Do you really think yours was that much better?

September 11, 2014 12:53 PM

An Upstate New York student wants his senior photo to stand out. Schenectady High School senior Draven Rodriguez has a very special senior portrait, and has a petition just in case his school balks at its inclusion.
posted by kinnakeet (104 comments total)

A senior photo is a time for serious things, like wearing the same fake tuxedo as everyone else.

Kids today.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 12:58 PM on September 11, 2014 [7 favorites]

Never have I seen non-news so aggressively attempt to be news.

OK OK FINE LASER CAT TEENAGER YOU CAN BE IN THE NEWS JUST STOP CLAWING ME!! WHAT? WHAT ARE YOU DOI...AAARGH...OK FINE FRONT PAGE FRONT PAGE!
posted by Salvor Hardin at 12:58 PM on September 11, 2014 [18 favorites]

I guess what I'm saying is this person will eventually be in charge of everything.
posted by Salvor Hardin at 12:59 PM on September 11, 2014 [2 favorites]

❄❅❆YOU ARE A SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE❆❅❄
posted by Ogre Lawless at 1:00 PM on September 11, 2014 [8 favorites]

Whatever, kid. Go for it. None of us have ever gone on to regret whatever crazy things we thought were important in high school.
posted by bondcliff at 1:01 PM on September 11, 2014 [26 favorites]

Draven,

So cool hanging out with you in that one class that time! Don't ever change! This summer is going to be EPIC!!! LOLKTHXBYe!!!!!1!!
posted by xingcat at 1:02 PM on September 11, 2014 [10 favorites]

Geez, the sorry state of journalism these days. What's the cat's name? Does he like belly rubs and chasing string? These are the things the public needs to know!
posted by Metroid Baby at 1:03 PM on September 11, 2014 [51 favorites]

They should include it, but crop him out and keep the cat head.
posted by zarq at 1:03 PM on September 11, 2014 [60 favorites]

Join the yearbook staff, finagle a way to switch pics just before it goes to the printers.

You know, the way every other high school prankster has done this since time immemorial.

A petition? I shake my head - lame.
posted by parki at 1:04 PM on September 11, 2014 [42 favorites]

And for the rest of his life every potential date or employer with access to a search engine will know how zany he was at eighteen.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 1:04 PM on September 11, 2014 [2 favorites]

I regret my senior photo, in which I showed off my ability to raise one eyebrow and smirk in an irritating fashion. On the bright side, this means I'll probably be famous.
posted by grumpybear69 at 1:04 PM on September 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

So cool hanging out with you in that one class that time! Don't ever change! This summer is going to be EPIC!!! LOLKTHXBYe!!!!!1!!

hags
-Illegible scrawl
posted by Uppity Pigeon #2 at 1:05 PM on September 11, 2014 [6 favorites]

And that he launched a pre-emptive petition in support of his zaniness.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 1:05 PM on September 11, 2014 [6 favorites]

I look forward to him explaining to his daughter that no, she cannot have a cat, I don't care what Daddy's high school year book photo says.
posted by maryr at 1:05 PM on September 11, 2014 [6 favorites]

No, see, what you do is you save your hijinks for the quote under your picture because they can't do as much about that.

A kid in my theater class put down some madeup quote about picking lint out from under his bed and professed to wanting to be a brain surgeon. When inquired as to this career aspiration, he laughed and said that he didn't really want that, he just wanted the weirdest-sounding yearbook quote.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 1:07 PM on September 11, 2014

Jeez, the sorry state of journalism these days. What's the cat's name?

The cats's name is, of course, Mr. Bigglesworth. As if it would possibly be anything else.
posted by bondcliff at 1:07 PM on September 11, 2014 [2 favorites]

Now I want a lasercat picture for my LinkedIn profile. Not with me in it, just a cat. And lasers.

I will get ALL the jobs.
posted by Orange Dinosaur Slide at 1:09 PM on September 11, 2014 [10 favorites]

Kids today.

Yeah, not like in my day when...

Oh, wait.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 1:10 PM on September 11, 2014

Jeez, the sorry state of journalism these days. What's the cat's name?

Deadka7
posted by DynamiteToast at 1:10 PM on September 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

Man I did not want to take my senior yearbook photo so when my mom gave me 40 bucks to get a "nice" haircut I blew it on a six dollar buzzcut and pocketed the rest - not realizing that A) It would be super obvious that's not a 40 dollar haircut and B) I look like a convict in the photo.

