lol high school

Rocco!

(I am on the left holding a Rocko's Modern Life doll that I str8 GANKED from Nickelodeon Studios, FL. My buttons: Teen Idles, Bikini Kill.)

cute!

http://a693.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/84/l_e41b7cb2d8df14a8a743eb2f89f8f564.jpg

I am doing a hangman and my hair is in a weird bun-like formation. The clue is "The Bat-i-lac is ready, it's a wonder car." No idea how I remember that.

http://a652.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/70/l_65a1ef0e99274cafd9ec57f07efddebb.jpg

With my lab partner Danielle INSIDE our lab area. 1996. I am 15.

http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v14/9/99/36809126/n36809126_30022409_3429.jpg

as a sophomore (abt 4 years ago):
http://i18.tinypic.com/837j4h3.jpg

cute!

ORANGE BOWL RIP

^^this

thx roxy

a bit of context to my one: guy in the middle is more or less my best friend, guy on the right I hardly see ever. it was taken at a birthday party for two mutual friends on the HMS Wellington, a boat-turned-party-venue moored somewhere along the Thames. as i said on my facebook photos page, i look like a jester whose joke-sheet has just blown out the window.

roxy and jordan had it far better off when in the grips of adolescence, for they are cutesy and wholesome, as opposed to some of us who couldn't shake off grease/spots/paunches/bad specs for love nor money.

i probably have a bunch of good pics on my other computer i will have to look

i had BRACES

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/posse.jpg

This is early 1997, I think. I'm on my second year in the gymnasium (the Finnish equivalent to senior high).

i had braces from 8th grade to 12th

aka FIVE years

I don't think LJ should be allowed to post in this thread considering he *still* is in high school.

It's a house party though, only the bald girl and the girl with the glasses were in same school with me.

Don't tell me you had sex with the bald girl, Big T. Just don't...

No, she was my best friend.

Pato, HS != uni, I'm a year older than J0rdan S for a start!

Oh, you PANSIES.

http://a910.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/37/l_bc5513723224b52fbd1fa75c7caec76d.jpg

at a dance team competition, HAW

(DANIELLE AGAIN)

not quite high school but end of 8th grade so close enough. i felt it necessary to post this bc of the furry theme in roxy's 1st pic.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/166/360126786_b63b85dd44.jpg

i think i have posted that before. i will dig out hilarious high school shots from a cd later!

tza, where you at?

news channel 7, obv.

ask ethan. he knows allll about it!

(bottom right)

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/4999/pp89057xx.jpg

your font changed and everything!

"And everything"?! He didn't even change his shirt!

PP, you don't look unlike Jon Williams in your high school pic.

truth

haha, are you saying ethan is IN that pic? cause if he is: blue nike shirt

haha no (but if you knew blue nike shirt you'd lol when comparing him and ethan!). ethan just knows all about news channel 7

Senior pic, 1990:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/54/145653127_f4ce8d6424.jpg

Me and the dog, c. 1986:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/26/145653130_0de8baea4b.jpg

awesome!

here is a real hs pic ~1998
http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php%3Fimage%3Dfrancebwoz7.jpg

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/7846/francebwoz7.jpg

Chicago people have seen those pics of me a bazillion times but it's all I have.

back in my slam poetry days
http://xs223.xs.to/xs223/08021/lolhs.png

holy

shit

he is LAYING IT DOWN, he is DICTATING

http://a212.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/44/l_ab963ec6e6e295edd1435f4bb6fb7a93.jpg

at locker with same insane bun-thing and some awful orange button-down, that's probably DANIELLE'S hair on the right

http://a572.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/55/l_ce4889a533e56359bbdbce11f2ffd4bb.jpg

No memory of who took this, who is the other girl in it, or where we were. I am on the left.

http://a499.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/90/l_bf87ad5bf4e6f99468317e43da1f1e2a.jpg

me left, with my best friend in the middle (who i actually hated) and DANIELLE again. I now remember the hideous orange shirt, which said "pudgey's bar"

LOL "REBELETTES" DANCE TEAM, I am on the far left, probably obsessing that I am not as skinny as LESLIE

aw, here it is

http://a272.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/84/l_9eeb6c780317d8f94012fae47e5e68ef.jpg

i have seen a lot of drill team uniforms in my time and i must say those are the classiest.

well, we were all nerds

in 10 years' time i would be caught robbing the art gallery of the girl to my immediate left during a first friday celebration

never saw any of the others again

"... and now i'm BACK IN school!"

last year of hs, school ball/s. pretty much the only photos i have from hs, cuz i was a tubby dumpling up until my last year at school.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1429/1051148860_5cd5c8ee89.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1203/1051148874_bc952891af_o.jpg

HS Roxy = cuet

You're on the left in both, right? Cute!

first photo is with two of my best friends (still my bfs); second one features a kleptomaniac, and a girl who spoke in tongues.

yah. had dramatic (but not anorexic/bulimic) weight loss in final yr @ hs. was a TOTAL TUBSTER before that.

I'll I've got scanned is my senior portrait. 1992, y'all!

http://i14.tinypic.com/73kfx5c.jpg

lol me and the first of my many gay boyfriends in front of tori amos' tour bus! this cd is a gold mine of embarrassment!

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/6268/metylersp6.jpg

finally an outlet for my narcissism on the internet!

in approximated chronological order:

http://i9.tinypic.com/6xskx1s.jpg
http://i18.tinypic.com/832axwo.jpg
http://i16.tinypic.com/6qd893m.jpg

http://i14.tinypic.com/6lwe8ti.jpg
http://i2.tinypic.com/6y5oyup.jpg
http://i16.tinypic.com/852o7lh.jpg

http://i3.tinypic.com/6xb12xc.jpg
http://i18.tinypic.com/6xaiueh.jpg
http://i15.tinypic.com/7x8rvxv.jpg

I think everyone's seen the old lolgoth and cutsey molly ringwaldesque pics of me from the late 80s already.

jhøshea, if you had lived in blount county, i would have tried to befriend you so hard

omg jho

plz make a book of your high school pics

yah that wouldve been fun - wheres blount county?

jordan i have a page on my website that i would happily direct u towards except its down at the moment - check back later!

