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31 March 2006

Photo Friday: Post your school or kiddy photos here!
post by: taz at: 03:52 | 204 comments
baby sciurus
straight pimpin sciurus
sciurus and his 1st woman
cheesy senior photo sciurus
posted by sciurus 31 March | 06:57
sciurus, you're freaking adorable! "Straight pimpin" is melting my heart.
posted by taz 31 March | 07:04
Ack. What at time not to have a scanner. Sorry for the quality, but this is the best I could do:

Freshman year of high school, Tall Flags-style
posted by TrishaLynn 31 March | 07:27
And how would one add a picture to the pool, if there is one?
posted by TrishaLynn 31 March | 07:34
Here are two pics of a young Slack:

4 1/2 years old in a photo booth at the Museum of Science and Industry.

And my favorite family photo, a pic from around the same time with my three older brothers. I'm the one holding the bat.
posted by Slack-a-gogo 31 March | 07:34
Hah, Slack, I love your expression in the top of the photo booth one. "Sure... I'm gonna look where you point!"
posted by sciurus 31 March | 07:36
Dig the plaid sciurus! :D

I haven't outgrown my love of sleeping
I still hate dresses
whatever's on the edges is still the interesting part
posted by chewatadistance 31 March | 07:43
What cuties, slack!
posted by chewatadistance 31 March | 07:43
Hahaha, that sleeping picture is hilarious, chewata!
posted by sciurus 31 March | 07:48
Adorable adorable adorable, all. chewatadistance, nice caption on the school photo!
posted by rainbaby 31 March | 07:51
Awwwww.. you guys are keeeeling me!

TrishaLynn, just add "metachat" and maybe "mecha" to your tags. At one point I started a metachat group, but people had already done it just with tags, so I didn't bother to push for everyone to re-do their things to the group.

*scanning now....*
posted by taz 31 March | 07:52
This is going to be a good day.
posted by rainbaby 31 March | 07:53
Okay, here are a couple of photos from my high school yearbook: 1, 2.

I look doofier in my junior/sophmore photos, but the images in my yearbooks are about the size of my thumbnail, literally, so I'm not scanning them. If I gather the energy to find The Box and dig out those photos in larger format, or other kid pix of me, I'll post 'em later.

posted by taz 31 March | 07:58
oops. I should have said these are from senior year.
posted by taz 31 March | 07:59
This is me circa 1978, when I was about two, with my cousins (my cousin Jeffrey is in that seat because he is severely brain damaged and doesn't have much muscle control - that's a fucked-up story for another day). Here I am around 1981, when I was about 5, with my dad in Niagara Falls. This was the one and only time I ever went skiing, and man I stunk at it. We were about 16 in that picture, so it was probably 1992. Although we have grown up to be very, very different from one another, I am still close with those girls. For the sake of comparison, here we are in December 2005.
posted by amro 31 March | 08:02
First, I was mostly mad. ≡ Click to see image ≡

Then I got sad. ≡ Click to see image ≡. (First headshot, age 18)
posted by rainbaby 31 March | 08:06
HOLY MOTHER TAZ WAS A KNOCKOUT!

she probably still is!

rainbaby, i bet you're mad because you had that silly haircut. ;)
posted by sciurus 31 March | 08:08
You are all adorable.
posted by amro 31 March | 08:09
Amro, which one is you in either of the last two photos? (give me one, and I'll figure out the other!)

sciurus, come over here, baby, and sit by me.
posted by taz 31 March | 08:10
≡ Click to see image ≡

Flickr set here.
posted by mike9322 31 March | 08:11
Here's my kindergarten halloween costume. Pigtails are *always* appropriate.
posted by Fuzzbean 31 March | 08:11
Oops, taz, sorry... In the skiing picture, I'm the one in the middle. In the comparison photo, I'm second from the left. If I look a little hammered in the 2005 photo, it's because they bought me this for my birthday.
posted by amro 31 March | 08:12
I just want to take this opportunity to pat myself on the back. Best Photo Friday evar! *pat*

*searches webmd for 'melted heart'*

I want to respond to each of you individually, but suffice it to say that I am loving this.
posted by mike9322 31 March | 08:17
Aw, amro, I love the monster margarita (?) photo! And you are so, so cute!

And, Fuzzbean!!!! You're a perfect Pippi! Now I need to see a more recent photo.
posted by taz 31 March | 08:18
rainbaby, i bet you're mad because you had that silly haircut. ;)


That and the tights. Mostly the tights.
posted by rainbaby 31 March | 08:19
1968, my parents loved plaid.

1971, My First Sock Puppet

1972, tending to the crops in my suave sweater vest

1984, Greg Brady Rocks!
posted by Otis 31 March | 08:19
Marching band sucked. But the drummer's beret was kinda cool. Usually I replaced it with a plaid snap-brim hat, though, my personal high school trademark.

≡ Click to see image ≡

-and-

"I don't think I like Santa."
posted by shane 31 March | 08:20
This photo Friday rules. Shane those pics are hilarious.
posted by sciurus 31 March | 08:21
Best Photo Friday evar!

Definitely. Good call, mike.
posted by amro 31 March | 08:23
mike9322 - that first picture looks like the kind of photo that comes with a new frame.

Fuzzbean - I had actually completely forgotten that Pippi Longstocking ever existed. Now I have to start clearing the memory banks all over again!

shane - My photos from around 68 also feature lots of plaid. But my parents opted for green plaid overalls that seemed to be the go-to attire for pictures of me.

