Five People I Wished Were My Dad When I Was A Kid
Steve Douglas (Fred MacMurray on My Three Sons)
Evel Knievel
Captain Kangaroo
James Bond
Paul Lynde (yeah, I know – but at the time …)
Five Things My Father Never Taught Me
How to ride a bike
How to fish
How to manage my finances
The birds and the bees
How to find him when he went away
Five Dad Cliches
I don’t pay to heat the whole neighborhood.
Because I say so!
Go ask your mother.
I brought you into this world – I can take you out!
Let’s not tell your mom about this, okay?
Five of My Favorite Fathers
Father Time
Father Ted
Father Christmas
Father Guido Sarducci
Father Goose
Five Fictional Characters with Severe Daddy Issues
Oedipus
Hamlet
Luke Skywalker
The singer of Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone
The Huxtable Kids (totally in retrospect, of course)