ilx-as-lunchroom: who sits together?

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this is meant to be a happy fun thread, i promise. not really about the popular vs. unpopular kids, rather just a look at the different clusters of friends here and what overarching things bring them together. let's establish that there's a "noise" table and a "tittwis" table and a "region-specific friendships" table and move on from there.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

(by the way, i can smell the obvious parody thread from a mile away, so don't try it.)

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

I would go sit with JBR but only to trade snacks.

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

what kind of snacks?

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

With whomever'd buy me a pint

― kingfish completely hatstand (Kingfish), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

(by the way, i can smell the obvious parody thread from a mile away, so don't try it.)

Gee, wonder what kind of parody thread you had in mind?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

can we bring our stuffed animals and have tea?

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

this is brought on by me realizing that my threads always seem to attract the same couple of people, some of whom i don't particularly talk to much off-board, but who always seem to click on the "jbr" threads (and vice-versa).

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

who would be the kid who eats his own boogers or milk cartons?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

Dan, Donut and I discuss Wax Trax intensely in the corner...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

who would be the kid who eats his own boogers or milk cartons?

gee, that's pretty much all of us...

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

Chicago ILXors would sit at one table and throw over-dressed hot dogs at NY ILXors.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

I believe you mean to say 'wonderful perfect hot dogs'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

Explain "tittwis", pls?

― Laurel, Monday, 15 August 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

Chicago ILXors would sit at one table and throw over-dressed hot dogs at NY ILXors.

nyc ilxors would miss their attacks because they'd be over in jersey eating rippers:

http://www.hollyeats.com/images/Rutt-Pair.jpg

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

"tittwis" = "this is the thread where i say..."

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

I believe you mean to say 'wonderful perfect hot dogs'

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), August 16th, 2005 7:18 PM. (Ned)

I am a fan.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

Ahh, thanks. May I suggest a formerly-of-Sinister table? Or one end of a table? Because I've met a few people at FAPs over the years who I'd be reasonably sure of, but first I'd surreptitiously look for T1m Popkins, Marianna, Greggel Puzzleworth, Stevie Tr0users, et al so I'd be sure of a warm welcome.

After a few days I'm sure I'd branch out but you know, that first trip from lunch line to table is like walking the fucking plank.

― Laurel, Monday, 15 August 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Dan, Donut and I discuss Wax Trax intensely in the corner...

I will visit your table once the I Love Baseball folk decide we need a break from talking about baseball.

Fortunately, the release of the new Depeche Mode album roughly corresponds with the end of the baseball season.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps not too surprisingly, I'd be the kid who brings a bag lunch from home, climbs a tree during lunch break, and eats lunch up there.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

Not too surprisingly, I did this through most of elementary and junior high school

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

i do the exact same thing that i did in high school. move from table to table at will. i am a regular good-time charlie.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

I always went home for my lunch, so um... hrm :(

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

greggel puzzleworth! hah!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

A year and a half later, I'm still table-hopping.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Who would be lunch monitor?

― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm sitting with Mandee and dahlin and whoever else they invite.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

Who would be lunch monitor?

Me, apparently, ah ha har < /sarcasm >

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

I would be the kid at the Wax Trax table who doesn't say anything (occasionally trying to start up a round of footsie with Dan, getting only weird looks in return)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

Foxiest monitor evar!

*sporks back to I Love Comics table*

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

I would read a book during lunch and ignore everyone.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

you'll find me in the art room nursing a pot buzz with a mountain dew. see the headphones? go away. ive got a life size zippy the pinhead bust to carve before semester ends

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

i'd be flirting with the film-school wannabes and stealing their berets.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

much like real HS, fuck you all i'm going to taco bell and then drinking rum in the parking lot

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

my high school didn't have a parking lot and you had to get past the security guards if you wanted to leave the building

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

WHAGDBT IS WRONG WITH A WANK

― GARU G, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

nothing?

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

I have a feeling I'd be at a table with Jordan and k/l.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

That's exactly what I was going to say.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

i agree with scott.
when i first came here i'd be
at jody's table

then i roamed around
but now i'd jock out with my
ilbb homes

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

if i ask you to come to the candy machine with me and treat you it is likely i want to get high/drunk/naked with you. follow my lead baby. go with the plain m&m's

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

I think once and a while I'd go over and try to chat with the region-specific Chicago table. The London table I'd listen in on, but I wouldn't go over there until I had some kind of introduction or in.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

And of course I'd want to know what was going on at the Wokingham table.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

I would read a book during lunch and ignore everyone.