<3 jhoshea awesome

aw thanks everyone its good to know that all that effort wasnt for naught

the trying really hard to be cool effort im referring to

blount county is in tennessee, jho

who is that girl in your CLARINET pic? is she famous?

thats my friend vanessa - shes famous for throwing my fried ben family's wrapped up hanukkah presents into the snowy backyard when we were tripping.

coincidentally that picture was taken in ben's house as were a few others

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/rekkids.jpg

Last day of senior year; skipped awards ceremony to go to records store. Turns out I got a couple of awards and the givers were v upset by my jiltage.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/principal.jpg

Last day of junior year. I was calling this random old man "My guy's guy" and totally hmming it up for no reason but it got a hueg laffs reaction. It turns out My Guy's Guy was our principal. I had no idea what he looked like. So, there we are, me and Principal My Guy's Guy.

abbott i want SQUUEEEZZEE you!

the principal picture is perfect

jho, lol @ your "fried ben"

Jhosea's Dunkin Donuts = A+++

yah my fried friend ben - hes the non-smoking one in the dunkies pic.

o god we used to hang out in that dunkin donuts so much WHY WHY ???

we would all kill for that clarinet shirt now, im sure

aww roxy

i don't have any digital pics of when i was in high school but i have some old short movies

http://youtube.com/profile?user=Sheepfeed

i was never a good free throw shooter

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/9719/hoopsgi6.jpg

lol short shorts

rock the fac, latebloomer!

Me as a Sophomore (age 15). I remember posting this pic before but couldn't find a WDYLL as a teenager thread.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v609/nickn/?action=view¤t=sophmoric.jpg

Or this???

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/nickn/sophmoric.jpg

I'm sure I have posted this before. Me at about age 16, in my backyard, looking rather Kristin Hersh-like.

http://www.memorygongs.com/trace_beret.jpg

aww trayce that is v. cuet

Is that a RECTANGULAR TRAMPOLINE?

And if so did you enjoy it?

Yeah one of those old school ones with deadly deadly springs and metal bars, we fell off it lots and my brother snapped a tooth in half smacking his face on the frame. Good times.

omg footlong-fly-trayce

omg HARRIET WHEELER trayce

lol middle school

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/4962/cantonrq4.jpg

http://www.grissomband.org/images/photos/pic1995-1996.jpg
see the tall blond dude in the middle of the last row before the girls with the fake rifles? I'm the guy to his left.

mook, you are one of the most pissed off Steelers fans ever in that pic

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2280/2174749420_a432bb5e3c_o.jpg

cute!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2085/2174749432_303d17afee_o.jpg
with my brother Matthew

AWWWWW

New Photoshop bait to be posted tomorrow.

think i already posted this?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/donkey_online.jpg

you are one of the most pissed off Steelers fans ever because of the wang

Where's Tomboto?

all these early-mid 90s pictures. flannel and hair parted in the middle troubled-sensitive-guy style is slowly starting to look cool to me again.

ha i was thinking the same thing

What goes around comes around.

I'm sitting in some class somewhere during my senior year of high school, reading something (as I always read novels in class because I was bored with most of the classes), the high school photographer asks me to look up, I realize what's going on and I flick my bookmark into the shot and:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2275/2175554075_858033f0a3.jpg

There ya go...

(Year: 1987 or 1988, something like that. And yes, this was a featured shot in the senior class section of the 1988 yearbook.)

Guess it's time to post this again:

http://static.flickr.com/49/132751373_2dd60547fe.jpg?v=0

I seriously did not recognize the poster until I read the name at the bottom.

(xp- I knew that last one was jaymc right off.)

omg neds shirt

nedburns

Will post JJ, Dang Perry, and Fluffy Bear pictures as soon as I figure out which HSTNGS thread/photobucket account they are languishing in.

i think ned stole that shirt from theo huxtable

GRADE 10
http://i9.tinypic.com/8bzfhbt.jpg

GRADE 13
http://i17.tinypic.com/8ei7exf.jpg

NOW I HAVE A JOB
http://i11.tinypic.com/7yduu5f.jpg

grade 13, canadian

ten ilx points if anyone can guess even roughly where i am at in the first picture based on the people surrounding me

xpost yeah, ontario used ot have 5 years of high school

cruel

These are all amazing!!! Jhoshea - I would def buy a book of those pics.

Ned, you look like a model in that picture. Also, didn't teachers yell at you for having your nose buried in some novel during their classes?

Ned looks way more clean cut than I think he should have.

Also, didn't teachers yell at you for having your nose buried in some novel during their classes?

In a word, no. This is because I was mostly acing the classes without even trying. My parents told me later that apparently at least one of my history instructors -- who noted that I was usually just reading books where I was sitting in class (in the front row, at that) -- kept trying to trip me up by asking questions about the current subjects. Allegedly I would look up, give the answer and then go back to my reading. I honestly don't remember that at all -- just that I read a lot!

I think if Roxy and I went to the same high school, I would've had a crush on her, for sure.

ten ilx points if anyone can guess even roughly where i am at in the first picture based on the people surrounding me

church youth group meeting?

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/Laurel_portait.jpg

NED!

awww laurel '94!

laurel you look cute and put-upon

Ned is wearing a sweet digital watch in that picture.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/10/12063907_a09537b475_o.jpg

senior prom. with a vacuum cleaner.

laurel looks so sassy in her picture I am jealous.

yeah love that laurel

laurel is so get me the fuck outta here

awww laurel <3

HS ned should be new favicon

I think Laurel 94 is judging me. I can feel her stare.

Wow, that's great, Ned.

Sheesh, sounds like you had cool teachers.

Aw Jessie and Laurel!!

Haha the photog was like "LOOK STARRY EYED, PRETEND THE BOY YOU LIKE IS RIGHT BEHIND ME" and I distinctly recall being annoyed. That's the look that resulted.

church youth group meeting?

haha zing, but no, worse!

laurel's look = "fuck you and your bullshit photography"

will m. = FIELD TRIP?

Is there a thread for all the Hilarious things that the school photographers would say to coax smiles?

Sheesh, sounds like you had cool teachers.

Generally yeah! (One of them let me work on an independent study project during 10th grade English class for half the year -- on Tolkien, unsurpisingly -- while another did similar by saying, "I think you might like this book" and assigning it to me as a similar independent study project in 11th grade. Book in question: Gravity's Rainbow.)

will m. = FIELD TRIP?

much much more cringeworthy. hint: it was a special-interest after-school club

http://i17.tinypic.com/72u5fte.jpg

I'm ruling out D&D/Magic: The Gathering because I think there's a girl in the background.

xp Does it have to do with that duck or whatever that's on the kid's t-shirt next to you?

xp, obv but omg jhoshea

pokemon then

once a guy asked me if I played Magic in high school and after I said no, he replied, "Yeah, even the nerdiest girls aren't nerdy enough for Magic."

laurel's look = "fuck you and your bullshit photography"

:)

Or, I have just asked her to prom, and she's not even going to dignify that foolishness with a response.

High school scarred me.

Will: quiz bowl?

^^^I WAS IN QUIZ BOWL.

i play M:TG

Me a few years earlier:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/LaurelGirlsSmall.jpg

xp I assumed people who asked me out were setting me up for an elaborate public joke and I turned them all down.

