10 simple rules for dating my teenage daughter...

rh71

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*DADDY'S TEN DATING RULES*
[Guys take note.]

*Rule One:
If you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure not picking anything up.

*Rule Two:
You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter's body, I will remove them.

*Rule Three:
I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don't take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose this compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes to big, and I will not object. However, in order to ensure that your clothes do not, in fact come off during the course of you date with my daughter, I will take my electric nail gun and fasten your trousers securely in place to your waist.

*Rule Four:
I'm sure you've been told that in today's world, sex without utilizing a "Barrier method" of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate, when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you.

*Rule Five:
It is usually understood that in order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is: "early"

*Rule Six:
I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make you cry.

*Rule Seven:
As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating girls, you should try boys instead. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process than can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don't you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car?

*Rule Eight:
The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to introduce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka -- zipped up to her throat. Movies with a strong romantic or sexual theme are to be avoided; movies which features chain saws are okay. Hockey games are okay. Old folks homes are better.

*Rule Nine:
Do not lie to me. I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been. But on issues relating to my daughter, I am the all-knowing, merciless God of your universe. If I ask you where you are going and with whom, you have one chance to tell me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind the house. Do not trifle with me.

*Rule Ten:
Be afraid. Be very afraid. It takes very little for me to mistake the sound of your car in the driveway for a chopper coming in over a rice paddy near Hanoi. When my Agent Orange starts acting up, the voices in my head frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my daughter home. As soon as you pull into the driveways you should exit the car with both hands in plain sight. Speak the perimeter password, announce in a clear voice that you have brought my daughter homesafely and early, then return to your car -- there is no need for you to come inside. The camouflaged face at the window is mine.
 

Kenazo

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my father- in-law gave me that exact list the very first time I came over to their place. I'd been dating her for about 1/2 month and hadn't met her dad yet. He turned out to be 6'2", about 240lbs w/ a big handle bar mustache... then he pulls out this list yet. If he hadn't started laughing i think i might have turned around and walked out the door.
 

stev0

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Originally posted by: Kenazo
my father- in-law gave me that exact list the very first time I came over to their place. I'd been dating her for about 1/2 month and hadn't met her dad yet. He turned out to be 6'2", about 240lbs w/ a big handle bar mustache... then he pulls out this list yet. If he hadn't started laughing i think i might have turned around and walked out the door.

roofles!!! :D
 

Ryan

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Haha - I laught every time I see this, but then I think this:

1 rule at ATOT:

1) Don't post things that have been floating around the internet since 1999 (there's a 99.675% chance they have already been posted). :p
 

Kenazo

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The average blue whale produces
over 400 gallons of sperm when it
ejaculates, but only 10% of that
actually makes it into his mate. So
360 gallons are spilled into the
ocean everytime one unloads, and
you wonder why the ocean is so
salty...


rbloedow, that's quite the sig. :confused: that whale has some awful aim.
 

Zugzwang152

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Originally posted by: Kenazo
my father- in-law gave me that exact list the very first time I came over to their place. I'd been dating her for about 1/2 month and hadn't met her dad yet. He turned out to be 6'2", about 240lbs w/ a big handle bar mustache... then he pulls out this list yet. If he hadn't started laughing i think i might have turned around and walked out the door.

hehe my gf's dad is just like that...fortunately for me we like the same stuff, and he's pretty cool (still try to avoid him, as he's a guy whose bigger and stronger than me)
 

rh71

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Aug 28, 2001
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John Ritter... I wonder if you're the only one who got that when I posted it with this title. Anyway, it was meant to be a time-killing read (like that "And you thought you knew everything" list)... I couldn't care less about reposts. Really.
 

Mutilator

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Originally posted by: Kenazo
my father- in-law gave me that exact list the very first time I came over to their place. I'd been dating her for about 1/2 month and hadn't met her dad yet. He turned out to be 6'2", about 240lbs w/ a big handle bar mustache... then he pulls out this list yet. If he hadn't started laughing i think i might have turned around and walked out the door.
Was he laughing at the list, the look on your face, or that growing wet spot on the front of your pants? ;)


 

wfbberzerker

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Apr 12, 2001
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Originally posted by: rbloedow
Haha - I laught every time I see this, but then I think this:

1 rule at ATOT:

1) Don't post things that have been floating around the internet since 1999 (there's a 99.675% chance they have already been posted). :p

sadly, i would believe that you actually calculated this.
 

