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Parents! What do yours do? [Eesh, 56K Warning]

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olimario

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MUMMY
My mother is hard of hearing, so college wasn't the easiest thing for her. She took an AT&T typing course in the 60s and got a job typing up previously unwritten files. I swear she's the fastest typer I've seen and I can hit 100-110 WPM sometimes.

She worked for a few different companies over the years but ultimately decided to become a secretary for our church. She does the bulletin, manages the library, and loves every second of it.


POPPY
He got a job fresh out of college at NASA JSC as an engineer. I guess it was 1967 and he had just turned 20. He started working on Apollo-4 and had a hand in Apollo 13's successful return. In the movie, do you remember the room in the back of mission control with all of the engineers? That's basically where he was and it was his job to calculate the correct trajectory in order to get them into the earth's atmosphere without burning up.

He's done a lot over his time there from being on the Senior Staff to being the director of the ISO 9000 office. He now "manages the Space Shuttle Program Development Office. That program controls both the day-to-day activities of preparing for a shuttle mission, conducting the mission, and getting the shuttles ready to fly again, as well as planning for future safety improvements to the shuttles".



Okay, GAF... What do your parents do?
 

bjork

Member
My parents utter some of the best one liners in the history of the planet.

My dad: "Final Fantasy VII is gay because you ride chickens."

My mom: "He keeps asking me about the fucking money, like what, am I gonna stick it up my pussy and burn it?"
 

olimario

Banned
triste said:
My parents utter some of the best one liners in the history of the planet.

My dad: "Final Fantasy VII is gay because you ride chickens."

My mom: "He keeps asking me about the fucking money, like what, am I gonna stick it up my pussy and burn it?"

:lol
They could make quite a living with an act like that.

EDIT: Thread made invalid because I posted it... Fucking shit. Just post on topic and this thread will be fine.
You guys are seriously wankers sometimes.
 

Scrow

Still Tagged Accordingly
olimario said:
EDIT: Thread made invalid because I posted it... Fucking shit. Just post on topic and this thread will be fine.
You guys are seriously wankers sometimes.
:lol :lol
 

olimario

Banned
What the hell keeps you guys from taking this seriously? I was talking with Jotoro over AIM and he was telling me about what his pops does so I thought I'd ask GAF what their parents do.

I swear it's the hardest fucking thing in the world for you guys to enter a thread like this an type on on-topic response. This thread is made shitty by your responses, not by the initial post.
 

Boogie

Member
Willco said:
Was this just an excuse to say your Dad works for NASA?

What? Willco, I am shocked, SHOCKED, that you would make such an accusation towards olimario. I am certain that oli was motivated to make this thread out of pure curiosity at the employment of our collective parents, and for you to question his motives is absolutely appalling!
 

Willco

Hollywood Square
Matlock said:
My parents make me post shitty threads about them in order to brag.

:lol

This is almost as bad as the misleading threads that were like, "SO I WENT TO THE MALL TODAY..." and we'd come in and get an assload of this:

... WITH MY HOT GIRLFRIEND ELISA MCBRIDE CATTLE MCFATTLE, SHE IS SO GREAT AND I BOUGHT A CD AND WE LISTENED TO IT. HERE IS A PICTURE OF HER!

ugly_pregnant_chick.jpg


LOOK AT HER SHE'S BEAUTIFUL AND THAT WAS MY DAY AT THE MALL!
 

olimario

Banned
Boogie said:
What? Willco, I am shocked, SHOCKED, that you would make such an accusation towards olimario. I am certain that oli was motivated to make this thread out of pure curiosity at the employment of our collective parents, and for you to question his motives is absolutely appalling!

It's always about me wanting to "BRAG"... Right...
I wanted to brag that my mom works in a small church library. I actually did start this thread to find out what everyone's parents did, but had I posted nothing in the first post it would have been a shitty thread because of me, not because of shitty responses.
 

olimario

Banned
You guys are pathetic. This thread would have been jsut fine had you just posted what your parents did. You make these topics shitty, not me.
 

tedtropy

$50/hour, but no kissing on the lips and colors must be pre-separated
Face it, oli. This thread could've been a simple as listing what your parents did and asking GAF the same. Instead, it turned into "HOW MY DAD SAVED TEH ASTRONAUTS IN THAT APOLLO 13 MOVIE". It's great that your dad was part of that, and it's certainly something to be proud of, but let's not disguise this as some innocent inquiry as to what our folks do...
 

olimario

Banned
tedtropy said:
Face it, oli. This thread could've been a simple as listing what your parents did and asking GAF the same. Instead, it turned into "HOW MY DAD SAVED TEH ASTRONAUTS IN THAT APOLLO 13 MOVIE". It's great that your dad was part of that, and it's certainly something to be proud of, but let's not disguise this as some innocent inquiry as to what our folks do...

