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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: Chris_ on February 18, 2009, 10:48:34 PM
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The TVLand program "HS Reunion" got me to thinking...
Why would any adult give a crap about their HS? I know I won the Best Actor Of The Year award, but other than that HS is a big blank for me. I graduated a year early and never went to any stupid proms or anything like that -- instead I was already in college when my "contemporaries" were screwing around in Civics class.
Why does anyone care about a few years of adolescence? No matter what I see before me, I see Al Bundy reliving his one great game. And I have been hiring and firing Al Bundys for 25 years.
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Not a big deal for me.
Do I recall my HS years?
Yes, but not with any level of fondness.
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I graduated in '02, so I still remember it. It sucked though. I hated high school. Never did prom or any shit like that. Just went to class, then went home.
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Not a big deal for me.
Do I recall my HS years?
Yes, but not with any level of fondness.
I honestly don't understand why any grown-up would care about their HS days. I really don't.
But I have to admit it is fun watching these people who never grew up keep silly 20+ year old meaningless memories alive.
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I remember it. I enjoyed it. I sometimes enjoy remembering it.
But there are things that I don't enjoy remembering about it, and so, I don't think about it often.
Besides, I am not even the same person that I was then, nor are any of the people I knew at that time the same as they were.
Sure, I think about my girlfriend in HS sometimes. I sometimes even wonder how she is today.
But what would be the point?
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I remember it. I enjoyed it. I sometimes enjoy remembering it.
But there are things that I don't enjoy remembering about it, and so, I don't think about it often.
Besides, I am not even the same person that I was then, nor are any of the people I knew at that time the same as they were.
Sure, I think about my girlfriend in HS sometimes. I sometimes even wonder how she is today.
But what would be the point?
Well, if she didn't degrade too much you could get bonked again.
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I remember mine, but it was no big deal. Graduated in 2003. I was not the type to pick a specific clique... I was friends with everyone, but I was still miserable. I had moved to Georgia from Louisiana in 1999 and the adjustment was not an easy one. I went to a metro-Atlanta HS, which meant a college campus-sized HS that was overfilled with students and portable class-room trailers (which caused some claustrophobia :( ).
I went to a couple of Homecoming dances with group dates, but didn't go to prom...at that time, I was too busy focusing on maintaining my GPA and passing all the exams they make you take in junior year in order to graduate and gain the HOPE Scholarship.
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I honestly don't understand why any grown-up would care about their HS days. I really don't.
But I have to admit it is fun watching these people who never grew up keep silly 20+ year old meaningless memories alive.
Ditto my friend.
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I said the best time of my life because I've been going down memory lane and reconnecting with old friends. Yes on Facebook!!! :-)
Now, it wasn't the ONLY best time of my life but it was at the time. I'd give anything to reconnect with some of my old friends. We didn't even have a 20 year reunion last year. Kinda sad...
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I remember high school. it's college that is a blur. one minute, it was the second semester of my freshman year, and the next, I had been employed for 3 months. :-) I managed to reconstruct those three years from credit card receipts and bar napkins. :uhsure:
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My most memorable moment in HS.
My senior year in 83.
Back in my day the term "burnt out" was popular to describe low life drug users and overall punks.
I was in the "nerd" catagory. That was the defintion for those that did well in school (aka book worms), but weren't "jocks".
I was in the cafateria eating lunch.... I saw a burnt out slap his girl friend in the face.
I got up and punched him in the face and asked him "how do you like it?"
He laid there on the floor with a VERY confused look on his face. Ya see, we nerds were "supposed" to be spineless book worms.
This Nerd wasn't.
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I said the best time of my life because I've been going down memory lane and reconnecting with old friends. Yes on Facebook!!! :-)
Now, it wasn't the ONLY best time of my life but it was at the time. I'd give anything to reconnect with some of my old friends. We didn't even have a 20 year reunion last year. Kinda sad...
2 years with some nice kids. I value my adult relationships that lasted 10-20 years.
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^HAHA WE! I tried to follow the trail of clothes home.... :innocent: They would just leave my sorority sweatshirt on me and then somehow I'd make it back to the front steps the next day.