This is a blast. I can't wait until I get back from work to see everything else added during the day.
posted by Slack-a-gogo 31 March | 08:24
SHANE!!

Oh, god, I love this.
posted by taz 31 March | 08:25
shane, you were right not to like Santa. He is clearly a pedophile, what with the inappropriate touching.
posted by mike9322 31 March | 08:29
≡ Click to see image ≡

Dad, Mom and me. This was taken outside of Our Lady Of Victory school in Floral Park, NY. It was 8th grade graduation in 1971. My mom would be dead from cancer by the end of August.
posted by tommasz 31 March | 08:36
tommasz, i'm so sorry... great photo, though.
posted by shane 31 March | 08:36
oh man, sorry tommasz. That photo is very good though. I wish I knew what kind of film stock it was.
posted by sciurus 31 March | 08:41
To lose your mother so young, tommasz :(

Beautiful family.
posted by mike9322 31 March | 08:43
Oh, tommasz! Wow. So sad, yet so good have the photo. There's a little something about almost every personal/family photo that feels a bit like that.. bittersweet and teary. Yet usually it isn't so absolutely specific.

My husband's mother died young in a car accident, so every photo of her from around that period is indescribably sad, yet utterly priceless.
posted by taz 31 March | 08:45
tommasz, even more poignant how you look like such a combo of your Mom and Dad. Wow.
posted by rainbaby 31 March | 08:56
Here I am.
posted by box 31 March | 09:04
Hee! Box, I'm hugging you so tight, I'm squeezing the breath out of you - sorry!
posted by taz 31 March | 09:09
Oh man, I so need to scan old pictures of myself. : ) This is too much fun!
posted by sisterhavana 31 March | 09:12
All my school photos are on the other coast, and you've probably seen these two before, but they're my only "kid me" pics that I have handy.
posted by safetyfork 31 March | 09:15
This is the oldest photo of me I have:
≡ Click to see image ≡
posted by cmonkey 31 March | 09:18
Okay, here's WOLFDADDY THROUGH THE AGES!

1966
1968
1970
1995
2003
posted by WolfDaddy 31 March | 09:18
Heh, WolfDaddy, those are great. You too, cmonkey.

These are all great.
posted by shane 31 March | 09:23
Sadly, I am in possession of none of my baby pictures. I have my high school yearbook, but no scanner. TrishaLynn can verify that I did indeed look ridiculous in it.
posted by jonmc 31 March | 09:24
Ding-dang...what a bunch of lil' cutie pies. And for the highschool photos, I had to make a paper fan to cool down after taz's photos.
posted by safetyfork 31 March | 09:25
omg, wolfdaddy! Checkered jacket!

omg, cmonkey, that's fantastic!

aw, safetyfork! Little cartoon boy on the moon! Awww.

jonmc, do what TrishaLynn did, and take a picture of the photo
posted by taz 31 March | 09:26
OK I've used up my flickr limits this month (damn you march for having 31 days!) so I put them on snapfish. I think you can get to both the photos (it will show a preview) by clicking the link - you don't have to register or whatever.

They are photos of photos.

Everyone looks great! sciurus -- you are styling that plaid.

me aged 3

me aged 7, with cat, Cassie. (in school uniform - Catholic schoolgirls rule!)
posted by gaspode 31 March | 09:26
on re-testing. Nope, didn't work. You can get to the first photo though.
posted by gaspode 31 March | 09:27
I don't have a camera and I'm at work. Maybe later.
posted by jonmc 31 March | 09:27
WolfDaddy, you look queer as a football bat in that '68 photo. Is that a padded vest? ;)
posted by sciurus 31 March | 09:28
(who am I kidding, I was never actually a child. the Wino built me in his garage in 7th grade. I'm a science project gone horribly awry)
posted by jonmc 31 March | 09:28
Here's me enjoying the first of many ice cream cones (me ol ma has a pic of all three of her kids having their first). This is me being a little shit. My youngest daughter, Evelyn, seems to have inherited that trait of mine.

Here are a couple of me in my early twenties, maybe 21 or so. Hippy hair and and a lame attempt at a beard.

One more...this is me the summer I got married. Well, actually, it was labour day weekend (early september). I am posing with a Canadian classic drink, my Crown Royal and ginger ale.
posted by richat 31 March | 09:29
richat, the look of unadulterated glee on your face with the ice cream cone is priceless.

gaspode and amro, your toddler pictures are so obviously you (respectively). I love it. I didn't look much like my current self as a young child.

taz. HOT.
posted by mike9322 31 March | 09:33
These are so adorable!
posted by cmonkey 31 March | 09:37
taz: oh so sultry.

wolfdaddy: I want to eat 1966 wolfdaddy up!

Here's a link to my aged 7 in school uniform with cat photo.
posted by gaspode 31 March | 09:47
cmonkey: rowr!

(now I feel like a pedophile. awesome.)
posted by gaspode 31 March | 09:49
Richat reminds of Dewey (from Malcolm in the middle), especially in the ice cream photo. (I love Dewey.)

