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Any of you go to reunions? [message #94811] Thu, 17 January 2008 05:36 Go to next message
dc[3] is currently offline  dc[3]
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I ask because the high school I once went to has an alumni assoc. and
they are asking me to register and get in contact, come to reunions, that
sort of thing...

I went to their webpage and it seemed kind of sad. A couple of cool
guys are dead and all the hot girls are, well, ummmmm different.

Oh, and all the wonderful teachers I knew are dead...

So, it seems to me that these sorts of things are a good way to feel
silly, guilty, mildly retarded, and depressed, all in the same day...

I'm thinking of passing...

Ever been to one?

DC
Re: Any of you go to reunions? [message #94815 is a reply to message #94811] Thu, 17 January 2008 08:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Deej is currently offline  Deej
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"DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote:
>
>I ask because the high school I once went to has an alumni assoc. and
>they are asking me to register and get in contact, come to reunions, that
>sort of thing...
>
>I went to their webpage and it seemed kind of sad. A couple of cool
>guys are dead and all the hot girls are, well, ummmmm different.
>
>Oh, and all the wonderful teachers I knew are dead...
>
>So, it seems to me that these sorts of things are a good way to feel
>silly, guilty, mildly retarded, and depressed, all in the same day...
>
>I'm thinking of passing...
>
>Ever been to one?
>
>DC

I went to my 20th and it was more depressing than fun. The dweebs were still
dweebs...just middle aged dweebs. The hotties were starting to look like
Joan Rivers and lots of the cool dudes who I hung with were either alcholics,
drug addicts, both or dead.

I've been getting pinged pretty regularly to attend my 40th down in Texas.
I've seen enough Vincent Price movies.

;o)
Re: Any of you go to reunions? [message #94816 is a reply to message #94815] Thu, 17 January 2008 09:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
dc[3] is currently offline  dc[3]
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That's how I am feeling about it. There was a pretty high
cringe factor looking at the reunion webpage. Not just how
old we all are, but that the cool ones, the ones I would love
to see, didn't go. And some of the ones that did go are
the bozos and they going to be jerks and in your face all night...

I'll probably pass.

DC

"Deej" <noway@jose.com> wrote:

>I went to my 20th and it was more depressing than fun. The dweebs were still
>dweebs...just middle aged dweebs. The hotties were starting to look like
>Joan Rivers and lots of the cool dudes who I hung with were either alcholics,
>drug addicts, both or dead.
>
>I've been getting pinged pretty regularly to attend my 40th down in Texas.
>I've seen enough Vincent Price movies.
>
>;o)
>
Re: Any of you go to reunions? [message #94821 is a reply to message #94815] Thu, 17 January 2008 10:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
TCB is currently offline  TCB
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Once Kirsten Andersen and Stacy Naglestad were married I decided there really
wasn't a reason for me to go back ;-)

I also avoid my Yale reunions. I went to my ten year and people were BITTER.
It was 2002, right after the bubble burst and they all realized they weren't
going to retire at 35 like they thought. So my decision to use my twenties
kicking around the world, getting high and getting laid suddenly looked like
a much better idea ;-)

TCB

"Deej" <noway@jose.com> wrote:
>
>"DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote:
>>
>>I ask because the high school I once went to has an alumni assoc. and
>>they are asking me to register and get in contact, come to reunions, that
>>sort of thing...
>>
>>I went to their webpage and it seemed kind of sad. A couple of cool
>>guys are dead and all the hot girls are, well, ummmmm different.
>>
>>Oh, and all the wonderful teachers I knew are dead...
>>
>>So, it seems to me that these sorts of things are a good way to feel
>>silly, guilty, mildly retarded, and depressed, all in the same day...
>>
>>I'm thinking of passing...
>>
>>Ever been to one?
>>
>>DC
>
>I went to my 20th and it was more depressing than fun. The dweebs were still
>dweebs...just middle aged dweebs. The hotties were starting to look like
>Joan Rivers and lots of the cool dudes who I hung with were either alcholics,
>drug addicts, both or dead.
>
>I've been getting pinged pretty regularly to attend my 40th down in Texas.
>I've seen enough Vincent Price movies.
>
>;o)
>
Re: Any of you go to reunions? [message #94823 is a reply to message #94821] Thu, 17 January 2008 11:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
D-unit is currently offline  D-unit   UNITED STATES
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"TCB" <nobody@ishere.com> wrote in message news:478f90e6$1@linux...
>
> Once Kirsten Andersen and Stacy Naglestad were married I decided there really
> wasn't a reason for me to go back ;-)
>
> I also avoid my Yale reunions. I went to my ten year and people were BITTER.
> It was 2002, right after the bubble burst and they all realized they weren't
> going to retire at 35 like they thought. So my decision to use my twenties
> kicking around the world, getting high and getting laid suddenly looked like
> a much better idea ;-)
>
> TCB
>

Agreed.


