What did you use to look like? Old photos.

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I finally learned to use our school scanner, which allowed me to scan some of the few photos of myself that I have, taken throughout the years. So here's a trip down memory lane...

This is me in 1997, with my then-best friend Jenny:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/jenny.jpg

This is another picture from the same session, with more friends:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/posse.jpg

Another pic with a friend, this one's probably from 1999 or 2000, can't remember...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/emmi.jpg

This is summer 2003. For some reason my left arm looks enormously long there.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/puisto.jpg

And finally, this is me a year ago, on the International Women's Day:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/drag.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Me when I was 5 - don't know if this will work:
http://photos.classmates.com/photos/2/7/E/4//27E47C73B3E5CA47D495FF7895422BFC.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Hmm, I guess I still need to learn how to use the photo editor, some of these are pretty badly cropped.

(x-post)

It worked, and what a lovely kid you were!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/30/38/2038303/3833918022726l.jpg
http://photos7.flickr.com/6196566_52ce231d93.jpg

― stevie (stevie), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Stevie that keyboard one is adorable! :D

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Dammit, I just realized my boobs don't show clearly on the last pic... But they're there! C-cup!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Me, 1987 (I think?), age about 17. I am very fond of this pic, it was a good time in my life - I finally worked out a sense of who I was, and I was into photography and indie music and I think I wanted to be Kristin Hersh.

http://www.memorygongs.com/trace_beret.jpg

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link

You look cheery and content.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I tried to grow my hair out long because my father kept cutting it in a Caesarian fashion and it made me look like Bill from Freaks and Geeks. Unfortunately, growing my hair out was just as much of a tragedy, although my female peers liked it...but then again, high schoolers usually have piss-poor taste (which is needless to say, I know). Anyway, from when I was 15, in between Regina and Melody from Mira (and they're tall...I was probably six feet at the time)...

http://www.mira.nu/pics/thunderdome112101/pages/reginamelian_jpg.htm

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I wanted to be Kristin Hersh.
Oh goodness, that's fantastic. Seriously, I'm enamoured with her.

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link

i looked cooler when i was younger

http://www.sleeve-notes.com/pics/sn.jpg

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link

i used to look like this a lot working on Loose Lips Sink Ships
http://photos.friendster.com/photos/30/38/2038303/971061832384l.jpg

Tannenbaum you look fabulous

― stevie (stevie), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Ian: isnt she wonderful? I heart Kristin.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

http://images9.fotki.com/v163/photos/1/107259/2021881/1983-vi.jpg?1112309904

YES THAT IS AN R2-D2 T-SHIRT

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link

http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/4181aff6z1ffe20b2/a24e/__sr_/fe8f.jpg?phAOITCBjRUC2rnT

― andy --, Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link

thanks stevie.

did you always wear your Big Boss dungarees when taking conference calls? looks like your having to make a tough decision.

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Stevie you haven't changed.

― andy --, Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stadium/6959/fam.JPG

I am the little blonde girl looking grumpy (I still find it perplexing that I was so blonde when I was little - I have very very dark hair now).

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link

(I am still grumpy, though.)

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I love old photos!

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Sugarpants looks like the coolest kid ever.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:09 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.eyecandyforthebrokenhearted.com/kate_a.jpg
About 2.5 years old.

http://www.eyecandyforthebrokenhearted.com/kate_b.jpg
I'm on the right.

http://www.eyecandyforthebrokenhearted.com/kate_c.jpg
1993 High School Photo

http://www.eyecandyforthebrokenhearted.com/kate_d.jpg
1998 with my sisters. I'm in the middle.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:29 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/1988mekatieendcredit.jpg

― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link

the naked-with-shoes-and-legwarmers look is golden! (xp)

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow Kate you look startlingly like my old HS best friend Deb in that last pic!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:32 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/2002samme.jpg

― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:33 (nineteen years ago) link

We're about the same age, right Kate? I wish I had looked that cool in 1998... I only found my style later on.

(x-post)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:34 (nineteen years ago) link

OK now THAT is a really cute pic Jer =)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:34 (nineteen years ago) link

It was during my dykey i love kd lang period!

xpost

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Where are you in that photo?

― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Me? In the center, like i said :)

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I def. see the KD Lang thing, but it looks good!

― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll have to slim down and try that look again then. Nothing else much is working for me at the moment.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:40 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.memorygongs.com/trace_fringe.jpg

Gothdom approacheth! This was taken maybe 6-12 months after that one above. My first black hairdye and my only (bad) attempt at having a fringe. Dig the shoes.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I look like teeny in that pic, a bit dont I?

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:43 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, it's cute.

all pictures of me suck.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:46 (nineteen years ago) link

You do a bit...and someone else whose name I can't place. Someone famous. Hmmmmm.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah. Between the two photos you've posted, I wouldn't recognize you as the same person.

(x-post)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Tuomas: yeah, I had a knack for being a right little chameleon in them days. My own family (like, cousins who'd not seen me in some years) used to not reccognise me from one family do to the next. I guess I have one of those blank canvas faces or something.

Its sort of a running gag how often I've changed my hair and such.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:52 (nineteen years ago) link

http://home.clara.net/koogy/photos/Koog3.jpg

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 1 April 2005 09:07 (nineteen years ago) link

La la la la la... photos from the mid 90s here:

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/8466/mememe.html

Baby photo here:

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/8466/family.html

(Sorry, it's geocities so I can't link directly.)

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Friday, 1 April 2005 09:07 (nineteen years ago) link

old enough to pee.... old enough for me.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 1 April 2005 09:29 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.base58.com/pics/myphotos/misc/me/baby/tehpreeeecious.jpg

― Sven Basted (blueski), Friday, 1 April 2005 10:09 (nineteen years ago) link

aping Gollum nicely there

and i don't remember actually saying this but

http://www.base58.com/pics/myphotos/misc/me/baby/mustfindrusks.jpg

― Sven Basted (blueski), Friday, 1 April 2005 10:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Stevem, you look like you were a SURPRISED baby.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Baby Mandee ahoy!!

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-3/666351/babymandee.jpg

Teenage Mandee and sis (gunther heartymeal):

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-3/666351/gothyoungins.jpg

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Me, mum and dad in Southport, approx July '73.

(Several ILXers will be sick of this photo by now).

http://photos7.flickr.com/6549260_04bd0abf8a_o.jpg

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link

wow!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/caitxa/pot.jpg

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Its sort of a running gag how often I've changed my hair and such.

me too trayce! and yes you do look a bit like me with the fringe.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link

http://starstarstar.net/babyglasses.jpg

here's me with my trademark black glasses, age 18 mos.

nb not really, this is a busted-out pair of my mom's I took to.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link

This is me in 1987 touring Spain with Felt and Biff Bang Pow. Photo by Phil King, who later joined Lush. He just sent it to me recently.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link

http://starstarstar.net/motobaby.jpg

this might be my favorite family portrait, I'm 15 months and you can just see my head poking out of the sidecar. My parents are so good-looking.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link

what kind of zoo has toucans, penguins AND birds?

and only one alligator.

i have two more btw. will leave the addresses as an exercise for the reader.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:43 (nineteen years ago) link

http://photos1.flickr.com/1060179_ae1b491d83.jpg

hahahahahaha

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Stevie you haven't changed.

tell me about it, andy. i lost every 'guess the baby photo' competition i ever entered at my old day job because *everyone guessed me within millisecondz!

― stevie (stevie), Friday, 1 April 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Loose Lips editorial session, Jan 2005:

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/30/38/2038303/11161321954032l.jpg

― stevie (stevie), Friday, 1 April 2005 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.geocities.com/acewhiskey/deaux/pilgram.jpg

Aw, how I don't miss that fucking trailer.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 1 April 2005 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y66/jeannefury/beans.jpg

My grandma cut my hair. My mom nearly choked her.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 1 April 2005 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooopsie. That's tiny. Try this:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y66/jeannefury/beans.jpg

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 1 April 2005 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I want that hair!

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Jeff, that picture is kind of frightening.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link

These are so great!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Jeff's pic looks like a psychotic ventriloquist's dummy from a bad horror movie.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link

My favourite is Teeny in her glasses. I have no old photos of me, I'm afraid.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link

ihttp://dutchtoenglish.com/FranBettePatJean.jpg

Here's a photo of what my grandma and aunts used to look like. The tallest one standing is my grandma. She's 87 now. The one sitting is my aunt. I just bumped into her at the thrift store a few minutes ago.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

About... eight? I will never look this cool again.

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wadh1786/weeG.jpg

Eleven or so.

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wadh1786/weeG.jpg

PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN as fifteen y/o spotty teen...

ihttp://users.ox.ac.uk/~wadh1786/PhotoGreggy.jpg

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link

You didn't change a lot from 8 to 11...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

haha oops! should be:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wadh1786/Image.jpg

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:39 (nineteen years ago) link

http://ox.eicat.ca/~scarruthers/ilx/toothlessgrin.jpg

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link

You damned adorable bastards.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link

this is me with my brother. I'm 15, and I am on my way to a Maurice / Samhain show . . .

http://photos4.flickr.com/8120323_62fe7f263c_o.jpg

this is me one year later:

http://photos4.flickr.com/8120322_8de7fa4960_o.jpg

and here I am with my friend Katie

http://photos7.flickr.com/8120321_c555932943_o.jpg

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow, Drew, the 1987 asymmetrical haircut is either very late Human League or very early electroclash!

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link

gifts!

http://atlas.walagata.com/w/yourvictims/deathpicture.jpg

― t0dd swiss, Friday, 1 April 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow, Drew, the 1987 asymmetrical haircut is either very late Human League or very early electroclash!

neither, hardcore

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link

My class at school, when I was 14.

I'm front row, furthest right.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/Paronomasiac/scan0001.jpg

― C J (C J), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Was that your school? Neat!

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Sugarpants looks like the coolest kid ever.

Thanks! I wish I still had that shirt. I miss those boots, too. Still the best outfit I have ever put together in my entire life.

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

found a picture (can't directly link 'cause i don't wanna leech my friend's bandwidth):

http://www.minga.com/pictures/crazy-scans/Philmont-1991-Group-Photo.jpg

Philmont, New Mexico, 1991 - second row, far right.

yes, I was a Boy Scout.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/TheManthony/class_pic002.jpg

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Doesn't come up for me, hstencil.

x-post : That's great, miccio, especially the fact that the guy on the end has the last name Hamburger.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link

hmm, it's a big image. oh well.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/TheManthony/cub_scout_thugz.jpg

the kid with the most hair

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Awesome!

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link

i hope Gareth or Matt DC post photos of themselves as kids with exactly the same eyebrows

― Sven Basted (blueski), Friday, 1 April 2005 21:12 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/grandpa_web.jpg

― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Friday, 1 April 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link

rockin the liberty spikes at age 14 ihttp://members.aol.com/johnnyradpants/mowhawk.jpg

― charleston charge (chaki), Friday, 1 April 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link

rockin the liberty spikes at age 14 ihttp://members.aol.com/johnnyradpants/mohawk.jpg

― charleston charge (chaki), Friday, 1 April 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link

MICCIO EVEN THEN IT WAS APPARENT THAT YOU WOULD GROW UP TO LOVE AND ADMIRE FRED DURST!!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 1 April 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Miccio is sutting two seats away from a kid named CORY HAMBURGER. Which has got to be, like, the greatest name of all time.

― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Friday, 1 April 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Really? I think he so looks like a Guided by Voices fan waiting to happen. (NB I know next to nothing about Guided by Voices).

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 1 April 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

CORY HAMBURGER

! d'oh!!

was cory hamburger the kid who was screaming "wu tang motherfuckers!" on yer school bus, anthony?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 1 April 2005 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link

i know too many people in Miccio's pictures. My gay best friend is in his cub scout pic looking like a THUG.

I don't know if i remember Cory Hamburger. He sounds HOT.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 1 April 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link

also Gravel at age 8 looks like a child featured in a pamphlet distributed to women of child bearing age convincing them to have children - like who doesn't love this adorable kid sprawled out casually in a terry cloth dressing gown?

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 1 April 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

MICCIO EVEN THEN IT WAS APPARENT THAT YOU WOULD GROW UP TO LOVE AND ADMIRE FRED DURST!!!

cuz I'm going "duhh..." in a class pic?

"Wu Tang Motherfuckers!" happened in Bloomington, IN, where we moved after living in Greeley (had we stayed I would have undoubtedly have met Mandee!).

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 1 April 2005 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link

i should search cory hamburger down on classmates.com

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 1 April 2005 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost to Momus and Hstencil-

you are BOTH right- yeah, at the time I was trying to have a Misfits worshipper devilock but it got too wide and long and fluffed out and unbeknownst to me at the time I did look pretty much like Philip Oakey of the Human League. D'oh!

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 1 April 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link

apparently cory is an athlete -he plays baseball AND is in the Greeley bowling league!!!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 1 April 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link

!!!

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 1 April 2005 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

btw, I was into GBV long before I was into Bizkit so Sundar's righter. A year from that pic I said in a book that my fave bands were "REM, the B-52's and the Cars."

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 1 April 2005 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link

(btw I was into GBV well before I was into Bizkit. At the time of that cub scouts pic my favorite bands were REM, the B-52's and The Cars)

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 1 April 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

wtf woops sorry

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 1 April 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Miccio I'm weirded out that your primary school pic is the year I left high school! Oh god I'm old.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah! how many of our 1989 selves would've looked at THAT picture, looked at anthony and said to themselves, "one day ... when i am in my 30s and he's in his 20s, we will battle wits and make fun of each other's tastes in music 15 years from today"?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 1 April 2005 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Trayce, your 1987 pic reminds me of Daydream Nation-era Kim Gordon somehow. Maybe just the hair and clothes.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 1 April 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

omgomgmogomgomgomgcuteycuteycutey
http://www.base58.com/pics/myphotos/misc/me/baby/tehpreeeecious.jpg http://www.base58.com/pics/myphotos/misc/me/baby/tehpreeeecious.jpg http://www.base58.com/pics/myphotos/misc/me/baby/tehpreeeecious.jpg http://www.base58.com/pics/myphotos/misc/me/baby/tehpreeeecious.jpg http://www.base58.com/pics/myphotos/misc/me/baby/tehpreeeecious.jpg http://www.base58.com/pics/myphotos/misc/me/baby/tehpreeeecious.jpg

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 1 April 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link

if it makes you feel better Trayce you were hot then and you're hot now

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 1 April 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

i had a devillock for a while, too. except everything else was shaved. it looked dumb. i don't have any photos online tho.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Aw shucks :)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link

HPENCIL A PHIL OAKEY LOOKALIKE?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 1 April 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link

no, the rest was completely shaved. i don't think phil oakey ever did that, but dumb kids in 7th grade who listen to the misfits and wanna be skateboarders do.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link

This makes me wish I had a scanner. This pic is about two years old, but I;m wearing a wig that makes me look like I did in 1995 (not the hat though).

http://l00003.myspace.com/00003/51/49/3339415_m.JPG

― Sara Sherr, Saturday, 2 April 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link

but that's only 10 years ago.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 2 April 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought Trayce was a lot younger.

This thread is awwwwwwwwesome.

― Cabaret Voltron (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Saturday, 2 April 2005 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought the thread was, what did you used to look like, so I was saying, "here's what I looked like ten years ago." I didn't think there was a time limit. Again, without a scanner, I'm limited.

― Sara Sherr, Saturday, 2 April 2005 00:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Holy smokes...Drew Daniel with the Devil locks is the fuckin' coolest kid ever!

http://www.misera.net/gathering/images/alexinnyc.jpg

This is me in 1999 (sorry, I have nothing earlier than that to post)....the guy in the middle is not Ali G, but rather Paul Raven from Killing Joke. The lady on the left is my friend Christina.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 2 April 2005 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I've shown this here before, but here's me at 12:

http://www.flim.com/random/meat12.jpg

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 2 April 2005 05:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Just teating out my scanner
I think I was 4 around the time of this photo
http://www.nunuworldmusic.co.uk/ilx/australia.jpg

and when i was 5 (i think!)
ihttp://www.nunuworldmusic.co.uk/ilx/hk.jpg
I was so good then...

― jellybean (jellybean), Saturday, 2 April 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Me in the early 70s

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/pictures/dj_alan.jpg

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Saturday, 2 April 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow, so cute!

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Saturday, 2 April 2005 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Early practice for Poptimism!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 2 April 2005 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Spinning Cat Stevens?!

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Saturday, 2 April 2005 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link

RAY stevens

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Saturday, 2 April 2005 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link

RAY stevens

and my massive ego did make me use it on a club FT flyer last year!

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/pictures/flyers/club_pop_sep_2004.jpg

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Saturday, 2 April 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry, my eyesight ain't what it used to be, especially when I'm rather drunk.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Saturday, 2 April 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Looking around to try to figure out where my hands went:

http://www.globalhermit.com/pix/sean-at-bank.jpg

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Saturday, 2 April 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Aha! Found my hands, so here I am opening my first bank account, with the assistance of the bank manager.

ihttp://www.globalhermit.com/pix/sean-at-bank2.jpg

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Saturday, 2 April 2005 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Those are excellent.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 3 April 2005 04:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Tee hee :D

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 3 April 2005 04:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Hope this works...

Me at unknown age (3? 4?).
ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/nickn/nicksuit.jpg

Age 8, when we lived in Germany.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/nickn/nick65.jpg

And age 15.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/nickn/sophmoric.jpg

― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 3 April 2005 04:47 (nineteen years ago) link

First one's too big, but it's only 70K. Probably as cute as I've ever looked.

― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 3 April 2005 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link

That's you at 15? You look like you should already have a well-developed 401K.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Sunday, 3 April 2005 05:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Yep, 6 feet tall, 180 pounds (or thereabouts), shaving for 2 years. Wish I still had that hair.

― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 3 April 2005 05:51 (nineteen years ago) link

At 11, Gravel Puzzleworth looks a bit like E.N., which is a high compliment. Miccio's and CJ's school photos are great. Pleasant Plains looks like he should be in a Wes Anderson film.

― youn, Sunday, 3 April 2005 05:54 (nineteen years ago) link

middle child, in the middle

― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 3 April 2005 07:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Ian: isnt she wonderful? I heart Kristin.
Indeed. She's my biggest musical crush. *le sigh*

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Sunday, 3 April 2005 11:09 (nineteen years ago) link

"401K"?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 3 April 2005 12:01 (nineteen years ago) link

x x x x x-post re: cameron elem school pic. there is a kid named cory hamburger! awww.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Sunday, 3 April 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link

This is me in 1996, about six weeks after I shaved my head. I'm not sure what happened to the bald pics of me. After that, I decided to grow my hair out.

http://photos4.flickr.com/8211229_0494cdeac1.jpg

And here I am in late 1976 or early 1977, wearing one of my mom's housecoats.

http://photos4.flickr.com/8211226_fc07f01702.jpg

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 3 April 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link

"PEOPLE, MEET YOUR NEW GOD!"

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 3 April 2005 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/jel2004/1986.jpg

I kill you with guns.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 3 April 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link

that is an awesome pic.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 3 April 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link

"private Jel! enemy plane at 3 o'clock!"

"SIGH."

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 3 April 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I have some pictures of me like that here:

http://www.battleshipcove.org/Assets/Images%20-%20General/News/gallery-news-kit-cove/news-kit-cove2-b.jpg

http://www.battleshipcove.org/

I drove by it on the way to high school for 4 years. I totally camped overnight too!

― absolutego (ex machina), Sunday, 3 April 2005 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Tuomas, a 401K is a US retirement fund plan in which your income is deducted from your paycheck pre-tax, for long-term investment, and may be withdrawn (taxed) when you're old. Some employers match your contributions (mine doesn't, cheap bastard).

― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Crease down the trousers, braces and a badly-cut mop, I might revive this look:
http://www.geocities.com/niche_ian/on_swing_83.jpg

But not this one:
http://www.geocities.com/niche_ian/slipper84.jpg

(it's geocities so do that c&p thing)

― Affectian (Affectian), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link

http://photos5.flickr.com/8645008_a3b1402686.jpg

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link

i kinda like the short hair, barry!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

The truth about de-evolution.

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link

i kinda like the short hair, barry!
Thanks, in fact my hair was always short right up until my shave head/grow hair out stage in 1996. It usually looked good when it was short, but my hair is so curly that six weeks after getting a haircut, my hair would turn into a giant 'fro. I got tired of trying to manage the 'fro and/or go for haircuts all the time -- plus I was a swim instructor/lifeguard during those years and the chlorine was MURDER on my hair. So I finally said "fuck this" and shaved my head one night (admittedly, this involved alcohol and many drunken friends, but it *was* something I'd been considering for a long time).

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Now there's a thread idea, Rock.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/TheManthony/YoungManthonyInNYC.jpg

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 15 July 2005 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/radiokent/features/dominic_king/images/marie_osmond_203.jpg

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Friday, 15 July 2005 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link

just jealous of my bigass fro

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 15 July 2005 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link

omg! rock hardy was eric foreman!
these are all so so good. bonus points for pumpkins. trayce's are the one's that hit home though. i was an aussie goth girl for a while there too.

― sunny successor (i dont get dirty with the bodies once i kill 'em) (katharine), Saturday, 16 July 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link

I had to google "eric foreman" and I don't think I look anything like Omar Epps.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 16 July 2005 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/scan0006.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/scan0005.jpg

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 29 August 2005 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/scan0007.jpg

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 29 August 2005 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh you're so cute! :-)

― nathalie's pocket revolution (stevie nixed), Monday, 29 August 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Me at 5, obviously a wicked child:

http://www.theilliterate.com/archives/illiterati/jaq5.jpg

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 29 August 2005 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm buying a scanner shortly so might get another pic up here.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link

where's the ghetto lucy pics i've been waiting so long to see?

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 09:21 (eighteen years ago) link

wee stacey
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b339/dahling007/baby.jpg

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 09:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I think I'm about 18 months old here - in the entry with Mum, brother and my uncle's Hillman Imp. Spring 1970.

http://photos30.flickr.com/36229320_cd0a3a88ac.jpg

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 09:42 (eighteen years ago) link

MJ's pics are astonishingly good - and how on Earth have I never seen those magical Madchen shots before?!

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I love Madchen's pictures; that saturated red was a big colour in Jubilee year (though I don't actually believe Madchen was around in 1977).

60-4! They were reeling!

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 10:14 (eighteen years ago) link

They were in one of Mum and Dad's albums. I brought them back to Glasgow on the sly - don't tell! The note on the back says they were taken on 7th June 1977, hence the fancy dress.

Stacey, I will dig out the most evil gangstamadchen picture I can find for you.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 10:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I love this thread.

My favourites are the black and white one of Tuomas that looks like it's directed by Eric Rohmer or something, teeny teeny in glasses, mindinrewind rocking that housedress pattern... and my new favourite patriotic Madchen!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link

wow your mum has some hair there mj! is the scarf holding keeping it from floating away? i wish i could get my hair that big...

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Child of the 70s alert:

http://photos33.flickr.com/38557682_d433480e7d.jpg?v=0

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link

omg are you high on Tixylix or something?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link

The Jocky Wilson Years
http://www.boyled.f2s.com/Britain/settee.jpg

The highlight of my musical career
http://www.boyled.f2s.com/Britain/guitar.jpg

Before I gave up smoking
http://www.boyled.f2s.com/Britain/yorkspeech.jpg

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Thanks Arch, I like the b/w photo too, except that I had the silliest hairstyle imaginable back then. But my friend looks good, she's really beautiful in real life too.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:39 (eighteen years ago) link

omg that first pic of dave b..... awwwww

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd lost a lot of weight by that point.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I can just seeing Kevin Rowland singing in front of that picture.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:49 (eighteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v192/doglatin/atypicalsulkingteen.jpg

at about 15.

Jeez, I've changed so much in the last year - saw a photo of myself of only last summer and I'm shocked by how much sitting in an office and doing fuck all exercise has made me look.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, that hair style is sooo early-to-mid nineties! I remember when everyone had a hair like that.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link

The shoegaze years:

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/jamiefake/venicejuly91.jpg

Me in Venice, 1991.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll try again:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/jamiefake/venicejuly91.jpg

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link

dave the scary thing is, I knew it was you after the first photo!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Here are my brother and I in Florida:

http://photos21.flickr.com/28202853_0795e52545.jpg

― The Popish Plot (dymaxia), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 09:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I've posted this before, but..

me and my sister before an aunt's wedding c.1981, I'm on the right

http://photos16.flickr.com/22807806_ce798f47d6.jpg

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 09:54 (eighteen years ago) link

haha, course it's not chris, it's me

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 09:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Earliest I could find whilst at work, in a sweaty basement in London somewhere.

ihttp://www.skippyscage.com/geigercounter/geigph08.html

― mzui (mzui), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 10:30 (eighteen years ago) link

It would make me happier to believe that was a photo of Chris.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 11:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Vicky, you look like mini Dianas. Had you swapped hats?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 11:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I would like Vicky's last comment stricken from the record.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 11:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I think we must have swopped hats, then swopped them back, as my hat matched my outfits at photos from the wedding.

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 11:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I have posted these before I think.

Me aged 12(?), on the left.
http://www.aliki.co.uk/aliki_imagelibrary/sw_pics/gallery_bton/images/AS0602SW.jpg

Me aged 10/11 doing some Acting.
http://www.aliki.co.uk/aliki_imagelibrary/sw_pics/gallery_bton/images/AS0798SW.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

psst, Stevem, you're a mod, you can delete Vicky's post-pic-post...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link

That's me in the big race. I'm on the left.
http://davidmorrison.typepad.com/sed_contra/images/sperm-thumb.jpg

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

i was staring at that photo for about five minutes trying to work out how on earth that could be chris. amusingly baffling. not so funny anymore. (although you are a cutie there vicky, obviously)

― michael grant (michael digby grant), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

as you still are, of course.

*kicks self in foot, arse, etc.*

― michael grant (michael digby grant), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link

ten years ago, aged 20. oh dear god.

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/MeWithTab1995.jpg

nine years ago. yes, i really used to wear that. holy shit.

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/MeWithShirt1996.JPEG

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link

(for the sad among us, that second pic was taken with an apple quicktake 100. coo ur.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link

You posed with a fag in a photo booth.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 1 September 2005 07:59 (eighteen years ago) link

(that is more amusing than that shirt, I think)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 1 September 2005 08:00 (eighteen years ago) link

You posed with a fag in a photo booth.

yes. i was 20 years old. i listened to nothing but joy division, the kitchens of distinction, early human league and OMD (and, heh, momus). i was so far up my arse i could look out of my mouth. the level to which i took myself seriously was in direct inverse proportion to how everybody else saw me.

with these facts in mind, m'lud, posing in a photo booth with a fag seems perfectly understandable behaviour.

when alba invents his time machine, i'm going right back there to punch myself in the bolls. and rip up that fucking shirt.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 1 September 2005 09:10 (eighteen years ago) link

this is a bad plan. Grimly-Past will break down in mirth at the state of Grimly-Present, especially if the moustache is on, and you'll be so ashamed at being laughed at by someone wearing that SHIRT that you won't have the heart. So then Grimly-Past will suggest some boooze ... and when you refuse he'll punch you in the bolls.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link

no, not at all. grimly-past will be awesomely gobsmacked that he turned out so grate and topp, and all he will be able to do is stand and gawp. plus: he'll be massively, massively stoned, and won't really have much of a clue what's going on. so i can wham him in the bolls, then get back in alba's time machine, go back to 1987, and sort a couple of things out at a school disco too.

hang on: i might be doing this in the wrong order. shit.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I just love all of these pictures! I wish I had the picture of me with spaghetti sauce all over my face to share. There are at LEAST two of them, because apparently I couldn't manage to eat correctly as a child!

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Gotta have sauce for those NOODS.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, the teenage angst! The hair! IM SO SKINNY.

http://www.memorygongs.com/skinnykid.jpg

(me, early 1988 age 16 I guess?)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I guess so, Ally! Except I think the sauce MISSED the noods and hit the wall instead. Plus, no noods back then. Just a white bowl cut. Maybe I should learn to eat like that again! I bet it's EASY.

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:46 (eighteen years ago) link

You could make a short film.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think I would ever make a short film of that. That's just asking for someone to blackmail me! Which I love, but only when reading about it in books written for 13 year old girls where the blackmail involves copying homework or sharing a milkshake with a nerd.

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/RJG/2001.jpg

2001, cookie's 23rd birthday?

actually, perhaps it was 2002 and his 24th

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link

That doesn't count as an 'old' picture! I'm sure all three of you in it look exactly the same now, at least.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link

tuomas posted photos from 2003 and 2004, at the start of the thread!

I think I look very different, now--I have been having an image crisis, for the last 13 hours (I was asleep for 9 of them)

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Well ok, admittedly I haven't really met you, just the other two.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link

: )

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 1 September 2005 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link

weren't you wearing that jumper lasnight rjg?

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link

nice try

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link

for serious!

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link

no, I was not

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link

You do look v. young there, compared to now.

That's what you wanted to hear, and didn't.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

RJG, you look like a member of joy division or ACR. which is a good thing.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link

and now? virtue?

I wish it were four years or minutes ago

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Party in 1996. Bit worse for wear.

http://kmwatson.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/party2.jpg

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link

keith, come on, you have ALWAYS LOOKED THE SAME. i imagine you, aged five, with identical hair and clothes.

similarly, i can imagine you aged 70, a bit thinner on top but still undeniably KEITH.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 1 September 2005 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link

this thread kind of makes me sad because Tuomas and Jenny are no longer best friends

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 1 September 2005 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Aw no one said anything about skinny little me in my bauhaus tshirt :(

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 1 September 2005 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link

keith, come on, you have ALWAYS LOOKED THE SAME

Simon, I'm the one on the right up there!

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 2 September 2005 06:14 (eighteen years ago) link

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 2 September 2005 07:27 (eighteen years ago) link

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 2 September 2005 07:28 (eighteen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/26/39483348_25c46269a6_o.jpg

Fingers crossed you have a reasonable sense of humour momus.

― Bombed Out and Depleted / Kate (papa november), Friday, 2 September 2005 07:48 (eighteen years ago) link

you forgot to make fun of his white rolly turtleneck.

(but at least it didn't have printed patterns on it like some of mine did)

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 2 September 2005 07:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha OMG Kate =)
(sorry Nick)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 2 September 2005 08:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I had a "Brett Anderson" before Brett did!

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 2 September 2005 09:12 (eighteen years ago) link

What, a 'non-homosexual' homosexual experience?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 2 September 2005 09:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Brett totally ripped Momus off.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Friday, 2 September 2005 12:44 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Recently unearthed via 20th high school reunion.... me circa `83/`84...the era of the bad complexion and dubious fashion sense (DEVO t-shirt notwithstanding, of course)

http://jupiter.walagata.com/w/alexinnyc/loyola1.jpg http://jupiter.walagata.com/w/alexinnyc/loyola4.jpg http://jupiter.walagata.com/w/alexinnyc/loyola5.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 January 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

here is a picture of my sister and me in 1979 (i'm on the left):
http://static.flickr.com/25/66649507_d4b3b8e3e6_o.jpg

― maura (maura), Sunday, 1 January 2006 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link

holy shit alex those are awesome!!

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 1 January 2006 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link

dad with beard, young jbr looking sullen. circa 1983.

http://static.flickr.com/38/80382538_4cf77a2ea6_o.jpg

― it was jody that killed the beast (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 January 2006 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link

You have a scary resemblance to a cousin of mine in that pic. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of me and her to show you.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 1 January 2006 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link

not sure how old this is but it's fucking old! maybe I was 17 or so?

http://us.a1.yahoofs.com/users/41c23f65z84cbf3fa/a8f0/__sr_/9da9.jpg?phIFGuDBdKcmXXOA

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 1 January 2006 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm the one without the camera, with the redeye

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 1 January 2006 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Hahah Alex! You kind of look exactly the same in those pics, only much younger and with no facial hair obv, thats great!