-- Leon C. (nicole.kessle...), August 16th, 2005.

that would be me too! it would be some godawful 'aliens' tie-in novel though.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

if this was ILX middle school/junior high/whatever the non-us equivalents are, i mean.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

in junior high school i ate lunch in the music room with the other dorks who spent their lunch down there.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

My table was all like nerdy smartass Rush fans. So I guess a lot of ILX would qualify...

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

Me and the other mongrels would probably be in a corner somewhere, whining about stuff and hating on the football. And being drunk. Or somehting.

(nb I did not drink in high school!)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

still do as i did: saving lunch money to buy recs, gazing at hopeless crushes, avoiding one with crush on me, fine though she be (good way to lose weight though, which paid off re college hookups)

― don, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

I forgot to bring lunch again, so I'm just gonna go sit underneath the bleachers and cry.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

Obv. I'd sit with the Chicago folks, but then after I was done eating, I might go sit at the noise table until the bell rings.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

omg those are those fried hot dogs from clifton NJ?

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

they sure are! i didn't take the picture though.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

ooh, ooh, where do i sit? tittwis table?

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

Well, I'd probably go home and have lunch there. Like I did in real life. :-) Otherwise, I'd just gawk at you lot. I'd be the freaky foreigner sitting in the corner.

― nathalie starts to cry each time we meet (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:35 (twenty years ago)

tbh, i reckon i'd be milling around, too polite to sit down without being asked.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:38 (twenty years ago)

I'd sit at different tables every day.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:45 (twenty years ago)

I'd try to find the most lonely table in the corner and want to be the weird loner in the corner. And then all the other weird loners would come over and sit down and start talking to me about that problem from maths class. And then I'd get weirdly upset because it's ruined my weird loner schtick to have all these people around me.

― Mrs. Cranky (From Crankytown) (kate), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:46 (twenty years ago)

Some of these replies are telling.

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)

if you're rocking the A11y Sh33dy Breakfast Club look, i'll be pulling up a chair k thx plz.

omgxpost

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:50 (twenty years ago)

I only lived up the road from my school, so I usually went home and had lunch there except for Chess Club on Mondays and school orchestra rehearsals on Fridays, for both of which I brought a packed lunch and flask.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'm even using my dandruff to make fake snow over my pretty pencil drawing of Captain Anderson's ship. Ain't nobody taking the black shit off MY eyes to make me attractive to dumb jocks.

― Mrs. Cranky (From Crankytown) (kate), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

alright!
ok, i found my place!

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:56 (twenty years ago)

When I first saw the Breakfast Club, I was confused and thought that I missed something in the plot, as I thought she was way less cute.

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:57 (twenty years ago)

I think I'd be one of the other weirdos who wants to sit with Kate because she's the coolest weirdo.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)

Marcello, hey, that was just like me! I lived a ten min walk from school. Well, I didn't join any clubs. Impossible since we didn't have any, but I don't think I would have if they existed.

― nathalie starts to cry each time we meet (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:00 (twenty years ago)

yeah, when they de-gothed her i was like "wtf, they're playing like a final prank on her and saying 'yeah, you look like a pricess now *snort*, go talk to hott boyz'. she looked RUBBISH. xposts

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:00 (twenty years ago)

Go outside you all.

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

Best brat pack movie ever is RED DAWN, despite the fascist undertones.

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

It would have been much better if they'd given Emilio Estevez the Repo Man makeover and turned him into a HOTT PUNX0R and then they could have held hands and skipped off into the sunset to go COMMIT CRIMES!!!! and BLAME SOCIETY!!! together.

― Mrs. Cranky (From Crankytown) (kate), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

quick, make a sequel.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

I would either be sitting with Henry and Charlie being disenfranchised early 20s bastards that moan and bitch, or I'd be outside playing football, or I'd have gone home already.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

i didn't eat lunch, much, as a teenager.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:16 (twenty years ago)

I stopped eating lunch when I was 16, and spent lunchtime in the school darkroom instead.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:18 (twenty years ago)

oh aye, who with?