QUIZ/KNOWLEDGE BOWL VETERANS UNITE! xxpost

I AM SO JEALOUS OF TEH QUIZBOWL

laurel ever so slightly bershon in the first one

b/c of this thread I emailed my parents asking for scans of hs/quiz bowl/etc pics

xposts TO THE I LOVE QUIZ BOWL BOARD

I think that makes you the most desirable woman alive, bell_labs. xxxp

oh i am just going to give it away: i was at an anime club. wow embarrassing.

some kids tried to hook me into magic the gathering, but as a kid who NEVER had money, i just got their cast off cards, i think i only ever paid $2 total for my cards, and was whupped over and over until i quit one day and never looked back.

however i definitely played D&D! for WAAAAAYYYY too long (read: until i moved to montreal abt 2 years ago). but that is NOT embarrasssing becuase it was basically a bunch of great dudes hanging out and occasionally playing games but mostly making funny jokes.

MANY XXXXXXPOSTS it was not quiz bowl, they didn't havei t in Canada, BUT we had Reach For The Top which is the same tihng, i think, and I was on that team!!!!!

what is quiz bowl?

Academic Decathlon veterans unite. (We won the San Diego championship in my junior year.)

oh man this calls for a thread

Jessie, you are the gorj in hs, those are some sweet cheekbones.

Laurel, you kinda remind me of Nona Mecklenberg (sp?) in that first pic.

i don't have any pics from highschool online, but there is one in a yearbook somewhere of me wearing a BLUR tshirt :o

i think it was the LATIN CLUB group photo

Uh. Were we the same person in high school, or what.

Was it JUNIOR CLASSICAL LEAGUE

Quiz Bowl is like "Jeopardy" except in a five-on-five match-up.

My step-father (who is a math teacher) complains that it doesn't get the press coverage that football gets.

He also believes that a out-of-the-park home run should be discounted as a foul since the ball has left the area of play.

xpost roxy we might have been!! except all you girls were cuter than me. the teenage years were awkward ones.

I did geography bowl and some scholars bowl. And BIBLE BOWL

xpost i didnt feel cuet

None of us felt cuet, I for one was an outcast who never dated or kissed or flirted and read a lot of books to use up the time until I could leave my hometown.

Bell labs, on the other hand, at least gets to be a knock-out adult, which is what everyone who matters will remember, anyway.

Y7, 1992: I am sat on the right:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/168/362802884_6faa391c93_b.jpg

Y13, 1999: I am next door but one to the guy in the Sheffield Wednesday shirt on the second-to-back row.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2140/2176461300_fd97c08326_b.jpg

xpost, I was on our school's Fifteen to One team, but I don't think anyone who might know what that means is still awake.

lol the only one feeling revulsion at those five kids stomping that one kid into the ground

I think I kind of hated all six of them

Fifteen to One team?

That earth science manual is somewhat reminiscent of the Music has The Right To Children cover.

some sort of english schoolboy gangbang no doubt

xp

That kid is falling down a crevasse and they're all just laughing.

Fifteen to One is a quiz but I don't know how you play it in teams.

theyre not just laughing theyre jumping on his hed

LJ: I learnt photoshop (badly) when restoring that scan from a poster that had been torn in two

NV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_to_One

there was a school's edition which was lame, and all my team mates were idiots so we did really badly. Schools (i.e. team) version was 3 teams of 5.

caek looks disgusted at the Lord of the Flies shit going down tho.

LJ: I learnt photoshop (badly) when restoring that scan from a poster that had been torn in two

possibly be me, lol troubled teen

lol the only one feeling revulsion at those five kids stomping that one kid into the ground

-- jhøshea, Monday, January 7, 2008 5:08 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

they're all just laughing

Nah, our man caek is just sitting there, consumed with hatred. XPOST!

No Ed G Robinson in schooltime 15 to 1?

WILLIAM G STEWART dammit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_to_One#Schools_Series

lol, Final was a grammar school vs. Haberdasher's. No wonder we did so shit.

Yeah, he was asking the questions.

Gee you kids, it was all Blockbusters when I were a lad.

you have between you lodged the 15 to 1 title music keyboard tone in my head :-/

The girl on the left in that photo was famously loopy, although I'm not sure how much the reputation was deserved. She was allegedly caught fingering herself in French (for real) and had a coffin in her bedroom.

The girl on the right was was proud that her dad was a Tory counciller.

Indian guy is now a dentist.

Most of our Pub Quiz mafia went on 15 to 1 at some point. The main reason I could never be arsed was cos there was no money involved.

xp, And I am still a cunt. I actually got called "aloof" on my report from my music teacher that year.

What happened to Johnny Crevasse?

crack addiction

http://voiceofcanada.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/applause.jpg

well, as i said on that other thread, i was in a team that won a general-knowledge competition two years running, but we were an independent prep school so YAH BOOH SUCKS

(i do regret it, i honestly do)

haw! no idea. I think he left at 16. He was very short and was bullied terribly. I had no classes with him until GCSE art. I still remember the sound of a lump of modelling clay the size of a softball hitting him in the head. Those lessons were out of control.

Our school was pretty much 1/3 non-white British until 16+, and you can see what happened there from the year group photo.

xxxp

I got a U in our GCSE art mock exam. Good times.

LJ: you went to an independent prep school as well as Westminster?

He was very short and was bullied terribly

YEAH SO WE SEE

yucks!

Indian guy is now a dentist pharmacist.

http://www.aston.ac.uk/images/prospective-students/ug/pros/lhs/03lhspha-1.jpg

(back left)

Creepy Googling is going to bite me on the ass one day.

caek: I was at state primary until the end of year 5, at which point my parents thought they'd give me a crack "at the highest academic level", and sent me to westminster under school for three years, where, i am happy to inform, i still finished top of the exams, as well as the punishment lists. god i was a gormless twat then (think i'm bad now? then HA)

also my bro, who attends Westminster as well (as a fees-paid academic scholar, but still), got a D at GCSE art proper :p

in fact we were both given the ultimatum: "get a scholarship or we can't afford for you to go". both of us succeeded, and although the school was good for me in that i'd have been SLAUGHTERED at most other places (for being such an extrovert outsider goon), i can't help wondering whether my actual life wouldn't have been improved had i failed to get the grades.

i can't help wondering whether my actual life wouldn't have been improved had i failed to get the grades.

Absolutely not.

ha, folks like you would have driven me to depression :D

westminster wasn't that bad tbh. towards the end i began to fit in and what was previously fond mockery became genuine fondness. it helped that i kinda blanked out how socially-connected and wealthy the vast majority of pupils were. definitely suited me more than my brother.

Mookie, the pic of you looking pug-nosed and sulky in jr high is endlessly amusing.