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 1 January 2006 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link

This is only 2003:

http://myspace-665.vo.llnwd.net/00387/56/69/387939665_l.jpg

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Monday, 2 January 2006 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/32/54272751_4a47b69b08.jpg http://static.flickr.com/24/54272752_33a407e511.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/29/54273135_ceadd956d1.jpg

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 2 January 2006 12:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Five years ago? More?

http://static.flickr.com/18/23805854_9545e00dfe_o.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 2 January 2006 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link

gruff rhys!!

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 2 January 2006 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

At my uncle's wedding, ca. 1979:

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Damn it.

http://static.flickr.com/37/97237881_6dad1adc50.jpg

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

1980

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/6927/nearfar16ha.jpg http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/3158/nearfar28mv.jpg http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/4066/nearfar33sh.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Blond!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

1978
http://static.flickr.com/36/97259907_08f689738e.jpg

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

The top left one of AlexInNYC's photos looks like a character from a kids' comic strip book.

Also, I really really want superultramega's drum kit.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Hold on a minute, StevieNotaNugget, you got a kids' size "Only here for the beer" t-shirt?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I have searched every corner of my parents' basement for the drums on the off chance they were kept, but to no avail. also, I believe those are batman pajamas.

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link

1987

Ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/SCAN1987.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 9 February 2006 05:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Jadis

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/PONTNEUF.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 9 February 2006 05:36 (eighteen years ago) link

http://jupiter.walagata.com/w/mookieproof/newspaper.jpg
http://jupiter.walagata.com/w/mookieproof/now_i_am_seven.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 11 February 2006 02:20 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.danklarmann.com/images/godspell.jpg

this is surely not me in 1975

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Saturday, 11 February 2006 03:52 (eighteen years ago) link

8th grade. i am bottom right nerd.

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 11 February 2006 04:05 (eighteen years ago) link

qt!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 11 February 2006 04:07 (eighteen years ago) link

What, was that take your teen and/or giant bunny to work day?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 11 February 2006 06:44 (eighteen years ago) link

it was my 8th grade journalism class's trip to the local news station. i can't remember why the bunny was there. kind of odd....

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 11 February 2006 08:34 (eighteen years ago) link

shortest my hair has ever been, when i was about 6 or 7 years old - showing off a new swim badge

http://www.imag.us/x/grimstitch/kimswimbadge.jpg

and around the same time, at a neighbourhood party (a great picture in general) i'm the one in pink

http://www.imag.us/x/grimstitch/kidparty.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 11 February 2006 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.clodia.net/work/photobrowsr/pictures/self_scary_cats2.jpg

me aged 2 or 3 at my great grandparents' farm.

― clodia pulchra (emo by proxy), Saturday, 11 February 2006 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link

if you blurred the faces in Kim's 2nd pic, it would be a boards of canada cover

― |l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l| (eman), Saturday, 11 February 2006 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/40/98356351_1bb1c9b09b_o.jpg
Nothing has changed.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 11 February 2006 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

omg. that's fantastic.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 12 February 2006 03:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha. Awesome, Robyn! Also in the "nothing's changed" category is the size of my mouth in the photo below:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/babylaurel.jpg

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 12 February 2006 03:36 (eighteen years ago) link

if you blurred the faces in Kim's 2nd pic, it would be a boards of canada cover

http://www.globalhermit.com/ilx/kimada.jpg

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 12 February 2006 04:01 (eighteen years ago) link

M White = Lloyd Cole?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Sunday, 12 February 2006 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link

finally, i get photoshopped by stinky, and he removes me entirely! =)

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 12 February 2006 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

The light pours out of you, Kimmo. You are a shining star.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 12 February 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I really need to find a few of me and scan 'em in.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 12 February 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

haha, I loved the original but I also love it all Boards-of-Canada-ed up. The light!
And Laurel, CUTE! aw, I am suddenly feeling sentimental and want to go run around in a park. (haha, I just realized I did that last night. But I want to do it in the daytime!)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 12 February 2006 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/RJG/kidparty.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 12 February 2006 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Me @ 7 years old, Switzerland

http://www.quartzcity.net/~chris/ilx/ckb_matterhorn73.jpg

And again four years later at Dinosaur National Park. By then I had already perfected my disaffected "WHAT?" stance...

http://www.quartzcity.net/~chris/ilx/ckb_dinosaurpark.jpg

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 12 February 2006 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link

At age one, winter of 80-81:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v371/ephender/BabyE.jpg

A couple years later:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v371/ephender/BabyE2.jpg

And, again, a couple years later:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v371/ephender/LoMandyEric.jpg

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link

more meee:
http://www.clodia.net/work/photobrowsr/pictures/self_curious.jpg
(I still have the little walking doll I got there)

and I learned to dislike the world at an early age:

http://www.clodia.net/work/photobrowsr/pictures/self_hostile.jpg

― clodia pulchra (emo by proxy), Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link

don't have anything much older than this, here (2000):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/RJG/2000.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 12 February 2006 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link

so spritely, RJG!

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 12 February 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y285/keckles/towhead.jpg

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Monday, 13 February 2006 02:06 (eighteen years ago) link

here's me and gunther heartymeal circa 1987, goofin' off.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/73417962_8f03b0745f.jpg

here's me and all of the wright sisters in 1994.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/73417964_b0984f1bd8.jpg

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Monday, 13 February 2006 02:50 (eighteen years ago) link

the shaggs!

― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 13 February 2006 02:57 (eighteen years ago) link

aw! (I bet your parents love that picture.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 13 February 2006 03:00 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.dailymail.com/static/specialsections/lookingback/images/lb07076.jpg

― gear (gear), Monday, 13 February 2006 03:04 (eighteen years ago) link

the teenage equator lounge looks like one of the juvie kids who burn down the junior high school in over the edge.

― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 13 February 2006 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v192/doglatin/scan0001.jpg

probably about 1993 or 94

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Monday, 13 February 2006 04:08 (eighteen years ago) link

nice necklace! is that an ANKH?

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Monday, 13 February 2006 04:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Hee hee DL you look like a member of EMF *flees*.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 13 February 2006 04:32 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

At my 18th birthday, May 1991.

http://static.flickr.com/47/106540466_46956bbb46.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 March 2006 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link

fergie says you should get a haircut

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Rubbish.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link

and careful with that cakeslice (eugene). you'll have his eye out.

So Not Gonna Happen v3 anyone? 8)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

you look 14. two questions:

1. what was in the spotty wrapped gift
2. who is that sassy looking kinda jen-from-dawsons-creek chick in the background and what became of her?

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/40/106764847_c8b0947d98.jpg?v=0

(I posted this on the "what do you look like..." thread.)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link

who is that sassy looking kinda jen-from-dawsons-creek chick in the background and what became of her?

Ha - last I heard she was working for C4.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link

i dont know what that means

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

From my fourth grade class photo, 1978:

http://www.phildennison.net/Phil_SchoolPhoto_1978.jpg

― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I was looking through albums today and noticed how utterly cool our outfits used to be. Phil, your outfit is GREAT. But you know that already, I can tell from the look on your face. ;-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Sorry, C4 = TV company. There's no ha ha about them. I was just ha haing at you calling her sassy and Jenish.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Hahaha -- how could I not look self-satisfied wearing the best in Garanimals, Nathalie!

Geez, three years earlier that collar would've been four inches wider.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link

1. what was in the spotty wrapped gift

Sadly, I have no idea. The only presents I remember people bringing were Out Of Time on LP and some Bendicks Mints. For a moment, I thought it might be the latter, but I remember now they came in a narrower box.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/kiddo.jpg

The prepubescent Abbott. My mom matted these photos for me. Why, I don't know. It's odd having photos of little you hanging up in the house. They are currently hanging above my toilet. My fam's in them too.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link

i think i already posted this somewhere, but it's not on this thread, so:

http://webspace.utexas.edu/qc56/QNintento1989.jpg
1989

http://myspace-397.vo.llnwd.net/00393/79/30/393760397_l.jpg
1994

http://webspace.utexas.edu/qc56/1a.jpg
yesterday

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link

There's a movie in there.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link

(the plot centres around the destructive power of bad glasses)

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

co-starring fred savage

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

killy, your dad is totally the dad from Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders, one of the best mst3k episodes there is

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link

i shouldn't assume it's your dad, i guess. that adult male in the photo is totally...

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link

It's her dad.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link

he looks australian

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I was thinking that, too!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link

http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/8674/grumpysmall5mg.jpg
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/4333/sandcastlesmall1si.jpg
http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/9706/berenstainsmall8jj.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link

want more info about my non-australian dad?

my dad is on myspace and he's friends with a BABE

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link

http://photos-273.facebook.com/n13/203/115/12417241/n12417241_30930273_4446.jpg

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: (ex machina), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link

AWESOME

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: (ex machina), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link

baby tehresa is fucking shit up! rock n roll infant

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I love how they trashed the room. RAWK!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:00 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm slightly paranoid that they were trying to kill me, though!
who lets a lamp teter like that by their BABY and takes a picture instead of getting their child to safety?!

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link

ahahaha, i love that your parents (or someone) took a picture while the lamp-table was like that. And I love the mess.
xpost!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

i guess i have always had a giant head...

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link

and boobs

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: (ex machina), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Jon is CODE WARRIOR

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link

gee, jon, how did i know that was coming?!
xpost

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm always hearing about tehresa's giant boobs.

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I think she should make a Katamari bra for them titays.

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: (ex machina), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link

what is a katamari bra?

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Figure it out.

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: (ex machina), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Is it like a Kate O'Mara bra?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link

stevie, does your upthread shirt actually say "i'm only here for the beer"?

also, all of your pics pwn

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Saturday, 4 March 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21/amdraheim/wendlien.jpg

18 y.o./1996

― ai lien (kold_krush), Saturday, 4 March 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link

on the left

― ai lien (kold_krush), Saturday, 4 March 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 4 March 2006 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.b3tards.com/uploads/nov92.jpg

I hope this works. That's me in Cyprus in 1992.

― JTS (JTS), Saturday, 4 March 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

A friend just sent me this pic, I have no recollection of it being taken. It must be about 5 years old, and it looks kinda scary:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/kdet.jpg

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link

Even the bear in the poster looks scared!

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/kapakka.jpg

Here's another picture I received, from the same time period, with my ex-flatmate on the left and another friend in the middle. We look so young!

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 13:56 (fifteen years ago) link

stevie, does your upthread shirt actually say "i'm only here for the beer"?

oh yes indeed

― slap bass: the ungentle art (stevie), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 14:02 (fifteen years ago) link

Tuomas exercising his right to bear arms there.

― Ed, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 14:05 (fifteen years ago) link

Aged 21, sunburnt.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2284/2243931177_87941e65f5.jpg

― Ed, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link

1988 or 89 maybe? I'm on the left.

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/levonanddavidgoingtocamp.jpg

― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link

Shoegaze child in the French countryside...

http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/62/l_f7ce5ece47de496387be7f0f88d6b64f.jpg

Teenage goth as a debutante at my parents' country home...

http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/8/l_db6e208f875f4ef88f3feaafed4570c0.jpg

Early 90s Port Authority Bus Station "Don't try to stop me, I'm running away to NYC!"

http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/49/l_f3903a9f3a5c43f2a6c6c6f2b9167519.jpg

― Carrot Kate (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link

London Gay Pride, 1991. The caption on the back reads "I always flare my nostrils when I'm having a w@nk..."

http://troubled-diva.com/oldphot10tt.jpg

― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link

An odd caption for the back of a Keith Haring t-shirt.

― Bob Six, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link

I love your goth pic, Kate.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 09:12 (fifteen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/72/197600676_7522ef294a.jpg

― Snop Snitchin, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link

1994:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/1994.jpg

1999:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/mandside.jpg

2002:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/2002.jpg

― homosexual II, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 14:47 (fifteen years ago) link

1977
http://i37.tinypic.com/2q18aqq.jpg

1987
http://i36.tinypic.com/2zg4yop.jpg

1997
http://i33.tinypic.com/13z6d61.jpg

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link

OMG i love this thread. still loving baby tza with everything around her knocked over, laurel with the AHHHH!!! face and the coolest white boots, and rrobyn face down on the park bench. so so great.

― a country packed with ponies (sunny successor), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Snop Snitchin, are you dancing in that pic?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/meinhighschool.jpg

on the left

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link

the mugs of tea make that pic.

― Jarlrmai, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/ee05.jpg

― remy bean, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/classphoto4thgrade.jpg

― remy bean, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 17:39 (fifteen years ago) link

ye olde days of attendance at actual real life parties (2000):

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3188/3044092158_a86eba61b3.jpg

i would never have the balls to wear that outfit now (i'm also at least 10kg heavier now).

― undiscovered cuntry (Rubyredd), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link

haha this is posted on fb and i keep tagging my friend but she keeps untagging herself.

― undiscovered cuntry (Rubyredd), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link

Why hello, Sarah Palin.

― Fred Dalton Township (Laurel), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link

Top Center in Remy's 4th grade pic is terrifying.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah that pic needs a Where Are They Now follow-up

― creator of 2008's most successful meme (velko), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link

Tuomas: yes I am

― Snop Snitchin, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link

wau ruby & tracer

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3081/2717338835_e9588c3326.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/2699609788_c4859f7fdc.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3034/2718155230_57309aed86.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link

Quite 70's!

― Tuomas, Thursday, 20 November 2008 08:06 (fifteen years ago) link

hah! omg ned

― baaderonixx, Thursday, 20 November 2008 09:25 (fifteen years ago) link

It was my time, then.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 November 2008 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Revive!

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 08:27 (fifteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/hima.jpg

I'm not sure if this pic is distorted or if I really was so thin back then.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 08:33 (fifteen years ago) link

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3076/3131794578_7e7f231f85.jpg

age 15, find me

― Ed, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/Tuxedo.jpg

― La plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où l’on n’a pas (Michael White), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm not sure if this pic is distorted or if I really was so thin back then.

the distortion is your finnish head is 3x too big for your body

― cutty, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link

age 15, find me

the toothy young virgin in the hat, centre back row?

― Bob Six, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link

It would seem so, wouldn't it?

― La plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où l’on n’a pas (Michael White), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link

Redhead clustering theory in full effect...

― snoball, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link

wau michael

also wau @ tracer's mug photo

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link

http://b7.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01524/72/14/1524614127_l.jpg

― cutty, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 23:05 (fifteen years ago) link

aw lil guy

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 23:14 (fifteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1958/90/86/218767/n218767_35031282_7638.jpg
http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1958/90/86/218767/n218767_35031277_6577.jpg

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link

backwards baseball cap in pic 1, puffy blue jacket in pic 2

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link

lil' cutty kills me everytime.

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a71/jfuckfuck/sc0049fccd-1-1.jpg
Just after college, I guess. I'm in the stripes, Jeremy's making the BJ face.

― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link

As a wee one:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/small_kenan.png

As an 8th grader:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/8th_grader.png

― mose def (kenan), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link

The story here: I was three years old, and in tow as my parents went to visit some friends. I left the room and was quiet for a suspicious amount of time. They found me standing in the bathtub, having smeared shaving cream all over myself from head to toe.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/shaving-cream.jpg

― mose def (kenan), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 00:43 (fifteen years ago) link

Some things never change...

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 01:01 (fifteen years ago) link

word-for-word exactly what Julia said

― mose def (kenan), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 01:02 (fifteen years ago) link

An old family friend just posted this on facebook. I am the troublemaker in yellow who seems to be sticking her tounge out at the camera. The lady on the right is my Momz rocking an early 80s perm and some seriously questionable footwear.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/rugrat.jpg

― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Sunday, 1 February 2009 02:50 (fifteen years ago) link

Michael that picutre is AMAZING!

― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Sunday, 1 February 2009 02:53 (fifteen years ago) link

http://xs436.xs.to/xs436/09050/yung_hoos652.jpg

i am the small one

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 1 February 2009 10:05 (fifteen years ago) link

SMALL HOOS

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 1 February 2009 10:10 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.ruh.nhs.uk/patients/services/clinical_depts/bath_fertility_centre/site_photos/blastocysts.jpg

― as much dandelion as you can put in there (latebloomer), Sunday, 1 February 2009 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link

haw

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 1 February 2009 10:32 (fifteen years ago) link

i've come a long way, i think

― as much dandelion as you can put in there (latebloomer), Sunday, 1 February 2009 10:34 (fifteen years ago) link

Sharing here because of all the photos of me that exist from the past 11 years, this is probably my favourite:
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg187/nick-uptoeleven/pinkhair.jpg

Kenan clearly yet to discover his signature WDYLL pout.

― more private than a bar stool (Upt0eleven), Sunday, 1 February 2009 11:18 (fifteen years ago) link

small hoos is enchanting.

― estela, Sunday, 1 February 2009 11:22 (fifteen years ago) link

he really is quite small

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 1 February 2009 11:24 (fifteen years ago) link

and enthusiastic looking.

― estela, Sunday, 1 February 2009 11:31 (fifteen years ago) link

Hoos has posted that pic elsewhere and I love it. He's ridiculously adorable.

― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Sunday, 1 February 2009 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link

Tucked in shirt is the clincher.

― ╓abies, Sunday, 1 February 2009 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link

I thought I posted here already, but meh:

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii317/RabitesAngelatin/growinuplol.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii317/RabitesAngelatin/growinuplol009.jpg
schhhwwww

― ╓abies, Sunday, 1 February 2009 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link

I found this embarrassment of horrible 12 year old 1987 fashion choices in the basement a few weeks ago:
http://i42.tinypic.com/11si6x0.jpg

― ☺♑ (joygoat), Sunday, 1 February 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link

:-D!

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 1 February 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link

rad

― ice cr?m, Sunday, 1 February 2009 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link

My mother has been scanning some old photos, so here is my sister and me at three different ages:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3130/3250669614_773714b94d.jpg?v=0

― Pancakes Hussein Obama (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 14:00 (fifteen years ago) link

When was the last one taken? I'm guessing mid 70's as there's a heavy "Donny & Marie" look to it.

― snoball, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 14:02 (fifteen years ago) link

lol yeah, my sister was a big Osmonds fan. If I had to guess, I'd say 1978-79? I was born in November 1969, so that should give you an idea of the progression here.

― Pancakes Hussein Obama (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 14:04 (fifteen years ago) link

removed by user

― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link

http://xs136.xs.to/xs136/09063/mississippi423.jpg
Crossing the Mississippi. First thing I did after I got the casts off after surgery. I think I'm 10 here or thereabouts.

http://xs136.xs.to/xs136/09063/nps2005638.jpg
Me and some of the best writers & people I've ever known. National Poetry Slam, Albuquerque 2005. That's not Mountain Dew in the bottle.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link

man I miss poetry slam things - great way to meet chicks at a college town
one girl basically wrote a poem called 'do me' - needless to say she wasn't my type

― CaptainLorax, Thursday, 5 February 2009 02:07 (fifteen years ago) link

except our poetry was all amateurish

― CaptainLorax, Thursday, 5 February 2009 02:07 (fifteen years ago) link

sporting simpsons belly:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3307/3254180921_5cc172f5df_o.jpg
Grade 11 or 12:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/equinestate/3254147265/sizes/m/
hi 1990s:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/equinestate/3184755741/sizes/l/

― JAM, DWANGELA, RELLY! (sunny successor), Thursday, 5 February 2009 04:16 (fifteen years ago) link

I MEAN:

Grade 11 or 12:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3402/3254147265_4a29fb9026.jpg
hi 1990s:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3415/3184755741_28f110a622_b.jpg

― JAM, DWANGELA, RELLY! (sunny successor), Thursday, 5 February 2009 04:18 (fifteen years ago) link

lemonheads!!

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 5 February 2009 04:29 (fifteen years ago) link

Yeah. Not v positive.

― JAM, DWANGELA, RELLY! (sunny successor), Thursday, 5 February 2009 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link

sunny needless to say you look v v awesome in that bottom picture

― roxymuzak, Saturday, 7 February 2009 00:53 (fifteen years ago) link

lol sunny, I had the same T-shirt (& I wasn't a huge fan of the band - I mostly liked the message the shirt communicated to the rest of the world).

― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Saturday, 7 February 2009 01:00 (fifteen years ago) link

i was so in love with that record i would have married it.

― JAM, DWANGELA, RELLY! (sunny successor), Saturday, 7 February 2009 03:33 (fifteen years ago) link

Sunny I had the same shirt too but in all black. There was something on the back too . . . was it a lemon fetus with a gun or something? That might have been the first band shirt I ever bought. I loved the shit out of that record too.

― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Saturday, 7 February 2009 04:01 (fifteen years ago) link

All you alt.grrls had Dando crushes. I remember all too well..

― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Saturday, 7 February 2009 04:03 (fifteen years ago) link

hes gross iirc

― roxymuzak, Saturday, 7 February 2009 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link

+ imo

― roxymuzak, Saturday, 7 February 2009 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link

esp. after he smoked all that crack and all his teeth fell out!

― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Saturday, 7 February 2009 04:07 (fifteen years ago) link

j/k. poor guy. I wish him well. FWIW I did like that record. I just liked Lovey more. Lemonheads were part of a brief dalliance I had with Amer-indie, wedged in between more serious long-term relationships I had with mopey Brit post-punk & the 'gaze.

― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Saturday, 7 February 2009 04:11 (fifteen years ago) link

I don't know - I never had a big Dando crush but I did really like Hate Your Friends.

― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Saturday, 7 February 2009 04:24 (fifteen years ago) link

^^^this.

― JAM, DWANGELA, RELLY! (sunny successor), Saturday, 7 February 2009 05:35 (fifteen years ago) link

sorry ladies. no offense - it's just that there were a lot of Dando crushes out there in those days, see.

― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Saturday, 7 February 2009 05:42 (fifteen years ago) link

almost as many as there were j. hatfield crushes

― mookieproof, Saturday, 7 February 2009 06:49 (fifteen years ago) link

I was more of a Toni Halliday man myself

― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Saturday, 7 February 2009 06:52 (fifteen years ago) link

Molesworth demo - early 90s - indie fringe - scarf - quite a lot of mud and barbed wire
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3434/3260896420_59e0aec4a4.jpg

― The Unbelievably Insensitive Baroness Vadera (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 7 February 2009 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link

Oh wait that must have been early 80s - shit I'm old - because this is early 90s and I have out on a lot of weight and pair of odd glasses...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3481/3260892206_f99226c0fb.jpg

― The Unbelievably Insensitive Baroness Vadera (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 7 February 2009 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/192/3264274832_0e52d273ed.jpg?v=0 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/239/3264275464_111df34295.jpg?v=0

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Sunday, 8 February 2009 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link

You look like a cereal box model!

― i'm shy (Abbott), Sunday, 8 February 2009 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link

It's all been downhill since then.

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Sunday, 8 February 2009 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link

Deadly cute.

― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Sunday, 8 February 2009 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Back in the high life:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/quaff.jpg

I was thinking about my R. Crumb t-shirt just the other day. Whatever becomes of my favorite t-shirts?

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/oh-god.jpg

― kenan, Monday, 2 March 2009 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link

My completely awesome 8th grade graduation (1988) picture:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/8thgrade.jpg

― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Monday, 2 March 2009 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link

Bringing back the feathered hair and baby's breath would probably be a good move, right?

― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Monday, 2 March 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link

ha i think i wore that dress for my eighth grade graduation, too.

― horseshoe, Monday, 2 March 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link

except + a lace collar

― horseshoe, Monday, 2 March 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link

i love 90s photos

― abebe's kids (and what), Monday, 2 March 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link

Bringing back the feathered hair and baby's breath would probably be a good move, right?

― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Monday, March 2, 2009 2:50 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

YES. omg that pic

― Surmounter, Monday, 2 March 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link

My Bus Pass would suggest that I looked like Harry Fricking Potter/Geeky friend from the Wonder Years:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/jel2004/jel142.jpg

― jel --, Monday, 2 March 2009 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link

awwww

― Surmounter, Monday, 2 March 2009 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link

At one point I too had giant glasses with lenses that went 1/2 way down my cheeks. What was up with that?

Surmounter, I know - amazing, right?

― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Monday, 2 March 2009 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link

Also, you were so cute!

― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Monday, 2 March 2009 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link

amazing.

this is me right after college graduation (drunk!)
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g192/rrawn/100nights.jpg

― Surmounter, Monday, 2 March 2009 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link

That's one of the cutest pics I've ever seen of you!!

― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Monday, 2 March 2009 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link

:D aw gee

― Surmounter, Monday, 2 March 2009 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah, I was amazed by the gigantic-ness of the glasses too!! Oh, and thanks, I'm sure my 14-year-old self would have been grateful for the positive reinforcement, though probably would have just mumbled said thanks.

― jel --, Monday, 2 March 2009 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link

i don't post often but this was me in 71 aged 4

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3631/3324290176_921915c47c.jpg

― whatever, Monday, 2 March 2009 23:17 (fifteen years ago) link

I wonder if I can find that shirt in my size...

― kenan, Monday, 2 March 2009 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

braggin' 1993, lower right

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/localpeople.jpg

― I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Saturday, 28 March 2009 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link

upper left: how to hold the ribbon
lower right: how to not hold the ribbon

― I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Saturday, 28 March 2009 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link

lookin smug as hell!

― WHO DEY and the blowfish (roxymuzak), Saturday, 28 March 2009 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link

PIONEER OF AERODYNAMICS (little Eiffel, little Eiffel)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3540/3393246395_b3c2dd4bc9.jpg?v=0

My aunt, my sister, my mom and me in front of the Eiffel Tower. This is one photo I definitely know the date of: Aug. 16, 1977. It was the day Elvis Presley died, since we were in Paris that day on vacation and my mother found out via a French newspaper headline on a bus.

― lolling through my bagel (Pancakes Hackman), Sunday, 29 March 2009 01:57 (fifteen years ago) link

I have no idea what was going on here but it was my birthday party and I look like I had just enjoyed some cake:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/pirate.jpg

Future ILX poster ENBB (on L) learns computers:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/computer.jpg

― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Sunday, 29 March 2009 02:05 (fifteen years ago) link

Obv not me but I <3 this picture of my Dad. Was taken some time in the early-mid 70s in our old place on Fire Island:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/gbock.jpg

― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Sunday, 29 March 2009 02:07 (fifteen years ago) link

computer picture is A+, should be wikimedia commons pic of day imo

― WHO DEY and the blowfish (roxymuzak), Sunday, 29 March 2009 02:10 (fifteen years ago) link

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v140/181/69/660395246/n660395246_1387602_4505.jpg

― ambulance chaser (S-), Sunday, 29 March 2009 02:34 (fifteen years ago) link

erica i knew that was you even before i saw your name! S- looks very feldman.

― I wish I was the royal trux (sunny successor), Sunday, 29 March 2009 02:55 (fifteen years ago) link

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/minnesotawelcome.jpg

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/bwstage.jpg

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/sunset.jpg

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 29 March 2009 04:28 (fifteen years ago) link

http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1337/5/94/649550638/n649550638_2191816_2289.jpg

― Comprehensive Nuclear Suggest-Ban Treaty (Hurting 2), Sunday, 29 March 2009 05:03 (fifteen years ago) link

"OK, guys, blues riff in B, follow me for the changes and, uh, try to keep up!"

― lolling through my bagel (Pancakes Hackman), Sunday, 29 March 2009 13:38 (fifteen years ago) link

http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v65/224/57/516053577/n516053577_33065_2459.jpg
The worst thing about this picture is people now think it says CREED, but it is a TLC shirt. Grade 8.

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v350/224/57/516053577/n516053577_872716_3083.jpg
apples!!

http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v65/224/57/516053577/n516053577_33054_4294.jpg
that boy doesn't look exactly happy :(

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Sunday, 29 March 2009 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link

standing up, suspiciously holding a rock. we don't have to wear the same clothes anymore, which is a relief.

http://www.geocities.com/darraghmac/car.jpg

― Anthony, I am not an Alcoholic & Drunk (darraghmac), Sunday, 29 March 2009 23:51 (fifteen years ago) link

Awwww - all these pics are so cute.

SS - funny that you spotted that right away!

― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Sunday, 29 March 2009 23:59 (fifteen years ago) link

http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2684/97/69/588168331/n588168331_2399569_2055365.jpg

― open up a cat of whup-ass (dan m), Thursday, 2 April 2009 03:46 (fifteen years ago) link

this thread is awesome

― baaderonixx, Thursday, 2 April 2009 07:48 (fifteen years ago) link

dan u look v pleased to be on them skins

― just DO THE STANKY HOOS plain and steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 2 April 2009 08:03 (fifteen years ago) link

http://xs538.xs.to/xs538/09144/leo_hoos400.jpg

4th birthday

http://xs538.xs.to/xs538/09144/worlds_fastest_hoos571.jpeg

chillin in "the world's fastest chair" (???) approx 1998

http://xs538.xs.to/xs538/09144/xmas_hoos134.jpg

i'd guess xmas 88-89

― just DO THE STANKY HOOS plain and steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 2 April 2009 09:07 (fifteen years ago) link

OMG the last pic! So cute!

― Tuomas, Thursday, 2 April 2009 09:10 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah idk what the deal was with the shorts

― just DO THE STANKY HOOS plain and steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 2 April 2009 09:19 (fifteen years ago) link

"really mom? a sky blue suit with SHORTS?"

― just DO THE STANKY HOOS plain and steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 2 April 2009 09:19 (fifteen years ago) link

Hoos that last picture is ridic. Look how cute you were! OMG.

― ENBB, Thursday, 2 April 2009 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link

i think they make you look fat, man. that colour just isn't you.

― Anthony, I am not an Alcoholic & Drunk (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 April 2009 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link

nice gift haul tho!

― Anthony, I am not an Alcoholic & Drunk (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 April 2009 11:21 (fifteen years ago) link

http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2347/93/37/1367529924/n1367529924_272043_7336148.jpg

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 2 April 2009 11:48 (fifteen years ago) link

http://api.ning.com/files/0hD39v3DSgoRXNmhj8o2mZwPcR0djREqmwFTCCDlHlYu*x7AnjthD0sz3w5qcDcbQIT2WRd95xGOttpaXRhzMVoOplUU*NTl/lost_locke_orange1.jpg

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Thursday, 2 April 2009 13:07 (fifteen years ago) link

That guy looks kinda scary, who is he?

― Tuomas, Thursday, 2 April 2009 13:08 (fifteen years ago) link

That is jaymc.

― tits akimbo (kenan), Thursday, 2 April 2009 13:09 (fifteen years ago) link

This thread was for old photos, not photos of the future.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 2 April 2009 13:10 (fifteen years ago) link

Haha. Tuomas, it's a character from the show Lost.

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Thursday, 2 April 2009 13:13 (fifteen years ago) link

Oh. What's with the orange?

― Tuomas, Thursday, 2 April 2009 13:13 (fifteen years ago) link

Is it a show about lost fruit?

― Tuomas, Thursday, 2 April 2009 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link

Stop ruining your thread.

― caek, Thursday, 2 April 2009 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link

n/a that is amazing and i thank you for it

― just DO THE STANKY HOOS plain and steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 2 April 2009 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link

right on

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 2 April 2009 16:03 (fifteen years ago) link

http://xs538.xs.to/xs538/09144/xmas_hoos134.jpg

THE TINIEST OF STEEEEENS

― WHO DEY and the blowfish (roxymuzak), Friday, 3 April 2009 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link

omg tiny hoos aka the xmascheerdriver

― goaty (harbl), Friday, 3 April 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link

OK, these aren't me, but my mom has been scanning a bunch of old photos and sending them to me. Here's mom and my grandfather on her and my dad's wedding day in 1965:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3573/3417974755_f2acf69ef3_m.jpg

And here's my mom and my dad almost exactly 10 years later, going to my mom's 10th HS reunion. Dad's suit is just insane here. His day job was the Army, so when he was out of uniform, man oh man:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3315/3417974819_1b1ff44e9d_m.jpg

― OK, fine, yes, I Goggled it (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link

OMG THAT SUIT

― EN Save-A-Ken BB (ENBB), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link

It's MAGNIFICENT.