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:18 (twenty years ago)

Hah. On my own, printing photos.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

Actually, having now read the thread I'd probably join luna under the bleachers and cheer her up a bit.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)

i'ma wait in the darkroom and see who walks in, aiii?

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)

um, there's too many of you sitting alone. not enough tables left. reckon i'd sit next to the hottest chick.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:45 (twenty years ago)

If someone *did* walk into the darkroom - without knocking, at least - I'd be pissed in case they'd just ruined the negs I was loading into the dev tank.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:49 (twenty years ago)

Do you know Stevie well, then?

(xpost)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:49 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, I've just arrived in the lunchroom. As far as I can see there are a few choices:

1. One of the two or three girls sitting with the kind of smartarse nerds who are in the closet, on the newspaper staff, or in plays.

2. With a large group of punk or new-wave girls, adding flourishes to a group caricature of an authority figure/Homecoming Court type, making fun of the Industrial and Noize boys sotto voce. Someone who is not me assumes the Rizzo role and loudly takes the piss. It's just banter.

3. With one or two people who represent some other demographic: neighbour kids, girl in work-study programme having life crisis about thug boyfriend, 'political' kids, media production stoners.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:57 (twenty years ago)

I'd sit with the teachers.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)

You were lucky to have "punk or new-wave girls." At my school at the height of punk the girls were strictly into Abba/ELO/Genesis or, in extremis, into "melodic" punk, i.e. Boomtown Rats/Stranglers.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:04 (twenty years ago)

Lunch? (sneaks off to the record shops to rummage through the cheap bins)

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:15 (twenty years ago)

No record shops in Uddingston. I left that sort of thing for the weekend (no change there then).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:19 (twenty years ago)

I'd be avoiding playing Kiss Chase!

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:23 (twenty years ago)

I can see two sort of opposite possibilities: at the old bloke end of the London table with Mark S, Marcello, Dr C; and with the top international ILX female sex symbols from the TITTWIS threads who I think of as good friends - Luna, Sam, Teeny and so on. Certainly Anthony Easton is likely to be involved too. Then there is the London old-ILX crowd like Tom, Carsmile, Pete, Tim and so on, who I hope I'd hang out with some.

Then there is my insecurity telling me that all these people would be saying "Um no, someone's probably sitting there or something," and I'd go and sit on my own somewhere.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

Mostly I eat in the staff common room, hoping I can enjoy my break in peace without having to sort out a foodfight.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:56 (twenty years ago)

hahaha.

i dunno, i think i'm gonna go with what nick said. my sixth form college had an officially-sanctioned smoking hut, and i think that's where we should hang.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:00 (twenty years ago)

i bet you'll be cheering up luna under the bleachers andrew...
i'd be a serial table hopper.

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

given that i really did spend many school lunch breaks in 1993 arguing about the relative merits of "republic" and "songs of faith and devotion", i expect i'll be spending a fair bit of time with dan, ned, spencer et al. that is, as long as they're happy to join me at the bike sheds/changing rooms with this here dog-eared packet of ten rothmans.

oh, for fuck's sake, has nobody got a lighter? jesus.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

i think i'll be a table hopper, too..

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

"Chicago ILXors would sit at one table and throw over-dressed hot dogs at NY ILXors."

Hurrah! I knew there'd be a food fight!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

but mandee, if we're both table hopping, poor ian might be stuck sitting alone!
simon will take him under his wing. or the little flirt will just move on. the latter, i reckon

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

"And of course I'd want to know what was going on at the Wokingham table."

Who is sitting at the Wokingham table and why?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

wait, i changed my mind - im gonna eat in the band room w/ my saxophone

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

i left the building during lunch as soon as i could figure out how to do so and not get caught.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

I'd rather starve

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

I'm just going to sneak out for a cigarette, if anyone wants to join me.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm away to listen to DLT running down the Top 40! "And straight in at number 20 it's those mischievous little minxes the Nolans with 'Attention To Me,' ooh I wish they would give me some you know and some attention would come in handy as well quack quack oops"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

Never mind The Nolans: where are "Flowers Of Romance", and "Is Vic There?" thsi week and have "It's Going To Happen", "The Sound Of The Crowd" and "Treason (It's Just A Story)" charted?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

(Marcello and I are sitting together, not because we like each other but because we are the only people apparently still stuck in May 1981)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

In the case of the latter, not for another six weeks ("Attention To Me" was March '81).