I really should've gone this route. I had a big fluffy cat and everything.

sigh.
posted by The Whelk at 1:12 PM on September 11, 2014 [9 favorites]

This guy is just exploiting that poor cat! WHERE IS THE MODEL RELEASE?
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 1:13 PM on September 11, 2014 [3 favorites]

Is this really going to help his college applications?
posted by IndigoJones at 1:13 PM on September 11, 2014

What do you mean that's not a perfectly normal senior picture?
posted by ckape at 1:13 PM on September 11, 2014 [4 favorites]

Kickstarter?
posted by stevil at 1:15 PM on September 11, 2014

A friend in middle school posed with his beloved Optimus Prime toy for 7th grade pictures and the cringe inducingness of it still haunts me to this day.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 1:16 PM on September 11, 2014 [7 favorites]

I think it would be funnier if it were original, but obviously it's a nod to this actual Awkward Family Photo from a few years ago.
posted by ill3 at 1:18 PM on September 11, 2014 [8 favorites]

This kid is taking his senior picture as seriously as it deserves to be taken. If I'd pulled something like that 30 years ago, I'd have no regrets. You go, kid.

But get a better cat.
posted by ursus_comiter at 1:18 PM on September 11, 2014 [4 favorites]

Has nobody noticed that this boy is named Draven? Or is everyone else just too polite to mention it.
posted by clockzero at 1:19 PM on September 11, 2014 [14 favorites]

See? The cat in ill3's link is pretty fly.
posted by ursus_comiter at 1:19 PM on September 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

This is a pretty solid yearbook photo.
posted by craven_morhead at 1:21 PM on September 11, 2014 [52 favorites]

Bulgaroktonos: A friend in middle school posed with his beloved Optimus Prime toy for 7th grade pictures and the cringe inducingness of it still haunts me to this day.

No! This thing has passed the cringe statute of limitations and is now transformed into an amazing thing that your friend in middle school did.
posted by capricorn at 1:21 PM on September 11, 2014 [28 favorites]

My family didn't have a thin dime to spend on 'official' senior portraiture, so when the time came for my yearbook to be put together, the school newspaper photographer was tasked with snapping a disposable camera photo of me in the attire and position of my choosing.

I chose to stand outside the main doors of the high school, in a snowbank, in the middle of February, wearing a scowl, a furrowed brow, an XXXL glow-in-the-dark Insane Clown Posse t-shirt, and what I'm pretty sure were sky blue camouflage cargo pants. It's wonderful. I didn't graduate and had to drop out shortly thereafter so as not to be auto-enrolled as a fifth-year senior but god, I fucking love my senior portrait.

I hope this kid can look back on his with the same sort of pride, because he should. That laser background is bringing me back!
posted by divined by radio at 1:23 PM on September 11, 2014 [6 favorites]

Is this really going to help his college applications?

If it doesn't, it should - this type of initiative and resolution (misdirected as it may be in this case) are sorely needed nowadays.
posted by fairmettle at 1:23 PM on September 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

Live the dream, kid. Live the dream.
posted by octobersurprise at 1:24 PM on September 11, 2014

More yearbook photo awesomeness.
posted by Rock Steady at 1:24 PM on September 11, 2014 [22 favorites]

How are the police supposed to use yearbooks as mugshot books if they are cutesy-poohed up with kitty cats and laser beams?
posted by Renoroc at 1:26 PM on September 11, 2014

What do you mean that's not a perfectly normal senior picture?

Right? The article actually calls it "unusual," which... oh whatever, syracuse.com obviously needs to fill its content quota but that anyone at the school would even care is beyond dumb.

No, see, what you do is you save your hijinks for the quote under your picture because they can't do as much about that.

Er, um, outing myself as a Yearbook Class Person, but there were a number of quotes rejected by the (obviously too hip to last in our thoroughly average high school) faculty advisor. It was actually from her that I learned what--among other things she vetoed--"4:20" meant.

Yes, I was somewhat sheltered.
posted by psoas at 1:27 PM on September 11, 2014

When your name anagrams to Drug-Razored Vein, I guess you compensate however you can.
posted by Wolfdog at 1:34 PM on September 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

This is a pretty solid yearbook photo.

*wipes tear* They grow up so fast.
posted by phaedon at 1:35 PM on September 11, 2014

Yeah like someone else said, he just needs to make friends with someone on the yearbook staff. Like Daniel and his cooler counterpart.
posted by book 'em dano at 1:35 PM on September 11, 2014 [5 favorites]

Regarding the senior quote prank: our class had a set of fraternal triplets whose quotes were, respectively, "Or", "Gas", and "Mmmm".

