# 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:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2011, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/121 "2011-01-13T04:55:36Z")
> [@DianaG](#):
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> That’s a badass DA, Chefguy. 🙂
Cool, daddio. 🆒
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### Author:  [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/122 "2011-01-14T14:30:22Z")
> [@nikonikosuru](#):
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> Ya, not just the Zebras, but the \*Fighting \*Zebras. Because, y’know, normal Zebras just run away and hope not to get slaughtered. 😃 I believe that we’re the only high school in the country with a Zebra as a mascot.
You’re not even the only one in the Midwest – Indiana’s [Rochester High](http://www.maxpreps.com/high-schools/zbxBrr3mY0KHEgB12G30RQ/rochester-zebras/girls-basketball/home.htm) is even on Zebra Lane!
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/123 "2011-01-14T14:38:01Z")
Amusingly, I’ve already posted [this page](http://www.flickr.com/photos/62555962@N00/2345896499/) of my senior yearbook awhile back when somebody from another country was asking what American yearbooks as seen on TV are like. I black barred everybody’s eyes but mine. (Hilariously, the girl next to me now works in the next cubicle. Small world!)
It’s not a good picture at all, which is a shame because looking back, that’s when I really started to come out of that teenage awkwardness (and believe me when I tell you that I was ten times more awkward than any other teenager) and start to look attractive. There’s a far more attractive picture taken at the same photo shoot - I’d imagine every female my age (class of 97) had the same one with a fake red rose, right? For some reason those all came out way better than the official yearbook ones and I’ve seen more than one on the walls of other people’s parents’ houses.
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### Author:  [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/124 "2011-01-14T15:32:43Z")
For some reason I read that as “fake red _nose_” and was trying to figure out (a) how that was more attractive, and (b) why families would display it.
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### Author:  [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/125 "2011-01-14T16:12:42Z")
> [@nikonikosuru](#):
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> Ya, not just the Zebras, but the \*Fighting \*Zebras. Because, y’know, normal Zebras just run away and hope not to get slaughtered. 😃 I believe that we’re the only high school in the country with a Zebra as a mascot.
Zebra’s are actually quite nasty fighters. They typically stand and fight when attacked by hyenas and wild dogs. They run like fun from lions, but that’s just the sane thing to do. They’re also quite good at fighting off humans. There have been numerous attempts to domesticate the zebra, but they’re just plain mean and they’ll bite hell out of people, and each other, with little to no warning. They tend to run in fairly small herds(about half a dozen, not counting foals) and don’t have to get along in large packs. So the fighting zebra is a pretty good mascot overall.
Enjoy,
Steven
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/126 "2011-01-14T16:35:18Z")
> [@Mtgman](#):
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> Zebra’s are actually quite nasty fighters. They typically stand and fight when attacked by hyenas and wild dogs. They run like fun from lions, but that’s just the sane thing to do. They’re also quite good at fighting off humans. There have been numerous attempts to domesticate the zebra, but they’re just plain mean and they’ll bite hell out of people, and each other, with little to no warning. They tend to run in fairly small herds(about half a dozen, not counting foals) and don’t have to get along in large packs. So the fighting zebra is a pretty good mascot overall.
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> Enjoy,
> Steven
A zeeba wunce bite my seestor.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/127 "2011-01-14T22:28:13Z")
> [@Irishman](#):
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> For some reason I read that as “fake red _nose_” and was trying to figure out (a) how that was more attractive, and (b) why families would display it.
I had exactly the same reaction.
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### Author:  [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/128 "2011-01-14T23:05:02Z")
I would totally display a picture of any member of my family wearing a fake red nose, albeit not because I think it’s attractive.
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### Author:  [@parsnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parsnip)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/129 "2011-01-15T00:48:45Z")
> [@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.
Well, I can see why you thought that, but who is the dude in the shorts mixed in with all the quality?
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### Author:  [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/130 "2011-01-15T00:55:11Z")
Seeing if this link works for the public…
[Me, circa 1985, probably 10th grade.](http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs158.snc1/5893_684293952275_421025_39686145_1915431_n.jpg)
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### Author:  [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/131 "2011-01-15T01:17:15Z")
It \*looks \*like a cafeteria, and yet you were clearly too cool for school. 😉
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/132 "2011-01-15T03:47:55Z")
You know, I’m still not sure if I shouldn’t double spoiler this with warnings of possible damage to your graphics card…
[spoiler] Ok, but remember, You Asked For It…
[ ](https://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a362/quietman1920/Highschool.jpg)
(I’m the geek on the left with the glasses; circa 1981)
[/spoiler]
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### Author:  [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2011, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/133 "2011-01-15T04:34:30Z")
[This](http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/1153/cannonk.jpg) is my favorite picture from high school. I am in the yellow shirt, holding up the barrel of the “cannon”. There are some other good ones around, though I might not be able to find them.
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### Author:  [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/134 "2011-01-15T13:57:02Z")
> [@DianaG](#):
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> It \*looks \*like a cafeteria, and yet you were clearly too cool for school. 😉
No joke. I can’t believe I had to be there! 😃
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/135 "2011-01-15T14:00:55Z")
I looked like James Morrison.
More like he does now than then.
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### Author:  [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/136 "2011-01-15T17:58:18Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#):
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> You know, I’m still not sure if I shouldn’t double spoiler this with warnings of possible damage to your graphics card…
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> [spoiler] Ok, but remember, You Asked For It…
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> [http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a362/quietman1920/Highschool.jpg](http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a362/quietman1920/Highschool.jpg)
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> (I’m the geek on the left with the glasses; circa 1981)
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> [/spoiler]
Oh come on! I was expecting much worse after your disclaimer. It looks '80s, yes, but you don’t look bad at all. I wasn’t even born in '81 and I have worse '80s pictures 🙂
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### Author:  [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/137 "2011-01-15T18:14:26Z")
1982 Senior picture
Hope I did this right. Anyway, here’s my senior picture. Had to make sure every strand of hair was meticulously feathered.
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### Author:  [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/138 "2011-01-15T19:39:25Z")
I think the lesson here is that it’s hard to look unattractive when you’re young. A few extra pounds? A little frumpy? Still hot.
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### Author:  [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/139 "2011-01-15T19:43:39Z")
I looked like a smelly hippy/grunge guy with terrible hair.
I’m not posting a picture because I don’t want to, and because I don’t have any pictures from that time.
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### Author:  [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/140 "2011-01-15T19:54:44Z")
> [@Mtgman](#):
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> Zebra’s are actually quite nasty fighters. … they’re just plain mean and they’ll bite hell out of people, and each other, with little to no warning.
Point of fact, I know a guy who got attacked by a zebra. His neighbor had some, and he discovered a hole in the fence. He went out to inspect it, was surprised by the zebra, and it knocked him down and bit his foot off. Zebras is mean.
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