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We didn’t have yearbook quotes, but I found out when we got our senior yearbook the December after graduation (yeah, our school was just Like That), that an off-handed comment I’d made my freshman year to a kid I probably hadn’t spoken to more than five times the entire four years motivated him to make a D-I (like,

My city has done this for years, of all the metro high school yearbooks going back to the 1920's. It is totally fun to see the older famous people who attended my high school’s photos. We didn’t do senior quotes though. I also think classmates.com has a wide variety of cataloged yearbooks from all over America.

I went to an all boys high school. So they didn’t allow yearbook quotes because it was always just a bunch of dick jokes

lol, I put “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey” ... in Latin. But I don’t remember enough Latin to reconstruct the actual quote.

I don’t buy that explanation.

Class of ‘98. I still remember mine because I’m still a huge D&D nerd.

okay, wait, i’m sorry - you think that it’s okay to sexually harass someone but lying about it isn’t?

both are repugnant. and he definitely should have been kicked off.

I didn’t give a quote, but relooked at my ex’s who gave me years of gaslighting trauma and internalized patriarchal ideals, and it was a double quote with his twin.

“Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.”

Everyone thinks Moisturizer Gloves is the serial killer, but it’s obviously Public Bathroom Straightener. 

I don’t know if it’s because I’m old (ollllllld) or because I went to a super fucking podunk high school, but we didn’t have senior quotes?I don’t think?

If her books as compelling as her apologies, I doubt they would make the list at DeVry.

Hey, Brooke Nelson, I’ve got an idea for your dissertation and it’s a doozy!

“Nelson, who is now a graduate student in linguistics studying online harassment”

I want to apologize to the person who was quoted

I don’t watch the show but putting his arm around a woman while she’s sleeping seems like a pretty extreme intrusion to me, especially in an environment where people are so vulnerable, and I would absolutely consider it wise to remove him.

They are playing a game for a life changing amount of money. The players are naturally going to be hesitant about “causing a scene”. It should be on the producers to take that burden on themselves to enforce rules and kick someone off if need be without asking a contestant what their thoughts are. Placing that

STOP IT LEAVE POLITICS OUT OF WOMEN ISSUES YOU ARE DESTROYING SPANFELLERS VISION OF PROFITABILITY AND GOOD JOURNALISM TALKING ABOUT WOMENS ISSUES WITHOUT POLTICS STOP IT HOW CAN WE ATTRACT INVESTMENT OF OTHER PRIVATE EQUITY INVESTORS WISHING TO ALSO BUY AND FLIP JEZEBEL IF YOU KEEP TALKING POLITICS.

Yep, Democrats are also willing to sacrifice democratic norms to force their views into practice.  They were warned about the dangers of this type of hardball.  Sadly they helped open a Pandora's Box us citizens are paying for.

I feel like his combover is seeking asylum. Too bad he has a zero-tolerance policy. Farewell, little combover. You would have been a valuable addition to Team Wattle, but it’s time to go.