The Spectator: Famous Father’s Day Gifts

BY JOHN MALONEY

Well, here we are with another Father’s Day just around the corner. I don’t know why it is but Mother’s Day gets more attention and coverage all over than Father’s Day! Hey, if it weren’t for fathers, there wouldn’t be any Mother’s day. The Spectator began to think about what famous men and women through the ages might have given their fathers as a gift for Father’s Day.

Napoleon – gave his dad Austria and Hungary

Einstein – gave his dad a piece of his mind!

George Washington – gave his dad a cherry pie

Abe Lincoln – gave his dad some logs to play with

Tom Edison – gave his dad a bill for electricity

Liberace – gave his dad an old tuxedo and some candle sticks

General Patton – gave his dad two German generals

Henry Ford – gave his dad two spare tires and a quart of oil

Michelangelo – gave his dad two cans of paint

Lady Gaga – gave her dad a headache!

President Trump – gave his dad “Chuck” Schumer

The Godfather – gave his dad two days to get out of town

General Grant – gave his dad half a case of bourbon. He kept the other half for himself!

Moses – gave his dad the 11^th Commandment “Thou shalt not swim after eating.”

Frank Sinatra – gave his dad a clock that went “ring-a-ding-ding”

Hillary – gave her dad Bill Clinton. He returned the gift!

Cleopatra – gave her dad a tomb!

Jesse James – gave his dad a bank in Missouri

Charlie Chaplin – gave his father “the silent treatment”

Teddy Roosevelt – gave his dad a big stick and his father beat him with it

Alexander Graham Bell – gave his father a busy signal

Laurel and Hardy – threw a pie in their dad’s face

Sir Walter Raleigh – gave his dad a pipe

Marco Polo – gave his dad some Chinese food

Sherlock Holmes – didn’t have a clue what to give his dad, so he gave him nothing

Sigmund Freud – gave his dad two more hours on the couch

The Johnson Brothers – gave their dad a years supply of Band-Aids

Stephen Foster – gave his dad an “Old Kentucky Home”

Walt Disney – gave his dad a real mouse

Captain Kidd, the pirate – gave his dad the plank!

Tennessee Williams – gave his dad “A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Former President Obama – gave his dad Obamacare

Houdini – made his dad disappear. He didn’t have to give him a gift

Adam and Eve – were lucky. They had no dad to give a gift to

Noah – gave his dad a boat ride in a zoo!

King Henry VIII – gave his dad some of the wives he didn’t want any more

Former Pres. Jimmy Carter – gave his dad a bushel of peanuts

Fred Astaire – gave his dad a worn out pair of dancing shoes.

Derek Jeter – the great Yankee gave his dad a season box seat at the stadium. His father was really a Met fan

Frankenstein – gave his dad the finger!

Robert Louis Stevenson – gave his dad a Treasure Island and a map to go with it

Happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there!

  father’s day poem, John Maloney, the spectator