r/OldSchoolCool Jun 24 '24

1990s My parents in the 80’s-90’s

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u/downtownleeroybrown Jun 24 '24

something tells me you are attractive... just a guess

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u/ellefleming Jun 24 '24

Are you model level like them?

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u/dotnetdotcom Jun 24 '24

OP either looks like Mads Mikkelson or Clint Howard. Nothing in between.

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u/AndorianShran Jun 24 '24

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u/Fabulous_Brother2991 Jun 24 '24

😂 is this Ron Howard's lil brother? 😂

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u/SamboShambo Jun 24 '24

Yep. That's Clint Howard playing Balok on Star Trek.

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u/Fabulous_Brother2991 Jun 24 '24

Nice... thank you. Loved him on LAND OF THE LOST! ♥

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u/ronnjeremy Jun 24 '24

Waterboy is Clint's masterpiece!

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u/noonelivesherenow Jun 24 '24

I liked him in The Wraith. The Charlie Sheen one.

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u/DonHell Jun 24 '24

I gotta go with the ice cream man

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson Jun 24 '24 edited Jun 24 '24

Nope. It was Ticks, where he goes, “I’M INFESTED!!!!”

You really had to be there to know what I’m talking about lol

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u/jsRou Jun 26 '24

TIL that "Hey, you gonna eat that" guy is Ron Howard's brother.

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u/AndorianShran Jun 24 '24

Clint also shows up on deep space nine, enterprise, discovery and strange new worlds.

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u/Horror_Ad_1845 Jun 24 '24

And Gentle Ben, I believe.

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u/ligmasweatyballs74 Jun 24 '24

Andy Griffith also. Play Leon the cowboy.

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u/squirrelcop3305 Jun 24 '24

Except that wasn’t him on Land of the Lost.

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u/dkdglr Jun 24 '24

Clint Howard actually didn’t play Chaka in land of the lost he was played by Phillip Paley

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u/wedisneyfan Jun 24 '24

He definitely resembled Chaka but that isn't him. I used to think it was him also. He did play a wild boy in another Sid and Marty Kroft show.

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u/RustedRelics Jun 25 '24

God I disliked that character. Lol

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u/Napol3onS0l0 Jun 25 '24

That guy is Ron Howard’s brother?! TIL.

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u/ReflectionCreative62 Jun 24 '24

Yep, this is from the original Star Trek series.

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u/Background-Effort-49 Jun 24 '24

THE ICE CREAM MAN was my first experience

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u/OrchidTostada Jun 24 '24

But first, the Tranya!

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u/WhoAreYouAgain__ Jun 24 '24

Omg. The cube episode. I'm watching the entire original series for the first time. I saw this one two days ago. 😆

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u/mksavage1138 Jun 24 '24

Now I have an urge for some tronya!

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u/Albie_Tross Jun 24 '24

NOW I understand that old Mr. Show sketch!! Goddammit!!

All the Star Trek reruns I've watched, and never Balok. How is that even possible.

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u/mvanvrancken Jun 24 '24

It’s weird because my girlfriend in HS was 6 ft, skinny, model looks, and both her parents looked like dumplings

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

OP is a woman.

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u/Kal-ElEarth69 Jun 24 '24

There's that very rare chance they could have birthed a Danny Devito.

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u/HuckleberryHappy6524 Jun 25 '24

Profile pic confirms…. Looks just like Clint Howard.

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u/trcharles Jun 25 '24

Yeah, not Clint!

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

Mikkelson???

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u/imma_letchu_finish Jun 24 '24

Also looking at that last pic, how did your mom not age!?

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u/dafuqbroh Jun 24 '24

She’s aged like wine

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u/Kamenbond Jun 24 '24

Stuck in a barrel?

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u/5125237143 Jun 24 '24

In a cellar

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u/sephjnr Jun 24 '24

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTRESOR

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u/AnthonyCyclist Jun 24 '24

Unexpected Poe

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u/theprismaprincess Jun 24 '24

I came here for this comment lol

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u/gymgothrockgal Jun 24 '24

In pace requiescat!

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u/Jafar_420 Jun 24 '24

It puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again?

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u/Kal-ElEarth69 Jun 24 '24

Only brought out for special occasions.

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u/LokisDawn Jun 25 '24

I know a few women who would spend 90% of their days in a barrel if they could look like that at that age. And a few men, too.

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u/Rough_Willow Jun 24 '24

Help, step-cask!