Which is just as weird now as it was then...
posted by mosk at 1:36 PM on September 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

It was actually from her that I learned what--among other things she vetoed--"4:20" meant.

In high school, one of the clubs -- a "club" that existed through many, many years solely to get participation credit (required to graduate) for a certain group of people -- took out a page in the yearbook that just had a zoomed-in photo of the eyes of one of the members with the pupil hugely dilated and the single letter 'e' below it.

I did not have a good rapport with the people from that club but goddamn if they didn't pull something off with that.
posted by griphus at 1:36 PM on September 11, 2014 [8 favorites]

Also wow that comment above sounds super-bitter about their club. To be totally fair, in order to get club credit I co-started the school's Dungeons and Dragons club, elected myself "secretary" (officers got double-credit) and never showed up again past the first day.
posted by griphus at 1:39 PM on September 11, 2014 [4 favorites]

My senior pic was perfectly normal and plain. Then I promptly stopped caring about it and it never mattered ever again.
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:39 PM on September 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

My senior picture was the only time in four years of high school where my hair didn't look completely unkempt and goofy. I'm not sure what the hell happened. This was long before Photoshop.
posted by bondcliff at 1:42 PM on September 11, 2014

A true american hero!
posted by blue_beetle at 1:44 PM on September 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

"To clarify, the school HAS NOT YET DECLINED this photo," Rodriguez wrote on his petition. "This is my pre-emptive strike just in case such a thing were to happen. I wanted as many backers as possible before the deadline of September 15th."

So... I take it he's going to be a drama major? Because a pre-emptive petition objecting to a non-existent denial is some major drama.
posted by GuyZero at 1:45 PM on September 11, 2014 [4 favorites]

I included a quote in my High School yearbook and dedicated to my girlfriend at the time. I figured if we ended up together, it would pay off, and if we didn't, well then, who cares - it's just a stupid thing and I self-consciously knew I was a lovesick teenager. Weren't we all? My future self would forgive my High School self.

Except that, 15 years later, I still haven't.
posted by yeti at 1:47 PM on September 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

And for the rest of his life every potential date or employer with access to a search engine will know how zany he was at eighteen.

Bad for employment, maybe, but excellent if he is trying to screen out humorless potential dates.
posted by emjaybee at 1:59 PM on September 11, 2014 [4 favorites]

This would be fine if it were just sincere cluelessness but my irony sensor is flashing red.

I am insulted on behalf of the HS seniors out there who genuinely would want to do a picture like this but are too shy to ask the internet to sign a pre-emptive petition to jam down the throat of the administration.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 2:02 PM on September 11, 2014

This is my real senior yearbook photo. It was shot in my basement by my friend Doug. Everything in my life since then has been icing.
posted by mcstayinskool at 2:04 PM on September 11, 2014 [14 favorites]

Kid: Ah, perhaps you would like to see THE PETITION i just had the ENTIRE INTERNET-

Adult: Kid, you have no idea how little getting a bunch of randos to click on something on the Internet means. Now get moving, you're late for class.
posted by psoas at 2:10 PM on September 11, 2014

This kid is taking his senior picture as seriously as it deserves to be taken. If I'd pulled something like that 30 years ago, I'd have no regrets. You go, kid.

Yeah, I purchased a yearbook like everyone else and had friends and a few favorite teachers sign it, but even then I had a sense that it was a ritual to savor in the moment, not really any kind of eternal testament that I was going to cherish for the rest of my life. Good for him! I hope he goes out in this blaze of glory and has an amusing anecdote to tell his future friends and acquaintances.

As for the preemptive petition... well, based on all the petty, stupid shit high school administrators make iron judgements about, I can't say I blame him.
posted by usonian at 2:12 PM on September 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

If I were principle of that school I would whip up a pre-pre-emptive counter petition and really up the ante.
posted by ian1977 at 2:13 PM on September 11, 2014 [3 favorites]

PETITION FIGHT
posted by griphus at 2:14 PM on September 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

BTW in case you think that Syracuse.com doesn't have more important stories to cover, please consider this recent local news item.
posted by kinnakeet at 2:14 PM on September 11, 2014 [9 favorites]

The original was waaaay cooler. The dude in the original photo has a mullet and facial hair WORTHY of lasers.
posted by ian1977 at 2:16 PM on September 11, 2014 [4 favorites]

We are ALL worthy of lasers.