Tony Blackburn on the Sunday Top 40 show (in the days when the chart was already a week old): "That's Flowers Of Romance by Public Image Ltd. And now here's some music."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Well said Tony!

― When You Wore a Tulip (and I Had a Big Red Nose) (Dada), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

This was the closest I could find to haing The Nolans' "Attention To Me" at number 20....

X-post

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

(xpost)

Unlike 15 minutes later on the same programme: "And here's the highest new entry at number 26 - sensational new sound of Durren Durren!"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

Okay thisthis is closer.

I'm still not sure about this new direction Adam & The Ants are taking 'though, are you?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

I'm just going to sneak out for a cigarette, if anyone wants to join me.

can i cadge a light?

simon will take him under his wing. or the little flirt will just move on. the latter, i reckon

yes. i'd bore him senseless about old OMD b-sides/the time i saw the kitchens of distinction live/etc. eventually he'd sneak away, but i'd carry on, oblivious.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

(xpost)

Indeed, I didn't think the "Children of Tansley School" was a wise choice for a pseudonym either.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

Which reminds me: one morning walking to school, my best pal Alex and I had this enormous debate about what constituted Proper Songs. His bone of contention was that "Swords Of A Thousand Men" was a song and "Stand And Deliver" wasn't as the former had a melody and the latter none.

Maybe I ought to get Alex to come on here - you'd like him...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

Wow! I never knew that the real Ultravox! and that awful new Ultravox-lite with Midge Ure were actually in the charts at the same time ("Slow Motion" and "Vienna" respectively)....

"The John Foxx led version of Ultravox were finally getting a hit. Their first three albums had been disected and the seemingly best tracks been compiled as the album "Three Into One". This had been released as a single, and while it was OK, it was also easy to understand why they didn't have any major hits before the arrival of Midge Ure. This made number 33. Cloth-eared twat!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

"Maybe I ought to get Alex to come on here - you'd like him..."

It certainly sounds as if this would give Geir someone to sit with.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

His bone of contention was that "Swords Of A Thousand Men" was a song and "Stand And Deliver" wasn't as the former had a melody and the latter none.

Admit it, not only did you go to school with Geir Hongro but he's your best mate.

― When You Wore a Tulip (and I Had a Big Red Nose) (Dada), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

No, Alex certainly wasn't Geir, but they did/do have a lot in common.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

quick! they're playing "Death Disco", record it!

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

I still have a small scar just above my hairline, from when we were listening to the new chart announcement and I spontaneously pogoed over-enthusiastically into the lockers in excitement because "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" had charted, and split my head open.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

The expression on Blackburn's face following performance of "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" on TOTP - you never see that repeated.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

Nearly 30 years later I managed to gash my shin on the coffee table behaving in an alarmingly similar manner when they re-showed The Adverts' TOTP appearnce on TOTP2

(x-post!)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

I still have a small scar just above my hairline, from when my sister thought she didn't need my help in "how to swing a golf club", right when I was standing to the right, behind her.

xpost not even on that DVD of "Punk on TOTP" that's soon arriving at my house?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Gary Gilmore's Pub Quiz Team

― When You Wore a Tulip (and I Had a Big Red Nose) (Dada), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

(xpost myself), I guess probably not, as they're all compiled off repeat showings off TOTP2...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Who is sitting at the Wokingham table and why?
For regional reasons: Dr C, Mark Grout and yourself of course, Stewart. Others including Dadaismus and Marcello just come for the rabbit. Doubles as the Scots/German table.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

"not even on that DVD of "Punk on TOTP" that's soon arriving at my house?"

Mark! Mark! Quick, come and sit here - I've saved you a place next to me!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

(ny last post was a massive xpost!)

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

"For regional reasons: Dr C, Mark Grout and yourself of course, Stewart."

I'm from Reading, but I'll grudgingly sit at the Wokingham table if Mark and The Doc are there (although I'm sure The Doc isn't actually from the area, he just went to Uni. in Reading; and I don't think Mark's actually from Wokingham either, are you Mark?)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

The kids are looking forward to the Rezillos' "Top of the Pops" performance.