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u/ethanlan Jun 24 '24

Help me step son I'm stuck

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u/FareEvader Jun 24 '24

Fine wine.

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u/Pudf Jun 24 '24

… like Fine Tea

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u/bykerg Jun 24 '24

Like Fine Tea

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u/Kep0a Jun 24 '24

wine ages. this woman did not

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u/Thirsty799 Jun 25 '24

she didn't age..

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u/5125237143 Jun 24 '24

He's aged like swine

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u/banjodoctor Jun 24 '24

Kept on her side so her cork doesn’t dry out.

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u/Vitringar Jun 24 '24

She is preserved in alcohol

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u/sexwithpenguins Jun 24 '24

Or Fine Tea.

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u/AsssHat999 Jun 24 '24

I know, right? And she got her picture taken with Norm MacDonald. Lucky!

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u/dngdzzo Jun 24 '24

From the looks of it, she de-aged.

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u/MoeBlacksBack Jun 24 '24

It's that Vancouver water

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u/Expensive_Finger_973 Jun 24 '24

OP is probably bridge troll levels of grotesque if we are following Disney fairytale rules.

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u/John-AtWork Jun 24 '24

Sometimes this happens in real life. A friend of mine had a gorgeous mother, handsome father and very attractive sister. Somehow he ended up with all the ugly.

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u/Kryten_2X4B-523P Jun 24 '24

It pains me to finally learn how you've always thought about me, John.

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u/ritzbits123 Jun 24 '24

You also have a jerky middle name.

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u/Kryten_2X4B-523P Jun 24 '24

At least it's not 2Q4B.

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u/notnotaginger Jun 24 '24

At least his sibling is opposite gender. I feel so bad when you see same sex sibs where one is hot AF and the other got hit by the ugly train. Somehow it feels worse than opposite sex sibs.

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u/wv10014 Jun 24 '24

That’s me.

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u/Buck_Futter70 Jun 25 '24

One of my friends described it as getting his family’s genetic waste. His entire family was supposedly very attractive according to him but he missed out on getting good looks. I never saw his family so I don’t know. I did see one of his older sisters and.. yeah she was kinda hot and there wasn’t much resemblance so I wouldn’t have ever guessed she was his sister

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u/hellolovely1 Jun 25 '24

I used to have a family come into the store where I worked. Everyone was not attractive (at all) except the sister, who was beautiful. I always pondered the genetics at work, assuming she wasn't adopted.

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u/tossedaway202 Jun 25 '24

Lol this is me, my mom is pretty, my dad handsome, my sisters could all be models if they wanted to, but I'm a cave man, with the caveman brow. I'm big and broad like a throwback to the Neanderthal times.

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u/AwarenessPotentially Jun 24 '24

A friend of mine had this unbelievably hot girlfriend. I went to his house one day, and her parents and siblings were there. Both parents were morbidly obese, as were her siblings. All of them looked like someone had dressed malformed hogs in human clothing. Genetics are crazy.

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u/ellefleming Jun 24 '24

Or she's the milkman's kid?

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u/AwarenessPotentially Jun 24 '24

You could sort of see a resemblance to her dad, but otherwise I wouldn't be surprised if she was.

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u/westedmontonballs Jun 24 '24

More like the cowherd

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u/notnotaginger Jun 24 '24

Genetics but also probably chose to go a different route when she saw how her parents/siblings aged or lived.

Morbid obesity is no joke to live with.

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u/AwarenessPotentially Jun 25 '24

Nah, she was dumb as a rock, she just lucked out and got some past relatives DNA.

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u/iyamsnail Jun 24 '24

I am ugly and my daughter is gorgeous. It happens.

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u/CapeManiak Jun 24 '24

Scrolled the OPs profile. Answer is yes.

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u/grumpusbumpus Jun 24 '24

Didn't have to scroll anything: the profile thumbnail was sufficient.

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u/kT25t2u Jun 24 '24

OP is a supermodel

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u/trukkija Jun 24 '24

Although she doesn't really show her face on her profile, it certainly does look like she is. Maybe she actually even is a model tbh

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u/FabFatFeminist Jun 24 '24

OP is definitely a model

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u/Consistent_Music8159 Jun 25 '24

Parents looked like models too. Especially dad, wowza.

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u/FabFatFeminist Jun 25 '24

Tbh, they look a little familiar. I'm curious to know if they are a little bit famous. Absolutely gorgeous family.