'pode, try photobucket; I've used it for at least a year, and it's never let me down. (On preview: w/ kitty photo - oh! So sweet!)

re: the "hot" comments... I was like the stereotypical TV movie girl who wore glasses and read books, then she takes off her glasses and suddenly she's hotsy-totsy... Which is weird by today's aesthetic (thank goodness), but truly, I was more like a wallflower until I turned 17... and pretty much the only difference was that I got contacts. At any rate, I went from booknerd to miss popular, and the only difference I can tell is losing the glasses. (Anticipating: No, the boobs were already in place at that point!)
posted by taz 31 March | 09:51
jonmc: I brought my camera so we could get pictures of the newly coiffed Wino. If you ask nicely, I could be persuaded to endure the visage of high school jonmc again so the rest can see.
posted by TrishaLynn 31 March | 09:52
gaspode you do look the same! And cheezy senior photo sciurus makes me feel like a pedophile!
posted by rainbaby 31 March | 09:54
I don't have a scanner but couldn't resist participating in this thread.

Me in 1979. Two years old.

The glorious senior photo.

About age 23 with my mother. We don't see each other much, and this is the best picture we ever took together.

You guys are all gorgeous. mike9322, that picture of you as a little boy is so cute. You should be putting THAT one up, never mind the movie star one!
posted by rebirtha 31 March | 10:00
Thanks to the generosity of a bunny, I now have a pro account! So, for the final time here I am age 3, age 7.
posted by gaspode 31 March | 10:06
Actually, thanks to mrs. trishalynn, sometime today y'all will see a hilarious drivers liscense photo of a bemulleted 17-year old jonmc.
posted by jonmc 31 March | 10:10
These are so great! The cuteness is overwhelming wolfdaddy nice dimplechin!

some more:
What?! I was tired.
ah the beach drinking days
after school job.
cheesy ass theatre promo pic circa age 12 ish
posted by chewatadistance 31 March | 10:14
Otis: 1972 rocks.
posted by gaspode 31 March | 10:15
taz you're beautiful! man what a buncha cuties.
posted by chewatadistance 31 March | 10:16
A lot of y'all have seen these already; I didn't have time to scan new ones. But, for those who haven't, here is me, age 3 or so, and here are my school pictures grades 2, 3 and 4? 3, 4 and 5? Something like that. At 13. And my high school senior pic.
posted by mygothlaundry 31 March | 10:17
≡ Click to see image ≡≡ Click to see image ≡≡ Click to see image ≡≡ Click to see image ≡
posted by krix 31 March | 10:24
chew: NSFW!! :)

I hope this starts a trend. Everybody, out with the naked pictures!
posted by mike9322 31 March | 10:26
Thanks gaspode!

Anybody remember the Bananna Splits?

Here's me and "Fleagle" at Kings Island in Cincinnati. I'm not sure what Fleagle is trying to do to my sister.

Two Banana, four banana, one banana, three
Swinging like a bunch of monkeys hanging from a tree
Hey there everybody won't you come along and see
How much like Banana Splits everyone can be

posted by Otis 31 March | 10:27
oooh! rebirtha joins the hottie pool with all the other mecha ladies!
:-)
posted by shane 31 March | 10:27
those pics all rock : >



you've all seen mine, but what the hell: toddling (in 66 i guess), 73-ish, and in 81. (i miss my hair)
posted by amberglow 31 March | 10:27
MGL: high school hottie. Wanna go steady?
posted by mike9322 31 March | 10:28
That Fleagle is one sick monkey, dude.
posted by jonmc 31 March | 10:28
mike: somewhere, there is a picture of me standing on a balcony, wearing ONLY a toy fireman hat.

(weird thing is, I was 15 at the time...)

just kidding...I was maybe 2 or 3.
posted by richat 31 March | 10:32
otis, you got to meet Fleagle!?! i'm so jealous! (everyone i know who grew up in ohio still talks about that place)
posted by amberglow 31 March | 10:32
Lil' selfnoise on the Harley. Early 80s.
posted by selfnoise 31 March | 10:33
I adore rebirtha's photo with mom and grandmother... Fantastic.

Chewy, "Tired" is ... omg! Too adorable, and it breaks my heart. Aaargh!

Whoah, look at mygoth at 17! Don't you just want to put her in white gown and sacrifice her to a vengeful god? translation: wooo! gorgeous mgl!

Amberglow's punk against graffiti wall photo makes me feel tingly... In fact you look very, very much like one of my best friends right around that time, amber.
posted by taz 31 March | 10:34
krix, those are tiny--have bigger versions?

taz: : > (only if he's still alive tho)
posted by amberglow 31 March | 10:36
amber: click on them.
posted by jonmc 31 March | 10:37
Oh, yes... still alive, amber!

I want to see krix's t-shirt from first grade... and, is that the sweetest smile ever? What an angel. Krix, you are adorable! okay, I know you're going to tell me that you were a devil, and not an angel - but that's why the angel-face smile is so great!
posted by taz 31 March | 10:45
Again, I will be late.
posted by matildaben 31 March | 10:47
what jonmc said, amberglow (whose photo makes me want to start writing fan mail to him...)

I loved that shirt, taz. It may have been the Lone Ranger and Tonto. I wish I still had it.

And I actually was a pretty good girl when I was little.
posted by krix 31 March | 10:51
you oughta be in pictures, amber! '81!
posted by chewatadistance 31 March | 10:53
sciurus, that's a retouched scan of a very faded and discolored print. I had the print for years and it eventually faded but not evenly. I scanned it and tried to restore it myself but it was beyond my capabilities. We had a studio do the work and, while it's nice, it's not the same as the original.

