You Not RFN. What you used to look like!
So what did you used to look like?
I seem to have collected a fair amount of pictures of myself that I use from time to time for profile pictures at other websites or I just have because I tend to digitize all my old images and the ones my parents took. Some go way back to my childhood. So here are 2 to start off with.
1958, must have been a summer pool party! I love the rusty sharp metal parts of the pool, Guess my parents weren't worried.
1978, Santa Barbara and in college. I think I had some kind of self portrait assignment so I tried to open my mouth as wide as possible. Oh well, at least I still have all the same teeth!
j/k I'll have to hunt around for one of my huge head.
like an orange on a toothpick
About 60 years ago. Really, more than 60 years.
Where is the Dinosaurs Buster ???? ;)
Chris, I am pleased with the automatic urge to protect your modesty even from an early age!
And you look like a Python or a rockstar in the second pic.
Buster you are so cute!
The solemn expression.
I question the backdrop though. Was that for parents who wanted to know how their childer would look if they dropped them off in the middle of nowhere and didn't come back?
I have lots of photos but no way to digitise them.
I did in my previous job, but not now.
I posted a few in this thread (
Cellar link).
Me on the right at 15.
i woulda had such a crush on you in high school sundae. totally.
edit: not that i don't now <#
And you look like a Python or a rockstar in the second pic.
I knew he reminded me of someone in that picture. And your comment helped me figure out who.
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There are some better pics of me at this age, but I'm not sure where they are due to major ongoing redecoration wurx ...
Limey, aged about 12 hours ...
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Back when I was just foot.
Not me, obviously (I don't smoke, for one thing) but was taken at the high school formal (trans: senior prom) one year ahead of mine. Just so well epitomises the late 80s at my school, so I'm sharing.
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Since I've never seen ANY sort of picture of you...nothing EVER, then no, that is not 'obviously' not you. ;)
Is there anywhere in the US that would have a prom with ashtrays at any time? :eyebrow:
Yeah, someone pointed out the ashtray, and we realised ... we ... are ... OLD. Smoking, indoors, at a school function!
I'm pretty sure that's a girl, so why she seems to be wearing a tux is a mystery.
But I also note the social dynamics .. boys in one corner, girls standing by the dance floor ... yep, teenage Aussies for ya. Where's the beer? (no, we didn't have that).
I think that's Juniper
that's funny.
Zen - show us a pic! Any pic!
eta of yourself, obviously. :D
Hi. Bri . YA want me to post one of ya??
ashtrays at prom?! gotta love it!
me in Paris with my great lifelong friend Jerome (caddy corner to me), his brother Romaine (to my left) and their friend Sammy. summer of '93 i believe. maybe 92
and i think i might have needed that ashtray Zen...
Well I think this is Sumtra 1976. Dats me on right.
Since I've never seen ANY sort of picture of you...nothing EVER, then no, that is not 'obviously' not you. ;)
Well, given that you have never seen a picture of me, and you have seen that picture, then it is obviously not of me. QED.
Well I think this is Sumtra 1976. Dats me on right.
So where haven't you been B?
My best friend took this of me back in 1978 or so, I think we were walking around San Francisco and we had picked up some of those free newspapers that are in dispensing boxes along the sidewalk. Must have been shot on Kodak Tri X from the look of the grain.
Chris, that pic cracked me up.
You with your rock-star hair and model face, somehow exude a sense of missionary outrage which I know you did not feel.
Awww, Spexx.
Time makes you more handsome, but you always had a good jawline.
Chris, that pic cracked me up.
You with your rock-star hair and model face, somehow exude a sense of missionary outrage which I know you did not feel.
Awww, Spexx.
Time makes you more handsome, but you always had a good jawline.
A wine drinking rock star no less...
:band:
Spexxvet, I vote for # 3. Your teeth straightened up and your hair looked nice.
I don't think I've posted this one before.
I remember thinking that lantern looked like something you would see on an old time railroad. And I had the hat and overalls, so I put it all together and asked my mom to take my picture one random spring day.
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And did they explain the origin of the term "red light district"?:lol:
Glatt, you remind me of my son. That is great. How old were you in that photo?
I believe this is Halloween in 1998. I actually had hair!
I have been looking for childhood photos no luck so far I did find this one today from the 90s oooh I was so glamorous LOL!
