Admit It: CO Liberal Looked "Interesting" At His Senior Prom

[CO Liberal]

Here I am at my Senior Prom in 1971. I'm the one on the right. The girl in the gold gloves was a girl I met in Junior Achievement during my Sophomore Year and dated through high school. I have absolutely no idea where she is today.

[da_chimperor]

1. Dude, your haircut totally just blew my mind!

It's like carrot top meets a comb. :crazy:

[CO Liberal]

27. And Carrot Top's Hair "Style"....

...is like CO Liberal meets a wall socket. :-)

[MrUnderhill]

2. It was......a.... "theme" prom????

Your hair looked as good as hers!

[CO Liberal]

3. It Was 1971

THAT was the theme.

Actually, each year a song was chosen to be the theme of the Senior Prom at Morristown High School. That year, it was "Love Story". The first time the wedding-type band tried to play it, they screwed it up royally. When they were finished, the singer leaned into the microphone and said, "Sorry, kids - we'll try to do it better next time!"

:-)

[DS1]

4. You remind me of Dave Mustaine

[CO Liberal]

5. I Had That Look FIRST!!!!!

:-)

[name not needed]

14. Yeah, but

CO Lib never whined continuously for 20 years. ;)

[DS1]

18. If you lived within 10 blocks I'd walk down the road and smack you

;-)

[name not needed]

19. Yeah, but I don't

so you're shit out of luck. :P

[DS1]

20. Yet, I'm not you, so I've got ~something~ going for me

;-)

[name not needed]

21. Sphincter says what?

[CO Liberal]

31. deleted

posted something, then thought better of it. Please ignore.

[RetroLounge]

33. Dave Mustaine?

Wasn't he in a real band for a short time?

RL

[joefree1]

6. Gold gloves?

I was a sophmore in my first year of Highschool in 1971. Our highschool was closed down for weeks in the Spring because of race riots.

I lost my illusions about the world and quit Campus Crusade (borg-agains). Nixon was President. What a year.


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[CO Liberal]

10. Her Parents Were Both Schoolteachers - and Unitarians

She and her folks were very socially conscious, so I don't think the gold gloves were a class-type statement; I think they were a fashion statement. Remember, the entire world dressed funny from about 1968 to 1975...

My high school (Morristown High) didn't have race riots until 1974, when my kid sister was a junior. It started the night before as a fight at my church's annual carnival - the fight had started right in front of the goldfish-toss booth I was running, and quickly erupted into a riot that closed the carnival for the night. The riot closed the high school for a week, after which they had cops patrolling teh halls.

The carnival finished the week under heavy police guard, and the church never held another one.

[blue sky at night]

7. Dude........been there, done

that. I was too cool to go to the prom, but I looked just as bad. I graduated in '73, see what Nixon and the Late 60's could do to a whole generation of american youth??

[CO Liberal]

28. In '73, I Graduated From DeVry Tech

And six months later, we were too busy waiting in gas lines to think about how Tricky Dicky was screwing us...

[Feathered Fish]

8. Does the princess know

what you're up to? ;-)
Hehe - cute picture, that is a lot of hair.

[CO Liberal]

24. She'll Find Out Soon Enough

She's already seen that photo....

[Onlooker]

9. Great photo

You look like someone who wouldn't be caught dead at a Senior Prom.

[CO Liberal]

11. It Was Interesting

Hippie-freak me and my hippie-type girlfriend in the Grand Ballroom of the Governor Morris Inn in Morristown, NJ - surrounded by jocks and cheerleader types.

The year before, my Junior Class had rebelled against convention and elected a hippie chick as our Prom Queen on a massive write-in campaign. The football coach came in second...

:-)

[darkstar]

12. Your vintage and look

explains a lot about your encyclopedic mastery of rock trivia.

Rock on brother! I'm right behind you ('75).

:toast: :hi: :smoke:

[CO Liberal]

13. My Kid Sister Graduated in 1975!!

And later on, my kids both graduated from that same high school - my son in 1994, and my daughter in 1995.

[TexasBushwhacker]

34. '75 grad here too ....

and I have a brother who has the CO Liberal/Dave Mustaine look as well. He used to go through a blow dryer every month or so because he'd blow dry his wavy hair straight. Now he's a geek (and his hair is much shorter), but is also a damn fine bass player. He was in class of '81 and one of the few in my family that I can really talk politics with.

Oh, and we were Unitarians too - LOL.

[roguevalley]

15. '71 rules! So do red heads. --RV, a red head

[CO Liberal]

25. Let's Hear It For Recessive Genes!!!!

:headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:
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:headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:
:headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

[hippiechick]

37. Redheads Rule !!!

:)


:hippie: <-- all red, all the time

[CO Liberal]

52. That's The Way I Always Thought It Should Be

But few blondes or brunettes would go along with the idea....

[asthmaticeog]

16. Hmmmmmmm...

Any relation?

