Comments on: who the hell is Ayrton Senna?

who the hell is Ayrton Senna?

jonson — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 18:57:52 -0800

Before they were famous - six pages of childhood photos of celebrities.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:07:28 -0800

Bjork's had the same haircut since she was 5!

By: daninnj

daninnj — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:12:59 -0800

Marilyn Manson (correct picture) I wonder what the incorrect picture was.

By: sellout

sellout — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:16:04 -0800

Famous musicians, athletes, movie stars, and Vladimir Putin.

By: es_de_bah

es_de_bah — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:17:29 -0800

teehee...mariah carey's boobs...teehee...

By: linux

linux — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:22:29 -0800

I declare the Drew Barrymore photo invalid as she was already famous as a kid. Same for Michael Jackson. And. Uh. VLADIMIR PUTIN!?

By: Kwantsar

Kwantsar — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:30:24 -0800

I had no idea that Tina Turner was transgendered.

By: selfnoise

selfnoise — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:31:00 -0800

I had no idea Courtney Love was the Firestarter.

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:35:20 -0800

Crikey! Check out the chompers on Freddie Mercury. I thought they were novelty teeth.

By: Robot Johnny

Robot Johnny — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:48:52 -0800

This would have been better as a guessing game!

By: painquale

painquale — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:01:16 -0800

Aw, lil' Bjork's a cutie.

By: caddis

caddis — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:15:05 -0800

Eminem looks like trouble already.

By: timory

timory — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:16:27 -0800

looks like demi moore was transgendered, too. and sarah jessica parker is wearing a toupee.

By: maxsparber

maxsparber — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:16:38 -0800

Ringo Starr was adorable! I wonder if he wore the rings even then?

By: PhatLobley

PhatLobley — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:30:41 -0800

uncanny, I was going to comment on those. I am fairly certain I have never seen a proportionally larger set of teeth.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:31:22 -0800

Poor Freddy Mercury.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:32:04 -0800

George Clooney looks like he's about to fuck the photographer.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:33:41 -0800

Ringo Starr looks like Baby Hitler. No offense.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:33:45 -0800

I had no idea who Kimi Raikkonen and Mika Hakkinen were, and given the odd names I felt oddly compelled to look them up. Now I know that not only are they both race car drivers, they are apparently both male. Given the pictures, I had a small glimmer of hope that I would find the Swedish Bikini Team captains or something.

By: Chrischris

Chrischris — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:42:12 -0800

Strange how Paul McCartney looks exactly the same some 60 years on...

By: John Shaft

John Shaft — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:50:25 -0800

and sarah jessica parker is wearing a toupee Isn't it SJP as Little Orphan Annie?

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:54:42 -0800

Tina Turner's a peach.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 21:08:38 -0800

Thank you, jonson. I've been wanting a copy of that! Interestingly (or not) enough, the main site descibes itself as "Crazy Pictures of Insane Internet" and the celebrities-kids page is nowhere to be found as a link. How did you find it?

By: eatitlive

eatitlive — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 21:44:33 -0800

Anyone have links to what they look like now when they're not wearing clothes?

By: amberglow

amberglow — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 21:47:30 -0800

Sarah Jessica was on B'way as Annie for a while, after Andrea McArdle. I couldn't get over the Tina Turner at all.

By: FlamingBore

FlamingBore — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 21:52:26 -0800

Demi Moore looks just like the girl everyone in my school picked on. I wonder if she's a hottie now too?

By: divabat

divabat — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 21:56:04 -0800

Isn't Aryton Senna a famous Formula 1 driver? Kimi Raikkonen, Mika Hakkinen, Fernando Alonso, and the Schumacher brothers are all there and they're all F1 people.

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 22:04:29 -0800

Helen Hunt: totally recognizable. Jean Claude van Damme...not so much :-)) (but one can imagine his source of motivation) Patrick Swayze: totally recongizable Mick Jagger...what did he do to make his lips grow latter???