(though I will admit mullets do make you more worthy)
posted by MCMikeNamara at 2:19 PM on September 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

We may all be worthy of lasers, but lasers are worthy of mullets. Won't someone think of the lasers?
posted by ian1977 at 2:20 PM on September 11, 2014

Adult: Kid, you have no idea how little getting a bunch of randos to click on something on the Internet means. Now get moving, you're late for class.

Are you kidding? That's the only job that will exist in the future.
posted by maxsparber at 2:22 PM on September 11, 2014 [7 favorites]

BTW in case you think that Syracuse.com doesn't have more important stories to cover, please consider this recent local news item.

Wat. That is actual news.
posted by ultraviolet catastrophe at 2:23 PM on September 11, 2014 [2 favorites]

Sigh. The school should just let him do it, and let kids put whatever damn fool photo they want in there. It's not like high school yearbooks are used for anything other than putting names to faces, and there's Facebook for that now. My wife uses a stack of mine and hers as a bedside table.
posted by The Card Cheat at 2:26 PM on September 11, 2014

Principle (in his dean style office) - "Draven, Draven. You don't expect to win this one do you? You have a bright future. It would be a shame if your GPA were to suddenly take a dive. If we were to publish this picture it would ruin our local economy. And the cotillion is coming up! Speaking of which, you do know every year we elect a King of Hearts at the cotillion. I happen to have a bit of...influence with the election board. Imagine it Draven, King of Hearts at the Spring Cotillion. The doors that would open up for you! And all you have to do is just drop this silly picture.

Draven - I WILL NEVER BACK DOWN. I WILL NOT SURRENDER TO YOU WILL

Principle: So be it Draven. You leave me no choice. The school board will crush you in the press. The civil suit will leave your family in ruins. You will not get a diploma and a statewide manhunt will commence in...3, 2, 1...

Draven - (scoots out the door) - I have friends too Principle. We will not be bullied. FREEEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by ian1977 at 2:28 PM on September 11, 2014 [2 favorites]

kinnakeet: "BTW in case you think that Syracuse.com doesn't have more important stories to cover, please consider this recent local news item."

OK so I hovered over that link first and it ended "_man_featured_for_worlds_widest_tong" to which I said, well, that's weird. Either he has a set of tongs that open really wide, or they misprinted "thong" though wait a wide thong wouldn't be a thong really, only pants.

Boy was I amazed that clicking was even better than all that!

including this: "She literally said, 'Get away from me," said Schlenker, 46.
posted by chavenet at 2:32 PM on September 11, 2014 [2 favorites]

This is definitely going on his permanent record.
posted by ckape at 2:33 PM on September 11, 2014

Draven - (scoots out the door) - I have friends too Principle. We will not be bullied. FREEEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm outta heeeeeeeeeeeeeere.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 2:33 PM on September 11, 2014 [4 favorites]

YES. GO TEAM KITTY SENIOR PORTRAIT.
posted by fluffy battle kitten at 2:33 PM on September 11, 2014 [3 favorites]

18: this is AWESOME
25: christ that was embarrassing, what was I thinking
45: dude I was awesome
85: I miss that cat so much *sniffle*
posted by St. Peepsburg at 2:33 PM on September 11, 2014 [16 favorites]

Cats? No. Birds.
posted by dhartung at 2:35 PM on September 11, 2014

In my high school, every senior was allowed her own page (all-girls' school) with a formal portrait and three or four casual pictures and some quotes. I always felt sorry for the ones who devoted their entire page to Joe, and how awesome Joe was and look at all the things Joe and I did together, because Joe was usually history before they even got to college.

Might be a good teaching moment for these kids.
posted by Melismata at 2:40 PM on September 11, 2014

My yearbook story is about the 1987 College yearbook where a friend of mine was pissed that I was in the yearbook more than she was, and I wasn't even attending the school.
posted by eriko at 2:44 PM on September 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

When my mother went to my (all-female, Catholic) high school in the 60's, every senior had to wear the same blouse and strand of pearls.

