I can't believe I'm doing this... (a special post a picture thread)

[yvr girl]

Post a junior high picture.



yvr girl, circa grade 8

[DBoon]

1. what a cutie!

eom

[sniffa]

2. you're hot

:loveya:

not sure if i have the era right, but i wish that i had jesse's girL.

[yvr girl]

4. It's pretty close

'81 or '82

[sniffa]

22. Let's hear it for the boy then

:P

[Longgrain]

3. While you, yourself are a cutie...

Please don't make me show mine.

You'll regret it for the rest of your lives..

[Doctor_J]

5. I love auburn hair

is it still that color? Is it called something different in Canada?

[jody]

6. Is your hair dark auburn? A wonderful picture of a beautiful lady!

:loveya:

[yvr girl]

10. Hair colour changes all the time

It has since I was a teen.

It doesn' look auburn in person. It's lightish brown with lots of gold and red highlights.

Thanks.

[progmom]

7. not sure when this one was taken

i'm assuming it's around the same time...

it's me and my baby bro...

[Doctor_J]

9. is he a progbro? or a conbro?

[progmom]

12. he's progbro

very much so

[Doctor_J]

14. bravo!

you can't have too many of those

[yvr girl]

13. You look the same

Your brother looks intense.

[progmom]

17. my brother can be intense

btw - your pic is awesome!!

[fluffernutter]

30. you're both so cute!

[progmom]

31. thanks fluff

it must have been christmas - there is a package of turtles in evidence.

[xmas74]

100. I used to have a loveseat that looked just like that.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

8. Nice hairdo

I think 99.9% of 1980s teenagers had that hairstyle at one time or another.

[yvr girl]

16. Those were my big hair days for sure

I told progmom earlier that it was 'fluffy' - I didn't lie.

[tridim]

11. I'm trying to figure out who you look(ed) like

Were you on an 80's sitcom by chance? :)

Very Cute!

[yvr girl]

18. lol. I was NOT a child star

or even a bit player.

[Left Is Write]

21. Are you thinking she looks like Dana Plato?

[tridim]

24. Wasn't Dana Plato blonde?

I think it might be one of the characters from "Gimme A Break".

[Left Is Write]

46. She had light brown hair. But now that you mention it...

our lovely yvr girl does bear something of a resemblance to Katie, the oldest daughter, on Gimme A Break.

[ikojo]

48. She looked like Dana Plato from Diffrent Strokes

When I saw the pic I immediately thought she had the Dana Plato hair going on.

[CanuckAmok]

15. You look like my HS girlfriend...

bus she had a big perm and was too stacked.

[yvr girl]

19. No perm for me

I won't comment on the other attribute.

[Left Is Write]

20. Okay...

This is me in the spring of 1980, getting ready to finish up 8th grade.

[fluffernutter]

26. i bet all the boys LOVED you

you are too cute in that pic!

[Left Is Write]

44. They didn't - not even close - but thank you.

You should see my 8th grade school portrait. No - wait. You shouldn't!

[progmom]

33. you've been drop-dead gorgeous your entire life, haven't you?

:hi:

[Left Is Write]

45. No. But thank you!

:D

[fudge stripe cookays]

55. We're the same age!

But you were much cuter than me.

:hi:
FSC

[Left Is Write]

83. Nah. I'll bet you were cute.

I spent most of 7th and 8th grade way too skinny, awkward, and ugly. That picture was taken after my friend made over my hair and put some makeup on me, and I wasn't wearing my hideous dark-brown-framed glasses.

[Bok_Tukalo]

23. Jr. High

[fluffernutter]

27. groovy hair

love the timid smile!

[Sugar Smack]

64. You look a lot like "Tobin".

I embarrassed myself in the 7th & 8th grades over that boy. I spent scads of money trying to improve myself. I walked into a lamp post once,looking at him. My friends never heard the end of it until 9th grade, when I gave up and started liking "Jeff".

[Bok_Tukalo]

88. Cool. At least I look like a boy to you.

I've always considered that my Kristy Mcnichol picture.

[Sugar Smack]

93. Bwaahahahaha!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I think not. Actually.

[fluffernutter]

25. me next to my brother's Kiss poster

yvr gril - love you hair! you were gorgeous.