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 22:07:23 -0800

Helen Hunt: Totally recongizable. Jean Claude Van Damme, not so much :-)) (But one can imagine his source of motivation!) Patrick Swayze: Totally recognizable Mick Jagger: How'd he make his lips grow, latter???

By: jonson

jonson — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 22:14:26 -0800

hey commish, I had the same experience, scrolling further up the url to "eatliver.com" and not being able to find a link to the celebrities as kids page from there. I stumbled across the site on a link from hedonistica.com, a silly links/games/videos style blog that advertises heavily on TheSuperficial.com (see my yesterday post).

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 22:57:18 -0800

Bjork: Everyone else is smiling. Tom Cruse: What a weird looking kid.

By: dreamsign

dreamsign — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 23:20:07 -0800

I could have sworn that this was on MoFi or MeCha sometime in the last few days. I remember looking at it, and I have it bookmarked, but don't see it on either. hmm...

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 23:43:39 -0800

Why oh why did they show a picture of the infant Jennifer Aniston taken during potty training?

By: hal9k

hal9k — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 00:40:08 -0800

Glad I wasn't on DeNiro's playground. Prolly even shook his teachers down for lunch money.

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 00:53:18 -0800

Isn't Aryton Senna a famous Formula 1 driver? Yep. I'm at work so no time to Google and check – he died when his steering wheel snapped off and the shaft that holds it on went thru his helmet and into his brain. It happened at Imola and a couple of big wigs (eg. team owner) had to stand trial.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 01:42:54 -0800

Janet Reno was a cute little boy.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 01:43:31 -0800

Oh wait, that was Jean Reno. But you can hardly blame me for making the mistake. That kid could grow up to be either.

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 01:58:45 -0800

This would have been better as a guessing game! Heh.

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 02:12:08 -0800

I've got an even better link: pictures of Bollywood stars when they were kids. Look at little Shahrukh Khan, he's hardly changed. And I can hardly believe that's Abishek Bachhan!

By: benzo8

benzo8 — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 02:33:49 -0800

uncanny hengeman writes "Isn't Aryton Senna a famous Formula 1 driver?

"Yep.

"I'm at work so no time to Google and check – he died when his steering wheel snapped off and the shaft that holds it on went thru his helmet and into his brain. It happened at Imola and a couple of big wigs (eg. team owner) had to stand trial." You really should check these things before posting, you know... Whilst it's not 100% clear how Senna died, the above is most certainly not the truth. It's true that there was a puncture in Senna's helmet when he was recovered from his car after it left the Imola track at 186mph and crashed into the wall at Tamburello at 135mph, it was certainly not caused by the steering column. Theories range from a fragment of tyre or gravel to one of the narrow suspension struts that F1 cars sport. The most generally accepted theory though, formed after careful and close scrutiny of the television pictures of the tragedy, are that Senna's helmeted head hit the wall, causing the puncture, brain trauma and respiratory failure. It is still not know why Senna's car left the track. The broken steering linkage discovered in the post-accident investigation most-likely occurred during the crash and was not the cause of it. A theory that Senna's supreme driving skills instinctively corrected for a brief slide caused by a momentary loss of downforce which left him effectively driving himself off the track when the downforce returned has often been mooted, but Senna's fans refuse to accept that notion. T hat Senna managed to retard the speed of the vehicle by 50mph in two seconds while on gravel implies that he was conscious until the point of impact, proving false another theory that maybe he blacked out an an inopportune time... Most likely it was that the cars tyres were running on reduced pressure after a prolonged period following the Safety Car at slower-than-ideal speeds and that traction was lost until the car was on the gravel and it was too late to correct it's trajectory. It's true that Williams, the team for whom Senna drove and who designed and built the car in which he died, were charged with manslaughter (although Italian prosecutors initially wanted to charge them with murder - Williams argued that F1 drivers knew the risks and it was not possible to prove premeditation on the part of the team owners) but they were found innocent after a long trial... Senna's death was a great loss for F1 and motor racing in general - he was a supreme driver - but whatever the cause and process of his death, it wasn't the spectacularly cinematic "impalement by steering column" that you suggest...

