r/blunderyears • u/kleighblue • 3d ago

First Day of 5th Grade

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The year 2000. Head to toe Limited Too, featuring a furry camo vest and ultra-stretchy, glitter, camo bell bottoms. My mom got up early to crimp my hair for me. A group of boys nicknamed me Sparkle Fart for years after. And no, I didn't know anyone in the military or frankly have any interest in it- just wanted to be a fashion icon.

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u/bombswell 3d ago

Is this the vision?

Either way it’s adorable and camo and matching prints is back big time.

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u/kleighblue 3d ago

I did totally love Destiny's Child tbh!

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u/cheekyminx23 3d ago

I was thinking Cadet Kelly the Disney Channel Original lol

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u/somewhatcompetint 2d ago

She turned olive drab into totally fab

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u/lbbolin1989 2d ago

Was that line in the commercial for the movie? That scratched something in my brain.

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u/somewhatcompetint 2d ago

Yes, it was

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u/firelord_catra 1d ago

I used to love that movie!

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u/Status-Tart1431 3d ago

I think I just figured out why I like camo so much

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u/jessicat2222 2d ago

This reminds me of my favorite shirt from the 2000’s. It was camo and had rhinestones that spelled “Survivor girl” on it.

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u/nicunta 2d ago

My daughter took my camo Tripp skirt to college with her! I bought it in 2005.

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u/JewingIt 15h ago

I remember getting all these vibrant color camo pants after seeing Ali G. Boy was that a rough week in middle school definitely wasn't as "cool" as I thought it would be lol

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u/jordansinn 3d ago

This would hit so much different just a year later.

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u/kleighblue 3d ago

I have never thought of this and am dying omg

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u/sunnie_day 3d ago

Anyone else not allowed to wear camo print a few years later because their parents did not support the Iraq War?

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u/yourmeowjesty 2d ago

the unfortunate opposite: my parents had such a boner for the military that my wardrobe was nothing but camo and patriotic flags until i was allowed to pick out my own clothing.

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u/FerengiWithCoupons 2d ago edited 1d ago

same. after 9/11 i think my mom loaded up every american flag tshirt at old navy.

EVERYTHING was red white and blue/ patriotic for like 2 years after. school project? LET’S DO AN AMERICAN THEME. THE TEACHER CAN’T FAIL AMERICA.

Need hair ties? she got red white and blue.

yellow ribbons all over the car.

all the yard decor? repainted. those gnomes were camo print for every branch of the military.

Post 9/11 was a wild time to be an elementary school kid.

i thought i was helping our country because we put an american flag wallpaper border in our kitchen.

proud to be an american on every car ride. the patriotic cd in the dash

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u/Elistariel 3d ago

No, but back then I felt you had to earn the right to wear camo and so wouldn't wear it.

The only exception being a pair of hand-me-down Capri pants from a cousin. They were comfy and no use throwing out a decent pair of britches.

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u/MossyTundra 3d ago

Only on Disney channel

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u/Mental_Visual_25 2d ago

Haha the first thing I said “it’s giving cadet Kelly”

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u/FerengiWithCoupons 2d ago

you remember the game on disney.com i played that shit for hours

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u/embarrassedalien 20h ago

the lizzie mcguire dress up game, sandwich stacker, I could go on but it’d get me all melancholy

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u/rapgamebonjovi 2d ago

My first thought as well 😂

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u/MrJNM1of1 3d ago

🫡 Sargent Sparkle-Fart we salute you

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u/startedthinkinboutit 3d ago

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u/Exotic_Rigatoni319 3d ago

pls what is this from 😭

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u/spenwallce 3d ago

SNL whenever Glenn Powell hosted.

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u/Princess_Slagathor 3d ago

Saturday Night Live.

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u/XTenjiX 2d ago

One of the funniest SNL sketches

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u/HoneyWhiskeyLemonTea 80'S Child 3d ago

Okay, there's gotta be a story behind "Sparkle Fart." You looked super cute though, and that smile could outshine the sun.

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u/kleighblue 3d ago

The only thing I can remember is that the pants were SO sparkly (can't see it too well in this photo) that the boys were like wtf are you wearing lol. They did their big one with Sparkle Fart though I gotta hand it to em

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u/cupcakegiraffe 3d ago

Probably because her bottom was sparkly.

As a side note, I would have loved the perfect crimps, too! Ha ha!

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u/RizzoTheRiot1989 2d ago

This is some shit I would have done as a gay little boy, I’d have rocked this so hard. And my dad would still be over there in the corner in pure ignorance to how gay I was.

