My Old School

[Robin91783]

all right, stick with me on this one - even though the quote is from a Steely
Dan song
(I always think of junior high school when they sing "and I'm never going back
to my old school")
I was having a conversation with SmokeChaser (on the phone) & sort of kicked
around a couple questions & observations, so here they are:
1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?
2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?
3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?
4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?
5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to the
popular crowd?
6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?
7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?
here's my answers (SmokeChaser's theory is that most furries did not_fit_in the
in crowd & I would agree to that - but I may be just talking from my own
experiences..)
my answers:
1) _no_
2) _no_
3) _no_
4) I'm not _even_in_my high school year book!
5) yes, just 1 really.....
6) _yes_ I felt older (though often I was the youngest) & more "mature" but
socially I was a little immature (a food fight at an all girl high school?
_who_could have started that;))
7) no, neither king or queen;)
Robin, wondering why it's said the teen years are the best of your life...

[Tim Gadd]

robin...@aol.com (Robin91783) wrote:

>1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

No. There were a fairly small group who were very hostile to me, and
used to start fights with me and so on. There were another small group
who seemed to take their cue from me and try to imitate everything I
did, and the rest didn't care one way or the other. When I moved into
high school I found that about 20% of the kids were from my old
suburb, and the other 80% were from somewhere else. The two groups
were very distinct socio-economically and in various other ways, and
to an extent they retained their seperateness right till the end.

>2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

I wasn't much a sports type, though I was a good medium-pace bowler
(cricket.) Didn't do me much good though. They'd decided I wasn't a
sporting type, so even when they put me on and I'd take two wickets in
an over after no-one had been able to break through, they'd take me
straight off again. I _did_ kick the entire score for my football team
one game, but I think that was a fluke. I was also a _very_ good
swimmer for my school. That was the one sport I was very good at, but
I lost interest.

We don't have cheerleaders here. I don't think you'd be able to talk
anyone into doing it. In fact I'm sure there would be a furor if
schools introduced something so obviously designed to represent the
subordination of women. More likely they'd introduce small groups of
girls who didn't actually go to the games, but sat in committee for
100 minutes in a specially designated room guarded by Dobermans.

>3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
>(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

We don;t have homecoming dances or ring dances either, and I don;t
actually know what they are. We had a leaver's for final year high
school students, which is the same as your prom, I think. The
headmaster actually asked me if I would consider not going to it. I
told him I wasn't going to the bloody thing anyway, so that was that.
That gives you a fairly good idea of what my relationship to the
establishment was like during my teens ;)

>4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

I was supposed to have some stories published in one or two of them,
but they didn't print them. I don;t know what that was about. Maybe it
was because one of my stories had been serialised in the school
magazine, and the Mother's Club complained about it so they had to
discontinue it.

Come to think of it, my stories got me into trouble a few times. In
first year they told us to go away and write a story. I said 'About
what?" They said, "anything", so I wrote a story about the Royal
Family being assassinated, and got hauled over the coals for it.

I think I got in the yearbook in my last year because I was in a play
that won a drama festival.

>5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to the
>popular crowd?

Yep. Quite a few good friends, I'd say.

>6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
>intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

Bit hard to say, because there were two peer groups, as I explained
above. Taking the group that I'd gone to primary school with, and
already knew and socialised with - yeah I always felt different. I
guess that was made worse when they told me I had the highest IQ in
the school (in retrospect maybe that's why they didn't expel me,
becasue they were talking about it.) Yeah, I felt different, but I
don't know that it was a problem for me. I didn't really feel _bad_
different. I hated high school; I hated society in general, but I had
a small group of good friends, and I felt pretty well intergrated with
them. They were the ones who responded well to my... err.. whatever it
is.

>7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

Sorry, don't know what that is.

--
Tim Gadd
Hobart, Tasmania

Lupercal .com
@wolf-web

'Some people never go crazy.
What truly horrible lives they must live."

Charles Bukowski

[LupusUnus]

Hoping he doesn't start another barrage of fuel loading for the upcoming flames
but here goes...

>1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

>2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

>3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
>(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

>4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

>5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to
>the
>popular crowd?

>6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
>intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

>7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

>here's my answers (SmokeChaser's theory is that most furries did not_fit_in
>the
>in crowd & I would agree to that - but I may be just talking from my own
>experiences..)
>my answers:
>1) _no_
>2) _no_
>3) _no_
>4) I'm not _even_in_my high school year book!
>5) yes, just 1 really.....
>6) _yes_ I felt older (though often I was the youngest) & more "mature" but
>socially I was a little immature (a food fight at an all girl high school?
>_who_could have started that;))
>7) no, neither king or queen;)
>Robin, wondering why it's said the teen years are the best of your life...
>
>

Well, I'll post my answers just to support your opinions to some extent.

1. Definitely Not
2. No
3. No
4. 1 picture, not including my actual class picture so not really.
5. Yes and no, I'll explain upon request to save bandwidth (and blood vessels
from popping).
6. Being a loner pretty much all my life made me definitely feel different from
my peer group.
7. Um, homcoming? This wolf? That would be a negative to that question.

In otherwords, I'd agree with the statement by Smokechaser but would caution
against making stereotypes like that. Needless to say, I'm wondering which one
of ya is going to admit to being the homecoming king/queen. My money's on the
Oreo monster herself declaring that.

Lupus (Because Lonewolf was taken)

[Tim Gadd]

BTW I predict this will be this month's longest thread....

[Mister Tod]

In article <19980307050...@ladder02.news.aol.com>, robin...@aol.com
(Robin91783) writes:

>1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

No. I was in a sort of anti-clique of like-minded geeks and rejects.

>2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

No.

>3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
>(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

I went to the prom. Against my will, really. A female associate from my drama
class begged me to take a friend of hers to the prom since she had been dumped
by her date. I agreed, at the prodding of my mother, who thought it would be
great for me to go to the prom. And so as a group (the associate, her date and
her friend whom I was escorting) went to dinner and the prom. She danced with
just about everyone but me and I had to practically drag her by the hair to
take the obligatory photograph that was already paid for. Then we all went to
a dance club where the music was so loud that I couldn't hear clearly for
several hours afterward and I lost a pair of sunglasses that my associate lent
me and I had to pay her $20 for them. My "date" did not speak to me afterward
except to request half of the photographs. Fun. Set back my desire to date
for ten years or so.

>4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

No.

>5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to
>the
>popular crowd?

I only made a couple of good friends in my senior year. One of them has been
my best friend since. In college I made a lot more friends than I ever had in
high school.
Coincidentally one of those friends in college was the guy who dumped the girl
who I had taken to the prom.

>6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
>intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

Like I was from a different planet. My favorite place there was the occult
section of the library. The furry feelings were definitely there, though they
became better defined after high school.

>7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?
>here's my answers (SmokeChaser's theory is that most furries did not_fit_in
>the
>in crowd & I would agree to that - but I may be just talking from my own
>experiences..)

No.

Oh God, how I hated high school. With the ten-year anniversary coming up I
still haven't decieded how to handle it. Escaping to Canada comes readily to
mind.

--Mister Tod

"...I distrust the extremes. Sctatch a conservative and you find someone who
prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet
aristocrat...."
--The Stolen Journals, God Emperor of Dune

[? the platypus {aka David Formosa}]

In <19980307050...@ladder02.news.aol.com> robin...@aol.com (Robin91783) writes:

>all right, stick with me on this one

Hay I'm sticking is this a magic goose type thing?

[....]

>around a couple questions & observations, so here they are:

>1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

No I was a membour of the out crowd. But I found that these peaple where
actuly interesting rather then the incrowd who where all in all quite
boring.

>2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

No.

>3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
>(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

Nope. And thouse that I had to attend, I sort of sat on the outside and
drank too much (as I don't drink alchol I was only drinking Orange juise,
which will induce dirrare if you drink too much of it.)

>4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

No.

>5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to the
>popular crowd?

Yes, but I didn't relaise it then.

>6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
>intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

Yes.

>7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

Not anything repeatble in public or offical.

[...]

>Robin, wondering why it's said the teen years are the best of your life...

Because by the time peaple start writing things like that the bad things
have faded from there memoruies.

--
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Never trust a country with more peaple then sheep.
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I'm sorry but I just don't consider 'because its yucky' a convincing argument

[ffang]

In article <19980307094...@ladder03.news.aol.com>, Mister Tod
opines...

> In article <19980307050...@ladder02.news.aol.com>, robin...@aol.com
> (Robin91783) writes:

<snip>

> >3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
> >(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?
>

> I went to the prom. Against my will, really. A female associate from my drama
> class begged me to take a friend of hers to the prom since she had been dumped
> by her date. I agreed, at the prodding of my mother, who thought it would be
> great for me to go to the prom. And so as a group (the associate, her date and
> her friend whom I was escorting) went to dinner and the prom. She danced with
> just about everyone but me and I had to practically drag her by the hair to
> take the obligatory photograph that was already paid for. Then we all went to
> a dance club where the music was so loud that I couldn't hear clearly for
> several hours afterward and I lost a pair of sunglasses that my associate lent
> me and I had to pay her $20 for them. My "date" did not speak to me afterward
> except to request half of the photographs. Fun. Set back my desire to date
> for ten years or so.

Gods, does that sound familiar! ('cept the dance club) My "prom date"
lived across the street and had previously dated my younger brother.

--
Mr. Kurtz, the Werelynx Walled Lake, Michigan

"Sadder still to watch it die
Than never to have known it
For you - the blind who once could see -
The bell tolls for thee..." -- Neil Peart

[Robin91783]

In article <19980307094...@ladder03.news.aol.com>, mist...@aol.com
(Mister Tod) writes:

>Coincidentally one of those friends in college was the guy who dumped the
>girl
>who I had taken to the prom.

hmm, sounds like this guy had her pegged already.....shame_you_ had a miserable
time - my mom made my older sister go to her prom, mom felt that she _should_
go (she went with my uncle) now, I understand, you can go stag (or is it as a
stag?)
I went to my senior prom - it was _loud_ & noisy (I went with my fiance' at the
time)..
the best parts of the prom (to me) was _afterwards_ we went to a restaurant
(with my good griend & her date) & the waiter told us what was available to
drink (my buddy was wanted to have a beer & she was underage - the waiter just
listed the soft drink options) & feeding bread to the mudcarp at the Lake in
Columbia.... (I kept taking the rolls at the restaurant & stuffing them in my
purse for that purpose)
Robin, who likes feeding bread to everyone:)

[Matt Sq]

In article <19980307050...@ladder02.news.aol.com>, robin...@aol.com
(Robin91783) writes:

>I was having a conversation with SmokeChaser (on the phone) & sort of kicked

>around a couple questions & observations, so here they are:
>1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

Make that 'Am I in the 'in' crowd at school?'. And the answer is.... not
really. But, I get on with just about everyone, and I don't have to worry
about anyone actually dis-liking me.

>2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

Hehehe. Yeah, right. I do my very best not to do any sport at school. I've
probably missed more games lessons than I've been to. It's not so much I don't
like sport, I just don't like to do it at school.

