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Taking a poll....Who/what were you in high school?
turbo
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Be honest! This is a then and know Poll.
I know it might strain the memory for some, since high school was decades back in history.
1. Cheerleader
2. Jock
3. Surfer
4. Preppy
5. Wee Nee
6. Clown
7. Brain
8. Geek
9. Slacker
10. Pack Rat
11. Loner
12. Rebel
13. Other
14. _______________________fill in.
I'll go first and admit, I was a loner on account of the fact I considered myself a geek, as I was scrawney, (I remember looking in the hot rod magazines, at ads that promised readers, they too could have a body like Mr Universe and dreamin of having big muscles and walkin around school with a babe in each arm), I was 5'8" and weighed 146 lbs in my senior year, at the age of 17. Two years later at Fort Bragg, NC I by then had bloomed to 6'0" and reached 207 lbs. and it's been down hill ever since.
At 56 this last year, I've shrunk 1-1/4", and weigh 187 lbs, last year I had two discs removed from my lower back and Monday I go in to have 2 more taken out of my neck, I suppose I'll shrink another inch.
I am beyond caring what I look like, as I can't see without my glasses, anyhow, my hair is quickly receding and turning gray, which are the things I can live with, but the forgetfulness is something else.
On the other hand, I'm thankful for a faithful wife of 32 years who loves me still lumps and all and still says I look good, even with my chipped tooth, she does smile a lot when she says it. But, I trust her judgment and believe her.
I still enjoy a good joke, so if you'll might want to throw one in feel free. I know it's true that laughter will add years to my life.
And, I gotta admit;
I `m still a geek, but a happy one at that.
"The great object is that every man.... everyone who is able may have a gun." Patrick Henry
Edited by - turbo on 08/03/2002 01:26:32
I know it might strain the memory for some, since high school was decades back in history.
1. Cheerleader
2. Jock
3. Surfer
4. Preppy
5. Wee Nee
6. Clown
7. Brain
8. Geek
9. Slacker
10. Pack Rat
11. Loner
12. Rebel
13. Other
14. _______________________fill in.
I'll go first and admit, I was a loner on account of the fact I considered myself a geek, as I was scrawney, (I remember looking in the hot rod magazines, at ads that promised readers, they too could have a body like Mr Universe and dreamin of having big muscles and walkin around school with a babe in each arm), I was 5'8" and weighed 146 lbs in my senior year, at the age of 17. Two years later at Fort Bragg, NC I by then had bloomed to 6'0" and reached 207 lbs. and it's been down hill ever since.
At 56 this last year, I've shrunk 1-1/4", and weigh 187 lbs, last year I had two discs removed from my lower back and Monday I go in to have 2 more taken out of my neck, I suppose I'll shrink another inch.
I am beyond caring what I look like, as I can't see without my glasses, anyhow, my hair is quickly receding and turning gray, which are the things I can live with, but the forgetfulness is something else.
On the other hand, I'm thankful for a faithful wife of 32 years who loves me still lumps and all and still says I look good, even with my chipped tooth, she does smile a lot when she says it. But, I trust her judgment and believe her.
I still enjoy a good joke, so if you'll might want to throw one in feel free. I know it's true that laughter will add years to my life.
And, I gotta admit;
I `m still a geek, but a happy one at that.
"The great object is that every man.... everyone who is able may have a gun." Patrick Henry
Edited by - turbo on 08/03/2002 01:26:32
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Yep, It was me!
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AN ARMED SOCIETY IS A POLITE SOCIETY
lets see
i dont do anything so im a slacker
i dont hang out with many people in HS so im a loner
im in JROTC so that would make me a cadet in #14?
PEACE!
I'm still funny but at 45 I'm a lot slower on the skates, it must be the little extra weight I carry today.
Harleeman1030@aol.com
Rugster
JBB
I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them.
I did't go to high school. Tried my best not to go to Jr High school.
Maby thats why I can't spell.
Tools
But on weekends I was a cowboy, team roping and calf roping at rodeos.
Didn't make any money, but I broke even.
"If you ain't got pictures, I wasn't there."
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
Unfortunately, my emotional attitude remained unchanged, so I still was too shy to speak to girls in the hallway unless I was not particularly infatuated with them. Ironically, those are the kind of girls I shoudl have stuck with. As I got older and braver, I went for the stunning, popular girls and had the predictable kinds of problems you have with them.
By the time I got out of high school I was a successful rock-n-roller AND an award-winning debater and singer -- kind of a fence-sitter, on the geekness scale. I had a beautiful girlfriend. Eventually I married her. Eventually we broke up. My emotional introversion led to heavy drinking; eventually I sobered up.
My hobbies as a kid were introvert's hobbies -- making animated films with clay models, watching sci-fi movies on TV, reading sci-fi books, reading Famous Monsters and Spacemen magazine, and writing short stories. I've been a writer ever since, of one kind or another, and worked in the movie industry in L.A. for 20 years after school, including Universal and Disney, from tour guide to script analyst. I came back to Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1991 after not getting rich in L.A. and still being a "renter."
It wasn't until I went away to U.S.C. Cinema School in L.A. that I became a more self-sufficient human being. Mom & dad were a little too protective, I think. I had a LOT of adventures in L.A. (won't drop any names, but I've got a bagful) and if it were not for 9 years at Universal fighting inbred elistism and nepotism instead of getting support and encouragement, and hence drinking to kill the pain, I would probably be a successful filmmaker in Hollywood today. My former associates are still delighted to hear from me when I call, but they agree that the "mini-depression" of 1990 was a good time to get out of town. Someday, I may go back to the warm climate, but my dues in movietown are paid in full for life, thank you, so they'd better be ready to offer me money next trip.
- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Edited by - offeror on 08/03/2002 21:26:10
AlleninAlaska
Free men are not equal and equal men are not free
Liked to draw charatures of my teachers and classmates. Always smiled and was cordial. Joked around a lot. Got good grades. Walked to school in near blizzard conditions (didn't we all) so I was somewhat of a survivalist. Had a scholarship to Ball State U. for art but didn't take advantage of it. KICK KICK! I liked guns but today I really like guns. Hunt in near blizzard conditions to prove to my wife of 28+ years and my daughters that the ole man can still handle those days reminisant of the days when he walked to school that he tells them about.
Nowadays, I'm still kinda known as the guy you send into a room to see if all the bad guys are still standing. I also really like to play dumb, it's no small source of amusement to me to watch someone get frustrated when they can't find the words to explain themselves, especially when you ask the simplest most benign(SP?ask Mudge!) questions. I also love it when a service/customer related industry tries to take advantage of my wife and doesn't know I'm there listening. That's always fun.
Reserving my Right to Arm Bears!!!!
i flunked english couple times in high school finally figured out that i better at least act like i wanted to learn so i could graduate which i did.
school was my vacation time :-) soon as first signs of spring hit my grades went in the craper i was ready to be home to start planting wheat.
some neighbors told mom and dad that they shouldnt let me work so much because they though i would be burnt out shortly LOL i still love everday that i am out farming or working cattle some thirty years later.
went to diesel mech 2yr course and was on honor roll every 1/4 for the two years.
teachers never could get it through their heads, they all said i was very smart but could'nt figure out why i did so poorly in school.
i was only into one sport, wrestling.... wasnt great wasnt the worst either
doc
I dont give my guns without somebody getting hurt!
If you could put up with me and open up a little, you passed the acid test and you were a family member. I had a big family.
For those few teachers and students who refused to buy in, and insisted on keeping their distance, I was what you might call "militantly intelligent". I could tear you a new one using words you'd never even heard before, and leave you looking like a real moron. I did the same thing with the teachers, but was careful to be as subtlely disrespectful as possible.
Thankfully, I only had to do it a couple of times. Most people got along with me just fine.
Now, I'm making a transition into a career where I dont know the rules, or exactly what sort of a front I should put up.
Edited by - Bullzeye on 08/03/2002 15:32:23
"When in doubt...whip it out!"
It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it...
Medals over letter: Regional Science Fair, Regional Speech contest, Distric One-Act play all star cast.
Like Cowdoc I was a farm boy -- many Sat nights on tractor till well after dark. Caught one of my buddies out parking one night -- they'd been to the moveies and I was still trying to get home for supper. My 8th grade summer only time I saw swimming pool was when I drove the combine past it going from one field to another.
Introduce my freshman son to driving a tractor last week. He now understands there are things more boreing than English class ( in his not so humble opinion.)
Didn't have a girlfriend until after I graduated and met a girl from next town over, then went to college.
I have to wonder what would have happened if I hadn't been too worried about coming back from VietNam when I was dating one or two of them!
Oh well, been married to lady I met while in the Army (didn't go after all) for 27 years.
My one regret is that I can't raise my two sons on a farm -- between low crop prices and high irrigation costs family farm went away years ago.
Wild Turkey"if your only tool is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail"
"Just my opinion."
One woman's opinion
Quit smoking pot the summer of my senior year.
Still work.
Still practice.
Still sleep when I am not supposed to.
"The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal governmentare few and defined, and will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace negotiation, and foreign commerce"
-James Madison
If you will blame gun makers for every shooting then blame car maker for every car accident.
96Harley..you sound like a combination of the Waltons and little house on the prairie..is your real name John Boy..but.."Only the Shadow Knows."
Woods
FatWoodDog
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice, Doggie..."until you find a Rock!!
If I knew then, what I know now.
I also got a GED, dropped out, and went straight to tech school. I though high school was a waste of time, still do, don't know why you'd need a whole year to learn the little the unqualified teachers taught. I went to a horrible school district.
If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.
The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
and Track (hurdles), but took acting in Fresh year and slowly
dropped sports and replaced it with shows. Popularity grew each year
after being the geek/nerd most of my life. Jr. year voted homecoming Prince, and Sr. year the King. Sr. year we won the stat one-act and I was named to the All-state cast. Had friends of all types because I
knew what it was like to be unpopular and to be treated badly by the
popular kids....I think that is why I got homecoming...I related to people personally, not according to their social label. I hated labels. I was the hyper kid runnin through the halls and spinning on
the cylandrical beams in the halls. New kids would ask who that freak was and their guide would say, "that's just Walter".
I had a great time. It was my developmental time. I had just figured out what it was to be myself and it made life tons more livable. So far, still chasing the dream. Scholarship at OU for Drama, and currently living in L.A. Unfortunately for me, the two best cities for Acting are two of the worst for firearms. I love my guns, but I left them with the parents back in OK.
On a lighter note, I just found out that my girlfriend just showed a couple of guys in the show with her how to properly hold a rifle! Something I had shown her. She is an actress in KS right now. Can you imagine being a grown man and having a cute curly headed girl show you how to shoulder a firearm? Wish I was there!
And I am glad to see there are plenty of us actor/debator types totin weapons. Living here I see too many artsy types who don't like guns!
"a Freudian slip is when you say one thing and mean amother"
To err is human, to moo is bovine.
"...Abby someone""Abby who"..."Abby Normal"
I was one of those that could walk into about any circle from Jocks to Stoners and Preppys to Slackers and be accepted ... never fit into the clicques and didn't want or try to ... I had a lot of aquaintances but only 2 close friends, kept at least 2 partime jobs all throughout HS to support my jewelry design classes at our community collage ...
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