XZeroII

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Sadly, this is Copyright W Bruce Cameron. He wrote 8 simple rules for dating my teenage daughter. I am a huge fan of his and hate it when people don't award credit where it's due. Here is the original...
LInk
I have been reading his internet column for years and must say that he is an incredibly funny guy.


For those who can't view the link because of work...



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Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter


Copyright 1998 W. Bruce Cameron
Please do not remove the copyright from this essay

When I was in high school I used to be terrified of my girlfriend's father, who I believe suspected me of wanting to place my hands on his daughter's chest. He would open the door and immediately affect a good-naturedly murderous expression, holding out a handshake that, when gripped, felt like it could squeeze carbon into diamonds.

Now, years later, it is my turn to be the dad. Remembering how unfairly persecuted I felt when I would pick up my dates, I do my best to make my daughter's suitors feel even worse. My motto: wilt them in the living room and they'll stay wilted all night.

"So," I'll call out jovially. "I see you have your nose pierced. Is that because you're stupid, or did you merely want to APPEAR stupid?"

As a dad, I have some basic rules, which I have carved into two stone tablets that I have on display in my living room.

Rule One: If you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure as heck not picking anything up.


Rule Two: You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter's body, I will remove them.


Rule Three: I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don't take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose this compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes too big, and I will not object. However, In order to assure that your clothes do not, in fact, come off during the course of your date with my daughter, I will take my electric staple gun and fasten your trousers securely in place around your waist.


Rule Four: I'm sure you've been told that in today's world, sex without utilizing a "barrier method" of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate: when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I WILL kill you.


Rule Five: In order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is "early."


Rule Six: I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make YOU cry.


Rule Seven: As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process which can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don't you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car?


Rule Eight: The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places lacking parents, policemen, or nuns. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to induce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka zipped up to her chin. Movies with a strong romantic or sexual theme are to be avoided; movies which feature chainsaws are okay. Hockey games are okay.


My daughter claims it embarrasses her to come downstairs and find me attempting to get her date to recite these eight simple rules from memory. I'd be embarrassed too--there are only eight of them, for crying out loud! And, for the record, I did NOT suggest to one of these cretins that I'd have these rules tattooed on his arm if he couldn't remember them. (I checked into it and the cost is prohibitive.) I merely told him that I thought writing the rules on his arm with a ball point might be inadequate?ink washes off?and that my wood burning set was probably a better alternative.

One time, when my wife caught me having one of my daughter's would-be suitors practice pulling into the driveway, get out of the car, and go up to knock on the front door (he had violated rule number one, so I figured he needed to run through the drill a few dozen times) she asked me why I was being so hard on the boy. "Don't you remember being that age?" she challenged.

Of course I remember. Why do you think I came up with the eight simple rules?
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Miramonti

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Originally posted by: XZeroII
Sadly, this is Copyright W Bruce Cameron.
Its also been posted here previously many times, including once by dafatha00, ffcobalt, Ulfwald, warcleric, and Sacotool. :)
 

bunker

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I have a 9 month old daughter. In about.....18 years (when I finally let her start dating) I'll have laminated copies of this to hand out.

;)
 

UltraQuiet

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Well, setting copyright infringement and repost etiquette aside, I thought it was a funny list and it was the first time I read it.

I'm really glad I have 2 sons and no daughters.
 

rh71

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Originally posted by: DaveSohmer
Well, setting copyright infringement and repost etiquette aside, I thought it was a funny list and it was the first time I read it.

I'm really glad I have 2 sons and no daughters.
Would be an interesting case of double standards if you did have a daughter eh ? Your boys can stay out till whenever and your daughter would be on a leash...

What's a parent to do... ?
 

DoNotDisturb

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Originally posted by: rbloedow
Haha - I laught every time I see this, but then I think this:

1 rule at ATOT:

1) Don't post things that have been floating around the internet since 1999 (there's a 99.675% chance they have already been posted). :p


i agree.
 

LeStEr

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Originally posted by: DoNotDisturb
Originally posted by: rbloedow
Haha - I laught every time I see this, but then I think this:

1 rule at ATOT:

1) Don't post things that have been floating around the internet since 1999 (there's a 99.675% chance they have already been posted). :p


i agree.

Agreed