# What? Yet another Doper picture thread? (Then & Now) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 4, 2005, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671 "2005-10-04T00:27:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671/61 "2005-10-08T05:14:40Z")
> [@Nic2004](#): > > Um…let me know if this worked [Now and at 21 in 1977](http://teemingmillions.com/people/cgi/pm.cgi?action=show&temp=display_photos&login=nic2004) Cool bike, cool beard and cool lookin’ little kid. It WORKED! Thank you, **misnomer!** The feeling is reciprocated. **Hillbilly Queen** , I’m always happy when I can help a lady achieve her goals. 😉 **ETF** , I’ve got me some horses too. But I don’t have any odd hat, strange britches or high boots like you seem to favor. Usually I ride in a t-shirt, jeans, baseball cap and Wolverine boots. Right now I’m usin’ a barrel-racing saddle. I don’t have gender issues, I just ran across a good saddle at a very reasonable price. Keep your cinch tight. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671/62 "2005-10-08T05:14:52Z")
> [@Nic2004](#): > > Um…let me know if this worked [Now and at 21 in 1977](http://teemingmillions.com/people/cgi/pm.cgi?action=show&temp=display_photos&login=nic2004) It worked. You look the same. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671/63 "2005-10-08T06:09:07Z")
> [@John Carter of Mars](#): > > **ETF** , I’ve got me some horses too. But I don’t have any odd hat, strange britches or high boots like you seem to favor. Usually I ride in a t-shirt, jeans, baseball cap and Wolverine boots. > Right now I’m usin’ a barrel-racing saddle. I don’t have gender issues, I just ran across a good saddle at a very reasonable price. Keep your cinch tight. Oh, I don’t always dress up fancy for riding. That’s just my show gear (for the rare occasions when I bother to show). I’m way more likely to [look like this](http://community.webshots.com/photo/365543494/468003727vLeYIP), though I do usually wear paddock boots and riding tights rather than sweats and muckshoes. I don’t ride my TB without a saddle (dressage for schooling, Aussie for trails) because… well, he _is_ a TB. Very sane and laid back for the breed but a TB nonetheless. Then there’s those TB withers… :eek: The horse I’m riding in that photo was Nick, a Quarter Horse, and a damn fine one. The kind you could [put a little kid on](http://community.webshots.com/photo/335491092/335491092vNGDTG), or hop on bareback with just a leadrope on the halter and go putter around the woods, or hand over to a good rider and they’d have a blast. I had to put him down at age 23 on September 16, after almost 14 years together. [He’s buried here](http://community.webshots.com/photo/365543494/365555843yUGziB), at my friend’s farm in New Hampshire where he spent the summer, got hurt, and was euthanized. My first horse, and my horse of a lifetime. [He sure was a sweet guy.](http://community.webshots.com/photo/365543494/365544484XFAzTN) ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671/64 "2005-10-08T06:47:01Z")
[Me, age 6.](http://danshelton.myphotoalbum.com/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album01&id=civitan) What a cute li’l bastard I was, too. [My Dad and I at a Titans game last December.](http://danshelton.myphotoalbum.com/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album01&id=meanddad) ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671/65 "2005-10-08T07:49:23Z")
Here I am: [This past July at Badlands National Park](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/neolith76/detail?.dir=/3747&.dnm=dd1e.jpg) [At my wedding in Oct 2003](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/neolith76/detail?.dir=2fee&.dnm=6ab8.jpg&.src=ph) [2000](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/neolith76/detail?.dir=ca87&.dnm=96a3.JPG&.src=ph) [me being silly, about 1998](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/neolith76/detail?.dir=3747&.dnm=cd93.JPG&.src=ph) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671/66 "2005-10-10T17:51:37Z")
[This is me](http://static.flickr.com/26/51105505_1a4c21ed4d_o.jpg), circa 1987. I’m the one on the left. No, not the 'droid. [This is me](http://static.flickr.com/29/50930426_0482556094.jpg), circa last Saturday. Thanks to **SolGrundy** for taking the picture and hosting both of them. So, which is geekier? Before or after? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671/67 "2005-10-10T18:32:14Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > So, which is geekier? Before or after? It would have to be after – there’s more of you. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671/68 "2005-10-10T18:37:25Z")
