posted November 30, 2000 09:57 AM            

A lot of the time people put dumb crap like "Study hard" or "Smoke pot"

Mine was "No matter how much you believe that you are butterfly, your probably aren't."

What was yours?

I sincerely hope some of you "older" Brunchmas can remember that far back (DBB).

Hee-hee

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posted November 30, 2000 10:11 AM            

I am several years older than DBB, thank you, and I can remember perfectly well that we didn't do quotes like that in MY high school.

*mumble mumble whippersnappers*

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posted November 30, 2000 12:08 PM            

Only quote I remember came from those "Good Luck" ads that parents buy in the back of the book. The mom of the class shit-disturber put this quote in her ad: "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. The sinners are much more fun." Very appropriate for our Catholic all-girls school.

We actually had very severe censors motintoring the yearbook quotes. One girl wrote "To all my cool buds" and it was edited out because they though it was a hidden reference to drugs. So the class decided to make their own book. Every senior got a page to say and paste in whatever they wanted, and they had it photocopied and bound for $5 a piece. It was much more memorable than any yearbook.

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posted November 30, 2000 02:05 PM            

My end-o-the-year quote for general merriment was this: "Improvement makes straight roads, but crooked roads, without improvements, are roads of genius." (William Blake) Hey! I remembered it, and it's even been 6 years!

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posted November 30, 2000 03:05 PM            

"When the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass away before such a one can be again." --William Beebe

"To generalize is to be an idiot." --William Blake

"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it." --Jack Handey

"Although the world is full of suffering it is full also of the overcoming of it." --Helen Keller

"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note." --Doug Floyd

My "In Twenty Years" thing was that my memory will still be tied up with useless trivia.

posted November 30, 2000 05:12 PM            

The quotes were very heavily regulated, as they are at the high school. They wouldn't let us do anything not in English (I guess because they didn't know what it meant) and they wouldn't let my bro do that for his senior quote either. Poo on them...

posted November 30, 2000 05:38 PM            

We did a yearbook at Weerona (where I lived in Australia). Somebody stole my form and filled it out for me. I got another one and did it, but Duncan conveniently forgot to tell me they used the other one until after they sent it to the printer. Bah. The info the person (I have a suspicion who it was) wrote wasn't as racy as I feared, based on what she changed my voice-mail greeting to say. Mostly it was about my "No Invisible Munchkins" sign on my door and playing the drums. I don't know where she got this playing the drums thing from, unless she caught me air-drumming to songs on the radio one time (I do that a lot, but only when nobody's looking). So I didn't get to inform all of Weerona that my favorite words were "Pleistocene," "Vice-Presidential," and "doubleplusgood."

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posted November 30, 2000 05:51 PM            

Then other blurbs, as much as I could fit, including "Free the Blinkies!", "I'm Spartacus" (stemming from a French class in which we managed to drive the TA insane) and something else. I can't remember. Must go find my yearbook.

Or, rather, somebody else's yearbook. I never got mine. I think we swapped for signature writing and never un-swapped. Go fig.

posted November 30, 2000 09:23 PM            

i put as much as i could fit into the little grid they gave us, as did all of my friends, but mine ended up being like "NAHS & Ellipsis were 3 yrs cool, Thx you guys, au revoir (see ya...)" (NAHS = national art honor society, Ellipsis = school literary magazine.) my whole group's write-ups ended up that way because we all had little inside jokes. i don't know what they thought was so illicit. (for instance, the use of the word "YAR!" yar? what the hell?) and our friend vince's write-up was completely omitted.

however...all the people who were in yearbook or were friends of yearbook people had all this stuff in theirs. it was retarded. but the whole damned book was like that. practically all the photos that weren't school portraits were of yearbook staff or friends of the yearbook staff. stupid, stupid, stupid.

actually, our whole yearbook was atrocious...rife with misspellings and things that just made no friggin' sense. one of our favorite things to do at the end of the year was to go through and find all the errors, and laugh our asses off, because they really were that funny.