This was my senior portrait, in '91. The photographer could not submit it directly to my school because it violated the rules (my hands are in the picture) so I had to deliver it myself.
posted by Lucinda at 2:46 PM on September 11, 2014 [17 favorites]

So we just finished moving into a much smaller place...from a house to a condo, actually. And in the course of the move, I discovered that my bookcases wouldn't fit into the room that they were supposed to go in. Actually, they'd fit in the room just fine...if you could get them there. But you can't. While the ceiling in the room is sufficiently high, the ceiling in the hallway is quite a bit lower. And the width of the hallway is, I'm pretty sure, a couple of inches below code. And the hallway features a T-intersection that the bookscases, which were 7 feet tall, could not be maneuvered through. They were really nice bookcases; I was heartbroken to have to get rid of them.
Anyhow, they have now been replaced with 6 foot bookcases of a much cheaper construction. But, while they can be maneuvered into the room, I can't fit any more of them into the room than I could have of the larger size. I mean, any more than I'd have been able to, if they'd been not as tall. So, even though I have the same number of bookcases as before, I'm down an equivalent amount of shelf space as one entire old bookcase, or 1.2 new bookcases. This means that as I unpack my books, I'm casting a very judgemental eye on some of them, trying to figure out what I'm getting rid of because I no longer have room for it.
This hasn't been as painful of a decision making process as I expected! A lot of what I'm getting rid of, I can get in ebook form. A lot of it I just don't think I'll ever read again, or even think about very much. But you know what was the easiest thing to get rid of? The one that provoked not a single twinge of second-guessing? The one that I actually sort of enjoyed slinging into the dumpster, even though everything else is going to the Goodwill?
That's right. All four of my goddamned yearbooks. And I was the editor in my senior year!
I hope this kid has fun with the process of getting this funny photo into his yearbook. And then I hope that once some time has passed, maybe a couple or three months, that he never ever thinks about it again.
posted by Ipsifendus at 2:50 PM on September 11, 2014

This is probably just as good a place as any to plug my best friend's band: Laser Background.
posted by The White Hat at 2:55 PM on September 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

I managed to get a old blurry photo of myself at age five put into my yearbook as my senior picture, at one of the more conservative private schools in town. Somehow I'm thinking this might not turn out to be quite as much of a fight as this kid is planning for.
posted by BlueJae at 2:56 PM on September 11, 2014

Reportedly when my grandmother saw my senior portrait she said I looked like a "mouth-breathing cretin." She did have a fondness for cats, however, so perhaps a laser cat portrait of me would've pleased her more.
posted by Squeak Attack at 3:00 PM on September 11, 2014

My senior picture consisted of me playing guitar outdoors. It was "unconventional" but I didn't have a hard time convincing the powers-that-be to allow it. A few years later, one friend was in a bearsuit and another was peeking out of a garbage can.

I'm not sure if I was a trailblazer or if my high school just didn't care.
posted by Woodroar at 3:02 PM on September 11, 2014

Join the yearbook staff, finagle a way to switch pics just before it goes to the printers.

Like this epic prank from a 1933 Montana yearbook.

"The long, unlikely life of Clarence Mjork."
posted by ikahime at 3:03 PM on September 11, 2014 [5 favorites]

Pffft I did this too! With a bonus Pegasus!
posted by Windigo at 3:04 PM on September 11, 2014 [6 favorites]

Local news is apparently reporting that the kitty portrait will be allowed.
posted by fluffy battle kitten at 3:14 PM on September 11, 2014

Phew! I guess the ACLU can cancel their flights
posted by ian1977 at 3:24 PM on September 11, 2014 [2 favorites]

My senior photo is average and boring but the quote and write up cracks me up. I don't know what half of it means or refers to any more. It's like this cryptic puzzle I left for my older self. I just used initials to refer to people and damned if I can remember who they were. It's mostly this weird insider code that I'm outside now. My friends quotes are the same.

The parts I do understand are a list of my plans. None of which I've done or accomplished. They're fun plans though so maybe I'll revisit them some day.
posted by Jalliah at 3:25 PM on September 11, 2014 [2 favorites]

Schenectady High School: Previously.
posted by The Ted at 3:36 PM on September 11, 2014

One of my friends in junior year apparently had an enormous crush on me which he never communicated. I found this out in retrospect when the yearbook came out and I was on almost every page, many times in pictures that I had no recollection of being taken. If you look at that yearbook it appears that I am some sort of super-amazing ubiquitous figure essential to all school functions instead of a nerd/jerk known only to the drama club and the AP teachers. They were all better than my actual yearbook photo, though, so it benefited me.
posted by winna at 3:43 PM on September 11, 2014 [5 favorites]

Yeah like someone else said, he just needs to make friends with someone on the yearbook staff. Like Daniel and his cooler counterpart.

