IT COULD CATCH ON
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April 25, 2007
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Can I sign up to be a Rent-a-Dad? I could use some extra cash.
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Chris | April 25, 2007 at 12:48 PM
you mean i could pay someone to go to parent meetings for me!?! hell yeah, sign me up.
Posted by: crossgirl | April 25, 2007 at 12:49 PM
Mrs. Wang and her daughter Pingping...
PINGPING WANG???
I. shall. not. laugh.
Posted by: Siouxie | April 25, 2007 at 12:50 PM
oh, good idea chris! professional, eloquent, well mannered parents could hire someone, like, say ME, to embarrass their kids at school functions so that they'd truly appreciate their own family! it's brilliant! i'm going to be rich, rich I say!!
Posted by: crossgirl | April 25, 2007 at 12:53 PM
i think that the snot-nosed brat should get her a$$ kicked for being such a little shi!t. then make her go live with the 'rented mom'.
Posted by: wickedwitch | April 25, 2007 at 12:54 PM
site blocked - can't read. . . someone help please
Posted by: MOTW | April 25, 2007 at 12:56 PM
I think Opus the Penguin started this back in the 80's with "Dial-a-Mom".
Posted by: Schadeboy | April 25, 2007 at 12:57 PM
Much as I would have loved to have a substitute mom at school meetings, it never would have worked. My mom was the "Art Goes to School" teacher for our county. Everyone at school knew my mom.
And Siouxie, wouldn't it be "Wang Pingping?"
Posted by: Jemmy | April 25, 2007 at 12:59 PM
I personally do not believe that you should raise your hand against your child (it leaves your midsection vulnerable to attack).
Posted by: Hammond Rye | April 25, 2007 at 01:01 PM
*thanks own mother, for 1)being cool and 2)not attending any of that stuff*
Posted by: mm | April 25, 2007 at 01:02 PM
MOTW, some brat named PingPing (*snork) apparently paid someone else to attend school meetings as her "mom".
This was the case with a middle school student who disapproved of her mother's outfits so much that she hired a "mom" to attend her school's parents meeting.
Posted by: Siouxie | April 25, 2007 at 01:04 PM
Pingping and Yingying??? arent those the pandas??
Posted by: queensbee | April 25, 2007 at 01:05 PM
Pingping and Yingying WBAGNFA couple of pandas.
Wang Pingping had a friend named Yingying. What was Yingying's aunt'd name? Lo Hung Dong, perhaps?
Posted by: Bãrön vønKlyff | April 25, 2007 at 01:06 PM
MOTW --> cye.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | April 25, 2007 at 01:07 PM
*that should have been aunt's*
Posted by: Bãrön vønKlyff | April 25, 2007 at 01:08 PM
Gleat minds think arike, queensbee.
Posted by: Bãrön vønKlyff | April 25, 2007 at 01:11 PM
*tosses another * up there*
Jemmy, I guess you're right....either way it's funny.
Posted by: Siouxie | April 25, 2007 at 01:11 PM
thank you, Blue!
Posted by: MOTW | April 25, 2007 at 01:22 PM
wangwing..pingding..wrongdong...I'm confused
Posted by: Jazzzz | April 25, 2007 at 01:23 PM
Thanks Jazz. Now you me playing 'The Name Game' with her name.
Posted by: KOW | April 25, 2007 at 01:31 PM
MOTW: Sum Yung Chik's own mom, Yu So Dum, was unacceptable in public, so Sum Yung Chik hired a friend's aunt, Who Yu Be, to pretend to be her mom for school functions.
Note: These names are not nearly as funny as the characters' real names.
Posted by: Mr. Completely | April 25, 2007 at 01:35 PM
LOL Mr. C!!
Posted by: Siouxie | April 25, 2007 at 01:46 PM
"There was no comment when asked how her relationship with her other daugher, Pongpong, was."
Posted by: Bethie | April 25, 2007 at 01:56 PM
Remember the Chinese guy with amnesia ONLY about his wife?
"Who IS this woman?"
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | April 25, 2007 at 01:57 PM
I have to side with the kid on this one. Mom was a booger.
Posted by: smartypants | April 25, 2007 at 02:48 PM
YAY SCHADEBOY!!!! That was my exact first thought when I read the title of the article. :)
^5s Schadeboy.
WW - I'm not even a mom (yet) and I'm sooooo right there with ya.
Posted by: DeskDiva | April 25, 2007 at 02:50 PM
DD - I'm so glad I'm not the only one who knows about Opus's odyssey to find his mother!
Posted by: Schadeboy | April 25, 2007 at 02:56 PM
Well, I didn't go to any more of those mother's things when, dutring a "Salute to Mothers" day at my youngest's middle school, she read the description of her mom, which included taking naps as a hobby. It wouldn't have been so bad if the next kid's mother had not had kickboxing as one of hers.... Sigh. A day that lived in infamy....
Posted by: Kathybear | April 25, 2007 at 03:26 PM
LOL Kathy...kids say the darndest things!
Posted by: Siouxie | April 25, 2007 at 03:35 PM
Siouxie and K'Bear - Now you know why some species eat their young.
Posted by: Mr. Completely | April 25, 2007 at 03:52 PM
Oh, MAN,Schade! Bloom County is my all-time favorite comic strip. I so wanna marry a man just like Steve Dallas. ;)
Posted by: DeskDiva | April 25, 2007 at 03:57 PM
Wow. You can outsource ANYTHING to the Chinese. Parents, you better start working on your quality - you'll never beat them on price.
Posted by: DaChew | April 27, 2007 at 12:51 PM