My even-younger brother is at a comprehensive and although he's an immature pillock his street sass puts mine to shame. Apparently when someone tried to mug him of his phone he merely asked if that guy was a dealer and could he have HIS phone number. This confused the would-be robber enough to prevent the attack (he even gave my brother his number!). Kids eh?

aw thanks. actually i don't think i'd reached jr. high yet, on reflection--i don't look hideous enough

this thread is all clogged up w/indecipherable britishes terminology

moar pix plz!

http://homepage.mac.com/arobinso/.Pictures/jjd2.jpg

3 High school ILXors for the price of one.

^^^ best looking HHS guys, for better or for worse

I think I still have that hat.

these outfits are blowing a mind

w/the multi-racial 3 different types of dudes strangely untied by some underlying sartorial theme + pose + lockers it really has a saturday morning tv show ala saved by the bell kinda feel

ha i was gonna say the same thing.

I'm relatively certain we happened to all dress like that and basically were all "LET'S STRIKE A POSE!" when Sara asked us for a picture.

Trust me, I did NOT ask them to dress up like that; I found them that way. And believe me, there were stranger fashion statements made. (GOD if I had that picture of John in the weirdest hat ever, I would post it in a second.)

I feel like I am missing out on an awesome dance sequence that's about to follow that, once the drums kick in

And Heavy D comes out of the locker

With Robert Smith

Is that a....scrubbing bubble...in the top part of the locker?!

That's how I know it's John's locker!

big cleaning products fan in hs he was

If anyone can find the JJFBHDHIGHSCHOOLDANCING.jpg, all of nabiscos dreams will be fulfilled.

(!)

xpost There was a second picture where you could see the full glory of the locker contents more clearly, but unfortunately I don't have a scanner.

xpost to John - doesn't FB have that picture somewhere?

http://static.flickr.com/62/168965529_81dc4e52d3.jpg

hahaha

Best detail in this picture: FB doing the Cabbage Patch WITH HIS JAW

hahahahahahahahahayesha fdfwfadfasd

L O L

I wish I could remember what kind of dance that was supposed to even BE that you were all doing.

Information Society was surely playing somewhere on the radio.

IT WAS THE CABBAGE PATCH

"the nineties"

lol @ pringle in hand

I mean, here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijAYN9zVnwg

~!@~!@~!@~!@~!@

Mr. Purple Shirt looks a little like John Justen.

lol wat

hahahaha

Yes.

more like Color Me Badd, surely

im sorry but theres no way all three of you are doing the same dance

Odds are it was TKK or KMFDM and not InSoc, since S4r4h D0ts0n is not in that picture.

Blue Cap has got some kinda Pringles Jig action going on.

uh

The thing about that picture is that I don't remember John having Jay Leno's chin in high school.

HI DERE wins thread, thread's over man.

blue shirt guy looks like dan perry

blue shirt guy looks like dan perry

Nah, too short.

Um.

BIG DAN aka the anteupper

No, that is Dan.

FB = feelin it physically
JJ = feelin it carnally
DP = feelin it spiritually

God, I just keep RETURNING to that picture.

dp = feelin' it BLAZINGLY, surely

Dan looks shorter than he is in the picture because he's sort of receding in the background. Also, I can't explain John's chin or any of the fashion choices.

Dan looks shorter in that picture because the guy who looks like me IS A GIANT

hes prob got his knees bent as part of the "dancing"

what is in JJ's pockets, we must know

a whole lotta hip?

left pocket: sony "sports" walkman
right pocket: lol hueg puffy ball topped minnesota winter hat

At least one pocket contains a wallet on a chain.

I should so stop diming out people who have dirt on me.

i've already devoted 2 threadz to my sad hiiiiii school days so i'll leave it at that.(i know. i'm a little sick of me too.)

80's Skot!

so sad all the time. so stoned...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2129/1783586722_1cdd19b07a_b.jpg

you all look fabulous, by the way.

wau you went to school with madonna and howard jones

Wow, Scott!

xpost to Dan omg I had TOTALLY FORGOTTEN THAT

Also probably: bunch of keys and probably some cassette tapes

Skot's threads rule. Where you latecomers been? ;-)

*bows to seward*

dan is the cutest boy in school ::blush::

I would hang out with those dudes

in fact I have friends who still dress like that in 2008

wau, we were 18 years ahead of our time!

he has to be talking abt skots picture

my best pal liz went from:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2361/1782726171_09af59aec7_b.jpg

to this:

http://www.riseaboverecords.com/bands/ewiz/images/bandpic.jpg

Scott was cute!

so cute either way. cutest lil' doomhead! oh yes you are!

That's a radical transformation, Scott! I don't know if I'm more impressed by the gender transmogrification or the spontaneous generation of another person.

I was talking about Dan's/John's/FB's

xposts

"Scott was cute!"

then my 30's hit. HARD. or reality hit. or kids. or something. oof, feel so bloated now.

how did you all become ugly old whores since these pictures were taken

HI THERE MY NAME IS BOOZE HAVE WE MET?

curtis there is no way anyone still dresses like this: http://homepage.mac.com/arobinso/.Pictures/jjd2.jpg

I love FB's Gordon Gartrelle shirt.

I don't own a $95 shirt, and I have a job.

I didn't know that the Breakfast Club were from Minnesota!

how did you all become ugly old whores since these pictures were taken

1. booze
2. passage of time
3. whoring

i can't compete w/ scott or dan but here are a few, both from like 4-5 years ago:

http://i14.tinypic.com/82kdzti.jpg
http://i14.tinypic.com/82kdzti.jpg

er
http://i2.tinypic.com/6wm2ctc.jpg

I'm guessing the singer was Dan/FB/JJ's English teacher and therefore didn't really hang out when they weren't performing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcqbPGXwPOg

http://static.flickr.com/62/168965529_81dc4e52d3.jpg

please tell me JJ's necklace is one of those claw-holding-a-magic-orb things you get at the town fair for like ten bucks.

Jordan, did you go to school in MIami?

oh jesus i had one of those! it was a like a 15th birthday present from my bestfriend. xpost

palmetto

jessie monster is completely and totally correct re:necklace.

OMG A+++

palmetto

-- J0rdan S.,

I'm a Columbus boy.

We should play a FAP soon.

ah i don't know anyone who went to columbus except for one kid who went to play baseball. are you, me and daniel the only miami ilxors?

Upon further contemplation, it is possible that I know where that sweater is. Will report back.

Thost two pictures of DP, JJ, and FB might be the best pictures I've ever seen. I want to know what you were listening to!