>3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
>(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

Resounding no, but my school doesn't do that much stuff. (It's all boys for
one thing)

>4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

Don't have one, but I would feature occasionally if we did since I do the odd
bit of public speaking.

>5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to
>the popular crowd?

I've only got one friend I feel like I really know, and that was only after
he tried to kill himself. I think it changed him, and let me see what he was
really like.

>6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
>intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

Intelligent? Kinda, but this school is selective so everyone is of above
average intelligence. I do feel I'm more mature than alot of the others, but I
worry I'm just kidding myself.

>7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

N/A..............

>here's my answers (SmokeChaser's theory is that most furries did not_fit_in
>the
>in crowd & I would agree to that - but I may be just talking from my own
>experiences..)

Matt Squirrel

[Furry Wurry]

robin...@aol.com (Robin91783) quizzed us in
Message-ID: <19980307050...@ladder02.news.aol.com>, asking

1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

no

2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

Yeah, riiight. see below.

3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

Not even. I didn't attend the prom.

4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

You might almost say that.

The yearbook photographers came to one of our gym classes.
I'm not sure if it was planned in advance or not (see my answer to #1),
but they got some "entertaining" pictures of some of the kids who
weren't known for their athletic abilities playing a game of basketball.
Let's just say I had a prominant position in the final image.

Note to those whose schools don't do such things:
It's a tradition in most U.S. schools to publish a book honoring
the senior class. Everyone, especially if you're a senior, is encouraged
to buy a copy. It has formal "school pictures" of every senior in it
(another U.S. tradition -- get the parents to shell out for a set
of pictures of your kids every year) as well as articles and
pictures of activities, classes and clubs. One tries to get as many
people as possible to sign one's own copy, including comments or not.
Although some images of the "underclasses" are included, it's supposedly
intended for nostalgic perusing by members of the senior class in later years.

5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to the
popular crowd?

Friends, yes. *Good* friends, though, well, I'd have to say no.
I'd also have to say that most of them tended to be misfits.
Not troublemakers, just people on the fringes.

My family moved a lot, making it hard for me to make friends.
Fortunately, we only changed school districts once while I was
in high school (and it was a move back to a previous one, so I knew
most of the people there), but the possibility of it happening at
any time made it hard for me to get very involved.

6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

I certainly did feel like an outsider a lot of the time.
I felt quite uncomfortable at the 10th year reunion,
and haven't attended any since.

7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

Nope. At least nothing that anyone mentioned to my face :-3

fw

[HPickands]

In article <19980307050...@ladder02.news.aol.com>, robin...@aol.com
(Robin91783) writes:

>
>all right, stick with me on this one - even though the quote is from a Steely
>Dan song
>(I always think of junior high school when they sing "and I'm never going
>back
>to my old school")

How about the line from Paul Simon's "Kodachrome"?------

"When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school,
It's a wonder I can think at all."

:/

>1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

Nope. I was my own crowd pretty much, always the loner.

>2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

Erg! :p Forced to play eight years of intramural football, like most everyone
else. Left me with a bad knee and a bad attitude towards coaches who dump on
the non-athletically endowed. I still have fantasies of putting that knee
firmly into the personal area of that coach. Several times.

>3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
>(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

Nope. Avoided this stuff as if it were poison ivy. Was forced to attend the
junior and senior proms. <parents> you don't think we're going to let all of
those dance lessons go to waste, do you!?!? </parents> The senior prom was the
worst, since I had an assigned date who outweighed me by a good fifty pounds
(I've never been called"Tiny", BTW) who was unhappier about being there than I
was, and blamed _me_ for the entire disaster. Talk about your "great" high
school memories, that one has lasted forever -dammit!

>4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

Just the usual mug shot. The space for activities did have one entry; I joined
the projection club (we ran projectors in classrooms to show those deadly dull
"educational" films), so I _would_ have an entry.

>5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to
>the
>popular crowd?

Once I hit high school, a few of us nerds and geeks formed a little group,
mostly for mutual defense against the jocks. Witnesses to punch outs and like
that; we were not above finking out the macho morons.

>6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
>intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

Very different, as in from another reality. I had nothing in common with most
of the others in that school, nor they with me.

>7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

I wasn't even in contention to be court jester. Suited me just fine. :)
-------------------

>Robin, wondering why it's said the teen years are the best of your life...

Harry,
who has often wondered about that too - not for _me_ they weren't; Happy Days
my ass!

[felidae126]

robin...@aol.com (Robin91783) wrote:

>1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

Nope. I'm still in HS (i'm only a junior so I'm still trapped for
another year after this)

>2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

Definately am not.

>3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
>(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

No, I don't have any plans to either. I only have monday and tuesday
off work and nothing ever happens on those days (much to my enjoyment)
I never have to worry about being bothered with being somewhere I
*really* do NOT want to be.

>4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

Not so far, I try to stay out of sight as much as possible.

>5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to the
>popular crowd?

I do have a few good friends I can talk with. One of them knows about
my furryness, although he only partially understands, more because he
is becoming a fan with a little help from me. :)

>6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
>intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

Not really, in the group I belong to we are all fairly serious. We're
the outcasts (for the most part), so we fit well together. Outside of
my little group I would have to say yes.

>7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

I won't even be nominated (even as a joke). I won't be going to the
homecoming either (I can use work as an excuse so that nobody will try
to convince me otherwise).

-Felidae
"to err is human, to purr feline"

[Buster J. Bunny]

Fair way to more into myself to this group, hopeing posts in
responses to questionnaires like this are welcome!

> 1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

Nope, never really wanted to be.

> 2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

Nope

> 3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at
school
> (homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

Anything but, less you call lurking in the theatre putting up lights and
setting up chairs for concerts that!

> 4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

All of 5 pictures through 4 years, 4 of which were mandatory! the other was

a fluke pic!

> 5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed
to the
> popular crowd?

I can count em on 1 paw

> 6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
> intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

from about age 13-14 on, yea

> 7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

HA! ME? NEVER! though I almost got a semi-embarrassing vote,
"Best Legs for a Guy" in my senior year, found out that I was on the
list in Gym class from a girl who was behind me whilst playing volleyball.

Life takes strange turns fur a lot of us it seems to me, guess we have made
it this far, why not keep going?

BJB

[Mirko]

Robin91783 wrote:

> (I always think of junior high school when they sing "and I'm never going back
> to my old school")

Thank gawds for that. Junior high was two years of sheer torture for
me, a time where I was particularly singled out for bullying and
harassment. But things got better.

> I was having a conversation with SmokeChaser (on the phone) & sort of kicked
> around a couple questions & observations, so here they are:

> 1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

In general? Heck no. I was with the "band-and-drama-jock" crowd. We
thought we were cool, but the cool people knew better. <eyes rolled
firmly upward>

> 2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

Not unless you counted marching onto the middle of a muddy football
field on a 40-degree(F) night and playing some masterwork like "Theme
from Laverne and Shirley" cheerleading. I'd have made a good tackling
dummy. (Actually, I _was_ in one case -- on a band trip to a nearby
college, I didn't make it off the field in time after halftime and was
nearly turned into roadkill by a swarm of 300-pound linemen running out
of the locker room. They must have thought I was the other team.)

> 3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
> (homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

Three years of eligibility, no formal dances. I'm not exactly looking
back wistfully.

What's a ring dance?

> 4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

I'm in it a few times because I was involved in a lot of music stuff.
But my clique was never in the big, color introductory pictures in the
front of the book ("This is what (the in-crowd says) our high school is
all about!!").

> 5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to the
> popular crowd?

There was a small group of five or six of us. We spent formal dance
nights being outcasts together.

> 6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
> intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

We just felt like we were doing our own thing -- tahellwiddem.
TahellwidALLAdem! Sadly, my furry feelings were sporadic and not
well-pronounced at that time.

> 7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

I was a homecoming queen escort. Both of us were out of place among
the "beautiful people" (she was the nominee from the Math Club, which
had something like three members). We both had a blast because, like
the Jamaican bobsled team, we weren't there to win.

Awoo,
-mirko
(I beg to differ..._this_ is the best time of my life.)

[David Cooke]

Robin91783 wrote:
>
> 1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

Nope, can't even say I really wanted to be either.

> 2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

I spent considerable effort avoiding team sports at school (which consisted
of Rugby during the winter months [1], and cricket in the summer). I was
pretty hopeless at cricket, and just couldn't be bothered with rugby. My
father use to play Rugby for Coventry, which I suspect has alot to do with
it. When I got the chance I opted for swimming, which I was fairly good
at (as a child I had always wanted to be a dolphin :), plus it had the
added advantage of being able to waste half the afternoon getting to the
public pool by bus (via the town centre and amusement arcade). Oh yes,
and there was this girl called "KitKat" *sigh*.

No cheerleaders here in the UK.

> 3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
> (homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

Well, there wasn't a constant whirl of activites at school. The place
was single sex until my 3rd year there, which didn't help. I was never
part of the party set that went on outside school though.

The only school thing I was involved in was the lighting crew for
the various dramatic productions. That was great fun, and since the
am-dram thing was lead by one of the principles could be used for
sciving off lessons in the run up to Christmas. Also we had quasi-
legitimate access (and a pass key) to parts of the school that were
off bounds to the general riff-raff, and ignored by teachers (and the
projection box was pretty much sound-proof too).

BTW, is an "ahh" a social event or just a pause for breath?

> 4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

No such thing here in the UK. I did have to go to a couple of
prizegivings though - once for coming first in some science based
exam, and once for "service to the school" ie. running the lighting
crew (with by best friend) for two years after the teacher who used
to do it moved on.

> 5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to the
> popular crowd?

Yes, I always have had just a few good friends, probably never more than
5 at any one time, right up until I got here I guess.

> 6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
> intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

Yes, though the classes were split as you went through the school,
first into science/arts/other of various abilities, then for A-levels
we were pretty much split by which 3 subjects you did (I was one of
12 who did double-maths & physics). At the end the group I was
in was more than a match for my intelligence, and I didn't feel
different from them. I'd have to say though that we weren't some
kind of geek parade, definitely _not_ serious.

I think my frustrations with human kind were pretty much channeled
through the sentiment in "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
which was on the radio at the time. Nothing here that I can point
to as furry though - unless you count the dolphin thing, which may
be a totem or just childhood fantasies.

> 7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

Again, the UK doesn't go in for this kind of thing. What _is_ a
homecoming anyway (other than a party?). I'm sure I wouldn't
have been "honoured" if there had been though.

[1] When the weather was really bad (more than 2" of water on the
pitch, or enough snow to make falling over likely) we had to do
cross-country running. I didn't like that either.

> (SmokeChaser's theory is that most furries did not_fit_in the
> in crowd & I would agree to that - but I may be just talking from my own
> experiences..)

Are you going to post some conclusions in a few weeks?

David Cooke.
[ Address munged: replace "columbine.SPAM" with "demon.co" to reply. ]

[Buster J. Bunny]

> >Robin, wondering why it's said the teen years are the best of your life...
>
> Harry,
> who has often wondered about that too - not for _me_ they weren't; Happy Days
> my ass!