Then: Age, oh I don’t know, three or so? [My cousin Sarah and I](http://razz.zoto.com/img/45/dbac05b414720a5bf0be1348f909ff00.jpg) Now: Age 19. [The boyfriend and I](http://razz.zoto.com/img/45/882345c37c3d922546e15d572373a993-.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![PinkMarabou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@PinkMarabou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PinkMarabou)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671/69 "2005-10-10T19:11:46Z")
[This](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v720/pinkmarabou/bannonmomandlizLR.jpg) is my sister, my mom, and me on the right. I was around 1 in that photo. [This](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v720/pinkmarabou/littlelizLR.jpg) is me at around 3 or 4 with pigtails. [This](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v720/pinkmarabou/lizsenior1LR.jpg) is one of my senior pictures (my hair was up, it was long then). [This](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v720/pinkmarabou/lizginaswingLR.jpg) is during college (around 19 years old) when I cut off all my hair and dyed it blonde. [This](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v720/pinkmarabou/ianlizchristmasLR.jpg) is about 4 years ago at a Christmas party with my husband. and [This](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v720/pinkmarabou/First_Dance_1_bw.jpg) is our wedding two years ago (I haven’t changed much since then). And just for fun, [this](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v720/pinkmarabou/IanlittleLR.jpg) is my husband when he was younger (don’t know what age). ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671/70 "2005-10-10T22:27:43Z")
> [@PinkMarabou](#): > > [This](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v720/pinkmarabou/lizsenior1LR.jpg) is one of my senior pictures (my hair was up, it was long then). Wow, in that picture you look like a young Ellen Barkin! (I mean that as a compliment! :)) ---
**Author:** ![klintypooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3da27b/32.png) [@klintypooh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/klintypooh)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671/71 "2005-10-11T01:41:06Z")
OK, [here](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/klintlovescheesecake/bw.jpg) I am back in say the 40s or sometime before colour was invented. [Here](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/klintlovescheesecake/1.jpg) I am from around 10 minutes ago feeling even more miserable than I look. OK, I just found an old photo album and I have found loads of pics of me when I was a baby so [here](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/klintlovescheesecake/baby.jpg) is one. ---
**Author:** ![PinkMarabou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@PinkMarabou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PinkMarabou)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671/72 "2005-10-11T13:07:33Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > Wow, in that picture you look like a young Ellen Barkin! (I mean that as a compliment! :)) I had never heard of her before, but she’s not a bad lookin’ lady! 😃 Thanks! I wish I was that teeny again, I was about 115lbs. back then. :sigh: ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671/73 "2005-10-11T14:33:33Z")
> [@Wolfgrrl](#): > > I don’t have any from when I was _really_ young online, but here’s a few… > > [In this one](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/randomwolf70/detail?.dir=52b5&.dnm=ee61.jpg&.src=ph), I’m about 19. Yes I’m in a cemetary; the name on the stone is actually Whorf, purposely partially obscured by my skirt 'cause I thought it was funny. > > [Here](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/randomwolf70/detail?.dir=52b5&.dnm=5077.jpg&.src=ph), I’m about 23. I played guitar for about 12 years, till I started working a second job and ran out of free time. Frankly, I’m a better writer than player, so it wasn’t really going anywhere anyway. > > [My favorite photo of myself](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/randomwolf70/detail?.dir=52b5&.dnm=c1b8.jpg&.src=ph) is from the 1998 NHL Awards; the disembodied arm next to me belongs to Sergei Samsonov. People who see the full photo and don’t know who he is often see me in an off-white dress next to a guy in a tuxedo and say, “Oh, you were married?” Either that or that I look like Carrie Fisher, which I honestly don’t see. > > [Most recent](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/randomwolf70/detail?.dir=52b5&.dnm=e91d.jpg&.src=ph) is this one from a Pow Wow that I went to last year - I’m the one on the far left. I’ve lost about 10 lbs since then and look a lot more like the third photo, except my hair is longer now. WHOA!!! I think we look alike. [Here I am](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/stellamavis/MEPICS/estherbw.jpg) a few years ago. [Here I am](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/stellamavis/MEPICS/newcamera034.jpg) a few months ago. Seriously, you could be my long lost sister. