Cool, daddio. 
You’re not even the only one in the Midwest – Indiana’s Rochester High is even on Zebra Lane!
Amusingly, I’ve already posted this page 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.
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.
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
A zeeba wunce bite my seestor.
I had exactly the same reaction.
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.
Well, I can see why you thought that, but who is the dude in the shorts mixed in with all the quality?
Seeing if this link works for the public…
Me, circa 1985, probably 10th grade.
It *looks *like a cafeteria, and yet you were clearly too cool for school. 
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…
(I’m the geek on the left with the glasses; circa 1981)
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This 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.
No joke. I can’t believe I had to be there! 
I looked like James Morrison.
More like he does now than then.
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 
Hope I did this right. Anyway, here’s my senior picture. Had to make sure every strand of hair was meticulously feathered.
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.
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.
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.