I have to agree in full, the strongest memory I have from teen years,
other
then finding my "furry" side, was finding someone who I thought might
understand me, lead me along, for around 5 months, only to now conclude
I am a looney A**, who was just way to serious for her. (ahh joys
of HS romance, may it burn in hell, and most memories from it...

BJB

[Mirko]

Robin91783 wrote:

> homecoming has
> something to do with football, maybe the first game played on the home field?
> don't know for sure..

Homecoming is theoretically when the school's alumni "come home" for a
football game or other events, and the students mark the occasion with
all sorts of merriment (yeah, right). Colleges generally follow the
tradition fairly well, and alumni show up. I don't remember any alums
showing up for high school homecomings...the name has stuck, tho.

Awoo,
-mirko
(who was more interested in "home-going" in high school)

[Skytech]

Robin91783 wrote:
>
> 1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

No!

> 2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

No.

> 3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
> (homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

No>

> 4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

Acually, yes. Two of us were the Laurel and Hardy of our HS.

> 5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to the
> popular crowd?

Yes.

> 6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
> intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

Just... different.

> 7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

No.

> Robin, wondering why it's said the teen years are the best of your life...

For some, they were. I made due with what I had. If I could go back, I wouldn't
hesitate!
--
La kasigada vulpo
Skytech

^^
<@@>
./

[D.Jean Cooper]

DainBramjd wrote:

> Tim wrote:
> >We don;t have homecoming dances or ring dances either, and I don;t
> >actually know what they are.
>

> That's a really good point. I've gone to US schools all my life, and I'm still
> not sure. Just what _is_ Homecoming supposed to be, anyway?
>
> The Flying Dutchfur
> "The only way that'll make sense is if I'm not wearing any pants for the rest
> of the time."

"Homecoming" is usually the term used when a school's football (US style) team has
been on the road to other teams' fields. When they come Home to play on their own
field is usually referred to Homecoming. This is when the most popular guys and
gals get voted as to which of each is to be the leaders for the school. *Snidely*
More often than not the bestest jock and prettiest cheerleader. *End Snideness*
Me bitter? Nahhh. Not a bit.
-Walk in Balance

Ambergold Wolfeyes
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[Robin91783]

I figured I'd toss in a couple of explanations, cos I forgot some of these
terms aren't standardized....

In article <19980307050...@ladder02.news.aol.com>, robin...@aol.com
(Robin91783) writes:

>3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
>(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

I can't say I understand either "homecoming" or the ring dance - homecoming has

something to do with football, maybe the first game played on the home field?

don't know for sure..the ring dance, I would guess, is a dance they have
_after_ you get your high school ring as a junior....my school had _neither_
but I have heard some info about it thru the cubs....and the "ahh" was just me
trying to think what else went on in school.....

>4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

some of the answers here *whew* - I guess I should say more than the obligatory
photo (I'm not in the yearbook _at_all_, which caused one of my girfriends to
scribble on various pages "where are you? not here!")

>7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

it's something the other students vote on for the homecoming dance - the
oldest cub & a buddy ran for it & didn't win, but they didn't
_expect_or_want_to....(I have a male friend who claimes he was the homecoming
queen, but I sort of doubt it - the world was not _that_understanding _ in the
late 60's - or even now)
now that it's clear as mud;)
yeah, I'll do some calculations & give you the lowdown in about 2 weeks or
so....
Robin, thinking she was happy to see a very nasty girl grow up & get busted for
shoplifting at _Woolworth's_:)

[Kimba W. Lion]

robin...@aol.com (Robin91783) wrote:

>1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

No way.

>2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

No way.

>3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
>(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

They terrified me.

>4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

No. I had my little geek-shot in two of the four yearbooks.

>5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to the
>popular crowd?

Yep. Don G., Paul A. and I hung out and laughed at Spike Jones and
the Goons. Holle H. and I worked in the library and on the Senior
play stage crew. Aside from them, I tried my best to be invisible.

>6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group,

oh yes. Looking back, I could say I felt like I was of a different
species. Back then, I didn't feel like I had anything to be proud of.

>more intelligent

No.

>serious

I do think I was way too serious much of the time. Long hours in the
Biology lab (or maybe it was the formaldehyde fumes) did lead to some
classic (at least to other Biology students) bits of silliness.

>inklings of furry?

Well, I had no idea my inklings were anything except the weird
workings of my crazed mind, but books like Never Cry Wolf and Born
Free were probably what saw me through those years. I had that entire
Nature section of the library polished off early on. It was even at
the school that I first saw the film Born Free. I got a front row
seat and I was so thrilled that I don't think I was aware of my
surroundings for the rest of the night.

>7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

Oh, there were a few unofficial "titles" I had to endure, mostly in
relation to my weight...

Usually, my bad memories of school overshadow the good ones. I don't
know why that should be. Maybe I never discarded the picture I had of
myself at that time. I just dug out my Senior yearbook, saw the
wonderful words a few friends wrote, found that silly "menu" I did
for a fictitious Biology class dinner (you definitely need the fumes
to make it funny, tho)...and the bad times, the pressure of the
organized social life, and the cliques matter not one little bit. I
know I had a lot of growing and changing to do, but it seems a shame
I lost touch with these few people.

Thanks, Robin, I think I needed that review.

Kimba

[Kimba W. Lion]

robin...@aol.com (Robin91783) wrote:

> wondering why it's said the teen years are the best of your life...

Mirko <tro...@concentricACKACKACK.net> wrote:

>(I beg to differ..._this_ is the best time of my life.)

Me too! Far and away the best.

Kimba

[Kimba W. Lion]

f...@lns592.lns.cornell.edu (Furry Wurry) wrote:

>Although some images of the "underclasses" are included, it's supposedly
>intended for nostalgic perusing by members of the senior class in later years.

heh...my school put everybody's picture in it, and it was expected
everybody would buy one; more money from yearbook sales that way.
Seniors' pictures were biggest, tho. Freshmen were told to get
magnifying glasses if they wanted to see their pictures. ;)

Kimba

[Furry Wurry]

In article <35110f16...@furry.isc-br.com>,

Obviously different schools have slightly different traditions :-3

Your, and others', mention of being in or working on plays reminded
me that the same happened, uh , to(?) me. I'm beginning to think that
most of the people in my class must have been pressured to exibit
some kind of creativity. (Certainly my musical talents were, umm,
less than ordinary.)

It's hard to remember the details at this great a remove, but I do
recall having a part in a play by Ann Rand about a trial. The actual
ending wasn't predetermined, since the jurors were suposed to come
to their own conclusions about what really had happened. Does this
ring a bell with any of our more literary members?

fw

[D.Jean Cooper]

Robin91783 wrote:

> all right, stick with me on this one - even though the quote is from a Steely
> Dan song

> (I always think of junior high school when they sing "and I'm never going back
> to my old school")

> I was having a conversation with SmokeChaser (on the phone) & sort of kicked
> around a couple questions & observations, so here they are:

> 1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

Definately not. Thank God. Talk about such shallow, plastic fools.

> 2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?
>

Nope. Short, chunky, four-eyes. Massively introverted.

> 3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
> (homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

<Snort> Activities? Get real. I was not only in the uncool group, there was only
a handful that I could bear to associate with. I lived outside of town and got
bused into town for school in Jr. and Sr. high.

> 4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?
>

Only the mug shot they insisted everyone put in. Hmm. (Thinking where those books
got stored - oh, yeah, packed in a box in the back of my dad's ladyfriend's
closet. Sure can't get to them anytime soon.)

> 5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to the
> popular crowd?

Only those I could count on one paw at any one time. I've lost touch with all of
them over the years, and I'm not so sure they'd be as understanding of furry as
they could for someone who was out in the uncool crowd.

> 6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
> intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

Funny thing, school. I was there for it's intended purpose. To learn. Nearly
everyone else was there to socialize. I felt more mature in that matter, and
somewhat intelligent (as much as my exceedingly small self-esteem would allow
for). Definately serious. And different. I had nothing that felt -furry- to me
in particular. Couple low self-esteem with massive introversion and mild dyslexia,
you have one nearly silent furson. School was hell on all levels except for what
it was supposed to do. Because I was so silent and withdrawn, I was picked on,
teased to no end and tormented in such petty ways, that now I look back at it, it's
a wonder that I didn't go postal with some of those idjits.

> 7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

> here's my answers (SmokeChaser's theory is that most furries did not_fit_in the

> in crowd & I would agree to that - but I may be just talking from my own
> experiences..)
>

LOL! I was as invisible as I could possibly make myself. I wasn't a wallflower, I
was part of that *wall* the wallflowers plastered themselves to. The only thing
that changed all of it was a stint in the US Air Force. Out and away from the
idjits who used me as their emotional punchingbag, I finally got a chance to grow
into myself. My base response is still to find a quiet corner in a rush of
activities and watch everyone else. I people-watch real good yet. <G>

> Robin, wondering why it's said the teen years are the best of your life...

<G> Especially when they were hell to go through? You could never pay me enough to
go through them again. I haven't been to a prom or dance of any sort. Never went
to any of my class reunions, not even last year's 20th. (Dating myself real bad)
The only good thing to come of all that hell is that I will refuse to kow-tow or
brown-nose any of the beautiful people of the class. Or anywhere else, for that
matter. If they cannot deal with me as I am, then thehellwiddemall.<G> -Walk in

[Ron Orr...& Tirran]

Kewl, an other survey! <ggg>

Robin91783 <robin...@aol.com> wrote:

> 1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

Not hardly.

> 2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

Nope... coulda been (I was six feet tall when I _started_ high
school, one year early) but even then I cultivated a rather leonic
lifestyle.

> 3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school

Nope.

> 4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

Probably not; I don't even have a copy of any of the yearbooks
from when I was there, so I can't check. Don't wanna, neither.

> 5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to the
> popular crowd?

Oh, definitely. One of 'em's a cop now. ;)
I've lost track of them over the years (smallish loss) but I
_have_ kept many of the friends I made at that time thru my Air Cadet
squadron; I suspect it's that one common thread of interest that has
thrown and kept us together over the decades.

> 6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
> intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

I didn't _have_ a peer group.

> 7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

Dunno; if I was given a lable (prolly 'The Person Most Likely to
Kill Somebody' - I'm absolutely serious) I wasn't told about it.

> Robin, wondering why it's said the teen years are the best of your life...

Beats me; college was loads more fun. (Tho I was still a
teenager when I graduated, so...)

About class reunions... I don't know if there ever were any.
_None_ of us were close at all, 'school spirit' was almost non-existant,
so I doubt they were ever held. Not that it matters, since by the time
the 10th rolled around the school itself didn't exist any more.

