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1982. “In 1982 we took this rather odd photo. At the time we had no idea that we would be reproducing it every five years.” Contents of jar: One cockroach (live), One photo of Robert Young (to keep the roach company) and one butterscotch candy (roach food).

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1987. “When we realized the same five guys were going to be at Copco together again we decided to take the same photo for the second time”.

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1992. “In 1992 the weather was cloudy and cold so shirts were worn on the three John’s for the first time.”

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1997. “At this point we had strayed a bit from the original photo, something we would start to correct in future photos.”

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2002. “This was the year we got back to truly duplicating the original though John M. forgot his sunglasses and we made a joke with the huge jar.”

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2007. “On this occasion we returned to a duplicate of the original jar (No Roach) and standardized a hat for all future photos.”

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2012. “We tracked down the original duplicate of the Robert Young photo to place in the jar. Sadly you can’t make out his face.”

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2017. “Shirtless for the first time in 30 years.” Is this the friendship goals we all should have?