Um, I did live in Wok for 7 years, but not during school days.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

Let me know the tracklist for that DVD when you get it please Mark!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

Previously, Reading (well, woodley) from 1972 to 1981. And now, I'm in Earley. Originally, South Shields in the 60's. But born in Bath.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

I would be puking in the bathroom with the cheerleaders.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

And now, I'm in Earley.

Lots of comic potential here, call ken c to the table

― When You Wore a Tulip (and I Had a Big Red Nose) (Dada), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

"Previously, Reading (well, woodley) from 1972 to 1981."

My gf's from Woodley and I'm actually working (albeit none too hard, obv.) in Woodley right now!

Were you at Waingels or Bulmershe?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Stewart, cop one email...

Bulmershe.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

I would be the only girl at the ILComics table, with the sometime exception of the ILCErs girlfriends, who are normally in the band/theatre/darkroom.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Mark.

My gf. was at Waingels. Don't suppose you knew John Fowler? He was at Bulmershe but would have been a few years below you. Who were the punks at Bulmershe in your day?

(x-post)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

I would sit with the NOIZEDUDES, the metalheads, the deadheads or the ilbb geeks, yet not really quite belong anywhere. So I'd end up with whoever eats lunch very quickly and heads outside for a smoke.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

I would leave the building with Lauren to go get high.

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

John Fowler is one of those names I would say "ah, rings a bell" but then it's probably the name of the local butcher's in South Shields...

I 'broke' punk at bulmershe, by means of playing "Oh bondage up yours" on the 6th form stereo. Various people went from "What is that crap" to "I bought that now" ...

Eamon Kelly was the main punk dude. Got voted head of 6th form. Never had a 'crap' attitude, so was OK by me.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

i'm off sick.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

i'll sneak in at lunchtime with my jacket off as if I've really been here all day, not lyin in bed.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

"Eamon Kelly was the main punk dude."

Doesn't ring any bells, might I have known him by another name, perhaps?

― Eddie Snide (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Lunch? (sneaks off to the record shops to rummage through the cheap bins)

I used to do this until a local punk did a big grog on my school bag when I was checking out a Throbbing Gristle album

― When You Wore a Tulip (and I Had a Big Red Nose) (Dada), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Possibly, but that's the only one I know him by. xpost

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Mark, you didn't go by another name back when you were a ~~punk~~ popstar?

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

Mark, how about Simon Dent?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

I'll just eat at my desk as I don't think I could handle the humiliation of no one wanting to sit with me. Yes, I just cracked myself up with that!

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

No Simon Dent. I think I'd remember that one.

I don't think there were any actual punks in our 6th form. A couple went 'fashion' for a couple months, but they were more 'poseur' than punk. A couple ELP fans went all out ramones crazy (you know who you are! I certainly do!) for a while.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

Basically, I think we were too 'young/old' as 1977 was when we were in 6th form, so maybe the actual punks didn't 'come out' as it were until univ. When year 6 became year 7, I was horrif to find that the new 6th form were more disco trendies than anything...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

I've decided to hang out with the Dublin Mafia and talk funny.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

As I recall a lot of people went Ramones crazy because they thought this would allow them to mix with the punk crowd without having to get their hair cut.

They soon learned.

(x-post)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

"Basically, I think we were too 'young/old' as 1977 was when we were in 6th form, so maybe the actual punks didn't 'come out' as it were until univ. When year 6 became year 7, I was horrif to find that the new 6th form were more disco trendies than anything..."

I was in the 4th / 5th year in '77. There were a couple of 6th formers who flirted with punk (i.e. they liked Eddie & The Hotrods and Dr. Feelgood and one of them actually owned a copy of Never Mind The Bollocks!) but only me and my mate Cally were doing it properly and getting our heads kicked in at every available opportunity for our troubles.

Strangely enough 'though, by the time I did finally reach 6th form (in 1980, after having messed about and dropped out for a year), rather than being generally despised and vilified for being a punk, I was suddenly regarded as some sort of folk hero because I'd actually seen the Sex Pistols and so on.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Well, that's what I mean by young/old. Too old to be 'beat up' on as the lunkhead faction had gone, but too young to do it in isolation.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

I've decided to hang out with the Dublin Mafia and talk funny.

