Random photos from my childhood

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Remember those guys you picked on in school? This is what their photo album looks like.

Observe young, pale-faced GoChiefs drinking tea with annoying Jehovah's Witness kids. I think the one on the far left fancies me. My sisters are also in shot.



This is me, in Scotland, with our Doberman. He's dead now. I am pictured wearing the only pair of Nikes I can recall owning.




This is our first house, in Portlethen, Scotland. Chief (same dog) is guarding the front door - censored.



This is our second house in Newtonhill, Scotland. I am in the background, doing hard labor in the back yard as my mother laughs maniacally.



The stairs from Newtonhill. This photo shows the beginning of my "Dick Tracy/Pirates" phase. I think I still have that shirt somewhere.




More coming...

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Originally Posted by Donger

There's no denying that those are from Scotland. My paternal grandmother is apparently going to be dead soon, so I may be taking the family to the UK. I may have to go back to the old country.

I have no Scottish blood. My heritage is German.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by GOATSE

I have no Scottish blood. My heritage is German.

I didn't say it was.

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Originally Posted by Donger

Tell them about the "sand."

This is what our beach looked like:



I'm not sure if that's what you are referring to, but perhaps not. I once ate black sand in tenerife on holiday.

[2112]

[Donger]

Originally Posted by GOATSE

This is what our beach looked like:



I'm not sure if that's what you are referring to, but perhaps not. I once ate black sand in tenerife on holiday.

Precisely. fucking rocks. I remember our first trip to California after moving to the US.

"Dad, what's this?"

"It's sand, you knob."

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Originally Posted by Donger

Precisely. fucking rocks. I remember our first trip to California after moving to the US.

"Dad, what's this?"

"It's sand, you knob."

We had lots of driftwood and seaweed though. And rope. Lots of rope.

[Bill S Preston]

Originally Posted by GOATSE

This is what our beach looked like:



I'm not sure if that's what you are referring to, but perhaps not. I once ate black sand in tenerife on holiday.

Geez, I take it that you don't go to the beach much when visiting there?

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Originally Posted by Bill S Preston

Geez, I take it that you don't go to the beach much when visiting there?

I haven't gone back since we left. But we used to go to the beach all the time. We didn't know any better. It was fun.

One time I found a glowing egg amidst the rocks, and it had a beastie inside. He became my best friend.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by GOATSE

I haven't gone back since we left. But we used to go to the beach all the time. We didn't know any better. It was fun.

There's line that Billy Connolly said once:

50 miles away, oil workers were being told, "This is the North Sea. If you fall in, you'll only have ten minutes before hypothermia sets in and you'll die. At the same time, Scottish mothers were taking the clothes off their kids and saying, "Alright, in ya go."

I wish I could find a WAV or video of that.

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Hey, Donger, let's grab a burger at Wimpy's.

[teedubya]

[Donger]

Originally Posted by GOATSE

Hey, Donger, let's grab a burger at Wimpy's.

I don't think you'd enjoy spending any time with me.

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Originally Posted by Donger

I don't think you'd enjoy spending any time with me.

I wasn't serious. You never went to Mr. Wimpy's? That shit was the BOMB, yo.

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Originally Posted by NY58

u must have been a sad lonely kid in high school.

No, I just hung out with the other geeks.

[Bill S Preston]

I would have never guessed that NY58 would show up, the ultimate internet bad ass.