BS: Father's Day! your caption

Subject: RE: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: Alice
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 10:54 AM

Frightened? Incorrect punctuation is not a result of being "frightened". Why make this an American insult?

There are regional and national variations in spelling and punctuation. What may not be accepted in one country is correct in another, and language changes over time.

Subject: RE: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 12:48 AM

I don't it's just Americans who put in apostrophes when frightened by a word. I've seen it abroad, as well.

There is even a Swiss family, the Oesch family, who call their band Oesch's die Dritten (meaning the third generation of musical Oesches.)

Subject: RE: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: Alice
Date: 22 Jun 10 - 05:53 PM

I decided to search for the most accepted punctuation of Father's Day and found this. It is Father's Day:

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Although the name of the event is usually understood as a plural possessive (i.e. "day belonging to fathers"), which would under normal English punctuation guidelines be spelled "Fathers' Day", the most common spelling is "Father's Day", as if it were a singular possessive (i.e. "day belonging to Father"). In the United States, Dodd used the "Fathers' Day" spelling on her original petition for the holiday,[2] but the spelling "Father's Day" was already used in 1913 when a bill was introduced to the U.S. Congress as the first attempt to establish the holiday,[5] and it was still spelled the same way when its creator was commended in 2008 by the U.S. Congress.[10] - from answers.com

Subject: RE: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: Alice
Date: 22 Jun 10 - 05:32 PM

Yo Fatha




(there's a critic in every thread)

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: Genie
Date: 22 Jun 10 - 05:09 PM

Sad to say, most often it gets written as "Fathers Day." We Americans have for some time been throwing in apostrophes where they don't belong (e.g., CDs, 1960s, shoe's) and leaving them out when they're called for (e.g., "In the 1960's there were no CD's or iPod's so when it came to kids entertainment, mother's had to rely on the childrens TV show's.) (Sigh)

Subject: RE: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: bubblyrat
Date: 22 Jun 10 - 02:19 PM

Since it concerns ALL fathers,and not just one in particular, I'd start off by calling it " Fathers' Day" , not "Father's Day". OK ??

Subject: RE: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: topical tom
Date: 22 Jun 10 - 01:22 PM

Oops! I dropped my cookie! The last GUEST post is really mine.

Subject: RE: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jun 10 - 01:13 PM

Happy Father's Day, Pop! Stick with me, okay? That'll give us something to chew on.

Subject: RE: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: Genie
Date: 22 Jun 10 - 04:18 AM

You know you've come of age, son, when you've shared a good chew with your old man!

Subject: RE: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: Alice
Date: 22 Jun 10 - 12:10 AM

LOL good one

Subject: RE: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: LadyJean
Date: 22 Jun 10 - 12:08 AM

All dogs are Chewnitarians. They believe that you must know the tooth for the tooth shall make you free.

Subject: RE: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 11:10 PM

Pop, izzit tru we'll go blind?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: Alice
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 08:46 PM

Paul Overstreet lyrics

Last night we brought the children by to visit their Grandpa
And it's plain to see they're truly part of him
While we were there
Their Grandma took out some old photographs
Man, he sure looked a lot like me back then

CHORUS: I'm seein' my father in me
I guess that's how it's meant to be
And I find I'm more and more like him each day
I notice I walk the way he walks
I notice I talk the way he talks
I'm startin' to see my father in me

And today I took my wife for a walk
Down that old dirt road
Where my Daddy took my Mom so many time
And we found the time
To mention things we never had before
And we shared some thoughts about the family life

CHORUS: I'm seein' my father in me
I guess that's how it's meant to be
And I find I'm more and more like him each day
I notice I walk the way he walks
I notice I talk the way he talks
I'm startin' to see my father in me


BRIDGE: And now lookin' back I can recall the times we disagreed
When I could not take hold of his old fashioned ways
And the more I tried to prove him wrong
The more I proved him right
Now I know why he still stood by me
When I went through that stage

Subject: RE: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: kendall
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 01:04 PM

ED T, that is a keeper!

Subject: RE: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: Charley Noble
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 12:50 PM

Bark softly but carry a big stick!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: Alice
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 11:14 AM

humble son of a carpenter

Subject: RE: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 10:45 AM

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.
Thomas Merton

Subject: RE: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: GUEST,Janet
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 07:25 AM

Don't know about this vegetarian thing, Dad. Could we have a real bone next time?

Subject: RE: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 07:09 AM

Dad, better put your denture in if you are going to do this

Subject: RE: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: Alice
Date: 20 Jun 10 - 11:04 PM

and the second little piggy built his house of sticks

Subject: BS: Father's Day! your caption
From: Alice
Date: 20 Jun 10 - 10:11 PM

Dad, I got you this cool stick for Father's Day!

Thank you, son. Best stick EVER!





Alice