Mom!!! What were you Thinking???

Over at John Chow he’s got a pretty funny contest going,

Actually, this contest is just a regular photo upload contest that is hosted by Family.com. It’s called “Mom! What were you thinking” and they’re basically trying to see which mom had the nerve to dress up their kids in the worst possible fashions! Normally, I wouldn’t enter these kind of contests but I couldn’t pass up the prizes up for grabs.

Macbook Pro

16GB iPod Touch

Speaker with built in Dock

Printer/Scanner

Laptop Case

To spice this contest up a little bit, I want to challenge all bloggers to post their own messed up childhood pictures. I tried asking my mom for any pictures of myself as a younger boy so I can be a good sport and play along, but “unfortunately” my mom said she didn’t have any pictures that I could use. So, I’m putting up Greg Morgan’s baby picture to show you what you can use to participate.

Who in the Hell wears a crushed velvet shirt? Let alone a plumb crushed velvet shirt, when they are 4? Now i could really start saying i started early dressing as a Pimp!

This picture hurts just looking at it,That shirt looks like they skinned a Turtle or something, Long Story Short (LSS) I went to play at a friends house in the winter, his steps had ice on them and I slipped and hit the corner of the steps square in the forehead, you can see if you look at the uni-brow, that’s right thats a huge bruise, and while I was embarrassedly and wouldn’t let my mom take a picture of just me, I was excited to take a picture of the Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) which was my favorite childhood toy. Ouch!

John’s rules are simple:

The Rules Are Simple

Just post your messed up childhood picture on your blog or a messed up picture of your own kid. Then write a little blurb about what the hell your mom was thinking or what you were thinking.

Since Family.com forgot to add a very important item to their prize package – I will be giving away a new Flip Mivo and 20″ Monitor to the best/worst/funniest post I notice in my Google Alert.

The winner will be announced through an email blast to my newsletter subscribers, so if you want to know who wins this thing in September, you’ll want to subscribe to my newsletter.

If you have any outrageous pictures from when you were a child add a link to the comments and I want to check them out!