(edited to say that cowman was on yearbook, but he was powerless against the prep forces of evil, no matter how much we begged for him to set them straight.)

posted November 30, 2000 10:38 PM            

Okay, I just looked up my yearbook and apparently I put "Self trust if the first secret of success" and "To thine own self be true." I wasn't aware I was so redundant... and I should take my own advice for that matter.

posted December 01, 2000 01:34 AM            

That's some fucked up crap right there.

As for me, back in the day we didn't have senior quotes.

P.S. I am using this opportunity to speak directly to Sourwookie. I checked out your white supremesict chick ploy and totally dug it. I hope none them guys come after you; you seemed to express some concern that they would. Also, although I am a fan of NASCAR and beer, I am not a racist (not that anyone said I was), and I happen to find the concept to be the lowest form of collectivism that there is.

posted December 01, 2000 03:19 AM            

if you kill a man, you're a murderer
kill many, you're a conquerer
kill them all, and you're a god.

and yes, i did get some funny looks. but that was the goal of the exersize.

I just took roughly 7 attempts to spell exersize and it's not right yet

fucking html.
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posted December 01, 2000 08:35 AM            

No, can it be? Yes. I think so. I've been sigged! Score.{/aside}

Sounds like a bunch of you folks had some pretty lame yearbooks. When I was in high school we all were on the yearbook committee. We could turn in pics, write ups whatever we wanted. And then the core committee reviewed them. Also the team captains and club presidents all got to do the write up for their respective groups. The faculty "in charge" of this endeavor didn't really care what we put in there. He said something like "Well, its your book, and your memories, do whatever you want."

posted December 01, 2000 09:43 AM            

The in-20-years thing was written up as a newsletter article about the 20-year reunion of our class. They wrote me in as showing up late because the Starship Enterprise got stuck in traffic on the way in.
*shrug* I can live with that.

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posted December 01, 2000 11:48 AM            

And I meant it. My high school class was compromised of mostly idiots.

I'm glad I left when I did, though, because the high school I went to has gotten TEN times more regulated. In fact, the school in general isn't fun anymore. My poor sister who still has to go there won't even get a senior fashion show OR prom if it keeps up the way it's going. *rolls eyes*

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posted December 02, 2000 05:58 PM            

As I look back upon the four years I spent at Paly, many thoughts enter my head. Inside jokes, such as 'Two years, Beth Ann!', and fond memories, like that time the guy in the mosh pit landed on Megan's head. But by far, the thought that stands out above all the others is:

"Thank god that's over. What's for lunch?"

Explanations: The school I go to is called Paly. The 'Two years' thing is how long I had a crush on Beth Ann, and she was clueless the whole time. The mosh pit thing is pretty obvious. And I hope lunch is spicy.

mmm... Hunan food...

Edited to add:

I might just put in my current autosig instead, though.

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posted December 02, 2000 08:06 PM            

A delightfully dirty quote that I had to keep a straight face during:

"...and places his hands, still damp from the first man-growing cock crow on her thighs..." (or something like that...the entire play was extremely dirty)

I played three characters. A bartender who was madly in love with a woman he could never have, a tailor who was in love with a woman he could never have, and some priest.

It was an, uh, interesting experience, especially considering that my previous acting experience consisted of playing half the part of Dromeo of Ephesos in 'A Comedy of Errors'. I was drafted into the play 'cause I always hung out in the theater during rehearsals.

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posted December 02, 2000 11:48 PM         

At my high school, every senior was allowed a half page to do what they liked with. I put a picture of myself and this quote: "I don't know if this is a happy ending but here we are let loose in open fields"--Jeanette Winterson

Around the border, in tiny font, I put a bunch of inside jokes between various friends and me. It was pleasing.

posted December 05, 2000 12:45 PM            

"we are all worms. but i do believe that i am a glow worm." - winston churchill.

posted December 05, 2000 12:49 PM            

Rabs!! We've missed you!

*Huggles Rabi'a 'til her eyes pop out, then helps her stick them back in, being a nice guy and all.*

(ed. for excitement.)

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