My guess is that the original was a 35mm, either High-Speed Ektachrome or possibly Kodacolor. I had received a Nikkormat FTN for graduation and I'm fairly sure it was taken, by a relative, with that camera.
posted by tommasz 31 March | 10:55
Agropyron at age 14. Yes, I was trying to grow a moustache.

Today, for comparison.
posted by agropyron 31 March | 10:56
agro, I think we may have smoked dope behind the bike shed together at some point.
posted by jonmc 31 March | 10:58
≡ Click to see image ≡≡ Click to see image ≡≡ Click to see image ≡
posted by kmellis 31 March | 10:58
Agro, that just goes to show that sticking to the plan pays off. :)
posted by selfnoise 31 March | 11:02
Agro, that's amazing! Were you actually "trying" or did it sneak up on you? (plus, WOO-WOO, both photos!)
posted by taz 31 March | 11:05
At five years old.

I was the littlest Brownie in the pack.

And at sweet sixteen.

Of course, all this was before I metamorphosised into the Jewish Dennis Taylor-lookalike with a blonde curly perm, the stuff of Seanyboy's (wildest?) dreams.
posted by essexjan 31 March | 11:08
Well. I really wanted facial hair, and no one showed me how to shave, or told me it looked like crap.
posted by agropyron 31 March | 11:09
I found a more better recent picture, so 2003 is now 2004!

It seems the ladies of Mecha have been teh hawt since birth. Us gents ... it took awhile for us to grow into ourselves, to my eyes. Except for Cabana Boy. LOOK AT THOSE MUSKLES!
posted by WolfDaddy 31 March | 11:11
OMG essexjan - the Brownie picture!

*eats essexjan with a spoon*
posted by gaspode 31 March | 11:12
With the hair and beard, Wolfie looks like Carl Wilson. But can he sing the harmonies on "California Girls?"
posted by jonmc 31 March | 11:13
*flexes*
posted by mike9322 31 March | 11:15
Arright taz, here's your more recent. (From Christmas...was baking pies with niece but had to edit her out. S'all very KGB.)
posted by Fuzzbean 31 March | 11:15
I was not teh hawt back in the day. I'll have to dig up some yearbook shots and prove it. : )
posted by sisterhavana 31 March | 11:16
Hah, jonmc, normally the long hair and beard nets me "you're like a tall Kevin Smith" comments, but I'll take Mr. Carl.

But here's what I more closely resemble these days, now that I'm a Texan agin. Straight pimpin' in my tux, yo.

(great awesome pic fuzzbean!)
posted by WolfDaddy 31 March | 11:18
Don't sweat it, havana. Wait'll you see how ridiculous I looked back in the day.
posted by jonmc 31 March | 11:18
This is a fantastic photo Friday. I've enjoyed looking at them all. Amberglow, you were smokin' (literally too in that picture!) when you were younger.
posted by essexjan 31 March | 11:20
Mikey, my husband was also a track and field guy in high school, and also hella cute. I never saw him then, of course, and there aren't any photos, so do you mind if I just photoshop his head onto your body so that I can have a remembrance of fake times past?

Fuzzbean, you are so beautiful! I'm almost mollified that you no longer look like Pippi.
posted by taz 31 March | 11:24
I am probably going to be late for class, but it's worth it. I'm in on this bad boy.

Obligatory Santa picture.
Around age three, with one of my favorite toys.
A day at the beach.
I loved Bugs Bunny. And patriotism.
I didn't love bowl haircuts.
posted by wimpdork 31 March | 11:29
Sure, taz! But you're not allowed to keep it to yourself. You can even pretend that the reason why there are no other people in the picture is because he's in first place instead of dead last!

Okay, I wasn't that slow.
posted by mike9322 31 March | 11:31
early bloomer
a favorite with my mum
pictures that make your parents laugh and laugh
3rd grade
(not quite highschool - university sophmore, but high on the point and laugh index) a valiant attempt at channelling John Hughes

These are part of a larger set. As megalomaniacal as it may appear, it's really part of an even larger, ongoing project that I've been working on for the last few months to gather, scan and archive hundreds of pictures for both my mother and general posterity.

So yeah.

And you guys are all wicked awesome.
posted by Frisbee Girl 31 March | 11:45
I am so very sad I have no scanner. Very sad.

You guys are all cute as buttons!
posted by Specklet 31 March | 11:48
Lemme guess, Fris, that guy in the college pic...not a romantic relationship?
posted by jonmc 31 March | 11:51
Nope, Jim didn't come out for another ten years or so. Fuh-nny guy. Gawd.
posted by Frisbee Girl 31 March | 11:59
Heh. I have another h.school photo of me and a beautiful guy (one of my closest friends) in a senior class skit. I'm proud to say that I was a friend of fags even before I knew what fags were, or they even knew themselves! (But I did keep telling my other girlfriend who was desperately in love with him to "forget it"... and I hadn't even figured out why I knew it was hopeless).
posted by taz 31 March | 12:03
taz, it shouldn't come as any surprise. With your sultry voice and looks, you are definitely a mfagnet. :-P
posted by WolfDaddy 31 March | 12:06
specklet, can you take pics of your pics? I must see!
posted by mike9322 31 March | 12:07
Frisbee Girl: Thank you for the John Hughes shot. That was my life too.

I'll have to wait til I get home to post a pic. Sadly, I don't have too many pix of young me. My parents still have most of them.
posted by Miko 31 March | 12:12
I found a few more...

