Random comment here, but Ponie, regarding your avatar: my brother and I both agree that you (if that is you) look like what our sister probably would look like (if we had one) as weird as that sounds. We were discussing it just yesterday /lol
He had mumps (in swedish påssjuka) when that picture was taken. A childhood disease that was still quite common in the 1980's. One of the symptoms is swelling of the salivary glands.