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
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.)
― 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
xp
That kid is falling down a crevasse and they're all just laughing.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Fifteen to One is a quiz but I don't know how you play it in teams.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link
theyre not just laughing theyre jumping on his hed
― jhøshea, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:17 (sixteen years ago) link
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, Monday, 7 January 2008 22:17 (sixteen years ago) link