The necklace, however, is lost to the ages. I traded it to a girlfriend in Senior year for her biker Vietnam Vet dads creepy skull ring. xpost

skull ring = outlaws (a motorcycle gang)

The idea of having girlfriends at high school is such a bizarre, alien one.

ah i don't know anyone who went to columbus except for one kid who went to play baseball. are you, me and daniel the only miami ilxors?

and elan! I haven't seen him in a while.

http://www.geocities.com/darraghmac/darraghwrecked.jpg

two or three hours after getting aquainted with vodka for the first time at my graduation, aged 16.

hahaha

oh jesus i had one of those! it was a like a 15th birthday present from my bestfriend. xpost

my first boyfriend, who coincidentally dressed an awful lot like John Justen in high school (and almost certainly listened to the same music as Dan Perry) gave me one. I never wore it but it's the thought that counts.

jessie monster is completely and totally correct re:necklace.

excuse me, I need to go find a mirror and give myself a high five.

hahaha

-- J0rdan S., 08 January 2008 00:32 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ah yes, eleven years later and we can all look back and laugh.

omg so many of these so good and funny
mine are boring - but i think there are more exciting ones at my mom's place - good job on starting thread after christmas vacation back home! anyway, i think i posted most of these in another thread ages ago? ohwell.
graduation day:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/189/499573570_fc48b07712.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/219/499573576_8869778372_o.jpg

you look the same!

rrrobyn you are aging v v nicely

my best friend when i was little just e-mailed me this picture tonight. good timing. lol 1st grade:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2375/2162028198_2b3da7ba72_b.jpg

scott, cuet!!

rrrobyn always looks as purty as a picture

some bowling day thing where we had to be teams and dress up. we were grunge. i didn't usually wear the long-underwear + jean shorts but i did wear teh jean shorts (a lot) and the shirts (long-sleeved + short-sleeved + plaid for sure). i miss that plaid shirt so much.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/192/499573572_cbf701e0b2_o.jpg

after-party after-party i guess

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/218/498945757_04619c353f_o.jpg

xpost - aaw - i credit sunscreen and genetics?

kid in the yellow plaid staring melancholically at kid in plaid jacket is cute

you look like awesome canuck teen comedy troupe, rrrobyn!

i'm last row last on the left. still going thru my "brown" phase apparently.

we have a what did you look like 'as a kid' thread, right? we should have a lol grade 1 though
xpost
haha! i was in theatre though...
i totally knew that was scott up on the left aw

ruby otm re: kid in yellow plaid

btwn scott's grade 1 class and my bowling comedy troupe i think we've got plaid covered

yeah, the plaid scene is coverage throughout

so, pat, my best pal, and one of the kindest and smartest people i've ever known in my life, became a computer genius who hangs out with esther dyson and people like that. he's in the middle of the front row in the green looking all sad. here he is now:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/62/198632614_f44f782af4.jpg?v=0

he's got super-long hair. longer than mine even when it was long. he's all grown up!

he's my kinda computergenius!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/423839175_1f41225bf4.jpg?v=0

aw @ he's all grown up!

we lost touch after high school. but he e-mailed me a while back. same with doom queen liz. i miss those guys. god bless the interweb.

omg your pal is hanging out in the mads' lab!?

scott's pal = http://www.purdue.edu/convos/images/shows/beakman.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/arobinso/.Pictures/jjd2.jpg

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGPORTRAITS/music/portrait200/drp000/p045/p04565bq387.jpg

It's the hat. And THE EIGHTIES.

I imagine your lives where like this video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc5Sm4iRtxs

i want to escape this place

i have severe 16 year old crush on locker dp

also rrrobyn is adorable.

http://homepage.mac.com/arobinso/.Pictures/jjd2.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/86/DcTalkNuThang.jpg

oh my god, i am ashamed to say that i thought the exact same thing

High school girlfriend, upon finding out that I liked hip-hop, tried to turn me onto DC Talk.

I think I was most frequently playing the Geto Boys at that time.

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/5276/image001qu3.jpg

sweet catsweater

it was kinda scratchy

cute cat pose!

High school girlfriend, upon finding out that I liked hip-hop, tried to turn me onto DC Talk.

Uh, surely the warning signs were there already.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/emmi.jpg

This is from summer 1998, I think, right after I'd graduated from HS.

The girl is one of the handful of HS friends I still see regularly.

Also, it's pity the pic is in B&W, because otherwise you'd see that my shirt is orange. Ah, the 90s!

OMG Skot, I had to study that first grade picture for several seconds to make sure that it was not MY first grade picture.

These are both from the summer of 1996 which was technically after my freshman year in college but I was only 18 so that's kind of like HS.

At the Bronx Zoo:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/1996.jpg

In a hotel room in Bermuda:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/bermuda.jpg

It appears I made a lot of questionable fashion/hair color/style choices that summer. Wau.

farmer tan

ENBB you look adorable.

It appears I made a lot of questionable fashion/hair color/style choices that summer. Wau.

Wasn't 1996 a prime Melrose Place fashion year? I remember Y necklaces and flower prints being huge.

dan-in-hat has a michael-stipe-circa-man-in-the-moon-video vibe

SS - aw, thanks.

I remember Y necklaces and flower prints being huge

Totally!!

sunny with dark hair! and kitty! aaw

1993 13 yrs old
http://members.aol.com/johnnyradpants/mohawk.jpg

OMG

u mad playa

You were drawn by Los Bros. Hernandez back in the day?

Tuomas looks like RJG in that photo.

Awwwww, chaki!

http://photos-499.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v15/9/14/8832499/n8832499_30033658_6592.jpg
The revolution, while not televised, was photographed profusely.

and also

http://photos-499.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v15/9/14/8832499/n8832499_30033659_6622.jpg

lol @ brown leather jacket attempting to lean out of the photo! xpost

I love how fucking IMPORTANT hair color is to high school kids. It was to me anyway.

Oh yeah, she was kind of a bitch but could be pleasant at times. We shared a lollipop once. She couldn't handle the revolution though.

I have located a dusty old photograph that proves I once had hair. Fourteen or fifteen?

http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v165/128/113/664617641/n664617641_610962_1586.jpg

!!!!

Touch the Trapezoid (TM)

(c) Vanessa Huxtable, Season 5

aged 15, i guess, in stratford-upon-avon youth hostel:

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/stratford.jpg

what a tit.

(arm, black shirt, hair ... i don't remember it being a hitler youth rally. then again, my school was fucking weird.)

Was that before you formed the Wedding Present grim?

OMG I was just thinking that

Can someone explain to me why nabisco and I weren't foundational members in a New Jack Swing group?

Big Schooly D fans?

destiny deferred :(

xposts

weirdly, i didn't know much about the weddoes at that point -- they were a name and that was about all. a coupla months later, i would become obsessed with them ... because a dude in my english class had a picture of gedge on his folder and i said: "who's that? he looks fucking ace."

this is suggesting all manner of subconscious inferences with which i'm not comfortable AT ALL :o

That must be why I'm a fan of the work of John Thomson.

tuomas in '98 looks like a cooler version of me in '95

on a pile of people at nerd camp. 15 going on 16.

http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v37/152/62/3700002/n3700002_30332341_7934.jpg

the japanese/black kid behind me was the first boy i ever slept with (!)

