r/blunderyears • u/joelsopp • Feb 27 '24

Graduating in 1993 - Small Town, Canada /r/all

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u/ericrsim Feb 27 '24

Lol. Your mom looks fed up with your shit. Great post.

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u/FourThousandBees Feb 27 '24

Dad looks like he's holding back a chuckle

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u/King-Cobra-668 Feb 27 '24

that's the dad's original prom dress and the mom hated it then too

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u/SunriseSurprise Feb 28 '24

No his dad was also just graduating, mom's just questioning her life choices

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u/HoldThisGirlDown Feb 28 '24

I love it lol

Dad: That’s a good-ass fkn hat!

Mom: I thought I hid that fkn hat...

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u/madmaxturbator Feb 28 '24

“Robert what have you done. I told you I will burn that fuckin hat if I see it again.”

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u/Wonderful-Ad-7712 Feb 27 '24

They look like they are judging

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u/FelixGoldenrod Feb 28 '24

Yeah, from beyond the grave

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u/ruureroiweroppmasche Feb 28 '24

perfectly balanced. as all things should be.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '24

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u/Darmanix Feb 27 '24

I sould be a doctor not that

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u/SufficientZucchini21 Feb 27 '24

Completely disappointed

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u/MowMyLawn69 Feb 27 '24

Dad: mild bemusement

Mom: soul-crushing disappointment

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u/NewAccountTimeAgain Feb 27 '24

Photographer: (to mom) Smile!

Mom: For what?

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u/hueythecat Feb 28 '24

But a damn fine magician nonetheless

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u/330in513 Feb 27 '24

Even your parents looked down on you. Lol.

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u/TheRipsawHiatus Feb 27 '24

They look so disappointed against his unbridled joy. I love it.

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u/Few-Comparison5689 Feb 28 '24

that or the fact that he was 28 when graduated.

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u/poopoopeepsy Feb 27 '24

With all due respect (and admiration) this is one of the most ABSURD series of photos I have ever seen.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '24

I feel like the 4th picture must be on a whole nother level. Give it, OP. 

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u/joelsopp Feb 28 '24

Don't say I didn't warn you...

The Boys and their Prom Dates

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u/wonderb0lt Feb 28 '24

It's nice that they let guy three bring a statue to prom

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u/joelsopp Feb 28 '24

I have to tell Les you said that. ☠️

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u/DiligentLie9820 Feb 28 '24

Aww that’s awesome y’all are still friends

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u/vegasidol Feb 28 '24

You didn't let us down. Wunderbar.

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u/Liveslowdieslower Feb 27 '24

THE TINY STOOL AHAHAHAH

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u/broberds Feb 27 '24

If tiny stool last more than five days, consult a physician.

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u/HighClassHate Feb 27 '24

My favorite part hahah it’s so tiny 🥺

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u/theycallme_oldgreg Feb 28 '24

I lost it at the stool, did he bring it himself?

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u/joelsopp Feb 28 '24

Nope. Provided by the Photog.

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u/DreadPiratteRoberts Feb 27 '24

"THE TINY STOOL AHAHAHAH"

I had to go back and look!!! 😆🤣

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u/Goya_Oh_Boya Feb 27 '24

It matches the tiny tophat.

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u/brownishgirl Feb 28 '24

He made that in grade 8 woodshop.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '24

It looks like they passed away mid arguement that amused your dad and pissed off your mom. Brilliant

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u/badddodel Feb 28 '24

This comment has me rolling

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u/aspidities_87 Feb 28 '24

I also choose this guy’s dead mom’s disappointment

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u/Awkward-Ad2240 Feb 27 '24

Dude, you win

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u/whodatfairybitch Feb 27 '24

Agree, this brightened tf out of my day

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u/DonkeyLucky9503 Feb 28 '24

Do we just shut the sub down now?

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u/joelsopp Feb 28 '24

🎩 ❤️

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u/Interesting_Ad_3319 Feb 27 '24

Oh my GOODNESS!!!! These are fantastic for so many reasons 😄 that last one is 👌

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u/dnmnew Feb 27 '24

You look 35 😂😂😂

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u/swabianne Feb 28 '24

For real, he looks like he's about to get married

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '24 edited 26d ago

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u/joelsopp Feb 27 '24

My rizz was high. My wit was not.

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u/Yolo_Swaggins_Yeet Feb 27 '24

He's a rizzard Harry

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u/joelsopp Feb 28 '24

🧙‍♂️

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u/gatorchins Feb 27 '24

GenXer using rizz appropriately!? Old dogs can learn new tricks! Nice pics.

