The Official Silliness Thread Salutes Your Yearbook and Aweful Past Trends

thehollandring.com (Do you really click the link provided?) ^ | 12-01-06 | sully777

[sully777]

I browsed through my middle and high school yearbooks recently, while drinking cold, depreciating mugs of Pigs Eye beer. Taking care not to drip the dying slags of falling frost upon the aged pages, I wrestled with an obvious truth concerning yearbook nostalgia: We look silly. We act silly. We have silly sayings we believe are cool. We rely upon certain people to be the "in crowd" while others more substantial fade into the background. We have silly hair styles and clothing. We spent money on toys, games, and music that quickly goes out of style. We even made David Soul and Kajagoogoo pop music phenoms.

And that my fellow FReepers and lurkers is just plain SILLY and that's a jolly good excuse to post old photos, songs you love/hate, dances you did/didn't do, clothes you wore/took off, and/or your normal misgivings about all things involving the presidency of Jimmy Carter.

[JJR RNCH]

Everyone misses you. You should give work a call.

[bert]

Got any photos of the nest time through?

Underwear check

[amxfan2002]

I miss them too. I never would have thought that laying around watching TV, Freeping, and surfing the net, and taking painkillers for a couple of months could be sooooooo boring....

[sully777]

We're discussing yearbooks and fond memories of really bad fashion and music. Take this person for example...we'll call him Wally:

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Favorite bands: Savage Garden/Depeche Mode/Barbra Steisand

Goals in life: Live in Canada, even if it's near Niagara Falls.

[RockinRight]

It's you, isn't it?

[sully777]

What just happened?

[Dooderbutt]

Kajagoogoo 2005 - Talk about aging horribly!

You have GOT to be kidding me...that's them?!?! My father was stationed in England when they first started taking off and I had the biggest crush on the guy with the white hair and braids (Depressing, I know). I can't believe that's them - who's the one sitting down in the orange shirt??

[sully777]

No, i just icked a picture randomly

[JJR RNCH]

I had to biggest "Mall" bangs in the 80's. I added a good 6 inches to my height. How stupid is that. Hairspray was my best friend.

[darkangel82]

Winger? OK, this is getting bad lol.

[amxfan2002]

Pics....We must have pics!! That must have been a sight to see...

[Millee]

Did "Wally" get the snot beat out of him for wearing that shirt? ;op

[Semi Civil Servant]

The guy in the lower left looks like the guy who sweeps the floor and picks up the pizza for the gang.

I wonder if he's still with the company?

A collage classmate was the 5th employee hired at Microsoft. I didn't know him and can't pick him out in the picture, but he gave a couple million to the University a few years ago.

[sully777]

icked

picked

[blau993]

I think the real question is whether the AdminMod will remove 100 posts today. He seems to be a busy little bugger on this thread.

[JJR RNCH]

I prefer not to remind myself of those days with pictures (not that I have much of a memory of those days, good times, I think).

[sully777]

Well, I gotta go do winter stuff again. See the die hards later. PEACE.

[amxfan2002]

Sounds like a case of "Too many good times"...huh???

[JJR RNCH]

I do remember going to CA when I was 15 with a couple of friends to see the US Festival in 1983. So many good bands were there. Heavy Metal Sunday was the best day of the 3 day event. Judas Priest, Ozzie.

[RockinRight]

Looks like Beaver Cleaver.