Mine isn't on here, well I guess "Freak" works. I picked everything that I was labeled in high school.
What "Group" were you a part of in High School?
06/27/2011
I'm like a lot of others in that I crossed into many of the groups in school. I was a good athlete and successful academically, but I probably most related to the artsy crowd. We went club hopping almost every week which I guess makes me a Disco-Guido of the 80's, except musically I was into new wave/alternative which strongly influenced dance music at the time.
06/27/2011
I picked geek/nerd. I did all the science and math competitions in high school and since that took up most of my time most of my friends were people who did those activities as well. I was also very athletic, but I always did 'wierd' sports so I didn't get to be a part of the jock group.
06/27/2011
Another band geek here.
06/27/2011
I would have hung out with the llamas if the llamas would have had me. I was that weird kid that everyone made fun of and no one was willing to associate with. But somehow I survived high school. College was better for me, and grad school was great.
Now, strangely enough, my closest friends are actually well-known, successful, popular people. I myself am neither successful nor well-known (except through association with them), so I'm not really sure how that happened.
Now, strangely enough, my closest friends are actually well-known, successful, popular people. I myself am neither successful nor well-known (except through association with them), so I'm not really sure how that happened.
06/27/2011
I was also a theater person
06/27/2011
our school had a graduating class of 9 seniors.... so I was the only goth girl in a group of freaks, outcasts, stoners, smokers, geeks, nerds and weirdos. At the same time I hung out with the boys over the girls and ran the schools christian group.... so yeah, strange time in high school.
They used to call me slut and lady of death, and yet I was the only one of the people I knew growing up who wasn't a parent before 18!
They used to call me slut and lady of death, and yet I was the only one of the people I knew growing up who wasn't a parent before 18!
06/27/2011
With the cheerleaders but the stoners as well. Awesome school.
06/27/2011
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haha! funny how things work out. A graduating class of 9? I don't think I've ever heard of a graduating class that small.
Originally posted by
Wondermom
our school had a graduating class of 9 seniors.... so I was the only goth girl in a group of freaks, outcasts, stoners, smokers, geeks, nerds and weirdos. At the same time I hung out with the boys over the girls and ran the schools christian
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our school had a graduating class of 9 seniors.... so I was the only goth girl in a group of freaks, outcasts, stoners, smokers, geeks, nerds and weirdos. At the same time I hung out with the boys over the girls and ran the schools christian group.... so yeah, strange time in high school.
They used to call me slut and lady of death, and yet I was the only one of the people I knew growing up who wasn't a parent before 18! less
They used to call me slut and lady of death, and yet I was the only one of the people I knew growing up who wasn't a parent before 18! less
06/27/2011
i got along with everybody, kinda just floated around
06/27/2011
I was more of the "freak" and less of the "stoner, burn out". I liked listening to music and I dressed more grunge than just about everybody else in my relatively upscale high school. That got me the "punk rock" label, and I hung out with the band kids in the band hallway and like video games, so that got me the "nerd/geek" label. It wasn't a big deal really. I never really though of myself as any kind of label in high school except maybe one of the outcasts. I hung out in a really small group of people, there were maybe 8 or so of us, and we would all hang out all the time. I didn't really have other friends. I was just a wee bit outspoken and not terribly angry. It wasn't until I was about to graduate that I figured out that somehow almost everybody in the school knew who I was, and I had no idea about some of the people in my classes even lol.
06/27/2011
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I'm sorry. I'm willing to bet I would have been your friend in High School.
Originally posted by
Sir
I was alone in high school. So I did not really fill any such role.
06/27/2011
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LOL! Your kids rock, Airen!
Originally posted by
Airen Wolf
I was an inbetweener...but most of my friends were stoners so I was an 'honorary' stoner. I was far too afraid of my parents to actually do drugs and my father is an alcoholic so they understood my aversion to drinking. I found the least
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I was an inbetweener...but most of my friends were stoners so I was an 'honorary' stoner. I was far too afraid of my parents to actually do drugs and my father is an alcoholic so they understood my aversion to drinking. I found the least amount of criticism from that crowd and was able to be myself there.