― EN Save-A-Ken BB (ENBB), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link

I have to find the picture from when we went on a trip to Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm and dad is wearing these, like, purple striped pants and crazy-ass platform shoes.

― OK, fine, yes, I Goggled it (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7026/dinosaurq.jpg

Five years ago.

― i'm shy (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link

um, nice antenna?

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link

They were chopsticks. Holding the back of my hair in chopsticks was my general look at the time. The bishop at my church made the jape every week, "Did you know you have CHOPSTICKS in your HAIR?"

This go round when my hair is long, it'll probably be knitting needles.

― i'm shy (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link

You look like the star of your own sci-fi show about you and your dinosaur pal.

― OK, fine, yes, I Goggled it (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link

Guys, Jimmy Stewart was a general in the Air Force Reserves. He flew bombers in WWII. The chances that he was a flaming pinko even by non-Hollywood standards were pretty low.

― OK, fine, yes, I Goggled it (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link

Sry, wrong thread.

― OK, fine, yes, I Goggled it (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3590/3424070820_b745f5825d_o.jpg
Drew goes to college. But what the hell is that thing on my head?

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 13:24 (fifteen years ago) link

I remember those kind of caps, they were called "bola" or something in Finland.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 13:48 (fifteen years ago) link

black plastic in the hour of chaos

― c?rvel (ice cr?m), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 14:15 (fifteen years ago) link

DD was down the PE.

yeah, in that picture I'm kind of showing off my 4 track and video editing n effects rig that I used to make abstract psychedelic garbage video there. And posing like crazy obviously.

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link

I read that as "posting" and I was like, already?!!

― CHOIRS OF TUPPENCE (roxymuzak), Sunday, 12 April 2009 07:24 (fifteen years ago) link

high school graduation. i had just cut off my long hair the day before.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3309/3432225079_7d12ddf64a.jpg

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Sunday, 12 April 2009 07:44 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Somewhere in California, 1978.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/cali-k.jpg

― my features are so intense (kenan), Monday, 25 May 2009 11:18 (fourteen years ago) link

five months pass...

sitting in paolo maldini's chair, 3 years and probably 2 1/2 stone ago:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/818963/maldini.JPG

― you can have this tapdance here for free (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 03:50 (fourteen years ago) link

This is still one of the cutest things ever. Little Hoos!

http://xs538.xs.to/xs538/09144/xmas_hoos134.jpg

I just wish it was bigger. I mean the pic, of course. I like the tiny Hoos.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link

i still say the colour don't suit him.

― you can have this tapdance here for free (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 03:54 (fourteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Mum's been scanning me some old photos.

Here's me in 1988, my 17th birthday. I look so tiny and so young!

http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs084.snc3/15135_189304867756_726857756_3452797_2944564_n.jpg

― hulk would smash (Trayce), Thursday, 26 November 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/me3.jpg

― caek, Thursday, 26 November 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link

love my lounge suit.

― caek, Thursday, 26 November 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link

wait, paolo maldini's chair? 'xplain darragh.

― liverpolol da don (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 26 November 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link

http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu241/dnvnoo/july_4_1988_wdybll.jpg

― Cleveland Spider Cupid Childs (los blue jeans), Saturday, 28 November 2009 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/img003.jpg

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Saturday, 28 November 2009 03:28 (fourteen years ago) link

Ha you havent changed a bit ;D

― hulk would smash (Trayce), Saturday, 28 November 2009 03:37 (fourteen years ago) link

I may have posted this before; can't recall. It's my only online picture from the past. In college -- and drunk -- I think:

http://i49.tinypic.com/33nvjmq.jpg

I'm on the left (I'm the one with no glasses). So very long ago now. Sorry if it's a repeat. If I knew how to digitize old physical photos, I'd try that.

― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 28 November 2009 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link

(Now that I think about it, that might be from my bachelor party. My good friend (on the right, with glasses) organized it for me.)

― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 28 November 2009 03:45 (fourteen years ago) link

Fixing broken links upthread...

1973 in Switzerland

http://www.quartzcity.net/images/ckb_matterhorn73.jpg

1977 with dinosaur bone.

http://www.quartzcity.net/images/ckb_dinosaurpark.jpg

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 28 November 2009 03:47 (fourteen years ago) link

I'm at my parents' house for a long Thanksgiving weekend with family and found some embarrassing old high school photos in my room. Will see if I can unbork their scanner and get them up, that is if scanning them doesn't re-break the damn thing.

― More Butty In Your Pants (Telephone thing), Saturday, 28 November 2009 05:36 (fourteen years ago) link

elvis, those are fantastic!

― tehresa, Saturday, 28 November 2009 05:38 (fourteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs121.snc3/16865_1276314222708_1075536484_30871565_5122016_n.jpg

16 or 17

― sugg knight (The Reverend), Saturday, 26 December 2009 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link

― livinginthesunlightlovinginthemoonlighthavingawonderfultime (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, 26 December 2009 03:54 (fourteen years ago) link

this guy!

― deej--nuts, butthurt, and yelly (gbx), Saturday, 26 December 2009 03:55 (fourteen years ago) link

Whoa, that's a mighty afro!

― Tuomas, Saturday, 26 December 2009 10:25 (fourteen years ago) link

classic

― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Saturday, 26 December 2009 14:05 (fourteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

i just received several boxes of crap from my mom's house and found some awesome pics in a 'book' i made when i was approx 6 years old.

highlights:

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs195.snc3/20269_240021526588_506836588_3399861_2623032_n.jpg
http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs175.snc3/20269_240021451588_506836588_3399851_2068584_n.jpg
(dad says this was actually isle of palms)
http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs175.snc3/20269_240021501588_506836588_3399858_7194222_n.jpg

― tehresa, Sunday, 10 January 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link

Nice pics, such happy smiles!

― Tuomas, Sunday, 10 January 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link

impressive sand castle!

― Super Cub, Sunday, 10 January 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link

my father said we had a 3 bedroom condo in the top of the tower behind for $125/night! lol.

― tehresa, Sunday, 10 January 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link

wait, paolo maldini's chair? 'xplain darragh.

― liverpolol da don (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 26 November 2009 21:27 (1 month ago)

never saw this! the explanation is that i'm sitting in paolo maldini's chair in the changing room at the san siro, the tour of which is fantastic if you're ever in milan.

― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 January 2010 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link

aww cute!

one of my friends posted a few pictures from high school on facebook today (not public, can't share), and i am sort of depressed by how exactly the same i look in them. most of my friends have better style, hair, etc. by now, mine are only slightly different!

― Maria, Monday, 11 January 2010 02:17 (fourteen years ago) link

A friend of mine posted her 1988 high school class photo on FB and what amuses me is how exactly like my own class that year all the heairstyles and clothing is on everyone. Shaggy, big hair, denim and lots of vaguely oversized shirts not tucked in.

― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Monday, 11 January 2010 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link

what was your year?

― Maria, Monday, 11 January 2010 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh I finished HS in 1988 too :) But she was in a city school in Melb and I was in a country school in NSW - curious how universal teens can be.

― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Monday, 11 January 2010 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link

i posted some hs photos too and my old friend and i were reminiscing about those horrible polyester shirts from the mid-late 90s. so terrible, but i lovvvvved them.

― tehresa, Monday, 11 January 2010 03:29 (fourteen years ago) link

also a hella lot of jncos in those pics!

― tehresa, Monday, 11 January 2010 03:42 (fourteen years ago) link

i miss the jncos/polyester shirt (preferably w/ flames or dragons) combo

― jortin shartgent (harbl), Monday, 11 January 2010 03:47 (fourteen years ago) link

i still have a shirt with flames on the sleeves from hs. (um, actually, i am wearing it now!) but it is a pretty plain cotton shirt otherwise.

― Maria, Monday, 11 January 2010 03:55 (fourteen years ago) link

I think the jnco / dragon shirt look is still popular w/ juggalos

― Dinosauciers (los blue jeans), Monday, 11 January 2010 03:58 (fourteen years ago) link

iirc this look was meant to indicate "I love raving!" or "I have heard of a rave" or "I rented Go last night"

― Dinosauciers (los blue jeans), Monday, 11 January 2010 04:00 (fourteen years ago) link

maybe now but back then pretty much everyone was rocking this look. i don't think i ever had a flame/dragon shirt, though. i was more into the polyester faux 60s revival crap.

― tehresa, Monday, 11 January 2010 04:09 (fourteen years ago) link

this was my all-time favorite polyester shirt. my mother DETESTED it.
http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs195.snc3/20269_241641471588_506836588_3408843_4343465_n.jpg

― tehresa, Monday, 11 January 2010 04:20 (fourteen years ago) link

ps: lol 80s

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs175.snc3/20269_240021546588_506836588_3399864_1094271_n.jpg

― tehresa, Monday, 11 January 2010 04:37 (fourteen years ago) link

workin it!

― Dinosauciers (los blue jeans), Monday, 11 January 2010 04:43 (fourteen years ago) link

FASHON

― tehresa, Monday, 11 January 2010 04:44 (fourteen years ago) link

LUNA FASHON

― kate moss and heavy machinery in a dessert (Stevie D), Monday, 11 January 2010 05:02 (fourteen years ago) link

http://www.popstarsplus.com/images/LunaVachonPicture.jpg

― kate moss and heavy machinery in a dessert (Stevie D), Monday, 11 January 2010 05:02 (fourteen years ago) link

http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v653/249/65/713441069/n713441069_2337913_7641.jpg
~1980

http://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs136.snc1/5813_138548961069_713441069_3751143_8174869_n.jpg
~1983

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v316/249/65/713441069/n713441069_1832123_1828.jpg
~1996

― she is writing about love (Jenny), Monday, 11 January 2010 05:13 (fourteen years ago) link

In the top picture, I am drawing "Paul Stanley of Kiss" on the chalkboard in my grandparents' kitchen.

― she is writing about love (Jenny), Monday, 11 January 2010 05:14 (fourteen years ago) link

<3 <3

― tehresa, Monday, 11 January 2010 05:15 (fourteen years ago) link

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/818963/Old%20Pictures%20010.jpg

digging through old pics for scanning to new pc. nice to see my morning routine re: hair and shirt ironing hasn't changed.

― Not even if your arse had nipples (darraghmac), Monday, 25 January 2010 01:48 (fourteen years ago) link

You look like a rascal.

― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Monday, 25 January 2010 01:49 (fourteen years ago) link

i think that's why i eventually just defaulted to acting like one, tbh

my little brother, OTOH, was assumed to be an angel, and it's really no surprise:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/818963/Old%20Pictures%20028.jpg

― Not even if your arse had nipples (darraghmac), Monday, 25 January 2010 01:51 (fourteen years ago) link

and these are just so the other two don't feel left out:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/818963/Old%20Pictures%20025.jpg

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/818963/Old%20Pictures%20001.jpg

― Not even if your arse had nipples (darraghmac), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:03 (fourteen years ago) link

All four of you have the same parents?

― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:04 (fourteen years ago) link

we get that a lot

― Not even if your arse had nipples (darraghmac), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:05 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah we do, is the answer, btw

― Not even if your arse had nipples (darraghmac), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link

i mean, we've never been tested or anything though.

― Not even if your arse had nipples (darraghmac), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link

You're all just so different looking and OMG the ginger! <3

― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link

for a sec I thought all four of those photos were some sort of darraghmac-through-the-years thing

― dyao, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link

Now that would be amazing.

― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link

there used to be pics of me with platinum blonde ringlets, but i don't have those, other than that, sorry to disappoint :)

― Not even if your arse had nipples (darraghmac), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link

eh there's already a what did ur family used to look like thread i think, should probably invade that one.

― Not even if your arse had nipples (darraghmac), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link

Here's one of me with blonde ringlets (not a great look in hindsight) then - prom pic I found last weekend (already on lol high school thread)

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/img019.jpg

― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link

u r v tall?

― Not even if your arse had nipples (darraghmac), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:17 (fourteen years ago) link

Yes. I am 5'9" (and a 1/2!). I was wearing heels there too so probably around 6 feet.

― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:19 (fourteen years ago) link

blonde ringlets was a killer look on me, tbh. people find that hard to believe nowadays.

― Not even if your arse had nipples (darraghmac), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link

if i may say so, wearing heels on top of 5 ft 9 1/2 was ...... inconsiderate

― Not even if your arse had nipples (darraghmac), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link

Fuck that imo. I wanted to wear heels and so I did . . . for a bit. Changed into sneakers almost immediately after arriving at the venue because I hate walking in heels. Just wanted them for the pictures tbh.

― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link

w . . . kiw

shortie

― mookieproof, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link

quick estimate say's guy's around 5 10 just sayin shortie's harsh on dude

― Not even if your arse had nipples (darraghmac), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah if memory serves he was somewhere around that. First boyfriend - dated for 3 years. He was great. Talked to him recently and he's a P.I. now. Crazy!

― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link

both KIW and Sed that night btw

― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link

jealous

― mookieproof, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link

he has got a knowing smile now that i look

― Not even if your arse had nipples (darraghmac), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link

http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu241/dnvnoo/188183952_cb164a4934_o.jpg

~2000 i guess. (guy in back with glasses)

― tube socks and a box of krispy kreme (los blue jeans), Monday, 25 January 2010 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link

I've been friends with most of these dudes for > 20 yrs now

― tube socks and a box of krispy kreme (los blue jeans), Monday, 25 January 2010 03:04 (fourteen years ago) link

aww that little blonde dude <3

― no more springs no more summers no more falls (sunny successor), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link

http://grab.by/20so

― scent of a wolfman (s1ocki), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link

what up dudes

http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v648/95/37/1592873484/n1592873484_1035777_4623.jpg

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link

Slocki, that is excellent!

― Mit der Kattzheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens (Michael White), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link

I really like these threads but I don't think I've ever contributed to one (?)

so here I'm being an overexposed twee toddler (I am eating chips; there is another picture of me somewhere with the bag of chips ON MY HEAD but I didn't scan that one :( :( )
http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs256.ash1/18350_582701864837_120605419_34800213_5032783_n.jpg

and swingin' in the rain
http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs256.ash1/18350_582701859847_120605419_34800212_5990727_n.jpg

and workin' out
http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v124/242/51/120605419/n120605419_31715177_227.jpg

― salsa sharkshavin (salsa shark), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link

Workin' out is classic!

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link

I just learned to digitize old photos. Hope this works. Me and my grandmother, around 1992:

http://i47.tinypic.com/m9xgn7.jpg

I miss her, sometimes now even more than I used to.

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 1 February 2010 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link

that is absolutely, heart warmingly adorable

― you have to forgive me (surm), Monday, 1 February 2010 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link

Thank you!

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 1 February 2010 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link

Someone needs to move that photo of sunny in the Lemonheads shirt to the 90s HOT thread immediately.

― kate78, Monday, 1 February 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link

Totally happy to figure out this "scan old photos" notion. Anyway, our wedding:

http://i45.tinypic.com/2jaf951.jpg

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 1 February 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link

Shit your grandma looks like she was awesome.

― 26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Monday, 1 February 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link

what a beautiful wife!

― you have to forgive me (surm), Monday, 1 February 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link

― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Monday, 1 February 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link

Thanks. My grandma was awesome. And yeah, my wife is amazing. Not a line of nonsense, but she's far better than I deserve.

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 1 February 2010 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33544275@N00/4333364549/

― voices from the manstep (brownie), Saturday, 6 February 2010 04:04 (fourteen years ago) link

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2681/4333364549_bb5fa4bf30_m.jpg

― voices from the manstep (brownie), Saturday, 6 February 2010 04:09 (fourteen years ago) link

30 years ago, Farrah Fawcett hair fail, freshman year of college:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2785/4334142570_69c2ab19cf.jpg

― Jaq, Saturday, 6 February 2010 04:30 (fourteen years ago) link

hello, I am 15

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/msieu150-1.jpg

― Tracy J0rdan S. (sic), Sunday, 7 February 2010 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link

everytime i open this thread i think to myself "cot damn those bald chicks are fine"

― anita bonghit (rionat), Sunday, 7 February 2010 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link

sic!!! amazing

― jabba hands, Sunday, 7 February 2010 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link

way too awesome.

― arch-enemy Gay Cowboy Monster (the table is the table), Sunday, 7 February 2010 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link

lol kit nice to see youve always been rockin' the 'hawk =)

― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Sunday, 7 February 2010 03:47 (fourteen years ago) link

jaq i love your jacket!

― tehresa, Sunday, 7 February 2010 03:50 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh man that's amazing.

― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Sunday, 7 February 2010 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link

jaq your hair is awesome. just needs the blonde and aquanet factor pumped up to meet farrah heights.

sic, arent you australian? how did the majority dickhead population not beat you up every day???

― no more springs no more summers no more falls (sunny successor), Sunday, 7 February 2010 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link

aww and thanks kate78 <3

― no more springs no more summers no more falls (sunny successor), Sunday, 7 February 2010 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link

ha Trayce, I am thinking about having a mohawk again next week for fancy dress purposes

sunny - this must have been school holidays for that hair, but don't worry, I did get casually punched on the semi-reg and "FAGGOT!!"ed most days of middle school

― Tracy J0rdan S. (sic), Monday, 8 February 2010 01:14 (fourteen years ago) link

I didn't know that Jaq was a lady. Your hair was great! You really stand out against the bleakness of that farm.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 8 February 2010 12:22 (fourteen years ago) link

Not posted for a while...
<a href="http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b192/cavern-/?action=view¤t=IMG_3650-1.jpg"; target="_blank"><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b192/cavern-/IMG_3650-1.jpg"; border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

― not_goodwin, Monday, 8 February 2010 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link

seems i forgot how to as well :(
help, someone?

― not_goodwin, Monday, 8 February 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b192/cavern-/IMG_3650-1.jpg

there you go

― Jaq, Monday, 8 February 2010 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link

thanks sunny! I never did sort out the back-combing/teasing/hairspray business, just attacked it with a curling iron at random. Oh bleak rural Indiana in mid-winter melt.

― Jaq, Monday, 8 February 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link

Thank you very much :)

― not_goodwin, Monday, 8 February 2010 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link

three months pass...

recently harvested a whole bunch o' photos from a friend's computer. fuckin' love this one:
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg187/nick-uptoeleven/DomDamosEighteenth005.jpg

two months shy of my eighteenth birthday. i was fired from a really shitty job for dying my hair that colour.

― snakebite and a passable pinot noir (Upt0eleven), Saturday, 22 May 2010 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link

http://phildellio.tripod.com/bench.jpg

Spring training, 1972. I was gunning for his job, but it didn't work out.

― clemenza, Saturday, 22 May 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link

That is awesome!

― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Saturday, 22 May 2010 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link

four months pass...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/5084690105_0acd45c6df.jpg
our drummer just found this old band practice picture; I was the "bang on scrap metal" guy

― the tune is space, Saturday, 16 October 2010 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link

Me with a little neighbor kid in 1972, aged ~17.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4145/5084741255_e856c93c64_b.jpg

― Aimless, Saturday, 16 October 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link

Me on top of a mountain in the Canadian Rockies, Banff, circa 1978, aged ~23.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4085/5084741327_379d2415ce_b.jpg

― Aimless, Saturday, 16 October 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link

One final oversized homage to my past self. Me circa 1982, aged ~27.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/5084741293_601f872581_b.jpg

― Aimless, Saturday, 16 October 2010 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link

Love this thread! Aimless, that 72 pic looks like an album cover...so great.

Me and my little sis (me on left), maybe 1982-ish. Mum was a freak about having us wear matching clothes. (There's one somewhere with Mum in it too wearing a red & white tracksuit, lol)

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/sharonandfiona.jpg

― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Saturday, 16 October 2010 01:36 (thirteen years ago) link

all lovely pics

― dayo, Saturday, 16 October 2010 01:41 (thirteen years ago) link

I have a wealth of photos like that of my younger brother and me. Usually not identical outfits, but the same designs in complementary colors.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 16 October 2010 01:51 (thirteen years ago) link

That one was Pixi Foto @ Woolworth's, if memory serves

― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Saturday, 16 October 2010 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link

Are Facebook photos remotely linkable? I guess I shall see.

Spring 1990. There are so many embarrassing things about this photo.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1244/55/118/882680065/n882680065_5079598_8507.jpg

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 16 October 2010 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link

I wish I had a Dick Tracy shirt, no joke.

― The Ten Things I Hate About Commandments (Abbbottt), Saturday, 16 October 2010 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link

I had that shirt well into the '90s. Long after I should've donated it away, anyway.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 16 October 2010 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link

This is probably in the fall of the same year (11th grade). I borrowed that Cure shirt from my friend Jason because I wanted to be immortalized in the yearbook being a Cure fan.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2076/201/116/1258732703/n1258732703_267659_3738.jpg

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 16 October 2010 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link

nice

― call all destroyer, Saturday, 16 October 2010 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link

I think I have the same black casio watch

― dayo, Saturday, 16 October 2010 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link

That's a SWATCH I'll have you know.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 16 October 2010 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link

Photo a friend took around 91.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs166.snc4/37661_146851531998406_115637755119784_440015_2684596_n.jpg

― Darin, Saturday, 16 October 2010 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link

this is probably from '91? with my dog bonnie
http://imgur.com/c9GNL.jpg

the weirdest and best picture of me, about eight years old
http://imgur.com/svDyV.jpg

three years ago (2007) with my dog gordon looking very much like a teddy bear
http://imgur.com/PwTDM.jpg

― babygirlwc, Saturday, 16 October 2010 04:35 (thirteen years ago) link

and yeah! the bald people are babes

― babygirlwc, Saturday, 16 October 2010 04:35 (thirteen years ago) link

My parents had their 50th Anniversary this past summer & I combed through thousands of old prints and slides to make a digital slideshow for the occasion. Here are a few of yours truly, (almost) randomly chosen from all the scans I made.

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/8185/me01.jpg

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/7969/me02.jpg

http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/5727/me03wk.jpg

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/8417/me04u.jpg

that last one was taken at the Pompeii ruins during a family vacation to Italy etc. Please consider that I did not deface this priceless statue with a rock-for-a-head - I found it like that, though I did furnish the the mirrored Lennon shades, Walkman & black beret w/ Circle Jerks, D.R.I., Watchmen badges (can't remember what the fourth is - The Cure maybe?).

― lol @ dog w/ sunglasses (Pillbox), Saturday, 16 October 2010 07:16 (thirteen years ago) link

awwww

also I love all of the ones that aimless posted!

― master of retardment (ENBB), Saturday, 16 October 2010 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link

juxtaposing darth vader and batman is a+++++

― dayo, Saturday, 16 October 2010 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah, the Aimless ones (particularly the first) are great. And I love Pillbox's last one.

― emil.y, Saturday, 16 October 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link

Aimless & Darin, those are some v nice b&ws

JF, had you been my upperclassman, I probably would have annoyed the shit out of you asking about bands you were into and what not, esp. if you were also into skateboarding (as your haircut would suggest). Then I would really have been riding your coattails!

― lol @ dog w/ sunglasses (Pillbox), Saturday, 16 October 2010 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link

And I definitely would have had a crush on you, so you've got that going for you, too.

― Regular Stormy (Jenny), Saturday, 16 October 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link

I had a couple of boards and I hung out with the sk8 or die crew, but I could never master the art. I suppose you could call me a poseur! xp

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 16 October 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link

I have that Cure shirt!

― CharlieS, Saturday, 16 October 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link

http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k546/tachikawa66/ScioticsPicSmall.jpg
'miner circa. 1983 with our ska band, the sciotics. i'm the one with shades and skinhead, kind of in the center, pretending i'm Jerry Dammers

― KC & the sunshine banned (outdoor_miner), Sunday, 17 October 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link

At uni, 10(!!) years ago. Hand over face.

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f223/joegood/5179_218181820509_801825509_7423540_1972176_n.jpg

― A brownish area with points (chap), Sunday, 17 October 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link

Which halls of residence is that? Can't be Kingston as it's too luxurious...

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 17 October 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link

That was in the third year, when most people were living in rented houses. I went to uni in Norwich, BTW.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Sunday, 17 October 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link

Although thinking about it, that may be a room in either Suffolk or Norfolk Terrace.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Sunday, 17 October 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link

Me, my baby brother, and a whole lot of wood paneling.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/mebro_1981.jpg

― kenan, Sunday, 17 October 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link

Apparently I meant business.

― kenan, Sunday, 17 October 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link

Cute!

― Regular Stormy (Jenny), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link

Apparently I meant business.

"Are you talkin' to me? Are you talkin' to me?"

― clemenza, Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link

recently unearthed photo, from 1990, i think. me and a friend at the nat'l college debate tournament, iirc (very cool, i know).

http://i55.tinypic.com/2hcjfxh.jpg

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link

On a couch in the 80's after being given a delicious drink by a stranger.

http://f.cl.ly/items/0697b0578bb2ed13efdb/smallchris%20sitting.jpg

― Pinktits, Sunday, 17 October 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link

November 1986 school photo, aged 5

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs225.snc4/38610_10150231022825022_837550021_14016547_8213185_n.jpg

― krakow, Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link

SWAG

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/A002-018.jpg

DESERT STORM

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/A005-025.jpg

― dayo, Monday, 18 October 2010 01:05 (thirteen years ago) link

super unzenlike t-shirt slogan!

great thread, this

― entrylev leviev (nakhchivan), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link

dyao such a pimp with his pinked up wheels imo

― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link

rockin red shorts on the left.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/818963/groupriver.jpg

― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:53 (thirteen years ago) link

That photo is amazing! :D

― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Monday, 18 October 2010 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link

20th century catholic ireland, indeed

― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Monday, 18 October 2010 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link

I wish I could find the one of me in a sparkly fairy costume and wand when I was about 5. I'm as blonde as anything.

― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Monday, 18 October 2010 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link

I am suprised I havent posted this one on here, this is on my FB though:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs099.snc1/4748_97454692756_726857756_2421340_5974478_n.jpg

...its pretty obvious which one is me, ha.

― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Monday, 18 October 2010 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link

I was going to put up a photo from yearbook of 8th grade, me dressed as a taxi for Halloween. Oh shit, never open your 8th grade yearbook.

― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Monday, 18 October 2010 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeahhh no one is getting to see the school pix of me from year 8 or ESPECIALLY year 9, when I had braces and a PERM :(

― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Monday, 18 October 2010 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link

permaban on those pics, would u say?

― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Monday, 18 October 2010 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link

Oh ho ho.

― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Monday, 18 October 2010 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link

You guys, I had feathered bangs, a faceful of acne and a Dick Tracy shirt. Braces and perms ain't shit!

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 October 2010 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link

I had a puffy top with a home-ironed-on glittery Nik Kershaw image on the front, if that helps :/

― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Monday, 18 October 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link

Far right, 4yo I think?:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs220.snc3/22768_216722011537_687686537_3306487_2794557_n.jpg

― nico muesli (corey), Monday, 18 October 2010 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm most embarrassed about being photographed in a damn LETTER JACKET - which my mom really really wanted me to wear in senior photos to fulfill her weird 50s ideals or something. Holy shit do I look like an idiot in so many ways here.

Anyway, this was early on a Saturday morning in September of my senior year. A friend lived right near the university and we found this college student completely passed out in the driveway, lying in a puddle of his own urine with a copy of Hustler rolled up in his back pocket:

http://i.imgur.com/y97M2.jpg

― joygoat, Monday, 18 October 2010 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link

srs irl lols @ pee hustler

jg, what college would that man have been attending, just out of curiosity?

― lol @ dog w/ sunglasses (Pillbox), Monday, 18 October 2010 05:51 (thirteen years ago) link

On a couch in the 80's after being given a delicious drink by a stranger.

people who only post to the what did you use to look like thread

― Snr Cnst Dick (sic), Monday, 18 October 2010 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link

I remember when I was 19 thinking I looked like one of the Wiggin sisters...it was totally the hair + baby fat combo.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs488.ash1/26673_1499804583262_1478585451_1267801_3523502_n.jpg

― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Thursday, 28 October 2010 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link

Would shagg.

― nickn, Thursday, 28 October 2010 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link

so bright! all my friends wore black, grey, white or muted blue.

― Shakey Sides (sunny successor), Thursday, 28 October 2010 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link

http://phildellio.tripod.com/1979.jpg

Close to my favorite old photo of myself, probably dating to '78 or '79. There's one I'd rather have even more, but my dad had the great foresight to spend 10 or 15 years taking family photos in slide format (and the equally great foresight to have all those slides transferred onto a VHS tape in the '90s): me about to head out for Neil Young's Rust show in the winter of '79, wearing overalls, a plaid shirt, a black pinstriped jacket (just like on Tonight's the Night), a trucker's hat, and work boots. Can't find the tape, else I'd try to retrieve it.

― clemenza, Thursday, 4 November 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link

Love how Tuomas' best friend in 1997 was a female clone of him.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Friday, 5 November 2010 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v308/196/70/551266753/n551266753_1192694_9830.jpg

I've got to get around to scanning all mine in, but for now the best I can do is one that someone else scanned that I'm in the background of. The only 11 year old at presbyterian camp with a bitchin' collection of thrash metal shirts.

― What if mod was one of us? (kkvgz), Friday, 5 November 2010 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1160.snc4/150218_496312433782_556118782_7157637_8128974_n.jpg

Same shirt, about 2 years later!

― kkvgz, Friday, 5 November 2010 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link

I'M ON A BOAT

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg833/scaled.php?tn=0&server=833&filename=yngme.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link

<3 this thread so much

― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 05:45 (thirteen years ago) link

Hoos you are the cutest!!!

― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 05:45 (thirteen years ago) link

I wasn't sure whether to put this here or in the lol college thread, but either way, what I used to look like is: "kind of depraved."

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1352/5188130773_745a8205eb.jpg

― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link

OMG JUSTIN!!!!

― master of retardment (ENBB), Friday, 19 November 2010 02:43 (thirteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

My cousing and I when we were around 4 or 5

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/img004.jpg

― ENBB, Thursday, 16 December 2010 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link

those are dope glasses I wish I had a pair :(

― dayo, Thursday, 16 December 2010 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link

omg that fringe!

― I mean Emma Watson Premier League fit (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 16 December 2010 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah my bangs were sorta out of control, huh?

― ENBB, Thursday, 16 December 2010 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link

I thought bangs were boobs until someone disabused me a few years ago.

― I mean Emma Watson Premier League fit (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 16 December 2010 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link

Jenny you kinda look like a prettier Linda Hamilton upthread.

― lolol ferrari (corey), Thursday, 16 December 2010 02:42 (thirteen years ago) link

ENBB my sister had hair just the same -- glossy, thick shiny, dead straight...I think she may have even had the same hairdresser, lol!

I presume you're tackling him for his lederhosen, no?

― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 16 December 2010 02:42 (thirteen years ago) link

I can only assume so. They are pretty sweet.

― ENBB, Thursday, 16 December 2010 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link

Oh my God, Jenny! I stared at that picture forever and then kept returning to it.

3 or 4 years old:

Me in Colorado by Jesse1, on Flickr

8th grade graduation.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/52/136277970_1b35557155.jpg
Me, 8th grade.

Age 22:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/53/136290936_ebead65191.jpg
Me in DC. Age 22-ish.

― Is that Glenn Danzig or Tommy Wiseau? (Jesse), Thursday, 16 December 2010 02:50 (thirteen years ago) link

I would like to put :Jesse In Colorado 3 or 4 Years Old" on every single Christmas card ever. SO CUTE!

― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 16 December 2010 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link

I forgot about these!

4 or 5 years old:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/51/124940089_0ad82ed510.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/41/124939934_64e0e4efd3.jpg

Aww, thanks!

― Is that Glenn Danzig or Tommy Wiseau? (Jesse), Thursday, 16 December 2010 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link

damn that pic on the right is 100% "jesse shows you how to live"

― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 December 2010 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link

you look exactly the same now!