You know it makes sense.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Since the I Love Baseball folk will mostly discuss their fantasy league silliness, i'll probly go home for lunch.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

does anyone know why the water cups were always those horrible metal things?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

If HS was any indication, I'd be outside smoking and talking shit about you all. Then I'd come in and glare at everybody resentfully until someone invited me over and then I'd re-realize what an ass I am and chill out. Then I'd flit from table to table depending on seating availability, but mostly at tittwis with the occasional bender over at Ask a Drunk.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Dr. Morbius, you hurt my heart. Plus, maybe the lunchroom would be a dark Lower East Side bar.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Tanqueray and tonic for lunch!

Within spitball range of the Jedi geeks table, please.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

"Milhouse, lower those eyebrows!"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Obviously nobody from I Love Film sits at the same table.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

all these conversations w/o me.

― Gilbert O'sullivan, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

You were lucky to have "punk or new-wave girls." At my school at the height of punk the girls were strictly into Abba/ELO/Genesis or, in extremis, into "melodic" punk, i.e. Boomtown Rats/Stranglers.

ooh, can i hang out with the abba/elo/genesis girls?

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

I've decided to hang out with the Dublin Mafia and talk funny

They're over there. Us book nerds are writing a letter of protest to the principal because the library doesn't open at lunchtime because the librarian wants to take her lunchbreak at the same time as the teachers, which we don't think is fair.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Teeny, Luna, Allyzay, and I occupy the topless table. /dreamer

― TITz ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

given that we all spend so much time hanging about an internet site, i'm kinda surprised/impressed that none of us are in the computer room, maybe copying some old PC games on 5.25" disks.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

you old folks are getting really dorky. i'm def not sitting at your table.

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Come out under the bleachers with me and Andrew, dahlin - I have a couple joints in my pocket.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

i don't do DRUGS!!!
but i do like shirtless men.. so, maybe...

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Okay, but if the bleachers are rockin...

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

bio lab is right before my lunch period and my hands smell like formaldehyde. no one would have me *sigh*. i'll be over here with my nerdy hated-by-everyone-but-me friend trading monty python quotes. maybe he'll give me his roll.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

it ws usually a quick bag of social crisps (ile, unsatisfying) then off to bust some cynical tackles playing footie in the playground (vs ilm's star strikers and fannydangling wingers) the crafty fag/depressing relective moment wd prob be blogverse innit

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

simon will take him under his wing. or the little flirt will just move on. the latter, i reckon

yes. i'd bore him senseless about old OMD b-sides/the time i saw the kitchens of distinction live/etc. eventually he'd sneak away, but i'd carry on, oblivious.

Yeah, I suppose that might happen. And then I'd drop by the May 1981 table for a bit, and then I'd find different ways to sneak secret admirer notes to Trayce consisting solely of selected Kristin Hersh lyrics and excerpts from Cocteau Twins interviews in music mags.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

"ooh, can i hang out with the abba/elo/genesis girls?"

As long as you're prepared for the fact that they're most likely to be Steps / Scissor Sisters / Coldplay middle-aged women now, I'm sure enquiries can be made....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Without her knowing it was me, of course. xpost to myself

I'd also go by Ned's table and scream a random Associates lyric at him everyday.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

I'd probably sit outside in a shady nook, reading the book that was assigned to us for English class while eating my tuna and crackers. People would be around me, but I would be absorbed in what I was reading. My friends are assigned to the other lunch period, and besides, I didn't really like the headache-inducing racket that was inside our cafeteria.

― The Edge Of America (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

-are +were

― The Edge Of America (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Hey who wants to go hotbox MindInRewind's car???

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

This thread is kinda creepy. It's like some pornographic role-playing game, but without orgasms.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

This thread is kinda creepy. It's like some pornographic role-playing game, but without orgasms.

You sound suspiciously like an authority on porn RPGs (which I had no idea existed, BTW).

― The Edge Of America (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

yeah its kinda starting to creep me out, too

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

As long as you're prepared for the fact that they're most likely to be Steps / Scissor Sisters / Coldplay middle-aged women now, I'm sure enquiries can be made....

i like the scissor sisters! and coldplay have a couple of nice songs.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

i don't think it's creepy. half the people just want to go off by themselves and read, or smoke.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Please tell me what kind of rpg involves orgasms.

xpost

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

All of them, if played correctly.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

You need a very indulgent gamesmaster.