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Oh, Nirvana......smoking!!!!
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmokin'
Wowza.
:eyeball: :eyeball:
:yum:
I have been looking for childhood photos no luck so far I did find this one today from the 90s oooh I was so glamorous LOL!
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Schaaaaaa-WING!That's me third from the left, 1984 in the front leaning rest.
front leaning rest....
Or
Johnny Eck impersonators?
You decide!
That's me third from the left, 1984 in the front leaning rest.
I think it's great that the military is letting double-leg-amputees keep serving.
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Glad you did it Zen.. I had a post written last night and deleted it.
Snipped from V's Wikipedia link:
In 1937, Eck and Robert were recruited by the illusionist and hypnotist, Rajah Raboid, for his "Miracles of 1937" show.[10] In it they performed a magic feat that amazed audiences. Raboid performed the traditional sawing-a-man-in-half illusion, except with an unexpected twist. At first Robert would pretend to be a member of the audience and heckle the illusionist during his routine, resulting in Robert being called on stage to be sawed in half himself. During the illusion, Robert would then be switched with his twin brother Eck, who played the top half of his body, and a dwarf, who played the bottom half, concealed in specially-built pant legs.[10] After being sawed in half, the legs would suddenly get up and start running away, prompting Eck to jump off the table and start chasing his legs around the stage, screaming, “Come back!” "I want my legs back!"[11] Sometimes he even chased the legs into the audience. The subsequent reaction was amazing - people would scream and sometimes even flee the theater in terror. As Eck described it, "The men were more frightened than the women - the women couldn’t move because the men were walking across their laps, headed for the exit.” [12] The act provided the perfect jolt by frightening people at first but then caused just as much laughter and applause.[13] The illusion would end with stage hands plucking up Eck and setting him atop his legs and then twirling him off-stage to be replaced by his twin Robert, who would then loudly threaten to sue Raboid and storm out of the theater. Their act was so popular that they played to packed audiences up and down the East coast.
In addition to film, sideshow and stage, Eck was also pursuing other interests in this period. He and his brother were musicians, having their own twelve-piece orchestra in Baltimore. Eck conducted while Robert played the piano. Eck continued his love of drawing and painting; early on choosing such subjects as pretty girls, ships and himself. He was also a race car enthusiast and the driver[14] of his own custom-built race car that was street-legal in Baltimore, the "Johnny Eck Special". In 1938, Eck climbed the Washington Monument on his hands.
I have the movie
Freaks, which I highly recommend. It is where I learned of Mr. Eck. It's an impressive movie all by itself, and the additional visual blockbuster of so many "freaks" (their term, not a perjorative) is stunning today, even with my CGI-jaded eyes. I can only imagine the effect on the audiences during its original release. Five stars.
You know, I was thinking all the babes would comment on how cute I was. Go figure, now I'm just a freak double amputee. Sheesh, thanks guys.
You're not a freak, you got those other three right there with you.
and UT's right, you didn't get shortchanged in the eyebrow department. Now there's an amputation candidate...
:wink:
Taking some pressure off Joe...me, in 1968, me (on the left) & one of the Unclesdigr ~1972, and Senior pic in '86.
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Grav, what a fine young man!
During the illusion, Robert would then be switched with his twin brother Eck, who played the top half of his body, and a dwarf, who played the bottom half, concealed in specially-built pant legs.[10] After being sawed in half, the legs would suddenly get up and start running away, prompting Eck to jump off the table and start chasing his legs around the stage, screaming, “Come back!” "I want my legs back!"[11] Sometimes he even chased the legs into the audience.
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We now have a working scanner. And as part of my slow-but-sure deep cleaning of my room I've unearthed many photos.
So you will have lots of lovely treats. Don't cry, I'll try to ration them.
I found many of the Evil Ex including a set of the progression of his tattoo, mostly photographed in my bed. I miss the lovely bed linen. I don't miss him, but it hurts to remember just how smitten I was (hence the amount of photos I guess). Sigh. I guess many addicts miss the all-consuming quality of the addiction.
Anyway! More cheery!
I'll try to go in roughly date order, but I already have these two scanned.
Sarge mentioned something about me when I was 20 which prompted the search for photos and subsequent cull. It was on my list.