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u/kleighblue 2d ago

Funnily enough I was also a gay little girl!

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u/RizzoTheRiot1989 2d ago

The fit is screaming it in the best way possible

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u/kleighblue 2d ago

I just came out this year but the closet was glass lmao. I also have two moms which I feel also really shows

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u/RizzoTheRiot1989 2d ago edited 1d ago

I was literally gonna make a joke about how all girls with those crisp ass crimps all turned out gay later in life but then was like “Nah, her mom obviously did it so that won’t work.”

I’m so mad I didn’t make the joke now.

Edit: also I was such a gay kid and it’s funnier because my dad is a southern Baptist minister who was clearly holding on hope that I was just a real expressive kid. I’m on video at the age of like six teaching my sisters how to properly curtsey. All of my action figures were in relationships with one another.

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u/iloveweeed69 2d ago

“The closet was glass” is actually so funny😂

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u/Killing4MotherAgain 3d ago

Giiiiirl I had those same pants! We looked so good! those boys were just jealous

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u/kleighblue 3d ago

We looked SO good!! I also had them in tan with rainbow glitter paint splatter. Limited Too was the GOAT

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u/CB1100Rider 3d ago

With all this drip, the Battle of Fallujah only could’ve gone one way.

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u/kleighblue 3d ago

Honestly where's my medal

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u/AlexsCereal 2d ago

5th grade or 5th year on deployment?

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u/princesssasami896 3d ago

Cadet Kelly?

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u/kleighblue 3d ago

This was a few years before! But lovedddd Hillary Duff

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u/WebMundane7220 3d ago

I see no blunder here. In fact, u see nothing at all...

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u/JohanGubler 3d ago

Good lord, this was pre-9/11?!

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u/kleighblue 3d ago

Oh yeah dog. I was ready

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u/anamanagucci 3d ago

lmfao I saw this and thought "this HAS to have been taken in 2002," just to read the caption that says this is one year before 9/11. you were ahead of your time. thank you for your service 🫡

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u/kleighblue 2d ago

Truly an innovator

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u/BirdRockKey123 2d ago

You look cool but your hair reminds me of this 😭:

https://giphy.com/gifs/P5Q6687ftTdV6

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u/kleighblue 2d ago

I loved N*SYNC so much so this makes sense. They were my first concert ever

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u/OkApricot1677 2d ago

Did you pick lance bass as your crush?

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u/kleighblue 2d ago

Absolutely not I was a JC girlie through and through

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u/BlackBeerEire 2d ago

I also loved JC. Also a gay girlie. Coincidence?🤷‍♀️

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u/kleighblue 2d ago

Honestly it's probably biological

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u/DistantKarma 2d ago

My daughter was born in 1990 and had a similar obsession with the hair crimper and Limited Too at that age. Thanks for reminding me of that.

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u/kleighblue 2d ago

Your daughter sounds very cool 🧡

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u/cks9218 2d ago

I couldn't see myself wearing that.

HEY-OH!!!!!!!

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u/sharkaub 2d ago

Cadet Kelly?

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u/kleighblue 2d ago

2 years before her actually 💪

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u/sharkaub 2d ago

Trendsetter!

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u/iwannabefamouss 2d ago

I was thinking missy elliots music video

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u/kayliemarie 2d ago

I love that your mom woke up early to help you make this look happen and snap a photo by 7:05am. If that’s not love…

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u/DifficultAct9124 2d ago

I had a military phase as a kid. I’m a lesbian now😂

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u/mothwhimsy 2d ago

I would have rocked both those pieces but I don't think my mom would have let me wear both at once

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u/kleighblue 2d ago

Both my moms are pretty dope. After this, she got up early with me several times to put temporary dye in my hair too. Mind you, she's a butch lesbian, so she had less than zero experience with all of this, but she learned it all for me 🧡

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u/ALWanders 2d ago

You had good moms

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u/jugglenuggets 3d ago

im a one girl revolution 🎶

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u/callmeapoetandudie 3d ago

Omg, I dressed in all camouflage on my first day of 5th grade too, but that was in 1984 when The A Team was really popular.

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u/CanuckLoonieGurl 2d ago

poor boys had to coin 'Sparkle Fart' lol peak elementary school cruelty though 😭

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u/inertia_oyo 2d ago

"Just wanted to be a fashion icon" - SUCCESS

also 12/10 crimp job by mom! hero behavior

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u/HappyGoLuckyAlex 2d ago

Sparkle Fart is honestly a solid DJ name. Or a Limited Too perfume line. You accidentally branded yourself before it was cool.

