# 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:** 12
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### Author:  [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/141 "2011-01-15T22:52:14Z")
Hope the link works…
[HS graduation](http://s1133.photobucket.com/albums/m595/JLR1960/?action=view¤t=graduation_-_Jeffrey.jpg),30-odd years ago. The hair and the redneck polyester leisure suit all scream _70’s_.
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### Author:  [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/142 "2011-01-15T23:54:31Z")
> [@Irishman](#):
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> 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.
A Møøse once bit my sister …
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/143 "2011-01-16T01:17:53Z")
> [@Blackberry](#):
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> 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 🙂
I wasn’t fishing for compliments. Honestly. And maybe the camera was kind to me that… one… day. Thank you, though.
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### Author:  [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/144 "2011-01-16T02:36:51Z")
> [@parsnip](#):
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> Well, I can see why you thought that, but who is the dude in the shorts mixed in with all the quality?
My uncle. That picture includes my grandmother, mom, aunts, and uncle, and a few cousins.
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### Author:  [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2011, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/145 "2011-01-16T03:56:03Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#):
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> I wasn’t fishing for compliments. Honestly. And maybe the camera was kind to me that… one… day. Thank you, though.
I know you weren’t fishing for compliments. But it’s a cute picture and doesn’t need any disclaimer. I know women are usually our own harshest critics, but from this thread it looks like men are too.
Personally, I think we all looked stunning in the '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, or whenever we were in high school. At least back then we didn’t think it was a good idea to wear pajama pants all over the place like the high school kids do now (and this is coming from someone who wears pajama pants ALWAYS at home, but jesus christ, I do manage to pull on some jeans before I go all over town).
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### Author:  [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/146 "2011-01-16T18:27:59Z")
Hell, at least we actually _wore_ our clothes. I was at the mall last night walking behind three guys with the crotch of their pants at their knees, trying to walk cool while having to shift their pants every other step to keep them from falling down. You know who else wears clothes that don’t fit right? Circus clowns.
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### Author:  [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/147 "2011-01-16T18:46:13Z")
The really funny thing is that they’re starting to wear even their emo supertight girl jeans below their asses. If you think it’s amusing to watch them hold their jeans up, you should see them trying to walk with their legs tied together by a Hot Topic studded belt.
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### Author:  [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/148 "2011-01-16T19:07:31Z")
> [@Irishman](#):
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> Hell, at least we actually _wore_ our clothes. I was at the mall last night walking behind three guys with the crotch of their pants at their knees, trying to walk cool while having to shift their pants every other step to keep them from falling down. You know who else wears clothes that don’t fit right? Circus clowns.
You kids!!!
Get off of my lawn!
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### Author:  [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/149 "2011-01-16T19:43:57Z")
[THIS](http://www.raisethehammer.org/static/images/tgarm_archie.gif) is exactly what I looked like in high school (graduated 1979). My old man even called me Archie sometimes. I even had the dark eyebrows.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/150 "2011-01-16T19:57:22Z")
You went to Riverdale? 🙂
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### Author:  [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/151 "2011-01-16T20:11:04Z")
> [@Sunspace](#):
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> You went to Riverdale? 🙂
No, but my best friend was a real Jughead.
'cept he liked girls.
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### Author:  [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/152 "2011-01-16T22:19:06Z")
Prom, May 1998 [Photo and Video Storage | Photobucket](http://s203.photobucket.com/albums/aa246/LeahandPhil/Pics%20of%20Leah/?action=view¤t=Untitled-10.jpg)
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