By: macdara

macdara — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 02:40:14 -0800

[Ayrton Senna] died when his steering wheel snapped off and the shaft that holds it on went thru his helmet and into his brain. It happened at Imola and a couple of big wigs (eg. team owner) had to stand trial. That's not true, actually. It wasn't confirmed what actually happened, but most signs suggest that he hit his head on a concrete wall where the car impacted at the turn when the crash occurred. There's still a lot of speculation as to how the crash happened in the first place (debris on the track, etc. causing a loss of downforce on the car, and so on) but in the aftermath the rules were changed, chicanes were stuck in everywhere, and safety became a priority (a symptom of this attitude to safety being the farce that was the Indianapolis Grand Prix a few weeks ago).

By: macdara

macdara — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 02:41:34 -0800

Aaagh benzo20 beat me to it!

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 05:14:53 -0800

Bruce Willis used to be jonmc?

By: notsnot

notsnot — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 05:52:51 -0800

Pam Anderson used to be pretty. Who knew?

By: Emperor Yamamoto's Eggs

Emperor Yamamoto's Eggs — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 06:06:08 -0800

Who knew Angelina Jolie used to be Janeane Garofalo?

By: alasdair

alasdair — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 06:22:33 -0800

The 1905 MetaFilter would have us all discussing how the shape of their heads and faces corresponded to their later success...

By: languagehat

languagehat — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 06:41:37 -0800

Actually, in 1905 MetaFilter was preoccupied with an endless argument over how the 1904 election would have gone if Mark Hanna hadn't died early in the year. NewsFilter has always been with us.

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 07:48:55 -0800

Robot Johnny, I found a blog that does do a mildly entertaining 'guess who' game. There are definitely some good ones, but the problem is that you have to click on the pictures to find out who it is, and a majority of the links go to old Yahoo News pictures that don't exist anymore.

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 08:13:31 -0800

Here's another "Before They Were Famous" site (2 pages). What's interesting is that it has many of the same people as in this link, only the pictures are mostly teen instead of mostly preteen (the Clooney picture is the only repeat), so we get a developmental series. Demi Moore is weird, her preteen picture looks nothing like her teen picture looks nothing like her adult picture. Billie Corgan stands out as the only immaculate trans-gender in the teen group.

By: mr.curmudgeon

mr.curmudgeon — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 08:39:29 -0800

Vladimir Putin? Sing with me now, "One of these things...is not like the other...one of these things just doesn't belong!"

By: mr.curmudgeon

mr.curmudgeon — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 08:41:05 -0800

Btw, Lil' Madonna is soooooo cute. The mole and gapped teeth are adorable! I want a little Maddona!

By: PurplePorpoise

PurplePorpoise — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 08:57:09 -0800

CunningLinguist Bruce Willis used to be jonmc? Bruce Willis used to have a full head of hair?

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 10:18:07 -0800

*runs into restroom to check hairline*

By: timory

timory — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 11:12:10 -0800

Here's another "Before They Were Famous" site (2 pages). What's kind of silly about this one is that a lot of the celebrities pictured here were famous way before the "look at how young they were!" pictures were taken. Natalie Portman was younger than that in Beautiful Girls, Will Smith was younger on Fresh Prince... there are a few more, I think.

By: benzo8

benzo8 — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 13:08:15 -0800

timory writes "What's kind of silly about this one is that a lot of the celebrities pictured here were famous way before the 'look at how young they were!' pictures were taken. Natalie Portman was younger than that in Beautiful Girls" And younger still in Leon...

By: shoos

shoos — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 20:27:46 -0800

Everyone I didn't recognize was a Formula 1 driver.

By: shoos

shoos — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 20:29:03 -0800

there are a few more, I think. Helen Hunt was on Ark II before her photo.

By: horsewithnoname

horsewithnoname — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 22:06:36 -0800

Hasn't everyone had a little Madonna?