[yvr girl]

28. It was a good hair day

One of my best.

[Bok_Tukalo]

40. Make me think of the Cheap Trick line

Rolling numbers, rock and rolling, got my Kiss records out.

Mommy’s alright, daddy’s alright, they just seem a little weird.
Surrender, surrender, but don’t give yourself away, ay, ay, ay.

[fluffernutter]

43. lol, great song

[Longgrain]

29. Alright then, here's my high school photo...

Please don't laugh.

Some of us weren't that pretty in high school...

[yvr girl]

34. Your twin went to my school

I wasn't one of the pretty people.

[Longgrain]

37. Ah, you look great from the pic in your OP

Still, I like this adolescent pic of me better...

[Sugar Smack]

61. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

Dass so CUTE!
Weetie!

Where's little Bonnie?

:P

[Longgrain]

92. I thought you were going to be the Bonnie

to my Clyde... :P

[Sugar Smack]

94. Well then, it's a DAMN good thing we never hooked up

at fourteen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Longgrain]

95. Yep, I was dangerous when I was fourteen

Not even out of high school, and already chain smoking and packing a Tommy-gun. :evilgrin:

[LibraLiz1973]

35. You don't give yourself enough credit!!

It's adorable! I think your problem with the picture is that you can tell it's from the 80's. The 80's were fun- don't forget it!

[Longgrain]

41. Tell that to the girls i went to high school with...

They weren't exactly ga-ga over me...:-(

[fleabert]

77. That's awesome! I would be proud of it, what a tribute to the times you

grew up in...I love it.

[Longgrain]

90. Oh God, Is this thread still around

well thanks anyways, I still think I look much better now after my awkward years... :blush:

[Sugar Smack]

99. I'd have been Bonnie in a heartbeat.

My teenage hormones were something else.

[fleabert]

102. me too. I don't think we are alone...nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

78. My dear Longgrain, I am hardly laughing! You were gorgeous, and still

are, BTW...I LOVE this pic...Cool as all heck, kiddo...But I do wish I could see your eyes...Great photo!


:yourock:

[Longgrain]

91. Ah, thanks Peg, you never cease to make me smile...

:blush:

[LibraLiz1973]

32. This was an 8th grade photography project a friend was doing

hence why my ass is crouched in flowers

[yvr girl]

36. You're a classic beauty

[LibraLiz1973]

39. Why thank you YVR. You are too!

Sadly when you add 16 years onto my picture... gravity is taking over. And it isnt playing fair!

[fluffernutter]

42. i love b&w photos

you are very beautiful and look much older than an 8th grader.

[Left Is Write]

47. That was 8th grade? Wow.

It's beautiful picture - and you're beautiful too!

[BlueJazz]

38. Wasn't I cute??

OK..OK..Here's the real me..

[LibraLiz1973]

49. you made me spit on the computer screen

that was great

[vince3]

50. That picture of the kid might be the funniest thing...

...I've ever seen on the internets.

[progressoid]

58. Ah. That made me snort.

[BringEmOn]

65. So, that's what attracted Daryn Kagan to Rush

[yvr girl]

51. There must be more junior high pics out there

Don't be shy.

[yvr girl]

56. .

[ScreamingMeemie]

52. Me around grade 9

[yvr girl]

53. You'd fallen

and you couldn't get up?

[cleofus1]

54. i have a scanner and i'm not afraid to use it!

that's me in the middle leaning against the wall....Rincon Jr. High West Covina California with pals and mom!

[yvr girl]

63. Hey, you changed the picture

They're both great though.

[cleofus1]

96. yep had to change the pic

when i realized the one i posted had a great big right thumbprint on it..clear as day...call me pararnoid...but i have to edit that photo before i post it on the internet...:D

[NoSheep]

57. You look so familiar!!! Weird. Didn't grow up in NC or LA by chance?

[yvr girl]

62. BC born and brought up

I've been to NC and LA.

[RandomKoolzip]

59. Me and my mom, 1985.

I was in 5th grade and I LOVED Moosehead beer:

[RevolutionaryActs]

60. HEHEHE! So cute!

I will not post pictures of me from that era.


1) I have none of them on the computer and 2) I was um, how shall I say... chubby?


Weeee I can't type. Good stuff. :crazy:

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

66. This is me in The 8th Grade

Jesus, that's a big pic! Sorry....