I was also part of the 'theater crowd' but OMG talk about pressure to conform! Odd sonce you would think it would be the opposite amoungst artsy folk...
My daughter made me choose the Llamas because if there had BEEN any Llamas in my High School I WOULD have hung out with them....ya know, cause they are Llamas...
She loves Llamas and named our guild in WOW "Llama Lords Of Science". Her sister chose "Sock Puppets of Doom"...my kids are just as oddly creative as their Mother and Father. less
I was also part of the 'theater crowd' but OMG talk about pressure to conform! Odd sonce you would think it would be the opposite amoungst artsy folk...
My daughter made me choose the Llamas because if there had BEEN any Llamas in my High School I WOULD have hung out with them....ya know, cause they are Llamas...
She loves Llamas and named our guild in WOW "Llama Lords Of Science". Her sister chose "Sock Puppets of Doom"...my kids are just as oddly creative as their Mother and Father. less
I, too, hung out with stoners, but never drank. There is also alcoholism in my family (not my parents, thank heaven) and I knew from an early age it was best for me not to mess with booze, plus it made me gag. I did do...other stuff, though. Nothing to excess.
I, also, found some weird pressure from the Theater Kids in my High School. Everybody wanted to have sex with me (except about 80% of the Theater boys....hmmm) and I was young, a total virgin and didn't understand why these girls were hitting on me. LOL!
06/27/2011
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Oh, I worked in the library, too. And in the Principals office, as we could do that instead of Study Hall. Study Hall was a drag, and I wanted to avoid it at all costs.
Originally posted by
Errant Venture
I'm with LingaLoo here. There wasn't so much of a division in my high school that you could be called any one thing. I was into a lot of things, sports, chess, table tennis, general socialising, tech, even worked in the library on my lunch
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I'm with LingaLoo here. There wasn't so much of a division in my high school that you could be called any one thing. I was into a lot of things, sports, chess, table tennis, general socialising, tech, even worked in the library on my lunch breaks. But that was mainly because I liked one of the sixth formers there.
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I do have one question, though. What is a prep? less
A Prep or Preppie is a term for usually rich kids who dress in button down shirts, neatly pressed pleated skirts, knee socks, sweater vests or blazers and were, at least in my school, closely related to the Jocks. There was a LOT of overlap between these groups. They were the kids, like the Jocks that the school administration LOVED. The word came from kids who went to Prep School, but was adapted to describe a clique in high schools and colleges.
06/27/2011
I tried to avoid being in any group in school. I was in the advanced classes, but didn't really excel in them. My parents didn't have the money for me to go to band/orchestra or any other group that required some sort of purchase to participate in.
I hung out with lots of different people though, not groups so much.
I hung out with lots of different people though, not groups so much.
06/27/2011
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I think in smaller schools the "groups" aren't quite as active.
Originally posted by
El-Jaro
I tried to avoid being in any group in school. I was in the advanced classes, but didn't really excel in them. My parents didn't have the money for me to go to band/orchestra or any other group that required some sort of purchase to
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I tried to avoid being in any group in school. I was in the advanced classes, but didn't really excel in them. My parents didn't have the money for me to go to band/orchestra or any other group that required some sort of purchase to participate in.
I hung out with lots of different people though, not groups so much. less
I hung out with lots of different people though, not groups so much. less
I took a lot of AP and Honors classes, too. Most of the AP classes at our High School was populated by a weird mix of Stoners, Geeks and Jock/Preps. These Jocks usually had little contact with anyone else at our High School.
I went to a HUGE High School and the divisions were pretty strong. Although the Jocks used to come over to the Smoking Section of the school (yeah, we had a smoking section, where I hung out, despite the fact that I never smoked.....cigarettes) where the Freaks hung out, and the Jocks came to buy their weed. Stoners would sell it at a mark up, because everyone knew the best weed (and acid) could only be bought from the Nerds and Geeks. I don't know if they grew it, or just had great connections or what. We never told the Jocks that, Stoners just bought it from the Geeks and made money marking it up for the Jocks, who didn't know any better.
