What did you use to look like? Old photos.

Damn, remember when newspapers were all full of B&W pictures?

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.

love jeff, la lechera & the macs

I'm on the right

http://i39.tinypic.com/9ib7mb.jpg

onimo you always have consistently great old photos

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.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/818963/uglymug.jpg

lol school tour eh

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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

i love them so much

great pics!

amazing
how did they meet?

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.

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 :)

pil = oil

he worked for various public image limited companies

http://i.imgur.com/HOwnklP.jpg

the early 1990s were a really, really bad time for me

well you had no shoulders and your arms came out of the bottom of your ribcage. that would be tough for anyone.

but srsly tho

not even titannica would have tried to be my friend back then

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!

oy that is probably more books than i have read in the past six years

Fantastic newspaper articles!

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.

did your prom date wear white y/n

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....

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.

black roses = awesome

I had that corsage until just a few years ago.

<3 "Loves to read"

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

Frank Zappa: "A college degree stuffed with absolutely nothing at all. Smoke that, and it'll really get you out there!"

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

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.

Oh wow you had an INXS tshirt?? Pre-adolescent me is impressed w your coolness.

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.

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/532902_498715846857144_1707234609_n.jpg

Used to bust those dope moves.

Impressive!

RAD!

RAD

dammit, ninja'd

Dictionary should have that photo next to the entry on "Radical".

As well as being short for 'radical', 'rad' is also German for bicycle.

http://blog.misskl.com/files/2013/05/rad-movie-25-year-anniversary-retrospective.jpg

das ist rad auf das rad

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/grimes_zpsa6f9cb20.png

Back row, second from left, playing the Doctor in Peter Grimes

i've found a 6th form photo of me with mullet but it's not v. clear

http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu241/dnvnoo/img006640x438_zpsa2f38e09.jpg
Darkness on the edge of the Britta

BTW yes, that is the Microsoft / Timex Collabo watch thanks for noticing

I see where that photo was taken on July 25, 1999. Lest we forget.