Double Dog Dare You

Alpha DogMa made a comment to my last post that sounded almost like a dare. She wrote, "The only way these photos could be better is if you had glasses. Because bad late 80s hair PLUS bad late 80s eyeglasses makes for liquid-snorted-out-of-your-nose laughter."

Well, here ya go:


And also, a good ol' prom photo from the early 80's:

Just don't bring up the "blue eyeshadow" photos, cause those I ain't sharin'.

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For those who came here for an update on the kiddos, here is a story for you:

I ordered this neat book called See Inside Ancient Rome. It's a picture book that features different scenes from Rome's glory days. There are several flaps that you can lift on each page which shows you behind a door or curtain, or tells you an interesting little fact about the scene.

Two pages are dedicated to Rome's public baths. On these pages is a scene of the interior of a bath house filled with little naked cartoon men. There are men in the hot pools, men in the steam room and men lifting weights outside. It is all very modest, save for some cute little cartoon bums.

Belly was fascinated with this section of the book and asked a bunch of questions ("where are the women?"; "why can't we go to something like this?"; "aren't they embarassed?"). We giggled at the little cartoon bums.

Then, peering closer at the pages, she asked, "Where are the peanuts*?"

Wha-wha-what???

"Um, dear, I'm sure Usborne books has made sure that no peanuts show. See this guy is holding a dumbbell in front of his, uh, peanuts. This guy is sitting. This guy has turned his back."

She looked up at me, grabbed the book out of my hands and muttered, "I'm going to find the peanuts".

*I have sanitized this retelling of the story so that I don't end up with a bunch of weird Google searchers looking for, um, peanuts.