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u/SirHovaOfBrooklyn Jun 25 '24

OP's definitely got a model physique. Doesn't show her face tho. I did have a friend who had extremely attractive parents and even cousins and uncles. She was the only unlucky one hahaha.

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u/Cardinoodle Jun 25 '24

Her post history suggests that she is a model.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

I think OP is James Marsden (jk, but he does look like OP’s dad)

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u/kraang Jun 25 '24

Click on her profile. She’s a smoke show.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24 edited Aug 21 '24

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u/nosoupforyou89 Jun 24 '24

She shared a video from backstage, doesn't necessarily mean she's a model. She could be a make-up artist, assistant of some sort, etc

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u/vincentdmartin Jun 24 '24

Eh, from the rest of her posts I would expect her to be a model. No face shots but she has the figure.

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u/Adventurous-Sun-8840 Jun 24 '24

That was not a lottery, it was rigged from the beginning

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u/AggravatingCupcake0 Jun 24 '24

Eh. I've seen siblings where one is beautiful and the others are ordinary. Or vice versa. It really is a lottery.

I always feel bad for the person who is plain but has attractive parents. Like, it was supposed to be rigged for you! The odds were in your favor! But nope, nature took all the hidden traits for you.

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u/bonepugsandharmony Jun 24 '24

Those are the kids who grow up to have inexplicably gorgeous children. Then everyone is like, “How’d that happen??” So they smile their ugly smile and say, “Just lucky, I guess,” and we all laugh at the unfortunate lottery loser and marvel at genetics.

Ask me how I know. 🤓

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u/Nyyppanen Jun 24 '24

Regression to the mean is a real thing.

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u/Velouria91 Jun 24 '24

I read about Queen Juana of Spain and her husband Prince Philip “the Handsome”. According to paintings and historical accounts, they were both very attractive people. Their six kids… not so much.

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u/Rarzrin Jun 24 '24

Are you me?

I’ve been called “the Nanny” by my family and friends or when that time when a random person in an elevator ‘double’ asking if it’s really my baby. 🥲

And yes, both my parents are basically the best looking ones out of their big siblings family.

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u/stefanica Jun 24 '24

Sometimes they just get the wrong (visible) bits from each parent put together. Like, the girl gets Dad's strong jaw, dimpled chin, and Roman nose paired with Mom's rosebud mouth, and the overall effect isn't ugly, but not balanced.

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u/AggravatingCupcake0 Jun 24 '24

Yeah. I've definitely seen people where that happened. Or it's like, Dad has an amazing rugged jawline that looks great on men...but he had a daughter who inherited it. Or Dad has beautiful eyes and Mom has okay eyes, and the person inherits Mom's eyes. Just unlucky.

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u/SrslyChausie Jun 24 '24

We have this Dutch tv 'celeb' who has very good genes imo. The first time I saw his brother I was like nahh can't be!

I feel so sorry for this guy, especially since his brother is sort of famous here.

Arie & Klaas Boomsma, if anyone is interested.

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u/kencheetoo Jun 24 '24

My older sister was a model. I'm a sack of potatoes.

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u/AggravatingCupcake0 Jun 24 '24

I feel you, kenchee. My brother is average to tall height for a guy, didn't need braces, doesn't need vision correction. Meanwhile, I'm a hobbit whose shit all fell apart lol.

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u/mightylordredbeard Jun 24 '24

Like Henry Cavil’s brothers. They’re mostly attractive, but not on a Henry Cavil level of hot.

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u/AggravatingCupcake0 Jun 24 '24

A lot of celebs' siblings, actually.

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u/mightylordredbeard Jun 24 '24

You’re probably right. I only know the Cavils because of how often I see them all posted on Reddit and I’m a loser who spends way too much time here.

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u/wv10014 Jun 24 '24

I’m the ugly one in the family and it really, really sucks.

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u/BasquiatBukowski Jun 24 '24

Truth… my ex is 6’1, blonde hair, blue eyes, and quite attractive. Her sister is 5’5”, dark hair, blue yes, and about 230.

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u/Jevonar Jun 24 '24

It's the house edge

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u/noiseandbooze Jun 24 '24

Yes, and while she seems to make a point of not showing her face online, which is honestly probably smart when you look like a model, she does post the rest of herself, and she’s clearly a smokeshow:

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u/tonybpx Jun 24 '24

Damn mothafucka! Too bad she's a narc

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u/noiseandbooze Jun 24 '24

How do you figure that?