*bats eyes and swears she was good girl* :-)
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2 years with some nice kids. I value my adult relationships that lasted 10-20 years.
Pffffpt! :-) You don't get it.
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^HAHA WE! I tried to follow the trail of clothes home.... :innocent: They would just leave my sorority sweatshirt on me and then somehow I'd make it back to the front steps the next day.
*bats eyes and swears she was good girl* :-)
Sweetheart, High School doesn't have sororities. I think you are channeling College memories through High School.
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Pffffpt! :-) You don't get it.
How would I know? As I said in the OP, I don't remember much of such a meaningless time in my life.
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Sweetheart, High School doesn't have sororities. I think you are channeling College memories through High School.
someone missed the segue. :uhsure: :-)
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How would I know? As I said in the OP, I don't remember much of such a meaningless time in my life.
Exactly my point :-)
I can see where you're coming from. If it was meaningless to you then, you won't find any value in reconnecting now.
I'm just the opposite.
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someone missed the segue. :uhsure: :-)
The last time that happened, I got a divorce. So it isn't unprecedented.
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someone missed the segue. :uhsure: :-)
Haha! Yeah. Most of college was one long party to me.
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I remember high school. I was one of the popular kids, but I have no plans on wanting to go through it again.
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My most memorable moment in HS.
My senior year in 83.
Back in my day the term "burnt out" was popular to describe low life drug users and overall punks.
I was in the "nerd" catagory. That was the defintion for those that did well in school (aka book worms), but weren't "jocks".
I was in the cafateria eating lunch.... I saw a burnt out slap his girl friend in the face.
I got up and punched him in the face and asked him "how do you like it?"
He laid there on the floor with a VERY confused look on his face. Ya see, we nerds were "supposed" to be spineless book worms.
This Nerd wasn't.
I have been scanning and popping and just now re-read your post.
It was in Jr. High that I learned that bullies are all cowards and if you pop them they will run like little girls. Good for you for standing up for a woman's honor, even as a "nerd." I am sure many of the ex-bullies on this forum can attest to how they changed their tune due to us Nerds actually taking them on.
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Haha! Yeah. Most of college was one long party to me.
College was great! Best years of my life!
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I remember high school. I was one of the popular kids, but I have no plans on wanting to go through it again.
they must have bussed bunnies to another school in your neighborhood. :whatever: :-)
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College was great! Best years of my life!
I like college too. Good times.
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they must have bussed bunnies to another school in your neighborhood. :whatever: :-)
All the bunnies went straight to Hell.
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Exactly my point :-)
I can see where you're coming from. If it was meaningless to you then, you won't find any value in reconnecting now.
I'm just the opposite.
I think you are nearly my age, Dix.
So let me ask a question that may shed light on this:
Do you live very near to where you went to HS?
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I was pretty popular in HS, but other than that, I can't remember a f'n thing about it.
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I was pretty popular in HS, but other than that, I can't remember a f'n thing about it.
Did you do the prom thing? If so, you HAVE to post the pic with your date and, I assume, your mullet.
If you don't, I will (*evil laugh*)
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I went to a small private high school and loved it.
If there was a boring class, I would do things like go pick up lumber with my truck or mow the grass. Yes, at & during school. The grade scale was alot tougher then the public schools, but I still did pretty well.
High School was a daily blast.
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I went to a small private high school and loved it.
If there was a boring class, I would do things like go pick up lumber with my truck or mow the grass. Yes, at & during school. The grade scale was alot tougher then the public schools, but I still did pretty well.
High School was a daily blast.
I went to the largest school in the city. 4,500 students.
It sucked.
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I went to the largest school in the city. 4,500 students.
It sucked.
I graduated with 14.
About 90 in the entire high school, and 400 in K-12.
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I graduated with 14.
About 90 in the entire high school, and 400 in K-12.
I might have enjoyed HS if I was in that situation. And I might have started college earlier.
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Every year, during the school year, we would spend a week at a camp in WI. It was a blast.
Senior year, a week in DC.
