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Jesus
New Member
USA
34 Posts |
 Posted - 05/08/2002 : 18:19:13
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Poll Question:
back in highschool I belong to a click called the burnouts, what highschool did you belong?
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| Burn outs -pot heads |
 [23%] |
11 votes |
| Geeks-Nerds |
[52%] |
25 votes |
| Jocks |
[4%] |
2 votes |
| Debutantes |
[6%] |
3 votes |
| preppies-yuppies |
[6%] |
3 votes |
| Gothic-freaks |
[8%] |
4 votes |
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Total Votes: 48 counted »» |
Last Vote:
12/03/2004 08:34:26 |
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Lisa
SFN Regular
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - 05/08/2002 : 19:59:56 [Permalink]
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Okay, now we've admitted it. Can we continue to discuss Heisenburg principle at least until its time for Band?
Lisa
If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room. |
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 05/08/2002 : 20:17:25 [Permalink]
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back in highschool I belong to a click called the burnouts, what highschool did you belong?
I don't understand any of those categories listed but I'll tell you about my HS experiences if that's what you are asking.
I didn't belong to any group, didn't have many friends, kept to myself. At lunch time they had different clubs that met in classrooms, I used to go listen to classical music during lunch. I don't remember many others being there. Quit high school in the 10th grade because of a teacher who was intimidating me. My mother never knew why, I couldn't and didn't tell her. That's what I did in high school.
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Badger
Skeptic Friend
Canada
257 Posts |
Posted - 05/08/2002 : 20:26:59 [Permalink]
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You missed two categories.
"All of the above" and "None of the above".
I was "All of the above". I got triple lettered in sports, and was a honours student. I hung around with the drama folk, partied with the rugby team, and picked a fight with the toughest guy in school because the geek he was picking on wouldn't have stood a chance.
Having said the above, I was acquaintences with almost everybody, but kind of a loner with no home "gang". But then I've always been that way.
At our 10 year reunion, 10 years ago, it was interesting to see everybody. Some had peaked in high school, and some had peaked later than that. Some had changed dramatically, and some not at all. I'm looking forward to the next one to see what that chapter brings.
If you think it's work, you're doing it wrong. |
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Slater
SFN Regular
USA
1668 Posts |
Posted - 05/08/2002 : 22:36:14 [Permalink]
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When I went to high school not only were there Goths but there were Visigoths. Man those ages were dark.
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My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ---Thomas Henry Huxley, 1860
Edited by - slater on 05/08/2002 22:37:00 |
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 05/08/2002 : 23:36:46 [Permalink]
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When I went to high school not only were there Goths but there were Visigoths. Man those ages were dark.
Life used to be simple, what HAPPENED?
When I went to school it was pretty much the popular kids and the others. That's it. No this group or that group.
Unless you are talking about outside of school. There were the surfers and the greesers but in school I don't think there was as much division as now, as far as how one looked. Outside of school I wore all black, listened to folk music and jazz, and hung around coffee houses, we were called Beatniks. Yes, I wore a beret, too. I am an artist after all!
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Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease
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Tim
SFN Regular
USA
775 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2002 : 03:06:31 [Permalink]
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I'll have to say that the two largest groups in the HS I graduated from are not on the list. I spent the last two years of school ex-communicated to rural No. Georgia in the mid '70's. To my surprise, I found the school to be run by a rather large and visible group of Christians. The only competition they had was from the red necks--Real red necks! But, red necks tended to quit school before graduating, leaving the Christians completely unchallenged.
There was one other group, and we called ourselves the freaks. We tended to all have long hair, and to dress in ragged bell bottomed jeans. The guys wore t-shirts and converse tennis shoes. The girls wore halter tops, sandals, and hand made jewelery. Drugs were a part of everyday life. We went to school because; a) the law made us, or b) we really wanted to go to college instead of having to go to work.
The jocks and the nerds came from any of the three above mentioned groups. The only time the groups even paid attention to one another was when our school, North Gwinnett, played Buford in football, (or baseball, or basketball), and we always lost.
I guess we all have our own interpretations of our formative years.