There's a book with a movie deal in this somewhere.
06/27/2011
Lessee ...
They say that everyone knows at least one 'character' in their lives.
I was that character.
I dressed in clothes I repurposed (tear apart and sew differently) from thrift stores, becoming a sort of anime-goth. I listened to 80's and classic rock instead of grunge or hip-hop. I was part of drama, the newspaper, and choir; the history teachers' pet. I was the fat bitch making caustic comments in the back of the class but answered everything correctly (except math - I wrote my first novel in math class). I was the Daria Morgendorfer of the class of '96 (didn't help that two of my guy friends were called Beavis and Butthead).I was the one who never bowed to any conformity or pressure to be something I wasn't, and was therefor considered by many to be the only Real person they knew. My friends were the freaks, outcasts, disabled, stoners, nerds, geeks, goths. I may have been socially awkward (and therefor bullied a LOT), but people trusted me and told me things that nobody had any business knowing. A dean once commented that she adored me because I was the only witty student she ever met in her years of working in education ... she was disappointed the one time I ended up in her office because a student finally figured out I had insulted them. My senior year surprised me when I became leader of a group of the outcasts. Everyone called me 'Mom' and came to me with their problems or whatever.
Had only one boyfriend (anime otaku and prep) for a couple of months in high school; first kiss and make out, then his mother forbid him from seeing me because she thought I was looking to get pregnant (I was the only girl who didn't want children). That was the extent. I was considered too fat, ugly, weird, etc. (and a mother figure) for anyone to want sexually. :-/
(Sorry for the text wall.)
They say that everyone knows at least one 'character' in their lives.
I was that character.
I dressed in clothes I repurposed (tear apart and sew differently) from thrift stores, becoming a sort of anime-goth. I listened to 80's and classic rock instead of grunge or hip-hop. I was part of drama, the newspaper, and choir; the history teachers' pet. I was the fat bitch making caustic comments in the back of the class but answered everything correctly (except math - I wrote my first novel in math class). I was the Daria Morgendorfer of the class of '96 (didn't help that two of my guy friends were called Beavis and Butthead).I was the one who never bowed to any conformity or pressure to be something I wasn't, and was therefor considered by many to be the only Real person they knew. My friends were the freaks, outcasts, disabled, stoners, nerds, geeks, goths. I may have been socially awkward (and therefor bullied a LOT), but people trusted me and told me things that nobody had any business knowing. A dean once commented that she adored me because I was the only witty student she ever met in her years of working in education ... she was disappointed the one time I ended up in her office because a student finally figured out I had insulted them. My senior year surprised me when I became leader of a group of the outcasts. Everyone called me 'Mom' and came to me with their problems or whatever.
Had only one boyfriend (anime otaku and prep) for a couple of months in high school; first kiss and make out, then his mother forbid him from seeing me because she thought I was looking to get pregnant (I was the only girl who didn't want children). That was the extent. I was considered too fat, ugly, weird, etc. (and a mother figure) for anyone to want sexually. :-/
(Sorry for the text wall.)
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I answered for both of us. We were worlds apart in high school from how we were when we met years later. We have laughed many times that we would NOT have been attracted to each other then. My wife was tops in everything in high school, me not.
Originally posted by
P'Gell
Yeah. An other post got me thinking about this. I am afraid I'll get the terms wrong....because I'm.....mature. LOL! (No, its because I've been out of High School a long time.)
I was just curious. You can vote for more than one. ... more
I was just curious. You can vote for more than one. ... more
Yeah. An other post got me thinking about this. I am afraid I'll get the terms wrong....because I'm.....mature. LOL! (No, its because I've been out of High School a long time.)
I was just curious. You can vote for more than one.
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I was just curious. You can vote for more than one.
Yes, your answers will bear your names for all to see. less
06/27/2011
I didn't have many friends in high school, so I guess I would have been labeled as a loner. I'm glad to say that things have changed a lot since then. ( :
06/27/2011
I chose the ones I was closest too. I dressed differently than everyone and got called "goth" and "punk" (dyed black or red hair and piercings back then) a lot even though I didn't think I was at all. I was an honor student and in advanced classes and ROTC so I got called a nerd a bit too.
