Fauxtography is now the national pastime.

Some girls’ heads ended up on boys’ bodies, and vice versa.

Wow, that is clever. No one will ever notice!

/s

Can one photoshop nose jobs, like an ardvark type?

Officials from Lifetouch National School Studios Inc., the Minnesota-based photography company, said someone at the company made the alterations in an attempt to comply with the school’s photo guidelines.

MCKINNEY SCHOOL PHOTO GUIDELINES:

1. All students must have their heads in their yearbook photos placed on someone else's body.

2. Extra credit if the body is someone of the opposite gender.

3. Extra long necks are encouraged.

4. No fat chicks.

5. Nudity is OK, as long as chest is blurred out.

Minnesota ? Hmm...

can i get my face put on arnold schwartzenner's body circa 1980?

Imagine you have a boring job...processing photos of hundreds, thousands of high school kids. What might you do to make the time pass more quickly at work? Heh.

If you pay extra can you get Arnold Schwarzenegger's body? If you don't pay do you get Peewee Herman?

Eventually year books will only have pictures of Brad Pitt and Angela Jo Lee. :)

Edit the ugly right out of society!

Talk about change...

#8 Dainn ... LOL ... I wish I could spell as well as you!

Didn't some big time magazine.......People, maybe?........once put Oprah's head on Ann Margret's body? As I recall, Oprah didn't complain but Ann Margret was not amused.

Photoshop is like crack -- one hit, and you're hooked. And you have to keep doing more and more to get the same thrill.

Eventually, you find yourself selling your body on the streetcorner and faking government documents in an attempt to steal the presidency.

JUST SAY NO TO PHOTOSHOP!

Pointless photochopping.

Ho humm

The yearbook company was just "removing dust and scratches", huh? The kids in that school really must learn to take better care of themselves. Ha! Did they think no one would notice?

Good help is hard to find. All it takes is one dumb employee...

Odd changes. Air brushed skin or smaller features or color enhancement...maybe. But stretching necks and changing bodies?

re: #4 zombie

MCKINNEY SCHOOL PHOTO GUIDELINES:

1. All students must have their heads in their yearbook photos placed on someone else's body.

2. Extra credit if the body is someone of the opposite gender.

3. Extra long necks are encouraged.

4. No fat chicks.

5. Nudity is OK, as long as chest is blurred out.

Now that's hilarious! I'm laughing so hard I've got tears in my eyes.

I thought you found the actual guidelines and were posting them - so I began reading this in all seriousness.

This sounds like a disgruntled employee to me.

This school must have some pretty cool guidelines.

1) Nudity is A-OK!
2) long necks, AKA the Karen hill tribe, are encouraged!
3) Body swapping in photos shows our solidarity with the transgendered, go to it!
4) the fewer limbs, the better

Imagine how much time he put into this!

The last line of the story is priceless.
"I think it was somebody who does not understand ethics"

NO! Shocka!

It's all very unprofessional, but this:

Another girl is missing her clothing – and was left with a blurred chest.

is completely irresponsible and deplorable.

If it were my daughter's photo they did that to I'd find some grounds to sue the crap outta them.

re: #4 zombie

Ha! I was writing when I should have been reading. LOL!

re: #11 wolfie

Didn't some big time magazine.......People, maybe?........once put Oprah's head on Ann Margret's body? As I recall, Oprah didn't complain but Ann Margret was not amused.

National Geographic got caught in the very first Photoshop scandal when they moved the Pyramics of Giza a bit closer together to make a better composition. People were like, "Wait, are the Pyramids that near each other?" NatGeo got caught red-handed -- I can't believe they thought they'd get away with it.

But no one learned the lesson. The fakery industry has just exploded exponentially since then.

If the original medium was film, and they skimped on the developer-related chemicals, or equipment maintenance, it could be that many original pics were messed up. Then if someone had the bright idea of a digital fix instead of re-doing the pics...

re: #19 Charles

This sounds like a disgruntled employee to me.