Another school-related memory... several years after I graduated
from HS I got a letter from the local Board of Ed. Seems that some
prominent board member was retiring, and they were having a whip-round
of _students_ to get him a retirement present.
Now this clot had been responsible for something for which I
hope he will be eternally roasted in his own personal private Hell:
something called Advancement Classes, in which the very brightest kids
in the city were segregated into special classes. Never the same school
twice, never with any of the other kids in your neighbourhood, virtually
_no_ contact with anyone from your previous life. Once done, you were
dumped into your local high school with several hundred people you'd not
seen in years, if at all, who you had absolutely no experience dealing
with. Produced a lot of bright, creative, total outcasts. (Like me.)
I wrote back. I told them what they had done, that they'd
buggered up my life, that they were a bunch of total bastards, and that
they could get knotted.
Oddly, I didn't hear back from them...

Tir'

[Ron Orr...& Tirran]

Robin91783 <robin...@aol.com> wrote:

> ... SmokeChaser's theory is that most furries did not_fit_in the
> in crowd...

It's funny how the two sides see this situation...
'They' see our peculiarities and hobbies and passions as our
compensation for not being good enough to associate with them.
'We' see them as the _reason_ we don't want to associate with
them.
Interesting confusion of cause and effect, hmm?

Tir'

[Ron Orr...& Tirran]

Furry Wurry <f...@lns592.lns.cornell.edu> wrote:

> Your, and others', mention of being in or working on plays reminded

> me that the same happened, uh , to(?) me...

That kicked loose a couple of memories.
There used to be a national high-school drama festival in Canada
(might still be going on) and I actually volunteered to do tech for our
school's entry, something or other by Tennessee Williams. Sound effects
in this case. Fun time, too.
And in Grade 11 I co-wrote our class' sketch in this show we put
on every year with my home-room teacher. Would've had a starring role,
too, except three days before I came down with a nasty kidney infection
that kept me in the hospital for a week. :( Whoever it was who replaced
me screwed the part up, too, as I recall.

I'm beginning to realise how I ended up in costuming. ;)

Tir'

[Chris Mear]

Well, I'm still _at_ school, but here are the answers I can provide...

>1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

Erm, not firmly _in_ the "in" crowd, but its members acknowledge my
existence.

>2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

Nope.

>3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school

>(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

Uhh... Well, no _dances_, or anything, but I'm very involved in
extra-curricular school activities.

>4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

(The closest thing we have to this is the sixth form yearbook -- I guess
this is the same thing.) I'm not there yet, so I don't know! But I have a
feeling I will... :)

>5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to
the
>popular crowd?

I have a crowd of good friends, but they're not the _in_ crowd.

>6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
>intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

No, I have a lot in common with my crowd.

>7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

N/A.

Well, hope my answers help 8-)

from Chris, feeling 'Furvey deja-vu' after answering the questions...

[Chris Manning]

On Sun, 8 Mar 1998 12:01:56 -0500, griz...@vianet.on.ca (Ron Orr...&
Tirran) wrote:

>Robin91783 <robin...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> 1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?
>

Nope.

>> 2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?
>

Not at all.

>> 3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
>

I tended to stay away from them. (Out of both choice and necessity <no
vehicle/job at the time>)

>> 4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?
>

Only once... for the obligatory senior mug shot.

>> 5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to the
>> popular crowd?
>

I had a few, but I lost complete contact with them. I still have one
of my longest friends, but he didn't go to H.S. with me. (Different
grade)

>> 6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
>> intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?
>

I was too shy to even think I might have a peer group.

>> 7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?
>

Nope, not as far as I know anyway.

>> Robin, wondering why it's said the teen years are the best of your life...
>

Hmm, I don't really remember much (nor care really) about H.S. (see
below)

> About class reunions... I don't know if there ever were any.
>_None_ of us were close at all, 'school spirit' was almost non-existant,
>so I doubt they were ever held. Not that it matters, since by the time
>the 10th rolled around the school itself didn't exist any more.
>

Well, other than the fact that our school is still standing, this is
about the same way as mine... well, at least, it seemed to be that way
from my pov, most of the people I knew didn't care about the school
one bit (and those I didn't still didn't, but that's because they were
the drop/burnout type).

> Now this clot had been responsible for something for which I
>hope he will be eternally roasted in his own personal private Hell:
>something called Advancement Classes, in which the very brightest kids
>in the city were segregated into special classes. Never the same school
>twice, never with any of the other kids in your neighbourhood, virtually
>_no_ contact with anyone from your previous life. Once done, you were
>dumped into your local high school with several hundred people you'd not
>seen in years, if at all, who you had absolutely no experience dealing
>with. Produced a lot of bright, creative, total outcasts. (Like me.)

Hmm... I went through something similar <joy.. not>, but it wasn't
necessarily for brightness. (during my M.S. years, I was violent
against non-living objects at times, not very often though) After I
left the school, and went into H.S., I knew noone (like it would've
mattered, since I moved into the new district almost immediately
before my H.S. classes started). They were going to put me in M.S.,
but I think that was to put me in the same grade with my sister, not
to allow me to get reintegrated with the school system.
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Robin91783 (robin...@aol.com) wrote:
: all right, stick with me on this one - even though the quote is from a Steely
: Dan song
: (I always think of junior high school when they sing "and I'm never going back
: to my old school")
: I was having a conversation with SmokeChaser (on the phone) & sort of kicked
: around a couple questions & observations, so here they are:

I'll answer for both junior-high and high school.

: 1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

No and nope.

I was my own crowd in high school.

: 2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

Not on yer life.

: 3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
: (homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

The best I can aim for is the marching band and concert band. I
participated only because I liked playing the trombone. Little social
interaction with the other band members, a few among them I despised.
(Usually the types who get into these activities because they consider
them an easy way to gain credits). Oh, and barbershop choir in high
school...liked singing, hated everyone in the class because alot of them
were of the "easy-credit" crowd (and several of them were bullies).

The only gatherings I ever attended were pep-rallies (mainly because they
forced you to go most of the time....I hated them because the screaming
would hurt my ears) and the party after graduation....where the music was
turned on so loud it hurt my ears and I could barely hear myself think.
(I wonder how many of my classmates are wearing hearing aids now?)

: 4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

My picture appeared as the typical one-shot: one photo in list of
classmates.....mainly to tell everyone else that yes, this person WAS a
student here. (And there were an amazing number of people that I didn't
recognize, probably because I didn't attend any of the social stuff or
they were all loners like I was.

: 5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to the
: popular crowd?

I had a few people in junior high I could call friend.
In high school, no friends but lots of aquaintances (some of these
aquaintances I had know since elementary....and they still were'nt
"friends").

: 6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
: intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

I just felt apart. Doing my "own thing". Very sensitive, and after a
lifetime of teasing (by some of the same people), I was very suspicious of
any apparent "good will" shown by such people.

: 7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

If I had an "honorary title", no one told me. :)

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Mirko (tro...@concentricACKACKACK.net) wrote:

: > 2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?
:

: Not unless you counted marching onto the middle of a muddy football

: field on a 40-degree(F) night and playing some masterwork like "Theme
: from Laverne and Shirley"

Hey, just like me! I kinda liked parading around in my cool-looking band
uniform, but I got tired of trying to remember how to play the music and
do the typical "high school band march in patterns" across the playing
field while the drum major/band director is screaming insults at us
(constuctive criticism? bah!). Perhaps it didn't get thru the director's
thick skull that the reason we weren't doing so well on the field is that
we were A) tired; or B) didn't care .

[Mike Hammond]

DainBramjd (dainb...@aol.com) wrote:
: Tim wrote:
: >We don;t have homecoming dances or ring dances either, and I don;t
: >actually know what they are.
:
: That's a really good point. I've gone to US schools all my life, and I'm still
: not sure. Just what _is_ Homecoming supposed to be, anyway?

Isn't that when yer school's team, after participating in games against
other school's teams, finally comes home to have a game at yer school's
playing field?

Big fucking deal.

[AeroFox]

Mirko wrote:

>
> Robin91783 wrote:
>
> > (I always think of junior high school when they sing "and I'm never going back
> > to my old school")
>

> Thank gawds for that. Junior high was two years of sheer torture for
> me, a time where I was particularly singled out for bullying and
> harassment. But things got better.

*sigh* I went through the same thing. Junior high and the first year of
High
school was absolute TORTURE fur me too. I learned to run fast so I could
get away
from bullies as fast as I could after school let out :(
>

I wasn't anything in school untill I left high school and went to the
Upper
Valley Joint Vocational School.

I had few if any friends. I was always a loner. I had poor grades and
was
constantly picked on. 9th grade was my worst year. i never fought back
though I should have. I was just different...and different is bad in
school :(

I never had any girlfriends. I dated a few times
but nothing ever was serious. I know now that I could never have a mate
who
isn't a fur or understands and supports my furiness.
I probably wouldn't know what to do with a mate if I got one. I have
absolutely
no experience. never has anyone ever come into my life. *sigh* yes I am
a virgin.

I believe my grades would have been better if i wasn't so depressed in
school
and didn't live in fear all the time.

10th grade..things began to turn around...I started getting better
grades.
I found a few friends. I quit band..where I was picked on too.
then when I went to UVJVS and took Industrial Electronics, I was 4.0 on
the
honor roll!!... I would have to say that 12th was my best year in
school.

If I'm in my yearbook..its just the normal picture everyone else has.

I was definatly furry all through school..I just kept it hidden.
> Awoo,
> -mirko

> (I beg to differ..._this_ is the best time of my life.)

I have to agree with you on that Mirko :) *hug*

--
http://www.bright.net/~geary/aerofox/
Please remove the "s" in my E-mail to reply

[HPickands]

In article <3501DDC0...@konig.demon.co.uk>, David Cooke
<da...@konig.columbine.SPAM.uk> writes:

>
>The only school thing I was involved in was the lighting crew for
>the various dramatic productions. That was great fun, and since the
>am-dram thing was lead by one of the principles could be used for
>sciving off lessons in the run up to Christmas. Also we had quasi-
>legitimate access (and a pass key) to parts of the school that were
>off bounds to the general riff-raff, and ignored by teachers (and the
>projection box was pretty much sound-proof too).

This pushed a few buttons on the memory machine. :)

Yes indeed, the projection booth _was_ a very quiet place. Those of us in the
Projection Club made good use of that fact. Not what you think now; we studied
in there. :)

There was a _real_ actor in my HS class. He still is. :) Has done Broadway,
TV, and movies. I saw him the other night playing a lawyer in "My Brother
Vinnie" on the tube. No, not Joe Pesci, Austin Pendelton. BTW, that's his
real name.

Harry,
lost on memory lane again.

[Allen Kitchen]

> 1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

absolutely not. I was the proverbial Nerd.

> 2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

Nope.

> 3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at
school
> (homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

Some of them. I did TRY to participate in school life, but
usually didn't feel all that comfortable with it.

> 4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

We have a yearbook??? :)

> 5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed
to the
> popular crowd?

No.

> 6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
> intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

More intelligent, certainly. I was the only one awake in Chem2. As
for furry, there was a strange attraction for cartoons and such. But
the furriness was not yet clear to me. I was very much different from
those around me though.

> 7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

I won a few awards here and there. I didnt' bother to attend such
ceremonies. I have little use for awards. This carries on to my current
adult life, and has gotten me into a fair bit of trouble in the past.