"The Constitution ..., is a marvelous document for self-government by Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society." P. Robertson |
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Mr. Spock
Skeptic Friend
USA
99 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2002 : 04:40:01 [Permalink]
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I always hated (and still do to this day) groups and cliques. Their in-group exclusiveness and snobbery just pisses me off. I find this to be the case ESPECIALLY for those groups who pride themselves in being "different" from the others. Yes, for the most part, the popular kids were mostly vain and shallow, but the cliques were downright obnoxious.
I remember that like Snake, I was pretty much a loner; I spent most lunch breaks by myself, though I did have some social contact. I smoked too much dope to be a geek and was too cerebral to be a stoner, though. I spent a good deal of time talking to some of the few good teachers caught in the system.
However, that is a part of my life that I'd like to forget, and, with few exceptions, I really don't give a #*@!if I see any of those people again, especially after going to my wife's 10th reunion last year in South Carolina. Sticking out like a sore thumb (with my now unfashionable Robert Plant circa 1974 look among a sea of cookie-cutter, upwardly mobile rednecks who all looked as if they belonged in a Pat Buchanan for president rally) all of the high school alienation and despair came back all at once. I ended up drinking too much and sitting in a corner with my wife while making unflattering and obscene observations. Fortunately, she was amused.
"The only thing that bands nations together is the fact that their governments are universally bad."--Frank Zappa |
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
5310 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2002 : 05:44:59 [Permalink]
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Jocks and pukes. I was a puke, or freak.
The other division was juicers and freaks. Juicers drank beer and got into fights. Freaks did that if they felt that was all that was left to them to do, but preferred drugs and being cool. This was mainly a post-high school thing, but it started in high school.
"Not one human life should be expended in this reckless violence called a war against terrorism." - Howard Zinn |
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Computer Org
Skeptic Friend
392 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2002 : 08:06:48 [Permalink]
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What you're really asking is "Where do skeptics come from?"--thinking, I suppose, that all skeptics were born/hatched in high school or early college.
I was a confirmed, dedicated skeptic by the age of three and have hardly ever softened my skeptical outlook by even a little.
(To be fair: I was born in time of [our last lawful] War! when there were a lot of "funny" things going on in society and with government, many of them discussed at the dinner table. If ever there was a time for a skeptic to emerge, it was then;--even more so than during Viet Nam.)
Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life. --Falstaff
Edited by - Computer Org on 05/09/2002 08:11:28 |
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Computer Org
Skeptic Friend
392 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2002 : 08:09:20 [Permalink]
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By the way, I'm the one who voted "dedutantes" since while in high school I was pretty much 'ded in the hed'. 
Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life. --Falstaff |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2002 : 09:35:17 [Permalink]
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None of the above...
I dropped out half way through the 9th grade and went to work cutting pulp. So, count me among the red-necks, I guess. I'll never be much of anything else. This was in the early '50s and just as well. I was an indifferent student at best. I was out of school legally in '56, and got my GED a couple of years later in the Navy.
If anything turned me into a skeptic, it was 10 years in Uncle Sam's Canoe Club.
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"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."
- Albert Einstein
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2002 : 12:57:30 [Permalink]
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Ya know those folks that didn't seem to fit any clique but had friends among the lot of them, my daughter informed me the other day that they are called 'Floaters', of which she is one, and I suppose that I would have fit that description as well, though more of a loner.
Don't really care all that much what the people I went to HS with are doing now. I've run across some of them, mostly people concerned (or not concerned) with things of no interest to me. Suppose I'll miss the 20th reunion up coming.
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...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
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Blair Nekkid
New Member
Canada
20 Posts |
Posted - 05/13/2002 : 08:47:47 [Permalink]
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I'll chime in with Badger. I played football, played in the Band, and acted and sang in the drama productions, but in the fine tradition of Groucho Marx, would not join a group that would have the likes of me as a member.
Cheers,
Blair
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
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Kaneda Kuonji
Skeptic Friend
USA
138 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2002 : 22:24:38 [Permalink]
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I was a member of the band, graduated with high honors, and was a geek, not that the people (most in my classes minded, since they needed to cheat off someone...especially in English.
Rodney Dean, CI Order of the Knights of Jubal
Ivbalis.org
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Zandermann
Skeptic Friend
USA
431 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2002 : 12:18:13 [Permalink]
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nerd...
member of the band, chess team, drama group, wrote for the school paper...
Now that I'm back in high school for (most of) the last 20 years, I'm still doing those things...along with taking students to star parties |
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