laurel is so get me the fuck outta here
― jhøshea, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
awww laurel <3
― tehresa, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
HS ned should be new favicon
― jessie monster, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I think Laurel 94 is judging me. I can feel her stare.
― kenan, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, that's great, Ned.
Sheesh, sounds like you had cool teachers.
― dell, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Aw Jessie and Laurel!!
― ENBB, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Laurel, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
church youth group meeting?
haha zing, but no, worse!
― Will M., Monday, 7 January 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
laurel's look = "fuck you and your bullshit photography"
― jessie monster, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link
will m. = FIELD TRIP?
Is there a thread for all the Hilarious things that the school photographers would say to coax smiles?
― dell, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link
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.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
much much more cringeworthy. hint: it was a special-interest after-school club
― Will M., Monday, 7 January 2008 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i17.tinypic.com/72u5fte.jpg
― jhøshea, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm ruling out D&D/Magic: The Gathering because I think there's a girl in the background.
― jessie monster, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
xp Does it have to do with that duck or whatever that's on the kid's t-shirt next to you?
― jaymc, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
xp, obv but omg jhoshea
pokemon then
― Just got offed, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
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."
― jessie monster, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
:)
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.
― kenan, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Will: quiz bowl?
― dan m, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^I WAS IN QUIZ BOWL.
― jessie monster, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
i play M:TG
― bell_labs, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Laurel, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
QUIZ/KNOWLEDGE BOWL VETERANS UNITE! xxpost
― John Justen, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I AM SO JEALOUS OF TEH QUIZBOWL
― Laurel, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
laurel ever so slightly bershon in the first one
― Just got offed, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― dan m, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I think that makes you the most desirable woman alive, bell_labs. xxxp
― jessie monster, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
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!!!!!
― Will M., Monday, 7 January 2008 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
what is quiz bowl?
― jhøshea, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Academic Decathlon veterans unite. (We won the San Diego championship in my junior year.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
oh man this calls for a thread
― dan m, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Jessie, you are the gorj in hs, those are some sweet cheekbones.
― Laurel, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Laurel, you kinda remind me of Nona Mecklenberg (sp?) in that first pic.
― roxymuzak, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't have any pics from highschool online, but there is one in a yearbook somewhere of me wearing a BLUR tshirt :o
― bell_labs, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link
i think it was the LATIN CLUB group photo
Uh. Were we the same person in high school, or what.
― roxymuzak, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Was it JUNIOR CLASSICAL LEAGUE
― roxymuzak, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost roxy we might have been!! except all you girls were cuter than me. the teenage years were awkward ones.
― bell_labs, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I did geography bowl and some scholars bowl. And BIBLE BOWL
xpost i didnt feel cuet
― roxymuzak, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Laurel, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― caek, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link
lol the only one feeling revulsion at those five kids stomping that one kid into the ground
― jhøshea, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I think I kind of hated all six of them
― caek, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Fifteen to One team?
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
That earth science manual is somewhat reminiscent of the Music has The Right To Children cover.
― Just got offed, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
some sort of english schoolboy gangbang no doubt
― jhøshea, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link