I dropped out in grade 11 to go for an apprenticeship...

Up until then, I was pretty cool I guess...

fkusumot said: See Fast Times at Ridgemont High. In 1979 I was Judge Reinhold.

 

Please tell me you had the fast food restaurant costume...

i was none of those

what's a "punk" kid anyway? I'm confused on that point.

At my first highschool up to Junior year, nerd and a jock. I like to call myself a jerk :P

My senior year in a completely new highschool and place, loner mostly but with the nerdyness too I guess. In all the AP classes, but I didnt play football or soccer even though I should've. Bleh.

AP classes are great anyway...the best friends are usually made while cramming for impossible tests.

At first nobody liked me 'cuz I was the really tall really skinny weird kid with all the zits and the greasy long hair, wearing a trench coat every day, making Doom levels of his high school, and carrying around a ukulele and a harmonica. The girls really didn't like me because when I was 16 I beat up some 15 year old and kicked his face, and it split his nose open and he went to the hospital, so they were all scared of me. And I sold VHS copies of the Pamela and Tommy Lee sex tape to all the jocks at my school for $20 each. The girls hated me 'cuz I sold porn and beat kids up. The guys hated me 'cuz I was a computer nerd, a music nerd, and just greasy and unpopular with the girls.

I was unpopular until I stole our P.E. coach's hat and wore it to a party. Then everybody was like "Oh man you so crazy wow!" And right around then I started a band that rocked harder than all the other tame Christian pop/rock bands and hippie jam bands and poser-punk bands at my Catholic high school. I wrapped myself in Christmas lights and we played a half hour version of "Bennie and the Jets" until we got kicked off stage and suddenly I was popular.

At least, that was with my own grade. The older kids in my Spanish classes already liked me 'cuz I had my own porn web site when I was 16. (It was just pix I stole from other sites and put my name on at some free porn site place. It was hilarious.)

At least, that's the best way I can explain it, looking back at it now. I still don't really get it. Oh, and some girl pantsed me at a party when I was really drunk, and suddenly my entire high school knew me as "the drunk naked guy." I think mine was the first uncircumcized penis half the girls at my high school saw. That too somehow made me more popular.



In conclusion: to get popular you need to get drunk a lot, get naked once, be in a weird band, and steal things that other people will recognize and remember.

BenKenobi88 said: what's a "punk" kid anyway? I'm confused on that point.

I'd imagine they'd look something like Billie Joe Armstrong...

I wanna know... what exactly is a jock? We don't use that word down here... :3

twesterm said: fkusumot said: See Fast Times at Ridgemont High. In 1979 I was Judge Reinhold. Please tell me you had the fast food restaurant costume...

That embarrasing event didn't take place until after HS.

Off Topic: Tommy, your mention of MTG made me flash back to one of my my embarassing (or cringe worthy) memories ever. WOTC flew me in to PTLA '98 to cover the event for my website (Magic Dojo) and I was having dinner with my significant other and some WOTC people (Richard Garfield was there!) in Long Beach during the evening. It was cool because it was a nice restaurant and it was definitely improving the image my SO had of the MTG scene. All the nice intelligent (and kind of nerdy) people from WOTC were making good conversation and everything was going well.

So Jon Finkel and his posse (David Bachman and the other Jersey guys) walk in the restaurant and get seated a couple tables down from us. I nudge my SO and point over to Finkel and say "That's one of the best MTG players in the world". At that same moment Finkel PICKS HIS NOSE AND EATS IT! Really, I could have died right there.

--OkeyDokey-- said: BenKenobi88 said: what's a "punk" kid anyway? I'm confused on that point. I'd imagine they'd look something like Billie Joe Armstrong... I wanna know... what exactly is a jock? We don't use that word down here... :3

 

 A steriotypical jock is a guy/girl who is really into athletics, and not much else. They are shown to be very dumb and arrogant and pick on nerds.

Most of my best friends I met in the weight room or in football though, though the AP kids are pretty cool. Some are weird though.