:30 +0000

$27 for a haircut? Yikes!

I would think most modern 16-year-olds would at least know who Cher is.

By: Kamino Neko

Kamino Neko — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:04:35 +0000

turquoise - seems to be a ‘which kid’ thing, although even accounting for that it’s not quite the same thing. Mrs D doesn’t like Toni, because she’s afraid she might hurt Brad. Mr D doesn’t seem hostile to Quill, he just doesn’t want him and Luann to have privacy to prevent hanky panky. Completely different kinds of overprotectiveness. And both kind of annoying.

By: CIDU Bill

CIDU Bill — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:45:15 +0000

Tom, this was all done at his friend’s house. Not my problem. And as it turned out, I might not have cared about my son’s haircut, but his friend did catch hell for the mess.

As it happens, a month or so ago during a bbq at our home, my son and some of his cohorts decided that another friend needed his head shaved. I made them take the project to the street in front of our house, next to a handy storm drain.

By: turquoise cow

turquoise cow — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:41:58 +0000

Yeah, Sonny and Cher are a little more famous (if not more recent) than the Captain and Tenille. Despite the fact that they haven’t recorded music together for quite some time, both went on to have relatively recent appearances in the public eye - Cher as a solo artist, and Sonny as a politician, and then because of his untimely death. Though I know who the Captain and Tenille are, I can’t name any of their songs off the top of my head, and I can’t recall any news about them after the end of their singing career. (I’m assuming it ended…)

While I am as annoyed as CIDU Bill about Mr. DG’s attitude, I’m surprised that he and his wife appear to have switched sides on this argument. Seems to me that it was previously Mrs. D who was making a big stink about who their children spent time with of the opposite sex, while Mr. D had a more relaxed attitude - or was that just in regards to Brad, and they switch roles for their daughter?

By: James Pollock

James Pollock — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:21:36 +0000

I understand this one completely, and Dad isn’t pouting about anything. Dad knows that Luann is 16 and will be making her own decisions soon. He’s trying to get in some last-minute guidance because he knows that flatly telling her what to do rarely works on 16-year-old daughters. So he gives her the freedom to choose for herself, while also making his position clear… or at least, clear to people who remember Sonny, Cher, Toni Tenille, and the Captain.

By: Sili

Sili — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:11:51 +0000

at least the Captain and Tenille aren’t listed in the Urban Dictionary.

Yet.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:49:19 +0000

Or NOT use the good towels when performing such hair acts!

By: CIDU Bill

CIDU Bill — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:20:58 +0000

Tom, the hair thing never really bothered me. When my older son was 16, he had his friend shave his head the night before Halloween. His friend told him “You dad’s going to be angry,” and my son assured him I wouldn’t care.

The only part that bothered me was that I’d just paid $27 for a haircut for him three days earlier, and why couldn’t he have come up with this stunt before that?