8.07.2009

Liberally Lean: The High School Years

I've been laughing at this ever since an ex-girlfriend sent me this pic this morning. It's your fearless leader at the Bridgeport City Pool when I was probably a Junior or a Senior in high school. Let the flogging begin. Edit: Greatest. Dogpile. Ever?

71 comments:

Anonymous said...

I will never "flog" someone for an old pic. I have no room to poke fun. However, I'm sure the Blitzkrieg is about to decend.

Is that the BBC barn in the background?

Anonymous said...

Hahahaha, the hair, the tucked-in wife beater, the socks...

hahahahahaha

soz said...

weren't you in Juno (movie, not the city)?

Anonymous said...

And, you have your feet positioned like a drill team member. What a dork.

Anonymous said...

Oh my god, you put the "short" in shorts. This is going to take a while to process.

Anonymous said...

A gold chain- at the pool?!

You kinda look like Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite.

Still hott. Very doable.

janneba said...

Man you have on way to many clothes

Anonymous said...

Cute Legs!

mzchief said...

Nice hair, great guns, silly socks and VERY strange bunching in frontal area of the short-shorts.
*;)

Anonymous said...

So you have been gay your whole life?

Anonymous said...

Why are you wearing Decatur socks?

Anonymous said...

Let the reader who does not have a similarly-embarrassing photo or two (or 50) cast the first stone. We've all been there...and some of us still are.

Nice gold necklace, by the way.

Anonymous said...

You and Brit are both standing funny. What's Up!

Anonymous said...

WE GAVE EM HELL, WE DROVE EM CRAZY WE'RE THE CLASS OF 1980.

Anonymous said...

Thank you Barry. This will serve as the primary reason I will tell my sons to not have a girlfriend until they are out of high school. Obviously it will come back to haunt them later in life.

Anonymous said...

Son of Bruno?

Anonymous said...

You're standing like an ostrich. Ididn't know human legs could be in that position.
No wonder she's an ex-girlfriend.

"Your grandmas in the hospital....she broke her coccyx"

Anonymous said...

Just think: Britney hadn't even been born yet.

Anonymous said...

you look taller.....

Anonymous said...

What was you nickname back then? I can't remember!!

Anonymous said...

I'd "Hit That" but then again I am a homo.

Anonymous said...

Never been married.....now this pose....now we know where the liberal thinking comes from.

Anonymous said...

Barry, you asked for this.

How are you taking the comments?

Need a Kleenex?

Or a Bud Light?

Anonymous said...

Showing off those whacking muscles for your boyfriend. Just like old times.

Anonymous said...

Well Barry I was looking for the picture of you but all I see is this girl. I didn't know you had a sister.

Anonymous said...

It takes balls to post a pic like that!

Anonymous said...

You are the Pete Best of the village people. The one that didn't make it.

Anonymous said...

Barry,

Once again you prove you have more balls than the "wannabes" who hurl the taunts.

Good job.

Wonder how many gold chains are in the top of dresser drawers?

And those socks...........how could that ever been cool?

Anonymous said...

BLESS YOUR HEART

Anonymous said...

You looked like that and you had a "girlfriend'? I dunno, sounds iffy.

Anonymous said...

Now I know who Reno 911 modeled their character after...Lt. Barry....how queer is that?

Anonymous said...

You're cute.

I really like that you were man-enough to post this picture...

Anonymous said...

Why? For the love of God, Why?

Anonymous said...

And you had to ask last week if meeting friends for lunch was gay?

Anonymous said...

If you look up "high school virgin" in the dictionary this is what pops up.

Anonymous said...

Are you sure you don't play Banjo?

Anonymous said...

I'm a little teapot short and stout, here is my handle hereis my spout

House of the R said...

Aaawwww...that it too cute! Now, I remember why us girls thought you were hot stuff back then.

Anonymous said...

Was alcohol involved ?

Kingfish said...

LO-LA lo lo lo LOLA!

Anonymous said...

I'd still do yah.

Anonymous said...

This picture has ruined my whole weekend.

chupacabra said...

You rawk dewd

Bigwillie02 said...

1) I think they still have that same water in that pool today.

2) what's in your left hand?

3) that's nott BBC that's the park pavillon.

4) where drugs or alcohol involved?

Anonymous said...

very very gay even for the 80's

Anonymous said...

