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
― Will M., Monday, 7 January 2008 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
cruel
― jhøshea, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
These are all amazing!!! Jhoshea - I would def buy a book of those pics.
― ENBB, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― dell, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Ned looks way more clean cut than I think he should have.
― Sara R-C, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I think if Roxy and I went to the same high school, I would've had a crush on her, for sure.
― jaymc, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
church youth group meeting?
― dell, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/Laurel_portait.jpg
― Laurel, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
NED!
― roxymuzak, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
awww laurel '94!
― sunny successor, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
laurel you look cute and put-upon
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Ned is wearing a sweet digital watch in that picture.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― jessie monster, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah love that laurel
― 69, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
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
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