― Masked Gazza, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

For 'indulgent' read 'insistent'.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

who wants to trade stickers with me?

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

I do, but all I got are the Scooby-Doo ones.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

I don't suppose there's a Weymouth / Portland / Dorset table here?

I'm relocating permanently at the end of next week (finally escaping Reading's gravitational pull after 42 years!) so I'm going to need some new playmates.... I just hope they're not all mean and don't pick on the newbie just 'cos I've got this weird Cockney / Berkshire accent and some highly questionable personal habits!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

WHALE ON THE NEW KID!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

I would be sitting outside with the Sabbathheads and smoking butts. A-La Ken from Freaks and Geeks.

Or I would be sitting with Bryan and we'd be farting. and talking about shitting our pants.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

[mod: nsfw img removed]

― http://www.teencreampie.com, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

i guess under the bleachers with the rest of you heshers is where i'll be.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

I have a feeling I'd be at a table with Jordan and k/l.
Yesterday I was introduced to a guy who got a degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and I said "Wow, I know a guy who went there and studied music and took some classes with a very famous bass player! Well, I don't really know him, I never met him, but I do sit at the same table in the imaginary lunchroom."

The latter part of course was not spoken aloud, but only added retroactively when I was reviewing the days events.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

I'd be the freaky foreigner sitting in the corner.

Is dit plaatsje vrij? Mag ik er bij komen zitten? :)

I'd join the freaky foreigners. When Beth Parker and Alison were there, I'd wave them over to our table. I'd say hi to Scott from across the room, unless I was feeling hormonal or shy, and then I'd get pouty if he didn't sit with me. If anyone were playing Scrabble during lunch, I might try to join them. If I felt particularly bold, I'd flit from table to table. I'd want to join the sheepfuxors and Brits sometimes.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Yup, I’d be sitting with Chris V for sure. I’ve probably got a couple of pants shitting stories for him that he hasn’t heard yet. We’ll be the ones having fun.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Jordan, if I bring my copy of Out To Lunch to school tomorrow, can you get Richard D to sign it for me? How about Astral Weeks?

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

I don't sit at any of your tables, I go outside and play hackysack with, I don't know, whoever's kicking sack that particular day.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Dude, come smoke with me under the bleachers!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

The only time I ever actually smoked weed on the school grounds, it was before the first bell rang, and, halfway through my first class that day, I burped a big puff of weedsmoke in this girl Ashley's face.

So, um, here I come underbleacher smoke zone!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

I'd either sit with the London p33ps or at a catch-all nerd loner table with gear and latebloomer, haw

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

that would be me. but first i think luna has something to share with us.

xpost hahahaha

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

This thread has reminded me how much I miss those lunch time hack sessions.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

we tried hacking during lunch but a faculty member saw that some students were having fun while doing something that wasn't curriculum-related and promptly put a stop to it.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Did I ever tell the story about the hairy-chested pottery teacher who never got up out of her rolly chair who confiscated my friend Josh's sack and, when he asked for it back a week later, she pulled it out of her CLEAVAGE?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

i hope he threw it away. because, you know, the hairs that got stuck to it would throw off its aerodynamics.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

after that y'all should've tried to get various objects confiscated and see which found a home in her bosom. sandwiches, pocketknives, a table saw, etc.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Once the same Josh asked her for change for a dollar for the payphone and she - I shit thee not - reached into her shirt, paused, and asked him "FOUR QUARTERS?".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Despite all this disgustingness, she was one of my favorite teachers ever.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

This thread has reminded me how much I miss those lunch time hack sessions.

Yes. I supposed I'd look stupid doing this now.

― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

suppose

― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Oops, did we ever sit at the same table at lunch? I think maybe briefly freshman year?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

mayyybe. I remember first semester that year totally sucked, cause I didn't have any real friends who had the same lunch period and was forced to sit with Chris Mart/n and Brian B3rkery whom I knew only from Humphrey band. Almost every lunch was one big awkward pause.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

lunch-time hacking was great, if unutterably sad. You got lunch passes to skip the queues and used that time to plot how to distract the CSYS student who had admin passwords. While he was away, you used to his sign-on to get up to all sorts of goodies. Then you invariably were yanked out of your post-lunch class and carpeted. again.

thank god for discovering girls.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

wait a sec. oops and jaymc went to highschool together?

wow, i'd be mortified if someone from greeley central high showed up on ILX.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

yes we did. it was quite coincidental that both of us showed up here, and around the same time, i believe. i hadn't actually seen or talked to him since graduation.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

you kept that quiet

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

kept what quiet?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

that we went to high school together? this has been discussed on like a dozen threads.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

I think RJG was referring to the way you guys hushed up the scandal surrounding your love child that you put up for adoption.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

this is the thread where I say 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 15, 17, 20, 27, 28, 30 and 34, I suppose

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fantascienza.com/cinema/invasione-degli-ultracorpi/media/Brucia.JPG

Nooo!

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

rjg, i don't even think i looked at tittwis until sometime in the twenties.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

i mean, i'm not saying i discuss this amazing factoid all the time, but i haven't "kept it quiet."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

you are friends with oops

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

i wouldn't say that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

poor oops

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

haha well i like oops. i'm just saying we weren't really friends in high school, we had classes together but didn't really associate with the same crowd.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Well, I'd be sitting with Dan Perry and Subgenius, for starters...Hastings High School ILX reunion!

Unlike our actual reunion, participants are encouraged to keep their pants ON. Which means Jeff can't come.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

i'll hop in my le baron and drive with roxy to the hardee's out by Route 14.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 18 August 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

HAREDDESS = CARALS JR

― huell howser (chaki), Thursday, 18 August 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

skree

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

i used to go to high school stoned all the time...my friend and i would do bong hits in my volkswagon quantum before class. i would be under the bleachers.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

I didn't have any real friends who had the same lunch period and was forced to sit with Chris Mart/n

hahahahaha, Coldplay guy

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

John, you know that giboyeux is also from Hastings?????? WAY past our time, but still!

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

I'd be posed in silohuette against a curtained window with a bowler hat and abalone-handled cane in a fashion I thought was poetic and tragic but was, in actuality, only k-lame.

(PS: I did this f'real).

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

Evidently I'll be sitting by myself, lighting cartons of milk on fire and lobbing them at other tables.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

Alex, you will almost certainly be sitting with the Hastings Massif.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

If it weren't for the gay school janitors, I'd venture to suggest that luna gets wild with other peers in the custodial closet.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

"Alex, you will almost certainly be sitting with the Hastings Massif."

That's some sort of dog, right?

I'll be nearby, sitting with the Bull Massif.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 August 2005 07:40 (twenty years ago)

Where do the lurkers, n00bs, and part-time posters sit?

― naus (Robert T), Friday, 19 August 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

they can darn well stand

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Friday, 19 August 2005 08:26 (twenty years ago)

Mariss3 has joined every table, friendly for five, five mins after that has stood up, overturned table, and joined the next one etc..

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 August 2005 08:28 (twenty years ago)

I'd be the freaky foreigner sitting in the corner.
Is dit plaatsje vrij? Mag ik er bij komen zitten? :)

Of course! One of the great things of being a freaky foreigner: you can mock the others and they won't understand you. *bwahaha*. ;-)

― nathalie starts to cry each time we meet (stevie nixed), Friday, 19 August 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

I would be desperately trying to start ze french-speaking table, while trading Cure boots with Ned and Dan on the side.

― Baaderonixx on a long black leash (Fabfunk), Friday, 19 August 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

You could call yourselves Les Trois Garcons Imaginaires.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 August 2005 09:00 (twenty years ago)

eleven years pass...

man there were only two subtle gay jokes by a straight man in the lunchroom

but that was one too many

― i n f i n i t y (∞), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 21:12 (nine years ago)

i couldn't afford to eat in the cafeteria in high school

― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 21:13 (nine years ago)

I totally missed this thread the first time around!

IIRC it was because I was literally sitting at a table, almost every day, with maura and hstencil :)

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 07:40 (nine years ago)

I just saw this, was thinking "Uh Oh", but it actually worked!

Probably wouldn't now...

― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 08:05 (nine years ago)

I always ate in the Library

― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 13:00 (nine years ago)

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