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02 June 2005
Create Your Own Captions. Let's just say that Brad and Tom would probably have liked to have the negatives for these pictures, but now that we have the intarwebs, they exist for all eternity. Lucky us!
I totally and completely HEART you, taz! That's the 3rd time this morning I've laughed out loud at something on MC. Bonus photo of Brad for you. The slouchy 80s socks in these photos appall me more than anything else.
Brad's wacky bracelet is one of those woven/knotted-string friendship bracelets that were all the rage for like a few months to a year - probably most popular just before those cheap day-glo fabric covered plastic slap bracelets were so hot, and just after those hideous multicolored rubber o-ring bracelets (Which have recently become popular with the kids again for some strange reason.)
Memes moved much slower then, and often took strange and embarassing physical forms - usually manufactured en masse in Taiwanese child slave labor sweatshops.
I wore a friendship bracelet for five years. A girlfriend gave it to me in the 8th grade. I wore it around my ankle all through high school. It was just loose enough for me to clean around it.
Every other girl I dated asked me to take the bracelet off, but I was true to my first love.
It fell off after my first year of college. Rotted until it snapped. It was disgusting, really. I got an infection once or twice because of it.
And when it came off, I just threw it away. And that makes me really sad right now.
What have I gotten out of this post?.....Tom Cruise is absolutely gay!! This new babe of his is the perfect ruse, she's a virgin, saving herself for marriage. He can be engaged forever! It's perfect!