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November 28, 2009 1:19 PM

Find the mod.
posted by lukemeister to MetaFilter-Related at 1:19 PM (63 comments total)

Is this some Classmates.com type ploy to get us to join MetaFilter?
posted by iamkimiam at 1:31 PM on November 28, 2009

I would guess Jessamyn, just to left of center, next to the yellow square with the flowers.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 1:32 PM on November 28, 2009

this is a little weird, don't you think?
posted by kuujjuarapik at 1:32 PM on November 28, 2009 [7 favorites]

2nd row, right in the center

it's disturbing to know that pod people are running this site
posted by pyramid termite at 1:32 PM on November 28, 2009 [3 favorites]

She married him?
posted by lukemeister at 1:32 PM on November 28, 2009 [10 favorites]

I wouldn't have posted it if [redacted mod] hadn't posted it first.
posted by lukemeister at 1:33 PM on November 28, 2009

The old lady in the top left is Meatbomb?
posted by The Straightener at 1:34 PM on November 28, 2009 [3 favorites]

cortex, in the study, with the candlestick.
posted by box at 1:36 PM on November 28, 2009 [1 favorite]

I don't know who the mod is, but this picture just reinforces my belief that kids and the 70s are both awesome.
posted by Solon and Thanks at 1:40 PM on November 28, 2009 [5 favorites]

third over from top left.
posted by lester's sock puppet at 1:41 PM on November 28, 2009

My guess is that it's a mod who's having a fun-holiday hangover right now. And it might have just tipped into 5-star territory.
posted by iamkimiam at 1:42 PM on November 28, 2009

I would guess Jessamyn on the far right side, third down from the top. Unless that's a boy.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 1:43 PM on November 28, 2009 [2 favorites]

Bottom left, cortex.
posted by stavrogin at 1:43 PM on November 28, 2009

Far right column, second row.
posted by kylej at 1:44 PM on November 28, 2009 [3 favorites]

(I kind of cheated though)
posted by kylej at 1:45 PM on November 28, 2009

2nd row to the far right has a face and a smile that looks like Jessamyn's. The fact that it's from MA and not the west coast makes me think it must be her that I'm supposed to look for.
posted by matildaben at 1:46 PM on November 28, 2009 [1 favorite]

Also voting for cortex, bottom left.
posted by fixedgear at 1:46 PM on November 28, 2009

Jessamyn, middle of the third row?
posted by scody at 1:48 PM on November 28, 2009

Trick question. These are all Mathowie.
posted by trip and a half at 1:49 PM on November 28, 2009 [8 favorites]

Jessamyn, far right, second row down.

What do I win?
posted by Sys Rq at 1:50 PM on November 28, 2009 [1 favorite]

(The contest is only open to adults, right?)
posted by Sys Rq at 1:51 PM on November 28, 2009

I love the kid in the red shirt and tie. What great eyes. I can only imagine the comments these kids would make. Heh.
posted by effluvia at 1:53 PM on November 28, 2009

jessamyn started out on the far right?
posted by lukemeister at 1:54 PM on November 28, 2009

(The contest is only open to adults, right?)

Not cool, Sys Rq.
posted by kylej at 1:54 PM on November 28, 2009 [1 favorite]

Don't worry, it's probably closed to Canadians too FROWNYFACE
posted by Sys Rq at 1:55 PM on November 28, 2009 [1 favorite]

Those of you guessing cortex... Um, hate to break it to you but his profile says he's 30 and the picture says kindergarten class of 73-74.

Also it would be wise to remember that jessamyn's dad was one of the characters in The Soul of a New Machine which was set in Westborough, MA in the late 70s which is about 30 mins from Boxborough according to google maps.
posted by Rhomboid at 1:56 PM on November 28, 2009 [1 favorite]

cortex is so smart ... because he went to kindergarten before he was born.
posted by lukemeister at 2:09 PM on November 28, 2009 [8 favorites]

Never mess with a man with a WABAC machine.
posted by stavrogin at 2:10 PM on November 28, 2009 [2 favorites]

No, he broke down one of the machines and took it with him inside the failsafe, then set that one up as the new fake failsafe. This also explains why his handwriting is so unreadable.
posted by Rhomboid at 2:13 PM on November 28, 2009 [6 favorites]

jessamyn, far right, second from top.
posted by snsranch at 2:21 PM on November 28, 2009

we have a winner.
posted by gman at 2:24 PM on November 28, 2009

I also say Jessamyn, middle of the third row. Nice pic!
posted by gemmy at 2:24 PM on November 28, 2009

What's up with that kid in the middle? Some sort of sentient venus flytrap?
posted by dirtdirt at 2:38 PM on November 28, 2009

Meatbomb fifth row astral plane.
posted by Sailormom at 2:49 PM on November 28, 2009

