Secrets of the City

Okay. So I did this. I would have paid a lot of good money to look as normal in my real high school yearbook as this picture turned out. In reality, I had a white man’s afro, occasionally with the Vanilla Ice ledge shaved in the back.

Ah to be young and stylish…

Kurtis pretty much looks exactly the same.

I look pretty much the same except 20lbs lighter (I don’t know why I was that scrawny either) and I had my head pretty much shaved.

Check old pics from on my facebook page.

I may actually have to start wearing my hair like this.

Since there is no ‘fro in this gizmo, no photos of Disco Bob.

Actually, that is pretty close… Although, it is closer to a classmate of mine.

There is no freakin’ way I’m posting my pic, although these are really great. A MNspeak yearbook.

DouglasG: You’re kinda rockin’ the Osmond look. Maybe your the long lost son.

Don’t underestimate my powers Bob!

your = you’re.

It’s Friday, cut me some slack.

Sweet Honey from the Rock! I look like Ted Lange, the bartender from “the Love Boat” with that ‘fro.

I have no idea what you’re talking about Cat…

My senior pic is actually pretty smokin’ (not to to toot my own horn, or anything).

These are hilarous!

My chin keeps looking..ridiculous, but I totally look like my mom or my grandma in every picture.

This is particularly timely since I’m going to a high school reunion next week.

I have until next year to get my hair to do that. No haircuts for me for a while. I could totally rock that look again!

YES. I totally want flippy hair like this:

Hey esquared: How did it go with the half… what was it, last weekend?
One day I’ll do it just to check it off the list of things I want to do in my life.

And I like the flip but I think you need more height on top, IMHO.

My HS reunion is next year and I’m stoked to see everyone. Yup, I’m “one of those” people who loved high school.

Ang, I agree that you should start wearing your hair that way. Hot!

I have bangs in all of my pics so it doesn’t work for me. Boo-hoo.

Hey Cat, thanks for asking! And the half was fine (two weekends ago). I’m sort of off exercise for a bit.

Where’s your reunion? I sort of feel like I don’t need to go to a reunion so long as there’s facebook.

Kurtis – 20 year reunion? I just had mine a couple of weeks ago. You’ve mentioned that you were at UND during the Klosterman/Rex era. But I didn’t realize that we were there at exactly the same time.

Suck it.

Miller, it’s actually an all-year reunion. I graduated from a very small American high school in Brasilia; the reunion is in Washington DC.

I overlapped Rex and Chuck at UND, but I’m a few years older than them. We all wrote columns for the student newspaper, Chuck at the same time as me and Rex a bit later, but I was still getting and reading the newspapers and thought Rex was a pretty funny writer. I mainly knew Rex through Ian, who was editor of the paper in my tenure, and started up a little entertainment weekly in Grand Forks called The High Plains Reader.

(Rex was co-founder of the Reader).

Sheesh. Two weeks ago, esquared? Wow. Glad it went well though.

HS reunion is in Sioux Freakin’ Falls, SD! Go Knights!

Remember how hot Teucer’s mom was way back when? (Sorry Oliver… Please come back!)

DeRusha and Christopher Knight (aka Peter Brady) — separated at birth???

We report, you decide…

I’ve never had short hair in my life, but I’m really rethinking that.

“Slow down, gashole!”

Oh, Lord, not the old motorists vs cyclists debate again! More boring than ethanol and smoking bans!

Er, did I just say that out loud?

You would still look hot in a shorter hairstyle, alexis.

As for me, I think I’ll mark my 50th birthday (coming soon!) by shaving off the beard.

Open threads have been pretty slow lately. Did anybody else see the cute little USA girls win the gold and silver in gymnastics yesterday? It was pretty awesome.

Shawn Johnson is an Iowan. (West Des Moines represent!!!)

I pin the failure of this thread on the fact that all the pictures are a dead giveaway to the folks at work that they are lollygagging.

Mark Spitz is an IU grad. He’s still the man to beat, Mr. Phelps!