[CO Liberal]

26. None That I Know Of

None of the women-folk in my family are members of the Itty Bitty Titty Committee. :-)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

30. very classy

[JimmyJazz]

49. I'm really surprised that the album cover hasn't been changed

after all these years. That girl was 14 when that photo was taken. Maybe she's grown since then?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

38. I'll se your Blind Faith and raise you a Virgin Killer (nt)

[cheezus]

17. OMG! You're Weird Al!

[CO Liberal]

29. With a Slightly Different Color Combination

Of course, now I look quite a bit different:

[TX-RAT]

66. Is that your, check out my tushie pose?

[Fleurs du Mal]

22. CO Liberal > the Lion King

:headbang:

[CO Liberal]

23. That's a Better Comparison Than I Had Growing Up

With my bright-red hair, I was constantly being compared to Howdy Doody or Bozo the Clown....

[CO Liberal]

32. Afternoon Kick

:kick:

[Rabrrrrrr]

35. you don't remember where you buried her?

You cad!

:-)

Pretty wild looking hair on you, CO Liberal.

[CO Liberal]

51. And That Was After Drying It Thoroughly

Remember, this was 1971. We didn't have those fancy-schmancy blow dryers back then.

[RetroLounge]

36. Man, her fingers are scary things...

just saying...

RL

[cruadin]

41. Seriously scary things. What's up with that...

Goldfinger claw grip?
I graduated in '76---I don't remember that metallic, death glove thing at all.

[CO Liberal]

53. There Were A Lot Of Short-Lived Fashion Fads Back Then

Remember the Nehru Jacket? I would have gotten one, but I didn't get to the store that week.

:-)

[RebelOne]

39. OK, that was 23 years ago.

We need an updated photo of you today in 2004.

[CO Liberal]

44. Actually, That Was 33 Years Ago

And here's a picture The Princess took of me a few months ago.

[fluffernutter]

40. i knew a guy who looked like you in HS.

love the hair, and i love her gold gloves even more.

you guys make a cute couple :)

[Flammable Materials]

43. I'd do ya.

And I'm straight. I think.

(Oh yeah, she can watch.)

[CO Liberal]

45. Hmmmmm ... The Princess is Mulling That One Over

:-)

[UpsideDownFlag]

42. man, the things i missed growing up in the nineties. nt

[CO Liberal]

46. You Had Much Better Clothes

Look at any rerun of "The Mary Typer Moore Show" or "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" to see what I'm talking about.

[Bertha Venation]

47. The resemblance to my nephew is striking... check this out, CO Lib:

(this is the best picture I have on line of Chris)



His hair isn't nearly as curly or buoyant as yours, but you'd tie in a Best Flaming Red Hair contest!

[CO Liberal]

54. Wow...

Chris looks a lot like my son did in high school, right down to the wire-rimmed glasses. Except my son's hair (which was red when he was born) eventually turned to dark blond.

[bettyellen]

48. THUNDER! THUNDERATION! WE"RE THE NY DELEGATION!!

Sorry, I survived the region one convention of Junior Acheivement when I was 15 years old.
Mount Airey lodge, never did get to see the heart shaped bathtub though.
That was my first taste of politics, all people did was vote against New Yorkers while trying to hang out with us! Same shit, different century!

[CO Liberal]

50. I Never Got That Far

I got to the annual dinner at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark.

I was in JA for three years, back when they still had you set up companies and sell something. Sophomore year I was in a company sponsored by Allied Chemical (now Honeywell). Junior year I was in a company sponsored by Bell Labs in Whippany. Senior year I was in a company sponsored by The Mennen Company.

[GreenPartyVoter]

55. You were a cutie. *g*

[CO Liberal]

58. Thanks **blushing**

:-)

[Atlas Mugged]

56. Gotta' love the wrist corsage!

A friend of mine got one from her boss on Secretary's Day. She was in near tears from laughing while she tried to type wearing the stupid thing.

The gold lame' gloves are nice, too! Gold lame' took off really big after one of Elvis' comeback specials when he wore a suit of it. The Supremes had a gold lame' wardrobe, too, so it wasn't all that brief of a thing.

[CO Liberal]

59. I Was Glad When She Asked for a Wrist Corsage

It relieved by of an 18-year-old's nervousness of pinning it on her...

[Phentex]

57. I would have asked you to dance.

:)

[CO Liberal]

60. I Couldn't Dance Very Well Back Then

And probably can't do anything more than a slow dance now, thanks to four herniated discs...

[WI_DEM]

61. Some people can get away with long hair, you can

I can't.

[CO Liberal]

62. Here in Colorado...

....we have people with ponytails who are bald on top. :-)

[Fleurs du Mal]

63. Lots of them

[CO Liberal]

64. I've Noticed

And many of them drive Harleys with no helmets, letting you catch the sunlight glare off the tops of their heads while you're following them down the road.

:-)

[TX-RAT]

65. I remember when i had hair.

[CO Liberal]

67. Back In September When I Was in Texas...

...I had lunch one day with an old friend of mine from junior high and high school - we've known each other since 1965; we'd kept in touch over the Internet, but hadn't seen each other face-to-face in over 20 years. He's 2 weeks younger than me. Imagine my surprise when he came into the restaurant with pure white hair, completely bald on top, covered up with a bad combover...

[TX-RAT]

68. Not bald, just gray and thin.

I'll crew cut before i comb over.

[CO Liberal]

69. My Dad Did the "Comb-Back" Bit

I decided years ago that I would never do a combover. So today, I comb it back, just like Dad did. Except mine is thicker than his was, as evidenced by this picture I posted above.