When I graduated High School...

PopTodd · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:56 pm

•R.E.M. and Red Hot Chili Peppers were still "College" bands
•If you stated that The Beastie Boys were going to become influential, critically acclaimed stalwarts, most people would laugh in your face
•Cell phones were still only installed in cars... and only expensive ones, at that
•I brought a dedicated "word processor" with me to school, and thought that was pretty hot
•There was no such thing as The Internet

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

1993

vietnamese egg rolls didnt look like rectums

OPA! · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:59 pm

rparis74 Wrote:

1996

vietnamese egg rolls didnt look like rectums

e-stone · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:00 pm

22 year old HS grad, rodney?

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:01 pm

OPA! Wrote:

rparis74 Wrote:

1996

vietnamese egg rolls didnt look like rectums

Opa's shocked that you don't know the plural is recti.

Promethium · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:02 pm

1995

Nebraska was the best college football team.
People were still mourning the death of Kurt Cobain
Radiohead had just released their second album
The President was a Democrat.\

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

Promethium Wrote:

1995

Nebraska was the best college football team.
People were still mourning the death of Kurt Cobain
Radiohead had just released their second album
The President was a Democrat.\

1995 - on compuserve message boards, promethium figured out a way to fit his high school football team into every post.

Stone red's dark sunshine · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:17 pm **Posts:** 1096

PopTodd Wrote:

•R.E.M. and Red Hot Chili Peppers were still "College" bands and their music was called "alternative" and both were just about to fall off the cliff into Suckdom
•If you stated that The Beastie Boys were going to become influential, critically acclaimed stalwarts, most people would laugh in your face
•Cell phones were still only installed in cars... and only expensive ones, at that
•There was no such thing as The Internet
- I rolled up my jeans and thought it was cool
-The Pixies and Jane's Addiction had each only released one album
-MTV still showed music videos and still had VJs
-The Replacements were still together

PopTodd · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:27 pm

Stone Wrote:

PopTodd Wrote:

•R.E.M. and Red Hot Chili Peppers were still "College" bands and their music was called "alternative" and both were just about to fall off the cliff into Suckdom
•If you stated that The Beastie Boys were going to become influential, critically acclaimed stalwarts, most people would laugh in your face
•Cell phones were still only installed in cars... and only expensive ones, at that
•There was no such thing as The Internet
- I rolled up my jeans and thought it was cool
-The Pixies and Jane's Addiction had each only released one album
-MTV still showed music videos and still had VJs
-The Replacements were still together

All true. Yes.

Promethium · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:31 pm

rparis74 Wrote:

Promethium Wrote:

1995

Nebraska was the best college football team.
People were still mourning the death of Kurt Cobain
Radiohead had just released their second album
The President was a Democrat.\

1995 - on compuserve message boards, promethium figured out a way to fit his high school football team into every post.

I wish, my high school football team was 12-0 and the champions of the largest class of schools in Nebraska. I think I was still using an Apple 2E in high school and didn't get to really use the internet until I went to college.

no guru · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:13 pm

It's been twenty years since I was kicked out of college (well, the first time, anyway). Remembering back to high school is too much.

Ask me when I'm 90, have Alzheimers and spend endless hours reciting verbatim conversations from 1984.

ayah · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm **Posts:** 6402

getting "kicked out" of college makes no sense as you don't have to be there in the first place.
now third grade is hard core.

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:22 pm

ayah Wrote:

getting "kicked out" of college makes no sense as you don't have to be there in the first place.
now third grade is hard core.

...eh. You can be dropped from a program. Surprisingly enough, I haven't been, but I know it's possible.

fickerson · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:44 pm

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

ayah Wrote:

getting "kicked out" of college makes no sense as you don't have to be there in the first place.
now third grade is hard core.

...eh. You can be dropped from a program. Surprisingly enough, I haven't been, but I know it's possible.

i got kicked out of college twice. as in - 'you must plead your case for us or leave for at least a year.' the first time, they let me back in, the second time i didn't even try.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:54 pm

fickerson Wrote:

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

ayah Wrote:

getting "kicked out" of college makes no sense as you don't have to be there in the first place.
now third grade is hard core.

...eh. You can be dropped from a program. Surprisingly enough, I haven't been, but I know it's possible.

i got kicked out of college twice. as in - 'you must plead your case for us or leave for at least a year.' the first time, they let me back in, the second time i didn't even try.

A prof. tried to drop me from a class, and I told her "I have a right to stay here and fail," and then talked her into giving me a "B"

no guru · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:57 pm

"Kicked out" was a euphemism for "late night drunkeness precipitated startling GPA drop."

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:58 pm

Sen. LooGAR (D - MEH) Wrote:

A prof. tried to drop me from a class, and I told her "I have a right to stay here and fail," and then talked her into giving me a "B"

Haha. I failed Theater Appreciation, simply because I never attended class, and despite a 90-something average. The TA decided to let me have it in the hallway after I turned in my final, only to be met with...

"Do you really think it's gonna hurt my feelings if some piece of shit curtain jockey fails me in a class I didn't have to attend to get an A?"

Kingfish · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:27 pm

I could imagine Brother Fu being every professor's worst nightmare. They probably had the sweats before they looked at the class roster for the first time.

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:49 pm

When I graduated high school...

alongwaltz Wrote:

•Death Cab For Cutie was still an indie band
•If you stated that Broken Social Scene's third album wouldn't even make Pitchfork's year end countdown, you'd be laughed at
•Cell phones were still used primarily as phones, not cameras/computers/video games/asshole identifiers
•I still played the original Playstation and thought it was cutting-edge
•There was no such thing as Obner

Oh, memories.

ayah · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm **Posts:** 6402

kicked out of college = middle class "bad"

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

PopTodd Wrote:

•There was no such thing as The Internet

yuh huh.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

i was kicked out of my homeroom about halfway through third grade because of an incident involving nitrous oxide canisters. I was entirely innocent. My parents, however, did not believe me and promptly put me on ritalin. The next 20 years was a a downhill slide.

d · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:20 pm

there is nothing remotely cool about the year 1988.

FT · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:29 pm

AIDS was spelled with a "Y" and still known primarily as a dietary candy.

tentoze · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:41 pm

...there was a lunatic in the White House. The country was involved in an unjustified war abroad. Congress was impotent and mistrusted by the people. Wait...the difference is my hair wasn't grey then.

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