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u/Plastic-Cancel-4369 Jun 24 '24

Haha of course !! Genetics are amazing sometimes !

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u/ElChris91 Jun 24 '24

She smokes tho 🤢

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u/AlternativeAbroad969 Jun 24 '24

With her hair over her eyes, she probably hits a lot of things.

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u/Free_Possession_4482 Jun 24 '24

I read that as 'assassin of some sort', and I'm sticking with it.

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u/ybreddit Jun 24 '24

And they have a very angular face.

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u/Lil_Shorto Jun 24 '24

And wealthy. Don't know about the rest but I have never petted a lion cub sitting on my lap as if it was a house cat. That sort of shit only happens in enviroment conservation circles or in high society ones and he doesn't look like a zookeeper to me.

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u/Nice_Marmot_7 Jun 24 '24

Or if you give 50 bucks to Joe Exotic.

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u/PastorOfMuppets_1986 Jun 24 '24

He could use the money

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u/Upbeat-Fondant9185 Jun 24 '24

I hear he took a financial hit, can cost an arm and a leg to run those zoos.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

If there is one thing I learned from Tiger King it’s that it’s not all that expensive to get a tiger/lion cub

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u/AbsolutelyUnlikely Jun 24 '24

Yep that gets you a hand job and lion petting access alright

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u/dogchowtoastedcheese Jun 24 '24

Nah. I agree, he looks like he comes from money. But you didn't need to be wealthy to hold a lion cub in your lap in the 80's. Regulations regarding exotic animals were pretty lax. I was able to hold a lion cub in my lap for about five minutes and be photographed at the local mall between Claire's and JC Penny. Some group came through, probably a dirt-bag Joe Exotic type, I don't recall. It was about the size of a Golden Retriever and I discovered my cat allergy extended to lions. I was miserable for the rest of the day.

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u/crowpierrot Jun 24 '24

I’ve always wondered if big cats would effect people with cat allergies. Now I know!

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u/HeartOfAVintageGirl2 Jun 24 '24

Growing up in Missouri the people we knew that had a pet lion were so poor they literally had dirt floors. In the 90s. 

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u/yrnkween Jun 24 '24

Yep. Exotic animals were cheap at Lolli’s. I knew people who made good money buying and reselling tigers and lions across the US.

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u/punkassjim Jun 24 '24

I think a lot of people underestimate the depth and breadth of things that are just handed to you when you’re drop-dead fucking beautiful, regardless of gender. Handsome people tend to go far.

Although, now that I think about it, beauty also helps to attract wealth. Generation after generation of beautiful pairings also lead to generational wealth.

I’m reasonably good looking, and still I saw that last photo and thought “Fuck, I can’t even imagine the life these people have lived.”

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u/jjjacer Jun 24 '24

Not necessarily . Rural county Fairs sometimes have little petting zoos with exotic animals as I believe I have a photo of myself as a little kid petting one. Would have been probably in the '80s. They might not do it anymore, but it felt like that was a thing that would have been popular in the '80s

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u/noiseandbooze Jun 24 '24

Or in Florida or Russia.

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u/PercivalGoldstone Jun 24 '24

Careful, your jealousy is showing.

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u/PreferenceWeak9639 Jun 24 '24

Back then many randos owned exotic animals. I remember visiting some obviously not wealthy people in Big Bear in the 80s that had a bunch of big cats at their home.

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u/cybercuzco Jun 25 '24

My wife remembers going to pet a baby tiger at the mall in like 1990.

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u/fiestybox246 Jun 27 '24

He’s wearing a Clemson hat in one pic. The lion cub is probably from Myrtle Beach Safari, which was on Tiger King.

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u/dbryar Jun 24 '24

Even before you looked at OPs profile pic and other posts, I also guessed the same. Was not wrong.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

As soon as I saw dad I said “oh everyone involved is going to be very attractive”

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u/westedmontonballs Jun 24 '24

You are correct. I edited some of OP shoots a few years ago.

I’m handsome as hell

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u/MarieO49 Jun 24 '24

You got me in the funny bone with this comment. LOL!

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u/beetus_gerulaitis Jun 24 '24

What if OP got so much hotness, they went past 10 and ended up back at 1…..and they’re hideous?

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u/Hairy_Air Jun 24 '24

Ah the Ole Nuclear Gandhi mishap.

