25 things a man should be able to do

[trekgeezer]

According to Popular Mechanics:

1. Patch a radiator hose
2. Protect your computer
3. Rescue a boater who as capsized
4. Frame a wall
5. Retouch digital photos
6. Back up a trailer
7. Build a campfire
8. Fix a dead outlet
9. Navigate with a map and compass
10. Use a torque wrench
11. Sharpen a knife
12. Perform CPR
13. Fillet a fish
14. Maneuver a car out of a skid
15. Get a car unstuck
16. Back up data
17. Paint a room
18. Mix concrete
19. Clean a bolt-action rifle
20. Change oil and filter
21. Hook up an HDTV
22. Bleed brakes
23. Paddle a canoe
24. Fix a bike flat
25. Extend your wireless network


I think I've actually done all of these except #3 and #12 .

[Susan]

#26. Put the lid down

[LilCerberus]

Any one of these activeties would make my landlord veeerrryyy angry.

[RCMerchant]

Point a shotgun at the head  of the person  who made this list... and tell him to get married and rewrite it!

[Allhallowsday]

#26. Put the lid down

Now that is funny!   
I think I could do maybe half the things on the list, but the only shotgun I ever held was my Dad's... against his express orders !!   

[CheezeFlixz]

#26. Put the lid down

27. Train a women how to operate the toilet lid. ^ up v down ^ up v down

[Shadow]

I've done 16 out of those 25. I must be a wimp.

[IzzyDedjet]

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - Robert A. Heinlein

[CheezeFlixz]

write a sonnet

And this is a useful skill, how?

For whence he came, and here at last.
A sonnet I say or I'll kick your ass.
For he was, but not alone.
My friends I call on the cell phone.
Hark! I say, you must wait a minute.
For my friend to arrive and join in it.
Tis a sonnet I write, true and real.
Is over now, you get the idea.
And off I go into the mist.
This thing to do, is off the list.

[IzzyDedjet]

write a sonnet

And this is a useful skill, how?

For whence he came, and here at last.
A sonnet I say or I'll kick your ass.
For he was, but not alone.
My friends I call on the cell phone.
Hark! I say, you must wait a minute.
For my friend to arrive and join in it.
Tis a sonnet I write, true and real.
Is over now, you get the idea.
And off I go into the mist.
This thing to do, is off the list.

22 of 25...not bad

And as for you, Mr. Cheeze...The girlies just LOOOOOVE a poem or song written for them.
Consider a sonnet as a means to perpetuate the species

[Joe the Destroyer]

Meh, I would say a man should be able to:

1) Slaughter a chicken with his bare hands
2) Command respect through terror and destruction
3) Destroy all monsters
4) Play a trumpet so well it can kill 50 people
5) Devour the hungry
6) Command a cloud of locusts
7) Operate two chainsaws at once
8) Know how to graft various weaponry into his arm
9) Turn a group of thirty emo kids into cold-blooded assassins
10) Rebuild Tokyo in a week after a kaiju invasion
11) Learn to put acid into foods and disguise the taste and smell, then serve it to his arch nemesis
12) Walk into Harlem with a $5 bill and walk out two days later a millionaire with a harem of at least 25 women (hookers and crackheads do indeed count)
13) Invent a remote that can make annoying celebrities permanently disappear
14) Punch holes in space and time with his fist, and then close them up whenever he wants
15) Beat Bokosuka Wars every time he plays it; or beat Smash TV without losing a life
16) Turn all household items into sex toys, and vice versa
17) Walk briskly and casually amongst zombies and not be noticed
18) Command an alien ship
19) Install a plasma turret above his domicile
20) Watch Pay it Forward and not cry
21) Have a presence so ominous that theme music plays where ever he goes
22) Use alchemy to turn vegetables into jerky
23) Use the flesh of his fallen enemies to make household pets
24) Observe, repair, regulate, and upgrade a nuclear reactor on his own
25) Drink a bear without opening the bottle

[RCMerchant]

 Good stuff,Joe! 

