Category Archives: Funny

Home Alone Dad

Frum enjoys being able to be himself at least for a few days, which involves listening to audio books non-stop without being ridiculed by his teenage son. … You can’t say women are more aggressive or pushy; they just often push hard on the stuff they want, much of which might seem irrational to us. Frum ends his observations with this gem: A rewrite of a slogan often seen on kids’ sweatshirts aptly sums up the relationship between the male animal and his spouse: She’s not bossy.

I’d swear by it!

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Man-Babies!

File this under: “What will they think of 200805291228.jpg next, and why can’t I think of goofy ideas like this to make a few bucks? ManBabies.com does a mashup of your baby’s head and yours to create an arresting combination. 200805291227.jpg It’s too bad200805291231.jpg you can’t upload your own photos and instantly make a “man-baby,” but you have to “submit your photos” via email and wait/hope to be chosen.

If you’ve ever thought about getting a sex chair…

Perhaps, as Lori Jakiela writes in this “Modern Love” column, the purchase of such a chair can bring excitement into the sex life of middle-age parents…. [From The Plain, Unmarked Box Arrived - New York Times ] This is an astonishing, and funny read, if only for the insights into other peoples’ parental lives as they struggle to do what all of us do: shoehorn in moments of intimacy (sexual or otherwise) between bathing, feeding, and getting them to stay put in their little beds.

Making time for sex that doesn’t turn into sleeping

And I’m sure they’re laughing at us. It might be about fatigue from work or from cleaning, wiping, and feeding, but even sex-wild couples find themselves falling asleep in the run-up to sex after babies. That’s why smart sex-starved dads know there is no such thing as “let me just lie down with the kids a few minutes,” or “after we watch this one show,” or “just let me finish this one chapter in my book.”

Give it up for our friends at DadLabs.

It’s hard for dads to get a little love around the house, say nothing to getting appreciation on YouTube, so do them a favor and take a second to give DadLabs 5 stars on the YouTube site. DadLabs now has 179 videos on YouTube, during most of which they keep their clothes on. This video is on baby sitters, from using grandma to getting permission from a new mom to actually use one and go out.

Double dipping – the risk finally quantified

In case you missed it, the New York Times did a story on the phenomenon known as “double-dipping, “made famous by The Seinfeld Show This is when you dip a chip into a dip, and then dip into the dip again with the same end of the chip, thereby polluting the entire bowl of dip with your used chip.

…”I like to say it’s like kissing everybody at the party — if you’re double dipping, you’re putting some of your bacteria in that dip,” Dawson said.