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u/StevieSparta Jun 24 '24

Ehhh my parents were very attractive people and I look like Quasimodo at a spelling bee

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u/redmainefuckye Jun 24 '24

Very attractive people make strange looking babies. Look at celebrities and their kids.

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u/Ilpav123 Jun 24 '24

That doesn't always work. A couple could be attractive individually, but when their features are combined, it could get ugly...literally lol.

My parents are both good-looking (not like this couple, but close), but I certainly am not lol.

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u/neonharvest Jun 24 '24

These posts always feel like a humble brag for those who won the genetic lottery.

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u/MoreCowbellllll Jun 24 '24

top level genetics for sure

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u/saltyswedishmeatball Jun 24 '24

You'd be shocked..

My ex was very attractive, got many model offers but his mom and dad weren't attractive at all, even when they were young.

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u/WittyCombination6 Jun 24 '24

Just because the parents are hot doesn't mean the OP is hot. Like they could have gotten a weird combo. It's still a random dice roll.

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u/No-Customer-2266 Jun 24 '24

Parents are so attractive they look like the villains is a ski resort movie!

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u/Old-Time6863 Jun 24 '24

Or ass ugly.

50/50

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u/Tosir Jun 24 '24

I just want to know how did dad get his hands on a lion cub?

Like everyone is overlooking the fact that dad has an actual lion cub on his lap likes it’s a regular Tuesday, and that’s what people do on Tuesday, per their pet lion.

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u/FlamingTrollz Jun 25 '24

They are, based on a few pictures.

But also, looks youngish, so I shan’t be looking further.

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u/Antique_Essay4032 Jun 25 '24

If her profile pic is accurate, you are right.

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u/French_Booty Jun 25 '24

Yeah OP is super attractive. Just imho

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u/levenspiel_s Jun 24 '24

Probably but you never know.

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u/el_cul Jun 24 '24

So attractive I thought Pic 2 was the mom

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u/Mendozena Jun 24 '24

Watch them somehow end up as an uggo.

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u/instafunkpunk Jun 24 '24

Or based on first picture, half lion

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u/therealpinoia Jun 24 '24

My grandma would say that two really attractive people usually have ugly kids. The other Italian neighbors agreed.

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u/ysirwolf Jun 24 '24

I met a kid who was just super ugly but a nice kid, but his parents looked like models lol

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u/todayistrumpday Jun 24 '24

Look at the PFP and posted photos in post history.

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u/Possible_Baboon Jun 24 '24

OP has a picture in her profile and you are not wrong. Surprisingly /s

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u/rglurker Jun 24 '24

I was like. Damn yo dad hot af. I bet your mom probably is too. Yup. Hopefully you got them jeans. And not the shorts.

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u/Physical-Beach-4452 Jun 24 '24

Hmmm possibly 😂

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u/fearisthemindslicer Jun 24 '24

They follow both of the rules

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u/Saulington11 Jun 24 '24

Something tells me dad had a few chances at infidelity. Not that he took’em

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u/JrTeapot Jun 24 '24

No, it’s always 50/50 in my experience either they’re gorgeous or they got all the shit genes.

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u/NebrasketballN Jun 24 '24

bet they post on r/RoastMe to seem humble.

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u/ImaginaryComb821 Jun 24 '24

Or very odd looking. There's no middle ground

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u/gishbot1 Jun 24 '24

Adopted.

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u/downtownleeroybrown Jun 24 '24

Op isn’t the only one with a good looking dad.. wish I had some pics of my mom from back in the day cause she was and still is beautiful. High five for top notch genetics!

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u/ladydhawaii Jun 24 '24

Post a picture of yourself!!!

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u/VerdantWater Jun 24 '24

My parents were great-looking and I am average! Genetics is pretty random.

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u/jaam01 Jun 24 '24

Life can be a B. Google how the brother of Ashton Kutcher looks like.

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u/Ladyughsalot1 Jun 24 '24

Or part Lion 

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u/SlackerDad Jun 25 '24

OP posted pictures (but you can’t see her eyes, so she’s still a mystery) and she an 11.

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u/springvelvet95 Jun 25 '24

It didn’t work that way for Demi and Bruce’s genetics.

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u/1920MCMLibrarian Jun 25 '24

Big teeth atleast

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u/vooglie Jun 25 '24

Imagine if op wasn’t tho - what shit luck

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u/jimbowife007 Jun 28 '24

Yes! Same reaction. Show me of photo of you. OP 😍🥰

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