Those that know Barry will tell you he certainly has been married. What we won't tell you is how many times.....

Anonymous said...

Believe me - an old woman who knew this Barry "boy" in those days. HE IS NOT GAY!....wild, yes, but NOT GAY....

He just seems to enjoy blog battering.

Why, is the question.

No wonder he can't sleep.

Anonymous said...

Uh oh.

I was censored. I must have hit a nerve.

Sorry bubear...nice Adidas's, the Nike's of the 70's and 80's.

Double Fake

Anonymous said...

In stead of "Spinal Tap"..."This Is PIGEYE".

Anonymous said...

One of my best friends in high school and my college roommate. He always had a girlfriend, you go Bruiser.

Anonymous said...

Pretty good upper body for a high-schooler. Nothing below the waist though.

Anonymous said...

How did the ballet scholarship at Baylor work out for you?

Anonymous said...

Awesome, I had some shorts and shoes just like that!

But I was also about 5 when my mom dressed me in them.

Anonymous said...

Seems like we hear you also played football????

Anonymous said...

Billy Elliot?

Anonymous said...

funny.
now i know where the term limp wristed came from.
what was this, the synchronized swimming team practice day?
i kidd, we all have these nightmare pics tucked away. :)

RPM said...

I couldn't afford Adidas, but I had a cool pair of Track Kings from Green's Dry Goods.

The building above Barr's massive paw is the old feed mill(now the City Barn).

Anonymous said...

Keys in his left hand. Getting ready to thump a girl with his right hand. (enlarge the pic, you'll see her top left corner)

Posting this picture is masochistic. But I see some people thought it was cute.

Do you still have girl legs?

Anonymous said...

A lot of the comments on here from men seem way too worried about what does or does not look gay, indicating a lack of confidence in their own masculinity.

Those of you that have no such problem, I applaud you.

I find the people who are consumed with the question of what does or does not look gay, well - just strange.

Anonymous said...

To all of you over a certain age (44?, 45?), if you don't have pictures just as laughable as Barry's, you must have avoided cameras in your youth.

Thanks for the time-traveling fun, BG.

Anonymous said...

Hee! This was taken when Barry was Bruiser. He was a sweet, conservative fellow who kept us on the straight and narrow. I miss this guy. It's hard to see the Barry in this pic in the liberal, I Hate The Police person he has become today.

Anonymous said...

Damn, you were really cute back in the day. I'm sure you're still kind of cute.
Love me some BG!

Anonymous said...

I could never associate myself with such forms of gaydom.

Anonymous said...

Sorry Sili...BG just knocked you off the top and is now THE MFing Blog Queen.

Anonymous said...

9:04 a.m. = Gay. Only gays notice when a thread has gay overtones. Hetero's are just poking fun at Barry.

Barry, although I said you were lacking below the waist in my original comment, you get the "Big Coconuts" award for posting such an embarassing picture of yourself. Makes me like you more even though you are a communist. (And yes, 9:04, I can like a guy without being gay).

Anonymous said...

9:19 - I'm 9:04 - Wrong call - I am a straight woman.

And a post such as yours, which is friendly, warm, and funny, is not the type of comment I was referring to.

If I fine-tuned what really annoys me - it's those posts that imply being gay is such a terrible thing. Those are the posts I wonder about. What are they so afraid of???? You are either gay or you're not. Nothing you wear or you say is going to change that. It's just who you are. And who cares anyway?

NOt counting the religious fundamentalists - I know what they are so afraid of - we'll just have to let them keep living in that world of hell, fire, brimstone, judgment and fear - there's nothing I could ever do to help those people have a nicer view of the world.

Again, 9:19, your comment was funny and obviously well-intended. Keep on keeping on.

Anonymous said...

Gay is just gross. Sticking things in where stuffs supposed to come out of- then put in the mouth of another guy and repeat.

Eeeew

Oh, this doesnt mean I think Barry is or was grosss or gay. I'd still do him.

Anonymous said...

BG, looks like that left leg is gonna snap at the knee. But you are buff.....at that age and now.....

Anonymous said...

You had that wrist thing going for you back then too.

Gracious One said...

Oh My Gosh, you are a brave one for posting that!

Anonymous said...

4:05

I'd rather not peak at other peoples sexual activities...gay or not .Thank you very much!!! It's called private and personal and nobody's business but their own!