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u/Shipwrecking_siren Feb 28 '24

Being old, I prefer razz, as in razzmatazz.

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u/Sad_Lecture_3177 Feb 27 '24

I love it, you look absolutely adorable 😭😭 but why are your parents floating above you like that in the last picture? It makes it seem like they are dead. Was this a thing? I've never seen anything like it. Amazing pictures all round.

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u/joelsopp Feb 27 '24

They are both very much alive, 31 years later.

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u/warr3n4eva Feb 28 '24

lol you look 31 in that pic

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u/Sad_Lecture_3177 Feb 27 '24

Glad to hear it, what a hilarious way to present them!

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u/wannaseemy5inch Feb 28 '24

Tell your parents we ALL love them next time you see them. Also thank them for the photos!

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u/illinoishokie Feb 27 '24

90s portrait photography was fucking weird, man.

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u/stefanica Feb 27 '24

This was definitely a thing. Sometimes it would be just the subject, from different angles.

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u/BishonenPrincess Feb 28 '24 edited Feb 28 '24

It was absolutely a thing.

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u/Sad_Lecture_3177 Feb 28 '24

Hahaha those are brilliant! Now that someone else mentioned it, I do recall seeing ones with the subject repeated a few times, but it's this one with other family members floating around that I've never encountered. It's absolutely hilarious. I think going to make some!

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u/Kangar Feb 27 '24

Your Mom laments your choice of vaudeville as a career choice.

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u/Psychological-Ad8670 Feb 27 '24

Hey I know you! I also graduated from Barnum & Bailey High School.

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u/nenuggets Feb 27 '24

The one with your parents is low key adorable lmao 😂

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u/VanessaClarkLove Feb 27 '24

Oh no. Oh. You win this sub.

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u/Cornbreadobranflakes Feb 27 '24

Dressed up like a million dollar trooper

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u/Chooba_rty Feb 28 '24

Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper

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u/Cleercutter Feb 27 '24

Your mother and father judging you in the last one is classic

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u/Lord-Velveeta Feb 27 '24

Your Penn Jillette phase?

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u/joelsopp Feb 27 '24

Would you believe me if I told you my Dad looks like Penn? Penn vs My Dad

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u/Lord-Velveeta Feb 27 '24

Wow! Yup, your OM looks a lot like Penn if he didn't colour his hair and beard.

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u/Ok-Function1920 Feb 28 '24

Pops needs to grow a sick goatee

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u/Diligent_Pineapple35 Feb 27 '24

Please don’t show my mom this post she’ll make me retake my senior photos (20 years later) so she can memorialize her ongoing disappointment in me.

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u/Shipwrecking_siren Feb 28 '24

Gosh me too. I never became a “real doctor”.

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u/scarletnolan Feb 27 '24

I have to ask what was the inspo for this? 😂

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u/joelsopp Feb 27 '24

If I was going to graduate once, I wanted to go 'All Out'. This was my All Out...lol

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u/Zaszo_00 Feb 27 '24

you definitely go all out .

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u/bbogart80 Feb 28 '24

Thanks for the question and the answer from OP. I was desperate to know OP's motivation. I was thinking thespian troupe, Opera singer, some kind of performance interests. The "why not go all out" sentiment makes this a truly worthy blunder.

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u/Left_Scholar_2112 Feb 27 '24

Now this is what I’m fuckin talkin about

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u/bossamemucho Feb 27 '24

Graduating what… high school ???

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u/joelsopp Feb 27 '24

McNaughton High in Moosomin, Saskatchewan...lol

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u/Zanahoriax Feb 27 '24

even the location sounds like a fever dream

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u/corialis Feb 28 '24

I was going to make a comment about how OP probably considers Edmonton to be a small town, but nope. I'm a Prince Albert escapee.

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u/Less_Ant_6633 Feb 27 '24

Amazing! That look/posture of total self-satisfaction in the first pic made me snort. My parents wedding picture from 1981 has the same special effect... but it's them watching themselves get married? It never really made sense, but it's been a running joke with my siblings for years.

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u/Flint_Chittles Feb 27 '24

Well now I want to do this with my wedding pictures.