Allen Kitchen (shockwave)

[Doodles]

>1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

Nope. Wasted my days with the geeks and the stoners.

>2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

Manager of the baseball team. Did nothing but spend the whole season
watching ants while the team lost every game on the roster.

>3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
>(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

No, but I did participate in the mindless vandalism and early nilhism
of the typical 80's students, despite it being the last part of the
70's. I was ahead of my time! =};-3

>4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

I'm not featured at all in it. I had better things to do with that
money than spend it on snapshots of my life among the Bland.

>5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to
>the popular crowd?

One or two. I hyaven't had contact with them in decades.

>6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
>intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

All I can say is, "Daria" is one of my favorite TV shows. =};-3

>7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

No, but I _did_ make the list of folks who were in the top 10 playing
"Star Trek" on the old TRS-80's in school. Usually by altering the
data on the program.

Unca Spooge, for whom HS stood for "Hideoulsy Staid."

[TampaCub]

After reading the many replies and being shell-shocked into remembering the
horror that was high school, T'Cub plunges into the closet (temporarily) and
emerges, trailing dust, yearbooks in paw.....

>1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

Nope. Didn't really fit in to *any* group, but was politely tolerated most of
the time. Had different tormentors over the years.

>2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

Again, no. When you're half-blind in one eye, any sport involving hitting or
catching a moving object is a lesson in futility. I was *always* one of the
last ones picked for teams in PE (which I despised, BTW). A cheerleader?
Please! This was rural, redneck central Florida, it would have been suicidal.
Got pegged enough as it was.

>3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
>(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

Lessee.... Did the hetero prom thing junior and senior year. Went with a
group of friends each time and we managed to enjoy ourselves, usually by making
fun of everyone else. Never did homecoming while in school, but did go back
years later with my best friend, Barbara (who is not furry, but would be a
panda if she was).

>4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

<prying open the covers> Had a few extra in the senior edition, mostly for
scholastic stuff, a couple candids (hate 'em, HATE 'EM!)

>5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to
>the
>popular crowd?

Thankfully, yes. I was part of core group of 6 who spent quite a bit of time
together. One, the aforementioned Barbara, I'd known since elementary school,
when we were both deemed "gifted" <snicker> and forced to attend special
classes (but the field trips were cool!). Of that group (4 guys, 2 gals), 3 of
us are gay and the rest are happily married. Over all the years, these 5 (plus
one other) are the only classmates I've stayed in touch with. Heck, when my
address was posted in the 10 yr. reunion listing, no one bothered contacting
me. Looks like I'll blow off the 20th too, but we'll see.

>6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
>intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

Yes. At the time, furriness wasn't a factor in my life; that's just started
recently. However, my gayness was. I had no clue there were others in school
with me (6 known now). Needless to say, given the rural atmosphere of the
campus, I tried, mostly in vain, to be low-key. As for the intelligence thing,
while I'd always done well on standardized tests, school rarely excited me. I
coasted through, making mostly A's & B's. I never went in for the fad clothes,
drove the wrong car and lived in the wrong area. I was pulling negative cool
points.

>7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

Not even if I'd bribed people. Closest I got was when I received a National
Merit Scholar commendation - I was underwhelmed. Got named an "honorary
senior." <Hey, wait a minute, whaddaya mean 'honorary?' 12 years of blood,
sweat and abuse and it's 'honorary?' Sheesh!>

--The cub, nerves frazzled by this trip down memory lane, heads for the kitchen
where a container of Edy's/Dreyer's new Thin Mint ice cream waits. <Now
where'd I put the Nutella?>

[Lisa Jennings]

Robin91783 wrote:

> 1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

Definitely not. The ScFi Club and Art Club were only a little better
than the druggies...

> 2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

Not a chance: my high school was the one in the news where a girl was
'traumatized' when the Cheer Squad teacher told her "If you wanna get on
the team, get a titjob. Your tits are too big."

On the other hand, the Dean of PE wanted me badly on the Trak and Field
team after watching me in the Weightlifting class (not something you saw
the girls in)... too bad my mom's attitude was "She's an artist, not a
athlete" and flat out refused to let me sign up for any teams. Heck, I
snuck into tryouts and made the Badmitton team and _then_ told her to
prove that I could do sports just fine (they wouldn't just have me on
the team if I couldn't play, right?) and she called the school to cancel
my PE classes involving Badmitton!

> 3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
> (homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

I only went to one dance, the Winter Social, because it was at
Disneyland Hotel. As my date and I were both furries and misfits around
the snobcrowd, we left the dance and spent most of the night at the
hotel's arcade, where I met Bo Bridges and had a lovely chat with folks
from the nearby science-fiction con that had closed for the night!

> 4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

Nah. And the only reason I still have the darned things is to use them
as weights, seeing that each yearbook weights about 3 pounds. :3

> 5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to the
> popular crowd?

Most of my friends were part of the Advanced Placement/Honors group,
which _are_ part of the in-crowd, but just because they overlap doesn't
mean you ride on their coattails.... no, I was not a popular person in
school at all.

> 6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
> intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

I've been a furry all my life, but even I know better than to admit
stuff like that around the 90210-crowd that my highschool was... unlike
The Otter, who was kinda imfamous at my school.

As I hung out with the hyper-intelligent folks, I didn't deal with the
rest of the school well, and later I started hanging around with people
significantly older than myself and not deal with HS at all.

> 7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

The only honorary title I know of was "Usable for Jokes on Freshies".

One day I was heading for the temporary classrooms in back of the school
when this _kid_ came up to me, stuck his hand into my shirt and said,
"Git that tissue out --- Oh MY GOD!!" and ran fleeing away white as a
sheet. Laughter was heard in the hallway by the older boys who obviously
put them up to it, followed by running feet as I started winding up my
bookbag and headed for the sounds... I used my 10-pound totebags full of
books as an impressive weapon, you see.

ermine (who went to a friend's birthday in Fresno rather than hit her
10th year reunion. Don't know what I'll do for the 15th. Maybe fly out
there to send them all into coronaries.)
[Undo the Knot to Reply.]

[Skytech]

DainBramjd wrote:
>
> That's a really good point. I've gone to US schools all my life, and I'm still
> not sure. Just what _is_ Homecoming supposed to be, anyway?
>

Yet another excuse for getting drunk...

--
La kasigada vulpo
Skytech

^^
<@@>
.)

[Skytech]

Is it just me or os there a pattern developing on this thread?!

--
La kasigada vulpo
Skytech

^^
<@@>
.]

[Mirko]

Duncan da Husky wrote:

> There's no geek like an A/V geek.

And no A/V geek like an A/V geek who turns it into a career. 8^)

Awoo,
-mirko

[lucius]

Robin91783 wrote:

Well, I'm a little slow....again.

> 1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

Not really. In grade school even the "geeks" didn't like me much.
I was always the loner. In high school, I got in with the druggie
crowd...and ironicaly found something I was good at.

> 2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

When I was younger I was a long distance runner, and active in many
sports. But drug use brings on apathy, and I soon lost intrest in those
activities.

> 3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
> (homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

Most of the time I didn't even show up for class.

> 4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

Not in high school...I missed that day....6 years in a row.

> 5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to the
> popular crowd?

Nope. Looking back, not a one.

> 6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
> intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

I always felt different...furry was part of it I'm sure.

> 7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

lol...yeah right! Maybe most likely to do time!

I'm quite happy that those days are past.

Lucius

[Robin91783]

In article <350450F8...@SamePlace.com>, Lisa Jennings
<Same...@SamePlace.com> writes:

> and she called the school to cancel
>my PE classes involving Badmitton!

oooh, who did your mom know to get you out of PE - I even had to take it with
a_cast_ on my left leg (toes to thigh) - I had to sit & watch that garbage &
take the tests...
Robin, who only liked swimming in PE

[Robin91783]

In article <catgrrl-0903...@usrns84.dialup.hawaii.edu>,
cat...@I.ain't.gonna.play.spamcity.usa.net (WebKitty) writes:

>In article <35046536...@ix.netcom.com>, sky...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
>> Is it just me or os there a pattern developing on this thread?!
>

>Well, wasn't that the point of why Robin posted it in the first place? :)
>
>WebKitty
>
>

yup, you're absolutely right, WebKitty, it was....believe it or not, I
actually _know_some folks that were the , ahhh, "movers & shakers" in high
school & they seem _completely_ different_ from fur folks.....it reminds me of
the scene in "Annie Hall" where Woody Allen stops a couple to ask how they
manage to get along - the reply is along the lines that they are both shallow
people who don't have a deep thought between them......it's as if the wiring in
the brain is_completely_ different (and it may very well be...)
Robin, trying to remember the model/actress who played in that scene - it
_wasn't_Cybil Shepherd, but I think it was one of the "Charlie's Angels"....

[David Cooke]

HPickands wrote:
>
> There was a _real_ actor in my HS class. He still is. :) Has done
> Broadway, TV, and movies. I saw him the other night playing a lawyer
> in "My Brother Vinnie" on the tube. No, not Joe Pesci, Austin
> Pendelton. BTW, that's his real name.

I think the only person who anyone's ever likely to have heard
of from my school was one Debbie Ashbey (?sp) who was in the year
below me. She was expelled for appearing topless in one of
our tabloid newspapers. Erm, I heard that she also went on to
appear in "movies".

David Cooke.
[ Address munged: replace "bartender.SPAM" with "demon.co" to reply. ]

[David Cooke]

Skytech wrote:
>
> Is it just me or os there a pattern developing on this thread?!

You mean the way when someone posts a few questions then
_everyfur_ has to answer them :)

Seriously though, maybe there is a fur out there who was
deeply popular at school, and is now too embarassed to
answer Robin's questions. Peer presure and such.

I'm quite suprised by the number of furs who were into
theatre while at school.

[Ron Orr...& Tirran]

AeroFox <gea...@bright.net> wrote:

> I wasn't anything in school untill I left high school and went to the
> Upper Valley Joint Vocational School.

Wow... I would have done _anything_ to get into the local
vocational school; they got to do all the things I wanted to, like auto
shop. But I had been labelled as a Smart Kid, and only the Dumb Kids
could go to a vocational school...
It was called streaming. They're trying to bring it back.
Someone deserves to be killed and eaten if you ask me...

Tir'

[Ron Orr...& Tirran]

shockwave <all...@blkbox.com> wrote:

> > 7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

> I won a few awards here and there. I didnt' bother to attend such
> ceremonies. I have little use for awards. This carries on to my current
> adult life, and has gotten me into a fair bit of trouble in the past.

Funny thing, that; apparently there's Something Wrong With You
if you don't lust after awards and promotions and the like...
OK, I'll admit, I like trophies and stuff myself, but as
tangible representations of a job well done. (I actually took third in
my class at a bike show, years back, with the bike I rode every day,
against some extremely tough competition.) Sometimes 'I like that' isn't
_quite_ enough for those of us with inflated egos. ;)

Tir'

[Ron Orr...& Tirran]

Robin91783 <robin...@aol.com> wrote:

PE was one of the only two final exams I ever had to take; I
needed to do the exam to make up for my appalling marks in the physical
stuff. Funny really, cuz you put me on a bicycle and I was great, but of
course it was the early 70s, and bikes weren't an Accepted Activity.

