What did you use to look like? Old photos.

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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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

i looked cooler when i was younger

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

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Ian: isnt she wonderful? I heart Kristin.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― andy --, Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Stevie you haven't changed.

― andy --, Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

(I am still grumpy, though.)

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I love old photos!

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Sugarpants looks like the coolest kid ever.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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

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― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

OK now THAT is a really cute pic Jer =)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

It was during my dykey i love kd lang period!

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

Where are you in that photo?

― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Me? In the center, like i said :)

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

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

― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:43 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, it's cute.

all pictures of me suck.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

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― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 1 April 2005 09:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

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

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

― Sven Basted (blueski), Friday, 1 April 2005 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

wow!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

hahahahahaha

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

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Loose Lips editorial session, Jan 2005:

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

― stevie (stevie), Friday, 1 April 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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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 (five years ago)

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 (five years ago)

― mookieproof, Monday, 16 November 2020 21:52 (five years ago)

I'm sorry for your loss, crypto.

― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 November 2020 22:00 (five years ago)

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 (five years ago)

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 (five years ago)

Condolences <3

― kinder, Monday, 16 November 2020 22:33 (five years ago)

nice <3

― a certain derecho (brownie), Monday, 16 November 2020 23:05 (five years ago)

sorry for your loss, crypto.

― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 16 November 2020 23:15 (five years ago)

Condolences--great photo.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 01:25 (five years ago)

Sorry for your loss, Crypto. Great photo.

― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 10:53 (five years ago)

So sorry crypto, awful news

― kites aren't fun (NickB), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 11:06 (five years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

also, Halloween in march.

― koogs, Sunday, 24 October 2021 06:34 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

i see ganger

― mookieproof, Sunday, 23 January 2022 18:33 (four years ago)

indeed it is!

― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Sunday, 23 January 2022 18:36 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

inspecting an f-16, c.1992

https://i.ibb.co/31zhwjj/IMG-4104.jpg

― difficult listening hour, Monday, 18 April 2022 08:54 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (two years ago)

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 (two years ago)

one year passes...

Someone posted this on my FB wall the other day: turning 50, 2011.

https://i.postimg.cc/X7HhyVtK/50.jpg

No arthritis, no diabetes, no hearing aids. I think I still look the same, more or less, but I might not be the best judge of that. I'm definitely still blurry.

― clemenza, Saturday, 26 October 2024 20:28 (one year ago)

Sometimes blurry is kind of reassuring.

In spite of the dead links scattered throughout, this thread is still one of the most fun to browse around in.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 27 October 2024 00:10 (one year ago)

https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.18172-8/1553209_10152775980592137_1130508417_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=a74216&_nc_ohc=tutmbfiUDtwQ7kNvgHoOeJp&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&_nc_gid=At7HUE4nJB_yET6ACdpeAio&oh=00_AYDqHtJLl0laCT9RNu2DpHU3hox3vPUqOebqSeWQ6VdCew&oe=67451455

― scott seward, Sunday, 27 October 2024 00:32 (one year ago)

me with my housemates circa 2002

https://i.imgur.com/mkKygau.jpeg

― mookieproof, Sunday, 27 October 2024 01:22 (one year ago)

https://i.postimg.cc/L8N41NL6/SCREEN00011-tile.jpg

― Mark G, Sunday, 27 October 2024 02:46 (one year ago)

Parsley, Brian, Rosemary, and Mark--nice!

― clemenza, Sunday, 27 October 2024 03:29 (one year ago)

this thread is awesome

― Deflatormouse, Sunday, 27 October 2024 04:18 (one year ago)

Asking for a mulligan on my post above. How I should have phrased it:

Brian, Mark, Rosemary, and time.

― clemenza, Sunday, 27 October 2024 04:24 (one year ago)

great photo of a young mookie :D

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 October 2024 05:22 (one year ago)

That '70s Gameshow

― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Sunday, 27 October 2024 08:02 (one year ago)

You know it..

― Mark G, Sunday, 27 October 2024 08:41 (one year ago)

You haven't changed a bit. Of course I've never actually seen you.

― The count has shot himself (Tom D.), Sunday, 27 October 2024 09:21 (one year ago)

one year passes...

April 6, 1986--40 years ago today (posted with the date by a friend on FB).

https://i.postimg.cc/FR38tSxd/40.jpg

― clemenza, Monday, 6 April 2026 21:49 (two months ago)

I grew up in the Brady Bunch house

https://i.imgur.com/zgYMswp.png

― henry s, Monday, 6 April 2026 22:33 (two months ago)

If you're not speaking metaphorically, I'm very jealous.

― clemenza, Monday, 6 April 2026 22:50 (two months ago)

Is there a what we currently look like thread? If I could put faces to usernames I would be able to keep up with who’s who. Maybe that’s bad what with all the AI scraping or something? Privacy problems?

― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 7 April 2026 01:39 (two months ago)

search for wdyll

WDYLL 2026

― koogs, Tuesday, 7 April 2026 03:22 (two months ago)

huh

So THAT’S what WDYLL stands for. I always thought it was a sports thing. Look at all you beautiful people!

― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 7 April 2026 13:07 (two months ago)

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