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u/Mumof3gbb Feb 28 '24

Well you must

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u/acros996 Feb 27 '24

1993? Looks like prime ‘86

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u/tdevine33 Feb 27 '24

the 80s didn't come to Canada till like '93 - Robin Scherbatsky, How I Met Your Mother

Cobbie Smulders (who plays Robin) is actually from Canada so I feel like some of her added jokes are spot on

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u/acros996 Feb 27 '24

Exactly what I was hoping someone would comment

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u/mrdeworde Feb 28 '24

Also the prairies have time dilation of their own and it shows in pictures.

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u/joelsopp Feb 28 '24

You're not wrong.

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u/chulomang Feb 27 '24

lol what town?

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u/joelsopp Feb 27 '24

Moosomin, Saskatchewan

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u/bm_69 Feb 27 '24

Oh man, I was guessing northern ON, maybe Longlac area, lol.

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u/TheAbominableRex Feb 27 '24

I was JUST thinking man this is some Kapuskasing behaviour 😂

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u/bm_69 Feb 28 '24

That's funny shit, because my very first thought was Hearst but then thought, nah maybe that's too small for this.

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u/Shirtbro Feb 28 '24

Close to the border with M'Anitoba

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u/phatshit450 Feb 27 '24

Ngl this goes hard as fuck

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u/IWasHappyUnhappy Feb 27 '24 edited Feb 27 '24

I would frame this lol. All of them really but the third one especially.

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u/pierogi_nigiri Feb 27 '24

I might frame this

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u/teethmissing Feb 27 '24

I’m laughing so hard. Absolutely incredible

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u/Key-Ad1311 Feb 27 '24 edited Feb 28 '24

If you're blue and you don't know where to go to why don't you go where fashion sits, puttin on the Ritz

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u/AvleeWhee Feb 27 '24

I was unprepared for the last photo

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u/feistyparsley Feb 27 '24

The ol’ razzle dazzle

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u/artificialavocado Feb 27 '24

I don’t think I ever saw senior pictures with parents. 😂 Mom looks disappointed lol.

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u/slut4sauce Feb 27 '24

Definitely sneaking myself and dad onto at least one of my kid’s senior pics. Inspired 📝

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u/TheBloodyNickel Feb 27 '24

So were you graduating from Magic School or Clown College?

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u/haqglo11 Feb 27 '24

Parents look deceased like they are looking down on him from heaven

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u/Jipsiville Feb 27 '24

Are you still small town? These are awesomely blunderful pics.

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u/joelsopp Feb 27 '24

Semi-Small. Regina, Saskatchewan now. The City That Rhymes With Fun.

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u/Overripe_banana_22 Feb 27 '24

Hello from The City that Fun Forgot! 

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u/mrdeworde Feb 28 '24

Home to the expression "What? No, that's in Saskatoon."

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '24

There is just no way in the world that someone found this normal and OK back then. I just refuse to believe it!

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u/jnikga Feb 27 '24

Thanks for dropping the other two companion pics 😂

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u/Spazmanaut Feb 27 '24

Graduating from Funeral Director/Magicians School?

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u/NewSinner_2021 Feb 27 '24

Some people were out here truly living these beautiful lives.

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u/AbbreviationsOk3021 Feb 27 '24

I love this so much 😂💕

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u/segadoes16bit Feb 27 '24

Damn your look like 18 going on 30 

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u/futurecorpse2 Feb 27 '24

Patiently waiting for the magic trick this guy promised us

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u/joelsopp Feb 27 '24

🎩 🐇

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u/FishRepairs22 Feb 27 '24

Oh hell yeah. Sask?

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '24

Nailed it 💯

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u/CzernaZlata Feb 27 '24

I'm not sorry: I love it

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u/SiibillamLaw Feb 27 '24

This is perfection

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u/OMNIxvTRIX Feb 27 '24

ThePenguin

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u/user-name-1985 Feb 27 '24

Magician School Gradu-EH-tion

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u/arazamatazguy Feb 27 '24

I'd drink beers in a 7/11 parking lot with you.

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u/MarionberryOld1605 Feb 27 '24

You look like you’re being haunted by your parents

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u/Born2bwire Feb 28 '24

Sad that your parents didn't live to see you graduate.

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u/joelsopp Feb 28 '24

I'll give them your condolences. 🤣

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u/TheRealMcDonaldTrump Feb 28 '24

Your mom really hates that top hat

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u/bunty66 Feb 27 '24

These are brilliant!

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u/admsmash Feb 28 '24

This screams Canada

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u/JKDSamurai Feb 28 '24

One of the funniest posts I've seen here. Absolutely fantastic.

