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Title: Fotlings
Post by: Rainer on July 27, 2007, 12:12:40 AM
We have a picture thread for what we look like now.  But what about then?  Here's a shot of yours truly (and his brothers) hanging with Officer Harrups in South Dakota, circa 1975.  I had been teasing my youngest brother to the tune of "Listen to What The Man Says" (radio staple of the day)  "Kirk, you're the soldier boy and you like to kiss g-i-r-r-r-r-l-s!"

(http://craigdietz.com/images/dakota.jpg)

"M" stands for "Me."

Cough 'em up, people.







Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: John Junk on July 27, 2007, 03:35:42 AM
You guys look pissed. 
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: buffcoat on July 27, 2007, 09:22:19 AM
Wait, Fred Flintstone is a cop?

Seriously.  I think they took a Flintstones costume, dyed it blue, and added a hat. 
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: erika on July 27, 2007, 09:27:35 AM
I look at this picture (of me and my Roxy kitty that I had for 19 years) when I'm feeling down. It sits on my desk at work and by my bedside:

(http://a746.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00346/54/71/346411745_l.jpg)

And then there were those years I spent in a roving Big Wheels gang:

(http://a7.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/9/l_f98ba44e2f224c722deba0dfa46d6476.jpg)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Sarah on July 27, 2007, 09:38:05 AM
My parents have all the photos of me as a child, and even if I had them my scanner is too crappy to get them into this magic box to upload.  I can think of two I might have shared:  in one, I'm sitting naked in a bathroom sink looking very happy and alert; in the other, I'm holding a ham bone on which I had been gnawing, my little finger held daintily in the air.

Now I want to look through the old photo albums--and talk my mother into digging out her tape recorder, so I can listen to the tapes I mentioned in Petey's Tokyo Sex thread.  A good, long wallow in nostalgia:  what better way to pass the time on a hot summer day?
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Miss on July 28, 2007, 02:13:13 AM
here are a couple. i should make grown up sizes of both the shirts i'm wearing. they are awesome.

(http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s203/swisss_misss/kidSwissYellowSweater.jpg)(http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s203/swisss_misss/swisskid.jpg)

Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Laurie on July 28, 2007, 05:59:32 AM
I look at this picture (of me and my Roxy kitty that I had for 19 years) when I'm feeling down. It sits on my desk at work and by my bedside:

(http://a746.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00346/54/71/346411745_l.jpg)

And then there were those years I spent in a roving Big Wheels gang:

(http://a7.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/9/l_f98ba44e2f224c722deba0dfa46d6476.jpg)

Erika, those are both great pictures, but that first one is awesome. Awwww. So cute.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Andy on July 28, 2007, 03:29:41 PM
here's little Andy the worrier.
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l244/Andy1807/469365658_l.jpg)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Rainer on July 28, 2007, 04:15:08 PM
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I look at this picture (of me and my Roxy kitty that I had for 19 years) when I'm feeling down
If you imagine the glass is missing from the sliding door, it almost looks as if you are projecting an Invisible Girl / Violet Incredible force-field against an approaching intruder. Roxy sees it too. That, or you are one of the kids from Wings of Desire, watching Bruno Ganz mowing your lawn.

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here's little Andy the worrier
Eating one of PFT's "ghost sandwiches"

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here are a couple. i should make grown up sizes of both the shirts i'm wearing. they are awesome.
(http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s203/swisss_misss/swisskid.jpg)
Dancing to "Genius of Love"?
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Rainer on July 28, 2007, 04:24:07 PM
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Wait, Fred Flintstone is a cop?

The enormous 5 o'clock shadow that all the Hanna Barbera males have always grosses me out.  Looks like they just bobbed for apples in ... [shudder]
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Sarah on July 28, 2007, 05:10:45 PM
Erika, do you have any idea what you and Roxy were looking at?  You're both definitely focused on something.  I mean, unless it was Bruno Ganz after all.