Women’s beach volleyball is on right now…just sayin’.

on the whole phelps vs spitz thing its a tossup…I mean spitzy had that tremendous mustache but phelps ears probably level out his drag coefficient.

Shawn Johnson is an Iowan. (West Des Moines represent!!!)

Valley 4ever! Holla!

Doesn’t he wear a swim cap? That would make them a non-issue.

eh, gymnastics was more interesting when the gymnasts were older, and I was younger.

I grew my tremendous mustache as a tribute to Mark Spitz. I keep only because Mrs. Lungs likes it.

So does wayne, but that’s another story…

I find “women’s” gymnatsics/figure skating to be more than a little creepy and exploitive. This article said it best.

Nodia Comaneci was only 14 when she competed. Olga Corbett was 17 when she first competed. I don’t know when Gymnasts were “older”…

mere latex cannot keep ears like that down. maybe the top half…maybe.

Minnesota Olympics angle:
Kara Goucher (originally of Duluth) placed 10th in the women’s 10,000 meters this morning. Shani Marks of Brooklyn Park competed in the triple jump, but failed to make finals. More on track athletes with MN ties.

There were some college age girls on the 96 team.

2nd theory as to why the open thread has festered……Everyones watching the live bigfoot press conference on CNN.

I forgot all about bigfoot! How is he doing in the Olympics?

no I am talking about the real deal…Yeti…they found him in North Georgia

The Yeti is the Abominable Snowman. Bigfoot is Sasquatch.

“…they found him in North Georgia.”

How could they tell if it was Bigfoot?

And the difference is?

His feet are huge…you don’t think he could swim across the ocean?

DNA processed right here at the U of M

His feet are huge…you don’t think he could swim across the ocean?

I’m confused. Are you talking about Michael Phelps or Bigfoot?

“…they found him in North Georgia.”

How could they tell if it was Bigfoot?

AAAAHAHAHAHA

I’m glad SOMEONE got the joke.

Damn, Bob beat me to the Phelps reference.

I see CNN has just released Bigfoot’s yearbook photo…

god damnit….I think bigfoot was getting fresh with my lady in the back of the gymnasium at prom!

Callous sophisticates. My wife grew up in North Georgia.

I think the word you are looking for is “elitists,” Rat.

or Obama supporters. Same difference..

Well, North Georgia is different. It’s positively cosmopolitan.

Only in Georgia can you have a corpse in the freezer, call it Bigfoot, and not get arrested.

In Wisconsin, they call it “mom,” and they arrest ‘em.

Speaking of Obama and North Georgia.

Speaking of cement mixers… If anyone is interested in where I spent my summer vacation (last week), here is a clue.

Pretty!

We saw this guy too.

Oh! And plenty of these…

After a backpacking trip through the Superior National Forest in July. I wanted to never spend another summer vacation in Minnesota.

I’ll believe that they found Big Foot only when I read it in the NY Times.

The bugs were a little bad… However, I would go again in a heartbeat. (Actually planning next years trip already.)

I’d just like to say that I have no response to this article from MSNBC on the latest child abuse/beauty trend besides WTF?!

Damn, I’m sorry I missed the tail end of this thread, as I currently live (shudder) in north Georgia. The only, and I mean only, good thing about it is the word “north” in the description. Total garbage!

Were it entirely up to me, and in my best interests, I’d never have lived anywhere south of, say, Burnsville.

That’s too bad, spells. Used to camp, hike and fish in North Georgia. Loved it, though I didn’t have to live there.

To celebrate the successful purchase of Weezer tickets (shut up, Wayne!), here’s my 1996 style yearbook pic. I was 28 in 1996, so this is about right. That’s when I looked 19.

“shut up, Wayne!”

That could be its own thread. That, and “Go the hell, Bob!”

I’ll post the “Go to hell, Bob” thread right after I post the “Max, your offbeat, quirky delivery style is not in line with Southwest’s brand image” thread.

That may be true. But, then, the top contender in that little contest is a girl who talks about her cat and a flower pot she made. So, apparently, their brand is “lazy, tossed off, and off-topic.”

Damn, I should have entered.

FTR, I thought yours was good.