......but, I squint at some coworkers, because they aren't.
My dad was driving us to the airport early in the morning, and the sun was extremely bright straight ahead of us. Sitting in the front, I pulled down the sun-blocker-thingy but it didnt help. I noticed Dad was driving just fine, and without sunglasses. I asked him "how can you drive with the sun in your face like that? I can barely see anything.." He replied "Ah there's nothing to it, I just keep my eyes closed."
Rüdoff was one of the best fighters in his village and a terrifying opponent on the battlefield. He would often return from battle, so drenched in his opponent's blood that he became known as "Rüdoff det røde", meaning "the red".
After years of wars, and regular battles, Rüdoff finally grew old, and decided that his fighting days were behind him. He became the best farmer that his village had ever known and people would travel from.far away to ask him about his crops and to predict the weather, as he was quite proficient at it.
One morning he wokeup, and looked out the window, the skys were clear and the sun was shining, but Rüdoff could feel the pressure in his old bones and battle scars
"It will Rain soon", he said to his wife while she made breakfast. She glanced outside and told him he was nuts, it was bright and sunny.
He simply hiked up his pants and reminded her:
Rüdoff The Red knows rain, dear.
It already has 27 million degrees...
Courtesy of my dad, from just a few minutes ago.
And directly facing the sun. I pulled down my visor down.
"Man," I said. "Just think, it's so bright in here I need to squint, even though the sun is 93 million miles away."
"What are you talking about?" my husband said. "He's right behind us."
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My dad is a Navy Vietnam vet who is about to be a retired GM electrical engineer. He is retiring against his will because he has had three strokes, colon cancer, a pulmonary embolism, necrotic esophagus, renal failure, pneumonia, basically a medical shitstorm and he survived it all. In the process, he has lost a lot of memory and quite a bit of his cognitive abilities and furthermore, his balance. However, when I took out the trash tonight at nearly half past ten, I couldn't help but notice how beautiful the stars looked outside tonight. So upon returning, I told my mom and dad "The stars sure are bright tonight. They look amazing." To which my dad then asked, "You know why they're so bright, right?" Now I'm an amateur astronomer. Hell, my first and only telescope was inherited to me by my mother who got it from her father. So knowing its winter and I live in Michigan, I tell my father, "Because its so cold and dry, the star light isn't blocked as much?" His reply; "No. Its because the sun went down. So now its darker outside." Dad: 1. Me: -5.
We were on our way to the movies, i was in the back seat and this had me in tears. this was years ago.
Buddy: The sun is really bright dad!
His Dad: Too bad mine isnt.
In honor of Fathers Day, I'll share my father's two favorite jokes.
As a kid, whenever I would do something good in school, as in pass a test or get a good grade, my father would say "Wow, you're so bright, I should call you sun"
Whenever somebody would be leaving our house, whether it be friends or other family (nobody was safe) his closing line would be "well if I don't see you in the future, I guess I'll see you in the pasture!"
So we're at the football game and it's really bright and hot for the whole first half. At the start of the third quarter, it's getting to be late afternoon and my dad says, "Nice the sun's almost gone."
And I replied, "Actually Dad, I'm gonna stay for the rest of the game."
My dad fishing with his father, my grandfather.
Grandfather: Looks like the sun is coming out
Dad: I've been here the whole time dad!
Grandfather: No, the bright one.
So my cousin (said uncle's child) is teaching us all sign-language and all the things he can say. My uncle goes "Wow, you're so bright. I should call you sun."
True to dad-joke form, he just kept looking at us, lightly chuckling.
We were driving and my brother was complaining about the sun being in his eyes so naturally I responded with "well you know what they always say... look on the bright side"
/u/notearsonlybrokenleg:
>My wife just gave birth to my beautiful new sun, Arthur.
>Here's to a bright future for my little man!
source: https://www.reddit.com/r/suns/comments/2rupxf/im_a_proud_new_father/
edit: Hmm. He knew.
She was talking to her dad over the phone about what she wanted to do that summer when she mentioned she'd like to go to the beach.
Dad: "We can just bring some sand into the living room."
Her: "Well what are we going to do about the sun?"
Dad: "You know, I'm so bright that my Dad calls me son!"
It was met by groans by her and her mother and hysterical laughter by me.