I can scarcely imagine where any hs photos of me might be now, but there was a graduation pic where I wore a terrifying mullet.

I'm trying to figure out what's on your T-shirt, the table.

probably some grindcore band shirt ;)

ned, it is this band:

http://creeprecords.bigcartel.com/account/10866/76964/175.jpg

they weren't grindcore. more like...i dunno, frustrated pseudopolitical punk to get drunk and dance around to. not 77 punk...more orange county sounding. their early records with a gal singin are actually fuckin great hardcore.

oh, i jsut remembered i'm thanked in that album above.! my first.

my name was ted stomp at the time. lol i was such a zine kid.

I love all of you for this thread.

http://static.flickr.com/44/144966388_395956e1f3.jpg

OMG nabisco

revive

http://static.flickr.com/62/168965529_81dc4e52d3.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/arobinso/.Pictures/jjd2.jpg

justen in the first pic = http://i31.tinypic.com/29mxfyb.jpg

nabisco's hair so perfectly lol 90s

enbb @ bronx zoo: sarah palin?

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/1996.jpg

http://www.foxnews.com/images/299305/0_61_palin_sarah.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/aweshorrormovieke6.gif

aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHkhht
aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHkhht
aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHkhht
aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHkhht

I wonder what tune the hstngs cru were jamming to in that first pic

i have a newly unearthed lol high school pic (circa '91?) that i will scan later.

I just wanted to see the amazing picture of DP, JJ and FB but just noticed Jody's likening my pic to SP. LOL.

yeah that Future Mods of America pic is one of my favorite things ever posted by anyone

It's truly incredible.

senior year @ national quiz bowl competition in new orleans

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/7834/img008h.jpg

I skipped graduation to go to this, it was great

how did you fare

totally not smoking

20somethingth out of like 52 teams :/ but we were going up against like the Teen Jeopardy champions and Ivy League charter schools and shit.

this thread is so classic

http://static.flickr.com/62/168965529_81dc4e52d3.jpg

this picture will never NOT be hilarious

http://photos-a-2.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs159.snc1/5931_517021777278_22700883_30758744_7227655_n.jpg

lol prom

haha i remember the night gr80 and i revived this

ILX MEMORIES

friend just tagged a bunch of lol prom pics on fb, will post others later

I saw some of those that JW was tagged in. They're pretty amazing.

my senior prom date was DC comics supervillain "the joker" apparently

shutup max is that you

i WISH

omg is that justen

x-post dammit u are all too fast

Yes - Max is the one on the right in purple with what are clearly the best moves.

I forgot how awesome Jhøshea's pictures on this thread are.

seriously total bro

I think the moral of modpic.jpg is "no one in the early 90s looked good mid-cabbage patch"

really disappointed i forgot this thread existed during the heigh of mod/77 tension i think it really would have helped us all calm down

I need to find some decent HS photos. My friend L has all our yearbooks in London and we looked a few weeks ago. I had forgotten:

*Yearbook article about me being offered a book deal, HORRIFIC photo NOT publishing.
*Yearbook article about stylish people on campus complete with L's friend, some baby punk, writing some hissyfit about WHY DID THEY PICK HER WAHH WAHHH WAHH SHE TOLD ME I WAS A POSEUR WHEN I WORE MY DK'S T-SHIRT next to massive photo of me in a sweater I didn't like.
*Photo of me and friends in school newspaper office. Band t-shirts: JAMC, Smiths, Cure LOL 1985.

oh jesus look at this crepe

http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs025.snc1/4269_543041892590_5901908_32161747_5886032_n.jpg

>:}

Very Kubrick-esque.

(Meant in a good way, actually!)

different prom:

http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs025.snc1/4269_543041932510_5901908_32161751_7923220_n.jpg

damn elmo u r a good looking dude

why thank u

http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs025.snc1/4269_543041892590_5901908_32161747_5886032_n.jpg

fyi John made that face 24/7 in high school when he wasn't caught mid-cabbage patch

Mwahahaahhaha elmo. The one of you possessively holding the victim, I mean, the girl in the red dress...lol. Really.

It's more or less the way my nephew grabs something and then says, "MINE. NO, MINE."

a friend added a bunch of pics from NERD CAMP, aka CTY. this one is classic me at 15. i am wearing a Blanks '77 shirt....oh, those were the days.

http://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs212.snc1/7933_558455124328_3700002_32905343_7159415_n.jpg

also, yes, banana-dress.

xp - I went to nerd camp once - I figured I'd fail out of HS Chemistry if I took it at my school because I'd not show up to class one too many times. CTY allowed me to get the ordeal over with in a few weeks.

http://i27.tinypic.com/2115pao.jpg

probably stoned and giggling in my friend's car, aka my default mode of existence for high school

my default mode of existence for high school was staring sullenly from behind my hair when I wasn't feigning sleep.

classic default mode of existence for high school!

Aw I was hoping this thread was where I'd posted this pic of me and an old friend that I cannot find the scan/jpg of anywhere dammit.

http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1337/5/94/649550638/n649550638_2191816_2289.jpg

lol cty

oh tabes, you lil cutie

yeah, i look back at myself and am like, "so that's why i always got the staredown from men in the west village."

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs157.snc3/18433_608424784701_1007902_34941961_5968021_n.jpg

this thread now has photos of all 3 proms i attended as a high school student

i don't have any from the one i attended after i graduated lol

just found this one w/hilly
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2629/4222262351_e24991a3bb.jpg
this is quite a portrait of my nose and nonstop blazer-wearing

lady next to me (in the middle) is my moms

love to you, la lechera, but your mother looks like something a rabbit would munch on.

yeah, that's why i thought i would mention that she is my mother. it's an unfortunate outfit. this was the period when she was ordering from a lot of catalogs and felt compelled to wear something once she bought it. she is/was more attractive than that cantaloupe suit suggests, i assure you.

this was the look i had when people started calling me data, like from TNG.

lol, okay, i was hoping you would take that in good humor, because it wasn't meant to offend. my mother had some terrible outfits from that time period, too.

also, i like yr look. data was awesome.

my mom was a teacher at my high school -- on the uncharitability scale, "looks like a carrot" ranks pretty mild

sheesh table!!!!!!

lol senior prom

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/img019.jpg

another pic from that same year which raises a lot of questions including why I ever thought it was OK to wear overalls and why am I so fucking happy just slicing up some bread

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/img023.jpg

one more prom which includes a shot of our sweet white limo and the driver who made us dump out our booze before we even got to the venue ;_;

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/img018-1.jpg

dan - "senior year @ national quiz bowl competition in new orleans"? was that 2002 or so? i think i was there!

erica, v. classy prom pics! your date's hair though...whoa.

also, here is what i looked like sometime in junior year:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4030/4285160128_a31e290c60_m.jpg

lol nerds. I am at front left.

