June 21 2020 - Father's vs Father's

It is Father's Day today -  the majority of countries around the world celebrate the third Sunday in June. Wikipedia has the full listing of countries and dates. That's a lot of people celebrating. And how many people would that be? There are approximately 70.1 million fathers in the U.S. How many would be there worldwide? No answer has been posited.  OK, let's ask how many mothers there are - this can be estimated better.  We get a Reddit answer of 2.86 billion parents or potential parents, and 1.06 billion mothers.   When we consider Father's Day, there's a lot more emphasis on Mother's Day - one of the Father's Day Jokes to show the difference:  Mother's Day commercials:  Diamonds on sale for $3,000.   Father's Day commercials:  Men's target cargo shorts on sale for $11. What about a few Father's Day Jokes to send along?  I found this collection.  The jokes set within these twentieth century talking heads. seem funnier.   What do you think? They are listed as Dad Jokes Hall of shame on website  imgur HERE.       Here's a collage ofgrunge paint images.

Not Just Any Car!

Not Just Any Car Father's Day originates in West Virginia in July 1908.  While it is known it was first celebrated then, there aren't many records of the event. The next celebration was in 1910 in Spokane, Washington on June 19th.  It was a city celebration of 'sermons honouring fathers presented throughout the city'.  It faded away until the 1930's when it was promoted again and became a consistent celebration. There's a special place for cars in the celebration of Father's Day. Yesterday was a happy day for Porsche owners in our area.  We participated in the Niagara Fun-Run and drove our way around the Niagara area - from Grimsby to St. Catharines, up and down over the escarpment, among the vineyards and fruit orchards - all on those great country roads.  Here are a few of the license plate names of the almost 60 cars that participated. There was more than one group touring the escarpment - we met this group of motorcyclists up on the escarpment. That's a formidable sight coming towards you!