My side of the family at our wedding (minus some uncles etc.) and some play with my dad. Also, one, and two shots of me at 3 weeks.
posted by richat 31 March | 12:12
Seriously, WolfDaddy! I've had some incredibly fantastic and hot-hot-hot gay friends (boy and girl)... one of whom was so close and incredibly intimate, it was only the pesky sexual preference keeping us being together forever, in heaven.
posted by taz 31 March | 12:14
I'm proud to say that I was a friend of fags even before I knew what fags were,

Me too, mainly since I was always drawn to mavericks and wits.
posted by jonmc 31 March | 12:21
S'all very KGB

Lord, that made me laugh and yes, it's a great pic. Who knew Pippi would clean up so nicely?

wimpy, love, you're so freaking adorable, I can hardly stand it.

ej, that brownie pic with you busting out a megawatt smile is AWESOME.

taz, lady, you make me proud to be a woman.

On preview: miko, you're most welcome! If I couldn't get a good laugh out of myself, I'd really be missing out.
posted by Frisbee Girl 31 March | 12:22
from. from being together. (please remember, bunnies - my Friday starts much earlier than most of yours, and so does my drinking.)
posted by taz 31 March | 12:22
I love this thread so so much! It has made my Friday wonderful!

Here's one more for y'all bunnies. Go on, laugh.

(And just wait until my hair grows out and I get some more henna. Pippi, she will be back, yesyes.)
posted by Fuzzbean 31 March | 12:28
taz, pass some over here baby! I got's the day off! :-D

It's interesting to me, your experiences with gay people, and gives me hope for the future. In posting my own pictures today, I've gone through a LOT of old pictures, and have reminisced about many of the friends I have and have had and I find that they are more valuable by far than all but one of the romantic relationships I've had in my life. Why? Longevity. Hmmm, maybe by romantic I mean "passionate". Passion is a fire that burns brightly but in many instances, all too briefly, whereas for me friendship develops into a true love that really withstands the test of time. I have a fairly large circle of intimate friendships and most of them are well into their second decade, some of them into the third.

But in my life, friendship doesn't necessarily exclude sex as a means of expression, and I feel extraordinarly lucky for that, 'cause, y'know, sex is great and awesome and all. I also find it odd and remarkable that I've had sex with most of my close male friends, yet most of them, if truly pressed to label themselves, would say they are straight. However, the experience bonded us in ways that guys almost never experience, or at least almost never admit to experiencing.

Conversely, my deepest friendships with women--despite many temptations on both sides--have always been sex-free and for both of us it's almost a point of honor. That men and women can have deep, abiding, long-lasting and loving relationships without the pressure society puts on them to pair "for life", reproduce, all that jazz.

I blather, and probably should have made a new post for these thoughts, but I just wanted y'all to know what kinds of thoughts this Photo Friday has brought to me. Thanks, to all you bunnies and to mike9322cabanamuskleboy for the suggestion! I wub you all.
posted by WolfDaddy 31 March | 12:40
This day has rivalled Valentines Day as the greatest Metachat Day ever.
posted by mike9322 31 March | 12:43
yer all frickin' adorable
but nearly all pictures of me are unavailable.
i might try to sneak out a digiphoto of me being eaten by a large furry white jacket but i might as well draw it.
i look like a puppet.
hey, i was frickin' adorable.

and i missed VD, so screw you, clown.
posted by ethylene 31 March | 12:54
*runs to mommy in tears to tell on eth*
posted by mike9322 31 March | 12:56
Trish took a pic of my liscence from 1988, she just needs to upload it.

*taps foot*
posted by jonmc 31 March | 12:57
*taps foot as well*
posted by richat 31 March | 13:02
Foreshadowing: I grew up to spend my career fighting fires as an IT wonk.

Later tonight: My passport photo at age 15, with shoulder-length hair. (And now that I look at it, I was sporting the same hairstyle at 5 as I was at 15.)
posted by Triode 31 March | 13:02
Late Spring 1974. That's what's written on the back in my grandmother's writing. She took this photo just before I got a haircut I insisted on despite my mother's objections.

She passed away January 1991. I still miss you, Nonnie.
posted by deborah 31 March | 13:02
There are thousands of pictures of me as a kid (apparently I was really cute), but I'm too lazy/busy to scan/photograph/upload them all, so make due with the one that's already online:

≡ Click to see image ≡

I've always looked essentially the same, just with different-sized hair.

Now, my comments (going backwards):

Wow, Frisbee Girl is like exactly who I thought my idea girl would be when I was little. I always figured I'd find another brown girl and make little multiracial babies. (don't read too much into that, Fris. I'm not hitting on you or anything!) I just mean the picture I saw in my head when I was in grade school and would close my eyes and try to piece a picture together. Complete with (what looks like) impossible to manage hair, JUST LIKE MINE.

Fuzzbean makes me feel a bit light-headed. What a babe! (do you have a lovely, self-conscious smile?)

While I have not seen a more recent picture of essexjan, she looks almost just like what I pictured she would. She looks like the friend of the really attractive girl who I would always hit on because she was always sweeter and not as stuck up than the so-called "hot" friend.

Something tells me krix and I would have gotten up to mischief together. Hijinks!

Rebirtha is the girl I would have nursed a secret crush for throughout high school, only to finally ask her to the prom a week after she'd already gotten a date.

Richat was once a roadie for BTO.

Gaspode would have been the foreign girl who I was totally fascinated with (how many times have I done that? I need more fingers). Your second pic has me all retro-swoony.

