mr. monkeybottoms ([info]mrmonkeybottoms) wrote,
@ 2008-02-01 11:02:00
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That's So Monkey

When I was 13 I got a Vikings jersey for Xmas from my Mom's long-time then-boyfriend Neil. Neil was a great guy who was fun and thoughtful and caring and I adored this jersey.

Unfortunately my Mom broke up with Neil so it was not to be, but I remembered him fondly. For years I would tell Kevin about the awesome Vikings jersey I'd gotten for Xmas and how I wore it all the time and how I loved it and how great my Vikings jersey was.

Recently, while looking through some old pictures I came across a photo from the very Xmas I got the Vikings jersey. "Kev! Look! Here I am in my Vikings jersey!" I said happily, holding it up.



KEVIN: That's not a Vikings jersey. That's a Chargers jersey.
ME: What?! But...
KEVIN: Remember Kyle's favorite team? The Vikings? How his jersey is purple and not blue? And the logo is a Viking?
ME: Um...
KEVIN: They don't have lightening bolts on their jerseys. How could you not know that?  Why would you think that was a Vikings jersey?
ME: Because! It was all...Thor...throwing down lightening bolts from Mount Olympus and...stuff...
KEVIN: *ignores the Mount Olympus error* I can't believe that all this time you've been telling me about your Vikings jersey and it's a Chargers jersey.


Suffice it to say that everytime we all watch the Vikings on Kyle's new big-ass flat screen LCD or HD or whatever it's called TV I turn to him and say, "Hey, did I ever tell you about my Vikings jersey?" And then he just makes a face.

The best reaction to this picture was from my little brother who wrote: "Why did you get the bad-ass Vikings jersey? Meanwhile im dressed up as a SAILOR! Y - M - C - A ! Where the heck do you get a sailor suit anyways? Steal it from a movie set?"

Hahaha! Also, be advised that the year was 1983 and everyone had stupid giant glasses like that. In fact, my next pair after those were even bigger. Sweet.
 

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[info]zoniduck
2008-02-01 05:56 pm UTC (link)
Also, be advised that the year was 1983 and everyone had stupid giant glasses like that.

This is absolutely 100% true. I have pictures from junior high that prove it. If I had the one I'm thinking of uploaded, I would post it here. ::shudders::

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[info]mrmonkeybottoms
2008-02-01 06:49 pm UTC (link)
Do it!

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[info]zoniduck
2008-02-01 07:11 pm UTC (link)
It'll have to wait until I get home late tonight, but I will absolutely find the pictures and upload them.

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[info]zoniduck
2008-02-03 01:08 am UTC (link)
God help me, but here's an excellent example of my pie plate glasses phase, which lasted approximately from 1983 to 1987.



I wish like hell that I could have had lasik surgery back in the mid-80s instead of 2005. It was the best money I've ever spent.

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[info]mrmonkeybottoms
2008-02-03 06:14 am UTC (link)
Brilliant!

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[info]adriana_is
2008-02-01 06:01 pm UTC (link)
Yep. That's a Chargers jersey all right. I'm from San Diego, so yeah..Not a Vikings jersey. Although I can understand your reasoning, except that Thor was never in Mt Olympus... (snickers)

I love your brothers outfit...so cute...and yes, back then, we were dressing our children in little sailor outfits and those big glasses were all the rage, I had a couple of pairs myself. :))

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[info]mrmonkeybottoms
2008-02-01 06:44 pm UTC (link)
Hahha, that's the best part. Um, Thor was not Greek, monkey.

ME: Oh. Right. I knew that. Heh.

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[info]keswindhover
2008-02-01 06:23 pm UTC (link)
Vikings, Chargers - it means nothing to this foreigner, but tell your brother he looked cute in velvet.

And my current ultra trendy little oblong glasses are driving me crazy - bring back the goggles is what I say.

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[info]mrmonkeybottoms
2008-02-01 06:49 pm UTC (link)
Dude, I hear ya. I tried on the cutest little pair of glasses one time and I couldn't see a thing unless I was looking straight ahead at all times. Lame.

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[info]dionneshea
2008-02-01 07:05 pm UTC (link)
Aside from your HUGE ASS glasses, frilly madras shirt, and your brother in a sailor suit (all of which are beyond awesome), I have to know, is that tree behind your actual Chirstmas tree part of one of those kickass wall murals that decorated many a home in the late 1970s? Because that would just make this whole thing a masterpiece.

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[info]mrmonkeybottoms
2008-02-01 07:31 pm UTC (link)
You are 100% correct. My Nanny had a forest mural in the basement and another one in her upstairs livingroom! I think it was a waterfall or something.

MASTERPIECE!

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[info]devilpiglet
2008-02-01 07:06 pm UTC (link)
I've been trying to explain to the Boy about the big-classes phenomenon. He saw some pictures of me from years ago and said, "Wow. So you had kind of an...awkward phase." Maybe I'll have him deported.

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[info]mrmonkeybottoms
2008-02-01 07:33 pm UTC (link)
Deport his non-childhood glasses wearing ass for that comment. Because the giant glasses were a curse we all had to go through as children. *sob*

I bet *he* had to wear a salior suit as a youngster. So there.

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[info]devilpiglet
2008-02-01 07:41 pm UTC (link)
HAHA He was in a BOYS' CHOIR.

OH SNAP.

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[info]mrmonkeybottoms
2008-02-01 07:53 pm UTC (link)
Take THAT, foreigner.

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[info]kskitten
2008-02-03 10:05 pm UTC (link)
My flatmate until last week was a viking from Norway called Thor.
< /random >

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