My small group of friends weren't exactly one of these groups, but a mixture of a few. Mostly some "rocker freaks/stoners", "goth" kids, and a couple other honor or ROTC students. I was basically quiet, smart, and a little more of a freak than everyone else.. Not much has changed
My small group of friends weren't exactly one of these groups, but a mixture of a few. Mostly some "rocker freaks/stoners", "goth" kids, and a couple other honor or ROTC students. I was basically quiet, smart, and a little more of a freak than everyone else.. Not much has changed
06/27/2011
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Yeah, there were 500 in my high school my senior year...kind of a small school now.
Originally posted by
P'Gell
I think in smaller schools the "groups" aren't quite as active.
I took a lot of AP and Honors classes, too. Most of the AP classes at our High School was populated by a weird mix of Stoners, Geeks and Jock/Preps. These Jocks ... more
I took a lot of AP and Honors classes, too. Most of the AP classes at our High School was populated by a weird mix of Stoners, Geeks and Jock/Preps. These Jocks ... more
I think in smaller schools the "groups" aren't quite as active.
I took a lot of AP and Honors classes, too. Most of the AP classes at our High School was populated by a weird mix of Stoners, Geeks and Jock/Preps. These Jocks usually had little contact with anyone else at our High School.
I went to a HUGE High School and the divisions were pretty strong. Although the Jocks used to come over to the Smoking Section of the school (yeah, we had a smoking section, where I hung out, despite the fact that I never smoked.....cigarettes) where the Freaks hung out, and the Jocks came to buy their weed. Stoners would sell it at a mark up, because everyone knew the best weed (and acid) could only be bought from the Nerds and Geeks. I don't know if they grew it, or just had great connections or what. We never told the Jocks that, Stoners just bought it from the Geeks and made money marking it up for the Jocks, who didn't know any better.
There's a book with a movie deal in this somewhere. less
I took a lot of AP and Honors classes, too. Most of the AP classes at our High School was populated by a weird mix of Stoners, Geeks and Jock/Preps. These Jocks usually had little contact with anyone else at our High School.
I went to a HUGE High School and the divisions were pretty strong. Although the Jocks used to come over to the Smoking Section of the school (yeah, we had a smoking section, where I hung out, despite the fact that I never smoked.....cigarettes) where the Freaks hung out, and the Jocks came to buy their weed. Stoners would sell it at a mark up, because everyone knew the best weed (and acid) could only be bought from the Nerds and Geeks. I don't know if they grew it, or just had great connections or what. We never told the Jocks that, Stoners just bought it from the Geeks and made money marking it up for the Jocks, who didn't know any better.
There's a book with a movie deal in this somewhere. less
06/27/2011
I hung out with a lot of different people, but none of them were the popular kids.
06/27/2011
i was popular
06/27/2011
I didn't really fit into any group. I've always had a lot of trouble making friends, and I got picked on a lot all through school. I had one friend from 1st grade through 10th, but she ended up getting a rich boyfriend and deciding she was too good for me.
Shortly after that, my senior year, I moved to a new high school where I made no friends. I eventually dropped out because I couldn't stand sitting alone at lunch every day and having nobody to talk to in any of my classes. I went back the next year to finish, and actually made a few friends and met my future ex-husband. It was kind of a weird school in that there really weren't many cliques. My old high school had tons of them (none of which I was part of), but the school I graduated from didn't. It was a small school (graduating class had 72 people), and everyone had known each other their whole lives. Most people just got along with each other. I'm not sure why I wasn't accepted the first year I was there (the year I dropped out). Seniors that year were just so...snobby. The next, they were fine.
So...long winded way of saying, no. I never fit into any particular clique. And I may have hung out with llamas.