Rainbaby channels Garbo... who knew? Seriously; you look straight out of a noir film. The "good girl".

Damn, amro has always been hot. And here I was hoping for a bad-glasses total nerd pic; I totally lose the bet I made in #bunnies last night. It's a shame when smart girls are always hot, because then you miss that "before she knows she's hot" period when you can totally sweep her off her feet.

As for taz... taz. Taz, taz, taz, taz, taz. Oh, taz, tazzie-poo, what to do with you? I seriously never thought there would be a mecha lady who challenged my mgl crush, but you have exceeded all expectations. It's a good thing I will never have to practically choose between the two of you, because I think it would be easier for me to jump a rhino and beat the shit out of it than to say no to either of you.

Goddamn, metachat is BEEEYOUTEEFUL.

Now I want to see pics of you all in 20 years so we can all laugh at how high our pants are while we fondly remember our teeth.

Next next week, in addition to all my past suggestions:
+Emulate a MetaChatter. Make yourself up/dress yourself up/pose in what is quintessentially in a way that flatters or lightheartedly pokes fun at another member. For example, I might put on a rock t-shirt, a flannel, grab a beer bottle, and presto! I'm jonmc. (I could blur the photo for extra realism).
+Something secret. Still have all your Babysitter's club books? Have a large Barry Manilow collection you're not entirely proud of?
posted by Eideteker 31 March | 13:06
My brother, fake Santa, and me

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posted by gigawhat? 31 March | 13:06
yup--and we're a gorgeous, movie-star-quality bunch! (or were, at least) ; >
posted by amberglow 31 March | 13:06
Damn, amro has always been hot. And here I was hoping for a bad-glasses total nerd pic; I totally lose the bet I made in #bunnies last night. It's a shame when smart girls are always hot, because then you miss that "before she knows she's hot" period when you can totally sweep her off her feet.

That's where you're wrong... Notice I didn't post any photos of myself between the ages of 11 and 14? Those were the little shrimp with gigantic owl glasses years. All those pictures are at my parents' house. Fortunately.

But thank you for the compliment!
posted by amro 31 March | 13:12
She looks like the friend of the really attractive girl who I would always hit on because she was always sweeter and not as stuck up than the so-called "hot" friend.


Awww, Eideteker, that's such a nice thing to say. When I was 16, 17 I had this friend, Petula, who I found out years later only went around with me because it made her look even better. I was never hit on, I was shy and used to drink (yeah, I drank as a teenager, I was drinking from 14) to hide the fear. So I used to get picked up a lot, but never asked on a date.

Gigawhat? Isn't that the real Santa.
posted by essexjan 31 March | 13:14
I had this friend, Petula,

She lived downtown, right?

(yeah, I drank as a teenager, I was drinking from 14)

13 here. Best to get an early start.
posted by jonmc 31 March | 13:16
You are adorable, Eideteker, and thank you for the compliment.

For the record, my hair, eyebrows, and (unfortunately) lips are all much smaller now.

Fris - I think I met you guys out that John Hughes night somewhere. . .
posted by rainbaby 31 March | 13:18
*blushes, smiles self-consciously*
posted by Fuzzbean 31 March | 13:20
13 here. Best to get an early start.

I should've realised drinking was A Bad Idea for me at 14 when I found myself drinking hard cider with the winos in the Riverside Gardens, still in my school uniform. Took me 25 years to get sober.

I'm sometimes envious of the bar tales I hear you guys tell. But I know that if you ever went out drinking with me for just one night, you would never want to speak to me ever again. Guaranteed. So I stick to water and a good time is had by all.

posted by essexjan 31 March | 13:24
Mine.

Like I said, something bad happened between childhood and adolescence.
posted by mudpuppie 31 March | 13:25
Amro: You TEASE my HEART. (pls express those pics as soon as is convenient tks so I can let my amro crush run its full course)

EJ: That's exactly what I'm talking about. I would have totally pulled you aside and talked for hours. Then people would have made jokes and I would have gotten shy and not actually asked you out. But I would have said something nasty to those who were making fun of us (that K-I-S-S-I-N-G thing gets old really fast) first. I was shy, but outspoken. And whoooooa angry when I wanted to be. (one trip in sixth grade we went away to a nature camp. the teasing got really bad and then they stole my pants while I was showering. that night, the dam burst and from 10-11 till about 1:30 in the am, I was busting on one of them with every single yo mama dis in the book and then some, till the Chaperone yelled at us to can it. True to form, his friends were all laughing at him getting snapped on by the smart kid. I was then no longer an outcast--or at least respected--until next year when my small grade school went to middle school with kids from a different town and it started over. Never as bad as it was initially, though; people mainly gave me space which was fine).

THAT WAS A LONG DIGRESSION I AM SOREY. I have my own fucking livejournal, and I will run back to it now.
posted by Eideteker 31 March | 13:25
Christmas morning, 1984. Around 10.30, or 11am, not even close to lunchtime. And already I'm doing that 'close one eye so I can focus' thing.

Good Grief ...

(The sweater was a gift from my sister. It was hot in 1984. Honestly.)
posted by essexjan 31 March | 13:28
Richat reminds of Dewey (from Malcolm in the middle), especially in the ice cream photo. (I love Dewey.)

Dewey's Real-Life parents run a mexican restaurant in Milford, MA (or therabouts) that has a shrine to their son, with photos of him with all kinds of hollywood celebs. He looks like his dad, and I'm told his brothers help out in the restaurant sometimes, making for a Dewey-riffic night on the town.
posted by Triode 31 March | 13:37
There were an awful lot of us in the marching band.