Im 42 and have decided that retirement, is not all its cracked up
to be. After pondering it for a couple years, I think Id rather
stay busy and follow my instincts. I've heard people retire
and die in a couple years. You have to stay busy and you
have to feel like you're doing something worth while.

Sitting on a beach sipping adult beverages for retirement
at any age is BS. In one of the last "Andy Griffith Show"
installments, Howard Sprague found that out the hard way.

db~I've yet to go to any of my reunions. Im still friends with
the people that I wanted to stay friends with from that time.
I could care less about any of the others.
Re: Any of you go to reunions? [message #94835 is a reply to message #94811] Thu, 17 January 2008 15:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Gantt Kushner is currently offline  Gantt Kushner   
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I missed my 20th but they apparently had so much fun that they decided to
have a 25th. It happened to fall on the day of Danny Gatton's funeral.
It might have been pretty terrible anyway I guess. All the people who were
gung ho back in the old days (1966 - 1969) were still gung ho. All us outsiders
were still outsiders. Fun.

Not.

Gantt

"DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote:
>
>I ask because the high school I once went to has an alumni assoc. and
>they are asking me to register and get in contact, come to reunions, that
>sort of thing...
>
>I went to their webpage and it seemed kind of sad. A couple of cool
>guys are dead and all the hot girls are, well, ummmmm different.
>
>Oh, and all the wonderful teachers I knew are dead...
>
>So, it seems to me that these sorts of things are a good way to feel
>silly, guilty, mildly retarded, and depressed, all in the same day...
>
>I'm thinking of passing...
>
>Ever been to one?
>
>DC


Gantt Kushner
Gizmo Recording Company
Silver Spring, MD
www.gizmorecording.com
Re: Any of you go to reunions? [message #94837 is a reply to message #94815] Thu, 17 January 2008 16:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
John [1] is currently offline  John [1]
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My hotties were still hot and a guy came up and apologized for beating me
up 20 years earlier. I had no idea who he was but apparently he carried
the burden with him for a long time. WOW

John

Two monks were once traveling together down a muddy road.
A heavy rain was falling. Coming around the bend,
they met a lovely girl in a silk kimono and sash,
unable to cross the intersection.

"Come on, girl," said the first monk. Lifting her
in his arms, he carried her over the mud.

The second monk did not speak again until that night
when they reached a lodging temple. Then he no longer
could restrain himself. "We monks don't go near females,"
he said. "It is dangerous. Why did you do that?"

"I left the girl there," the first monk said.
"Are you still carrying her?"
Re: Any of you go to reunions? [message #94841 is a reply to message #94811] Thu, 17 January 2008 19:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
chuck duffy is currently offline  chuck duffy
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Go. I went to my 20th high school reunion. It was bizzare, surreal and it
took me out of my element, whatever the hell my element is.

Chuck


"DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote:
>
>I ask because the high school I once went to has an alumni assoc. and
>they are asking me to register and get in contact, come to reunions, that
>sort of thing...
>
>I went to their webpage and it seemed kind of sad. A couple of cool
>guys are dead and all the hot girls are, well, ummmmm different.
>
>Oh, and all the wonderful teachers I knew are dead...
>
>So, it seems to me that these sorts of things are a good way to feel
>silly, guilty, mildly retarded, and depressed, all in the same day...
>
>I'm thinking of passing...
>
>Ever been to one?
>
>DC
Re: Any of you go to reunions? [message #94843 is a reply to message #94811] Thu, 17 January 2008 19:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Aaron Allen is currently offline  Aaron Allen   UNITED STATES
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"DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote in message news:478f4bb7$1@linux...
>
> I ask because the high school I once went to has an alumni assoc. and
> they are asking me to register and get in contact, come to reunions, that
> sort of thing...
>
> I went to their webpage and it seemed kind of sad. A couple of cool
> guys are dead and all the hot girls are, well, ummmmm different.
>
> Oh, and all the wonderful teachers I knew are dead...
>
> So, it seems to me that these sorts of things are a good way to feel
> silly, guilty, mildly retarded, and depressed, all in the same day...
>
> I'm thinking of passing...
>
> Ever been to one?
>
> DC
Re: Any of you go to reunions? [message #94844 is a reply to message #94811] Thu, 17 January 2008 19:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Aaron Allen is currently offline  Aaron Allen   UNITED STATES
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My 20 year was great, and I'm looking forward to seeing the next one at 25.
Yes, ppl have died and the chicks have gotten, er... older.. but the coolest
things about it were really the reconnects and most importantly to see how
all your old friends and buddies have grown as people. Stuff that was 'huge'
as a kid/teenager has long since been overshadowed by life and for the most
part we were equals w/o the "i have" status getting in the way. YMMV.