(The other one was history; it was so badly taught I just
couldn't pick it up at all. While at the same time I liked (still do) to
_read_ history for fun; I think that's where most of what I know comes
from.
(Oh, would I love to have a job at the Min. of Ed. for a
while...)

Tir'

[Lisa Jennings]

Robin91783 wrote:
>
> In article <350450F8...@SamePlace.com>, Lisa Jennings
> <Same...@SamePlace.com> writes:
>
> > and she called the school to cancel
> >my PE classes involving Badmitton!
>
> oooh, who did your mom know to get you out of PE - I even had to take it with
> a_cast_ on my left leg (toes to thigh) - I had to sit & watch that garbage &
> take the tests...

She didn't get me out of PE, just didn't let me take certain classes. :p

I actually _liked_ PE, even if I was a runt... I didn't go out for the
girlie stuff, though. I took stuff like Weightlifting and Track and
even got to play tackle football one week (a substitute teacher made the
grave mistake of letting those girls who wanted to compete like boys
actually tackle instead of 2-hand-touch. Me and 3 other girls were the
Goon Squad... he regretted it.)

And for some amazing reason my aquaphobia created an interesting side
effect -- I could swim rather fast, even if I never came up for air.
Somehow, though, when the IronMan competitions happened in my
Weightlifting class, I was absent both times we had to get into the
pool. Junior Achievement Classes had precidence... :3

ermine

[Allen Kitchen]

Ron Orr...& Tirran <griz...@vianet.on.ca> wrote in article
<1d5o77l.7rw...@sund2-onlink1.onlink.net>...

> It was called streaming. They're trying to bring it back.
> Someone deserves to be killed and eaten if you ask me...
>

I would have loved streaming. I was stuck in a Texas
school that believed in forcing everyone to work at the pace of the
slowest in the class. Considering they were still going over
material I had mastered half a decade earlier, I was out of my
mind with boredom. Do the homework? I've answered your
questions over and over again. I'm not doing it anymore. Get
back to me when you are ready to teach me something or
give me a challenge.
My only challenge in HS was battling the school board
over whether or not I should be suspended for missing class
while I showed my science fair project off at the international
science fair. I'm NOT kidding... They resented the fact that I
was representing the school without their sponsorship. Telling
them that I was representing only myself since they did NOT
assist in any way only made them madder.
Streaming or a magnet school would have been
wonderful. Anything would have been better than what I went
through. Somedays I actually wanted to be sent to a military
school or something.

Allen Kitchen (shockwave)

[Allen Kitchen]

Ron Orr...& Tirran <griz...@vianet.on.ca> wrote in article

<1d5o7i5.1rm...@sund2-onlink1.onlink.net>...

Well, I appreciate a pat on the back from my boss, and my
coworkers. I'm just not big on awards and trophies. You want to
show appreciation for my rescuing the project? Give me a raise, and
I'll go buy my own idea of a trophy. (a DVD player would be nice...)
I've seen too many people who didn't do squat get plaques and awards
while those who worked 70 hour weeks got jack. Thus, the concept
of an award is, to me, tainted.

Allen Kitchen (shockwave)

[Paul R. Bennett]

In article <1d5o7i5.1rm...@sund2-onlink1.onlink.net>, griz...@vianet.on.ca (Ron Orr...& Tirran) writes:

> Funny thing, that; apparently there's Something Wrong With You
> if you don't lust after awards and promotions and the like...
> OK, I'll admit, I like trophies and stuff myself, but as
> tangible representations of a job well done. (I actually took third in
> my class at a bike show, years back, with the bike I rode every day,
> against some extremely tough competition.) Sometimes 'I like that' isn't
> _quite_ enough for those of us with inflated egos. ;)
>

> Tir'

I guess that is what the problem was. I work a lot under a number of rules.
Two of them are:

1.) DON'T GET GREEDY!!

and

2.) Mine own vine and fig tree and none shall make me afraid.

As for awards, I have earned a few. Nice to be acknowledged for one's
efforts above and beyond, so to speak.

Paul

[Allen Kitchen]

Duncan da Husky <tab...@mindspring.com> wrote in article
<6e4352$npi$1...@crucigera.fysh.org>...
> In article <catgrrl-1003...@usrns25.dialup.hawaii.edu>, a
certain
> Hawaiian catgirl did purr:
> >Storytelling was my speciality. Did quite well too.
>
> Now *that* is something I have great respect for! A good storyteller is
> enthralling - they can suck you into the story and make it a truly
memorable
> experience. It's harder than heck, too - I've tried, and it's just too
much
> mental juggling for this poor canine.

I thought you were a writer Duncan? All writers tell storys, just not
always verbally.

Allen Kitchen(shockwave)

[David Cooke]

Robin91783 wrote:
>
> yup, you're absolutely right, WebKitty, it was....believe it or not, I
> actually _know_some folks that were the , ahhh, "movers & shakers" in high
> school & they seem _completely_ different_ from fur folks.....it reminds me of
> the scene in "Annie Hall" where Woody Allen stops a couple to ask how they
> manage to get along - the reply is along the lines that they are both shallow
> people who don't have a deep thought between them......it's as if the wiring in
> the brain is_completely_ different (and it may very well be...)
> Robin, trying to remember the model/actress who played in that scene - it
> _wasn't_Cybil Shepherd, but I think it was one of the "Charlie's Angels"....

Well, the only Charlie's Angel I remember is Kate Jackson, and
I only remember that because she had huskies as pets.

David Cooke.
[ Address munged: replace "Actaeon.SPAM" with "demon.co" to reply. ]

[NEKOmancer]

In article <19980307050...@ladder02.news.aol.com>, robin...@aol.com
(Robin91783) writes:

I know, I know....I'm still in High school, but I digress.....

>1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

>2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

>3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
>(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

>4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

>5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to
>the
>popular crowd?

>6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
>intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

>7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

1) No
2) No
3) Constant.....? No. I have gone to a few though. <mainly to annoy my friends
and/or to hate myself for not having a date :) >
4) Actually this year....yes. Only for the fact that I was interviewed for the
Japanese class :)
5) A few yes.
6) ROFL of course I feel different! Heck, my friends and I make up some weird
new peer group!
7) Shyeah right. Not in this lifetime, or the next ;)

"I am not going to be pushed, filed, indexed, stamped, briefed, debriefed or
numbered. My life is my own." #6 The Prisoner "Arrival"

[Eric Eldon Sharp]

On 7 Mar 1998 05:01:01 GMT, robin...@aol.com (Robin91783) wrote:

>1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

No.

>2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

There WASN'T a Football team for my school (and one of my teachers
said I would be perfect for a tackler) :(

>3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
>(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

No.

>4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

Twice.

^_^

>5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to the
>popular crowd?

Yuppers. :)

>6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
>intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

Definitely. More or less an outsider in my High School.

>7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

Definitely, Not.

Any Comments?

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[Jason M./Louis L.]

Ok, I'm still in school, but I can answer these:

>1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

No. I don't ever plan to be

>2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

Yes. Good ol' 74. Even though I played left bench.

>3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
>(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

No, football and track got in the way usually. But, my GF is taking me to
the prom. ;-)

>4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

4 club pictures, 1 yearbook picture, and a picture of my hair (serisously!)

>5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to
the
>popular crowd?

Yep. I would probably go postal without them.

>6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
>intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

Yes, I've felt like a fifth grader in a third grade class.

>7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

>here's my answers (SmokeChaser's theory is that most furries did not_fit_in
the
>in crowd & I would agree to that - but I may be just talking from my own
>experiences..)

No official titles.

>Robin, wondering why it's said the teen years are the best of your life...

Cause it's what the government wants you to believe? Probably to stop teens
from complaining. "Why are you complaining? These are the best years of your
life!"

Louis Lightpaw
Featured on pages 91, 102, 103, 107, 109, 144 of the SAHS 96-97 yearbook.
Hair featured on page 2.

[NEKOmancer]

In article <350213...@concentric.net>, Mirko
<tro...@concentricACKACKACK.net> writes:

>Robin91783 wrote:
>
>> homecoming has
>> something to do with football, maybe the first game played on the home
>field?
>> don't know for sure..
>
> Homecoming is theoretically when the school's alumni "come home" for a
>football game or other events, and the students mark the occasion with
>all sorts of merriment (yeah, right). Colleges generally follow the
>tradition fairly well, and alumni show up. I don't remember any alums
>showing up for high school homecomings...the name has stuck, tho.

From my understanding Homecoming is supposed to be the last game played on the
home field.......but then I have been wrong before.

[Aetobatus]

This kind of piqued my interest, especially considering the replies...
before I comment, I suppose I should answer. :>

In article <19980307050...@ladder02.news.aol.com>,

Robin91783 <robin...@aol.com> wrote:
>1) Were you in the "in crowd" at school?

Hmmm... Hard to say. I went to what they referred to as a "Magnet
School," which basically meant that they sent lots of the good
teachers to a school in the "bad neighborhood" where they offered lots
of special programs to get people to voluntarily be bussed to the
school. As a result, you ended up with lots of splintered "in
crowds." I suppose I was part of a few of them.

Oddly, in undergraduate, I was part of a group of folks (mixed male
and female) who ate lunch together, went to ballgames, etc... Somehow
we started calling ourself the "social outcast club," so who knows. :>

>2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?

Heh. Not hardly. Looking back, though, I wish I had gotten involved
in the swim team; I've always liked the water.

>3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
>(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?

I was one of the yearbook photographers, and was the editor of the
"Senior Slide Show" my final year. I was AT most of them, but never
really participated.

>4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?

Not prominently... A couple 3 or 4 pictures in each volume.

>5) Did you have a few _good_ friends to see you thru school, as opposed to the
>popular crowd?

*nod* I'd say that's a safe statement. Actually, there are a bunch
of people I really regret having lost touch with.

>6) Did you feel totally "different" from your peer group, more
>intelligent/serious/inklings of furry?

Well, I'd not begin to say I was more intelligent; every one of the
crowd I spent most of my time with ended up at (what I consider)
quality Universities in technical or scientific fields, and most now
have some form of graduate degree. I don't think any of us took
anything serious then, and those of us I still know about (self
included) STILL don't take anything seriously. Actually, I wouldn't
be 100% suprised to find some folks here from my HS days. :>

>7) Were you homecoming queen/king or some honorary title like that?

Not hardly. :> I think a bunch of people knew me as "that guy who
always had the camera," though. :>

>here's my answers (SmokeChaser's theory is that most furries did not_fit_in the
>in crowd & I would agree to that - but I may be just talking from my own
>experiences..)

What I would tend to say is that folks who end up here have a
predisposition to NOT follow the crowds, but rather to be themself,
even if it means not being invited to every party, or not to be
immediatly remembered by everyone they encounter. The kind of people
who need to be in the "in crowd" probably aren't the kind of folks you
would think would admit to furryness even if they felt that way.