Eid, next time I'm at my parents' house, I will scan an amro nerd photo for you, I promise.
posted by amro 31 March | 13:38
Everyone's just so adorable.
Eide, you're coming to the Vegas meet-up, yes?
There's still mischief to be had.

OMG! Matching Mork from Ork T-shirts! EEEEEEEEE!

*DIES*

on preview: the load time of this page is going to be too much for me on dialup at work to keep up with this thread.
posted by krix 31 March | 13:38
Mudpuppie, that Grumpy Mudbaby picture is absolutely adorable.

Eideteker, a memory: it's from the exact time that the 16-year-old pic was taken, which was in Bristol, Sept '75. I'd signed up for a secretarial course, and we were taken away to Bristol on this get-to-know-each-other weekend. I was fearful, had weird clothes, didn't fit in. There was a disco (well, it was the 70s) and the girlies were all out there on the dancefloor giving it large. I stood in the corner, terrified. This really, really gorgeous lad talked to me all night. I was absolutely astonished. For once I wasn't drunk, there was no drinking allowed and I didn't know anywhere in Bristol to buy any. So I suppose I wasn't acting the drunken slut, which usually got me plenty of attention, but the wrong kind. The other girls had had their eye on this guy, and were as dumbfounded as I was that he'd picked me.

Thanks, Eid, I'd not thought about that. I never even thought about it whenever I looked at the picture, but you brought back probably the only good moment of my teenage years.

Sorry for the derail. Eid touched a nerve.

Welcome To The Dollhouse.
posted by essexjan 31 March | 13:39
something bad happened between childhood and adolescence

You stopped playing xylophone?
posted by Triode 31 March | 13:40
Eideteker: you win for looking most like your kiddy photo. Still so cute!
posted by gaspode 31 March | 13:48
Actually, from my freshman to senior year in high school, I made it my business to dance with the girls that no one else would, and you know what? I never once regretted it. I prefer one long meaningful conversation a night to ten or twenty small-talks. That's one reason I loved foreign girls; they has so many questions that we never fell into small talk (as small talk which is a pit which I avoid as I know no escape from it).

I'm glad I could be of service, eee-jay! Dare we ask for more recent pics of a cleaned-up you?

Krix, no... barring a major miracle I will not be able to make it to Vegas. My entire life is on a day-by-day basis right now.

I have HEARTS FOR EYES now, Amro. I hope you're happy.

ON PREVIEW: Podeeeeee, I told you. I have essentially not-changed.
posted by Eideteker 31 March | 13:52
Y'all are so adorable!

I've posted the only kid picture of me that I have. I need to take some photos of photos next time I'm at my mum's.
posted by deborah 31 March | 13:59
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posted by eamondaly 31 March | 14:05
late to the party but
posted by rumple 31 March | 14:16
Off the charts cute!
posted by safetyfork 31 March | 14:24
There were an awful lot of us in the marching band.

Band geeks are still geeks, y'know. Plus, it was a way out of PE, at least at my HS. All the tromping around counted as PE credit. All the drinking and fucking we did probably counted towards something too. Probably the "we're way cooler than the jocks who think they're cool" quotient.
posted by WolfDaddy 31 March | 14:27
We didn't have a marching band, but I was in the Orchestra.
posted by Eideteker 31 March | 14:32
I wasn't in the band but almost all my friends were. Or drama.
posted by mike9322 31 March | 14:33
I participated in no extracurricular activities of any kind, I'm proud to say.
posted by jonmc 31 March | 14:37
you and your foolish pride
posted by ethylene 31 March | 14:39
I was in the colorguard. But I entertained fantasies of playing the drums for the marching band.
posted by amro 31 March | 14:40
I seem to have the opposite problem to most other people around here. I have scanners, lots of them. I can hardly cross my front room without tripping over scanners. "Are you going to get rid of all these bloody scanners?!?!" says Mrs Geezer with one hand on her hip and the other wagging a finger at me. What I'm saying is: I. Have. Scanners.

I just don't have any pictures of me as a brat.
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kindergarten, 6th grade (or so), high school.
posted by me3dia 31 March | 14:40
Wow, fantastic photo friday.

9 yo - Citizenship card
11 yo - Passport photo
17 yo - Highschool ID
18 yo - College fresman ID
23 yo - Grad student ID
27 - just a reflection
posted by porpoise 31 March | 14:46
Sucks to your assmar, me3dia.
posted by mike9322 31 March | 14:49
assmar? huh?
posted by me3dia 31 March | 15:15
*googles assmar*

OH! Heh.
posted by me3dia 31 March | 15:18
Someone has to have more great photos, cos this wonderful thread can't end on "assmar".
posted by richat 31 March | 15:19
Lord of the Flies, man! The fat kid had asthma, and the other kids said "sucks to your assmar" all the time to him. That's some serious 8th grade reading!

On preview, too late.
posted by mike9322 31 March | 15:20
Me3, I think Mike just called you 'fat.'
posted by mudpuppie 31 March | 15:25
i met you all on the playground
with my knees burned from asphalt and gravel
then again in the halls we barely recall
scrabbling for something
we're still looking for
because someone left it behind
posted by ethylene 31 March | 15:26
now it ends on behind
and i guess i don't have to look for mine now
posted by ethylene 31 March | 15:27
OK, here's the 17-year old jonmc, avec le mullet
posted by jonmc 31 March | 15:32
OK, here's the 17-year old jonmc, avec le mullet

Chachi!
posted by essexjan 31 March | 15:38
I wish I had Jesse's girl!
posted by mike9322 31 March | 15:38
Ha! Sorry for the blurriness. Best we could do.
posted by jonmc 31 March | 15:39
Me3, I think Mike just called you 'fat.'

