Famous Canadian Proverbs

Can't believe it's Thursday already and I haven't posted. It's almost like the all the greatest hockey players in the world met in one spot and started playing... wait a minute. Ok, I can't blame all my laziness on Olympic hockey, but it is a contributing factor. Case in point, my son's teacher and I have now postponed two parent teacher interviews because they conflicted with games. Meh, he's six. Anyway, I'm posting today. Kinda. With a little help from Unmitigated.

1. A country
can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

German Canadian Proverb

About 13 years ago, I tagged the Captain with a quote meme. It's my own fault really. I was showing off all the famous blogger that I know. Vodka Mom. 24 at Heart. Captain Dumbass. Here's a tip for the future, kids. Famous bloggers are not famous for doing MEMES.
In an effort to get revenge, ease his guilt, I convinced the Captain to let me do the meme FOR him. Heh. I mean, hey, what a great idea! Except, once I started, I realized that unless I wanted to be a complete snarky jerk (not outside the realm of possibility), it wasn't really going to be very easy. SO I decided to go with what I know about my pal, Captain Dumbass. First, and foremost, he is a Canadian. Got that one covered above.

2. Next? The Cap'n loves to read about as much as I do...

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. Arnold Lobel

Arnold Lobel is a great children's author. He wrote one of my absolute favorite stories, A Three Hat Day. I suspect that many bloggers have that same mile-high pile of books.

3. The Captain, and his lovely wife, Supreme Leader, have two terror-inducing wonderful boys, and by this summer, will have a third...

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. Charles Wadsworth

The stories the Captain tells us about Connor and Liam (frequently with photographic evidence) make me wonder if his mother put that curse on him. You know the one. "I only hope that someday you have a child who behaves just like you." Don't all mothers do that? I'm sure I've already placed that particular bane on my children's heads.

4. While this next one may be factually inaccurate (the Captain's position was eliminated, he wasn't fired), I think it still applies:
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.
Hal Lancaster
If you haven't read any of Captain Dumbass' fiction, either what he has linked in the sidebar (Empire of Me), or his amazing short stories on the Zombie News Network you really are missing a treat. The Captain was not meant to tote gold bars around for a bank. The man is a writer. Simple and true.

5. I'd like to say that the Captain is all sweetness and light, but really, don't we all have a darker side?
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
Captain's darker side just happens to feature grilled cheese men and LEGO minions. He is the master of his own weird little universe.

Supreme Leader Stormtrooper

Sparta

What happens when dads stay home

Hmm...

Why do you get a tax credit if you buy a hybrid car, but you get no tax credit if you don’t own a car in the first place?

-The Doree Chronicles

Shark Kills Human

"Newspapers will run a headline: ‘Shark kills human.’ You never see a headline from the other perspective: ‘Man swims in shark-infested water, forgets he’s shark food.’ "

Gary Larson

affremble quotes

Dr. Seuss Therapy

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the one who’ll decide where to go.

— Dr. Seuss

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

— Douglas Adams

“My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.”

Kevin Smith

Quotes From Friday

Liam: I DON'T WANT PRETTY FEET!

(I'm good with that.)

Bernadette: All these blonde kids look the same.

Me: What was that? You're a secret agent or a secret Asian? You could be a secret Asian. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

(Kids are half Asian. Get it? Get it?)