Oh hey, that's me! Someone else I went to all of elementary school with just put up all seven years of our elementary school. I was surprised how many people's names I remembered [a few who weren't remembered by anyone else]. Of those kids, one commited suicide, one is the niece of Big Bird [and I saw her dad walking the dog when I was home for Thanksgiving this week] and a few are still people I'm in touch with via facebook. I think fifteen of those kids and I went all the way from kindergarten through high school together, sort of a small town thing I guess.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 2:55 PM on November 28, 2009 [2 favorites]

Colourful bunch.
posted by gman at 2:58 PM on November 28, 2009

As long as we're going for teh cute today, mathowie posted this picture of his daughter yesterday.
posted by lukemeister at 3:27 PM on November 28, 2009

yeah, I follow the Twitter so I had the bonus super clues . . . loved the clue she gave . . .
posted by geekyguy at 4:23 PM on November 28, 2009

Also it would be wise to remember that jessamyn's dad was one of the characters in The Soul of a New Machine which was set in Westborough, MA in the late 70s which is about 30 mins from Boxborough according to google maps.

I have to remember to stop forgetting things I never knew.
posted by milarepa at 4:44 PM on November 28, 2009

naked moderator
posted by popechunk at 4:50 PM on November 28, 2009 [13 favorites]

Trick question, the mod is between the lines, keep everything from going to hell.
posted by The Whelk at 4:59 PM on November 28, 2009

OMG kid with bowtie, Row 1, Column 3. So so so cute!

But now my illusions are shattered! I thought this was the true baby_jessamyn!
posted by not_on_display at 5:05 PM on November 28, 2009

Find the nerd.
posted by cortex (staff) at 5:27 PM on November 28, 2009 [1 favorite]

I'll play.
posted by MrMoonPie at 5:42 PM on November 28, 2009

>naked moderator
posted by popechunk at 6:50 PM on November 28 [1 favorite has favorites +] [!]

not clicking that link until you tell me which moderator. i don't want to see all of them naked.
posted by lester's sock puppet at 6:11 PM on November 28, 2009

You know cortex is smart, because the high school he went to had an awesome ID card design.
posted by Monday, stony Monday at 6:39 PM on November 28, 2009 [1 favorite]

I was completely fooled by the long-haired girls near the flower, figuring that long hair now = long hair then. (See also: cortex). What adorable pictures, though.

(But I'm not sure how I'd react if everyone could see what I looked like as a little girl.)
posted by maudlin at 6:48 PM on November 28, 2009

i cant decide which is more fucking badass that shirt or your buddies hat.

combine the two and youre basically the coolest person on the planet
posted by Potomac Avenue at 7:03 PM on November 28, 2009

This is exactly why, right before leaving home FROEVER OMG, I found all my old photographs and threw them onto the tracks at the New Brunswick Train station.

The only old photograph that exists extant is here

Current photo here
posted by The Whelk at 7:34 PM on November 28, 2009

The Whelk,

Is there a difference we're supposed to be seeing?
posted by lukemeister at 7:38 PM on November 28, 2009

Ooh, can I play too? I have been waiting for this to be appropriate somehow somewhere, if you want to play along email me a paragraph and I will pop it in. (use your mouse, it works here)
posted by Meatbomb at 7:49 PM on November 28, 2009 [1 favorite]

I guessed you, Meatbomb.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:54 PM on November 28, 2009

Is there a difference we're supposed to be seeing?



The plan is working.
posted by The Whelk at 8:11 PM on November 28, 2009 [1 favorite]

My cousin once asked me if the boy in some old picture was me.

And I wasn't sure.

Apparently I have no self-awareness.
posted by dirigibleman at 8:11 PM on November 28, 2009

So, did you cut your own hair?
posted by lysdexic at 8:42 PM on November 28, 2009

2009
2005
posted by The White Hat at 11:07 PM on November 28, 2009

bit stalkish
posted by mattoxic at 11:28 PM on November 28, 2009

aggle aggle aggle
posted by not_on_display at 11:53 PM on November 28, 2009

go tigers!
posted by little e at 6:38 AM on November 29, 2009

My toddler self didn't fuck around.
posted by decagon at 2:49 PM on November 29, 2009 [1 favorite]

decagon, that pic is effing epic. Me wants to chop it and 'shop it. I won't, of course, because that's creepy. But I want to.
posted by TomMelee at 6:22 PM on November 29, 2009

little e, for a second there I thought you had blue peg legs.
posted by Daddy-O at 10:33 PM on November 29, 2009

nope just fancy socks
also I still not only own but wear that shirt
this is better actually
a more glamorous moment, '93 or '94
posted by little e at 5:37 AM on November 30, 2009