And, Andy, to me you look less worried than discerning, a connoisseur of sandwiches trying to pinpoint exactly what's on that Wonder Bread.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Andy on July 28, 2007, 05:25:04 PM
I was supposed to be feeding the mousies (squirrels)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: KickTheBobo on July 28, 2007, 06:49:45 PM
That's me on the right, circa 1979 trying to impress some babe with my knowledge of where Rhode Island was on the globe at the Warwick Public Library. Bill "Spaceman" Lee from the Red Sox was there signing autographs, but our interest lay rather in geography and, dare I say, each other?

(http://kickthebobo.com//librarypic.jpg)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Rainer on July 28, 2007, 08:20:14 PM
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That's me on the right, circa 1979

Great picture, very cinematic.  A cutting-room floor scrap from an Antoine Dionel film or perhaps a flashback sequence of Susan George and Peter Fonda in "Crazy Larry."

(http://videodetective.com/photos/779/032759_23.jpg)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Emily on July 30, 2007, 10:19:46 PM
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/hippocatgeek/lilemily2291.jpg)

Yours truly ©1983:
A budding fotling plucking holy moly with her celestial hands.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Gregory on July 30, 2007, 10:37:50 PM
(http://photos-865.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v108/110/106/22010865/n22010865_32543985_490.jpg)

weird timing on this topic because I just scanned a bunch of photos of a young me a few days ago

I'm the one with the camera
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Andy on August 02, 2007, 11:00:54 PM
I just found the motherload of scanned pictures that I had forgotten about:
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l244/Andy1807/Picture283.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l244/Andy1807/Picture272.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l244/Andy1807/Picture278.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l244/Andy1807/Picture276.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l244/Andy1807/Picture022.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l244/Andy1807/Picture029.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l244/Andy1807/Picture071.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l244/Andy1807/Picture014.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l244/Andy1807/Picture005.jpg)
(what the fuck were my parents thinking?)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: buffcoat on August 03, 2007, 09:38:15 AM
Nowadays they would be turned in by the photomat guy.


That brown pacifer looks like they got it delivered by Pony Express.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Laurie on August 03, 2007, 09:40:28 AM
Nowadays they would be turned in by the photomat guy.


That brown pacifer looks like they got it delivered by Pony Express.

That's why God invented Instamatics. And Polaroids. And digital cameras.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Rainer on December 23, 2007, 11:29:15 PM
(http://craigdietz.com/images/craig10.jpg)

10th Birthday, Valentine's Day, Bachelor Officers' Quarters, 1974.  And no, that isn't Paisley; it's Patriots.

 
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Beth on December 24, 2007, 12:22:21 AM
(http://b5.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00371/50/68/371288605_l.jpg)


Halloween Stegosaurus costume, 1987
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: erika on December 24, 2007, 10:09:23 AM
(http://a80.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/34/l_09e7f697a4452f851c4cf90758914caf.jpg)
I either had gas or disapproved of my father's fro.

(http://b2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00802/22/72/802472722_l.jpg)
My wittle brother and I in a large burger!

Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: erika on December 24, 2007, 10:15:20 AM
Also... Greg from Baltimore, aka "partyboy"

(http://i17.tinypic.com/716f1w7.jpg)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Emily on December 24, 2007, 11:25:42 AM
aw this one is so funny, zzzzonk.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on January 11, 2008, 07:35:11 PM
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2073/2185794595_7f3631c6ac.jpg?v=0)


(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2138/2186577640_6f793dfa1d.jpg?v=0)


(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2064/2186577750_792c9bdc65.jpg?v=0)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Sarah on January 11, 2008, 07:40:46 PM
That beer can makes me nostalgic.  Ah, those good old days when you could cut your foot on a beer tab (or whatever the hell they were called--I can't remember anymore).
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Jason on January 11, 2008, 08:15:14 PM
7th of June 1977 - Dressed up for a street party for the Queen's Silver Jubilee. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Jubilee_of_Elizabeth_II#June_celebrations_in_London)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Slacky-boy/jubilee.jpg)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: buffcoat on January 11, 2008, 09:15:46 PM
That beer can makes me nostalgic.  Ah, those good old days when you could cut your foot on a beer tab (or whatever the hell they were called--I can't remember anymore).