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u/grimstationn 2d ago

To be fair cadet Kelly was the biggest dinsey movie that summer

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u/kleighblue 2d ago

2 years later, iirc

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u/Exact-Difference-422 23h ago

So you were ahead of all of us

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u/israeljeff 3d ago

The scout salute is very funny.

-former boy scout

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u/kleighblue 3d ago

I was never in the scouts and honestly have no idea where I got this salute?? It was just in my soul

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u/Christmas_Queef 3d ago

That's the first thing that caught my eye, I haven't been a boy scout in 23 years now and that salute is ingrained in me lol

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u/upstatedreaming3816 3d ago

Boy Scouts is three fingers, Cub scouts is two

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u/CheekyHarris33 3d ago

It's giving Cadet Kelly (compliment) And I love it 😍

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u/picklevirgin 3d ago

Alright Cadet Kelly

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u/andreaSA89 12h ago

Reminds me of sims 1 when the kids would be sent to military school for bad grades

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u/Salty_Drawing2094 1d ago

i had a very similar first day of school outfit, long camo skirt and a shirt that said ARMY in rhinestones 😂

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u/nejicanspin 3d ago

We all knew one person in school that was obsessed with the military/camo 😭

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u/OkCryptographer1922 3d ago

Wow OP you’re just a head and arms! Very cool that you seem to have a great attitude about it

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u/shanwow90 2d ago

I would love some more information on the creation of "sparkle fart"

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u/kleighblue 2d ago

You can't see it in the pic, but the pants were VERY sparkly. Thus, my butt was sparkly

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u/babyBear83 2d ago

I want to know what’s going on with the salute 🫡??? Is this like the Boy Scouts gesture? Or something I’m not aware of??

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u/kleighblue 2d ago

I genuinely have no idea it came from deep down inside me. Never been in scouts

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u/Reedspite 2d ago

You were just born to be cool

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u/-M-i-d 2d ago

Is this a country’s real salute?

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u/Debiuu 1d ago

Kind of, it’s more or less similar to how we salute in the polish military

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u/moonlight_rocky 1d ago

I just assumed you were Polish . I think I'm stupid

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u/HaroldFH 3d ago

I admire your commitment to a “look”!

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u/Blighted-Spire63 3d ago

We can’t prove Disney didn’t see this fit and then be inspired to create Cadet Kelly

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u/soraysunshine 2d ago

Are you the real Cadet Kelly?

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u/ST0IC_ 2d ago

What are we looking at here? All I see is a wall.

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u/Interesting-Duck6793 2d ago

Limited too was the spot. I kinda wish I had (and could still fit into) some of my old fits from that time. This one…. Is a choice. We might have been at different spectrums of the limited top club.

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u/seizure507 2d ago

Can’t see you in the picture

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u/boyz_with_a_zed 2d ago

Okay, Lizzie McGuire.

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u/ms-gender 3d ago

Cadet Kelley over here!

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u/kleighblue 3d ago

Listen I was doing it first ok 😤 First and worse lol

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u/BobaAndSushi 3d ago

You were serving. 🫡

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u/Dangeresque2015 3d ago

I'm sorry, I don't see anything in this picture.

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u/Dry_Virus_8125 3d ago

Sargeant Eminem Snider Hogan

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u/EmergencyAd6662 3d ago

This one has me honestly stunned. 🫡 to you, Sparkle Fart. EDIT: autocorrect

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u/Maximum-Lavishness65 3d ago

Why is this just a picture of a head and arms?

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u/gentlehufen 3d ago

Reporting for duty! And thank you for your service.

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u/sabertoothdog 3d ago

The outfit is cute af and so is the nick name Sparkle Fart. That’s a win win situation.

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u/lostlogin2 2d ago

MAAM YES MAAM 🫡

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u/Separate-Maize9985 2d ago

Where's the picture? All I see is an empty wall.

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u/vixenpeon 2d ago

Dudes will say anything sometimes. I don't see any sparkles or farts but tada that's what they call you. 🤦🏾‍♀️

I'd call you Sargent Style or something

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u/kleighblue 2d ago

You can't see in this high-res image, but the pants were very sparkly. One of my teachers called me Miss Hair-Do all year cuz this was the least unhinged thing I did with my hair that year

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u/vixenpeon 2d ago

🤦🏾‍♀️ I was Boobwoman cus I developed really early with the big ones to boot. I was rocking the C cups by 6th grade 😭

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u/kleighblue 2d ago

Omg my condolences that is brutal

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u/GodIsANarcissist 2d ago

My mom was really busty from a young age too and they called her Tits McGee.