Study hall, with no teacher. We would sleep and eat. Then I would leave school and do body work on cars until about 11 PM after school.
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My initiating this thread got me to Googling -- I found a ste for my old HS and people stupid enough to maintain it.
The links alone are hilarious. There is exactly ONE alumnus who is "famous" and the site sorta missed the fact he was imprisoned for corruption. The rest of the links go to pay to sign up sites.
I am still LOL. What a bunch of losers, staying in touch with their meaningless past.
But it is a damn funny read.
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My initiating this thread got me to Googling -- I found a ste for my old HS and people stupid enough to maintain it.
The links alone are hilarious. There is exactly ONE alumnus who is "famous" and the site sorta missed the fact he was imprisoned for corruption. The rest of the links go to pay to sign up sites.
I am still LOL. What a bunch of losers, staying in touch with their meaningless past.
But it is a damn funny read.
It did get you to look. :loser: :-)
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Some of my best memories were from High School.
I love seeing pics online of my old classmates' families, children, pets, etc. Maybe I am just nosey by nature?
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It did get you to look. :loser: :-)
Touché
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I went to school with the same people from elementary and junior/middle school. By the time I go to high school, I was ****ing tired of them. I keep in touch with exactly one person I was in high school with.
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It did get you to look. :loser: :-)
Indeed, you did. The results saddened me but you did get me to look. Good thinking on your part and I thank you.
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I went to school with the same people from elementary and junior/middle school. By the time I go to high school, I was ****ing tired of them. I keep in touch with exactly one person I was in high school with.
I changed schools after 8th grade. So I had the best of both worlds. Had friends in the school district, but also friends "in town" where I went to school.
You might find it hard to believe. But in high school I was the center of attention.
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I changed schools after 8th grade. So I had the best of both worlds. Had friends in the school district, but also friends "in town" where I went to school.
You might find it hard to believe. But in high school I was the center of attention.
Its difficult when you peak early. :lmao:
I went to a different school for 5th and 6th grade. It was bullshit... it was a "magnet" school, which meant the white kids bussed in from outside of the public housing farms were expected to maintain a B average while taking advanced art, science, Latin, and technology/computer classes while the resident "minorities" were only required to maintain a low C average. It was a shitload of work especially when half the class were allowed to do nothing for the same reward. I was not happy, but I was equally unhappy at the regular public school.
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Its difficult when you peak early. :lmao:
I went to a different school for 5th and 6th grade. It was bullshit... it was a "magnet" school, which meant the white kids bussed in from outside of the public housing farms were expected to maintain a B average while taking advanced art, science, Latin, and technology/computer classes while the resident "minorities" were only required to maintain a low C average. It was a shitload of work especially when half the class were allowed to do nothing for the same reward. I was not happy, but I was equally unhappy at the regular public school.
I will peak any day now...
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I will peak any day now...
Yeah... about that. You only have a couple decades left. You'd better make the best of them.
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Yeah... about that. You only have a couple decades left. You'd better make the best of them.
Preaching to the choir, baby...
But a H5 for your sincere concern.
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It was ... different than any of the poll options. I guess my point of view is a lot like Dutch's. A long time ago, good times and bad times, my peers and I were all different people then in many ways. I remember a lot of scenes and events from it, not all for any apparent reason, and a fair number of the people as they were then. I'm not really in touch with any of them now, though. I graduated in 1970, FWIW.
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Its difficult when you peak early. :lmao:
:censored:
:-)
Yeah, in 7th grade, I ended up with some less then great students, I pulled very good grades and found it easy...they struggled. So the next year they put me in the top group and it was like I missed a year and had no idea what they were doing in math...plus being the class clown (and worse) I paid not much attention.
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Yeah, in 7th grade, I ended up with some less then great students, I pulled very good grades and found it easy...they struggled. So the next year they put me in the top group and it was like I missed a year and had no idea what they were doing in math...plus being the class clown (and worse) I paid not much attention.
