# What did you look like in high school?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 24, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610 "2010-05-24T19:42:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/81 "2010-05-30T17:47:55Z")
> [@Surly\_Chick](#):
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> Is that a leisure suit on the person behind you??? God, I miss those… 😛
Mom on the left, Dad on the right in a regular suit, so no.
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### Author:  [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2010, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/82 "2010-05-30T22:49:42Z")
Junior year instead of senior, but my yearbook picture from '88 wasn’t all that radically different. [1987](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4653756965_3b060d2ab3_b.jpg), second from left.
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/83 "2010-05-30T22:54:56Z")
> [@x-ray\_vision](#):
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> I gotta scan all my old pics one day. Here’s me at age 20 in 1988:
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> [ImageShack - Best place for all of your image hosting and image sharing needs](http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/6097/111nvu.jpg)
I was also 20 in 1988 (haven’t scanned my pic), and I would have been on you like a bum on a bologna sandwich. You were hot!
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/84 "2010-05-30T23:57:09Z")
Here I am affecting the “bored garage band rocker” pose, circa 1971.
[http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4013/4653933841\_1d0f966c18\_o.jpg](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4013/4653933841_1d0f966c18_o.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/85 "2010-05-30T23:59:09Z")
> [@blondebear](#):
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> Here I am affecting the “bored garage band rocker” pose, circa 1971.
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> [http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4013/4653933841\_1d0f966c18\_o.jpg](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4013/4653933841_1d0f966c18_o.jpg)
I’m having a problem with the link.
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2010, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/86 "2010-05-31T00:04:43Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#):
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> Junior year: a classic 1985 slacker.
Oh, come on, this is not the picture we want. You know the one. Do it!
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### Author:  [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/87 "2010-05-31T00:09:27Z")
Junior year, 1980.
I was rocking some matching [tube socks](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/ural/misc/RR2.jpg), baby.
I still have that 1966 MG Midget, & chat with that young lady on FB!
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/88 "2010-05-31T00:16:33Z")
> [@Nobody](#):
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> I’m having a problem with the link.
I always have problems posting links to Flickr for some reason. Let’s see if photobucket works better…
[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/-dc-/Highschool.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/-dc-/Highschool.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/89 "2010-05-31T00:30:06Z")
> [@blondebear](#):
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> I always have problems posting links to Flickr for some reason. Let’s see if photobucket works better…
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> [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/-dc-/Highschool.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/-dc-/Highschool.jpg)
Yeah, that one works. Were you a junior or senior? Because you look very very young in that pic.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/90 "2011-01-09T03:49:40Z")
I just found a picture of myself in grade 11 (1978-79). [Here it is](http://www.sunspace.org/images/grade_11_corrected_small.png).
Disclaimer: I do not remember that shirt. I do not remember being in the same universe as that shirt.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2011, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/91 "2011-01-10T15:39:39Z")
A diamond in the rough. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/92 "2011-01-10T21:03:19Z")
[Junior year of high school](http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g244/drainbead/Maias.jpg?t=1294693222). I’m in the green dress on the far right. I was 15, almost 16 (skipped a grade), and thought I was Alicia Silverstone, who at that time was making a name for herself in Aerosmith videos.
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### Author:  [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/93 "2011-01-10T21:08:05Z")
When this thread got revived I went to look at my senior pic but saw it was removed due to either “violation of ImageShack terms of service or by user request”.
I didn’t remember requesting that the picture be taken down, so I E-mailed them last week asking if it violated the terms of service, and if so how, but I haven’t heard anything back yet. 😕
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### Author:  [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/94 "2011-01-10T23:43:01Z")
And they put it back up, but it’s wider than before and so it’s out of proportion now. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/95 "2011-01-11T00:26:13Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#):
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> [Junior year of high school](http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g244/drainbead/Maias.jpg?t=1294693222). I’m in the green dress on the far right. I was 15, almost 16 (skipped a grade), and thought I was Alicia Silverstone, who at that time was making a name for herself in Aerosmith videos.
I was around the same age in my pic: 15, almost 16. (I think the pics were taken late in the school year, and I was born in the summer, but I don’t remember for sure when they were taken, and there was no date information with the picture.)
It’s not just my memories of high school. Girls did mature earlier, socially speaking.
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### Author:  [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/96 "2011-01-11T00:36:31Z")
I never had a pic in our yearbook. But, picture a very tall Eric Foreman, and you’re not far off.
We had a Kelso, and a Hyde, and a Jackie (anyone who was in my class could immediately identify the people I’m thinking of), and I dated a Donna for a couple of years.
ETA: Now that I thin of it, we had a Fez for a year, too!
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/97 "2011-01-11T01:02:06Z")
I pretty much look the same, just older. 😉
Brown hair - check
Wire framed glasses - check
Button-down long-sleeve shirt - check
Jeans - check
I originally parted my hair in the middle, but went to a side-part sometime in HS.
I weigh more, that’s the big difference.
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### Author:  [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2011, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/98 "2011-01-11T10:20:42Z")
Well, I looked the same as I look now. On this old reject computer I’m using (laptop recently died, RIP) this is the only pic I can find from that time, but this was near the end of my senior year (2000). Now I’m just a little tanner (okay I’m not, but I did learn how to use make up to give the illusion) and I laid off the tweezers on my eyebrows a bit.
Oh, and now I wouldn’t have been having my kid baptized either :o (beautiful as she looked in her gown). I only did it even then for my mom, but now I wouldn’t even do that (much as I still love my mom…but I wouldn’t ESPECIALLY after how fellow church members were talking shit about me [for being young] and the other baby who was being baptized at the same time [for being Filipino and having several godparents {“they probably all live together too”}]–can you imagine sitting in attendance at babies’ baptisms and saying mean things–in earshot of those babies’ family and friends??).
[http://inlinethumb23.webshots.com/37398/1138996064014773865S600x600Q85.jpg](http://inlinethumb23.webshots.com/37398/1138996064014773865S600x600Q85.jpg)
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### Author:  [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2011, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/99 "2011-01-11T13:15:58Z")
In my Junior year (2001), I had this brilliant idea that I would volunteer at the local Renaissance festival to earn my community service hours; as a result, I got a long-lasting and bizarre-looking farmer’s tan out of the deal. Oh, and [photos of me dressed as a “wench” and covered in glitter](http://picasaweb.google.com/nashiitashii/Natasha#5560910486338941634). Later in the school year, I chopped my hair to chin length and tried to dye it red. Initially, it was magenta, but [calmed down to this color](http://picasaweb.google.com/nashiitashii/Natasha#5560914634948487554) until it faded back to brown.
In my senior year (2002), I was in The Scarlet Pimpernel as several parts, including [“haughty aristocrat #87”](http://picasaweb.google.com/nashiitashii/Natasha#5560914639249608018) and “busty wench #783”. I only have evidence of the former, though.
At age 8, this is [my favorite photo from my childhood](http://picasaweb.google.com/nashiitashii/Natasha#5560914636070824978). These days, I look more [like this](http://picasaweb.google.com/nashiitashii/Natasha#5560915977588841282). Not a huge difference.
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### Author:  [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/100 "2011-01-12T01:51:16Z")
Senior year of High school, took no yearbook photo (too cool for school, as the photo below attests)
[ ](https://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc361/irafuse/sgat17.jpg)
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