AA


"DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote in message news:478f4bb7$1@linux...
>
> I ask because the high school I once went to has an alumni assoc. and
> they are asking me to register and get in contact, come to reunions, that
> sort of thing...
>
> I went to their webpage and it seemed kind of sad. A couple of cool
> guys are dead and all the hot girls are, well, ummmmm different.
>
> Oh, and all the wonderful teachers I knew are dead...
>
> So, it seems to me that these sorts of things are a good way to feel
> silly, guilty, mildly retarded, and depressed, all in the same day...
>
> I'm thinking of passing...
>
> Ever been to one?
>
> DC
Re: Any of you go to reunions? [message #94849 is a reply to message #94811] Fri, 18 January 2008 02:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
rick is currently offline  rick   UNITED STATES
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haven't made one yet though last year was the first time in 39 years
they got my address right. i think i'll pass on the 40th too.



On 17 Jan 2008 23:36:07 +1000, "DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote:

>
>I ask because the high school I once went to has an alumni assoc. and
>they are asking me to register and get in contact, come to reunions, that
>sort of thing...
>
>I went to their webpage and it seemed kind of sad. A couple of cool
>guys are dead and all the hot girls are, well, ummmmm different.
>
>Oh, and all the wonderful teachers I knew are dead...
>
>So, it seems to me that these sorts of things are a good way to feel
>silly, guilty, mildly retarded, and depressed, all in the same day...
>
>I'm thinking of passing...
>
>Ever been to one?
>
>DC
Re: Any of you go to reunions? [message #94850 is a reply to message #94811] Fri, 18 January 2008 02:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Sarah is currently offline  Sarah   UNITED STATES
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I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed my 20 year, but that was partly because
my rock band from those days also had a reunion and played for the reunion
dance. :) But it was also just fun seeing who changed, who didn't, what
they were doing for a living, etc. And it was pleasantly strange to find
myself to interested in everyone, because in high school I was pretty much a
misanthropic recluse outside of our band gigs.

The nightly thunderstorms were fun, too. (June in eastern Montana).

S

"DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote in message news:478f4bb7$1@linux...
>
> I ask because the high school I once went to has an alumni assoc. and
> they are asking me to register and get in contact, come to reunions, that
> sort of thing...
>
> I went to their webpage and it seemed kind of sad. A couple of cool
> guys are dead and all the hot girls are, well, ummmmm different.
>
> Oh, and all the wonderful teachers I knew are dead...
>
> So, it seems to me that these sorts of things are a good way to feel
> silly, guilty, mildly retarded, and depressed, all in the same day...
>
> I'm thinking of passing...
>
> Ever been to one?
>
> DC
Re: Any of you go to reunions? [message #94855 is a reply to message #94815] Fri, 18 January 2008 07:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Rod Lincoln is currently offline  Rod Lincoln
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I went to my 15 and it was pretty good. Got to reconnect with a great old
friend and see a bunch of other old friends. Havn't done one since. My 30
is coming up this summer, I'm thinking I may go.
Rod
"Deej" <noway@jose.com> wrote:
>
>"DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote:
>>
>>I ask because the high school I once went to has an alumni assoc. and
>>they are asking me to register and get in contact, come to reunions, that
>>sort of thing...
>>
>>I went to their webpage and it seemed kind of sad. A couple of cool
>>guys are dead and all the hot girls are, well, ummmmm different.
>>
>>Oh, and all the wonderful teachers I knew are dead...
>>
>>So, it seems to me that these sorts of things are a good way to feel
>>silly, guilty, mildly retarded, and depressed, all in the same day...
>>
>>I'm thinking of passing...
>>
>>Ever been to one?
>>
>>DC
>
>I went to my 20th and it was more depressing than fun. The dweebs were still
>dweebs...just middle aged dweebs. The hotties were starting to look like
>Joan Rivers and lots of the cool dudes who I hung with were either alcholics,
>drug addicts, both or dead.
>
>I've been getting pinged pretty regularly to attend my 40th down in Texas.
>I've seen enough Vincent Price movies.
>
>;o)
>
Re: Any of you go to reunions? [message #94862 is a reply to message #94849] Fri, 18 January 2008 09:39 Go to previous message
dc[3] is currently offline  dc[3]
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I am glad some of you had good experiences, but I still think I will pass.

Sounds too much like a Zombie movie... ;-) though I liked that band
thing you did Sarah.


DC
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