I was in a similar situation. I went from being in the 4th grade in a public school to being confronted with something called the "scientific method" that I had never heard of, and 5th graders that carried briefcases to class. I had no idea what the **** was going on. It was a disaster. My parents should have known better, but apparently they were as bad at doing their homework as I was.
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I had issues in high school. I get the feeling that maybe I was a bully or something. I don't remember much. I always wanted to issue a blanket apology to anyone who had to be around me during those years. :thatsright:
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That's a lot of emotional investment in something completely meaningless there, free. :uhsure:
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My initiating this thread got me to Googling -- I found a ste for my old HS and people stupid enough to maintain it.
The links alone are hilarious. There is exactly ONE alumnus who is "famous" and the site sorta missed the fact he was imprisoned for corruption. The rest of the links go to pay to sign up sites.
I am still LOL. What a bunch of losers, staying in touch with their meaningless past.
But it is a damn funny read.
Did you get picked on alot Free?I know you've admitted to being a nerd and in the past you have said you are not the biggest guy in the world! Could it be that you had a bad experience as a teenager and are now just extremely bitter? I've read your posts in this thread and as much as you say it was meaningless it really wasn't to you! Let it go dude! It was a long time ago! :cheersmate:
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Did you get picked on alot Free?I know you've admitted to being a nerd and in the past you have said you are not the biggest guy in the world! Could it be that you had a bad experience as a teenager and are now just extremely bitter? I've read your posts in this thread and as much as you say it was meaningless it really wasn't to you! Let it go dude! It was a long time ago! :cheersmate:
Frankly, no. I was only in HS for a few years anyway and was a GDI when I was there.
I guess I don't understand why people like on that TV show care about who was whom in HS.
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Frankly, no. I was only in HS for a few years anyway and was a GDI when I was there.
I guess I don't understand why people like on that TV show care about who was whom in HS.
So you have absolutely no friends from High School at all?
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I went to a small county school, and still keep in touch with some of them. I even work with a few people that also went to the same school. The sad thing is seeing familiar names in the obituaries.
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Ok, all kidding aside free, it's like this: emotional connections with other people give value to our lives. Because of this, it is not unusual that we value the emotional connections made THROUGHOUT our lives. Quite frankly, I'd be wary of befriending someone who could so compartmentalize a friendship based on the point they are in their lives. Friends don't stop being friends because we no longer inhabit the same physical location, nor are most people incapable of forming other friendships along the way just because they still have some connections with friendships when they were kids.
Sometimes it is enjoyable to step back in time and reminisce: consider it like looking through an old photo album or sharing old tall tales with family at Thanksgiving dinner. If someone ONLY lives in that time, you'd have a point, but most people are not that myopic as to live their lives for and in their past. They enjoy it for what it is and appreciate their friends for who and where they are now. Their lives flow and relationships aren't discarded just because they change jobs, spouses, or whatever. I think you are mistaking reminiscing here and there with living in that moment perpetually. People can remember things without being consumed by that particular time.
Maybe this makes it a little clearer...
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Well, that was 46+ years ago and I do....uh....uhroh....remember several incidents... :rotf:
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Good stuff, jty.
I graduated in 1974, pretty much at the peak of the Baby Boomer crowd. Something like 750 in my graduating class, the vast majority of whom I wouldn't know if they walked up to me and spit on me.
I was a band geek, when I wasn't skipping school and/or smoking dope in the parking lot. I certainly didn't take HS seriously and knew enough to know I'd never make it college the traditional way. So I said screw the "college prep" courses and screw the GPA. Even still, I wound up with something like a 3.2.
Anyway, I also knew I wouldn't be in the area all that long. Didn't have a clue what I'd do or where I'd go following HS, I just knew I didn't want to do it there.
Then the Army came along, about 6 months after HS, and I used it to springboard my way past my childhood and HS, though once in awhile I run into somebody I knew from those days.
So I find myself, some 14 years after retirement from the Army, being somewhat reminiscent of my experiences there and I enjoy being involved in two different fraternal organizations.
Yeah, free, you sound somewhat bitter.
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I graduated in 77'. Put me in the "don't give a shit" catagory.
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My class's 20 year reunion is theoretically coming up this year.