How many of today's drunken (or "schwilly") youth sing along with "blew out my flip-flop, stepped on a pop top" without having ANY IDEA what a pop top was?

I used to drink (NC's own) Sundrop out of poptop cans at Pirate's Cove Pool.  Rulin'!

Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Denim Gremlin on January 11, 2008, 09:46:56 PM
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd46/kidxcolin/img020.jpg)

Looks to be about 1987.... I'm a duck apparently.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Tim K in DC on January 11, 2008, 11:37:15 PM
(http://b1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00122/15/37/122977351_l.jpg)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Sarah on January 12, 2008, 08:30:37 AM
How many of today's drunken (or "schwilly") youth sing along with "blew out my flip-flop, stepped on a pop top" without having ANY IDEA what a pop top was?

I used to drink (NC's own) Sundrop out of poptop cans at Pirate's Cove Pool.  Rulin'!

Plus cans were made of steel in those days, so stepping on a pop top (thanks for that, by the way) could cause quite a lot of damage and necessitate a tetanus shot. 

You also don't see dead dogs by the side of the road as often. 
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: samir on January 12, 2008, 03:17:52 PM
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/Slacky-boy/jubilee.jpg)

That's how I dress pretty much every day. No balloons, though.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Rainer on January 13, 2008, 08:44:32 PM
Happy Jack wasn't old but he was a man.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: buffcoat on January 13, 2008, 08:50:39 PM
You also don't see dead dogs by the side of the road as often. 

Is this a lament or a thank goodness?
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: jane on January 13, 2008, 09:03:16 PM
Also... Greg from Baltimore, aka "partyboy"

(http://i17.tinypic.com/716f1w7.jpg)

Was this kid shot in the chest?  What kind of a sick, baby, snuff thread is this, anyway?
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Sarah on January 13, 2008, 09:53:07 PM
Is this a lament or a thank goodness?

In a weird way, both.  I miss dogs being able to run free, but I hated the horrible accidents that befell some of them.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on January 24, 2008, 09:28:27 PM
I used to be in a Devendra Banhart cover band.

(http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v167/155/8/503454261/n503454261_307595_8970.jpg)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Rainer on January 24, 2008, 10:42:30 PM
(http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v167/155/8/503454261/n503454261_307595_8970.jpg)

Looks like the wait staff at Boleskine House. Not that I've ever been invited ...
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Gilly on January 24, 2008, 10:52:45 PM
Looks like the wait staff at Boleskine House.

 :D
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: thecramedog on January 27, 2008, 04:32:58 PM
(http://web.mit.edu/flybrain/littletonlab/Troy-3-years-old.jpg)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: emma on January 27, 2008, 04:56:11 PM
(http://web.mit.edu/flybrain/littletonlab/Troy-3-years-old.jpg)

WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOUR LOWER BODY

THOSE MONSTERS

Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Rainer on January 27, 2008, 09:24:28 PM
(http://craigdietz.com/images/bike.jpg)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: dave from knoxville on January 28, 2008, 02:09:45 PM
(http://craigdietz.com/images/bike.jpg)

Hey, that's Petey from last week, isn't it?
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Omar on January 28, 2008, 02:34:31 PM
I can tell by the look of that bike that you're not from my side of town, if you know what I mean.  I somehow just managed to keep down my lunch of beer-braised pork loin and white-truffle mashed potatoes.  Sick.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Rainer on March 04, 2008, 01:21:05 PM
Happier times

(http://craigdietz.com/images/howard.jpg)
Me, mouth-breathing, in the Howard the Duck shirt holding my hamster "Miniwheat."  Kirk, holding "Sam", soon to go all Discord and shit.