Me on a lads' weekend away. All three guys (inc the one behind the camera) thought they might get lucky. Hardly. They were good mates, but I had my own bedroom and no-one else was invited!
And me New Year 1992, dressed for working in the bar. Fancy dress, you know. I added the sparkly shorts as the original costume was quite high cut on the leg.
In both photos I am tilting my head back so no-one can see my ptosis. This is one of many stratagems I employed, as you will see. I still tilt my chin now, but that's because I have more of them.
I think it's interesting and kinda cool that your self consciousness made you raise your head high. Exactly the opposite of what it normally would do and projecting confidence to the world.
The first is my first Christmas party working for Dr Solomon's, which makes it 1995. I'd stopped off at Mum & Dad's to show them my dress and hair (done by a hairdresser - I never had any luck in putting it up myself). Lynn and I got into the dining room late (too busy at the bar!) and couldn't sit with friends - instead were guided to a table of programmers and IT chaps. Best thing that could've happened that night. As the only women on the table we were feted and celebrated and I made some friends I would keep until the company was bought out and scattered to the winds. Nice chaps these techy guys.
The second I would guess would be spring 1996. I was working at Solomon's at least. It's me eating KFC in my husband's comic shop (still looking unfinished) and I have no wedding ring on.
I was horrified when I got that photo back from the printers. I was SO FAT! The fact that I was obviously gorging on fried food made it even more inexcusable. Hey ho, live and learn. Must remember that one day I will look back and marvel about how lovely I am now.
I have a date on the back of this photo. June 1998.
This may be the last photo taken of me by my husband.
I'm off on a night out without him.
I was already involved with the Evil Ex, although not physically, and I wasn't going to see him that night. I look at how happy I am to be leaving the house, and my husband alone for the evening and feel sad. But I like my lipstick.
...and I made some friends I would keep until the company was bought out and scattered to the winds.
Damn Bain Capital. ;)
Love the one with your hair up. You look ever so elegant.
Also, the very first pic really puts me in mind of Molly Ringwald.
1. At Butlin's Holiday Camp (probably Barry Island).
No sun, but we adored it. Even at this age my sister and I were allowed out of the chalet as long as we were together and were back by a certain time. 1981 by my reckoning, so I was 8 or 9.
2. Outside Buckingham Palace with my sister's French exchange student. 1985. I spoke better French than my sister (my teacher when I was 10-12 was bilingual) and got on with her famously.
As payback, my French exchange student the next year was into hair and make-up and clothes and followed my sister round in adoration. Karma.
SG I keep forgetting im older than you ,
this was me in 1982,
Image3 by
zippyt, on Flickr
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Drew Carey was a Marine too.
Me as a lickle girl.
The summer of '76 - a scorcher by British standards.
And poor old Mum had to carry Steven all the way through it.
So I'da been 3 or 4 depending on the exact date it was taken.
My favourite toy at the time was this broom. I used to hold onto it and circle round and round, making myself dizzy and a hole in the ground. Mum wasn't fussed about my slightly OCD behaviour, but she did not like the pockmarks I created in the garden. Broom locked in shed for quite a while.
Me as a grown up girl circa 1997. The Corporate Sales Team had just smashed all previous targets and we were on a night out in London. Polaroid, hence the low quality photo. One of our sales team bought us champagne that actually cost him more than the bonus he'd earned that month. It was a bloody good night out though. Carrie and I blagged our way into the VIP area and she was really excited by the number of footballers in there. Typically I recognised none of them but was flattered by the amount of drinks I was bought. I didn't make it out of bed the next day.
Time to resurrect this thread!!! Here's a pic of me from 1993 when I was working undercover. The ponytail is actually a weave. I even got my ear pierced for this investigation. I bought dope left and right because no one would believe a cop would look like this. I think I still have the purple tinted glasses someplace
Yo are down wid da kids!
(sorry, makes no sense to me either)
Love the pussy tickler on your chin.
Was cleaning out the cabinet and sorting through pictures. Yes, I took a very long time and everything is still a mess. But hey, now I have old pictures to post up, hehhe.
Kindergarten class picture
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Fifth grade May Day performance
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New Year performance. Forgot which year. Somewhere in thw late 90's. I'm the one on the piano.
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Gorgeous. All three gorgeous!
Me 1986
Me 2006
