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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 12:57 am
OMG that stuff was gold. My favorite was "Patrick broke ranks and chose drag over the bow tie" I love that stuff. I also loved "The Damned" picture. Cowboy Chachi Loves You best is my favorite on the other site. Pic-wise, I likes the men's terry pullovers. hahaha Great post Pamy!!
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 1:35 am
i dont understand. People submit their pics to be mocked or are these from a photographic stash from days gone by.....found in a box in a garage? Guess i dont have a sense of humor.
I didnt think any of the captions were funny....but some of the people were very very funny looking, in a sad way that genetics sometimes plays.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 4:54 am
Sun, pictures of me from th 70's are funny. I could have been in half of those shots. We are laughing more so at the era. Its not like any of them still look/dress like that. Havent ya ever pulled out old pics of yourself and died laughing and remember thinking when you took that pic you thought you were looking great! (I have and I have huge 80s hair pics to prove it LOL) the one site is an old JCP catalog....havent you ever opened an ad and LOL at ppl posing? what makes it more funny is that it's from the 70s.....I guess ya had to be there
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 4:59 am
HP, I love that you shared yours with the library background! I agree that Ed doesnt look happy to be in that library LOL
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 5:35 am
Shoot, I looked through the photo albums I have here and can't find any hideous pics from the 70's (other than my sister's wedding pics where my brother-in-law was wearing a baby blue leisure suit kinda tux). I think by the mid 70's, we were all pretty camera shy, and we were way beyond tolerating family photos! I'll keep looking though, 'cause my Mom still has a few of the photo albums. I think these things are a riot! I don't care if we laugh at ourselves, or some people on the internet site in their funny hairstyles and clothes.
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Holly
Member
06-19-2005
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 6:44 am
Oooh Pamy, I'd love to see you with your big hair! (chanting: post, post, post...)
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 6:54 am
I saw both of these sets of pictures, the Olan Mills and the J.C. Penney maybe six months to a year ago. The J.C. Penney catalog pictures are the same ones I saw before, not sure if the Olan Mills ones are being added to or rotated. When Bigdog and I got married in 1975, I am pretty sure he was wearing his baby blue houndstooth polyester leisure suit, probably with his pale yellow banlon polo shirt. We always thought that was a pretty good combination. That was also the era of platform shoes for men. I am not at home right now, so I don't have any pictures. In the HP family Olan Mills library photo, Dad in the back row looks like the only one who has figured out that the camera is straight ahead.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 9:22 am
You are so right, Juju. Duh, we look like we wandered in from a walk in the park or something, don't we? We wanted it to look casual, but this was just so not a keeper, wasn't it? Oof. The only one to display this picture in their own home was my mother. (She had it enlarged and framed. Course she did stick it in the loft--a room way in the back of the house.)
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Ginger1218
Member
08-31-2001
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 9:46 am
GAL, I thought the Purvis family one was hysterical too
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 10:15 am
rotflmao - pamy this is hysterical i haven't laughed this hard in a while great pics HP (your grandmother was beautiful! reminds me of one of mine) if we can get our scanner working i will post a couple too
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 10:23 am
Thanks, Sharina. She was, indeed, a beauty--inside and out. But she could be a pistol when fired up over my grandfather's terrible penchant for chewing tobacco--a habit he continued til he died. I loved my grandfather's pet name for her--'Bug.' (Not used in the nagging sense.)
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 10:52 am
HP, in your library shot, I love the two guys on the left. The older gentleman looks like he hates being there, and the guy with the glasses has one of the BEST sneers ever. The sign of a good photographer is to NOT have your elbow in the shot! LOL If I didn't have a kazillion things to do today and this week, I'd pull out my albums. I was born in 74, but there are some doozies. Heck, even my early 90s pics are embarrassing to me!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 2:01 pm
I only started the thread, GAL found the sites I dont know how to use our scanner and have to dig the BIG HAIR pics out but I will one day. I also have some lovely danskin spandex leotard/skirt dancing poses LOL
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 2:03 pm
I really loved how he kept the whole 'how to get your ass kicked' theme in all his commentaries! LOL JUju...LOL forgot MEN also wore the platforms hahahahahahhahh was there ever as funny a decade as the 70s???? I know 80s had some funny stuff but nothing compared to platforms and blue leisure suits. I still gotta see a matching GAL/Colossus pic!!
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 2:52 pm
I love these pictures. They are LOL funny and say what we will at least the 70's was distinctive. I tend to think that the 50's, 60's and 70's were very distinctive decades. I have trouble differentiating between the 80's, 90's and 00's. I'll probably remember as soon as someone says but what was/is really distinctive about those?
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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 3:10 pm
My hair was very distintive in those decades!
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 3:38 pm
OMG, Eeyore, do you know that I never even saw the offending elbow til you pointed it out? Over all these years?!! So funny. Those two men are my maternal grandfather and my hubby! Heh. (Ed can still sneer very well, believe me.) Uh, this photo was MY idea.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 3:47 pm
I remember so many of those styles! I'll have to see if I can dig up some of my old 70s pics. I had big hair most of my life and I know some of you saw my HS graduation pic with my big hair. LOL
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 3:55 pm
80s was distictive (big hair/dark black eyeliner, lace) but I dont think 90's were, the first part of 90s was kinda the 80s carrying over. Actually if you look at Madonna thru the years starting in 80s you will see what was in at the time. Like Cher, she really changes and set trends back then
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 4:02 pm
GAL, thx for sharing this.. it's a laugh riot lol HP. sounds like my gran btw w/ my grandpa 'Lefty' and his whiskey ok here goes.. my most shameful and lol hideous outfit evah, circa 1975
notice the junk drawer scissors haircut with pony tail. at least my pants sorta match the carpeting, if not the puke green sweat shirt....none of which seem to go with the oh so classic white socks and buckle shoes 
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 4:28 pm
HP, LOL I thought that was an armband on grandpa's arm until Eeyore pointed it out! I also didnt notice until Juju pointed out that only one person is looking straight into the camera! LOL I would love to see the ones ya all rejected Bill Dylan and I just took a family pic a couple weeks ago and the photog would pose us all 'posey-posey' and right when she would go to snap the pic I would do something to my guys to make them LOL for the pic...every shot is crazy but thats the way I like them. I want my great grandchildren to look at our family pics and LOL!!!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 4:29 pm
Shar, you were cute, no shame in those. I have waaaay worse!! LOL
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 4:36 pm
thx pamy.. i was cringing putting 'em up, lol. if ppl get a laugh, that's great. would love to see yours 
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 4:41 pm
Shar, you were such a cutie!! Heck, that outfit isn't so bad. I actually like the pea green top with your coloring! And hey, I had a pair of stretchy ski pants (remember, with the footed thingees?) in that same pattern as your pants--when I was a teenager in the 60s--only mine were colored were turquoise, black and white. Heh. Pamy, I have no memory of picking the shot out at all. Geesh, you're right, if that was the best, what were the rejects like?? Hahahahha!
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 6:17 pm
Sharinia...in '75 I was a grown woman and had pants just like that. At least you were a child. lol
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