(http://craigdietz.com/images/nyu.jpg)
So, you're from New York?  What STATE are you from?  Virginia, actually.  Check out Kirk's Axel Rose tat, since lasered into a watermark.
Title: He's thinking about bats.
Post by: Spoony on March 04, 2008, 01:42:33 PM
Don't let this little glue-huffer fool you... this young man was a monster.

Greg From Baltimore, I want to party with that kid, but if that pic was black and white, it would look like a mob-hit photo from the 20's.




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Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: emma on March 04, 2008, 03:33:33 PM
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y157/aprilflux/smaller.jpg)

Me and my couch, circa 1995
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on March 04, 2008, 05:12:11 PM
Jesus, Emma, I was two years out of college and living in Weehawken then.  Also dealing with my first arrest, fucking Maryland cops.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on March 04, 2008, 05:14:03 PM
Also dealing with my first arrest, fucking Maryland cops.

That's illegal?
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on March 04, 2008, 05:18:03 PM
Also dealing with my first arrest, fucking Maryland cops.

That's illegal?

Zing! 

Someday I'll tell you all about my night with Ed Burns.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: emma on March 05, 2008, 12:05:32 PM
Also dealing with my first arrest, fucking Maryland cops.

That's illegal?

Zing! 

Someday I'll tell you all about my night with Ed Burns.

Can that someday be today?
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Rainer on March 05, 2008, 02:45:42 PM
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Someday I'll tell you all about my night with Ed Burns.

Let me guess, you told him the Brothers McMullen didn't feel authentic, he went apeshit and the next thing you knew, you were waking up in an 18th precinct holding cage like Jean-Pierre Leaud in the Four Hundred Blows.

 
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on March 05, 2008, 09:26:31 PM
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Someday I'll tell you all about my night with Ed Burns.

Let me guess, you told him the Brothers McMullen didn't feel authentic, he went apeshit and the next thing you knew, you were waking up in an 18th precinct holding cage like Jean-Pierre Leaud in the Four Hundred Blows.

 

You guessed it!

Actually I have never been arrested for fucking Maryland cops.  Different preposition.  The closest I've come to Ed Burns is through my sister, a congressional assistant for a certain Ballmer congressman who is pals with him.  She has never seen The Wire but the way she describes the guy makes him sound almost exactly like McNulty, though considerably less sexy.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Rainer on May 19, 2008, 02:54:58 PM
(http://craigdietz.com/images/mckinley-fixed.jpg)

Never have been a Trekkie, but my haircut in Kindergarten suggests what might have been.

Guy in the lower left-hand corner was named "Bread."  Third from the left top row threw a football in my face in high school.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: noise.light on May 20, 2008, 11:38:37 PM
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3133/2421596881_e94c128db0.jpg)

Thankfully, I got a new, bigger drum kit.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Gregory on May 20, 2008, 11:52:42 PM
So this gem popped up recently...

(http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/2284/n2201086532543987889fr3.jpg)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: yesno on May 20, 2008, 11:55:25 PM
Two aspects of young yesno

(http://gallery.mac.com/susie.john/100062/conf/web.jpg)

(http://gallery.mac.com/susie.john/100062/vampire-20j/web.jpg)

which one looks more sincere?

ps:  I have always loved the elegant and holy background in the confirmation pic.

Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: yesno on May 20, 2008, 11:58:15 PM
Young Peter:

(http://www.fresh99.com/images/funnyweedpics/baby-smoking-pot.jpg)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Emily on May 21, 2008, 12:15:57 AM
you guyz are adorable
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: mokin on May 21, 2008, 04:39:21 AM
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/17/23451523_bd94265f4b_o.jpg)

Yes, that is a Phillies uniform.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: erika on May 20, 2009, 02:50:30 PM
(http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1920/41/47/536296935/n536296935_1364750_2917.jpg)

