What did your yearbook blurb say?

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I forget if I handed mine in... I think I did... but all I remember about it is that my quote was "When all else fails, read the instructions."

Nothing! We had no such thing. My graduating class was 1,093 and I knew practically none of them. Most of my "friends" were Juniors and Sophomores. My Mom made me get a yearbook. I had not gotten one previous years. I was a tad bit anti-social and moved every 2-4 years as a Navy Brat, so rarely had time to develop friendships anyway. I moved in the middle of High School, so I was already an outcast when I arrived. I was top Math Student in my class, but that was voted on by the teachers.

Well, what is was supposed to be and what got printed were two entirely different things, after all these years it is still a sore spot for me. To be hated that much by people who do not know you.

Please tell us about it; it's group therapy!


I really hope that nobody did that with me! I never got a yearbook. I really don't think so. They weren't the type. I wasn't picked on at that school. If I had stayed in the other one, on the other hand...

This is not exactly what I turned in to the yearbook staff. They butchered it. But as printed:

Elsewhere I was "quoted" as saying, "Football games were so much fun this year!! !" I never attended a single game throughout my entire high school career. The yearbook staff was past deadline and made up a whole bunch of junk to stick in the books. Irony--gotta love it.

it's really stupid, it was supposed to be "No rest for the wicked" it was kind of a play on an Ozzy album and it is also a quote from Shakespeare--but most the people at my school were too stupid to know that, I was kind of picked on for liking heavy metal, and some little rich preppy thing who was on the yearbook staff thought it would be funny to put in some kind of Iron Maiden quote. I was never a fan of Iron Maiden and this girl knew that. High school was brutal for me, people made up things about me all the time, I only had a couple of friends there, most of my friends were from other schools.

Oh you mean that crap where everyone signs eachothers year books and writes these stupid letters to eachother? Yeah, not many kids wrote in mine but I was always able to find some teachers who were nice enough to do it

Ha ha...you liked Heavy Metal! Did you like Metal-licka? I'm kidding.

People tried to beat me up a lot, but when they would punch me, I wouldn't even flinch and ignored them. That really tended to freak people out. I played basketball and baseball, but did not fit in with my teammates outside of practice and games. They partied and drank and I had no interest. I was also the captain of the Computer Programming Team, Vice President of the Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS), and in the Chess Club and Novel Club, although I never took my turn writing a chapter in our novel. I was, and still am, undefeated in chess against humans. I was a loser, geek, nerd, and all around a***hole when it came down to it. I didn't take crap from anyone

To this day I still love METALLICA

And DO NOT make fun of me! I might cry!

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No, I think she means the little text blurb printed next to your senior photo, usually a favorite quote or your future goals. It is a tradition.

Enter Sandman...

I prefer "Until it Sleeps"

Sorry, but I have a running thing about Metal-licka with some friends and cannot resist. You know you're cool! I listen to lots of heavy stuff, but consider myself more of an Industrial or Grunge music person when I want heavy stuff. Tool, Ministry, Rage Against The Machine, Nirvana, etc. I was never into the Pistols and Posies or Metal-licka bands.

We didn't have that.

Nothing. I never was a senior, they made up a sub catagory, called a sub senior. Only year they ever did it. Not only was there no little neat saying, there was nothing about any activites I had ever done. Does make sense that they would have for my future plans blank, I sure didn't know. I hardly think it matters, if you're still reading your year book, you have issues. Class of 68. ra ra ra 12 years worth of s**t to have a party at the end only to end up holding the hair of the Swedish exchange student while she barfed her guts out. I think she really knew what she was doing, it made me retch for 12 years.

I didn't make a blurb, although I did get the yearbook. High school was pretty much a meaningless experience for me: come in, pump my brain full of information, get bullied, go home. So in the end, I had nothing to say to people in my graduating class. The space under my name where the blurb would go is blank. As for the yearbook, I sometimes use it to hold up a window that won't stay open.