STEWART COPELAND

by **Grant** on 06 Jul 2007 15:54

[quote="Krokodyle"]

Here's a pic of me from late 1983, with the shirt I got at Oakland in September '83. [/quote]

that couch..... so... familiar..... twilight zoney kinda way....

by **GinaSuperCat** on 06 Jul 2007 15:56

haha Conroy, I already told you that you have to name of a rock star <grin> so as your attorney I advise you to get cracking on the weekends!! My imaginary all-girl 3pc garage-punk band will be named Gina and the Super Cats!!

High school was better than junior high, at least, but it was still so filled with immature cruelty even from people who ended up good eggs, you are in situations where you have to deal with so many things that you just aren't really ready to deal with, at least how it played out for me...but given that...I second plate of shit w/side of whipped crap...

Junior high left scars...I'd have to give it a good think to come up with a suitable metaphor for that...but I do have a hilarious pic from 7th grade that I'll post if I can get it to scan. Its a freaking polaroid, too <grin>

by **Hannaha** on 06 Jul 2007 16:42

[quote="conroy"][quote="Hannaha"]Mmmmm, whipped crap.[/quote]

That would be a great name for a band![/quote]

How about Conroy and the Crap Whores?

by **Hannaha** on 06 Jul 2007 16:43

I'm a bit out of touch with US schooling - how old is Junior High?
High School here is 11 or 12 up to 16.

by **jeffdaweasel** on 06 Jul 2007 17:13

[quote="Hannaha"]I'm a bit out of touch with US schooling - how old is Junior High?
High School here is 11 or 12 up to 16.[/quote]

Typical US school system...

Elementary School: grades 1-5, roughly ages 6-10.
Junior High (aka intermediate school): grades 6-8, roughly ages 11-13.
High School: grades 9-12, roughly ages 14-17.

by **DirtyMartini** on 06 Jul 2007 17:21

^ That's about the gist. Depends on where you are though. (Some high schools are grades 10-12, etc.) But that approximates well enough.

When I moved as a teen, I went from a high school that was 9-12 (I was a 9th-grader) to one that was 10-12 (I was a 10th-grader). Which essentially made me a freshman twice. THAT was fun.

But overall, high school wasn't too bad for me. It was an emotional roller coaster, of course, but for a nerd, I was one of the slightly cooler nerds, and I had my own circle of cooler nerd friends. So I survived.

by **jeffdaweasel** on 06 Jul 2007 17:27

I had a mostly painless high school experience. Sure, I hated it a lot. But I think because I was a musician in a band that played all the backyard parties, I was pretty well liked by a lot of different cliques -- the nerds, the jocks, the stoners, the brainiacs, the proto-goths, the preppies and so on. Music, in essence, was my saving grace through those years.

That having been said, I also got in a bunch of fights, had my heart broken several times by several girls, and was so bored in class much of the time, I thought I would die.

But all in all, not that bad. I survived it.

by **GinaSuperCat** on 06 Jul 2007 17:32

It's just split out here. I was in jr. high 12 + 13 years old, high school 14-17 years old but I was one of those cusp-kids who started the school year at the younger age early since my birthday is end of September.

by **policerule** on 06 Jul 2007 17:42

it's actually kind of funny... yeah, it's hell and whipped crap and all that, but sometimes i'm sure everyone wishes they had that part of their lives back.

i really liked being 11 - 13 yrs. old. - those were my good years. old enough to do more mature stuff, but still young enough to not have that much responsibility - and the music was AWESOME! music turned to crap around '84 or '85.... wonder why?

by **Mrs. Gradenko** on 06 Jul 2007 18:05

[quote="Hannaha"]I'm a bit out of touch with US schooling - how old is Junior High?
High School here is 11 or 12 up to 16.[/quote]
You went to school for 16 years? No wonder you started hating it.

Pre- School (optional) 1 year
Elementary 1st- 5th
Middle/ Junior High- 6th- 8th
High- 9th- 12th

*Year of Procrastination*

College- 4 years.

by **GinaSuperCat** on 06 Jul 2007 19:56

PS: No, no it has to be Conroy and the Whipped Crap Whores! hahahaha

by **Hannaha** on 06 Jul 2007 20:04

Yup. That's it right there. There's your band Conroy...

Gina on drums, me on cello and... any other volunteers?!

by **GinaSuperCat** on 06 Jul 2007 20:06

I heard Dive plays a bit o bass! <grin>

by **DirtyMartini** on 06 Jul 2007 20:08

da weasel gets da kazoo.

Edit: I changed my mind. Can I get the percussion rack? It's so shiny. (I'm even willing to let someone else man The Gong.)

by **Hannaha** on 06 Jul 2007 20:11

Can I get an OOOOOOHH YEEEAH!

STEWART COPELAND

My sophomore year high school picture

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