I wish I still had access to that sweatshirt.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: erika on January 19, 2010, 12:25:56 AM
(http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs128.snc3/17540_1352986343760_1204447859_31089928_2429130_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Andy on January 19, 2010, 12:43:53 AM
Even at an early age you were a weirdo.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: erika on January 19, 2010, 01:21:57 AM
Totally born this way.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Steeley Chris on January 20, 2010, 09:33:05 PM
(http://b1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00001/15/40/1580451_l.jpg)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: tenni on January 21, 2010, 11:12:47 PM
(http://i45.tinypic.com/qoskg6.jpg)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Steve in North Hollywood on January 22, 2010, 05:35:55 AM
This is such a great idea for a thread!  I'll have to call mom and have her send me some old shots ... Because she'd NEVER get around to scanning and emailing them.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: bonnaventure on January 22, 2010, 11:43:14 AM
This looks weird because my sister sent it to me via her iPhone from facebook mobile? What a weird world we now live in. I am the male.
(http://i47.tinypic.com/9huu87.jpg)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: DoodleJump! on January 22, 2010, 07:52:06 PM
I'm almost positive I've posted this somewhere on here.
This is one of my favorite pictures of me- I look like such a snobby kid (I sort of was.)

(http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm212/bew409/n500643867_472865_1620.jpg)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: JustSheaNo on January 22, 2010, 09:21:29 PM
I am the smallest one.

(http://scratchbomb.com/feeder/14631_1072627553240_1752709950_143347_3345469_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: moonshake on January 23, 2010, 01:18:27 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/sfhj4.jpg)

I'm the one under the parrot.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on January 23, 2010, 06:22:45 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/sfhj4.jpg)

I'm the one under the parrot.

That is awesome.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: fonpr on January 23, 2010, 11:33:54 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/sfhj4.jpg)

I'm the one under the parrot.

That is awesome.
I thought Moonshake was male.  Why?  I don't know.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: moonshake on January 23, 2010, 11:55:45 PM
Hey... just 'cause I'm wearing pink clothes and some jewelry, and I've got flowers around me, I'm a girl? I thought fonpr wasn't the kind to judge. Why? I don't know.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: fonpr on January 24, 2010, 12:03:43 AM
Hey... just 'cause I'm wearing pink clothes and some jewelry, and I've got flowers around me, I'm a girl? I thought fonpr wasn't the kind to judge. Why? I don't know.

Are you really the bird?
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: Christina on January 24, 2010, 07:39:11 AM
Hey... just 'cause I'm wearing pink clothes and some jewelry, and I've got flowers around me, I'm a girl? I thought fonpr wasn't the kind to judge. Why? I don't know.

I also thought you were a male, Moon. No matter, this pic is so excellent. I think it's the expression on your face that really sells it for me.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: gravy boat on January 24, 2010, 11:58:20 AM
I am the smallest one.

(http://scratchbomb.com/feeder/14631_1072627553240_1752709950_143347_3345469_n.jpg)

You have a CEO-pose going on with your hand on the chair.  That is really a great picture. Real cute.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: JustSheaNo on January 24, 2010, 05:46:52 PM

You have a CEO-pose going on with your hand on the chair.  That is really a great picture. Real cute.

I knew even then what futile and useless corporate BS awaited me in the years to come.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: JustNicole on January 25, 2010, 10:27:52 AM
(http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/5848/48679993117078902720.jpg) (http://img109.imageshack.us/i/48679993117078902720.jpg/)

Terrible quality but I had to contribute.
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: KickTheBobo on January 25, 2010, 10:50:17 AM
goddamn, I was a cute little toddler. not sure what happened between that photo and the 5th grade Halloween one. Oh yeah: unsupervised Cable TV.

(http://kickthebobo.com/ktb_kidphotos.jpg)
Title: Re: Fotlings
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on January 25, 2010, 01:41:16 PM
This is such a great idea for a thread!  I'll have to call mom and have her send me some old shots ... Because she'd NEVER get around to scanning and emailing them.

i think this used to be the thread for kids of FOT, not FOTkids.  although, even better, there was a thread of FOTkids.  oh well!

either way, i've got to have mom hook me up with old fotos which i was previously embarrassed about until i realized i don't look like that anymore.