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/VAH6cv6ai7GXkuwElZXBww?authkey=Gv1sRgCOfm0aLz2ID-4AE&feat=directlink

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_gx9UOgOAfb0/S1R6wFvxf6I/AAAAAAAAAsA/NDO34fmzbx8/s512/acadchall3sm.jpg

aaah i love the nerd density of this board

But I still got to go to prom!

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_gx9UOgOAfb0/S1R7gwoXrCI/AAAAAAAAAsc/w04VM4ALsv4/phil_niki_prom_87_sm.jpg

hot date, too! none of my prom pictures are scanned - for any hs pictures i rely on other people's facebook postings, really.

was you prom theme something about a goth missile crisis?

erica, v. classy prom pics! your date's hair though...whoa.

haha thanks. Yeah that was my first real boyfriend and the hair is questionable but I swear I think it was less questionable at the time.

Oh yeah, lots of people had hair like that in the mid-90s.

it was the hair of guys people who quit the soccer team to smoke weed iirc

guys people

I found a picture I was so excited to post here & it turns out it was the first picture I posted to this thread. -_-

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v236/19/46/1122630569/n1122630569_30627929_5714.jpg

^ the most miserable semester of my life, fuck a marching band

the day that the photo i posted upthread was taken was easily the day that i came closest to dying so far in my life

God I feel old. I mean, shit, I was in high school about two fucking decades ago. No way am I posting my young fugly face on the internet/ILX.

I think it's safe to assume this was the longest my hair ever was. Also, sophomore year I learned a valuable lesson. It's never a good idea to try to cut your own bangs the night before school pictures.
http://i55.tinypic.com/2q9ckcm.jpg

lol I look so uncomfortable

My brother found, and posted on facebook, a self-portrait I drew in ninth grade, which I had apparently labeled "the glowing loser"

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/183076_10150143524726955_630836954_8373707_3324851_n.jpg

I forgot I ever wore a severed electrical cord as a belt...I think I got that idea from a Simpsons joke.

love that + love that title

I did have total Cure hair like that, too...

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/BIGHEAD.jpg?t=1298677555
me in ninth grade!

omg <3 <3

Wow, 9th grade Abbott was hella cool! (As is current-grade Abbott, obviously)

OOOOOOOOOOMG!!

Oh holy shit, that is awesome Abby!

Especially the combination of Cure hair and pink + yellow shirt.

Abbott, you and my friend Jason would've been BFFS 4EVA (discounting the spacetime continuum and all that). He rocked the "Robert Smith" for about two years in high school.

omg abbs

bff emailed me this the other night, from the night we graduated

http://img203.imageshack.us/i/photowoh.jpg/

omg abbs

so awesome

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/3628/photowoh.jpg

http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TXVf8pmSrxI/AAAAAAAAAgo/vM-nv9rjqBU/prom-driveway.jpg

1991 - that's me with the Farrah hair mid-dance or something.

holy shit this thread.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/thesplinters.jpg

obv this isnt me, but a local pop-punk band that i loved and was good friends with. my band played with them a lot. we had a big ass punk scene for a bunch of little kids, and we're all pretty much still friends with few exceptions

one of them was my BF obv

lol at them in their lil leather jackets. they look like babies for real

pubescent punks warm my heart

which one was your bf

i bet you can guess

hoos

LOL

if by hoos you mean the nerdy maniac on the far left then you are otm my brother

u have a type... and that type is hoos

lol ill let my gigantic metalhead BF know

hes flying into a hulkamaniac rage

roxy

stop lying

everyone knows u and hoos are lovers

& u fell in love when you were co-modding 1p3

love at first ban

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/248703_10150202595050633_503065632_7124399_3669370_n.jpg

hey thats my hand

xpost lol @ first ban

So never posting my high school formal pics on here. Esp not the year 10 prom. Hello, electric blue dress and David Sylvian hairdo :/

sorry just one more thing no one probably gives an f about

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/246931_10150202585505633_503065632_7124270_6408771_n.jpg

this is a flyer for one of my high school bands, the first band i ever played in tbh

we really liked "cute stuff"

this thread is the best

i wish i had some high school photos

Proto-goth, hanging out with my friend Bruce (he carried Shelley poetry and a scarf in his back jeans pocket)

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/180125_486280087756_726857756_6396326_975991_n.jpg

And here's my little brother, after we dressed him up for a school fancydress comp, can u guess who he is meant to be?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/164587_486280107756_726857756_6396327_4419564_n.jpg

aaaaaahhahaha classic vyv

He won, as well!

Going to a fancy-dress party on Friday, the theme is "dress as your teenage self". Can't wait!

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.496312418782.299971.556118782

devil's lock: Carter USM
tiny little braids: Les Claypool/Perry Ferrell's girlfriend
chinbeard: Layne Staley
tshirt: "I've haven't tried acid yet but you say it would help guide my artistic muse?"
shorts: JCPenny

https://fbcdn-photos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/73932_496735293782_556118782_7163132_7684585_a.jpg

omg tiny braids made me lol
also clasped hands

HAHAHA at lil' vyv.

roxy, you played with discount? that makes me so happy. i was obsessed with them for a brief period in 9th grade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5hvDunsKiA

yep i played with them a few times tbh. we were "friend bands"

fwiw my high school band sounded EXACTLY like them

lol rox i keep reading your dn (which is v good btw) as tacobaby bellsbury

there were places for teenage bands to play where you lived?

my teenage band used to play in barns, music stores and house parties

My teenage band played once at a school talent show. We were trippin on shrooms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP1HeThUlvw

We played detachable penis.

it was all ages?

"I woke up this morning with a bad hangover, and my penis was missing again...."
"NEXT!!!"

Yes, we had no clue what was going on. Also our band name was mushroom attic. Surprisingly we became local legends.

We all decided it would be a good idea if we used aliases on stage so no one would recognize us. The joys of psychedelics..our guitarist called himself gargamel, I was Bert j gandolfo, chris penski, Gus jablonski, three ball jones, and chippy chapman. We were fucking high.

Oh and needless to say we all got suspended.

lol ill let my gigantic metalhead BF know

― tacoby bellsbury (roxymuzak), Wednesday, May 25, 2011 3:53 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark

irl lol

i am a tiny metalhead fyi

i did not go to high school in the 70s, but i looked like this anyway:

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-ash1/v64/40/52/19506071/n19506071_30931113_4131.jpg

on right.

i just found that shirt again yesterday.

Wait are you in wolfmother?

not anymore

dlh are you from hawaii?

I wondered that too but then thought maybe his crew was just really into HI prints or something. idk.

like pacey witter

lol, yes

not just the hawaiian prints, that looks like hawaii

that's not what it looks like in the talking pictures

dude on the left made me think HI too though

okay well also i am making assumptions based on the apparent ethnicities of the folks in the photo. PLUS the patterns PLUS the geography.

