Who is your daddy's daddy and what did he do?

[jadinolf]

Mine was a cabinet maker who apparently was very good.

He died around 1920 while in his early thirties. There is doubt about his cause of death.. either the flu or pneumonia. There was no medicine for either.

 

[mindmaniac]

74 years old, he was a detective for the city, also guarded Kennedy when he ran for prez. In the 80s when he retired from the police force he went back to college and got his masters in computers and taught computer programming for another ten years. While doing that he also wrote programming for police stations and does some kind of databasing thing. My dad's dad is pretty cool, and he likes South Park and Family Guy.

 

[UNCjigga]

My dad's dad was a kickboxer in the Air Force town of Ambala, outside Delhi, India. Back then those chaps were pretty hardcore, and my grandfather was forced into retirement when a ruffian sliced off half of his ear. Grandfather was badass though, and his nickname loosly translates as 'The Sting' for the way his opponents went down cold after his quick strikes. He even had a scorpion tattoo on each hand!

Of course, he 'retired' when he was 19. He later went on to be an insurance adjuster and had a great career with a German insurance company (I believe now part of Allianz AG) until they were kicked out of India by the British govt. during WWII (he was sad when he lost his job, and political factors made it hard for him to get back into the industry, so he went into less lucrative private practice work.)

 

[tami]

my daddy's daddy worked in a butcher shop with his two brothers. when one of the brothers died in the 90s of a brain tumor, he "retired" and sold the business. he still works there two days a week though.

oh, and he was born in america, as were the rest of my grandparents.

 

[DaiShan]

He was from a poor southern family, enlisted in the army, and fought in WWII, retired as a colonel, put himself through college while raising my father and his 4 sisters and working a full time job, started real-estate in his early 50's and now has enough money for a 6,000 square foot house in Jupiter, and a new cadilac every year. If I live to be half the man he is, I'll have done very well for myself.

 

[xSauronx]

he was a drycleaner, a car salesmen, something else, and died in a car accident that was his fault back in 2003

 

[BigToque]

I never actually mentioned, but my grandfather created canola oil.

Think about that everytime you use your margarine.

 

[thirdlegstump]

Can't say it without all the asian people getting pissed at me and the rest of my country : )

 

My dad's dad was a photoengraver for the New York Daily News.

He enlisted in the Army when WWII began, and ended up as an OSS officer working in Italy and North Africa creating counterfeit currency to flood and inflate Axis markets. He traveled around with a band of 4 other men, all of whom had specific skills necessary to produce counterfeit currency. 😎

He died in 1987.

 

[ggnl]

They called him Cedar. He was born and died in Noel, MO. He was a typical depression-era farmer. During the worst of it, he pack up the family and moved to Medford, OR. Folllowing the war the grandparents moved back to Noel, but my father stayed in the northwest, where he got married, raised a family, got divorced, got remarried, and eventually raised me.

 

[Soccerman06]

My grandpa is 89 and still shoots under par at golf courses, walking, but he doesnt have enough energy to walk a whole 18 holes. He use to be a resturant owner/cook in the 50s-70s

 

[Fenixgoon]

farmer, WW II vet (dunno how much action he saw, if any), inventor/patent holder

 

[nageov3t]

my paternal grandfather's family has been in Canada since the 1600's; before that, France.

he owned a large printing company in New England before he sold it in the 70's when my dad, the oldest son, refused to take it over. after selling it and retiring, he became a reverand in the local church, used a large chunk of money to build a salvation-army type center in the town where he lived to funnel food, clothing, and toy donations for the poor, and starting doing a lot of missionary work in central america and especially Haiti.

died from cancer in the mid 90's.

 

[Jfrag Teh Foul]

My daddy's daddy did what his daddy did which is the same thing my daddy does.

Autobody/car repair. My family started their business in 1921 and still going today. Not what I do, BTW.

 

[lokiju]

My daddy's daddy served in WWII at the age of 17 then went on to become an engineer for Goodyear and worked there for 40 years until opening up his own electronics repair company after he retired in Akron Ohio before giving that up to move to near Orlando in FL. He's still alive and doing alright for his age and number of heart surgeries he's had.

 

[Muadib]

My grandpa was a baker who had his own shop. He had a 35 yo gf when he died, and he was 90 something.

 

[gar3555]

He was a farmer...He farmed...did it his whole life, until the day he was taken to the nursing home b/c of alzheimers. Same thing for my Great Grandpa...he farmed until he couldn't anymore...my dad is currently doing the same thing...he is 54 now, and probably won't ever retire. Such is the life. I didn't do it, but I respect them for it.

 

[daveymark]

Originally posted by: Muadib
My grandpa was a baker who had his own shop. He had a 35 yo gf when he died, and he was 90 something.

get some

 

[Skyhanger]

My grandpa was a Chinese general who fought the Japs back in WWII. He governed Hunan province for a short time before the commies took over and everyone else escaped to Taiwan. The GMT went broke, he was laid off, and had to live on a crappy military pension. (you were lucky to even have a pension back in those days)

 

[SilverThief]

Originally posted by: mitmot

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
My daddy's daddy was an alcoholic gambler who deserted his wife and two children. He was an A-1 piece of shyt who died alone in a third rate nursing home and that was far too good for his sorry a$$. If he burns in Hell for eternity, eternity won't be long enough.

Now, do you want to know how I really feel? 😀

do we have the same daddy's daddy? :Q

Holy crap! Brother????
:Q