lol high school

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.