― mauricio kagel exercise (corey), Thursday, 16 December 2010 03:04 (thirteen years ago) link

(@ Jesse)

― mauricio kagel exercise (corey), Thursday, 16 December 2010 03:04 (thirteen years ago) link

Opened a box a few weeks ago with my senior HS yearbook in it. I didn't really look much like this in high school, I don't think. (For one thing no idea where the jacket or tie came from for this pic, since as far as I recall we had none of those anywhere in our house.)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/IMG_2386.jpg

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 16 December 2010 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link

Were you kidnapped and held against your will at any point?

― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 16 December 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm feeling the striped shirt/diagonally striped tie tho..

― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 16 December 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link

More entertaining is this picture a friend sent me recently of the band we used to be in. I'm in the back, in the, um, anarchy shirt. But without a mullet, at least...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/Desert_Ice.jpg

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 16 December 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link

(we were called Desert Ice...)

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 16 December 2010 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link

Desert Ice is beyond awesome.

Jesse, you are super cute in your helmet on your little tricycle ramp.

― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:06 (thirteen years ago) link

Tipsy, was it a fake shirt/jacket/tie combo? I think I remember for my senior portrait having to put on some fake-tux looking thing over my regular clothes.

― Auto Mall Maniac (kkvgz), Thursday, 16 December 2010 12:51 (thirteen years ago) link

I have no memory of the photo being taken, so anything's possible. More likely is maybe something borrowed from a more respectable friend.

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 16 December 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link

Think I've posted this before but hey. I am the suave dude sitting furthest left. Think we were in Trier.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/meingermany.jpg

― Rage Against the Man-Cream (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 December 2010 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link

What year is that? Clothes and haircuts look very like the time I spent in the U.K. ca. 1979.

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 16 December 2010 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link

that's probably about 1983 so not far off

― Rage Against the Man-Cream (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 December 2010 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

So glad facebook was invented so that I can pillage other people's photo collections to find pictures of myself (I never keep pictures)

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TS6ryjJfW0I/AAAAAAAAAR8/GEUboSo2Fb8/highschoolbw.jpg

Siouxsie shirt!

― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:46 (thirteen years ago) link

self portrait w/ SNAKES

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/8151/snakes02.jpg

*no animals were harmed in the production of this photo

― big ed girlie (Pillbox), Thursday, 13 January 2011 08:05 (thirteen years ago) link

You were a braver little boy than I ever was. I didn't (and still don't) run from snakes or anything, but hell no I'm not picking one up.

― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 13 January 2011 08:07 (thirteen years ago) link

b/w ages of about 4-10, I read & endlessly fascinated by all manner of reptiles, amphibians, fish & insects (& spiders, until I got bit by a nasty one). Thankfully I grew up in an area which, while still def the suburbs, was nestled among a diversity of ecosystems that supplied me w/ ample opportunities to indulge my passion. ftr I never killed anything (save for what I kept for my butterfly & moth collection), tho I had a revolving collection of 'temporary pets' throughout my childhood.

Oddly, even tho I can barely remember what I did last week, I still have a detailed memory of the taxonomy of all those creepy crawly things.

― big ed girlie (Pillbox), Thursday, 13 January 2011 08:27 (thirteen years ago) link

8th grade:
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v10/39/69/4101534/n4101534_30038087_8252.jpg

10th grade:
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs212.snc1/7933_558455124328_3700002_32905343_7159415_n.jpg

― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Thursday, 13 January 2011 08:35 (thirteen years ago) link

hs graduation:
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2578/32/73/1613001911/n1613001911_160120_155757.jpg

lolcollege:
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v132/100/27/4303992/n4303992_30716918_7198.jpg

― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Thursday, 13 January 2011 08:37 (thirteen years ago) link

um, i dunno what i think of myself.

― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Thursday, 13 January 2011 08:38 (thirteen years ago) link

from chubby feel cop to slender hula-banana in two years!

― big ed girlie (Pillbox), Thursday, 13 January 2011 08:47 (thirteen years ago) link

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1271/1387731210_de44ae20f7.jpg

In 1980 (age 6), I was on a local afternoon kids tv show. This was before the family had a vcr, so when it came on tv, my dad set up his camera and took some photos (which makes it look like it's from the '50s). I'd love to get a tape of it now, but there's no way that rinky dink little Public Television station saved all (or any of) those tapes.

― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 13 January 2011 08:59 (thirteen years ago) link

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1205/1387731166_28d478aa05.jpg

That's my younger brother at the very end.

― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 13 January 2011 09:00 (thirteen years ago) link

wow Johnny that's pretty neat! Child star! How long til you start spiralling & rob a convenience store?

Also Siouxsie shirt photo? CUTE!

― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link

Well, I was busted in 1988 shoplifting an Aerosmith tape from K-Mart. At the time, that scared the shit out of me, but now I realize that I was never going to be in that much trouble for stealing something that was about $7.

― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 13 January 2011 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-ash1/v108/120/48/259200096/n259200096_22740_8432.jpg

me about 4/5 years ago. i love this photo partly cos it was such a bad time in my life with illness and i'm proud i got through it, and partly cos i just find the photo funny. no beard too.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 13 January 2011 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link

p much what a schoolmate of d gleeson should look like rly

― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 January 2011 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link

won't even try to deduce that veiled comment, except to say not a schoolmate, just grew up near him!

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 13 January 2011 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link

you wear the pout of privilege comfortably, very comfortably.

― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 January 2011 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link

haha...i can't help it, i have large lips.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 13 January 2011 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link

You remind me of Martin Amis in that pic.

― Alba, Thursday, 13 January 2011 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link

found and scanned this charming image recently:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs764.ash1/165516_10150114237953524_728648523_7623026_1938319_n.jpg

― bernard snowy, Thursday, 13 January 2011 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link

<3 snowy!

― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 13 January 2011 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link

That's a big pen!

― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 13 January 2011 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link

big+awesome+shiny+had like 12 different colors — I distinctly remember it being the Best Birthday Gift Ever

― bernard snowy, Thursday, 13 January 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link

holy crap, rocket pens! I had totally forgotten about those - they had like 20-30 different-colored ballpoints.

― big ed girlie (Pillbox), Thursday, 13 January 2011 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link

okay so maybe morelike 12 then

― big ed girlie (Pillbox), Thursday, 13 January 2011 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link

Hah, a friend posted this on FB last month. Me (in the middle) in 2001 out at the You-Yang ranges with some friends.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs738.snc4/65806_10150150544062995_571112994_8147880_3632114_n.jpg

We call this "the band shot". That new order tshirt is an Actual 80s one.

― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Thursday, 13 January 2011 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iNLtcc6dW9Q/S2JN3tmxweI/AAAAAAAAEJk/sGs4WGEQsfM/s320/Conrad+Nagel+041632.jpg

― conrad, Thursday, 13 January 2011 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link

I just got a new 4-colour ballpoint but I forgot about the massive chunky ones with loads of colours.

Took my 4-colour one to German class thinking that maybe writing different gendered nouns in different colours would help me remember which was which, but it clicks pretty noisily to change colour, so the rest of the class was probably wishing death upon me and my pen.

― agrarian gamekeeper (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 13 January 2011 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link

Aw Trayce that's a great photo! Wd buy the album imo

― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 13 January 2011 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link

me and my wife.

http://i53.tinypic.com/11grbz9.jpg

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 13 January 2011 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link

some years ago.

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 13 January 2011 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link

I had a massive 12 color pen in primary school...they were awesome but pretty sure contributed to my carpal tunnel in later life, lol.

My favorite thing was unscrewing the plastic barrel cover and drawing with all 12 pens at the same time.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 13 January 2011 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link

Aw Daniel! <3

― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 13 January 2011 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs116.snc4/36147_454966027567_537087567_5623221_7997280_n.jpg

I was probably seven in this pic, dressed up as Raggedy Ann for Halloween w/my younger siblings. I remember my mom had been planning it for months and was mad the homemade wig didn't want to stay on my head.

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Friday, 14 January 2011 00:36 (thirteen years ago) link

^^I am making that exact same smile in my high school graduation photo...I wish I had a copy of that, I look like a chubby 10-year-old insaniac.

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Friday, 14 January 2011 00:37 (thirteen years ago) link

Nice Mario costume!

― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 14 January 2011 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link

<3 !!!!!

― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 14 January 2011 05:51 (thirteen years ago) link

http://distillery.s3.amazonaws.com/media/2011/01/15/fdaf1d94d35b4b1083ebb069f7ca7793_7.jpg

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link

wow

― The Hankerciser 200 (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2660/1/111/846520075/n846520075_6379227_3012139.jpg

me and my dad

― Sister is dating a (CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT) (Nijoli), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link

me sometime in the seventies:
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs300.snc4/41343_10150227710410076_846520075_14107529_8093044_n.jpg

me in the eighties at sixteen years old:
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs315.snc3/28412_10150177087405076_846520075_12623571_7817745_n.jpg

― Sister is dating a (CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT) (Nijoli), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link

it really bothers me that my family have taken to doing all of their photography on phones and just keeping the photos there. THEY'RE GOING TO BREAK EVENTUALLY. ALL MEMORIES WILL BE LOST.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link

Far right, 1999

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs018.snc6/166867_119338994806221_100001903648039_132843_6509736_n.jpg

― =(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link

― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link

xpost
nice one, tre. loved that game, but didn't own it. this one was my jam:
http://www.retro-trader.com/images/july2003/boxeddrdunk.jpg

― andrew m., Tuesday, 18 January 2011 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link

someone send Edward III to this thread

― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link

haha i had pp's football game too

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link

they don't make buttons that click like that anymore, i tell you what

― andrew m., Wednesday, 19 January 2011 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link

I had Merlin:

http://www.collectibles-articles.com/antique/collectible-image-large/merlin-handheld-electronic-game-1979-parker-mint-in-box_120655007595.jpg

― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link

DATAMAN

http://www.99er.net/graphics/dataman1.jpg

― The Hankerciser 200 (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link

was flaring nostrils at thread but now ~NOSTALGIA WAVE~

― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 01:37 (thirteen years ago) link

I still own two working speak & spells. Should circuit bend 'em or something.

― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah well I had 'took a lickin from a chicken' so suck it
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/13/15345973_d563e23345.jpg

― calling planet dearth (sunny successor), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link

OMG I have never seen that before, that looks freakin awesome.

― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link

*suckin it*

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link

Seems to me an awful lot of ilxors are revealing that they are actually electronic toys in their past lives. It's hard to wrap my mind around that.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link

http://img573.imageshack.us/img573/8160/photo9p.jpg

Guys, I'm feeling kinda guilty now.

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link

touchdown

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 05:00 (thirteen years ago) link

OK now Im confused. Wait - that wasnt you, its yr kid? Cheator!

― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 05:01 (thirteen years ago) link

posted this before i think but getting nostalgic for '86

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5167/5374581554_dabe170ea9_z.jpg

― brownie, Friday, 21 January 2011 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link

I love buttonback sofas.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 21 January 2011 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link

I was dating Daniel Ash at the time, his picture appears above me top left

― brownie, Friday, 21 January 2011 03:50 (thirteen years ago) link

Brownie! Great pic.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 21 January 2011 04:06 (thirteen years ago) link

thx!

― brownie, Friday, 21 January 2011 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link

I would have been mad jealous of nijoli's beautiness

― calling planet dearth (sunny successor), Thursday, 27 January 2011 03:49 (thirteen years ago) link

aw. i was not very popular at that age but i would love to look like that now with my confidence and knowledge.
thanks, sunny!

― Sister is dating a (CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT) (Nijoli), Thursday, 27 January 2011 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link

me in France, 1995:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/France01July1995.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/France02July1995.jpg

― i want to eat unicorn meat (Eisbaer), Thursday, 27 January 2011 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/France01July1995.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/France02July1995.jpg

― i want to eat unicorn meat (Eisbaer), Thursday, 27 January 2011 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link

Me and my sister, Christmas 1973.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs208.snc1/7532_1215425116743_1562289748_555981_1823837_n.jpg

― Mr. Fart Pop Bass (Phil D.), Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link

Me, my mom, and her poodle, 1981

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs231.snc1/7820_1237457253267_1134308060_751573_5859857_n.jpg

― Mr. Fart Pop Bass (Phil D.), Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link

Wedding photo with my sister and my mom, 20 years ago this year.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs228.snc1/7532_1212666527780_1562289748_548388_5587115_n.jpg

― Mr. Fart Pop Bass (Phil D.), Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link

Eisbaer: I'm confused. Where is yr baguette, yr bicycle, yr striped shirt? :)

Phil: pretty much the definition of "omg cuet" in that Christmas photo

― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link

Eisbaer: I'm confused. Where is yr baguette, yr bicycle, yr striped shirt? :)

it's not enough that i comandeered a French king's throne?!?

also, table is the table had a pre-Nannerpuss Nannerpuss way up thread :-)

― i want to eat unicorn meat (Eisbaer), Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5393606695_614571933a.jpg
somebody else in my high school hardcore band is on a nostalgia bender and they just dug this up and tagged it on facebook

― the tune is space, Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link

Tad, you were and remain a cutie <3

― Citizen SNPs (Trayce), Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5246/5370490813_f246f581dc_m.jpg

^^^me and Baron Karza

― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link

wow that's small

oh well

― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link

1992:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs201.snc4/38399_10150216722455076_846520075_13781405_7981171_n.jpg

one more high school just to showcase the RED ACID WASH:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs295.snc3/28412_10150177087430076_846520075_12623573_4100524_n.jpg

― Sister is dating a (CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT) (Nijoli), Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link

Love that red jumper/striped shirt combo! Hot! <3

― Citizen SNPs (Trayce), Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link

Are you talking to me? It is just a skirt and sweater - not a jumper, if so. My style ain't changed too much, really. My hair certainly has. It looks like I rubbed a ham on it for styling product.

― Sister is dating a (CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT) (Nijoli), Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link

Think she meant jumper/skirt combo (jumper in the AUS sense meaning sweater) anyway she's right - it's great. Would wear that now.

― ‎$^o$ (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link

AH. I had no idea. I was looking at it trying to see how it was considered a jumper. Cute!

― Sister is dating a (CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT) (Nijoli), Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah, i think jumper is brit/aussie speak for sweater.

xpost

thanx trayce -- i also had a Merlin when i was a kid, and i played the shit out of it.

― i want to eat unicorn meat (Eisbaer), Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link

I had a Merlin too btw.

― ‎$^o$ (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 27 January 2011 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link

Sorry yeah I meant jumper/sKirt, wth with my typing. Didn't realise "jumper" was such an odd word elsewhere!

― Citizen SNPs (Trayce), Thursday, 27 January 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link

to my american brain, a jumper is a one piece number.

― Sister is dating a (CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT) (Nijoli), Thursday, 27 January 2011 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah, i think jumper is brit/aussie speak for sweater.

sweater is north american speak for jumper

― Balls is significantly to the left of Brown (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 27 January 2011 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link

Nijoli's photos belong in "90's HOT" thread! Also, young you looks like Blake Lively.

― Mr. Fart Pop Bass (Phil D.), Thursday, 27 January 2011 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link

to my understanding this is a US jumper:

http://cache.pixazza.com/product/full/4131562705.jpeg

and this is an australian jumper:

http://craftastrophe.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/rainbow-jumper.jpg

glad i could help

― calling planet dearth (sunny successor), Friday, 28 January 2011 11:55 (thirteen years ago) link

Phil D i dont know who your sister is looking at in that christmas photo but im pretty sure she struck them dead with that look

― calling planet dearth (sunny successor), Friday, 28 January 2011 11:56 (thirteen years ago) link

this is making me wish is were summer already

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-ash1/v651/137/25/727781067/n727781067_2530821_374.jpg

― ‎$^o$ (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 28 January 2011 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link

NIJ -- I had (and still have!) that very same red coat with the leopard print lining!! I got it at a thrift store and wore the hell out of it during a particularly glam phase I went through.
Maybe I will bust that coat out again, but I wonder if it reeks of smoke. Everything reeked of smoke in the 90s.

― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Friday, 28 January 2011 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs167.snc1/6253_542986563477_6604982_32120686_1273557_n.jpg

senior in high school, missing graduation for a trip to new orleans

― dan m, Friday, 28 January 2011 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link

I also got that coat at the thrift store! a mean girl stole it from my older sister's closet, sadly.

― Sister is dating a (CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT) (Nijoli), Friday, 28 January 2011 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link

OH HAI

http://www.flickr.com/photos/missekawasaki/4859436885/

This is actually cropped - the original is me and my best friend (then boyfriend) both looking all angsty and miserable, like a happy grunge couple should. From about '96, I guess? So I would've been about 15.

― emil.y, Friday, 28 January 2011 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link

Oh fuck, that didn't work.

― emil.y, Friday, 28 January 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link

How about this?

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4101/4859436885_38537a1d91_o.jpg

― emil.y, Friday, 28 January 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link

"Really? You're taking my picture now? I'm starving. Let's go."

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 28 January 2011 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link

wkiw '96 emily! In fact 96 emily looks a lot like 93 Vegemite Grrl. Pretty sure I was wearing the same jacket and t-shirt, lol :)

― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 28 January 2011 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah, I had a Nirvana t-shirt for every day of the week, like the saddo I was.

― emil.y, Friday, 28 January 2011 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link

cut off army shorts 4 eva

― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 28 January 2011 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link

Ah, I didn't have army shorts. Had several German army jackets, and one German army shirt upon the back of which I diligently transcribed the lyrics to 'Transmission' by Joy Division. Happy days.

― emil.y, Friday, 28 January 2011 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link

scored 2 pairs of army shorts from a friend who went through army cadets in high school.

but those army jackets were kickass. so warm.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 28 January 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link

Phil D i dont know who your sister is looking at in that christmas photo but im pretty sure she struck them dead with that look

Haha, not only can she still deploy that look at the age of 43, her daughter inherited from her.

― Mr. Fart Pop Bass (Phil D.), Saturday, 29 January 2011 00:31 (thirteen years ago) link

I have no recollection of this but apparently I really liked balloons??

http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/eb0147e1.jpg

― vienn?tta (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 29 January 2011 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link

awwww!

― Rocker Brian (Abbbottt), Saturday, 29 January 2011 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link

There are two more floating around my room somewhere, one of me @ 14 or so at Disneyworld w/ dyed red hair and a Felix the Cat tshirt, and the other was my 3rd grade school photo complete w/ yin-yang necklace and proudly-displayed Goosebumps book.

― vienn?tta (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 29 January 2011 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link

not really that real real old a pic, but this was back when I wasn't clean shaven....me backstage durin theatrical version of Reservoir Dogs (I was Mr. P!ink).

http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/8163/mrpink.jpg

― eep opp ork ah ah...and that means suck my dick (San Te), Saturday, 29 January 2011 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link

Rockin those checks and stripes, nice! fashion forward as ever, Stevie <3

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 29 January 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link

Geez you look like Brad Pitt! xpost

― Citizen SNPs (Trayce), Saturday, 29 January 2011 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link

Xpost based on the IA thread, woulda thought that was your regular getup, San Te ;)

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 29 January 2011 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link

hahaha

― eep opp ork ah ah...and that means suck my dick (San Te), Saturday, 29 January 2011 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link

I used to be very hippieish with the facial hair (this is pretty tame compared to how I used to look). actually kinda look lke this right now, been lazy and haven't shaved :/

― eep opp ork ah ah...and that means suck my dick (San Te), Saturday, 29 January 2011 03:49 (thirteen years ago) link

tis a good look :)

― Citizen SNPs (Trayce), Saturday, 29 January 2011 03:51 (thirteen years ago) link

I was wondering if I'd find this on YouTube, and sure enough it's there (what isn't?)--a Canadian TV interview with Black Flag from 1984, and at the 1:37 mark, when the punk girl moves her head left, that's me behind her and to the right. Can't wait to show this to my class on Monday!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtnPGGBqQ2Q

― clemenza, Saturday, 29 January 2011 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link

ty trayce!

― eep opp ork ah ah...and that means suck my dick (San Te), Saturday, 29 January 2011 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link

Awesome clemenza!!!!

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 29 January 2011 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link

Much like Black Flag, I've remained as raw and disaffected as when I first started.

― clemenza, Saturday, 29 January 2011 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link

(gobs on floor in approval)

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 29 January 2011 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link

RISE ABOVEEEEEEEEEE

― eep opp ork ah ah...and that means suck my dick (San Te), Saturday, 29 January 2011 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link

lol veg <3

― Citizen SNPs (Trayce), Saturday, 29 January 2011 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link

<:) (smile with mohawk)

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 29 January 2011 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link

E.mily = http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bkFIPLIOGL8/SfniqfwN3OI/AAAAAAAAgGI/TRq3kzbjvGs/s1600-h/lindsay-weir_l.jpg ????

― calling planet dearth (sunny successor), Saturday, 29 January 2011 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link

I mean.......
E.mily = http://www.flickr.com/photos/95481117@N00/5397373716

― calling planet dearth (sunny successor), Saturday, 29 January 2011 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link

That there are people in the world whom style their hair the same, dress the same, and mostly think exactly the same as you is very depressing.

― The previous message has been brought to you by (kelpolaris), Saturday, 29 January 2011 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link

Last try frickin iPhone:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5252/5397373716_75e1c560b7_o.jpg

― calling planet dearth (sunny successor), Saturday, 29 January 2011 04:38 (thirteen years ago) link

Me!???? Xp

― calling planet dearth (sunny successor), Saturday, 29 January 2011 04:39 (thirteen years ago) link

I can see it!

Hadn't thought of it before, but you're right.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 January 2011 04:40 (thirteen years ago) link

That there are people in the world who try to use "whom" correctly and fail is kind of amusing.

― vienn?tta (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 29 January 2011 04:43 (thirteen years ago) link

whoa Sunny otm. good call!!!

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 29 January 2011 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link

lol college? not even that long ago, kinda hilar emo face im making

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v18/173/97/25406876/n25406876_30639161_5981.jpg

― Temple Grindin (m bison), Saturday, 29 January 2011 05:27 (thirteen years ago) link

I would have had a huge crush on Johnny Fever in HS

So I was at my parent's at Christmas and I found a gothy photo of me from my senior year of highschool. Unfortunately I took a photo of the photo, so its all shitty looking. This was in 1998.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/1998.jpg

― homosexual II, Saturday, 29 January 2011 05:56 (thirteen years ago) link

I would have had a huge crush on Johnny Fever in HS

^_^

Quite sure it would've been mutual (y'know, ignoring the fact I graduated in 1992 and all)

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 January 2011 05:58 (thirteen years ago) link

geez you two, get a time machine

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 29 January 2011 06:08 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm working on a flux capacitor.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 January 2011 06:11 (thirteen years ago) link

don't forget the compost!

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 29 January 2011 06:16 (thirteen years ago) link

seriously if I'd seen a boy in a cure shirt at my high school i would have been so pumped

― homosexual II, Saturday, 29 January 2011 06:17 (thirteen years ago) link

where we're going, we don't need roads

― homosexual II, Saturday, 29 January 2011 06:19 (thirteen years ago) link

hahaha

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 29 January 2011 06:20 (thirteen years ago) link

seriously if I'd seen a boy in a cure shirt at my high school i would have been so pumped

Hahah same here, all the boys in my school had mullets and were into sports and/or bon jovi :| There was one boy who dressed like morrisey and had a quiff and glasses and was cute. Well I ended up dating him, so.

― Citizen SNPs (Trayce), Saturday, 29 January 2011 06:24 (thirteen years ago) link

It's true. Megadeth and ac/dc tshirts at my high school. Johnny, does your flux capacitor have a cloning device too?

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 29 January 2011 06:27 (thirteen years ago) link

hahah I wore a cure shirt in high school

actually I still wear it :/

― Tuomagotchi (crüt), Saturday, 29 January 2011 06:34 (thirteen years ago) link

Where were you boys with your Cure shirts when we needed you? Hmmm?

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 29 January 2011 06:36 (thirteen years ago) link

2001. Mr Veg and I had just engaged. My sister was standing behind the photographer and being a total dork hence my LOL face

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/263e2027.jpg

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 29 January 2011 06:42 (thirteen years ago) link

Lol "had just engaged" in getting engaged

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 29 January 2011 06:42 (thirteen years ago) link

There's a great photo of the two of us from the same photo shoot, photographer told me to look away with one eye and look at mr veg with the other and bugs were flying into our mouths and it was a pretty lol afternoon in general.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 29 January 2011 06:45 (thirteen years ago) link

I rocked my Cure shirt in middle school, bitches

― beer, beer, beer (Pillbox), Saturday, 29 January 2011 07:13 (thirteen years ago) link

oh god that's so cute

― dirty man haw (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 29 January 2011 07:20 (thirteen years ago) link

There is no :/ to be had in still wearing a Cure tshirt dammit Crut! Plus you have an awesome 4AD tshirt so you are cool.

― Citizen SNPs (Trayce), Saturday, 29 January 2011 07:20 (thirteen years ago) link

I don't know where that one is!!!

― Tuomagotchi (crüt), Saturday, 29 January 2011 07:21 (thirteen years ago) link

&^$^$!! Nooooooooo

― Citizen SNPs (Trayce), Saturday, 29 January 2011 07:22 (thirteen years ago) link

I don't have any of my great t-shirts anymore. They either got worn out beyond the point of usability or misplaced in moves. The oldest t-shirt I have now is from when I saw Riverdales open for Green Day in 1995 (I still love me some Riverdales).

I'd have LOVED to have had a 4AD shirt. Jealous of you, crüt!

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 January 2011 08:23 (thirteen years ago) link

photographer told me to look away with one eye and look at mr veg with the other

What a peculiar request, especially for an engagement photo!

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 January 2011 08:24 (thirteen years ago) link

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TUPTJjZkLfI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/_uONGXP-oFM/1991.jpg

I'm on the far left fwiw. Apparently this was taken in 1991 at some sort of informal graduation party (most of the people in the pic were a class ahead of me)? Do check out the "California roll" on my jeans there. When's that look coming back?

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 January 2011 08:45 (thirteen years ago) link

johnny fever: in your pics, you look a helluva lot like one of my best friends from college (circa 1991 in fact). the pic also reminds me about the rolled-up cuffs look that was in vogue late 80s/early 90s.

― i want to eat unicorn meat (Eisbaer), Saturday, 29 January 2011 08:55 (thirteen years ago) link

We called them the "California roll", but I don't know if that's what they were called everywhere else.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 January 2011 08:56 (thirteen years ago) link

(Also, I lived in Alabama, and the only things I knew that came from California were hair metal and the 49ers.)

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 January 2011 08:57 (thirteen years ago) link

i don't remember any sort of name for rolled-up jean cuffs (much less "california roll") TBH. it was more of a preppy thing than an alt/indie thing in the corner of NJ where i grew up (though i grew up in Preppy Central [i.e., Princeton] and there were fluid boundaries b/w the two pre-Nirvana).

― i want to eat unicorn meat (Eisbaer), Saturday, 29 January 2011 09:00 (thirteen years ago) link

Damn Johnny u cuet (i dunno if you've posted recent pics or?)

― Citizen SNPs (Trayce), Saturday, 29 January 2011 09:16 (thirteen years ago) link

Thanks. Most recent pic of me is in the December wdyll thread, but I don't take a ton of photos of myself tbh.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 January 2011 09:18 (thirteen years ago) link

HA! Previous references have been made to Back to the Future itt

"OK, guys, blues riff in B, follow me for the changes and, uh, try to keep up!"
― lolling through my bagel (Pancakes Hackman), Sunday, March 29, 2009 9:38 AM (1 year ago)

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 January 2011 09:30 (thirteen years ago) link

Johnny - u still cuet fwiw, I know that means fuckall from a faraway random aus cat lady.

― Citizen SNPs (Trayce), Saturday, 29 January 2011 09:41 (thirteen years ago) link

Sure it means something. It means I'm smiling now when just a moment ago I wasn't. :)

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 January 2011 09:42 (thirteen years ago) link

― Citizen SNPs (Trayce), Saturday, 29 January 2011 09:44 (thirteen years ago) link

One more (just because I'm digging around through facebook photos people have tagged me in)

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TUPngCutDzI/AAAAAAAAAaE/m2OE4ZCAEHA/1991studyhall.jpg

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 January 2011 10:10 (thirteen years ago) link

I need to get that thin and tan again.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 January 2011 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link

― Citizen SNPs (Trayce), Saturday, 29 January 2011 10:26 (thirteen years ago) link

lil fabio

― Tuomagotchi (crüt), Saturday, 29 January 2011 10:32 (thirteen years ago) link

lil dando morelike

― beer, beer, beer (Pillbox), Saturday, 29 January 2011 10:40 (thirteen years ago) link

awwww Veg love that pic of you two (37 xposts)

― eep opp ork ah ah...and that means suck my dick (San Te), Saturday, 29 January 2011 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link

I can totally see the JF/Dando thing.

Who is the person sunny posted in comparison to me?

― emil.y, Saturday, 29 January 2011 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link

I rocked my Cure shirt in middle school, bitches
― beer, beer, beer (Pillbox),

What did you use to look like? Old photos.

― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Saturday, 29 January 2011 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link

x-post The main character from Freaks and Geeks actress = http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004802/

Her style in the show was very similar to yours in that pic. Hair too.

― Sheenastia Easton (ENBB), Saturday, 29 January 2011 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link

One night in college I drunkenly made out with some kid while wearing my Cure Paris shirt (sadly since lost to time). I distinctly remember hanging out afterwards and him saying to me, "I don't normally make out with girls who wear Cure shirts." to which I responded, "Well, I don't normally make out with jerks who like Phish." I left.

― Sheenastia Easton (ENBB), Saturday, 29 January 2011 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link

Ah, I never saw Freaks and Geeks. Far too flattering a comparison, of course, and to be fair the army jacket/band shirt combo wasn't exactly the most outré sartorial choice one could make in 1996. But thanks!

― emil.y, Saturday, 29 January 2011 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link

Also, I lived in Alabama
With a name like Johnny Fever, it always made me think you're from Cincinnati.

― kate78, Saturday, 29 January 2011 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/juniornoodle.jpg

near 20 years ago, shit

― Cars and Freedom (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 29 January 2011 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link

haha awesome

― Sheenastia Easton (ENBB), Saturday, 29 January 2011 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link

another one from the hippie look era:

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/8105/urgh.png

― mustache ride like the wind (San Te), Saturday, 29 January 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link

(the date is wrong tho)

― mustache ride like the wind (San Te), Saturday, 29 January 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link

I've argued with a lot of people on here, but I don't think with you. I'm glad; you look mean and scary!

― clemenza, Saturday, 29 January 2011 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link

SLAYER \m/ \m/

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 29 January 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm sure this'll be way too big, which is never a good looke for me, but here's one of my favourite photos:

http://phildellio.tripod.com/candy.jpg

It was taken right after an interview in either '87 or '88. Just before it was snapped (same guy who did the photos for the piece), Candy said, "This one goes on the album cover." He was such a funny, likeable guy.

― clemenza, Saturday, 29 January 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link

Omg, I am beyond jealous. He was my absolute favorite when I was little!

― vienn?tta (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 29 January 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link

Funny sidebar: the magazine I was writing for promised him the cover, and when the issue came out, he was stuck way in the corner, and most of the cover was given to Pee Wee Herman. We heard back that they were pretty angry.

― clemenza, Saturday, 29 January 2011 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link

ouch, lol

― mustache ride like the wind (San Te), Saturday, 29 January 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link

clemenza you are my hero <3 <3

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 29 January 2011 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link

awesome picture

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Saturday, 29 January 2011 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link

I am pretty sure I've posted these somewhere before. Maybe the LOL college thread?

Here's me and some members of Belle & Sebastian, circa 2004

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/meandbands.jpg

Me in 1999 at my friend's dorm. Nice Vision Streetwear high tops with mismatched laces.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/toughstance.jpg

2000 - my friend and I put on my mother's clothes and pretended to pose for prom pics. WTF bored teens in Greeley, CO.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/gayprom.jpg

Random college drinking. Urgh... yeah, that's me giving a BJ to a vodka bottle. For shame. :/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/vodka.jpg

At a party in 2004. My friend and I tried to look like scientists whose beakers just exploded in their face(s). Also, Zima XXX R.I.P. I miss you.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/glassesohmuhgod.jpg

― homosexual II, Saturday, 29 January 2011 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link

damn, wish I had been around for Zima (though in 20 yrs ppl are probably gonna be wishing they'd been around for 4 Loko)

(okay maybe not)

― vienn?tta (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 29 January 2011 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link

they still sell it in japan!