  Once you get married...be prepared!

  1.Know which alchol you can drink with the least 'reek' factor...(mix vodka in coffee....)
   2.Learn to nod your head and respond to conversation when the wify is nagging...all the time blocking out everything she is saying while watching TV out the corner of your eye.
   3.Find a good hiding spot for your Hustler mags.
    4. Fake enjoying the chick fliks she'll insist you watch with her.
    5. Stay out of her way...and pick your words carefully when it's "that time of the month".
    6. Eat her "first time" recipes...and pretend " it's good! REALLY!''.
    7. Change a diaper in the wee hours of the morning.
    8. Walk through stores for hours without b***hing about it.
    9.Be broke all the time.
    10. Eyeball hot chicks without being obvious.
    11. Treat her cats nice...even when you want to drop kick the little basterd for puking on your favorite chair.
    12. Convince her that the crappy,low budget horror flik you want to watch  is " a classic! ReallY!"
     13. Love her  regardless of all else.

[Mr_Vindictive]

Good stuff,Joe! 

  Once you get married...be prepared!

  1.Know which alchol you can drink with the least 'reek' factor...(mix vodka in coffee....)
   2.Learn to nod your head and respond to conversation when the wify is nagging...all the time blocking out everything she is saying while watching TV out the corner of your eye.
   3.Find a good hiding spot for your Hustler mags.
    4. Fake enjoying the chick fliks she'll insist you watch with her.
    5. Stay out of her way...and pick your words carefully when it's "that time of the month".
    6. Eat her "first time" recipes...and pretend " it's good! REALLY!''.
    7. Change a diaper in the wee hours of the morning.
    8. Walk through stores for hours without b***hing about it.
    9.Be broke all the time.
    10. Eyeball hot chicks without being obvious.
    11. Treat her cats nice...even when you want to drop kick the little basterd for puking on your favorite chair.
    12. Convince her that the crappy,low budget horror flik you want to watch  is " a classic! ReallY!"
     13. Love her  regardless of all else.

That's a great list RC.  Love the one about eyeballing hot chicks.  I once had a professor ask me why I always had a pair of sunglasses on my head, even when it was raining.  I let him know that I use them to keep my wife from knowing that I'm looking at all the hot chicks when we are in a public place.

Also the one about telling the wife that the awful film is a "classic!" doesn't work for me anymore.  She wised up to that one a few years ago. 

[Susan]

Good stuff,Joe! 

  Once you get married...be prepared!

  1.Know which alchol you can drink with the least 'reek' factor...(mix vodka in coffee....)
   2.Learn to nod your head and respond to conversation when the wify is nagging...all the time blocking out everything she is saying while watching TV out the corner of your eye.
   3.Find a good hiding spot for your Hustler mags.
    4. Fake enjoying the chick fliks she'll insist you watch with her.
    5. Stay out of her way...and pick your words carefully when it's "that time of the month".
    6. Eat her "first time" recipes...and pretend " it's good! REALLY!''.
    7. Change a diaper in the wee hours of the morning.
    8. Walk through stores for hours without b***hing about it.
    9.Be broke all the time.
    10. Eyeball hot chicks without being obvious.
    11. Treat her cats nice...even when you want to drop kick the little basterd for puking on your favorite chair.
    12. Convince her that the crappy,low budget horror flik you want to watch  is " a classic! ReallY!"
     13. Love her  regardless of all else.

Karma! Btw #10 won't work, we ALWAYS know what youre doing with our peripheral vision ;-)
And #12 can be easily accomplished by laying down offerings of candlelight, chocolate and a footrub. For that we'd watch anything

Of course i'd watch that crap without all the perks

[Mr. DS]

Susan aren't you considered an honorary guy on this board anyhow?   

#10 is usually pulled off with a nice dark pair of sun glasses.  Problem with us guys is we can't ever just take a peek.