Anybody want to bet on where the needle of my "rat's ass"-o-meter is pointing in reference to that subject?
Everything I needed to know may have been learned in Kindergarten, but everything that I have done in my life that has mattered the most to me, occurred after collecting my parchment from that hellhole that is the modern public school system and getting the hell outta dodge.
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I'm like Eupher. I was a band geek but I DID take all of the college prep classes. Somehow, I made the B honor roll a few times and I STILL don't know how I managed that. Going to Trig, Calculus and physics class stoned or drunk sure didn't help. I have a few friends that I went to high school with, even now. I was far from "popular". I DID have some fun and some fond memories of high school. I have some not so fond memories, too. I joined the Navy right after high school, so I left this podunk town right away.
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High school was almost a 4 year blur. I started out on the football and wrestling teams, got in a lot of trouble while in school, a few fights, gypping a lot, and finally pulling my head out of my ass the last year of HS and graduating.
While I think about it, college wasn't that much different. Just a bigger party. :-)
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I enjoyed high school, HATED elementary school. I had dyslexia (mirror imaging they called it) and couldn't read by the time I was in third grade. My Mom tried every year since I started school to hold me back and the school told her I was fine. Then came 3rd grade and the school suggested I be held back finally. :whatever: I seriously was traumatized. I remember what I wore the first day of 3rd grade (the second time around) as well as everything that happened that first day. It was mortifying.
They had an "everyone at their own pace" type of thing going on. Take spelling, you would have to retake each "unit" until you passed the spelling test and there was a chart on the wall that showed how far you were. EVERYONE knew where I was on the chart (always last). It really hurt my self-esteem having all the other kids know my progress (or lack there of). It would be one thing if I was just screwing off and that was why I wasn't doing well but I had a learning disability. Then in 5th grade we moved and suddenly I "blossomed" in school and had none of the issues I had up until that point. I think before the move I had talked myself into thinking I was stupid. When we moved, no one knew about my dyslexia or that I was held back. Things just started clicking for me.
I remember high school as being fun but then I met my husband the week I turned 15 so maybe that is why I have such fond memories of high school. One thing I find that is funny is since I started my facebook account a ton of high school friends (and some that I don't even remember) have been in contact with me. They are remembering things that I have NO memory of. Either I just didn't care about it at the time so I don't remember it or the stroke I had back in 95 really screwed my memory more than I thought.
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I have regets about HS. Mainly because I was a prick to so many people. I was a jock and an asshole, I loved to intimidate other kids. Another regret that I have is that I did not apply myself to my school work. I got by with decent grades with no effort; a little more effort would have opened some nice doors. My focus was sports, getting scholarships and the attention of the big sports schools. Finally, I had this girl who was incredibly smart in my class. She was rather plain looking, very quiet and incredibly shy...yet for some reason she had this huge crush on me. I would hardly give her the time of day. Years later I ran into her and for a moment I did not recognize her. She was gorgeous, tan, nice hair, definitely centerfold quality...unfortunately she had a huge rock on her finger and was taken.
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You forgot to add the obligatory, "TEH JOOOOOOOSSSS!" as a possible response.
Other than that, I went to HS. I was a geek.
Hell, I still AM a geek. I made the mistake of going to my 20th reunion. Nobody had changed, and everyone gravitated back to their old cliques. IOW, imagine the people you knew in HS older, fatter, married, then divorced.
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I honestly don't understand why any grown-up would care about their HS days. I really don't.
But I have to admit it is fun watching these people who never grew up keep silly 20+ year old meaningless memories alive.
I look at it this way--if your HS days were the crowning achievement of your existence, YOU ARE A LOSER AND SHOULD REMOVE YOURSELF FROM THE GENE POOL IMMEDIATELY.
That is all.
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Sparky, after I returned home, I looked up some of my old high school friends. I was shocked to see how many of them have aged (we're all in our early 50s). One of my best friends in high school looks every bit of 60, if not older!! :o I'm like......... damn, what happened to y'all?!?!?!?!? This is a pic of me taken right at a year ago:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/BigRobT/100_0214.jpg)
Of course, I've put on some weight since then.... (No, I DON'T use any hair coloration formulas!!)