― homosexual II, Saturday, 29 January 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link

brb

― vienn?tta (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 29 January 2011 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link

some members of Belle & Sebastian

Shows how much I know--I always assumed there were just two of them, a guy named Belle and a guy named Sebastian. That sounded as odd to me as saying "some members of Simon & Garfunkel." But I've done some reading, and now I feel pretty stupid.

― clemenza, Saturday, 29 January 2011 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link

lol zima

I never had any other flavor besides just plain ol' zima, but I did drink it on the regular for a short while in the 90s.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 January 2011 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link

John Candy photo = <3

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 January 2011 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link

"Well, I don't normally make out with jerks who like Phish."

I think this is a good rule to live by.

With a name like Johnny Fever, it always made me think you're from Cincinnati.

Nah, I'm just a Howard Hesseman stan.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 January 2011 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link

OK JOHN CANDY

<3 <3 <3

― Sheenastia Easton (ENBB), Saturday, 29 January 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link

lol at final words said in that Black Flag clip.

― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 29 January 2011 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link

John Candy pic is incredible

― skip shuffle fusion (los blue jeans), Saturday, 29 January 2011 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link

A couple more of mine.

This I've posted before somewhere I'm sure - possibly in better quality but I lost the original scan so had to take a photo of a photo. This is the most 80s John Hughesy looking thing I've ever been in:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs253.snc6/180125_486280087756_726857756_6396326_975991_n.jpg

And here's me in 1993 or 94 rockin the indie dress and tights/boots look as one did then:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs068.snc6/167822_489463537756_726857756_6434006_817129_n.jpg

― Citizen SNPs (Trayce), Saturday, 29 January 2011 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link

Cuet!!!! <3

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 29 January 2011 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link

Great pics!

― mustache ride like the wind (San Te), Saturday, 29 January 2011 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link

I miss the guy in that B&W pic like woah. No idea what happened to him, I think he became a radiography specialist (or whatever you call ppl who do xrays and CT scans and such) but lost touch with him 20+ years back.

― Citizen SNPs (Trayce), Saturday, 29 January 2011 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link

He used to make me mix tapes of live Bauhaus gigs and Brian Eno albums.

Sigh.

― Citizen SNPs (Trayce), Saturday, 29 January 2011 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link

Love the glasses in the 93/94 era pic.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link

where have u gone, long haired boys of youth

― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link

They're still around, but they all listen to Jack Johnson now.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link

LAME

― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link

i thought only cougars and lame girls listened to JJ

― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link

He's big with the easygoing laid-back guys too, so I've noticed.

I happen to be one of those guys, but am the exception to such a rule.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link

bc you wore a Cure shirt in your youth

― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link

This is true. But that was just so hot sk8r/goth girls would notice me (also, because I liked The Cure).

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:09 (thirteen years ago) link

a dastardly plan.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link

This is also why I wore Bauhaus tshirts.

Not that it worked.

― Citizen SNPs (Trayce), Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link

When you live in a place where your "type" is few and far between, wearing a Cure shirt is equivalent to sending a bat signal or something.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link

^^ tru

― beer, beer, beer (Pillbox), Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:13 (thirteen years ago) link

love the expression of the girl behind homo² in the blowing-a-vodka-bottle pic

― mookieproof, Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:15 (thirteen years ago) link

xpost I hear you, Johnny : grew up in a country town in Australia. Cliques were practically uniformed guards. A Janes Addiction shirt basically said to most of the town HI! WE WILL NEVER HAVE A CONVERSATION

― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link

lol

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link

And who'd have wanted it with those mullet heads anyway? I grew up in a country town too.

― Citizen SNPs (Trayce), Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link

Same here. Half the people in my school lived on their own farms. (The town has become considerably more suburbified since then and the school I graduated from is now the largest high school (enrollment-wise) in Alabama.) I'd consider living there again if I absolutely had to, but for now I'm just happy going back on occasion to see friends and family.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:37 (thirteen years ago) link

Funny, spent my primary school and early high school wanting so bad to fit in, then boom turned 15 & did my worst to not fit in from then on, lol.

My family are all still there, and a couple of friends but yeah, not exactly nostalgic for "my hometown" in any other real sense

― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 30 January 2011 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link

elvis telecom pics waaay up thread are so so great

― calling planet dearth (sunny successor), Sunday, 30 January 2011 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link

clemenza with John Candy is so great.

― circa1916, Sunday, 30 January 2011 12:27 (thirteen years ago) link

me and my bro as kids

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/6398/familyu.png

― one day you're here...and then you're banned (San Te), Sunday, 30 January 2011 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link

i still wonder where that face went :(

― one day you're here...and then you're banned (San Te), Sunday, 30 January 2011 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link

Thanks for the nice comments on the Candy photo. I’m going to be really self-indulgent and put up one more brushes-with-celebrity encounter:

http://phildellio.tripod.com/tony.jpg

I think Tony’s explaining why you have to knock three times on the ceiling and twice on the pipes, rather than the other way around.

This also dates to the late ‘80s. A photographer friend and I accompanied my grandmother’s seniors club to see Orlando (sans Dawn) play in Niagara Falls. Same magazine as the Candy interview, one where I had a lot of latitude. We figured we’d get a funny story out of the trip--not mean or condescending funny, that wasn’t the idea at all (this was my own grandmother...), just weird funny. The finished story was never used; I honestly can’t remember if we had second thoughts, or whether the editor decided it was just to confusing for a general-interest music magazine. Anyway, I was already sort of a fan of Orlando’s (for “Knock Three Times” and “Candida,” not “Tie a Yellow Ribbon,” and for the fact that he was an old Brill Building guy), and ended up more of a fan after the trip; he was, as expected, a very nice guy. He had every reason to be suspicious of us, but he gave us some time anyway.

I wish I’d taken more photos in those days. I don’t know how many people on this thread are like me, but my dad used to be so fanatical about family photos, by the time I was 10 I hated getting my picture taken. I never started taking photos until my 40s, when I started teaching. Although most of my favourite interviews when I was writing regularly in the mid-‘80s took place over the phone (Bob Mould, Paul Westerberg, Joey Ramone, etc.), there were still a number of in-person ones (Pet Shop Boys!) where I could have come away with photos and didn’t. It’s something I very much regret.

― clemenza, Sunday, 30 January 2011 14:13 (thirteen years ago) link

I don’t know how many people on this thread are like me, but my dad used to be so fanatical about family photos, by the time I was 10 I hated getting my picture taken

*raises hand*

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 30 January 2011 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link

Can you maybe give us a hint as to what this magazine was? I am so so curious

― vienn?tta (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 30 January 2011 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link

Not well known: Graffiti. It originated in Montreal, then relocated to Toronto in 1985. Thing was, they had a decent amount of money behind them, so what they put out--big and glossy, with lots of money for writers--was all out of proportion to how many people actually read it. I think I got a $700 cheque for a fake Madonna interview in 1986; that seemed like Bill Gates money at the time, and it's more than I've earned in total from freelance writing since Graffiti folded a couple of years later. Which it did, which was kind of inevitable.

― clemenza, Sunday, 30 January 2011 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link

maybe 10 years ago now? on the stairwell of our first house.

http://i55.tinypic.com/hrg5uh.jpg

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 30 January 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link

I used to wear a Sandman (the comic book) t-shirt in high school, in fact you can see my friend wearing it in the very first pic of this thread. Sadly, no one ever recognized what it was, the people in my school thought it was a t-shirt for some metal band, even though I listened to techno and not metal.

― Tuomas, Sunday, 30 January 2011 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link

Daniel, Esq., that picture of you, your wife upthread is just about the sweetest thing I've ever seen

Johnny Fever, lol the "california roll"!

― dell (del), Sunday, 30 January 2011 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link

thanks, del. that made me smile.

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 30 January 2011 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link

For me, the most amazing thing about the pic of clemenza and John Candy is that John Candy looks exactly like John Candy and not some behind-the-beat version of John Candy.

― Aimless, Sunday, 30 January 2011 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link

It's like an alternative version of 'Uncle Buck' with Macaulay Culkin replaced by clemenza.

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 30 January 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZMWgW6QNuw

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 30 January 2011 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link

I love Uncle Buck so so much.

― ENBB, Monday, 31 January 2011 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link

One of my all-time sentimental favorite movies.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 31 January 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link

I only saw it for the first time a couple years ago. I know, right? Shameful.

I loved it tho.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 31 January 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link

Career Opportunities is my favorite JH movie. Candy is in it, too, for a bit part.

― homosexual II, Monday, 31 January 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link

There's a running joke among some of my friends re: Career Opportunites that the real star of that movie was Jennifer Connelly's rack, which I guess is true based on the stills I've seen. I'll have to watch it someday.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 31 January 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link

"rack" is their favored term, not mine.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 31 January 2011 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link

Her rack plays an important supporting role

― homosexual II, Monday, 31 January 2011 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPYM2-CmOoI

― homosexual II, Monday, 31 January 2011 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link

Oh man I wish I could remember the thread where I posted the GIF of that scene. I love CO.

― ENBB, Monday, 31 January 2011 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link

I have never seen Career Opportunities...

― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 31 January 2011 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link

oh to be the mechanical horse

― pf smangs (San Te), Monday, 31 January 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link

15ish years ago on Juliet's balcony in fair Verona
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4081/5408744825_1ae29fde84_z.jpg

1974 i guess? would wear both these dresses now tbh
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4105/5409355994_6af183f1ab_z.jpg

Only a couple of years ago but missing the blonde hair lately for reals
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5137/5409315190_80c9e0bc6e_z.jpg

― calling planet dearth (sunny successor), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link

I think my fave old pic of you Sunny is still the gothy one you posted way upthread <3 It reminds me, for some reason, of my gothy penpal from Brisbane who was in the band Batswing Saloon in the 80s.

― Cyclone Yazoo (Trayce), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link

Was meaning to scan this for forever, but I finally got around to it. I sure do wish I still had that shirt! (ca. spring 1991)

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TVDtIHEPV5I/AAAAAAAAAbo/g7wlShX-Q2M/paul-joydivision.jpg

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 07:16 (thirteen years ago) link

That is the best photo ever.

― Senor DingDong (Trayce), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 07:46 (thirteen years ago) link

I walk through her hills because she knows who I am.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link

oh my word

― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link

Hahahah PP

― Senor DingDong (Trayce), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link

Now I do have Under the Bridge running through my head.

― Peyton Flanders (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link

http://i55.tinypic.com/qxwg8o.jpg

― ENBB, Monday, 21 February 2011 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link

how to live

― The Marquis de Sade Adu (sic), Monday, 21 February 2011 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link

omg<3

― estela, Monday, 21 February 2011 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link

lxy has a baby picture of herself that i am dying for her to post on here but so far despite my entreaties she won't.

― estela, Monday, 21 February 2011 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link

http://i56.tinypic.com/6qzhvs.jpg

― ENBB, Monday, 21 February 2011 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link

LOL is that a glass of wine!!

― Trayce, Monday, 21 February 2011 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link

O_O yep

― ENBB, Monday, 21 February 2011 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link

that was totally normal when i was kid, too

― just1n3, Monday, 21 February 2011 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link

iirc i had a fondness for black russians and wine coolers as a 5 yr old

― just1n3, Monday, 21 February 2011 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link

i liked blackberry nip.

― estela, Monday, 21 February 2011 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link

i also liked white wine, but maybe not quite that young

germans amirite

― mookieproof, Monday, 21 February 2011 01:05 (thirteen years ago) link

Family member recently posted v old photos on fb. I'm in the lower left, maybe 4 years old, with a cousin and our grandpa, the former fire chief.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/MahwahFire.jpg

― go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Monday, 21 February 2011 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link

Same cousin, maybe 5 years later?

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/FloridaSpringBreak.jpg

― go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Monday, 21 February 2011 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link

aw!

― Sister is dating a (CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT) (Nijoli), Monday, 21 February 2011 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link

All the photos from that family vacation, we're all wearing those matched Health-Tex shorts sets, the kind where you buy the shirt and shorts together? All of us. My cousin's shirt is cooler than mine, though, and less PINK.

― go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Monday, 21 February 2011 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link

nah, your shirt is better -- her shorts are better

― mookieproof, Monday, 21 February 2011 03:31 (thirteen years ago) link

you're totally cuter than the cousin (no pedo)

― mary quantized (get bent), Monday, 21 February 2011 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link

My favorite thing about that snap is that my cuz obviously feels no pressure to smile and make nice for the camera. I, of course, was already well trained.

― go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Monday, 21 February 2011 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link

waht? it doesn't look fake, u look cuet

― mookieproof, Monday, 21 February 2011 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5173/5463970244_cbfb56392b.jpg

A genuine dot-matrix printout from the mid-'80s (note the authentic "Empire Strikes Back" jacket). I was probably about 9 or 10 at the time. JBR was a darling and had this framed (from whence the photo doth spring) for V-day.

― PEOPLE translated as DATA!!!!1!11! (zero of the signified), Monday, 21 February 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link

most of my old photos are at my parents' place, but here's one i had sitting around:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5099/5463432625_73a8e8bf07.jpg

i look like such a little city hipster. it's dated december '82 on the back.

― mary quantized (get bent), Monday, 21 February 2011 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link

sweet scarf

― mookieproof, Monday, 21 February 2011 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link

Love that pic!

― Trayce, Monday, 21 February 2011 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link

thanks! i don't remember anything about conrans (the store in the background), and google hasn't helped.

― mary quantized (get bent), Monday, 21 February 2011 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link

i'm laughing at trayce's quote from upthread: "And here's me in 1993 or 94 rockin the indie dress and tights/boots look as one did then."

i realized that she's describing how i still dress now. long dresses, leggings underneath, doc martens or black mary janes. i'm not skinny enough to look properly "indie" though; i probably look like some hippiegypsy upper west side academic from the '70s.

― mary quantized (get bent), Monday, 21 February 2011 05:25 (thirteen years ago) link

I was thinking of posting a pic of my 8th grade yearbook photo of me in my Halloween costume as a taxi but then I saw the actual pic and thought wtf was I thinking...

― great & spacious building (Abbbottt), Monday, 21 February 2011 05:26 (thirteen years ago) link

<3 something abbotty is my guess

― estela, Monday, 21 February 2011 05:42 (thirteen years ago) link

I had a dot matrix like that too, taken at the fair when I was eight. Think it was in the next booth over from the handwriting analysts.

― http://tinyurl.com/lil-shits (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 21 February 2011 05:45 (thirteen years ago) link

an adjective is born xp

― mookieproof, Monday, 21 February 2011 05:45 (thirteen years ago) link

haha jbr I often still dress that way too! i <3 my docs no matter how uncool they get, dammit.

― Trayce, Monday, 21 February 2011 07:51 (thirteen years ago) link

Some really high quality posts here lately. Really digging ENBB xray spex, Laurel tractor & esp. the last two.

This is from 83/84. In my childhood ignorance, my family had me shilling for the enemy. Please forgive me b/c I knew not what I did.

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/1231/goppower.jpg

― Myers and the Obese Olympics triceratops climbing event (Pillbox), Monday, 21 February 2011 08:10 (thirteen years ago) link

dunno why that came out so fuzzy. Here's a link: http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/1231/goppower.jpg

― Myers and the Obese Olympics triceratops climbing event (Pillbox), Monday, 21 February 2011 08:12 (thirteen years ago) link

i <3 my docs no matter how uncool they get, dammit.

they'll never be uncool. plus, they're the sturdiest and most comfortable shoes i own.

― mary quantized (get bent), Monday, 21 February 2011 08:33 (thirteen years ago) link

jack lousma and the "m" on the jacket = michigan?

― mary quantized (get bent), Monday, 21 February 2011 08:35 (thirteen years ago) link

I guess I failed to realize that the name on the bumper sticker was that legible.. but yeah, the '84 MI senatorial campaign.

― Myers and the Obese Olympics triceratops climbing event (Pillbox), Monday, 21 February 2011 08:45 (thirteen years ago) link

i don't remember anything about conrans (the store in the background), and google hasn't helped.

i got wedding presents from there iirc, the store i remember was on the east side, kinda near bloomingdale's

it was sort of crate & barrel-y

― buzza, Monday, 21 February 2011 09:03 (thirteen years ago) link

here's what's at that spot now:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stockholm_cindy/5464083909/

― mary quantized (get bent), Monday, 21 February 2011 10:20 (thirteen years ago) link

ahem (stupid flickr code):

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5137/5464083909_605061bf5c.jpg

― mary quantized (get bent), Monday, 21 February 2011 10:21 (thirteen years ago) link

Conran's was the US version of Habitat! There was also one at Astor Place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Conran

― anna sui generis (suzy), Monday, 21 February 2011 10:31 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah, i remembered that it was on the ground level of the citicorp building so i looked up "conran's citicorp" and found a few pieces on it from the late '70s.

― mary quantized (get bent), Monday, 21 February 2011 10:53 (thirteen years ago) link

one month passes...

the ginger mac sibling pictured up above somewhere is a quarter f'in century old today. oh man.

― the '' key on my keybord is not working (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/190215_205126539499003_100000049764003_804167_3467087_n.jpg

Me & my dad at a 'Hawaiian'-themed, church-sponsored 'daddy daughter date.' I know that is a mildly creepy name (not sure if non-Mormons ever employ this term?) but it just meant you hung out with your dad & ate some Mormony pretend Hawaiian food. I made the decorations in the background.

My dad has this as his facebook profile pic right now.

― Publicidad de Sexo (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link

Ha! We had daddy daughter dinners at my (all girls) gradeschool. One year we sang "The Greatest Love of All" and I remember finding it really embarrassing.

― Ralpharina (La Lechera), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link

That's adorable btw.

― Ralpharina (La Lechera), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link

Amanda was born with her sense of irony already fully formed. It's one of the things I really like about her.

― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link

you look pretty much the same now abbs!

― corey, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link

OTM

― Publicidad de Sexo (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link

Yes! Abbs always looks like Abbs.

― You Say Various Things (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 08:53 (thirteen years ago) link

Holy smokes, that's so cute.

― kkvgz, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 09:18 (thirteen years ago) link

Have no idea when or what the occasion was.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5173/5592052268_dff194f459.jpg

― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 11:42 (thirteen years ago) link

oh god that's cute

― You Say Various Things (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 11:43 (thirteen years ago) link

Awwww abbs and NG so cute and, yeah, we had father daughter dances at my all-girls HIGH SCHOOL. They were always sort of awkward because, well, teenagers.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 11:46 (thirteen years ago) link

Me and my friend Jessie, probably 94ish I'm guessing. The house w the red door is where I lied til I was 15

http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/ce1202a1.jpg

― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link

Lived, rather

― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link

liar :)

stevie that is so cute!!!! :D

can I ask how old you are? I had no idea you were a wee boy in 94, I feel old now lol

― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link

Oh yes! If it was actually 1994 then I was 6 or 7. I only said 94ish bcz I suppose I look 6 or 7ish in that picture but truthfully I haven't a clue.

― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link

adorbs <3

― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link

awww, Stevie looks exactly the same!

― Ida Buttrock (sic), Thursday, 7 April 2011 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link

Aw lil Stevie, high spirits & high waistband.

― Winter Crab (Abbbottt), Thursday, 7 April 2011 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link

In 94 I was well into my 20s, I feel OLD now :(

― Concubine Tree (Trayce), Thursday, 7 April 2011 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link

This is from '98, my second year teaching, the one and only time I ever got dressed up for Halloween: yes, Rick Nielsen. The kids were baffled. A few thought I was supposed to be Pee Wee Herman, which is kind of funny in itself--there's not a kid in my school today who would know who Pee Wee Herman is.

http://phildellio.tripod.com/surrender.jpg

― clemenza, Thursday, 7 April 2011 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link

whoa

― brownie, Thursday, 7 April 2011 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link

<3 awesome clemenza

― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 7 April 2011 02:21 (thirteen years ago) link

one month passes...

2002:

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f308/sotoalf/alfredito.jpg

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 June 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/215797_1845448730383_1065595163_31840346_3048146_n.jpg

Probably '86.

― For one throb of the (Michael White), Friday, 3 June 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link

Oops.

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/215797_1845448730383_1065595163_31840346_3048146_n.jpg

― For one throb of the (Michael White), Friday, 3 June 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link

not especially long ago, but I only just got sent some photos from Glasgow and London in 2007, so pretend this is WDYLLing from then

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/wdyll/w_blue.jpg

― all cats are gay (sic), Saturday, 11 June 2011 00:34 (twelve years ago) link

whoops I missed ldn:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/wdyll/w_pimlico.jpg

― underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have pwned (sic), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 11:26 (twelve years ago) link

hot lady

― Serial Chiller (sunny successor), Thursday, 16 June 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link

reasonably attractive,considering

― underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have pwned (sic), Monday, 20 June 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/pioneerday.jpg

Me and my mom celebrating Pioneer Day! I am in my great-grandma's dress and I look really happy about it.

― I'll show you the power of laughter! (Abbbottt), Monday, 27 June 2011 01:32 (twelve years ago) link

That was our backyard btw – just a bunch of crazy cheat grass!

― I'll show you the power of laughter! (Abbbottt), Monday, 27 June 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link

That is awesome.

― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Monday, 27 June 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link

k1t that 2007 pic of you is ridulously cute, if you dont mind me sayin.

― Bloompsday (Trayce), Monday, 27 June 2011 01:41 (twelve years ago) link

HOW DARE YOU

― underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have pwned (sic), Monday, 27 June 2011 03:05 (twelve years ago) link

― Bloompsday (Trayce), Monday, 27 June 2011 03:06 (twelve years ago) link

I love your new handle, Trayce. And Abbbottttt's pic is a treat.

― Aimless, Monday, 27 June 2011 04:41 (twelve years ago) link

*bows* ta Aimless :)

― Bloompsday (Trayce), Monday, 27 June 2011 04:42 (twelve years ago) link

1999:
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f223/joegood/230119_10150181259756957_579216956_7359689_1754143_n.jpg

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 27 June 2011 06:31 (twelve years ago) link

Now I have better glasses and muscles like The Rock.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 27 June 2011 06:32 (twelve years ago) link

chap u were/are super cute!!!! <3

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 June 2011 06:36 (twelve years ago) link

Yah I like that pic! :)

― Bloompsday (Trayce), Monday, 27 June 2011 06:37 (twelve years ago) link

Aw you girls!

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 27 June 2011 06:41 (twelve years ago) link

I'd have awkwardly asked you if you wanted to go get some fish and chips on the pier. lol.

― Bloompsday (Trayce), Monday, 27 June 2011 06:42 (twelve years ago) link

Must warn you, I actually now have a beer gut and man boobs.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 27 June 2011 06:43 (twelve years ago) link

Oh dont we all.

― Bloompsday (Trayce), Monday, 27 June 2011 06:44 (twelve years ago) link

Its the new sexy

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 June 2011 06:45 (twelve years ago) link

Result!

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 27 June 2011 06:46 (twelve years ago) link

Its the new sexy

I'm glad it's official now!

― Alpaca Lips (Johnny Fever), Monday, 27 June 2011 06:49 (twelve years ago) link

that Abbbottt pic is SO GOOD

― forkslovetofuc (rip van wanko), Monday, 27 June 2011 06:53 (twelve years ago) link

Haha yeah, it looks like the poster for an indie horror movie called Pioneer Day.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 27 June 2011 07:26 (twelve years ago) link

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/16749_190929052779_518362779_3948847_6150661_n.jpg

― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Monday, 27 June 2011 08:05 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=232999896726676&set=t.100000500010134&type=1&theater

― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Monday, 27 June 2011 08:13 (twelve years ago) link

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2564/5829747839_cf4d891ce8_b.jpg

i think you can identify which of these people would later grow up to post on internet messageboards

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 27 June 2011 09:43 (twelve years ago) link

abbott if i ever make an album or write a book can i has permission to use that photo for the cover?

― damn it. i hear mascherano cherry looking to fuck him up, too. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 27 June 2011 09:51 (twelve years ago) link

This is going to sound stalkery, but is that Eddie's daughter in yr tube photo sic?

― 4, 5, 6, The monkey's got a hockey stick (aldo), Monday, 27 June 2011 11:43 (twelve years ago) link

lol :D at tom's!

― underrated ærosm?th b∞tlegs I have pwned (sic), Monday, 27 June 2011 12:21 (twelve years ago) link

The last time I saw her dad I missed his talk to watch the Celtic/Hibs cup final (which we lost) and took him a Sunday Mail the next day so he could read about what he'd missed.

― 4, 5, 6, The monkey's got a hockey stick (aldo), Monday, 27 June 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link

Haha yeah, it looks like the poster for an indie horror movie called Pioneer Day.

lollllll

I can't say anything about your pic because I'm married *_*

― I'll show you the power of laughter! (Abbbottt), Monday, 27 June 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/2/1581547_afd2c41aa6.jpg

lol at college, I am in the middle

― mh, Monday, 27 June 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link

aw yeah.

― Bloompsday (Trayce), Monday, 27 June 2011 23:44 (twelve years ago) link

So gonna happen... when there's nothing on TV.

― nickn, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 02:43 (twelve years ago) link

We had some weird ritual where a bunch of people would come over to our apartment and play Tetris Attack on snes during finals.

― mh, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 02:49 (twelve years ago) link

Had a similar ritual where people would come over and we'd all eat bratwurst and watch The X-Files (when The X-Files was relatively new). Now I wanna barf if I even smell bratwurst.

― Alpaca Lips (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 02:52 (twelve years ago) link

that makes me so sad, bratwurst are such a boon to any lifestyle

― mh, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 02:53 (twelve years ago) link

why has no one asked about tracer hand's friendship with corey feldman

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 02:55 (twelve years ago) link

I thought it was just me thinking that!

― Bloompsday (Trayce), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 03:00 (twelve years ago) link

tetris attack is the ~~best~~ second best after lil' abbs on the prarie

― flights are very long when you're ornery (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 01:36 (twelve years ago) link

late 80s

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/30662_1429918625385_1155433306_1258946_2837344_n.jpg

― police steady askin me who did the plussin (Edward III), Friday, 1 July 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link

two weeks pass...

dunno if yis remember this dude from upthread

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/818963/Old%20Pictures%20001.jpg

but

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/818963/jamieband.jpg

just sayin

― who shivs a git (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link

With an old friend at etiher 21 or 22. Jesus we look so young. Babies!

http://i56.tinypic.com/k9cdpc.jpg

― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link

Red-sweater day

― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link

ha yeah

pretty sure that was unintentional

― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link

I was just tempted by the lame pun

― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link

― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/Mark_Wing-Davey_as_Zaphod_Beeblebrox.jpg

― Servants of the SBankh (snoball), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link

"Two heads are better than one! Now, can you lend me a hand?"

― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/features/nerve/Phil%27s-walloffame.jpg

'86 or '87. Some of the people on the corkboard, working from bottom-left: Flipper, Johnny Thunders & Alan Vega, Aretha, X, Black Flag, Ian Curtis, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Lester Bangs, Elvis, and an old song sheet for "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat." Somewhere in the middle, Joan Chen...and the Village People!

― clemenza, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link

ha awesome

― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link

yes!

― dell (del), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link

22 y/o enbb is like my *dream* *woman*

― I am Louise Boat (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link

kinda hard to follow that but here we go
1994, still a teenager
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6018/6006296720_d4e2828011.jpg

― it was pleasant and delightful, just like (La Lechera), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link

adorbs!

lol sam - my 22 yr old self was pretty much an idiot so you prob wouldn't actually have thought so irl but you're sweet.

― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link

well my 23 y/o self is an idiot so its cool

― I am Louise Boat (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link

here you go good luck a hoy hoy

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Back-to-the-future-car-psd29485.png

― big triffid in my backyard (Edward III), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link

once you hit 1988 mph you're sorted

― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link

― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link

these are all pretty cute
here i am sometime circa 1999 playing the lamest bass ever
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v4746/106/72/1344460014/n1344460014_30418366_4991516.jpg

― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link

possibly a teensy bit high

― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link

tylerw, is that you as a p4thway?

― bentelec, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link

lol who are you?
that is me as a freezerman. there was another pathway in it, though.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link

ha, i'm a friend of pete's from college...saw you play at slc around that time iirc?

― bentelec, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link

ha, nice. i don't think i was in the band for that gig? i only played live a couple of times with them. haven't seen pete in ages but he is a great guy/drummer.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link

three months pass...

1985

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6118/6340465357_1118f7a1f2_m.jpg

― the MMMM cult (La Lechera), Sunday, 13 November 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link

wait that's a little small
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6118/6340465357_1118f7a1f2_z.jpg

― the MMMM cult (La Lechera), Sunday, 13 November 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link

i'm on the right duh

― the MMMM cult (La Lechera), Sunday, 13 November 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link

Exhibit A in David Lee Roth's stereotype about what rock critics look like. (This is 1986, so I'm thinking I may be slightly older than La Lechera.)

http://phildellio.tripod.com/nerve.jpg

In the background is the editor many of us had a crush on at the time. She's not laughing at me, she's laughing near me.

― clemenza, Sunday, 13 November 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link

winter '92-'93:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/150371_498940898782_556118782_7200325_6735013_n.jpg

― kashi west: late vegetarian (rustic italian flatbread), Sunday, 13 November 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link

nice!

― virginia is for losers (rip van wanko), Sunday, 13 November 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link

this is my favorite of the parade pictures
st patrick's day, obvs (based on hat, turnout, dress)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6109/6340465139_238e811520_z.jpg

― the MMMM cult (La Lechera), Sunday, 13 November 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link

That is one excellent car. We didn't have the like in the UK, obviously.

― ljubljana, Sunday, 13 November 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link

You're somewhere in the midwest, right La Lechera? Those pictures really remind me of visiting my grandparents in Wisconsin.

― kashi west: late vegetarian (rustic italian flatbread), Sunday, 13 November 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link

i was at the time -- classic rust belt ohio early 80s

― the MMMM cult (La Lechera), Sunday, 13 November 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link

Great pics, LL!

― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Sunday, 13 November 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link

^^ otm. Lovely vibe they radiate

― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 13 November 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link

seven months pass...

http://i50.tinypic.com/358cuvk.jpg

high school talent show in 2001. my band won! we spent the $500 prize on a bunch of booze.

― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link

were there snipers behind you? that dude looks scary

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link

No joke, that's my dad! He was a cop at the time. I had no idea he was back there the whole show. Afterward people were like wtf was up with your dad?

― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link

haha

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link

wtf was up with your dad?

he was just intimidating the judges to award you first prize!

― Aimless, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5246/5370490813_f246f581dc_z.jpg

me and Baron Karza

― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5246/5370490813_f246f581dc_z.jpg

― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link

why that no work

― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link

i can see both

― just1n3, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link

oh right I have images turned off duh

― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link

Shakey yr so cute!!

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link

omg little monkey

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7106/7410796188_119fe7d105.jpg

― thumbs.db (get bent), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link

http://i49.tinypic.com/25f7h5l.jpg

looking fairly hip for an extremely nerdy kid, imo. i think sans beard i'd still look pretty much like that.

― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link

what big eyes u have

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link

http://i45.tinypic.com/971qwi.jpg

here i am aged a couple of weeks. BETTER TIMES.

― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link

fangs for the memories
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5198/7380419854_7bc96f0ef7.jpg

― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link

omg amanda i died

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link

i'm dying

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:20 (eleven years ago) link

don't die!

― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:24 (eleven years ago) link

you're supercute LL

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:27 (eleven years ago) link

I want to be your best friend

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:27 (eleven years ago) link

aw. in about 90% of my childhood photos i have weird teeth things going on. why, mum, why?

― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:31 (eleven years ago) link

best friendship was up for grabs at that point iirc

― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link

Tragically bad lighting in LL's kiddie pic. Almost as bad as a flashlight under the chin. Other than that, a cute pic.

― Aimless, Thursday, 21 June 2012 02:16 (eleven years ago) link

other than that

― how did we get here how? (ytth), Thursday, 21 June 2012 03:05 (eleven years ago) link

Just like the vampire kid in 'Interview With A Vampire'.

― Meet the G that Skrilled me... (snoball), Thursday, 21 June 2012 08:33 (eleven years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/bmx.jpg

At school in 7th or 8th grade. I'm second on the left, not sure why my jeans were so tight.

― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Thursday, 21 June 2012 10:05 (eleven years ago) link

RAD!

― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Thursday, 21 June 2012 14:20 (eleven years ago) link

the movie

― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Thursday, 21 June 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/190713_4478858577_1754_n.jpg

I thought I was so edgy dying my hair black in HS.. too bad all my friends were Asian so I just looked like an 'egg'!

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 21 June 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link

RIP beloved gazelles

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 21 June 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/582360_10151725998970311_269165227_n.jpg

― pplains, Thursday, 21 June 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link

Found one from 1990/91 that I'll post later today -- got to hook up the scanner.

― Biff Wellington (WmC), Thursday, 21 June 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link

pplains, who is...wha..but why?

― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Thursday, 21 June 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link

Whaddya mean, Who is?

It's Batman in disguise.

― pplains, Thursday, 21 June 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link

good times, bad scan

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8027/7415641568_f7d6ae9d82_m.jpg

that's me on the left

― lxy, Thursday, 21 June 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link

oh lxy<3, i love that picture to death.

― estela, Thursday, 21 June 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link

lxy appears to be dealing with it

― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 June 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link

her lxyness is already so established, it kills me.

― estela, Thursday, 21 June 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link

btw: get bent ^^^^^ = awesome

― mookieproof, Friday, 22 June 2012 01:00 (eleven years ago) link

awlx

― toandos, Friday, 22 June 2012 04:30 (eleven years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/wdyutll1990.jpg

1990 or 1991, at the grocery wholesaler where I worked from 1986 to 1992. Fear the mullet.

― Biff Wellington (WmC), Friday, 22 June 2012 13:15 (eleven years ago) link

nice arms! i've been looking at a lot of pictures of unidentified men of the 70s, 80s, and 90s lately (going through parents' photo hoard and they knew A LOT OF PEOPLE) and you would have fit right in as a left leaning political volunteer!

― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 22 June 2012 13:45 (eleven years ago) link

how come you're wearing a DFA t-shirt in 1990?

― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Friday, 22 June 2012 13:50 (eleven years ago) link

It's a Kevin Matchstick t-shirt that my wife made for me --

http://www.postmodernbarney.com/images/vd09.jpg

I had a little resemblance to the protagonist of Mage, so it was an easy shirt to whip up before a trip to the San Diego con in 1992. I guess this probably dates this photo to late 1991, maybe even early 92.

― Biff Wellington (WmC), Friday, 22 June 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link

the mullet is PERFECTLY Mage

― the hat's filthy lesson (sic), Friday, 22 June 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link

Me, sister and dad, Christmas . . . 1973? I think? I would have been 4 years old. Maybe 1972.

http://www.dumpt.com/img/viewer.php?file=q2huffhfc0ugstx0f77g.jpg

― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Friday, 22 June 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.dumpt.com/img/files/q2huffhfc0ugstx0f77g_thumb.jpg

― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Friday, 22 June 2012 13:59 (eleven years ago) link

Mullet props to u, WmC

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 June 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link

dude! Mage t-shirt!!!

― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 22 June 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link

RIP beloved gazelles

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, June 21, 2012 3:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rip slowly eroded garments i eventually had to abandon is all i ever think seeing old phots of myself.

― blossom smulch (schlump), Friday, 22 June 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link

dude! Mage t-shirt!!!

^_____^

I think I still have it, but I'd look like Comic Book Guy instead of Kevin M. if I put it on.

― Biff Wellington (WmC), Friday, 22 June 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link

wearing gazelles right now <3

― Cussing like a bunch of Bukowskis (sunny successor), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link

*relieves sunny of her gazelles*

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link

Gazelles always make me think of Sunny because iirc she is their #1 fan. I imagine her having like 10 pairs in her closet.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link

I searched for two years to find a pair of blue gazelles that fit my feet. Then I lost them after year. Saddest story ever.

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Gazelles always make me think of Sunny because iirc she is their #1 fan. I imagine her having like 10 pairs in her closet.

I'm getting close. I have campus and samba too as well and Orion on the way

― Cussing like a bunch of Bukowskis (sunny successor), Saturday, 7 July 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=254292918020371&set=a.254292884687041.57228.100003189957499&type=3&theater

― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 7 July 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link

shoot, sorry, apparently can't link from FB...

― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 7 July 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link

http://s1261.photobucket.com/albums/ii596/iagogaldston/?action=view¤t=Bigbird.jpg

― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 7 July 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link

drat!

― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 7 July 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link

[Removed Illegal Image]

― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 7 July 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/3ze0P.jpg

On the right, with long-suffering grandparent.

― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Saturday, 7 July 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link

Woah. This picture rules.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Saturday, 7 July 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/74_510083286993_8057_n.jpg

peering n2 ur soul

― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Saturday, 7 July 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link

Awwww

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Sunday, 8 July 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link

i was the last child and my parents were sick of taking pictures by then so that's basically the only image of me before facebook

― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Sunday, 8 July 2012 02:00 (eleven years ago) link

At the bay

http://i1071.photobucket.com/albums/u503/soybombyx/3-2-2011_032.jpg

― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 8 July 2012 03:06 (eleven years ago) link

http://i1071.photobucket.com/albums/u503/soybombyx/3-2-2011_031.jpg

― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 8 July 2012 03:09 (eleven years ago) link

That last one is Zooey Deschanel & I demand my $5.

Too cute!

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Sunday, 8 July 2012 05:26 (eleven years ago) link

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d195/richhunt35/punchablewatertowersmall.jpg

In b & w stripes and in need of an attitude adjustment.

― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Truck Bombing Begins at Home (Mount Cleaners), Thursday, 12 July 2012 03:46 (eleven years ago) link

Awesome photo, looks like your from the 1940s or something.

― Tuomas, Friday, 13 July 2012 07:21 (eleven years ago) link

I mean your style, not that you look that old.

― Tuomas, Friday, 13 July 2012 07:22 (eleven years ago) link

nice save

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 July 2012 07:49 (eleven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/310620_185034811573001_1297841876_n.jpg

― Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link

hooooos will you post your awesome picture that your dad up on facebook here?

― you're all going to hello (Z S), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link

Yeassss

― 47 minutes, 7 seconds and 4 frames (sunny successor), Thursday, 9 August 2012 00:21 (eleven years ago) link

80.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/6551570357_bf0ce58114.jpg
Me in my christening gown.

― Michael Daddino, Thursday, 9 August 2012 10:57 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

My boss from the summer I worked at Blockbuster Music is one of my fb friends, and he's going through a box of photos he took of the store and his employees right now. He was nice enough to run this one by me before he posted it, which was very nice considering how terrible I looked (minus the being skinny, which I would very much like to be again):

http://i.imgur.com/ARSWU.jpg

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 25 August 2012 02:05 (eleven years ago) link

haha that could, in theory, easily be me, although i never worked at blockbuster

also i never rocked the t-shirt-under-polo look

― mookieproof, Saturday, 25 August 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link

HI THIS IS JOHNNY FEVER, I'D LIKE TO SPEAK TO BUSINESS PLZ

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 August 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link

haha

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 25 August 2012 02:53 (eleven years ago) link

Neil Armstrong thread made me nostalgic about astronauts
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8305/7859235480_c0b6f7d516.jpg

― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link

I want the story behind this photo LL :)

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/225616_10150172205901875_2344630_n.jpg

93 or 94

― just one little Tayto (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link

wkiw

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Sunday, 26 August 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link

I want the story behind this photo LL :)
i got to meet an astronaut!

― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Sunday, 26 August 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link

nice noodle

― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (whatever), Sunday, 26 August 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link

two months pass...

christmas 1985

http://i49.tinypic.com/2j1wmrr.png
http://i47.tinypic.com/11r6pn6.png
http://i50.tinypic.com/29dfzt.png

― Z S, Sunday, 25 November 2012 06:02 (eleven years ago) link

In the footie pajamas?

― how's life, Sunday, 25 November 2012 11:35 (eleven years ago) link

you know it!

― Z S, Sunday, 25 November 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link

did your grandparents trap a clown's soul in a mirror?

― a pizza-based environment (los blue jeans), Sunday, 25 November 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link

o nm just a kid lookin' through some styrofoam

― a pizza-based environment (los blue jeans), Sunday, 25 November 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link

a clown's soul in a mirror

Finally the secret origin of Z S's animated GIF superpower is revealed.

― Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Sunday, 25 November 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link

NINTENDO 64

― (alternatively, “Respec’”) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 November 2012 00:25 (eleven years ago) link

no way, that was my grandparents brand new VCR! whooooooooa

― Z S, Monday, 26 November 2012 00:38 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.ourfavoritewebsites.com/images/zStevenTyler.JPG

― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 26 November 2012 00:39 (eleven years ago) link

great lips!

― Z S, Monday, 26 November 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link

That pic looks very 1966. And I agree about the lips. They were meant for wooing.

― Aimless, Monday, 26 November 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link

I agree!

except my mum used to make that same expression when she was mad so it's kinda throwing me off fully appreciating the greatness of this photo

*cries DON'T BEAT ME PLZ AERO*

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 November 2012 01:14 (eleven years ago) link

That pic is actually Steven Tyler, right? I mean, not "Steven Tyler" but Steven Tyler, yes?

― emil.y, Monday, 26 November 2012 01:17 (eleven years ago) link

oh shit

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 November 2012 01:17 (eleven years ago) link

dur

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 November 2012 01:17 (eleven years ago) link

According to the website the jpg was linked from, yes, that is Steven Tyler, rock star.

― Aimless, Monday, 26 November 2012 01:23 (eleven years ago) link

tyler is such a weird looking dude

― (alternatively, “Respec’”) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 November 2012 01:23 (eleven years ago) link

Based on his birthdate of 1948, Tyler would have been a senior in high school in... 1966.

― Aimless, Monday, 26 November 2012 01:30 (eleven years ago) link

^ the man knows his photo-dating-by-era

― THAT IS ONE BIG PIZZA (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 26 November 2012 01:33 (eleven years ago) link

yeah that's steven tyler. I posted it because I ran across funny young pics of myself recently so I posted a picture of young steven t as a proxy for these pics. hope everybody enjoyed my pics lol

― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 26 November 2012 01:35 (eleven years ago) link

this was on another thread already but i think it's the only photo of young me anywhere close to the internet at this point

http://i54.tinypic.com/2iubx2b.jpg

― THAT IS ONE BIG PIZZA (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 26 November 2012 01:37 (eleven years ago) link

1989 i'm guessing.

― THAT IS ONE BIG PIZZA (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 26 November 2012 01:37 (eleven years ago) link

I knew a dude with that op shirt!

― how's life, Monday, 26 November 2012 01:39 (eleven years ago) link

still lol @ my parents thinking this was a classy ensemble for school photo day

― THAT IS ONE BIG PIZZA (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 26 November 2012 01:41 (eleven years ago) link

oh there's also

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/375357_10150385169453067_360812753_n.jpg

me on right, watching my grandfather attempting to retrieve my sister from dangerous playground device

― THAT IS ONE BIG PIZZA (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 26 November 2012 01:45 (eleven years ago) link

I thought for sure that first Z_S pic was PP

― some girls, they rape so easy (sunny successor), Monday, 26 November 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah, me and his mother used to hang out.

― pplains, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link

― mh, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link

IN BED

― Z S, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link

oh wait

― Z S, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link

Where do you get take-out?

― how's life, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link

kids are the best proportions

― absurdly pro-D (schlump), Monday, 26 November 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link

this tshirt is clearly not the best proportion
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8339/8196981605_7254e8df8f.jpg

i also can't believe people didn't instantly recognize the beady eyes of steven tyler (the one pictured above, i mean)

― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 26 November 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link

the lips!

― mh, Monday, 26 November 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link

in the s. tyler one, I mean

― mh, Monday, 26 November 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link

that's the obvious clue, but the beady eyes are the same too

― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 26 November 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link

why is famous musician David Johansson posting under the u.n. aerosmith on this board.

― pplains, Monday, 26 November 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link

dude kind of looks like a lady

― mh, Monday, 26 November 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link

My first guess was John Leguizamo for the Tyler pic. But that didn't seem right date-wise.

― nickn, Monday, 26 November 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link

I already posted this on the secret goff shame thread, me around 1986-88 (on the right)

http://i46.tinypic.com/2hntd00.jpg

― studge_siren.gif (onimo), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link

the famous reid brothers, mike and winston

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link

me playing video games with a couple friends back in college-times

well, with one of them, the other looks like she's napping
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/2/1581541_30d0d0df9b.jpg

― mh, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link

they both look kinda nappy - are you sure you're not the only one playing?

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link

I was probably getting my ass kicked in tetris attack

― mh, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link

SNESzZzZzZzZzZzZz...

― Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link

some suburb of atlanta, circa '82. from left, dad, me, brother, family friends
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-uq4xa2kGD_U/ULUKZLXXAqI/AAAAAAAABEQ/M8QIPB9APts/s604/2576_1111362818414_7524933_n.jpg

― andrew m., Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link

maybe more like '80 '81

― andrew m., Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link

it would have been awesome if your dad had the family friend's plaid pants on as well

― Z S, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link

yes, sigh, it would have.

― andrew m., Tuesday, 27 November 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link

atm you look exactly the same!

― some girls, they rape so easy (sunny successor), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link

pretty much! i was wrong about the location/people. that's actually some cousins. and it's probably knoxville.

― andrew m., Tuesday, 27 November 2012 21:57 (eleven years ago) link

with the fam, at a wedding in the early '90s:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8064/8224403839_c42d80dea8.jpg

― les rallizes miserables (get bent), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link

now that's a color palette

― andrew m., Tuesday, 27 November 2012 22:02 (eleven years ago) link

sayyyy lookin good gb!

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link

Mum emailed me some old Christmas photos for a project I'm doing, when I saw this one I teared up.

Taken at Christmas, circa 1980
Grandma, my baby sister, and my two cousins, and me in the front in the red dress.

my Grandma died in 1990, I loved her so much. I haven't seen my two cousins since I left Australia, we were really close back then.

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/scan00012.jpg

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 November 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link

awww

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 29 November 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link

ye olde scanner, so we have a fourshot here

these would be around 1983, 84ish.

top left: 1983ish, my sister with her new Mister Men drum
top right: Mum, baby sister, me with !PRESENTS!
bottom left: 84ish beardy dad, my sister and me with the giant beanbag snake Mum made for us for Christmas. Dad wrestled us in that thing ALL the time. so fun.
bottom right: 1980ish me and my new doll Suzy, handmade by my crafty mum. As you can tell by my face, Suzy was AWESOME.

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/scan0002.jpg

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 November 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link

I think from now on if I ever get asked why I like Christmas so much, I'll show them these photos.

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 November 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link

fyi I'm pretty sure mum and dad still have the same Christmas tree, though much worse for wear.

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 November 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link

Awesome photos Vegemite!!!!!!!!!!! I was a huge Christmas loving person...sort of waning now.

― *tera, Thursday, 29 November 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link

Those are great photos VG, they make me so happy :)

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 30 November 2012 03:41 (eleven years ago) link

My sister and I, late '73/early '74.

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/208942_1011413923731_3306_n.jpg

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 30 November 2012 03:47 (eleven years ago) link

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww

― *tera, Friday, 30 November 2012 05:29 (eleven years ago) link

Everything about that picture is awesome.

― go to party leather (ENBB), Friday, 30 November 2012 14:14 (eleven years ago) link

This might be my favorite thread on ILX. At least one of them!

I am pictured in both of these shots with women who are not my mother and other kids who are not my siblings (I don't have any idea who any of them are tbh, the women or the children. I only recognize myself.)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6p225eala1rzge1ho1_500.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6p1xyQNSp1rzge1ho1_500.jpg

― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:18 (eleven years ago) link

smiley happy!

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 30 November 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link

haha awwww

are you the babby on the right in the top one then?

― go to party leather (ENBB), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link

EZ I still can't get over your last pic. WKIW you and your sister without hesitation.

― go to party leather (ENBB), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:21 (eleven years ago) link

yup, i'm the joker on the right

― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link

don't forget to dig the three random 70s women in glasses

― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:28 (eleven years ago) link

ENBB - I've got to post my "dress-up" picture from a few months later. I was STYLING.

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 30 November 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link

your expression in the first picture is killing me

― mayor mcpotle (mh), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link

Kiddo VegeGrrl is the cutest little thing I ever did see!

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 30 November 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link

that's my how ya like me now face

― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link

everyone is adorable itt -- honestly i love looking at other people's childhood photos almost as much as i like (immodestly) looking at my own. so much information in one tiny glimpse! i am a sentimental fool, now you know.

― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link

Me too. It's one of my favorite things to do. Ever. I could look at pictures like this for hours.

― go to party leather (ENBB), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link

I need to track down and scan some real lil' mh photos. I know there are a few existing from my family's original set of furniture -- gold shag carpet and orange couch.

― mayor mcpotle (mh), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link

LL - I'm digging the woman in the first pic with smoked lenses...she appears to have a dimple and the kind of overbite that makes me love its owner no questions asked.

― grossly incorrect register (in orbit), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link

I'm guessing this is spring of '74:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-KFuWfMaXNWU/ULjSZ4gAg0I/AAAAAAAAAbo/7_uu1vaY0dU/s581/74-01.JPG

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 30 November 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link

Shiny suit?

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 30 November 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link

nice grimace on your sister
wonder what you're looking at

― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link

That's the living room of my grandparents farmhouse; if I remember correctly the tv was in that corner.

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 30 November 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link

I have no idea what fabric that is, but it was a tiny suit that one of my cousins had in the 60s. I was the 13th of 15 cousins, so I got all the boys clothes that survived long enough to be handed down.

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 30 November 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link

What was it with putting toddlers in tiny suits in the 70's? I remember that when I was 2 or 3 (1976-77) I had a suit (beige IIRC, possibly corduroy).

― Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:56 (eleven years ago) link

I had a little mint green suit when I was about the same age. I'm certain that photos exist, but I don't have any to share atm.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 30 November 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link

i remember boys in my kindergarten class wearing little suits on picture day

― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link

somewhere there's a photo of me as a toddler wearing a floral print waistcoat. dunno if that's an 80s equivalent to the 70s suit or if my mum was just mental.

― Shane Richie Junior (Merdeyeux), Friday, 30 November 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link

Christmas 1974, I would have just turned 2. My sister in the Santa hat, our neighbor (and kindergarten teacher) Peg is the adult.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-NkZXFrRVXEc/ULjSZ0W6d3I/AAAAAAAAAcQ/HUoXog8-Ebk/s400/74-29.jpg

What strikes me when I look at these old photos is that my face is still exactly the same. Shave that kid's head and give him a beard and voila! It's 38 years later. Only the color of my eyes has changed from blue to green-grey.

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 30 November 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link

Me in the shades

http://i49.tinypic.com/35l4wlk.jpg

― studge_siren.gif (onimo), Friday, 30 November 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link

EZ, you need to rock more western shirts as a 40 year-old. It works for you!

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 30 November 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link

I was thinking the same thing! Especially living in Dallas. I can get some nice ones.

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 30 November 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link

ez you're so stinkin cute. and LL you're such a smiley babby, i love it

onimo yr hair is amazing

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link

^^^Onimo's hair is godlike.

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 30 November 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link

random 70s women in glasses

There are quite a few of them in my baby pictures.

― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 3 December 2012 00:34 (eleven years ago) link

in the 70s, there were osmonds...

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/557765_10152243736430298_903837417_n.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 3 December 2012 00:39 (eleven years ago) link

with my sis. r.i.p.

― scott seward, Monday, 3 December 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link

I don't see any country OR any rock & roll.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 3 December 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link

http://a1.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/25/aca109d0cd0b2c69a4c990c46b90f143/l.jpg

― epistantophus, Monday, 3 December 2012 01:57 (eleven years ago) link

oops http://a1.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/25/aca109d0cd0b2c69a4c990c46b90f143/l.jpg

― epistantophus, Monday, 3 December 2012 01:58 (eleven years ago) link

whoa

*two fonzie thumbs way up*

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 December 2012 02:00 (eleven years ago) link

about 10 years later:

http://a2.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/23/c60a05d896a9c343068f2dae1e5b8b93/l.jpg

― epistantophus, Monday, 3 December 2012 02:06 (eleven years ago) link

and, oh, about a dozen years after that (2006?)

http://a4.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/100/ec0c581bc41183abf6e241f1fe7d217a/l.jpg

― epistantophus, Monday, 3 December 2012 02:13 (eleven years ago) link

waxed stache complements the eyelashes

― Aimless, Monday, 3 December 2012 05:34 (eleven years ago) link

are u dorian gray y/n

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 December 2012 05:44 (eleven years ago) link

ha well i look a bit more shall we say "rugged" these days so prob not

― epistantophus, Monday, 3 December 2012 12:56 (eleven years ago) link

are you ben franklin?

― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 3 December 2012 15:12 (eleven years ago) link

you could have at least googleproofed it

― epistantophus, Monday, 3 December 2012 15:18 (eleven years ago) link

whoops sorry b

― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 3 December 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

note, please, that i didn't get to dress myself for family events

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/818963/bullsmouth.JPG

― banlieue jagger (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link

there isn't a thing I don't love about that picture!

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 06:20 (eleven years ago) link

otm

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/867_10151304236317048_745849847_n.jpg

Merry Christmas from the mid-70s.

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link

Back of my head, tugging on the facial hair of my favorite adult who was not my parent. 3/83

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8361/8338223865_62811ca379_c.jpg

― bish borscht (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 January 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link

jesus that's huge
sorry

― bish borscht (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 January 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link

up in a tree in 83

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/393090_10151429531813783_2002329034_n.jpg

― how's life, Thursday, 3 January 2013 21:42 (eleven years ago) link

wow they had instagram back then!?

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Thursday, 3 January 2013 21:43 (eleven years ago) link

it's kinda sad. I've never used instagram, but I guess it puts plymouth reliants in things?

― how's life, Thursday, 3 January 2013 22:11 (eleven years ago) link

I found a good one the other day. Ladies & gentlemen, the 90s! Not pictured: jelly shoes, I shit you not.

http://instagr.am/p/T2UJFYDbKA/

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 3 January 2013 23:35 (eleven years ago) link

the best. you look the way I looked at 12 minus the glasses, lol. I swear I had that EXACT haircut

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 January 2013 23:54 (eleven years ago) link

oh man, a friend from high school has been posting super comical pictures of jjj and me today on Facebook

― Angel Haze is my hero (DJP), Friday, 4 January 2013 00:36 (eleven years ago) link

you know what to do

― "reading specialist" (Z S), Friday, 4 January 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link

WDYLL at journalism camp?

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/249887_324387794342037_619000985_n.jpg

― Angel Haze is my hero (DJP), Friday, 4 January 2013 03:24 (eleven years ago) link

your posture says "hacky sack". is jjj wearing lycra shorts?

― how's life, Friday, 4 January 2013 09:28 (eleven years ago) link

"White Men Can't Hopscotch"

― earth of (snoball), Friday, 4 January 2013 11:03 (eleven years ago) link

why yes, jjj IS wearing lycra shorts

― Angel Haze is my hero (DJP), Friday, 4 January 2013 14:51 (eleven years ago) link

Are you wearing a Global Hypercolor shirt?

― earth of (snoball), Friday, 4 January 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link

I wasn't entirely sure. It could have just been a trick of the light.

― how's life, Friday, 4 January 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link

xp: that is, in fact, a free t-shirt I got after taking a tour at Unysis

― Angel Haze is my hero (DJP), Friday, 4 January 2013 14:55 (eleven years ago) link

oh god i just realized that those are biker shorts. this might be my greatest high school fad fail ever.

― facile cliff (jjjusten), Friday, 4 January 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link

mullet - check
mesh hastings high school football practice jersey - check
blue and black bike shorts - check
zebra print vans - check
impossible to tell but this might have been a time where i was wearing a pewter dragon claw holding a prism - jury still out, but odds are high

― facile cliff (jjjusten), Friday, 4 January 2013 16:22 (eleven years ago) link

also i think i see a friendship bracelet there on the foreground wrist

― facile cliff (jjjusten), Friday, 4 January 2013 16:24 (eleven years ago) link

stylin' in my Waldsee hat

omg friendship bracelets, I really should have been selling those things (every time I see them in a mall store or a street vendor I think about how obsessed I was with making them)

― Angel Haze is my hero (DJP), Friday, 4 January 2013 16:26 (eleven years ago) link

Never gonna happen #1:

Summer 1988. Hi J, yeah - I'll meet you at the pub. I'll have been playing tennis all morning so I won't change or anything, but that won't be embarrassing or anything, will it?

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3032/2763919846_ccc3ec685e.jpg

Never gonna happen #2:

Late summer 1988. Oceanographic lab, 3rd year of degree, terrible jumper. Boy, I really hope S doesn't have a boyfriend or something by the time I see her again at Xmas. Oh.

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/53/128594573_4a40702724.jpg

― Michael Jones, Friday, 4 January 2013 21:35 (eleven years ago) link

Summer of 1984. I am reading Death Ship by B. Traven. I am 29 y.o.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8358/8347152877_8c31a1cdfd_z.jpg

― Aimless, Saturday, 5 January 2013 01:23 (eleven years ago) link

much too non-embarrassing, gtfo

― mookieproof, Saturday, 5 January 2013 01:25 (eleven years ago) link

There was never a camera around when I was drunk. Because why? Because this all happened back when you had to take film to a developer and it was expensive so you didn't waste film on being wasted. But I'll try to dig up something for ya mook.

― Aimless, Saturday, 5 January 2013 01:30 (eleven years ago) link

Aimless = super-suave.

Though I was wasting film on being wasted all the way into the mid-2000s.

― emil.y, Saturday, 5 January 2013 01:42 (eleven years ago) link

Aimless! My goodness!!

― bish borscht (La Lechera), Saturday, 5 January 2013 02:06 (eleven years ago) link

aimless i love u

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 January 2013 02:09 (eleven years ago) link

aimless that's a great great shot

― "reading specialist" (Z S), Saturday, 5 January 2013 04:19 (eleven years ago) link

Aimless!

― mh, Saturday, 5 January 2013 04:33 (eleven years ago) link

why can't i be 29 and wear awesome shoes and books with a face full of life? i've got the 29 years old part down, that's all

― "reading specialist" (Z S), Saturday, 5 January 2013 04:37 (eleven years ago) link

Aimless, that's such a great picture!

― Jaq, Saturday, 5 January 2013 04:42 (eleven years ago) link

take it to 80s hot, mookie otm

― bish borscht (La Lechera), Saturday, 5 January 2013 04:44 (eleven years ago) link

It is tremendous.

― Michael Jones, Saturday, 5 January 2013 14:26 (eleven years ago) link

For mookieproof, I present the following semi-embarrassing photo of me in 1970, aged 15 y.o. Here I am comically threatening my brother who is taking the pic. We carefully staged all of our pics on this trip.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8499/8350220005_fcaa0e26e6_z.jpg

― Aimless, Saturday, 5 January 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link

OK so Aimless looks great in all photos

― friday goodness thank it's (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 5 January 2013 21:11 (eleven years ago) link

Not to mention that I stand higher in VG's estimation than does brocolli! Maybe higher than cauliflower, too!

― Aimless, Saturday, 5 January 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link

I looooove how nature photos erase time. That photo could've been taken earlier today!

― bish borscht (La Lechera), Saturday, 5 January 2013 21:27 (eleven years ago) link

mohawk or dreadlock?

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/RebelDougOnPhone_zpsddeccd32.jpg

― how's life, Saturday, 5 January 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link

whoops. shit. didn't see that realname at the bottom. gonna get a mod to zap that.

― how's life, Saturday, 5 January 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link

aimless you are MUCH higher than cauliflower and broccoli

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 January 2013 23:50 (eleven years ago) link

Being held by my cousin, 1970, North Carolina. Probably about 6-7 months old.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/1970DurhamNCWendyholdingJessebampw_zps33642993.jpg

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 6 January 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link

this thread is great

― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Sunday, 6 January 2013 00:58 (eleven years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/rklcS.jpg

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Monday, 7 January 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link

Now that I am a man, I have put away childish things. Excepting the occasional ironic revisitation

― Aimless, Monday, 7 January 2013 20:54 (eleven years ago) link

You are all so cute!!

― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka And The Moon Rose Over An Open Field... (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/aANkG1G.jpg

Still one of my closest friends. People always thought we were or should be dating (I was one of those people at the time), but alas.

It just occurred to me that having a Santa visit a high school cafeteria might be strange.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 19 January 2013 06:03 (eleven years ago) link

New Years Eve 1990: Punk was hours from breaking. Some of us could sense it.

http://i.imgur.com/eRvXVG9.jpg

― Cunga, Saturday, 19 January 2013 06:34 (eleven years ago) link

haha

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 19 January 2013 06:35 (eleven years ago) link

Awesome

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 19 January 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2512/3984139731_120160fdb0.jpg

Here's me (pictured left) from a zombie walk 3 or 4 years ago.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 19 January 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

1994 with bestie
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2470/5739073802_f2a5580e0b_m.jpg

2013 with bestie
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8093/8442635593_ce5fc20d2e_m.jpg

― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Monday, 4 February 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link

Yay!

― carl agatha, Monday, 4 February 2013 15:47 (eleven years ago) link

Adorable.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 4 February 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link

one month passes...

NYE 2003 on a rooftop in times square

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/2663/katenyenyc.jpg

― I thought, 'This is Jeezo. He came in, he activated' (sunny successor), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:13 (eleven years ago) link

same event with my whole goofball family wearing 2004 glasses

http://imageshack.us/a/img580/5991/nyenyc.jpg

― I thought, 'This is Jeezo. He came in, he activated' (sunny successor), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:14 (eleven years ago) link

87 or 88, hard to tell
definitely 7th grade hiding my braces

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8250/8541386284_a041db4d68_n.jpg

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Saturday, 9 March 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link

so many braces you can't even see my teeth anymore

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8371/8541386348_8700b7761d_n.jpg

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Saturday, 9 March 2013 14:54 (eleven years ago) link

Christmas, first grade. Have never worn as many synthetic fibres since.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/552899_10151054661724439_1477700670_n.jpg

― karl lagerlout (suzy), Saturday, 9 March 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link

I am not in this 1947 photo, but my brother-in-law is (lower left). It is such a cool picture I couldn't resist posting it and this seemed like the best thread for it.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8507/8555596187_9fdfec1160_c.jpg

― Aimless, Thursday, 14 March 2013 04:05 (eleven years ago) link

are the top-left couple holding hands? i love them

― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 March 2013 04:08 (eleven years ago) link

aimless that is the cutest!!!

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 March 2013 04:12 (eleven years ago) link

They all are pretty amazing.

― Aimless, Thursday, 14 March 2013 04:13 (eleven years ago) link

Little me:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8234/8595675577_ae9ab45101.jpg

C. 1998

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8101/8595675583_2e7bdf711a.jpg

C. 2000

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8252/8596778012_fb1838c2af.jpg

Me and Je55e... holy shit 10 years ago??!?!?

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8102/8596778028_35de5ca523.jpg

― carl agatha, Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:04 (eleven years ago) link

(I was trying to find pictures of my cat when I first got her and fell into a nostalgia hole. Also LOL at my overalls phase.)

― carl agatha, Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:05 (eleven years ago) link

fun busters <3

― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:06 (eleven years ago) link

That shirt had a picture of G. Gordon Liddy with a "no circle" on his face! I have no idea what the hell it meant.