>Robin, wondering why it's said the teen years are the best of your life...

Because after the teen years, so much of the population gives up what
little creativity and open-mindedness that survived High School. :>

Aeto, never giving up his

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[Jason M./Louis L.]

>>
>>> homecoming has
>>> something to do with football, maybe the first game played on the home
>>field?
>>> don't know for sure..
>>
>> Homecoming is theoretically when the school's alumni "come home" for a
>>football game or other events, and the students mark the occasion with
>>all sorts of merriment (yeah, right). Colleges generally follow the
>>tradition fairly well, and alumni show up. I don't remember any alums
>>showing up for high school homecomings...the name has stuck, tho.
>
>From my understanding Homecoming is supposed to be the last game played on
the
>home field.......but then I have been wrong before.
>

Homecoming originally was when the team returns from the road. F.E. our
varsity played three away games in a row, then the next home game was
homecoming.

Louis Lightpaw

[D.Jean Cooper]

Dara wrote:

> "D.Jean Cooper" <dco...@DIESPAM.inav.net> wrote:
> >The only good thing to come of all that hell is that I will refuse to kow-tow or
> >brown-nose any of the beautiful people of the class. Or anywhere else, for that
> >matter. If they cannot deal with me as I am, then thehellwiddemall.<G> -Walk in
> >Balance
>
> Hmm.... I think I would have been considered one of the "beautiful
> people" for the most part. I was too horribly insecure to really *do*
> anything about it though if there was a guy (although not in my high
> school) that I liked. I didn't even like asking classmates for their
> phone # as I was sure they'd tell me that they didn't want to talk to
> me on the phone.
> Of course, as I became ill and started gaining weight, I became one of
> the "ugly people".
> In any case, I didn't much care for brow nosing either (although I did
> have to have someone explain that term). I think I would have liked
> you in school, Amber.
>
> Dara

<G> The term 'brown-nosing' is nasty. They're suck-ups who stick their noses up
their superiors' rears. Guess what they get? Brown noses.

As for school, Dara, <G> good. We could have been massively insecure together.
<VBG> -Walk in Balance

Ambergold Wolfeyes
SCA: Lady Aelfreda O'Llyn Ewig

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[Ron Orr...& Tirran]

Allen Kitchen <all...@blkbox.com> wrote:

> Ron Orr...& Tirran <griz...@vianet.on.ca> wrote in article

> <1d5o77l.7rw...@sund2-onlink1.onlink.net>...
>
> > It was called streaming. They're trying to bring it back.
> > Someone deserves to be killed and eaten if you ask me...
> >
>
> I would have loved streaming. I was stuck in a Texas
> school that believed in forcing everyone to work at the pace of the

> slowest in the class...

Maybe yes, maybe no. 'Streaming' is where the poor kid, with no
real idea of what he/she wants to do in life, is placed in a school
where there are only two or three choices of program. Options are
limited or non-existant; if you get to Grade 13 and find you don't want
to do what you've been streamed into, you're SOL.
That's what happened to me; because I was a Smart Kid, I ended
up in a general 5-years 'arts & sciences' program that was specifically
designed to dump me into University. But by Grade 12 I discovered that I
had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do in uni; I finished Grade 13
mostly because I didn't know what else to do. They wouldn't let me take
Art (too many arts options already) or computers (that was for the
four-year Business kids; people in the sciences would never need to know
anything about computers...)

> Streaming or a magnet school would have been
> wonderful. Anything would have been better than what I went
> through. Somedays I actually wanted to be sent to a military
> school or something.

Private schools are tough, but they're also wonderful
opportunities IME. My younger brother went to Lakefield College School
in Lakefield, Ontario, a popular school for the kids of Canada's
'Important People.' He got the education I would have done anything to
get, had the choice been offered to me. (It wasn't he was the 'natural'
son, so he got the breaks I didn't. But that's another depressing thread
entirely.)

Beginning to see why I haven't bothered talking to my family in
two years?

Tir'
unsuccessfully blocking off Memory Lane

[Ron Orr...& Tirran]

NEKOmancer <nekom...@aol.com> wrote:

> From my understanding Homecoming is supposed to be the last game played on
> the home field...

And then they dig it up and build something useful on the
property?
I know, wishful thinking...

Tir'

[Ron Orr...& Tirran]

Louis Lightpaw <elm...@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> >Robin, wondering why it's said the teen years are the best of your
> >life...
>

> Cause it's what the government wants you to believe? Probably to stop
> teens from complaining. "Why are you complaining? These are the best years
> of your life!"

You mean all that adolescent programming is a government
conspiracy? Now that's a terrifying thought.
Makes sense, tho; it's so badly done, and we all know how
inefficient government conspiracies are, nu?

Tir'

[Ron Orr...& Tirran]

Chris Manning wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Mar 1998 12:01:56 -0500, griz...@vianet.on.ca (Ron Orr...&
> Tirran) wrote:
>
> > Now this clot had been responsible for something for which I
> >hope he will be eternally roasted in his own personal private Hell:
> >something called Advancement Classes, in which the very brightest kids
> >in the city were segregated into special classes...
>
> Hmm... I went through something similar <joy.. not>, but it wasn't
> necessarily for brightness. (during my M.S. years, I was violent
> against non-living objects at times, not very often though)...

You should've tried being violent at _living_ objects; you get a
whle different kind of treatment. (I knew every secretary inn the main
office by their first names... I talked to the vice-principal more than
the principal did...)

Tir'

[HPickands]

In article <3505a161...@news.ican.net>, shar...@hotmail.com (Eric
"Eldon" Sharp) writes:

>
>>2) Were you a football player/cheerleader for your school?
>

>There WASN'T a Football team for my school (and one of my teachers
>said I would be perfect for a tackler) :(

<VBG> There were many many football "teams" at my school (intramural by
grade), and one of the coaches decided that I would be perfect to be a tackling
dummy. For 8 agonizing and painful seasons. :P

>"Now It's time for the biting of the tooshies!" - Blitz, "Road Rovers"

"Don't be a weirdboy!" - Exile, "Road Rovers" :)

Harry,
who has sworn to nail that coach someday, even if he's in a wheelchair.

[Matt Sq]

In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.98030...@keylime.cise.ufl.edu>,
"Paul R. Bennett" <ben...@keylime.cise.ufl.edu> writes:

>Painful memories (literally). Tipping the scales at a massive
>100 pounds and a towering 5' 6"...

What's wrong with weighing 100 pounds and being 5'6"?

Doh..........

(BTW, American pounds are the same as British ones aren't they? Otherwise, I'm
47 KG. Work that out!)

Matt Squirrel

[Paul R. Bennett]

The size per se wasn't the problem. Not familiar with British Football(Rugby?)
but American football they have two rows of people. They are usually pretty
massive (and large) and are supposed to defend the people with the ball.
Figuring that most of them were close to adult growth (5'8" 5'10" and 150
and up) this was a very painful situation. (I tended to get flattened.)

Paul

[Matt Sq]

In article <1d5pyuf.1vw...@sund2-onlink14.onlink.net>,

griz...@vianet.on.ca (Ron Orr...& Tirran) writes:

> You mean all that adolescent programming is a government
>conspiracy? Now that's a terrifying thought.
> Makes sense, tho; it's so badly done, and we all know how
>inefficient government conspiracies are, nu?
>
>Tir'

I'm not programmed!

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[Paul R. Bennett]

Reading Barbarian's reply.
One thing to bear in mind with me, I have a decidedly weird
sense of humor. Sometimes it does not come off too well in
the execution.

Grins. Actually I was being more on the accurate side, with a wee
touch of, um, bitterness. Although being small made one a rather
obvious target. And then came my twenty's. The teenage growth
spurt more than made up for itself.

And yes, being physically small was a pain.

I have tried to learn from those days and remember how I felt
so I can try NOT to do it to others.

I definitely grasp the feeling of being "outside".

Barbarian, it would be interesting one day to sit down and
talk.

Best wishes
Paul

[Chris Manning]

On Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:56:01 -0500, (Ron Orr...& Tirran) wrote:

>Chris Manning wrote:
>
>> Hmm... I went through something similar <joy.. not>, but it wasn't
>> necessarily for brightness. (during my M.S. years, I was violent
>> against non-living objects at times, not very often though)...
>
> You should've tried being violent at _living_ objects; you get a
>whle different kind of treatment. (I knew every secretary inn the main
>office by their first names... I talked to the vice-principal more than
>the principal did...)
>

Hmm, well, I've only hurt someone intentionally (well, if being upset
and reflexive is intentional) a few times... my sister a few times
(fortunately, those days are long over, we're both mature enough to
not do those things), and one of my friends from school I hit, then
ran off (because I knew what I did, and was completely embarrassed).
We made up from that, though things were uneasy for awhile. I've
never hit anyone I didn't like (I don't know why... I really don't).
Chris, the cat whose claws have been retracted for a long time, and
don't plan on coming back out.
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[Jason M./Louis L.]

Barbarian wrote in message ...
>that's why our smaller bretheren should make
>friends with furs of a size similar to Lucius, Shockwave or myself.
>(Hey, you know we're relativly harmless, but THEY don't know that, now do
>they?)
>

I think (I hope) that's what saved me from so many possible fights in middle
and high school (especially high school). Being 6-01 to 5-11 (depends on
what time of day it is) and weighing 180 lbs (and looking 210) too many
people are afraid that if I got really mad at them I would kick ass. In
fact, I probably would. Or it could just be my intelligence to hang around
groups of people when I've pissed somebody off.

Louis Lightpaw

[Jason M./Louis L.]

Ron Orr...& Tirran wrote:
>
> You mean all that adolescent programming is a government
>conspiracy? Now that's a terrifying thought.
> Makes sense, tho; it's so badly done, and we all know how
>inefficient government conspiracies are, nu?
>
>Tir'

Actually I'm convinced that the government likes us to be paranoid against
them just so they seem bigger and more labyrinth.

"You know all these conspiracies going around? There's a government
conspiracy to start 'em."
One of Louis' scouting buddies

Louis Lightpaw

[Ron Orr...& Tirran]

Barbarian <brba...@xochi.tezcat.com> wrote:

> Well, as long as your refering to a measure of weight and not a monetary
> unit, they are the same. 47kg = 103.4 lbs. Now if you're talking about
> tons, then they aren't the same. Isn't that wonderful?

Which tons, long, short or metric tonnes? <ggg>

> Hmmm ... let's see, I'm ah, 106.8kg and 193cm tall.

120kg, 183cm.
Or 19 stone, 18 hands, if you prefer...

> I know the metric scales, but have to convert it to imperial to make sense
> of it.

One useful advantage of being Canadian is that we sorta use
_both_ systems, at least in the smaller communities. I still order a
pound of smoked turkey breast at the general store, but the scale is in
metric. You get used to doing running conversions in your head at a very
young age here.

> ... I'll admit it's a better system, but I still call those places I
> buy CDs "Record Stores"!