PLUS you're racist

<33333333333333333333333 jk

im white btw

nah you guys are right! those are the steam vents on kilauea.

brian is half-fijian. i just have alarming hair.

I KNEW IT I WAS EVEN GOING TO SAY IT LOOKED LIKE THE BIG ISLAND BUT I DIDN'T WANT TO EMBARRASS MYSELF

nothing says the big island like a hole in the ground

nah much love for my island

where did you grow up? i lived in hilo for a couple months after high school

i bounced between the big island and oahu when i was a little kid, but eighth grade to graduation i was in hilo, so hilo.

http://www.hilohs.k12.hi.us/jrotc/hilo_high_school_logo.gif

go inappropriately nordic viks!

that is cool that you lived there! for such a remote place a lot of people seem to have spent a little time there.

yeah i sorta knew a couple kids at college who had grown up there. its a cool place!! i watched a lot of movies at the cheap theater. and smoked a lot of pot.

i watched a lot of movies at the cheap theater. and smoked a lot of pot.

hilo!

only other things on the checklist really are 1) get dangerously drunk at boiling pots and 2) drive to kona, turn around

i tried hitching to kona once but i got stuff thrown at me so i turned around

im white btw

― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Wednesday, May 25, 2011 7:55 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark

so hard, being white

i have read that anti-white bias is a problem

it's not really a problem. it's just a noticeable thing from time to time.

it's really more a class thing cuz the japanese kids get it too.

oh i wasn't even talking about hawaii! i was just referring to that times article max linked to in another thread.

oh whoops! i get asked about this by a surprisingly large number of (white) people, and it's weird because haole-resentment is a thing, just like you'd expect it to be in an imperial colony with a mostly-native underclass, but it's not really a serious thing and a lot of people on the west coast ask me about it in hushed commiserating tones like they think people are being lynched and it always weirds me out/makes me uncomfortable and then i feel guilty for making whatever jokes i made about it.

(your post would not have been one of these even if it had been real though)

yeah, when you posted i figured you must have gotten that kind of question before. i know very little about hawaii tbh.

hawaiian sociopolitics are way more interesting than i thought they were when i lived there but that'd probably be true no matter where i was a bored teenager.

your HS's shameless theft of NFL intellectual property is inspiring to me

i never liked being a viking and then i went to college at portland state where i was STILL A VIKING

everywhere, that's where i'm a viking

vikings are sort of a creepy mascot; sorry minnesota

at least it makes some sense up here!

youve never heard of the infamous viking raids of hawaii i guess

Hahah the Whitehall Vikings had the exact same mascot/logo but in West Michigan. Is there only one set of HS logos in the WORLD, like one wildcat, one anchor, one viking, one...whatever. I know that it's the same everywhere, I KNOW it, and yet whenever I see that damn viking, I get a little shock of recognition.

youve never heard of the infamous viking raids of hawaii i guess

source of much of the anti-white bias

was thor heyerdahl a viking in some sense

xp anchor?

I mean at least Reeths-Puffer got to be the ROCKETS:

http://www.eteamz.com/rpwrestling/images/L_rocket_5675502.jpg

follow up: did thor heyerdahl go to hawaii ever

Oh sorry, I confused Montague's mascot (a wildcat) with their fight song ("Anchor's Aweigh"). I guess no one is The Anchors lollllll.

haha my high school football team really should have been called the anchors

there was a rural HS near me built near a freeway called, sadly, "I-35 High School". their mascot is the Roadrunners. it's even in a town, technically!

just as long as they use jonathan richman as their fight song.

i don't know for sure but i kind of doubt it

omg I-35 high school. those poor kids.

the university of hawaii teams used to be called THE RAINBOW WARRIORS and sort of still are, but they replaced the rainbow with a stylized H ft. hawaiian iconography and allowed each sport to choose their own name and there was this huge complicated fight over it between 1) the university, 2) hawaiian activists opposing the use of the iconography and 3) football players who had been complaining for years about being called the rainbow warriors

i went to a quaker school and our mascot was a quaker

i went to a quaker school and we didnt have a mascot because we didnt have team sports because we didnt believe in competition

a quaker is not a v compelling mascot for competitive contact sports, i mean

http://www.i-35.k12.ia.us/

xps feeling your oats then were you

that was in middle school though. in high school i went to public school and we were the tigers, because we were in princeton.

terrible

xp

I went to school in a town named after a particular animal, and the school's mascot was... that very same animal.

ok this doesn't actually have the img of my HS's logo but

http://www.mascotdb.com/team.php?id=106832

mascotdb.com??

well when I played hs football there was a push to change the team name to the "earthquakers" so

http://aworthyfamily.org/pella.gif

this is way butcher than it was when i was in school

haha "little dutch"

it sounds like a mob nickname

well when I played hs football there was a push to change the team name to the "earthquakers" so

UH's local campus was and is "the vulcans"

joey "little dutch" pella

Somebody recently posted a photo of me from HS on fb but I can't access it now. :(

i think it sounds adorable. the mascot should be tiny anthropomorphic clogs or something.

i'm trying to find the old logo! it has been erased from the page of time. it looked like one of these:

http://www.lawnornamentsandfountains.com/ProductImages/mass-statue/2535-s.gif

there was a rural HS near me built near a freeway called, sadly, "I-35 High School". their mascot is the Roadrunners. it's even in a town, technically!

That's the awesomest thing I've ever heard of.

I keep forgetting you're from Pella, goole. Those kids I ran into with the wooden shoes in the park must be starting college now.

yeah i'm looking at what i can see online about my hometown and it seems pretty different already *nostalgic sigh*

my hs mascot was variously a pirate or a raccoon

my college mascot was...a color

waht

The Orange!

better than your mascot being a big period joke, like alabama

COLOR MASCOTS UNITE

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.homeplateheroes.com/Crimson%2520Suede.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.homeplateheroes.com/Hockey%2520Thumbnail.html&usg=__Wj5UgI-Y4Yog_ROS36huMnN7g-Q=&h=1500&w=1500&sz=596&hl=en&start=3&sig2=X8cP6hX92-esikDWPHuxMQ&zoom=1&tbnid=BKAvONZEA4n_VM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=150&ei=pnjdTafCEoGc-waVsYTRDw&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcrimson%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1062%26bih%3D652%26tbm%3Disch&um=1&itbs=1

go big green

i think we're officially ruining roxy's thread now

but, omg

http://www.numoonus.com/Archive_Site/BizTravel/Pella/PellaLogo.jpg

http://www.numoonus.com/Archive_Site/BizTravel/Pella/Pella1.html

better than your mascot being a big period joke, like alabama

No one makes fun of the New Mexico State Giant Full Stops!

RISD still has the best mascot tho

RISD still has the best mascot tho