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wickedfleaI keep wavering between "Fuck that, I ain't striking" and "Well, shit--maybe it would be easiest just to do it." It's supposedly only for a week (though I've heard talk that they're planning on striking for the week before spring break, coming back to work for those two weeks (yes, a two-week spring break, can you believe that shit?) and then going back out if necessary).
If I do strike, though, I don't plan on doing any actual picketing. Well, maybe--I might go for a couple of hours just so I can wave a sign emblazoned with my favorite slogan: SHAFT THE OPPOSITION. This phrase dates back to my junior year in high school, when my homies and I would always do weird shit during the pep rallies. (We actually used to take time out of the day to have pep rallies. That seems so bizarre to me now. Come to think of it, it seemed pretty bizarre at the time.) Anyway, in our sophomore year, my friends and I would spray-paint bedsheets with weird slogans, like "Eddie 'The Rockin' Jailbird' Sanchez RULES," and wave them in the stands or hang them from the gym rafters. (Eddie, as I may have mentioned, was the fictional classmate we made up to torment school administrators.) By our junior year, however, we moved on from strictly focusing on Eddie to just being weird. For instance, one of our flags read simply "NOT." (We got this from the band Anthrax, who used to put the word "NOT" on all their shirts and stuff--way before Wayne's World.) Anyway, another one of our flags read "SHAFT THE OPPOSITION." I was really proud of that one (I thought of it all by myself), but somehow it never caught on with the masses. Stupid idiot moron jerks.
But our most remembered pep-rally behavior was our incessant headbanging. Whenever the band launched into a fight song or the alma mater, we would start our synchronized headbanging routine. And it wasn't a simple head-bobbing thing--it was serious headbanging worthy of a Slayer concert. I've often wondered how much brain damage we inflicted on ourselves in those days.
So yeah--people didn't really know what to make of me and my crew back in the late '80s at Starkville High. Imagine that.
If I do strike, though, I don't plan on doing any actual picketing. Well, maybe--I might go for a couple of hours just so I can wave a sign emblazoned with my favorite slogan: SHAFT THE OPPOSITION. This phrase dates back to my junior year in high school, when my homies and I would always do weird shit during the pep rallies. (We actually used to take time out of the day to have pep rallies. That seems so bizarre to me now. Come to think of it, it seemed pretty bizarre at the time.) Anyway, in our sophomore year, my friends and I would spray-paint bedsheets with weird slogans, like "Eddie 'The Rockin' Jailbird' Sanchez RULES," and wave them in the stands or hang them from the gym rafters. (Eddie, as I may have mentioned, was the fictional classmate we made up to torment school administrators.) By our junior year, however, we moved on from strictly focusing on Eddie to just being weird. For instance, one of our flags read simply "NOT." (We got this from the band Anthrax, who used to put the word "NOT" on all their shirts and stuff--way before Wayne's World.) Anyway, another one of our flags read "SHAFT THE OPPOSITION." I was really proud of that one (I thought of it all by myself), but somehow it never caught on with the masses. Stupid idiot moron jerks.
But our most remembered pep-rally behavior was our incessant headbanging. Whenever the band launched into a fight song or the alma mater, we would start our synchronized headbanging routine. And it wasn't a simple head-bobbing thing--it was serious headbanging worthy of a Slayer concert. I've often wondered how much brain damage we inflicted on ourselves in those days.
So yeah--people didn't really know what to make of me and my crew back in the late '80s at Starkville High. Imagine that.
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pity this poor monster, man(un)kind
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Date: 2003-02-21 09:37 am (UTC)Did you know that ex-Anthrax guitarist Danny Spitz is now a born-again Christian and world-class clockmaker? It's true.
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Date: 2003-02-21 09:39 am (UTC)