[yvr girl]

67. Grade 8! You look way older than that.

And may I say HOT! HOT! HOT!

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

68. Thanks, no not Grade 8. They're a different band.

We're The 8th Grade.

[RetroLounge]

97. Damn, is that a Gretsch?

Me Jealous!

RL

[Blue_In_AK]

69. They didn't have cameras when I was in junior high. n/t

[yvr girl]

70. I find that hard to believe.

I don't think they had junior high before there were cameras

[Blue_In_AK]

71. Ummmm, well, let's see...

I don't own a scanner??? Will that excuse work? Besides, I'm MUCH better looking now than I was then. I'd be embarrassed to have anyone see what a total geek I was back then. Of course, we were all geeks in 1958.

[happyphantom]

72. ahhh what a mullet

I was 12 in this picture....I'm the one in the middle front, purple shirt, frosting on my nose, lovely hairstyle.

[tjwmason]

73. How beautiful

I managed a childhood throughout the '80s without a mullet - I guess they didn't hit merry England as badly as America.

Welcome to D.U. :hi:

[yvr girl]

74. New and sharing

How brave.

Welcome to DU

[CaliforniaPeggy]

75. My God, yvr girl! What a gorgeous young lady!

And, kiddo, you STILL are, BTW...Alas, I don't have a scanner...So no old pics from me. What a relief, lol!

:pals:

[fleabert]

76. no fair, you were cute. I was REALLY awkward....

Remember add-a-bead necklaces anyone? God I hated those braces, and it took me years to learn that my hair simply WILL NOT hold a curl. No matter how much hairspray I use!

edit: 8th grade, btw...13 or 14 years old. can you believe I bought beer and cigs then, without getting carded?!?!?! or I talked my way out of it if I did? holy crap - I was a little shit.

[yvr girl]

79. My picture was between braces. I had them twice

I got them in grade 7 and they were off by the time photos were taken in grade 8. My teeth were always straight, just spread out - I could put a dime between my front teeth. After the braces came off, one tooth started turning sideways. There are these little ligaments that usually break when you get braces and then grow again in he new spot - mine just stretched.

I had to get a new procedure done by my dentist. She'd never done it before, but she'd talked to someone who had. It involved going underneath all my gums and slicing with a scalpel. I have NEVER been so frozen before, I couldn't even feel my ears. Right afterward, my smile was something out of a horror movie and it's pretty much impossible to spit or rinse when you're that frozen.

Oddly enough, I was able to eat corn on the cob for dinner. No pain. I did have to get braces on again. x( I had to wear them longer the second time around, just waiting for those damn ligaments to heal. (The tooth straightened out within weeks.)

[fleabert]

80. how awful! I had mine for two years, hellish. they were the torture type,

metal bands that went fully around every single tooth, good god they hurt to have put on. and my wires, by the last six months, were so stiff, the dentist could hardly bend them with his bare hands. Fuck they hurt. And I had an underbite, so I wore a headgear at night for my lower jaw, that made me look really cool.


but my teeth are straight now!

[yvr girl]

81. Metal bands on all the teeth. Yikes

I just had the brackets on front. I did do the headgear though, because they had to pull my teeth back to loose the space. I also had elastics. Fun times.

[fleabert]

86. yup. awful. I also did the elastics. my mouth was effed up!

now it's purty, I guess it was worth it.

[yvr girl]

87. No regrets here either

[SarahB]

82. I have one from 10th grade.

Halloween 1988:

[yvr girl]

84. You look almost the same

Except your hair doesn't stick out like that anymore. (Part of your costume? or crimping or other 80's thing?)

[SarahB]

85. Just bigger, poofier, 80's hair I think.

And thanks! That was a long time ago to say the least. :D

[skygazer]

89. This is an evil thread!

I have no school photos - I wasn't very cooperative when people were pointing cameras at me. But this was around 9th grade - I'm getting all my stuff ready for a horse show -

[GCP]

98. Here's me a long time ago!

[yvr girl]

101. Very nice

[khashka]

103. Who woulda thunk it?

yvr girl was a little hottie!

I figured you'd look kinda, well, "not normal".

Who knows what twisted minds lie behind cute girls' faces? We do now :)

Khash.