Shortly after that, my senior year, I moved to a new high school where I made no friends. I eventually dropped out because I couldn't stand sitting alone at lunch every day and having nobody to talk to in any of my classes. I went back the next year to finish, and actually made a few friends and met my future ex-husband. It was kind of a weird school in that there really weren't many cliques. My old high school had tons of them (none of which I was part of), but the school I graduated from didn't. It was a small school (graduating class had 72 people), and everyone had known each other their whole lives. Most people just got along with each other. I'm not sure why I wasn't accepted the first year I was there (the year I dropped out). Seniors that year were just so...snobby. The next, they were fine.
So...long winded way of saying, no. I never fit into any particular clique. And I may have hung out with llamas.
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because of our small size we didnt have separated groups except for the jocks and popular kids, so all of us freaks etc hung out together from all grades.
Originally posted by
El-Jaro
I tried to avoid being in any group in school. I was in the advanced classes, but didn't really excel in them. My parents didn't have the money for me to go to band/orchestra or any other group that required some sort of purchase to
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I tried to avoid being in any group in school. I was in the advanced classes, but didn't really excel in them. My parents didn't have the money for me to go to band/orchestra or any other group that required some sort of purchase to participate in.
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I hung out with lots of different people though, not groups so much. less
06/27/2011
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we had very similar high school lives, but I was a hussy of sorts. My fat never seemed to deter most the guys, I guess because a large amount of it was in my boobs lol although I was a little bit of a cheater and may have dated twins at the same time, making out with both of them in the same lunch break.
Originally posted by
Chilipepper
Lessee ...
They say that everyone knows at least one 'character' in their lives.
I was that character.
I dressed in clothes I repurposed (tear apart and sew differently) from thrift stores, becoming a sort of anime-goth. ... more
They say that everyone knows at least one 'character' in their lives.
I was that character.
I dressed in clothes I repurposed (tear apart and sew differently) from thrift stores, becoming a sort of anime-goth. ... more
Lessee ...
They say that everyone knows at least one 'character' in their lives.
I was that character.
I dressed in clothes I repurposed (tear apart and sew differently) from thrift stores, becoming a sort of anime-goth. I listened to 80's and classic rock instead of grunge or hip-hop. I was part of drama, the newspaper, and choir; the history teachers' pet. I was the fat bitch making caustic comments in the back of the class but answered everything correctly (except math - I wrote my first novel in math class). I was the Daria Morgendorfer of the class of '96 (didn't help that two of my guy friends were called Beavis and Butthead).I was the one who never bowed to any conformity or pressure to be something I wasn't, and was therefor considered by many to be the only Real person they knew. My friends were the freaks, outcasts, disabled, stoners, nerds, geeks, goths. I may have been socially awkward (and therefor bullied a LOT), but people trusted me and told me things that nobody had any business knowing. A dean once commented that she adored me because I was the only witty student she ever met in her years of working in education ... she was disappointed the one time I ended up in her office because a student finally figured out I had insulted them. My senior year surprised me when I became leader of a group of the outcasts. Everyone called me 'Mom' and came to me with their problems or whatever.
Had only one boyfriend (anime otaku and prep) for a couple of months in high school; first kiss and make out, then his mother forbid him from seeing me because she thought I was looking to get pregnant (I was the only girl who didn't want children). That was the extent. I was considered too fat, ugly, weird, etc. (and a mother figure) for anyone to want sexually. :-/
(Sorry for the text wall.) less
They say that everyone knows at least one 'character' in their lives.
I was that character.
I dressed in clothes I repurposed (tear apart and sew differently) from thrift stores, becoming a sort of anime-goth. I listened to 80's and classic rock instead of grunge or hip-hop. I was part of drama, the newspaper, and choir; the history teachers' pet. I was the fat bitch making caustic comments in the back of the class but answered everything correctly (except math - I wrote my first novel in math class). I was the Daria Morgendorfer of the class of '96 (didn't help that two of my guy friends were called Beavis and Butthead).I was the one who never bowed to any conformity or pressure to be something I wasn't, and was therefor considered by many to be the only Real person they knew. My friends were the freaks, outcasts, disabled, stoners, nerds, geeks, goths. I may have been socially awkward (and therefor bullied a LOT), but people trusted me and told me things that nobody had any business knowing. A dean once commented that she adored me because I was the only witty student she ever met in her years of working in education ... she was disappointed the one time I ended up in her office because a student finally figured out I had insulted them. My senior year surprised me when I became leader of a group of the outcasts. Everyone called me 'Mom' and came to me with their problems or whatever.
