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- DrakeGTA, on 10/12/2007, -2/+134I tried something like this once, leaving my girlfriend a romantic voice mail every morning... Didn't last long, the restraining order said I wasn't allowed to call her anymore...
- macdude20, on 10/12/2007, -6/+57Digg this people. It's a rare gem that really deserves to be on the front page, unlike like most of the spam on digg.
- john570, on 10/12/2007, -0/+44What a cool dad.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38Must have sucked to walk around school all day with marker smudge on your face.
- CSAngel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37What a beautiful story. Often parents forget/don't realize that it's the simple things we do that our children end up appreciating the most. This is a lesson for all parents. Forget the WII, the 360, the cell phones, and the IPODS. This is what parenting is all about!
GO DAD! - netdroid9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33They did, his middle daughter gave them back as a Father's Day present. RTFA.
- anteyekon4myst, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28Stories like this reaching a wide audience make digg worth it.
- psbpv3o, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23I wish I had a father :(
- ReXorcist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20It is a nice touching story, but did anyone else think that this guy's wife was a douche for taking the kids to California when she full out knew it would be Fathers Day when they were gone? I mean come on, by the sounds of it, that's all he had left.
- EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Wow, a father being a good father. Nice. Rock on buddy.
- JorgeGonzalez, on 10/12/2007, -10/+26If I got napkin art instead of a Nintendo 64, I would've murdered them in their sleep.
- crawfishsoul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16My mom used to leave notes in my lunches and 12 years after I graduated high school I wish I had kept some of them like this. They would have been a great mini-memorial to the person she was.
Tis the season so I'll get sappy on my fellow Diggers. Cherish every moment you get with your parents, they may not be who you want to hang out with in high school but when one passes early (I was 18, she was 45 and in perfect health, Sudden Adult Death Syndrome) you'll look back when you have your own kids and wish you could call your Mom or Dad to tell them how your son counted to 10 all by himself today.
Merry Christmas Diggers. - CSAngel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16My credibility? How so?
Give a child a choice between an XBOX or napkin drawings and which will they choose? The XBOX of course. But when they're adults, they won't have fond memories of the moment they received an XBOX...they will however, remember the napkin drawings.
Kids rarely understand what it is they really need. That's why they have parents! ;-) - headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I can tell you're gonna go far in life.
- digihuman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Hello diggers, I am the napkin dad. Thanks for all the great comments and appreciations. My daughters made it easy for me to love them and take care of them and that made a big difference.
I thought the neg comments were a hoot, loved the 'poo photo' comment. Thanks again! - AtomicCow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12His daughter is easy to recognize at school, she's the one with ink on her mouth.
- rivercityjessie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11This is great. I wonder where he got the quotes every day.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Not only did he need to know quotes... but quotes that might be relevant to a teenage girl that didn't involve IMspeak.
lol ur2fny - ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12ReXorcist
That's how a divorce works. - JorgeGonzalez, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Someone needs to call the Dateline crew in on this one.
- CSAngel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10LOL!!! How true!
I wasn't suggesting replacing gift giving. I just meant to point out that parents are so busy today they tend to over indulge their kids rather than spend time with them..... - sdrawkcaB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10The guy was probably just smart. A lot of people like to remember quotes.
Something like this would make an interesting 365-day calendar... - mavranos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Not creepy- Do you have kids? If you did you might have more of an understanding.
"Think of the poor girl, who every single day opened her lunch to find bizarre scrawlings inked all over a napkin, every single day. What must her friends have thought?"
Yeah because you want your kids to follow the crowd. Wouldn't want them to be an individual or anything. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I guess you guys live in families that don't hug each other very much. I'm very, very sorry...
- ReXorcist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7ICSU
Not really, considering my parents are divorced and my mother never deprived me from my father (especially on father's day).
I'm glad my mom's not a douche. No wonder why kids are so messed up nowadays. - rsdouglas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Quote from one of the picture comments:
"I am not even 1/2 way done in scanning them either. I probably have over 300, but not sure. I think I have about 97 scanned now.
I really looked forward to doing it every morning. Obviously I did the drawings quickly, at the kitchen counter. I had a stack of quote books, about 6-7 of them, instead of recipe books on the counter!" - Berkana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I like this one from the series: "Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those we cannot resemble"
The Starwars Kid and Steve Ballmer come to mind. ^_~ - empeethree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It is cool that the dad did this, but I think it is even cooler that the kid saved them. Go Kid!
- icenineiv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Somebody had a lovely childhood.
- proficient, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5A very nice story. But I was wondering, what did his kids use as napkins if they saved them?
- PeteyUK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4thats pretty awesome even for a cynic like me :).
that guy must be like a walking quotebook though - some kind of kung fu master or something? heh :). - thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Now this may just be the model dad.
- tobsterius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ewww, comment spam....
- WarMace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"The world belongs to the enthusiest who keeps cool." I need to remember this more often. =-)
- mavranos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Are you adopted or just lack attention from your parents?
- EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My favorite napkin. This may be the best way I have seen 9|11 referred to. It immediately humbled me. Thank you.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/digioreo/131952267/in/set-1494002/ - hellyes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2heh... i wonder if he's a member of napkindoodles.com
- navitatl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Exactly my thoughts. It's masturbatory. My comment was dugg down for saying so. I'm just glad that someone else agrees with me.
- digihuman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Really, don't you just hate those individual types. Next thing you know I will be telling them to think for themselves and all sorts of radical things. I should have sent them to that military academy when I had the chance, dag nabbit!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2that is one good father
- crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no gods." - T. Jefferson
"The world belong to the enthusiast who keeps cool." - William McFee
Hope people on digg think about these before they start another pointless flame war. But that might hoping too much.
This guy should get these published on a book, get a nice $$$ book contract, and get his kids something they really want. :P kidding.
heck, I'd buy a copy, give em to my future kids, and save the effort of being the really thoughtful dad. - justinjacobs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@JorgeGonzalez
Is that you N64 kid?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlcqWQVVuU - caffiend, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hmm...wish I knew how to psychoanalyze his drawings. Just like his 9-10-3 quote says "Every portrait painted with feeling is of the artist and not the sitter." He uses lots of hammers, boats, water and creepy faces.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like this one
"If you steal from one writer, it's plagiarism. If you steal from two, it's research." - Zoshchenko, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5You know, at first you want to go AWWWWW - how sweet! And it is. But saving them, scanning them and putting them on the Internet - how self-indulgent! Next he'll be selling the designs for use on greeting cards. Or "you too can be a great Dad, even if you can't draw and don't have time to communicate with your kids!"
- nandorocker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Still a great choice of quotes.
- ubisuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How right you are! This is the kind of stories we need on TV.
- Nobi-Wan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Kids with these types of parents don't shoot up schools.
- icenineiv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's probably the inherent genetic need to procreate.
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Everyone else isn't as much of a cynical ***** as you. - timxpx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1napkins that didn't get sharpie on your face?
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