Cooler Daniel is just epic awesome on every level and if Cooler Daniel wanted that in the yearbook when I was editor in my senior year, I would have been totally for it (I had to settle for having pictures of students, teachers, and the vice principal dressing up as Chippendale Dancers).

This yearbook picture, come on, the cat made him do it!
posted by Alexandra Kitty at 3:44 PM on September 11, 2014

My senior picture is the only flattering picture of me ever taken. I should probably walk around wrapped in black velvet with my head slightly tilted all the time.
posted by betweenthebars at 3:55 PM on September 11, 2014 [4 favorites]

Does that cat still have its natural claws? He/she looks like it is this close ---><--- to loosing its temper.
posted by bukvich at 4:37 PM on September 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

Senior photo pranks were way more fun before Photoshop. They had to bring the guy back to re-shoot our class because airbrushing all our fingers out of our fly holes was probably not an option. We had about 80pecent participation...
posted by Nanukthedog at 4:43 PM on September 11, 2014

I looked like I was 12 or maybe 13 in my senior portrait.

Maybe a cat would have made me look older...
posted by Pudhoho at 4:52 PM on September 11, 2014

My friend Susan had a bathroom full of Reader's Digests. The one that always seemed to be at hand was this one. One day I took it back to her bedroom and told her I was haunted by the question:did I know that mad bomber? Like all high school in-jokes, it seemed impossibly funny.
We went to an all-girls high school, and yearbook signing was a big deal. Your best friend would take your yearbook home overnight to write an epic in it. When Susan gave mine back she had covered the back cover with text...and a curious paper flap. Underneath? A tiny little picture of the Unabomber, cut from her Dad's magazine.
My actual picture does not make me look like the kind of person who has a lift-the-flap mad bomber in her yearbook. I look exactly like the kind of person who would have a Suzanne Vega quote under her picture, which I did.
posted by Biblio at 5:11 PM on September 11, 2014

I wish I was in a yearbook. Even with a bad picture, but I'm [no photo available] in both years I was in a school that had yearbooks. It's like I've been erased from the fossil record.
posted by sonascope at 5:28 PM on September 11, 2014

Gosh, winna, I'm not sure if that's supposed to be a sweet story or a creepy one.
posted by misozaki at 5:54 PM on September 11, 2014

I don't know either, really. It is a mystery!
posted by winna at 6:51 PM on September 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

I'm still kind of bitter that I let an amateur photographer friend take my senior photo and, worst of all, when half the pictures came back underexposed, I picked one of those on purpose like for art or to make a statement or something.

Whatever, I also had a terrible haircut.
posted by Sara C. at 6:55 PM on September 11, 2014

GO TEAM KITTY SENIOR PORTRAIT LASER, indeed.

Hm, that kid is kinda cute as well.
posted by jenfullmoon at 6:58 PM on September 11, 2014

They misspelled "Synecdoche".

 
posted by Herodios at 8:17 PM on September 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

The thing I love about being old is that having sported a six inch tall fire-engine-red mohawk and a t-shirt with a satanic slogan in my high school senior photo has absolutely zero impact on my employability.
posted by 256 at 8:53 PM on September 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

So did anyone at all end up have a problem with it? This seemed like a lot of, "guys this is going to freak the norms SO MUCH" that ended up with zero norms freaked.
posted by Legomancer at 6:10 AM on September 12, 2014 [3 favorites]

MetaFilter: Zero Norms Freaked
posted by Rock Steady at 7:09 AM on September 12, 2014

My senior photo is average and boring but the quote and write up cracks me up. I don't know what half of it means or refers to any more.

My writeup included the word "floorlamp" but the yearbook staff couldn't read my handwriting and printed "flondamp". HAVE FUN UNDERSTANDING THAT, FUTURE GENERATIONS
posted by Lucinda at 8:27 AM on September 12, 2014 [6 favorites]

I don't think my high school year book photo (which is blander than bland, but that's irrelevant) has ever come up re: my employability. I can't imagine why it would.
posted by maryr at 12:12 PM on September 12, 2014 [1 favorite]

I would not sign his petition.

But I would sign it if he put on a suit and then had professional makeup done, a la Cats.
posted by vignettist at 2:27 PM on September 12, 2014 [2 favorites]

But only if he held a baby who was dressed like he was in the first picture.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 2:48 PM on September 12, 2014 [2 favorites]

The best possible of updates. Turns out the principal has a pet chihuahua.
posted by sparklemotion at 3:37 PM on September 29, 2014 [2 favorites]