Fotlings

[Rainer]

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!"



"M" stands for "Me."

Cough 'em up, people.

[John Junk]

You guys look pissed. 

[buffcoat]

Wait, Fred Flintstone is a cop?

Seriously.  I think they took a Flintstones costume, dyed it blue, and added a hat. 

[erika]

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:



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

[Sarah]

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?

[Miss]

here are a couple. i should make grown up sizes of both the shirts i'm wearing. they are awesome.

[Laurie]

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:



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

Erika, those are both great pictures, but that first one is awesome. Awwww. So cute.

[Andy]

here's little Andy the worrier.

[Rainer]

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.

here's little Andy the worrier

Eating one of PFT's "ghost sandwiches"

here are a couple. i should make grown up sizes of both the shirts i'm wearing. they are awesome.

Dancing to "Genius of Love"?

[Rainer]

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]

[Sarah]

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.

[Andy]

I was supposed to be feeding the mousies (squirrels)

[KickTheBobo]

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?

[Rainer]

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."

[Emily]

Yours truly ©1983:
A budding fotling plucking holy moly with her celestial hands.