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Where's your toothpick, Thor?
:rotf:
And straw hat?
:lmao:
(actually, it's a pretty good pic. You clean up well. :cheersmate: )
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Can't remember the comedian who said this, but it summed things up perfectly for me:
"The people you went to high school with who were @ssholes are still @ssholes."
I went to one reunion, my 10th, and will never go to another. It's the same bunch from way back then, except for the dead ones.
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Never went to a reunion. Was always either overseas or out of the freakin' state.
Next one up should be the 35th later this summer. Dunno if they're gonna host one - I sure as hell ain't.
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Where's your toothpick, Thor?
:rotf:
And straw hat?
:lmao:
(actually, it's a pretty good pic. You clean up well. :cheersmate: )
At least I don't look as old as you, Eupher !!! (and you're only a year or two older) :tongue:
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At least I don't look as old as you, Eupher !!! (and you're only a year or two older) :tongue:
Yeah, I gotta lot of gray on the head, and it's somewhat sparse to boot.
And we ain't gonna talk about my dunlop. :p
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I remember. Don't really care much since high school was long ago.
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I found out today that a girl I went to elementary and high school with became a model and posed for Playboy... :naughty:
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I found out today that a girl I went to elementary and high school with became a model and posed for Playboy... :naughty:
:picsneeded:
C'mon, everyone wanted to do it, I just got here first.
:tongue:
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High School totally sucked....I was friends with Sweet Dee. :-)
Ehh it was okay. I'm honestly not friends with but a few people from high school. I didn't mind high school, but it's not like I was to relieve it or even hell do it all over again. I was active in the orchestra, editor-in-chief of the yearbook and managing editor of the literary magazine (yet I wasn't a dork). It was a large high school (the largest single school high school in Texas) so there were plenty of people and none of that clique crapola.
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I found out today that a girl I went to elementary and high school with became a model and posed for Playboy... :naughty:
Crystal Smith was an early playboy centerfold from here. I....uh....well....uh .....better just keep my mouth shut.
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Crystal Smith was an early playboy centerfold from here. I....uh....well....uh .....better just keep my mouth shut.
I don't particularly like the name Crystal. It reminds me of this "woman" I use to work with when I lived in Phoenix. She looked like a dude.
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I don't particularly like the name Crystal. It reminds me of this "woman" I use to work with when I lived in Phoenix. She looked like a dude.
Well this one didn't....believe me, she didn't. ....but then there was the lipstick lesbian I dated for a while.
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:picsneeded:
C'mon, everyone wanted to do it, I just got here first.
:tongue:
NSFW. Posted in the short bus.
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Crystal Smith was an early playboy centerfold from here. I....uh....well....uh .....better just keep my mouth shut.
The former boys basketball coach and later mayor of our fine town had a daughter that posed in Playboy for a Girls of the Big Ten at the time. Also in that same issue and the same page was the former babysitter for two of my older nephews. You could say the shock was something else when the town found out about this.
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Well, hell, now that we're talking about Playboy Playmates, I served active duty Army with one.
Her real name was Amanda Crouch. That's right, Crouch, not Crotch.
She was a clarinet player, an E-4, in the 8th ID Band in Bad Kreuznach, Germany. In Dec. 1991, she went on leave to London where, as it turned out, she had her Playboy photo shoot.
She left active duty in May, 1992. The July, 1992 issue of Playboy came out and there she was, in all her glory.
There was a pretty big stink about it from the Army with the idea that since she was IRR at that point, they could go after her and, well, whatever they do to former soldiers who pose for Playboy. There were several snapshots of her in her spread with fellow soldiers (I wasn't one of them) in uniform.
In the end, it never went anywhere. And while Amanda (I think she took the name "Amanda Hope" as her stage name) played a ditzy, dumb-as-a-box-of-rocks twenty-something while she was wielding a clarinet, there was nothing stupid about how she pulled this caper off.
:cheersmate:
Now, back to your regular programming.....