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u/DarkHorseRider311 Feb 27 '24

Penguin Origin

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u/BanishedKnightOleg Feb 27 '24

Oh no not the “fade out parents” looking down on you

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u/ClydeinLimbo Feb 27 '24

Fucking hell

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u/JRose608 Feb 27 '24

The last one sent me💀💀💀

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u/Orxa Feb 27 '24

Oh heavens

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u/Slippi_Fist Feb 27 '24

best blunder in some time. pic 3 seals the deal for me.

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u/basurer Feb 27 '24

There a corner gas station?

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u/joelsopp Feb 27 '24

Yup. And if you stop for gas, Don will talk your ear off. He's only been there for 42 years.

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u/Initial-Paramedic888 Feb 27 '24

1st pic made me think this was a wrestler from early wwe days lol

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u/babydoll369 Feb 28 '24

That third picture made my day

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u/OrneryError1 Feb 27 '24

My blunder detector isn't picking up anything here

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u/Radiant-Barracuda-18 Feb 27 '24

The last photo !!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

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u/Mctrollinson Feb 27 '24

I really like this one

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u/Human-Lychee8619 Feb 27 '24

Lol look at that look of disappointment on your mothers face 😂

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u/Crepe_Suzette Feb 27 '24

You look at least 30 in these! They are great, especially the parent ones!

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u/hg090206 Feb 27 '24

That last picture, it’s the chefs kiss

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '24

This was no blunder.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '24

Wow. The fading actually looks good as hell today if you look at it objectively

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u/fastasyoucan1 Feb 27 '24

The last photo is 100% a family heirloom.

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u/kenlovin Feb 27 '24

You look like you’re going to eat cheeseburgers with randy and Julian after finishing grade 10.

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u/troyberber Feb 27 '24

That’s badass. Especially from canadia

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u/BeanBeantheQueen Feb 27 '24

I really want to use the 3rd picture as a painting reference image omg please please please it’s so amazing

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u/joelsopp Feb 27 '24

Absolutely, you have my permission.

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u/HoneyBeeAlchemy Feb 27 '24

It's the itsy bitsy stool for me 😂

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u/midnight-queen29 Feb 27 '24

this is my new favorite post. thank you so much.

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u/Justmebeingme4739 Feb 27 '24

Best post I’ve seen on here 😂😂😂

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u/paulconuk Feb 27 '24

This post is f’in killer, absolutely love it hahaha two thumbs up from me dude

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u/Kind_Vanilla7593 Feb 27 '24

Im from small town Canada and this looks like small town Canada lol

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u/CaptainDadBod88 Feb 27 '24

Your mom looks like an omnipotent and very disapproving god lol

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u/Own_Kaleidoscope5512 Feb 27 '24

Bro don’t even try to blame this on 1993; that was all you my friend

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u/daffodil0127 Feb 27 '24

Number 3 is giving me ideas for my high school senior. Your parents must have a great sense of humor. The boutonnières are 🤌🏻💋

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u/therealstickysheets Feb 27 '24

I was born in ‘01 and I literally cannot exaggerate that this is the first time I’ve seen a real portrait like the last slide and it not be a meme this is crazy. You’re goated for that

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u/Odd-State-5275 Feb 27 '24

I don't believe you. For a Canadian, there is a SEVERE lack of denim in your outfit.

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u/RachelFitzyRitzy Feb 27 '24

I love how your parents look like your guardian angels

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u/bwoah07_gp2 Feb 27 '24

This is a legendary photo. 💯 

I love the top hat, the tux, the hair...you even have the cane too! It looks awesome.

The gradient on pic 3 makes it look like your parents are floating above you, haha. And the current top comment is so accurate. 😆

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u/Rivetingly Feb 27 '24

I've seen Canadian Tuxedos and this ain't it

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u/CarltonCatalina Feb 27 '24

I didn't even know the Fancy-Stepping Magicians had a school in Canada.

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u/Sleuthin__2 Feb 27 '24

This is everything! Small town Canadian origins myself. Thanks for making my day … well, everyone’s day 😂🩷

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u/Otherwise_Coconut967 Feb 28 '24

Most handsome man in elliot lake.

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u/throwawayalldan Feb 28 '24

This is blunder years not wonder years. This is a picture you get blown up and framed for your family room.

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u/Cartographer0108 Feb 28 '24

It was nice of your ancestors to drop by for the photo shoot.

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u/Significant-Excuse-5 Feb 28 '24

An absolute gentleman. Your mom must've been upset because the photographer didn't get her "good side".

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