Nuthin' wrong with that; the biggest music stores in Toronto are
Tower Records and Sam the Record Man.
And now that vinyl is coming back... <ggg>

Tir'

[lucius]

Ron Orr...& Tirran wrote:
>

>
> > Hmmm ... let's see, I'm ah, 106.8kg and 193cm tall.
>
> 120kg, 183cm.
> Or 19 stone, 18 hands, if you prefer...
>
> > I know the metric scales, but have to convert it to imperial to make sense
> > of it.
>
> One useful advantage of being Canadian is that we sorta use
> _both_ systems, at least in the smaller communities. I still order a
> pound of smoked turkey breast at the general store, but the scale is in
> metric. You get used to doing running conversions in your head at a very
> young age here.

One place here where confusion reigns supreme...is at the lumber
yard. At least the one I worked at. A 2x4 is still a 2x4...well,
actualy it's 1.5x3.5..depending on how it's dressed. But plywood
sheathing is now in metric. Which makes contractors very happy when they
are patching floors.

>
> > ... I'll admit it's a better system, but I still call those places I
> > buy CDs "Record Stores"!
>
> Nuthin' wrong with that; the biggest music stores in Toronto are
> Tower Records and Sam the Record Man.
> And now that vinyl is coming back... <ggg>
>
> Tir'

Cool!

Lucius
Who still has a large '70's collection....and only on CD player..in his
PC.

[RedWolf885]

Tim Gadd howled

>Come to think of it, my stories got me into trouble a few times. In
>first year they told us to go away and write a story. I said 'About
>what?" They said, "anything", so I wrote a story about the Royal
>Family being assassinated, and got hauled over the coals for it.

Considering that they said you could write about anything, they had no right to
even get upset at you for it. Note that they didn't say what you couldn't
write.

4-legged Red Wolf pic and facts
http://www.med.usf.edu/NINA/park/florida/redwolf.html

Cloudchaser (a Red Wolf morph)-I feel a change. Back to a better day. Hair
stands on the back of my neck. In wildness is the preservation of the world.
So seek the wolf in thyself. (from "Of Wolf and Man" by Metallica)

[RedWolf885]

Ambergold Wolfeyes howled

>DainBramjd wrote:
>
>> Tim wrote:
>> >We don;t have homecoming dances or ring dances either, and I don;t
>> >actually know what they are.
>>
>> That's a really good point. I've gone to US schools all my life, and I'm
>still
>> not sure. Just what _is_ Homecoming supposed to be, anyway?
>>
>> The Flying Dutchfur
>> "The only way that'll make sense is if I'm not wearing any pants for the
>rest
>> of the time."
>
>"Homecoming" is usually the term used when a school's football (US style)
>team has
>been on the road to other teams' fields. When they come Home to play on
>their own
>field is usually referred to Homecoming. This is when the most popular guys
>and
>gals get voted as to which of each is to be the leaders for the school.
>*Snidely*
>More often than not the bestest jock and prettiest cheerleader. *End
>Snideness*
>Me bitter? Nahhh. Not a bit.

If instead of "prettiest cheerleader" they were voting for "prettiest White
Lupess," You'd have got it by a landslide!

[RedWolf885]

Tim Gadd howled

>BTW I predict this will be this month's longest thread....

It'll probably also be "Most Responded To."

[RedWolf885]

Mister Tod wrote

>I went to the prom. Against my will, really. A female associate from my
>drama
>class begged me to take a friend of hers to the prom since she had been
>dumped
>by her date. I agreed, at the prodding of my mother, who thought it would be
>great for me to go to the prom. And so as a group (the associate, her date
>and
>her friend whom I was escorting) went to dinner and the prom. She danced
>with
>just about everyone but me and I had to practically drag her by the hair to
>take the obligatory photograph that was already paid for. Then we all went
>to
>a dance club where the music was so loud that I couldn't hear clearly for
>several hours afterward and I lost a pair of sunglasses that my associate
>lent
>me and I had to pay her $20 for them. My "date" did not speak to me
>afterward
>except to request half of the photographs. Fun. Set back my desire to date
>for ten years or so.

Sounds like she was what hyoomans would call a bitch. Though I don't have the
slightest idea why being a female domestic canid is supposed to be degrading.
Personally, I find them quite attractive.

[RedWolf885]

? the Platypus wrote

>>3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
>>(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?
>

>Nope. And thouse that I had to attend, I sort of sat on the outside and
>drank too much (as I don't drink alchol I was only drinking Orange juise,
>which will induce dirrare if you drink too much of it.)

Milk does too. Whether you're lactose intolerant or not.

>>4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?
>

>No.

Most aren't

>>Robin, wondering why it's said the teen years are the best of your life...
>

>Because by the time peaple start writing things like that the bad things
>have faded from there memoruies.

One of the good points about the mind is that the bad things tend to be
forgotten while the good things are remembered.

[RedWolf885]

Locandez howled

>>3) Did you participate in the constant whirl of social activities at school
>>(homecoming dance, ahh, ring dance, that type of thing)?
>

> There weren't many social activities at our school... there was the
>overnight computer marathon (which I never went to) and the overnight
>marathon (stay in school from 8pm to 8am - it seemed to last an _eternity_),
>which I _did_ attend.

I'm curious. Did they still say that everyone had to attend classes the next
day or did they let everyone off?

>>Robin, wondering why it's said the teen years are the best of your life...
>

> Bad experiences seemed to last for ages, and allowed you plenty of time to
>suffer ;) Good experiences just sped by, as in the saying 'time flies when
>you're having fun'.

Personally, I wish that it was the other way around. Time crawls when you're
bored, too.

[RedWolf885]

Webkitty scratched

><Snip>

>> >4) Are you featured prominently in your high school yearbook?
>>

>> What exactly is a high school yearbook?
>
>A yearbook is a collection of pictures taken during the year at the
>school. Yearbooks usually contain individual pictures of all the
>students, teachers, and staff, and group pictures of the various clubs and
>sport teams. Special attention is given to the seniors, who usually get
>color pics ('stead of B&W) and ridiculous honorary titles: Most Likely to
>Succeed, Best Couple, Funniest, etc.

My high school yearbook also had "biggest wolf." A stereotype that I can't
understand since RL wolves don't go trying to get all the females that they
can.

[RedWolf885]

Furry Wurry wrote

<snip>
>it's supposedly
>intended for nostalgic perusing by members of the senior class in later
>years.

It can be used for other things too. I once read a story about a guy in a bank
who needed a picture ID and having no other choice, he showed the teller his
high school yearbook. interestingly, it worked!

[Locandez]

In article <199803191540...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
redwo...@aol.com (RedWolf885) wrote:

>Locandez howled

>> There weren't many social activities at our school... there was the
>>overnight computer marathon (which I never went to) and the overnight
>>marathon (stay in school from 8pm to 8am - it seemed to last an
>>_eternity_), which I _did_ attend.
>
>I'm curious. Did they still say that everyone had to attend classes the
>next day or did they let everyone off?

It was held on a Friday :)

Locandez

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[Robin91783]

September's here again.....
*Sky, again wearing the James Bond outfit, vogues across the courtyard - he
uses a small hand held device that looks like a strawberry huller to turn on
the confetti machine. the vixens, dressed as Bond girls, cheer & carry Sky back
to the den....when asked, one vixen replies "oh we don't want Sky to wear
himself out unnecessarily". hearing the vixen's voice, several furs _try_ to
disguise themselves as Sky so they will get carried..._no_luck_*
*confetti gently falls over the courtyard*
and it's Captain Packrat's whelpday, isn't that great? we're using temps to
fill in Sun-Stone's spot as the beverage trolley fur, but I'm not sure how it
will work out - guess it's time to see....
well, Captain, your goody table is_here_ & boy what goodies we have - peach pie
with vanilla ice cream, the standard issue chocolate cake, hmm, HarryBear's Key
Lime pie - WebKitty's back (_hooray_) and she's got that 16 Oreo cake - try
that with some Jolt cola & watch the walls melt;) and today, I thought I'd have
Hungry bring in the beverage trolley *Hungry approaches the gathering, using
his trunk to push the beverage trolley - Neko yells, "Hey, Hungry, how about
some Pepsi?" and Hungry lets the beverage trolley go & carries a cold Pepsi to
Neko. Neko opens it, begins to drink & at that point Hungry grabs Neko & starts
pounding him into the ground*
ahh, yeah, well, I guess help yourselves to the beverages....
Robin, wishing Captain Packrat a happy whelpday
"WAG THE DOG"

[Skytech]

Robin91783 wrote:
>
> when asked, one vixen replies "oh we don't want Sky to wear
> himself out unnecessarily". hearing the vixen's voice, several furs _try_ to
> disguise themselves as Sky so they will get carried..._no_luck_*
>

<Bond opening music> Tech. Skytech. 00! License to....

Never mind!

See my new adventure: "Never see spam again!'.

Happy whelpday Captain Packrat.
--
La kashigada vulpo
Skytech

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[Allen Kitchen]

Sandroo <MrM...@hotmail.com> wrote in article
<35ee9044...@news.fysh.org>...
>
> (Sandroo) - Ooh, I know, howzabout Dr. Yerf? Furball? Furries are
> forever? You only yiff twice? The man with the golden retriever...

thunderpaw

GoldenEye (that's a furry title in my book)

License to Bill (We've a duck here now)

Fawn Connery, in her majesties secret forest

A Mew to a Kill

[Charlie Luce]

Allen Kitchen wrote in message <01bdd740$3cf85b70$8f301bc6@spgspare>...

Dr. Neigh?
From Russia with yiff?
Goldpaw?
Thunderpurr?
Catsino Royale?
On Her Majesty's Secret Furvice?
Diamonds are Furever?
Yiff and Let Die?
Moonhowler?
Fur your eyes only?

[Skytech]

My turn, my turn!

Moondraker.

--
La kashigada vulpo
Skytech

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[HackrwuIf]

*wave*
Happy whelpday!

HaCk
HaCk ("Lonely people burn like candles")

[WitchCat 1]

Hoi. Congrats, Cap, and many more! May the Boobiefruit be with you ; )

[Sun-stone]

Robin91783 wrote:

> and it's Captain Packrat's whelpday, isn't that great? we're using
> temps to
> fill in Sun-Stone's spot as the beverage trolley fur, but I'm not sure
> how it
> will work out - guess it's time to see....

Well, I'm not sure the temps ever showed up. But they still presented
the a.l.f. treasury with a huge bill for services rendered. Tell Farlo
to put a stop payment on that cheque.

Now *here's* the trolley in any case. Happy belated whelpday, Captain.
Help yourself to the cyber-beverage of your choice. Hope I'm not too
late.

Cheers;
Sun-stone, returning tea fur

[Farlo]

Sun-stone did speaketh thus:

>Robin91783 wrote:
>
>> and it's Captain Packrat's whelpday, isn't that great? we're using
>> temps to
>> fill in Sun-Stone's spot as the beverage trolley fur, but I'm not sure
>> how it
>> will work out - guess it's time to see....
>
>Well, I'm not sure the temps ever showed up. But they still presented
>the a.l.f. treasury with a huge bill for services rendered. Tell Farlo
>to put a stop payment on that cheque.

*burp* .... done.
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