*beats mike9322 with a stick*
posted by me3dia 31 March | 15:40
*vows revenge on mudpuppie*
posted by mike9322 31 March | 15:43
I'll be a little late to a scanner, but it has been so much bittersweet fun paging through old photographs.

Eid: Next week should be "Pictures of Old Crushes/Old Flames" Friday.

posted by muddgirl 31 March | 15:47
*steps in front of mudpuppie, hands on his hips, superman style*
posted by richat 31 March | 15:56
muddgirl, that has a lot of potential for hilarity. I don't have any photos of old flames on hand, unfortunately. But I would love to see other peoples'! :)
posted by agropyron 31 March | 16:52
If I had to pick a fave, it'd be essexjan's brownie pic. Freaking adorable.
posted by chewatadistance 31 March | 17:11
Oof. I don't like the "pictures of exes" idea one bit. Mine were all beautiful, of course, but that seems kind of icky to me.
posted by eamondaly 31 March | 17:29
muddgirl: genius. I love it. shane, are you listening??
posted by mike9322 31 March | 17:31
i second icky.
bad idea.
baaaad.
still, i'll likewise be only able to submit hand drawn approximations
posted by ethylene 31 March | 17:33
I third icky, unless all of the exes have consented to having their pictures placed on the internet for all to see.
posted by cmonkey 31 March | 17:37
Okay, "photos of exes, but with the faces pixellated".
posted by mike9322 31 March | 17:50
i refuse you and so will your date.
posted by ethylene 31 March | 17:57
pictures of exes

I was thinking more "those polaroids you had your friend take so that your crush was in the shot, but not the focus of it, so you could have an indirect picture of them..."

...on second thought, I vote icky. And embarrasingly revealing about my true stalker nature...
posted by muddgirl 31 March | 18:54
I don't have any of my old school photos on hand, but I do have:
1992: My 8th Birthday
1993: 3rd Grade Class Play - I'm Mrs. Potts
posted by muddgirl 31 March | 19:25
I really don't have any actual childhood pictures.

One Day Old
Age 15, hiking in the Adirondacks (middle, the goofy looking shortie)
Age 16, at summer arts school
Senior pictureShortly after this picture, I got braces, and now looking at it, I'm glad.
Age 18, favorite pic of me ever, ever
posted by Miko 31 March | 20:46
I love your pictures, miko.
posted by mike9322 31 March | 21:02
i like yours enough to fake this one for all:
it's me at the botanical gardens at two and took me all of two minutes altogether
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posted by ethylene 31 March | 21:03
More of Triode:

Skinny Triode
Meal Ticket Triode
Precocious Triode
and the coup de grace:
Awkward Adolescent Triode
posted by Triode 31 March | 22:20
i love that snake flowchart, triode.

and you give wonderful face, miko : >
posted by amberglow 31 March | 22:28
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circa '82

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circa '91
posted by moonbird 31 March | 23:24
By popular demand (or not), a couple pictures from my high school senior yearbook. Not the greatest quality, since they're camera phone shots of the pictures. (They are much clearer in the smaller size)

My senior picture. Class of '91 represent! : )

Playing defense in the annual Powder Puff football game. I'm in the black jersey.
posted by sisterhavana 01 April | 00:47
More awkwardness
posted by knave 01 April | 01:27
Three years and change. Do not touch the blanky.

My first troubled headshot.

And a beach shot from ten years ago. And not so long ago, one of my favorites of all time really.
posted by fenriq 01 April | 03:37
These are all so wonderful; this has really been a touching thread.
posted by taz 01 April | 10:38
GODDAMNIT. I forgot about this thread. I had my mum scan and email the picture and everything. :(

The promised mullet-and-argyle-sweater combo.
posted by Zozo 01 April | 11:33
that's lovely, zozo.
posted by gaspode 01 April | 11:42
aw, zozo! Cutest li'l mullet evaaar!

How old are you there? You could easily be my baby child, you know? I don't have kids, but about half of you are young enough to be mine, so I'll claim you all.
posted by taz 01 April | 11:44
i guess i missed the thread, as usual, but i'll post anyway...

the mouthbreather
as Buster Brown
Juss stylin'
posted by Hellbient 01 April | 21:48
first mecha omg!
I'm not old enough to have senior photos, so here are some baby pictures plus recent stuff.
Me about three years ago.
Me, two years old, margarita mix bucket helmet. One of the best pictures of me ever taken.
crappy webcam recent picture.
Less crappy year old picture of me.
posted by MadamM 01 April | 22:24
MadamM, the margarita mix pic is wonderful.
posted by Frisbee Girl 02 April | 10:15
taz: I'm three years old, there.
posted by Zozo 02 April | 13:18
Fuzzbaby is way hot!
posted by kenko 02 April | 20:42
Is it ok to be a straight girl and have a crsuh on taz? ;)
Plus, I want everyones outfits - starting of course with sciurus supah-fly three-piece suit!
All I have to offer is moi 1989. Though it looks like '69. :P
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posted by dabitch 03 April | 15:56
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