High School Yearbook Quotes: Classic or Dud?

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I think most of them are dud myself, but sometimes so unintentionally funny they're classic. I'm of course referring to quotes in the captions underneath yearbook photos of graduating students (high school, college, whatever equivalent). Feel free to post your thoughts on the matter, or even share any examples you might remember.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 29 December 2003 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

mine was great: It was something really sentimental like "In dreams there is no pain" which is mostly funny because everyone reading it would be like "gaaa, why the heck did he put that? that's nothing like him."

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 29 December 2003 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Do we miss out in not having high school year books in the UK? I'm guessing no.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 29 December 2003 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

but most of my friends quotes made me laugh out loud. I'm trying to remember some of the best ones. I remember on guy how put his likes as: extra credit, homework, the principal
That makes me laugh everytime I see it.
Also, "likes: music, dislikes: non-music, hobbies: crusing around cyberspace in my UR helmet."

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 29 December 2003 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Our sixth form had a year book. I wrote a page of sentimental gush for it, about how we were all leaving to opposite ends of the country and so on.

When we left fifth year, almost everyone had their own "leaving book", and would get their friends and aquaintances to write stuff in it. I've still got mine somewhere - it was a rather nice hardback A5 notebook with a maroon paisley pattern on the cover.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 29 December 2003 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The people that tried to make those things all serious were weird. Everyone I knew and were good friends with just took it as another opportinity to make some witty joke.

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 29 December 2003 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Lots of people quoted songs, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and The Perks Of Being a Wallflower.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 29 December 2003 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone signed yearbooks in junior high. By the time we got to high school, the whole thing was k-lame.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 December 2003 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't appear in any high school yearbooks but I do have some great junior high yearbooks still. They don't feature official quotes but someone did write in my book "There was a man. Ye knew him well. Ye cliffs." I don't know who but it's pretty funny.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

but jaymc, that's cause we didn't get our HS yearbooks until after school was out.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER! K.I.T.!!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I know latebloomer was talking about quotes, but here's two signings made in my yearbook by ILE's own jaymc:

7th grade:

Andy---
Have a real fun summer. Stay Cool.

8th grade:

Andy,
Have a great summer, but you don't have to.
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As you can see he spent a whole year in tortureful regret of how demanding he had been, and jumped at the opportunity to rectify it. Also, he astutely observed that I had in fact not stayed cool, and therefore dropped that instruction.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember signing a friend's yearbook and saw this little message from another one of his classmates:

Have a grate summer I wont see you next yer becuse I felled.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha! I wish I had my HHH yearbooks here to see what you said about me, Oops, but I think they're in my parents' basement. I guess you're right about the high school yearbook thing, too -- we got them the fall of the following school year, right? (Or one year not until the next February, thanks to some fuck-up by Jim Paskiewicz.) So nobody really cared by that point.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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