1. Fish is brain food because of the fish oils which supply essential fatty acids which do indeed make us smarter. However, I am almost 99% sure that Dad knew none of these things when he called fish brain food and that he did indeed just want us to eat the damn fish and shut up!

2. I believe the correct phrasing is “eat it like the cowboys do, nice and hot!” Could be wrong but it does have a certain ring to it. Now that I am a parent, as you soon shall be, I have a little insight into why dad would want us to eat our food while hot….because gosh darn it… it takes kids a long f**in time to eat and us antsy adults just want to get on with it! Besides how long can one really linger over really hot fish sticks and claim you just want to savor the experience!

3. No excuses here…..the two pillow thing….just plain whacked. Pretty sure maybe it was a scare tactic that came into play when the clown mask and toy lost their power to terrorize!

Now, in addition to your lovely dad quotes I don’t want you to leave out the countless times he would say “Jesus, Meggy/Danny” or “someone is going to get hurt and meggy its going to be you!” Or how about his best quote “God is watching you when you are bad and he is sending his clown minions to punish you.” No? Don’t remember? Okay, last one is a lie but Holy Sh*t if it wasn’t!