Had only one boyfriend (anime otaku and prep) for a couple of months in high school; first kiss and make out, then his mother forbid him from seeing me because she thought I was looking to get pregnant (I was the only girl who didn't want children). That was the extent. I was considered too fat, ugly, weird, etc. (and a mother figure) for anyone to want sexually. :-/
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i was a band and theatre geek. Its sucked back then. but it was worth it cuase i wouldnt have met my wife
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I'm sorry you had such a rough time. I didn't realize this thread would bring up so many sad memories for so many people. I feel bad you had such a sad time in HS.
Originally posted by
ZenaidaMacroura
I didn't really fit into any group. I've always had a lot of trouble making friends, and I got picked on a lot all through school. I had one friend from 1st grade through 10th, but she ended up getting a rich boyfriend and deciding she was
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I didn't really fit into any group. I've always had a lot of trouble making friends, and I got picked on a lot all through school. I had one friend from 1st grade through 10th, but she ended up getting a rich boyfriend and deciding she was too good for me.
Shortly after that, my senior year, I moved to a new high school where I made no friends. I eventually dropped out because I couldn't stand sitting alone at lunch every day and having nobody to talk to in any of my classes. I went back the next year to finish, and actually made a few friends and met my future ex-husband. It was kind of a weird school in that there really weren't many cliques. My old high school had tons of them (none of which I was part of), but the school I graduated from didn't. It was a small school (graduating class had 72 people), and everyone had known each other their whole lives. Most people just got along with each other. I'm not sure why I wasn't accepted the first year I was there (the year I dropped out). Seniors that year were just so...snobby. The next, they were fine.
So...long winded way of saying, no. I never fit into any particular clique. And I may have hung out with llamas. less
Shortly after that, my senior year, I moved to a new high school where I made no friends. I eventually dropped out because I couldn't stand sitting alone at lunch every day and having nobody to talk to in any of my classes. I went back the next year to finish, and actually made a few friends and met my future ex-husband. It was kind of a weird school in that there really weren't many cliques. My old high school had tons of them (none of which I was part of), but the school I graduated from didn't. It was a small school (graduating class had 72 people), and everyone had known each other their whole lives. Most people just got along with each other. I'm not sure why I wasn't accepted the first year I was there (the year I dropped out). Seniors that year were just so...snobby. The next, they were fine.
So...long winded way of saying, no. I never fit into any particular clique. And I may have hung out with llamas. less
In my High School, the groups weren't really cliques, they were too large for that. It was like.....professions or something. I guess I was lucky in that a lot of the kids I went to HS with were working class people and they whole picking on people shit was over by the middle of 8th grade. But, OMG, 6th and 7th grade was a living hell. Being smart and not going along with crowds made my 7th grade awful.
I don't know if working class kids have to grow up faster or what, (there were few Rich Kids in my HS, most of the rich kids had fathers in the Mob. Not much money where I grew up (rough west side of Chicago and close burbs) except that.) but neither me nor my kids had to deal with cliquishness much in High School as most of the kids had outgrown it. Aside from the Jocks, but they were clique-ey within their own group. They had no effect on the rest of us. They would get upset, because we wouldn't go to Pep Rallies, or if we were forced to go, we would all just sit there and stare into space. We also refused to vote for Home Coming Queen. Drove them, and the Administration crazy. Years before (before I was in High School) all the Freaks and what was left of the Greasers (they became the Disco-Guidos) got together and elected a pregnant Greaser Chick for Home Coming Queen. Evidently it was hilarious, she missed the parade because she was in labor!
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stoner skaters though I didn't skate myself.
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Was a nerd, am a nerd.*
* That said, I have never owned a pocket protector or a slide rule, nor have I ever played Dungeons & Dragons.
* That said, I have never owned a pocket protector or a slide rule, nor have I ever played Dungeons & Dragons.
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