"You are going to be in so much trouble when Dad gets home!" we shouted, and in response my mother pulled the drapes.
'You are going to be in so much trouble when Dad gets home!' we shouted, and in response my mother pulled the drapes.
He died in 2007, but his son heard about his time at the convention: I remember my mom telling us with glee how she got in big trouble with Dad at the 1960 convention.
This was not, as the commentary made clear, casual racism, but an Abbott and Costello reference (kids, I promise you, you will not have to trouble your dad again), something in which modern football coverage is sadly deficient.
Another long passage, including a song lampooning "The Freedom of the Press," finds the big bad industrialist pulling the strings at the local paper, as Editor Daily (Judy Kuhn, chomping a cigar convincingly) kowtows with a smile, arranging for Mr. Mister's son (a simpering Henry Stram) to be shipped off to Honolulu as a reporter, to keep him from causing trouble for Dad at home.
To keep him out of trouble his dad pushed Jimmy to go to a BizCamp when he was 16. "It changed my life," he says.
I was in such a sorry state I didn't even get into trouble; my dad never brought it up again and I spent two more days in bed throwing up and barely able to eat, with low-level alcohol poisoning.
You'll forgive my cynicism; I was just reminded that women will make two million dollars LESS in their lifetimes than their male colleagues, so I'm having a lot of trouble with dads feeling left out of much of anything.
They're right: Boys are more likely to get into trouble without a dad at home, and we have a major problem with the irresponsibility of young men who conceive babies but don't raise them.
In the fourth round, where Graf met Mary Pierce, the girl who is under physical threat from her own father, Graf, who has had dad trouble of her own, displayed the pitilessness of the champion.