But it was an innocent inquiry... but like you would know my true motives behind posting something. I gave a history of what my mother did and I bragged about her typing ability. Likewise, I posted a history of what my father did and pointed out something noteworthy. I hate topics that simply ask a question and have absolutely no meat to them.

You can't tell me that this thread was ruined by collective GAF's inability to post on topic.
 

DMczaf

Member
Willco said:
:lol

This is almost as bad as the misleading threads that were like, "SO I WENT TO THE MALL TODAY..." and we'd come in and get an assload of this:

... WITH MY HOT GIRLFRIEND ELISA MCBRIDE CATTLE MCFATTLE, SHE IS SO GREAT AND I BOUGHT A CD AND WE LISTENED TO IT. HERE IS A PICTURE OF HER!

ugly_pregnant_chick.jpg


LOOK AT HER SHE'S BEAUTIFUL AND THAT WAS MY DAY AT THE MALL!


Best thread ever! :lol :lol
 

Scrow

Still Tagged Accordingly
olimario said:
You guys are pathetic. This thread would have been jsut fine had you just posted what your parents did. You make these topics shitty, not me.
can't make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear... though we're giving it a shot.
 

Willco

Hollywood Square
OMG I FOUND A PICTURE OF OLIMARIO AND THE APOLLO 13 ASTRONAUTS IT WAS ALL TRUE!

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OLIMARIO'S DAD: NATIONAL HERO!

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GhaleonEB

Member
Father took off on Christmas day 1990, draining all bank accounts, maxing out credit cards and leaving my mom $200,000 in the hole. Never saw or heard of him since.

Mother died and was cremated last month. :(

(both true)
 

demon

I don't mean to alarm you but you have dogs on your face
My dad sucks dicks for a living.


Ghaleon- so sorry to hear about that. That sucks. :(
 

Goreomedy

Console Market Analyst
Oli being a braggart isn't the issue here, people. As children, we used our parents to define ourselves. Most of us outgrew that by junior high. So why hasn't Oli? Let's take some time to investigate. We might not be capable of bringing a crew of three back through our atmosphere, but surely we can help a young man find autonomy!
 

Matrix

LeBron loves his girlfriend. There is no other woman in the world he’d rather have. The problem is, Dwyane’s not a woman.
I guess I'll answer the question that was asked...

Mom: Was a secretary for an architecture firm in Houston and has now been a stay at home mom for years.

Dad: Was an Architect for the firm Emery Roth & Sons till they closed up shop,a couple of his buildings he designed I posted below.He now works for himself.

Heres two of the buildings in NYC he designed ....

17 State Street,my fav.building that he's designed...
17state.jpg

igny285.jpg


The Oxford on 72nd
137167.jpg


Happy now Oli? :p

I can brag about my Dad too ;)
 

Willco

Hollywood Square
Matrix's Dad is obviously compensating for something. MAYBE BECAUSE HE HAS A VAGINA.

OMG WATCH OUT OLI MY DAD IS RIGHT BEHIND YOURS!

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DMczaf

Member
DADDY

Graduated from UNC

Drafted by the Chicago Bulls

1984 NBA Rookie of the Year

5 time NBA MVP

6 time NBA Champ

Master of the Barkley Freak dance.

MOMMY

I HAVE NO MOTHER!
 

olimario

Banned
Matrix said:
I guess I'll answer the question that was asked...

Mom: Was a secretary for an architecture firm in Houston and has now been a stay at home mom for years.

Dad: Was an Architect for the firm Emery Roth & Sons till they closed up shop,a couple of his buildings he designed I posted below.He now works for himself.

Heres two of the buildings in NYC he designed ....

17 State Street,my fav.building that he's designed...
17state.jpg

igny285.jpg


The Oxford on 72nd
137167.jpg


Happy now Oli? :p

I can brag about my Dad too ;)
That's something to brag about, too. That building is fucking sleek.
 
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