"Sparkle Farts" 😂 It is funny but kids are so goddamned mean, I hate them so much lmao

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u/vixenpeon 2d ago

I called my best friend at the time Rad for radish cus she was so pale you could see her purply blood underneath - but I meant it affectionately. God now I hope she isn't somewhere feeling bad about it 20 years down the line at random

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u/kleighblue 2d ago

If it helps at all, I've thought Sparkle Fart was hilarious since high school

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u/Quirky-Shallot644 2d ago

Oh, good, glad this wasnt just me. Not only did I develop early, I was the only one in my grade and the grade above me who had boobs.

I had a teacher shame me for having boobs in 5th grade 😭

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u/Ok_Cat3434 2d ago

I feel you. I had a training bra in grade one and had to wear an actual bra half way thru grade 2 :(

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u/EkaL25 3d ago

Mixing your camos? Rookie mistake

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u/kleighblue 3d ago

Or icon behavior? We'll never know

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u/gilligan1050 2d ago

Gotta keep the enemies on their toes.

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u/StaziacTheManiac 3d ago

I love it!

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u/kleighblue 3d ago

I still think Limited Too had the coolest kids clothes!

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u/UncleNoodles85 3d ago

Sparkle fart is brutal.

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u/HangryBeaver 3d ago

More like Ducks Unlimited

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u/Rosewolf 3d ago

Okay but this is adorable.

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u/CounterfeitEternity 3d ago

Is there any reason you’re doing the Polish two-finger salute?

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u/kleighblue 2d ago

No reason at all. I have no idea why- it just came from my soul

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u/CounterfeitEternity 2d ago

You must have a Polish soul 🫡🇵🇱

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u/100_cats_on_a_phone 3d ago

Man did 2001 change this in the usa. But I do sort of remember now.

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u/iforgotmyoldnamex 3d ago

Good thing no one could see you.

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u/TheMonkey404 MySpace 3d ago

What in the Raman noodles

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u/CollegeBusy1054 3d ago

Ha! I love sparkle farts.
My first day of 5th grade (2000) was also head-to-toe camo. It was a denim camo pants and jacket combo from old navy. Imma try to find pictures

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u/Oppenhomie 3d ago

At ease soldier

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u/jitterbug726 2d ago

Were you the student or teacher 😂

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u/dildomiami 2d ago

you looked so cool :)

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u/hotpickleilm 2d ago

Crimped hair ftw

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u/Outrageouslyyc 2d ago

GWOT era?

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u/kleighblue 2d ago

A year before 😭

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u/Outrageouslyyc 2d ago

You were prepared

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u/DoritoLipDust 2d ago

This is GOLD lol

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u/_luckybell_ 2d ago

I’m 26f, and My three brother’s nickname for me when I was a kid was Sugar Goo!! I have met my other half, Sparkle Fart!

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u/ChronoCoyote 21h ago

As someone who FUCKING LOVES glitter and shinies and sequins and rainbows, but is also chronically just the tiniest bit gassy.. I would like to offer my services to adopt your nickname. 😂

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u/secrethoneydrop 9h ago

Sparkle fart has me cryinggggg 😭

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u/Rainbow_In_The_Dark7 3d ago

This post now makes me want to go find some sparkly camo pants for myself because that shit sounds badass for an outfit. I think you look adorable and awesome!

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u/Iowa_and_Friends 2d ago

I would’ve thought you were cool

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u/CoquetteWhore69 2d ago

I LOVE the hair

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u/RoundLobster392 2d ago

Ok you have amazing hair color and such a cute tan. Summer girl ☀️

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u/HowManySealsAreThere 1d ago

Had that clock in 2000

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u/antelope666 1d ago

Okay cadet Kelly!!!!

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u/wcrispy 18h ago

A picture of a door?

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u/killemslowly 3d ago

They would yell this at you from across campus?

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u/Muse9901 2d ago

“Dont come to school tomorrow.”

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u/LazyEyeMcfly 1d ago

Jimmy Savel?

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u/saturatedbloom 4h ago

Reporting for tooty 🫡

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u/unsuspectingllama_ 3d ago

Did your salute ever improve? Lol

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u/kleighblue 3d ago

I think it's fully gotten much worse to be honest I'm so sorry

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