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After School You Can Find Them Loitering By The Back Fence, Hacking Away On Candy Cigarettes And Swigging Root Beer Concealed In Brown Paper Bags.
This was taken from a typical early 80s "home needlework" book. The embroidered sweater is fine, nothing too offensive there. But who are these drips loitering by the purple backdrop?
You know, the rebels with the tic-tac-toe graffiti?
That's right. Tic-tac-toe graffiti.
They're never gonna impress the ladies with such a pathetic display of insubordination. One can only assume that if they move to the side you'd find another spray-painted missive, no doubt proclaiming that the school principal is a "doody-head" or similar.
Posted by Mary on February 21, 2006 | Permalink
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At first I thought they were Ramones wannebe's, with their matching outfits, but then, after looking at the cans in their hands, I decided that they were Axe spray R & D testers, and she was the bait! They all look too anxious for her to come over and "talk".
Posted by: jillish | Feb 21, 2006 7:10:14 AM
That poor girl - still smiling even though she's made up of other people's body parts. You'd think if they could embroider little flowers they could at least sew the limbs on properly. And there's no excuse for attaching her head on sideways -that's just shoddy workmanship.
Posted by: kaz | Feb 21, 2006 8:22:38 AM
Ten bucks say's that they all have pocket protectors hidden under those jackets. Just look at them, they are so pathetic. Bad Boy Wannabe's. What's with the dorky glasses anyhow?
Posted by: toiletpaper | Feb 21, 2006 9:20:12 AM
If they were 3 or 4 inches taller, they'd go over there and TALK to that girl.
Posted by: Marcia | Feb 21, 2006 9:33:17 AM
Seriously, even when I WAS a teenager in the eighties I found the boy hairdo on the far left hideous.
Posted by: Sage Tyrtle | Feb 21, 2006 9:48:42 AM
The middle boy is getting very suggestive with his "spray can". Does he have to hold it like that?
Posted by: Saz | Feb 21, 2006 11:04:02 AM
That's a young Buddy Holly on the far right, I'm sure of it.
Posted by: Yorkie | Feb 21, 2006 11:57:33 AM
That's funny, I thought it was the band Weezer playing their very first gig - the 9th grade semi-formal dance.
No one ever expected they'd make it big back then.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward | Feb 21, 2006 12:11:23 PM
I'm prety sure I went to prom with the guy on the far right, spray-paint and all. Thankfully, I wasn't wearing anything home-embroidered.
Posted by: Bridget | Feb 21, 2006 1:39:46 PM
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Posted by: Inky | Feb 21, 2006 2:59:52 PM
My date was the guy in the middle, freakishly oversized hair and all. And I towered over him, even in my clumpy eastern european sandals. (like the model's, but dorkier) My mother still talks fondly about that guy. And it's 25 years ago now.
Posted by: irene | Feb 21, 2006 6:11:44 PM
i'll take whoopi for the block.
Posted by: -cj- | Feb 21, 2006 7:34:53 PM
It's pretty apparent to me that the latest graffiti outrage from this group was using their spray cans to decorate that poor girl's dress. I mean how else do you explain that mass of colours except as the result of spray paint bought at the "discontinued stock" section of a soon to be closed hardware store.
Posted by: Brent | Feb 22, 2006 3:43:50 AM
What is with that girls legs?
Posted by: Annie | Feb 22, 2006 9:42:14 AM
what's with the leather breifcase she's carrying? although I did have those fisherman sandals she's wearing and I wore them with anklets like that.
Posted by: kowgurl | Feb 22, 2006 12:46:38 PM
The one in the middle is Eric from That Seventies Show when he was twelve! Must have been a few years before his big break.
Posted by: WendyLady | Feb 22, 2006 1:02:27 PM
I don't know. I think they look kind of bad ass. But I'm a big fan of the geek-chic.
And though commonplace now, tic-tac-toe was considered VERY edgy in the early eighties.
Posted by: Slimbolala | Feb 22, 2006 3:57:17 PM
o man those guys r pathetic, no matter wot century there from
Posted by: D34dpuPpY | Feb 22, 2006 10:12:15 PM
I don't know which is more alarming; the hem coming out of her skirt,or the hand reaching for the can of Mace in her pocket. Not to mention the way that she is tantalizing those poor innocent boys with her fuck-me flats...
Posted by: Kathryn | Feb 22, 2006 11:07:34 PM
"We'll show those guys over at Hummingbird Academy that the boys at Dan Quale Prep are the real badasses around here!
Whoah! Is that Mary-Sue? I heard she let Billy hold her hand at the homecoming dance. Billy said she has a great pair of...ankles!"
^_^
Posted by: Angel H. | Feb 25, 2006 7:29:04 PM
Is that The Knack, before they hit puberty???
Posted by: severina | Mar 3, 2006 8:07:20 PM
How does she ever get her legs to go that way? I've tried all afternoon in front of a mirror. My sister even tried to coach me, and neigher of us could get any of our legs to go that way. Do you suppose she takes some afternoon classes to learn that kind of modeling stuff? And that's not a spray can Bobby is holding, it is a peeni weenie with a light on it so you can see it in the dim corners of the room after tic tack toe class.
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Posted by: sam drew | May 6, 2006 6:20:23 AM
i think the one with glasses looks just like topher grace (eric foreman from THAT 70's SHOW). i think he would have been too young to have posed at that time though...
Posted by: jodie | May 24, 2006 9:06:38 PM
I've just noticed that girl looks awfully like Celine Dion - there was a clip of her on 'Before They Were Famous' - before she got her teeth fixed. Not a pretty sight. Is there any chance..? She wouldn't be the first lacklustre 'star' to start out on knitting patterns - Roger Moore used to model for them (in the 1870s, most likely...)
Posted by: spidergirl | Aug 17, 2006 10:20:11 AM
I think the guy on the far right may have been my husband...
Posted by: ZOMGPirates! | Jan 31, 2007 9:55:29 AM
Dana Carvey look-a-like in the middle was surprised to learn that underneath that horrible skirt was an even more horrible pair of were wolf legs.
Posted by: Gunmetal Grey | Jul 14, 2008 5:54:09 PM