― carl agatha, Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:10 (eleven years ago) link

Hahaha! That's great.

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Thursday, 28 March 2013 02:18 (eleven years ago) link

Got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it till my fingers bled
Was the summer of '69

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3042/2362519716_d18367d202_z.jpg

(I'm on the left)

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 28 March 2013 09:55 (eleven years ago) link

It's 1969, baby! #iggypop

― FINNISH HIM! Tuomas wins... (snoball), Thursday, 28 March 2013 11:43 (eleven years ago) link

Can I ask a stupid question? How the hell do you post an image if you aren't on a website like Flickr?

― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 30 March 2013 12:57 (eleven years ago) link

For images, use: http://www.website.com/yourimage.jpeg

― a monolithic testament to shiftlessness and lost productivity (dan m), Saturday, 30 March 2013 13:23 (eleven years ago) link

well that didn't work, its under "show formatting help" below

― a monolithic testament to shiftlessness and lost productivity (dan m), Saturday, 30 March 2013 13:23 (eleven years ago) link

That's not really the question Iago was asking. The answer really is "get a flickr account". Or a photobucket account. Or, I believe, you can link to facebook pictures, but you have to get the permalink.

― emil.y, Saturday, 30 March 2013 13:26 (eleven years ago) link

http://imgur.com

― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 30 March 2013 13:38 (eleven years ago) link

^^
it's really easy. click on the "upload images" button in the upper-right. takes a few seconds to upload the image, and then you can post it here forevaaa

― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Saturday, 30 March 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link

August 1984:

http://api.ning.com/files/ggfyeEtjAVOXzjnTypsPsSAzJi6jVPejWvBPoY6Ho5A*gNugkqMFhBZfjLFVRSClkbGzRaPO9pzO-OcG8nBgIMgp0ofhHPEU/stevebouton.jpg?width=300&height=400

― the world's most impertinent web designer (sleeve), Saturday, 30 March 2013 15:56 (eleven years ago) link

― carl agatha, Saturday, 30 March 2013 16:16 (eleven years ago) link

A+!!!!

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 March 2013 16:22 (eleven years ago) link

thanks everyone, but now that i see sleeve's pic, don't think i can beat that!

― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 30 March 2013 17:59 (eleven years ago) link

That picture is unbeatable, but it would be a shame if nobody else posted anything ITT so I think you should go for it.

― carl agatha, Saturday, 30 March 2013 18:07 (eleven years ago) link

aw c'mon Iago!

my pic is like a list of 80's poser-punk fashion "don'ts"

parachute pants: check
attempt at spiky hair: check
sunglasses indoors: check
spiked leather wristband: check
generic brit-punk t-shirt: check
red converse high-tops (not pictured): check
I can't remember what the green button was, probably the band X or something

but hey, I was 17 and wanted to be Richard Hell but didn't have the nerve to actually rip my clothes...

― the world's most impertinent web designer (sleeve), Saturday, 30 March 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link

you forgot the classic facial expression
a+++

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Saturday, 30 March 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link

15th birthday, 1991. Oh, tie-dye. I wore that tshirt til it fell off me. (Sidenote: We had just moved into our newly built house, hence the sheet-as-curtain in the background)

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/016_zps4d100eaa.jpg

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 March 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link

I am eating pavlova :D

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 March 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link

Memento?

― Jeff, Saturday, 30 March 2013 18:45 (eleven years ago) link

lol no - my friends wrote jokes all over my arms

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 March 2013 19:15 (eleven years ago) link

x-post, but still appropriate.

Australian tradition?

― nickn, Saturday, 30 March 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/S2at776.jpg

Oh, OK, here I am

― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 30 March 2013 19:48 (eleven years ago) link

oh yeah, totally cute, vegemitegrrl!

― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 30 March 2013 19:50 (eleven years ago) link

spring 1990
so cool
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8250/8605858971_2b31c58960_n.jpg

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Sunday, 31 March 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link

never felt more depressed about my appearance than I do atm. resulting in me v uncharacteristically looking through old photos & actually liking what I see. Old photos of wins inflicted on uncaring strangers YAY

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8254/8607810346_b28f3527ef_m.jpg

brighton beach 06(?) unaware of photo being taken, doubt I'll ever be as happy again as then. I am wearing a backpack?

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8119/8607882406_a3c507eb3d_m.jpg
Brighton Pride 07, pls to ignore hot friend to the left THIS ISN'T ABOUT HIM

― c21m50nm3x1c4n (wins), Sunday, 31 March 2013 22:01 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.flickr.com/photos/92794640@N07/8606780027/

mexico, 08

― c21m50nm3x1c4n (wins), Sunday, 31 March 2013 22:04 (eleven years ago) link

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8114/8606780027_356dd9301f.jpg
2492_66392790241_4648009_n by arnie_snarb

will this work

― c21m50nm3x1c4n (wins), Sunday, 31 March 2013 22:20 (eleven years ago) link

no one is going to say anything about my hilarious shorts?

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Sunday, 31 March 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link

I thought maybe they were culottes

― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 31 March 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago) link

omg they were hideous awful huge white shorts to go with my gigantic black tshirt
somewhere i have an identical picture only instead of white shorts i was wearing pea green overall shorts
same dumb glasses + face

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Sunday, 31 March 2013 22:49 (eleven years ago) link

Problem is, LL, you still look awesome even in goofy '90s clothes. So hilarious shorts somehow become less hilarious.

― emil.y, Monday, 1 April 2013 00:04 (eleven years ago) link

I dunno, looks p ridiculous to me!

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 1 April 2013 01:00 (eleven years ago) link

I think the truth content of this thread is that ILXors in general have a talent for somehow straddling the line between looking awesome and looking hilarious.

― a similar stunt failed to work with a cow (Merdeyeux), Monday, 1 April 2013 01:17 (eleven years ago) link

four weeks pass...

pic is huge so I will link instead of embedding:

http://www.alpslabs.com/PANO/Family_Reunion/Carter_Family_Reunion_Photograph.jpg

I am 10 years old, standing right next to Jimmy Carter in goofy black shorts

― crüt, Monday, 29 April 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link

I had no idea you were related!

― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Monday, 29 April 2013 18:39 (ten years ago) link

he's my third cousin, twice removed. it was a very inclusive family "reunion," never seen him or most of those people since

― crüt, Monday, 29 April 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link

nice!

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 April 2013 18:43 (ten years ago) link

awww! you're related to Teeth! that is so cool!

― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 29 April 2013 18:44 (ten years ago) link

crut are you a peanut farmer

― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Monday, 29 April 2013 18:44 (ten years ago) link

crut tell me about yr bicycle

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 April 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link

I'm not adapting very well to this "seeing acquaintances as children back when I was driving my third car" phenomena.

― pplains, Monday, 29 April 2013 18:55 (ten years ago) link

only 4 1/2 years before my first ILX post

― crüt, Monday, 29 April 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link

babby crut

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 April 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link

"he's my third cousin, twice removed"

Can someone explain the whole "removed" thing to me? I've never understood it. What does it mean?!

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 29 April 2013 19:06 (ten years ago) link

only 4 1/2 years before my first ILX post

I seriously am ready for the ice floe.

― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Monday, 29 April 2013 19:09 (ten years ago) link

Take heart in global warming! There won't be any ice.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 April 2013 19:10 (ten years ago) link

The old people will be left to bake like sun dried tomatoes.

― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Monday, 29 April 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link

I had to look pretty hard at crüt's pic to figure out who the black sheep were and I'm still not sure I've pegged them.

― Aimless, Monday, 29 April 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link

I think Billy had passed by then.

― pplains, Monday, 29 April 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link

Holy crap, crüt!

Can someone explain the whole "removed" thing to me? I've never understood it. What does it mean?!

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, April 29, 2013 8:06 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's to do with the fact that 'cousins' aren't necessarily from the same generation. It's kind of hard to explain. The wiki chart might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin#Cousin_chart

― emil.y, Monday, 29 April 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Cousin_tree.png

So cruts and jimmy earl share the same great-great grandparents. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)

It's probably easier to picture in that graphic Carter as "me" and cruts as the green block.

― pplains, Monday, 29 April 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link

Well, that's very complicated but I *think* I get it.

So, for example, my 1st cousin has two kids who I always thought were my second cousins but they're not, they're my 1st cousins once removed?

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 29 April 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link

Looks like it.

The weird part of that graph is the first-cousin, once and twice removed slots. Your first cousin, once removed is likely to be about as old as your parents (your parent's first cousin) and your first cousin, twice removed is likely as old as your grandparents. But those are still first cousins to you?

― pplains, Monday, 29 April 2013 19:58 (ten years ago) link

Hmmm is that right though? Cause using my example above those kids are my first cousins once removed and their much younger than I am not the same age as my parents? Maybe I'm wrong about what they are - I got that from Emily's wiki chart not the figure. Hmmmmm.

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 29 April 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link

Seems to be about asymmetric relations -> you can be 'removed' either upwards or downwards, the removed part indicates a generational gap.

Wiki again:

Sometimes "upwards" or "downwards" is used to indicate the direction of this difference. For example, if A has a grandparent whose sibling is B's parent, then B is A's "first cousin, once removed (upwards)", whereas A is B's "first cousin once removed (downwards)". Note that this is not standard terminology, and is completely absent from many major dictionaries.

― emil.y, Monday, 29 April 2013 20:09 (ten years ago) link

first cousins once removed = first cousin's children
second cousins = cousins of your first cousins by marriage on the other side of the family that you are related to them through

― You must be very cold in the sack. (sarahell), Monday, 29 April 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link

OK wait - this explains it, I think.

First cousins once removed:

The child of one's first cousin OR the first cousin of one's parent.

So, both my metal cousin Jorg's two kids and my Dad's crazy cousin Jurgen (RIP it was sad when you fell off a barstool) would be considered my first cousins once removed and while the first two are much younger than I am, Jurgen would (had he not fallen off aforementioned barstool) be roughly the same age as my dad.

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 29 April 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link

metal cousin Jorg

― mh, Monday, 29 April 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link

xxxxxp - to LL - I had very similar shorts that I would also wear with a huge black t-shirt - mine were homemade, and black/white/burgundy plaid - there is a picture somewhere in my possession of these

― You must be very cold in the sack. (sarahell), Monday, 29 April 2013 20:19 (ten years ago) link

x-post - Yep.

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 29 April 2013 20:22 (ten years ago) link

my great-great-great-great-grandparents are Jimmy's great-great-grandparents.

― crüt, Monday, 29 April 2013 20:25 (ten years ago) link

right-o! and those grey dots in the diagram represent the 'outsider' genes that kept marrying into the offshoot line and 'removing' you, by diluting the original genes your common ancestors passed down.

― Aimless, Monday, 29 April 2013 21:48 (ten years ago) link

lmao i love how you posted up right next to him

were there secret service there?

― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Monday, 29 April 2013 22:38 (ten years ago) link

shh crut is secret service

― mookieproof, Monday, 29 April 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link

7ecret 7ervice

― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 01:58 (ten years ago) link

bh ideas sort of ambience to the carter family pic

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 02:06 (ten years ago) link

Been cool if you all had formed the outline of Georgia or a peanut.

― pplains, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 02:29 (ten years ago) link

my mom says she lost the pic of oprah holding me when I was a baby

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 02:30 (ten years ago) link

according to the story oprah held me as she went up an escalator

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 02:31 (ten years ago) link

lmao i love how you posted up right next to him
were there secret service there?
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Monday, April 29, 2013 6:38 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol, someone actually pulled me out of the crowd and placed me there because I was short. I can't remember if there were secret service there but I can't imagine why there wouldn't be

― pharaoh abraham (crüt), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 03:39 (ten years ago) link

three weeks pass...

crappy b/w scan but anyway

ms mac with her new fella, grad night 2005

https://www.dropbox.com/s/76uv8h8vbvwqhrd/IMAG0064.jpg

― my name is louis and i'm an acoleuthic (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link

hmmph

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/818963/IMAG0064.jpg

― my name is louis and i'm an acoleuthic (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link

lol hueg

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link

― emil.y, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link

Sorry if hueg postin from confounded dropbox app

― my name is louis and i'm an acoleuthic (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link

why you using confounded's dropbox.

― pplains, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link

Fair q but i take the 5th

― my name is louis and i'm an acoleuthic (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link

wow p handsome deems.

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link

ikr?

― my name is louis and i'm an acoleuthic (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 22:22 (ten years ago) link

mr handsy

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 22:47 (ten years ago) link

those eyebrows dude, seriously

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:07 (ten years ago) link

(I mean that in a good way, not like seriously wtf with yr eyebrows)

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:07 (ten years ago) link

My cousin dredged this up from somewhere - he's on the left, i'm on the right. Probably october of 1974

http://i.imgur.com/YvO0sxE.jpg

― joygoat, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link

omg

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:34 (ten years ago) link

eyebrows, idgi

Joygoat you rly ought to have changed more , iirc yr actually p recognisable there

― my name is louis and i'm an acoleuthic (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:54 (ten years ago) link

1999-2000 NYE
scratchy old photo + wearing black (with gloves!) = giant head and arms floating in outer space
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2838/8813661504_0d2e445778.jpg

― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Friday, 24 May 2013 14:20 (ten years ago) link

Beautiful and so happy! your skin is gorgeous btw

― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Friday, 24 May 2013 14:34 (ten years ago) link

well, this was a few years ago, but thanks
i like this photo a lot because i was dressed up and having tons of fun

― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Friday, 24 May 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link

Great pic

― my name is louis and i'm an acoleuthic (darraghmac), Friday, 24 May 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link

awesome pic!

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 24 May 2013 14:41 (ten years ago) link

your skin is gorgeous btw

and also your teeth

― how's life, Friday, 24 May 2013 14:42 (ten years ago) link

cover connections

http://i.imgur.com/ayG4eu3.jpg

― ʎqןıs (gr8080), Friday, 24 May 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link

Play time.

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3820/8814191180_b145deec5b.jpg

Oh shit a bear.

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3690/8803715537_44a79cf5d9_z.jpg

― Jeff, Friday, 24 May 2013 15:21 (ten years ago) link

― carl agatha, Friday, 24 May 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link

i can kinda see your face in the first one even though i have never seen you actually make that face!

― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Friday, 24 May 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link

omg the bear photo Jeff <3

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 May 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link

I never noticed it before, but you look like your mom in that baby photo, Jeff.

― carl agatha, Friday, 24 May 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link

hahaha "PLAY TIME" in awesome 70s font. so great!!. I also love the happy grandma in the bear pic <3

― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Friday, 24 May 2013 18:43 (ten years ago) link

Damn, remember when newspapers were all full of B&W pictures?

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 24 May 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link

The old lady is my Aunt Jenny. Mother and father also pictured on the right. Basically half my family worked for the forest service. I knew the guy in the bear suit too. His name was Carlton.

― Jeff, Friday, 24 May 2013 20:46 (ten years ago) link

love jeff, la lechera & the macs

― Pasty, British & Shit (wins), Friday, 24 May 2013 22:40 (ten years ago) link

four weeks pass...

I'm on the right

http://i39.tinypic.com/9ib7mb.jpg

― no man is an islam (onimo), Friday, 21 June 2013 11:36 (ten years ago) link

onimo you always have consistently great old photos

― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 21 June 2013 11:44 (ten years ago) link

I think that photo was colourised (or whatever you call it - taken in B&W then doctored however they did it pre-Photoshop in the studio) as I remember my mother saying some of the colours didn't quite match the actual clothes we were wearing.

― no man is an islam (onimo), Friday, 21 June 2013 13:02 (ten years ago) link

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/818963/uglymug.jpg

lol school tour eh

― dj hollingsworth vs dj perry (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 July 2013 23:54 (ten years ago) link

― mookieproof, Friday, 5 July 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link

look at these incredible photos of my mother and father in-law

Mother in-law, college age, not sure of the exact year but 1950's
http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/m_zpsba2af734.jpg

Father in-law, walking down the street in Montevideo, Uruguay 1961
http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/DadinMontevideocrop_zpsc1dca9b5.jpg

Wedding day, 1964
http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/MauraidJune3rd22013-1_zps653cb90e.jpg

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 July 2013 03:56 (ten years ago) link

i love them so much

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 July 2013 03:57 (ten years ago) link

great pics!

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 5 July 2013 04:21 (ten years ago) link

amazing
how did they meet?

― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Friday, 5 July 2013 04:23 (ten years ago) link

a blind date, of all things.

FIL's brother had a friend who lived in the same apartment as MIL, and his brother (who had a girlfriend), had an eye for women & kept suggesting FIL should meet her. FIL said he only agreed to the date because he ran out of excuses not to go.

They met in Feb 1964, were head over heels by their third date and married in July of the same year.

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 July 2013 04:34 (ten years ago) link

She was a teacher in SF, but had also travelled, teaching for Dept of Defense in Germany, Japan and Phillippines. He was a geologist - worked in South America (mainly Bolivia) in the early 60's for various pil companies. And an ex-football player, hence the physique :)

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 July 2013 04:36 (ten years ago) link

pil = oil

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 July 2013 04:36 (ten years ago) link

he worked for various public image limited companies

― andrew m., Friday, 5 July 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link

one month passes...

http://i.imgur.com/HOwnklP.jpg

the early 1990s were a really, really bad time for me

― Z S, Thursday, 15 August 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link

well you had no shoulders and your arms came out of the bottom of your ribcage. that would be tough for anyone.

― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 15 August 2013 23:12 (ten years ago) link

but srsly tho

― "fear of putting out" in one's early thirties (darraghmac), Thursday, 15 August 2013 23:15 (ten years ago) link

not even titannica would have tried to be my friend back then

― Z S, Thursday, 15 August 2013 23:23 (ten years ago) link

Top reader in town for years:
http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1391/4734373165_699ba6b696.jpg
Science fair winner-my only trophy:
http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1391/4735011436_d3feb33006.jpg
Feeling like I had one chance to prove I wasn't a nerd-Prom:
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3170/2877380975_9dc95e6e58.jpg
Check out that claw!

― *tera, Thursday, 15 August 2013 23:32 (ten years ago) link

oy that is probably more books than i have read in the past six years

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 15 August 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link

Fantastic newspaper articles!

― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 15 August 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link

I keep waiting for the claw to come back as an ironic hipster style, but some things may just be too much even for them.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 15 August 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link

did your prom date wear white y/n

― mookieproof, Thursday, 15 August 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/183806_1886991893481_1449103_n.jpg

In the foreground, being blonde. That's my paternal grandfather, former fire chief, a craftsman who only went to school through the 8th grade, and who had a stroke late in life that left him only able to say "Je-sus Christ" and one other thing, I forget now that the other one was....

― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Thursday, 15 August 2013 23:51 (ten years ago) link

Awwwww great photo!

My prom date wore black and gave me a corsage with just black roses. He was just a classmate in my drama class.

― *tera, Thursday, 15 August 2013 23:55 (ten years ago) link

black roses = awesome

― mookieproof, Thursday, 15 August 2013 23:56 (ten years ago) link

I had that corsage until just a few years ago.

― *tera, Thursday, 15 August 2013 23:58 (ten years ago) link

<3 "Loves to read"

― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Friday, 16 August 2013 02:44 (ten years ago) link

My cousin and I pretending to smoke...something? at our grandmother's kitchen table. Which would prove to be prophetic, actually.

http://i.imgur.com/kvDAprG.jpg

― joygoat, Friday, 16 August 2013 04:43 (ten years ago) link

Frank Zappa: "A college degree stuffed with absolutely nothing at all. Smoke that, and it'll really get you out there!"

― slamming on the dubstep brakes (snoball), Friday, 16 August 2013 07:30 (ten years ago) link

lotsa good ones here!

these were the last days before the dark cloud of adolescence truly descended
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5543/9495453136_8052cbb845_n.jpg

― no fomo (La Lechera), Friday, 16 August 2013 15:39 (ten years ago) link

these were the last days before the dark cloud of adolescence truly descended

same caption for mine. i think soon afterward i finally started getting taller (i was about 4'11" and 13 years old in the photo iirc) and stopped hyperactively hopping around all of the time, and then i hated everything on earth -inside, outside, past present future- for the next 7 years or so.

― Z S, Friday, 16 August 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link

Oh wow you had an INXS tshirt?? Pre-adolescent me is impressed w your coolness.

― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Friday, 16 August 2013 15:46 (ten years ago) link

i was also about 4'11" but i was definitely 12 because that hair didn't last very long

my two bffs and i went to the show with our moms! it was the first time our moms let us hang out on our own.

― no fomo (La Lechera), Friday, 16 August 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/532902_498715846857144_1707234609_n.jpg

Used to bust those dope moves.

― how's life, Friday, 16 August 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link

Impressive!

― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Friday, 16 August 2013 15:52 (ten years ago) link

RAD!

― Z S, Friday, 16 August 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link

RAD

― slamming on the dubstep brakes (snoball), Friday, 16 August 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link

dammit, ninja'd

― slamming on the dubstep brakes (snoball), Friday, 16 August 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link

Dictionary should have that photo next to the entry on "Radical".

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 16 August 2013 15:59 (ten years ago) link

As well as being short for 'radical', 'rad' is also German for bicycle.

― slamming on the dubstep brakes (snoball), Friday, 16 August 2013 15:59 (ten years ago) link

http://blog.misskl.com/files/2013/05/rad-movie-25-year-anniversary-retrospective.jpg

― Hooks on Phoenix worked for me (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, 16 August 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link

das ist rad auf das rad

― slamming on the dubstep brakes (snoball), Friday, 16 August 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link

two weeks pass...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/grimes_zpsa6f9cb20.png

Back row, second from left, playing the Doctor in Peter Grimes

― imagine Brigadoons (Noodle Vague), Monday, 2 September 2013 13:54 (ten years ago) link

i've found a 6th form photo of me with mullet but it's not v. clear

― imagine Brigadoons (Noodle Vague), Monday, 2 September 2013 13:56 (ten years ago) link

http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu241/dnvnoo/img006640x438_zpsa2f38e09.jpg
Darkness on the edge of the Britta

― los blue jeans, Monday, 2 September 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link

BTW yes, that is the Microsoft / Timex Collabo watch thanks for noticing

― los blue jeans, Monday, 2 September 2013 22:56 (ten years ago) link

I see where that photo was taken on July 25, 1999. Lest we forget.

― Aimless, Monday, 2 September 2013 23:07 (ten years ago) link

nv!

― "Asshole Lost in Coughdrop": THAT'S a story (darraghmac), Monday, 2 September 2013 23:23 (ten years ago) link

I guess at that point I knew that I was going to be let back in to college since I brought my grades up slightly with summer classes. I only lasted one more semester, though.

― los blue jeans, Monday, 2 September 2013 23:25 (ten years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/19bb66c0-9b8c-43c0-a386-7664ace27313_zpsb5dd1023.jpg

middle row, 5th from left, awesome hair

― imagine Brigadoons (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 11:01 (ten years ago) link

That looks so much like my final year photo, it's like someone rearranged the positions of the people in it.

― TO BE PLAYED AT MINIMUM VOLUME (snoball), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 11:40 (ten years ago) link

(except your teachers didn't look psychotic)

― TO BE PLAYED AT MINIMUM VOLUME (snoball), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 11:41 (ten years ago) link

In England, they only have one lightbulb.

― pplains, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 14:07 (ten years ago) link

three weeks pass...

inspired by sic and kate78

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr251/mookieproof/tongue_long_zps28dc0a7e.jpg

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link

I think have October's WDYLL theme. (also, wrong thread, bro)

― nickn, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 23:22 (ten years ago) link

that photo is 20 years old, so

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 23:52 (ten years ago) link

Ah, OK.

― nickn, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 23:56 (ten years ago) link

lol mookie

― I'm not a rockist, I just hate Rap-A-Lot (sic), Thursday, 26 September 2013 14:19 (ten years ago) link

love it, mooks

― kate78, Thursday, 26 September 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link

every time i have a look at this thread i always wonder what jenny is up to, and if the rift between her and tuomas ever healed. i always imagine "my then-best friend" to be a thinly veiled allusion to some late 90s friend-splitting trauma they suffered.

― andrew m., Thursday, 26 September 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link

mookie! that is great

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 September 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/q8ZfzXS.jpg

― pplains, Saturday, 28 September 2013 01:21 (ten years ago) link

Look out! There's a monster right behind you!

― Aimless, Saturday, 28 September 2013 01:25 (ten years ago) link

Love that it's backwards like an ECNALUBMA.

― pplains, Saturday, 28 September 2013 01:28 (ten years ago) link

Or maybe the guy put the decals on inside the cab and went "There we go!"

― pplains, Saturday, 28 September 2013 01:29 (ten years ago) link

fuckyeahpleasantplains.tumblr.com

― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 September 2013 01:30 (ten years ago) link

I love it.

― carl agatha, Saturday, 28 September 2013 01:50 (ten years ago) link

\m/

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 September 2013 02:02 (ten years ago) link

WHITE LIGHTNIN

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 September 2013 02:02 (ten years ago) link

^^^ my new nickname for u fyi

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 September 2013 02:02 (ten years ago) link

That picture is amazing and has made me very very happy the last two days every time I've seen it on FB. Also, your dad's pleated jeans!

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Saturday, 28 September 2013 02:12 (ten years ago) link

And your luxurious hair!

It's all just wonderful.

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Saturday, 28 September 2013 02:12 (ten years ago) link

#dadlap

― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 September 2013 02:13 (ten years ago) link

yeah enough with all this talk for years about Mom Jeans. Dad Jeans are where it's at

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 September 2013 02:22 (ten years ago) link

http://productiveouts.com/post/20067938738/handy-dandy-dadlap-reference-guide-the-matsui

― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 September 2013 02:26 (ten years ago) link

And your luxurious hair!

It's all just wonderful.

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Friday, September 27, 2013 9:12 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't want to tip my hand too much on where I've spending most of my ILX time lately, but I'd hope Don Felder would be proud.

― pplains, Saturday, 28 September 2013 02:30 (ten years ago) link

I can't figure out if Dad's being silly, doing an actual weightlifter pose, or both.

― pplains, Saturday, 28 September 2013 02:31 (ten years ago) link

pplains takin it to the limit

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 September 2013 02:32 (ten years ago) link

some certain kind of fool

― pplains, Saturday, 28 September 2013 02:41 (ten years ago) link

one thing's for sure - you do not have to eat lunch by yourself

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 September 2013 02:55 (ten years ago) link

aw its daddio

― "Max's Original Starship" Vol. 3 (sunny successor), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link

one month passes...

Junior prom, 1991

http://i.imgur.com/FjlccTh.jpg

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 2 November 2013 06:09 (ten years ago) link

89/90 I think

http://i39.tinypic.com/14dpvdv.jpg

― grown-arsed man (onimo), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link

three months pass...

My wife texted this to me today for some reason. Probably somewhere between 1992 and 1993:
http://i.imgur.com/2nTdryS.jpg

― joygoat, Monday, 3 March 2014 22:17 (ten years ago) link

Q: When you played standing up, how short was your strap? Are you a chest player?

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 3 March 2014 22:24 (ten years ago) link

speaking like a maniac (tr: moron) in undergraduate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsR8jHvXSnk

gone viral! 147 views in two years, 143 of which probably are me.

― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 3 March 2014 22:26 (ten years ago) link

whoa that is crazy!!!

it's like a cattle auctioneer debate but no-one gets any cattle

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 02:02 (ten years ago) link

one month passes...

far left:

http://i.imgur.com/MuYA4FW.jpg

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 21:12 (ten years ago) link

j0rdan s tweeted a fine example recently btw

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link

jordan's picture was so awesome

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 00:24 (ten years ago) link

https://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1.0-9/1920444_10152159362308772_7453756616787989258_n.jpg

― recommend me a new bagman (darraghmac), Monday, 21 April 2014 22:24 (ten years ago) link

nb that is not an expression i have ever seen on me before, at any age. idk.

― recommend me a new bagman (darraghmac), Monday, 21 April 2014 22:25 (ten years ago) link

Me in 1955, perhaps 8 or 9 months old:

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5467/13985248011_1351356ed9_o.jpg

― Aimless, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 22:46 (ten years ago) link

Fuck I love this thread <3

― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Thursday, 24 April 2014 09:35 (ten years ago) link

https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1.0-9/69573_843960952286179_2141161411_n.jpg

― just1n3, Friday, 25 April 2014 06:59 (ten years ago) link

flower girl at my parents' wedding. bouquet strategically placed to hide the huge gash on my chin from falling face first off my bike less than two weeks beforehand.

― just1n3, Friday, 25 April 2014 07:00 (ten years ago) link

less hair

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32863603/06.jpg

― wins, Thursday, 1 May 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link

My sister just texted this one to me. I'm guessing from its from the very late 80s.

http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i389/cryptosicko/IMG_0801_zpsca733c4d.jpeg?t=1399305132

― Funk autocorrect (cryptosicko), Monday, 5 May 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link

four months pass...

Thirty-five years of impressive progress:

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/then_zpsb7886595.jpg http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/now_zps18fd83cd.jpg

(I posted the first one a couple of years ago on this thread. I just like seeing them side-by-side.)

― clemenza, Thursday, 18 September 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link

mukluks?

― mookieproof, Thursday, 18 September 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link

you have great wallpaper

― ogmor, Thursday, 18 September 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link

My friend's house--but now that you mention it, I'm sending a copy to Architectural Digest.

― clemenza, Thursday, 18 September 2014 00:18 (nine years ago) link

three months pass...

going for a huey newton vibe iirc

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5Z-0oJIAAAkKSZ.jpg:large

― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link

lol. great photo

― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link

rich in period detail

― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link

you have great wallpaper

― ogmor, Wednesday, September 17, 2014 7:12 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag PostPermalink

― gr8080, Sunday, 21 December 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link

the entire room is a marvel, i would love to live in it now. a little more detail: http://oi61.tinypic.com/2yxlqbo.jpg

― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 21 December 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link

Love the green TV

― i am irrelevant because i choose not to participate (los blue jeans), Monday, 22 December 2014 02:54 (nine years ago) link

My parents had a gas fire like that.

― just like Nietzsche but with jokes (snoball), Monday, 22 December 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link

I feel like every single middle class American family worked the bamboo wallpaper at some point in the '70s.

― camp event (suzy), Monday, 22 December 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link

holla

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 02:22 (nine years ago) link

On a family camping trip in 1958. I am the one looking at the camera, age 4.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7473/15999462520_7634d786ed_c.jpg

― earthface, windface and fireface (Aimless), Saturday, 3 January 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link

About eight months later, age 5. My brother is wearing the hat.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7526/16186022012_e4e9aa4a9c_z.jpg

― earthface, windface and fireface (Aimless), Saturday, 3 January 2015 19:07 (nine years ago) link

what was the significance of the neckties?

― breakfast josiah (los blue jeans), Saturday, 3 January 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link

1959 was Oregon's centennial year as a state. The photo was most likely taken on the precise date of the celebration, February 14, 1959.

― earthface, windface and fireface (Aimless), Saturday, 3 January 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link

I wonder if the planners were upset that Alaska and Hawaii had to come along and steal their thunder that year

― breakfast josiah (los blue jeans), Saturday, 3 January 2015 20:30 (nine years ago) link

Outside Oregon, I'm sure no one cared, but in Oregon there was plenty of thunder to go around. Button-bursting state pride was the style at the time.

― earthface, windface and fireface (Aimless), Saturday, 3 January 2015 20:32 (nine years ago) link

I'm sure it didn't hurt that they had 40 years on Washington

― breakfast josiah (los blue jeans), Saturday, 3 January 2015 20:50 (nine years ago) link

sorry, 30 years

― breakfast josiah (los blue jeans), Saturday, 3 January 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link

Well, it was never called the Washington Trail, was it?

― earthface, windface and fireface (Aimless), Saturday, 3 January 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link

Aww Little Aimless was adorbs.

― carl agatha, Saturday, 3 January 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link

My mum scanned a whole series of pre-75 scans on slides taken by my grandad. Unfortunately 90% of hem look like they were taken at the heart of the sun but I will pick out some that can be looked at without sunglasses.

― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Saturday, 3 January 2015 22:56 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

http://i.imgur.com/YNukfpp.jpg

Probably could have been been in the "lol college" thread as well but whatever. I believe this is 1994 right after I razor-and-foam shaved my head which had previously been some shade of manic panic red.

― joygoat, Thursday, 26 February 2015 19:39 (nine years ago) link

Also just remembered that these aren't even cut off pants, but a set of Dickie's coveralls that I cut down into pants and cut holes into which allowed me to thread a shoelace around my waist to serve as a drawstring. Then I cut them down into shorts.

― joygoat, Thursday, 26 February 2015 19:49 (nine years ago) link

Oh god we would have totally hung out.

― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Thursday, 26 February 2015 19:54 (nine years ago) link

Haha carl, I was thinking of a similar response.

― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 26 February 2015 20:01 (nine years ago) link

Latest Belle & Sebastian album Stab Me In The Back While I Look You In The Eye

Front cover:

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8634/16087391767_7ea608719f.jpg

Back cover:

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8562/16087391787_4661464065.jpg

― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Thursday, 26 February 2015 21:51 (nine years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Aldo looking so forlorn

― smoochy-woochy touchy-wouchy, (sunny successor), Saturday, 14 March 2015 03:41 (nine years ago) link

two weeks pass...

parents went to Japan for interminable-seeming amount of time one summer and i had to go to camp
had forgotten just how miserable i was until the memories started leaking back

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8754/17011462515_66a4282c3f.jpg

― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 3 April 2015 14:09 (nine years ago) link

middle row far right?

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 3 April 2015 14:16 (nine years ago) link

of course

― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 3 April 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link

I went to camp 4 summers in a row. It was always horrible and scarring and I, optimistically?, always chose to go back because I didn't want to potentially miss out on anything. Like being tortured.

Middle of 2nd row looks like a mean girl.

― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 3 April 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link

otm about that girl
my memory is airtight generally speaking and my complete lack of memories about this experience leads me to conclude that it was exceptionally bad, even worse than what i do remember (complete alienation from everyone around me, etc)

― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 3 April 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link

i was 10 btw

― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 3 April 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link

I went to camp once when I was maybe 11? And the day we arrived I got my period, and I cracked my shin so hard on a bunk that I still have a scar from it, and we managed to get a counselor fired for threatening to tie us to chairs in the shower, and the entire week's highlight was going screaming, Beatlemania apeshit about some of the male counselors doing an air guitar performance at the end of the week talent show.

It was gross and I never went back. Down with camp.

LL you don't look happy in that picture. I want to go back in time and take you out of there.

― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Friday, 3 April 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link

The kids I went to school with treated me like prey, but we'd known each other our whole lives and I was their prey. The kids at camp harbored no such warm, familial feelings. It was a church camp, even.

― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 3 April 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link

I always wanted to go to camp so much. Only went once, to space camp, but that was just a week. I wanted a whole summer away from home, because it was so boring.

― Jeff, Friday, 3 April 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link

i was not happy
what i do remember: my parents were in Japan, I was stuck at a Christian camp where they fostered spiritual unity and inter-cabin competition and I was not a Christian nor was I interested in competing, and everyone actively hated me thanks to the girl I had been sent there with (top row next to sunglasses) because she told them to. i then went back to her house for a few days til my parents came home and all i remember is hiding in the basement. yesterday was her 40th bday. she's a republican!

― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 3 April 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link

I went to girl scout camp once, for a week. I was not a horse girl, but I signed up for the horse camp program, thinking I could maybe become a horse girl. It was fun, but a lot of work and fuck abuncha hanging out with horse girls.

― kate78, Friday, 3 April 2015 19:16 (nine years ago) link

Wait, you went to space camp!?!? That was my childhood dream for a good five years. Super jealous. I went to a dumb, awful Boy Scout camp. The only good thing that came out of it was discovering Too $hort via a dubbed cassette I found.

― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 April 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link

Never went away to camp. Always thought of it as one of those Yankee things, like starting school in September or taking an SAT.

― pplains, Friday, 3 April 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link

Wait, you went to space camp!?!? That was my childhood dream for a good five years. Super jealous. I went to a dumb, awful Boy Scout camp. The only good thing that came out of it was discovering Too $hort via a dubbed cassette I found.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, April 3, 2015 2:18 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Team Saturn, class of 1990! I actually wrote a stupid easy and got to go for free. Only way I could have went because my parents never would have been able to pay for it.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7243/7311862320_632c60e4f3_z.jpg

― Jeff, Friday, 3 April 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link

Obviously, I didn't get the memo that you had to wear white shoes.

― Jeff, Friday, 3 April 2015 19:34 (nine years ago) link

So what was it like in space.

― pplains, Friday, 3 April 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link

Jeff is neglecting to say that he also won an award for best space camper!!!

― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Friday, 3 April 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link

hoping there's a reunion this year

― mookieproof, Friday, 3 April 2015 23:32 (nine years ago) link

Jeff, is that Huntsville Space Camp or Canaveral Space Camp? I grew up in Huntsville and went myself in 1986, so I always get a little geeked when people from far away can say they visited my dumb hometown.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 3 April 2015 23:40 (nine years ago) link

Cape Canaveral!

― Jeff, Friday, 3 April 2015 23:48 (nine years ago) link

Ha! Well I ended up living close to there too, but I sure as hell don't think of it as "home".

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 3 April 2015 23:50 (nine years ago) link

I was supposed to go to sleepaway camp for the summer one year but I got scared and didn't want to go and backed out at the last minute. I'm pretty sure I would have hated it so it's probably for the best.

I went to a day camp on Fire Island every year and then worked there until I went to college. That was pretty amazing. Camp pic:

http://i62.tinypic.com/2ed40n8.jpg

I am the rug rat on the bars prob about to whack that blonde kid in the head with my foot. That's my parents' old restaurant in the background.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 10 April 2015 12:34 (nine years ago) link

I also just found this and everything about this picture is making me laugh.

http://i57.tinypic.com/v6knj6.jpg

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 10 April 2015 12:39 (nine years ago) link

I'm super jealous that Jeff went to space camp.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 10 April 2015 12:41 (nine years ago) link

The kids go to a public school that every year sends the 5th graders to Space Camp in Huntsville.

The district has been in a little flux lately (we currently have no school board, long story), so we've got our fingers crossed that the school can hold it together until 2018.

― pplains, Friday, 10 April 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/11146526_1826076010949871_6668717682548168700_n.jpg?oh=6bfb6f394624f5c6bd6d6dea6d824315&oe=559784F4&__gda__=1436349055_1ebe59779139469540967c3932af98a2

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 12 April 2015 15:01 (nine years ago) link

young squire about town

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 April 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link

horribly, depressingly young

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 12 April 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link

a bit of the bill oddie about you in this pic imo

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 April 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link

lol i saw him on a bus once but he looked too grumpy to say "hi" to

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 12 April 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link

So the weirdest thing happened to me today. I belong to a bunch of Facebook groups for Army brats and for people who were stationed overseas. Today, in one of those groups ("I Lived in Darmstadt, Germany") a German photographer posted a link to a book he just published called American Darmstadt, a coffee-table book with a history of Cambrai-Fritsch Kaserne and other installations around Darmstadt from their immediate postwar period to their closings in the early 2000s. You can view the entire book online at http://issuu.com/christoph-rau/docs/american-darmstadt, so I'm flipping through it, and there, on page 196 of the book (p. 198 of the electronic document), is me, coming off a school bus in 1977. For a minute I wasn't sure it WAS me, until I sent the link to my parents and they said, "Yeah, that's you." Later, looking through my own pictures, I found two of me wearing the same jacket I'm wearing in the photo. It's easily identifiable by a zipper on the sleeve and its LOL 1977 wide, point collar.

What are the odds, out of all the tens of thousands of service members and their families that ever lived there, that 7-year-old me would show up on a page in this dude's book and that I would be in a position to see it?

― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Saturday, 25 April 2015 01:57 (nine years ago) link

https://scontent-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/1536568_10152775980592137_1130508417_n.jpg?oh=cac9ce050f7e927002c99077cb937393&oe=559F02AF

― scott seward, Saturday, 25 April 2015 02:22 (nine years ago) link

\m/

― mookieproof, Saturday, 25 April 2015 02:23 (nine years ago) link

https://scontent-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash2/v/t1.0-9/1005026_10152762808192137_1862838615_n.jpg?oh=40d73a28651005daa3539448d6639d49&oe=55978720

― scott seward, Saturday, 25 April 2015 02:25 (nine years ago) link

https://scontent-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/1512580_10152762808532137_748710829_n.jpg?oh=e7cafa624d7ce36449138bc9cceeed36&oe=55D85B36

― scott seward, Saturday, 25 April 2015 02:25 (nine years ago) link

https://scontent-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/1488079_10152762815857137_905334599_n.jpg?oh=b63a00eda25eb852a1668804925a1a49&oe=55D5B8E0

― scott seward, Saturday, 25 April 2015 02:26 (nine years ago) link

lol the last one

― mookieproof, Saturday, 25 April 2015 02:31 (nine years ago) link

xxpost Phil that's awesome & v cool

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 April 2015 02:58 (nine years ago) link

Yeah Phil, can you post the picture here? (I'm a Germany-living Air Force brat, 1964-6)

― nickn, Saturday, 25 April 2015 06:36 (nine years ago) link

First pic is a screencap of the page from the book website, second is the picture I found where I'm wearing that same jacket.

https://scontent-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/11150618_10205617033801871_3809139671349659160_n.jpg?oh=cd14a7f0b4575b993f80d67f84463edb&oe=55DD1621

https://scontent-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/11100346_10205617261727569_3718455552046993171_n.jpg?oh=1b6518918f9c29fb88a5ac51784bbfa5&oe=55DB2150

I don't know what circumstances led to a photographer snapping my picture getting off a bus in 1977, or where the photo would have been where this person got hold of it, but when I was browsing that book website and got to that page I was like

https://moreno91.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/mrsparkle.png

― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Saturday, 25 April 2015 12:21 (nine years ago) link

aw young scott so cute, and amazing trio

phil d that is mindblowing awesome

― drash, Saturday, 25 April 2015 12:27 (nine years ago) link

Phil Disrespectfultodirt

― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Saturday, 25 April 2015 12:52 (nine years ago) link

BTW if you're wondering that is a "Space: 1999" lunchbox. On the side facing my leg you can just make out Barbara Bain's face.

https://travelingwithteddy.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/space-1999-lunchbox-h.jpg?w=300

This was about six months before I had ever heard of "Star Wars," so that was the coolest space-related thing I could find.

― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Saturday, 25 April 2015 12:54 (nine years ago) link

crazy story! i would lose it if that happened to me.

― Florianne Fracke (La Lechera), Saturday, 25 April 2015 13:35 (nine years ago) link

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/pphotos/wdyutll.jpg

Me in 10th grade, on the x-country team

― 龜, Saturday, 25 April 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link

tick

― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Saturday, 25 April 2015 14:09 (nine years ago) link

Interesting running gear.

― Jeff, Saturday, 25 April 2015 14:38 (nine years ago) link

dope

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 April 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link

six months pass...

I'm in the yellow shirt and the brown flares, my brother is on the right with a cricket bat and an excellent jumper.

http://i65.tinypic.com/dde04l.jpg

The lad in the grey school uniform claims these were taken the day Elvis died. I have no memory of the photos but I was only six when Elvis died and I think I'm at least eight in these photos.

http://i64.tinypic.com/2z5txu9.jpg

― the fiest p (onimo), Monday, 16 November 2015 17:42 (eight years ago) link

Awesome

― UYD: Oxys, Percs, Vics, Addys, Rit-Dogs and Xannys (sunny successor), Monday, 16 November 2015 21:28 (eight years ago) link

so great!

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 03:33 (eight years ago) link

Guessing I was about two here:
http://i.imgur.com/QZjbJYI.jpg

― Austin, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 04:41 (eight years ago) link

http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa356/fugexlac/babydandrums_zpsv6sgnp4x.jpg

― pratt truss it (dan m), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 04:43 (eight years ago) link

This was me immediately before the drugs took hold
http://i.imgur.com/niYO66u.jpg

― tsrobodo, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 09:34 (eight years ago) link

ok I have no idea why that is so big

― tsrobodo, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 09:35 (eight years ago) link

Aw you guys were so cute.

― carl agatha, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 12:55 (eight years ago) link

Yeah, what happened???

― Jeff, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 13:53 (eight years ago) link

four months pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfkSODTW4AAjv2V.jpg

so many rules

― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 April 2016 02:41 (eight years ago) link

Love this thread.

I thought I had posted this here years ago but I guess I must've posted it to another thread years ago, or possibly not at all:

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5310/5807353760_0416b59ae1_o.jpg

I wouldn't have thought of this as an old photo but I just realized it was taken a goddamn decade ago. Me, a hat, a wig, and a party:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/45/140114436_fd7c89d9ea_o.jpg

― My Whole Existence Is Flan (Old Lunch), Saturday, 9 April 2016 03:25 (eight years ago) link

OMG baby Mookie <3

― “I hate my wife. She doesn’t even have a dick” (sunny successor), Thursday, 14 April 2016 17:37 (eight years ago) link

mookie <3

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 April 2016 18:49 (eight years ago) link

Judging by my brother (out of shot) I must be either 4 or 5 here. Where did it all go wrong?

http://i.imgur.com/IOXfNRN.jpg

― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 April 2016 20:41 (eight years ago) link

1998. frosted tips all day baby
http://i67.tinypic.com/2lsi9vr.jpg

― Better Pau Gasol (Spottie), Thursday, 14 April 2016 20:57 (eight years ago) link

http://i66.tinypic.com/ohlfdf.jpg

― Better Pau Gasol (Spottie), Thursday, 14 April 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link

Unusual sort of glam gothy look going on here, this must be around 1984? Even more unusual that (l-to-r) me, my sister and my brother appear to be getting on with one another. I wonder what happened to that Throbbing Gristle t-shirt?

http://i.imgur.com/80DnaUU.jpg

― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 April 2016 21:50 (eight years ago) link

Ah ok. The penny drops.

― everything, Thursday, 14 April 2016 23:38 (eight years ago) link

four months pass...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32863603/IMG_1315.JPG

― jez coorbes (wins), Sunday, 28 August 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/asx8yc54xj4xb06/SQUAD.png

― r|t|c, Sunday, 28 August 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link

two months pass...

School photo from grade...7? 8?

http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i389/cryptosicko/50136227776__6E0E9028-3EAB-41D3-ADA8-DFC8D1312032_zpsccl1pzk6.jpg?t=1479583779

― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 20 November 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link

http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i389/cryptosicko/50136227776__6E0E9028-3EAB-41D3-ADA8-DFC8D1312032_zpsccl1pzk6.jpg?t=1479583779

― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 20 November 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

This set of photos had been missing for many years, but my college friend unearthed and developed the negatives of some shots she took of my old band in 1996.

I'm far left, with the wristbands.

http://i.imgur.com/NoI2eQW.jpg

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 24 December 2016 00:09 (seven years ago) link

Cutie Fever! Also, nice Archers poster.

― emil.y, Saturday, 24 December 2016 00:16 (seven years ago) link

is the dude with the watch halfway up his arm the drummer

― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 December 2016 00:27 (seven years ago) link

L to R: bass, vocals/guitar, guitar, drums

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 24 December 2016 00:30 (seven years ago) link

you were the cute one; you should have been in front imo

― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 December 2016 00:38 (seven years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/GhalFO9.jpg

― An Alan Bennett Joint (Michael B), Saturday, 24 December 2016 00:39 (seven years ago) link

johnny 'dreamboat' fever :)

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 December 2016 01:27 (seven years ago) link

would love to get my hands on one of those sweaters the old lunch family are wearing a bit upthread

― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 24 December 2016 01:55 (seven years ago) link

high school grad nite

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/Inuxx/noname-5.jpg

― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 24 December 2016 03:35 (seven years ago) link

here i am as a wee scumbag

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZLOiXoWAAIHNph.jpg

― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 24 December 2016 03:59 (seven years ago) link

i found a real one (i'm ~13) and it's a doozy

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/Inuxx/263575654_4f32d2395c_b_zpsgy0jr8v9.jpg

kind of a where's waldo of reasons etc

― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 09:27 (seven years ago) link

lurking skull a la Davis Aurini!

― how's life, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 12:47 (seven years ago) link

I believe I was also cursed with that same set of sheets, or something very similar.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 13:00 (seven years ago) link

lurking skull a la Davis Aurini!

there but for the grace of god

― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link

A friend and I in 2001 doing our best bored-English-pop-group impression.

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/yawn_zpsjjjnwa3d.jpg

― clemenza, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 23:02 (seven years ago) link

two months pass...

https://scontent.fybz1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16939213_10154570749240345_5294835750837986313_n.jpg?oh=e50faaafd5bad102a870974500c3d5e6&oe=596BE8F7

― flopson, Friday, 3 March 2017 01:48 (seven years ago) link

(i'm the kid)

― flopson, Friday, 3 March 2017 01:48 (seven years ago) link

Lovely photo flopson. Smiles.

― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 07:01 (seven years ago) link

― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

Awwww! Flopson and Flopmom <3

― It's always (sunny successor), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/OaPnLV3.jpg

upper right

― mookieproof, Friday, 5 May 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link

what!

― spud called maris (darraghmac), Friday, 5 May 2017 21:33 (six years ago) link

pittsburgh hair ftw

― mookieproof, Friday, 5 May 2017 21:37 (six years ago) link

hella baller pic, mookieproof

― Aimless, Friday, 5 May 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link

why were you hanging out w the cast of Baywatch

― Οὖτις, Friday, 5 May 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link

in the cast of baywatch

― spud called maris (darraghmac), Friday, 5 May 2017 21:53 (six years ago) link

Too handsome for Baywatch more like.

― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Friday, 5 May 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link

... you did say upper right and not upper left?

― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Friday, 5 May 2017 21:57 (six years ago) link

a mookie is known to be seven foot tall iirc

― spud called maris (darraghmac), Friday, 5 May 2017 22:07 (six years ago) link

bet you woulda creamed those Top Gun dudes at volleyball

<3 a+ pic mookie!!!

― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 May 2017 00:09 (six years ago) link

sure weve all got college pics mookie

https://i.imgur.com/LUGrzUn_d.jpg

― spud called maris (darraghmac), Monday, 15 May 2017 22:43 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Oldest school-related photo I have in digital form, fall of 2004:

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/033_zpsbj7fp72z.jpg

I didn't have a digital camera, but they had started giving you a CD with processed film. That's my teaching assistant, Dianne, who worked with an autistic boy in the class; we're still friends, I don't think she mind. (She saw the Beatles at Maple Gardens in 1965, and once, while working for the government, processed some tax forms for one of Muhammad Ali's fights when he was still Cassius Clay.)

Probably still my favourite class that year.

― clemenza, Sunday, 4 June 2017 02:24 (six years ago) link

four months pass...

Most pics are gone and lost, but my lil brother of all people found a set of pics from my graduation and surprised me with them today

https://i.imgur.com/AS20p1N.jpg

― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 November 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link

I want you to look at the suit some shuckster in town rented innocent 18 yr old me

― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 November 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link

It makes your legs look really short.

― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Thursday, 2 November 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link

Suit shuckster missed a trick by not renting you a box to stand on as well.

― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Thursday, 2 November 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link

just gonna say, if you was six inches taller that'd be fine

― Pope Urban the Legend (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 November 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link

I'm five ten yiz dicks

― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:02 (six years ago) link

who'd they make that suit for then? Shaq??

― Pope Urban the Legend (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link

She was five nine yiz dicks

― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/A5wX8vGI09k/hqdefault.jpg

― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link

ah you look more dapper than i'd've done at 18 or in fact any time since

might have to find a photo of 4 year-old me with a dicky and waistcoat and bow-tie

― Pope Urban the Legend (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link

Looking at that it has to be my dad's tb h

― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 November 2017 21:48 (six years ago) link

I have sod all pictures of me from any time really cos I hate having my picture taken, but this one made me laugh a bit just because of the deranged expression (my sister took the photo which is probably why I'm pulling the face)

https://i.imgur.com/XeA7KFV.jpg

This is me aged 20 with my mum (who was younger there than I am now by 4 years, ouch). I think I'd just graduated from uni, that's my room in the halls of residence. 20 years ago :(

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 2 November 2017 22:47 (six years ago) link

Deems once had something resembling actual hair, who knew etc

(it's a great pic dude)

― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 2 November 2017 23:58 (six years ago) link

https://yt3.ggpht.com/-V9D4Wi3Lkig/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/g_OARu6d2GA/s900-c-k-no-mo-rj-c0xffffff/photo.jpg

Poo-related xpost

― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Friday, 3 November 2017 09:55 (six years ago) link

six months pass...

my wife just posted this on flickr, I think we are both 20 (I'm pretty sure I'm not 21 because I cut off my hair shortly after my 21st bday)

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/946/41240697205_78138705e7_b.jpg

― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 May 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link

excellent.

― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Friday, 18 May 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link

Great pic! By coincidence, I cut off my hair ON my 21st bday.

― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 18 May 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link

real heads will use their Bladerunner image enhancing software to note that I am wearing an Ice Cube "Lethal Injection" t-shirt in that photo

― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 May 2018 16:25 (five years ago) link

I don't have any old photos of myself age 20, but imagine Garth from Wayne's World, but with Curtis Stiger's early 90s hairstyle.

― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Friday, 18 May 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link

three months pass...

Video, not a photo. Me around 36 or 37, in the mid-late 90s (I'm at 0:56:30, and again at 1:30:00). These are outtakes from the documentary Vinyl; the director assembled them into a second film that got a one-time screening at Hot Docs a few years ago, and he posted it up on YouTube today.

Hard for me to watch this. I was still supply-teaching, and had been doing it for so long I was ready to pack it in and look for something else. I was drifting, to put it mildly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYmvszi7YKM

― clemenza, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 02:20 (five years ago) link

I'm probably going to watch that whole thing tonight.

― everything, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 03:02 (five years ago) link

I liked what you had to say clemenza

― Dan S, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 03:06 (five years ago) link

Thanks. I'm not so universal anymore on the idea that music hits you hardest when you're 11 or 12. I think there's still validity to that for someone my age, because you got your music from the radio. Thing are completely different now.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 03:30 (five years ago) link

wow this is neat uncle clemence

― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 03:34 (five years ago) link

awesome <3

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 September 2018 03:04 (five years ago) link

six months pass...

an old friend sent me a picture of me and an old cat, circa 2005.

― Karl Malone, Friday, 29 March 2019 02:29 (five years ago) link

not an old cat, obviously a very young cat. although he'd be old now. but i just mean, this cat was in the past. the good old past.

https://i.imgur.com/L3V2hKB.jpg

― Karl Malone, Friday, 29 March 2019 02:29 (five years ago) link

How have I never before contributed to this thread? Anyway, here's a photo of me at six months old:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b291/deethelurker/19376_1292852012552_1126116_n.jpg

And me at twelve years old:

https://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b291/deethelurker/19376_1294362050302_8239543_n.jpg

― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Monday, 1 April 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link

Ok, that didn't work.

Me at six months old:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b291/deethelurker/19376_1292852012552_1126116_n.jpg

Me at twelve years old:

https://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b291/deethelurker/19376_1294362050302_8239543_n.jpg

― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Monday, 1 April 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link

aw!

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 1 April 2019 23:15 (five years ago) link

TYSM, VegemiteGrrrl. ❤️

In the second photo I was still growing out an ill-advised Dorothy Hamill haircut/'do; no one with hair as thick as mine used to be had any business with such a haircut. Two words as to why: "mushroom cloud".

― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link

Deee you are such a cutie!

― nathom, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 06:07 (five years ago) link

This is me aged ten. At my grandparents place. Look at those plastic sandals. And argh wearing socks as well. Jfc. The pink boiler suit was expensive and I was mad proud wearing it. Lol

― nathom, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 06:14 (five years ago) link

https://www.instagram.com/p/BSGurHYj0Gr/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=cx07njneqblq

Why does the link not show up? Not cool enough? Lol

― nathom, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 06:14 (five years ago) link

Me with my child bride, 1979

http://i63.tinypic.com/wkre3t.jpg

― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:57 (five years ago) link

Deee you are such a cutie!

Coming from a beauty such as yourself, that's high praise.

Ok, reaction time now that I've had enough time to peruse the entire thread:
1. I'm relieved not every one of you came across as looking Too Cool for School, because there's never been a point in my life when I've looked anywhere near "cool". So thanks a ton to those of you who posted adorable (or adorably awkward) photos of yourself!
2. It's kinda distressing how much my very first IRL crush resembled a perfect a 50%/50% mixture of young Ned and jel. Bus Pass Jel especially.
3. Michaels White and Jones were STONE COLD HOTTT OMG.
4. IDK if tera's still around these parts, but I love that with her I found someone whose childhood I could instantly find a kinship. My Catholic grade school uniforms looked a LOT like the ones shown in the group photo and Val Verde and Bexar counties aren't that far apart from each other; also, I too grew up surrounded by a significant majority of my fellow Chicanx people!
5. VG, your childhood photos were so precious, and the photo with you and your fiancée is seriously Relationship Goals.
6. I wish I could've seen a lot of the photos that now show up as broken image links. Ah well.
7. Onimo, that haircut in the most recent photo you've posted suited you perfectly.

― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Thursday, 4 April 2019 20:50 (five years ago) link

One more photo of me, this time at my National Honor Society induction ceremony toward the end of my sophomore year of high school, i.e. in the first year of eligibility (according to our school charter's rules). I was delirious with happiness at the time and it shows in the photo, because this had been my main goal since the very first day of high school. My parents, on the other hand.... (It's also crazy to note that out of the three people in the photo, I'm the only one who's still alive.)

https://oi21.photobucket.com/albums/b291/deethelurker/886390_10208142377468335_7989403232197110933_o.jpg

(BTW, notice how much my dad resembled a Native American Elvis Presley.)

― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Thursday, 4 April 2019 20:57 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

My sister just sent me this (mid-80s ish) one of her and I:

https://oi1091.photobucket.com/albums/i389/cryptosicko/jerin_zpsyiiurcfw.jpg

― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Monday, 13 May 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link

i <3 that gleeful photo of honor society dee

― estela, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 02:30 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

A friend e-mailed this today: high-school basketball team, 1978.

http://phildellio.tripod.com/gdhs.JPG

Pete Maravich was my favourite player; you can take it from there. I wish I could say "bad hair day"--I can't. The school finally dropped the Rebels moniker two or three years ago (not that any of us gave it a second thought in 1978).

― clemenza, Sunday, 4 October 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link

carbine clemenza!

― brimstead, Sunday, 4 October 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link

Love how without looking at who started this thread the pics in the first post are obviously Tuomas.

― Deflatormouse, Sunday, 4 October 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjhxI0VXsAIxB4v?format=jpg&name=900x900

me and my brother looking typically 70's council estate 2nd gen Irish Immis in Deighton, Hudds in 1978 with our mum and our red setter Dylan being photographed by my late dad who was a complete cunt who I never mourned tbh!

Then me in 1990 at the age of 16 trying to look rebellious with a cigarette and a can of carling black label, it still me on ilx now but with a more rapidly retreating hairline and stronger booze and much closer to the scrapheap of life (lol).

― calzino, Monday, 5 October 2020 01:51 (three years ago) link

Me and my dad about to watch Scotland get knocked out of their last ever World Cup in 1998.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50421910267_e9964ac0bf_c.jpg

― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Monday, 5 October 2020 07:28 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

My father passed away last week at the age of 67. He had been sick for years; we knew this was coming, but I'm still not sure I have completely processed it. Probably won't for a long time. He was a university track and field coach of considerable renown within the world of Canadian university athletics; an athlete he coached competed in the 2016 Olympics in Rio (she came in fourth in her race) and he got a shout-out by the announcer on NBC during the introduction of the athletes, something I still cannot quite believe happened. 2020, man.

This is us probably around 1980 or '81. Friends and former athletes of his that I hadn't seen in years (or in some cases may never have met) could not stop remarking, at his funeral, how much I look like him, and that was with a mask covering half of my face. They also could not stop telling me that he was the kindest, most encouraging, and generous-spirited person they had ever known, something that I can confirm on my end as well. I will miss him every day of my life.

https://ik.imagekit.io/kh7l6k3pso/IMG_1166_IXuqOm1BN.jpg

― Langdon Alger Stole the Highlights (cryptosicko), Monday, 16 November 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link

― mookieproof, Monday, 16 November 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link

I'm sorry for your loss, crypto.

― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 November 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link

Thanks. Believe it or not, even something as minor as posting an old photo of us on a message board helps.

― Langdon Alger Stole the Highlights (cryptosicko), Monday, 16 November 2020 22:14 (three years ago) link

I believe it. I'm glad it helps ease the loss a bit. He's further away now, but he'll never be gone from you.

― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Monday, 16 November 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link

Condolences <3

― kinder, Monday, 16 November 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link

nice <3

― a certain derecho (brownie), Monday, 16 November 2020 23:05 (three years ago) link

sorry for your loss, crypto.

― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 16 November 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link

Condolences--great photo.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 01:25 (three years ago) link

Sorry for your loss, Crypto. Great photo.

― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 10:53 (three years ago) link

So sorry crypto, awful news

― kites aren't fun (NickB), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 11:06 (three years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Not me, but a newspaper ad for the opening night of the local movie theatre where I worked as an usher my last year of high school. March 2, 1979--almost positive I would have been either working or at least there that night.

https://phildellio.tripod.com/cinema.jpg

Summerdog? I have zero recollection of this film.

― clemenza, Sunday, 24 October 2021 02:22 (two years ago) link

We were opening with a two-year-old film.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280128/

George Costanza's mother is in it.

― clemenza, Sunday, 24 October 2021 02:24 (two years ago) link

also, Halloween in march.

― koogs, Sunday, 24 October 2021 06:34 (two years ago) link

two months pass...

https://i.ibb.co/JpyTjJM/PXL-20220123-180821322-2.jpg

hanging out with weasel the one-toothed cat, late 90s. first night after we adopted him, he sat on our pillows and purred so loudly all night long that we hardly slept a wink. have a point if you can id the records

― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Sunday, 23 January 2022 18:21 (two years ago) link

i see ganger

― mookieproof, Sunday, 23 January 2022 18:33 (two years ago) link

indeed it is!

― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Sunday, 23 January 2022 18:36 (two years ago) link

two months pass...

me being traumatized by the Rock-a-Fire Explosion (please post some of your own, old school kid pix are the best)

https://i.ibb.co/0F2RtdS/278607001-10159040435572981-1999666717804284028-n.jpg

― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 April 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link

inspecting an f-16, c.1992

https://i.ibb.co/31zhwjj/IMG-4104.jpg

― difficult listening hour, Monday, 18 April 2022 08:54 (two years ago) link

Time for a reprise:

Me with a little neighbor kid in 1972, I was aged ~17.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4145/5084741255_e856c93c64_b.jpg

― Aimless, Friday, October 15, 2010 6:21 PM (eleven years ago)

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 18 April 2022 19:22 (two years ago) link

Me and my brother rocking suits. I'm on the right. I'm thinking we were maybe four (me) and two (him)?

https://i.postimg.cc/hGFj5gHM/2017-10-28-19-29-26.jpg

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 18 April 2022 22:18 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

Did you see the drummer's hair?

https://i.postimg.cc/wxy05F3Y/hair.jpg

My sister finally found the VHS of family photos my dad had (with good intentions but a little shortsightedly) transferred from old slides. Unfortunately, the one photo I really, really wanted to unearth--me before Neil Young's 1978 show at Maple Leaf Gardens--is not on there.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 16:25 (seven months ago) link

two weeks pass...

THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE

https://i.ibb.co/9gM2xHP/FB-IMG-1696002943643.jpg

― I love you, dad (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 September 2023 16:51 (six months ago) link

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