{"id":8557,"date":"2010-12-02T16:29:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T22:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8557"},"modified":"2010-12-02T16:29:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T22:29:27","slug":"man-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/02\/man-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Internet has produced another list to measure yourself upon, this time some list of 50 things every guy should know<\/a> from a Web site called Guyism. As you can guess from its presence on a guy Web site, it involves essential skills dealing with beer and babes. Which is only “essential” in college, and sometimes not even then if you’re going on your own dime and have to work to put yourself through.<\/p>\n

Still, I took my crack at the 50. They’re below in orange if I can do them, italics if I haven’t but expect I could, and stricken through if I think it’s a dumb essential skill for frat brothers.<\/p>\n

Change a tire<\/strong>
\nUse a charcoal grill<\/strong>
\nBong a beer<\/strike>
\nThrow a punch without looking like a sissy<\/strong>
\nFry a turkey<\/em>
\nHook up the cable<\/strong>
\nPick-up a woman with a one-liner<\/strike>
\nGet your money\u2019s worth at a buffet<\/strong>
\nSome assembly required<\/strong>
\nKnow your local professional sports teams<\/strong>
\nPour a beer<\/strong>
\nJump-start a car<\/strong>
\nThrow a football<\/strong>
\nHaggle for a lower price<\/strong>
\nTie a tie<\/strong>
\nErect a tent<\/em>
\nCast a fishing rod<\/strong>
\nBuild a fire
\nTap and operate a Keg<\/em>
\nUse a chainsaw<\/strong>
\nPaddle a canoe\/kayak<\/em>
\nChoose a scotch\/whiskey<\/em>
\nDrive a manual car<\/strong>
\nPick-up a girl using your dog as a wingman<\/strike>
\nKnow how to navigate a road trip<\/strong>
\nPerform CPR<\/strong>
\nIron a shirt<\/strong>
\nShine your shoes<\/strong>
\nDo at least ten push-ups on command<\/strong>
\nDance
\nPlay poker<\/strong>
\nParallel park<\/strong>
\nUnclog a toilet<\/strong>
\nUpgrade at a hotel<\/strike>
\nRally after a big night of drinking<\/strong>
\nSpot fake breasts<\/strike>
\nChoose the right urinal<\/strike>
\nSew a button<\/strong>
\nUnhook a bra with one hand<\/strong>
\nOpen a bottle unconventionally<\/strong>
\nTalk your way out of a traffic ticket
\nOff-road without flipping the ATV<\/em>
\nBuy a gift for a woman<\/strong>
\nSurf the web anonymously<\/strong>
\nSpot a liar
\nDrive in crappy conditions<\/strong>
\nChange a diaper<\/strong>
\nMake a drink<\/strong>
\nShave<\/strong>
\nMake a mean breakfast<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pardon me while I get my chest thumping on here, but back when I was in college, not only could I do ten push-ups on command, but one afternoon while walking on the college mall with a girl I was trying to impress and another fellow, we were talking about push-ups or strength or something, and I dropped on the grass beside the mall and did ten one-armed push-ups with my book-laden backpack on<\/em>. Back in those days, I weighed a buck twenty and had read enough Robert B. Parker to think it was a measure of a man to do one-armed push-ups, so I’d trained just for that. I don’t think the girl was impressed at all, but I was and still am.<\/p>\n

Now, Internet Guy sites aside, what is the real measure of a man? For this, we must turn to Heinlein. From Time Enough For Love<\/a><\/em>):<\/p>\n

Change a diaper<\/strong>
\nPlan an invasion<\/em>
\nButcher a hog
\nConn a ship
\nDesign a building
\nWrite a sonnet<\/strong>
\nBalance accounts<\/strong>
\nBuild a wall<\/em>
\nSet a bone
\nComfort the dying
\nTake orders<\/strong>
\nGive orders<\/strong>
\nCooperate<\/strong>
\nAct alone<\/strong>
\nSolve equations<\/strong>
\nAnalyze a new problem<\/strong>
\nPitch manure<\/strong>
\nProgram a computer<\/strong>
\nCook a tasty meal
\nFight efficiently
\nDie gallantly<\/em><\/p>\n

That, my friends, is a better list to gauge your Man Point Capacity. It doesn’t feature anything to do with drinking and easy things you can just check off. It includes things you can’t merely check off but must train for and aspire to. The difference between a boy and a man lies somewhere in that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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