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671/74 "2005-10-11T15:44:28Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > (would you like to natter with me by e-mail? seems a good opportunity, since I couldn’t find a reason just to e-mail you randomly) I sent you one. Hope to hear from you. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671/75 "2005-10-11T15:51:40Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > I sent you one. Hope to hear from you. Not to intrude but… what is _natter_? ---
**Author:** ![Torgo\_ate\_my\_hamster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@Torgo\_ate\_my\_hamster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo_ate_my_hamster)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671/76 "2005-10-11T19:40:01Z")
> [@Nic2004](#): > > Um…let me know if this worked [Now and at 21 in 1977](http://teemingmillions.com/people/cgi/pm.cgi?action=show&temp=display_photos&login=nic2004) That’s some serious mother of all beards, man. I envy you. [That’s me](http://freeweb.siol.net/pizama/fotke/1995.jpg) in 1995, a thin, nerdish type of guy, and [that’s the hairy,](http://freeweb.siol.net/pizama/fotke/noz.jpg) [well-rounded](http://freeweb.siol.net/pizama/fotke/jokerzur.jpg) person that I am now. 😃 And [here’s a photoshop](http://freeweb.siol.net/pizama/fotke/OldTimer.jpg) of me in approximately 60 years from now my friend made. (I’m in the back and still my beard isn’t half as big as Nic2004’s :mad: ) ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671/77 "2005-10-12T02:57:28Z")
> [@Torgo ate my hamster](#): > > That’s some serious mother of all beards, man. I envy you. > > [That’s me](http://freeweb.siol.net/pizama/fotke/1995.jpg) in 1995, a thin, nerdish type of guy, and [that’s the hairy,](http://freeweb.siol.net/pizama/fotke/noz.jpg) [well-rounded](http://freeweb.siol.net/pizama/fotke/jokerzur.jpg) person that I am now. 😃 > And [here’s a photoshop](http://freeweb.siol.net/pizama/fotke/OldTimer.jpg) of me in approximately 60 years from now my friend made. (I’m in the back and still my beard isn’t half as big as Nic2004’s :mad: ) Thank you. Very kind words indeed. The longest I’ve had it was about 4 inches below my breast bone (about 12" below the chin). It was always getting into stuff when it was that long though. Had a drill grab it and wind it around a whole lot _reaeelly_ fast once. In your pic “that’s the hairy” you look like a mix of a couple of old buddies of mine. I had to look twice. In that pic, what are those things on the shelf to the left? Are you behind a bar? And the photoshop one… at least you still have some color left in yours. Anyway, keep up the good work. It’s more about the heart than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671/78 "2005-10-12T03:00:17Z")
> [@Nic2004](#): > > In that pic, what are those things on the shelf to **YOUR** left? :smack: To YOUR left! ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671/79 "2005-10-12T03:08:38Z")
> [@John Carter of Mars](#): > > Cool bike, cool beard and cool lookin’ little kid. It WORKED! > > Thank you, **misnomer!** The feeling is reciprocated. > > **Hillbilly Queen** , I’m always happy when I can help a lady achieve her goals. 😉 > > **ETF** , I’ve got me some horses too. But I don’t have any odd hat, strange britches or high boots like you seem to favor. Usually I ride in a t-shirt, jeans, baseball cap and Wolverine boots. > Right now I’m usin’ a barrel-racing saddle. I don’t have gender issues, I just ran across a good saddle at a very reasonable price. Keep your cinch tight. Just scrolled back and found this. Thanks JCoM. That’s my son, now 4 yo but I look the same. I was gonna suggest photoshopping the pic of you with the rugged mountians behind you and making the sky a reddish-orange to compliment your name. 🙂 Thanks again ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671/80 "2005-10-12T03:13:04Z")
> [@Nic2004](#): > > Not to intrude but… what is _natter_? Chatting, talking, that sort of thing. **Beware of Doug,** I received it, and a reply is on the way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-yet-another-doper-picture-thread-then-now/324671.md?page=5)