Most everything like this, from theft to sabotage, is usually an inside job. Ask your local cop, he or she'll probbably tell you the same.

In this case, whoever did it certainly didn't think he/she was fooling anyone.

You can't turn in dozens of altered high school yearbook photos and think they aren't going to notice.

I blame Hugh Hefner for making photo alteration an acceptable practice.
//

re: #21 Charles

Imagine how much time he put into this!

I was just about to say - aren't they in it to make a profit? Must be somebody bent out of shape with an axe to grind and payed hourly.

re: #29 Charles

You can't turn in dozens of altered high school yearbook photos and think they aren't going to notice.

But you'd think the editor or the production designer or the printer or the proofreader would notice.

How did so many poeople fall down on the job?

re: #12 zombie

Seriously! I have a friend who got Photoshop for Christmas and she is now incapable.....I mean incapable.....of keeping her little shoppy fingers off a photo.
She hands me a couple of prints from an Easter party:
My dress is green instead of blue. ("goes better with the table decorations")
My hair is up instead of down. ("can't see your earrings")
Earrings? I've never seen those earrings in my life!
And so it goes.
She CAN'T stop.

re: #32 zombie

But you'd think the editor or the production designer or the printer or the proofreader would notice.

How did so many poeople fall down on the job?

Yeah, but in their defense I don't think high school yearbook producers have the same amount of detailed fact-checking that the mainstream media does.

Cough.

re: #33 wolfie

Seriously! I have a friend who got Photoshop for Christmas and she is now incapable.....I mean incapable.....of keeping her little shoppy fingers off a photo.
...
She CAN'T stop.

Addiction is a terrible thing.

Sophomore Brielle Anderson said she's pretty sure her head is on a boy's body.

"I paid $80 for a cropped picture of my head on someone else's body," she said.

She noted that she's also missing a few inches of hair.

It's so bizarre! What a funny keepsake though. At least they're getting new ones; although probably not in time to have them signed by their friends, they'll have to sign the photoshopped ones. Holy cow, can you imagine the day they handed these out? There was probably chaos in the school. *remembers yearbook day in high school* LOL

re: #25 zombie

OMG! National Geographic?! I didn't know that. Wow!
Well, they sure set a good example, didn't they?

re: #21 Charles

Hopefully he was an entry level employee and it only cost the company $8.50 an hour for all that wasted time.

I am sure the company will now have to pay to have all those photos retaken.

The local arts council made a brochure for their annual outdoor music festival, and apparently couldn't find a photo with a big enough crowd from last year's event, so some of my friends are in the brochure's cover photo twice!

/City of Clones...

Usually, it's not until after your "friends" pass your copy of the yearbook around the class to sign autographs on the last day of school that your photo gets defaced. I guess the photography company decided to save all the class clowns some time.

re: #32 zombie

But you'd think the editor or the production designer or the printer or the proofreader would notice.

How did so many poeople fall down on the job?

A lot of those shops run on auto-pilot. They aren't getting paid to look at that kind of stuff, and therefore won't notice (even if they do).

I used to be a creative director at a large firm in SF, and saw amazing things coming from vendors that were paid to notice.

Dude, you got boobs.

re: #38 DownRightMeanAmerican

Hopefully he was an entry level employee and it only cost the company $8.50 an hour for all that wasted time.

I am sure the company will now have to pay to have all those photos retaken.

Yep, they're gonna pay.

re: #38 DownRightMeanAmerican

Hopefully he was an entry level employee and it only cost the company $8.50 an hour for all that wasted time.

I am sure the company will now have to pay to have all those photos retaken.

Yes. Further down in the article it says that Lifetouch is going to redo the pictures and pay for reprinting the new yearbooks.....ca $100 grand.

wolfie (#11),

Didn't some big time magazine.......People, maybe?........once put Oprah's head on Ann Margret's body? As I recall, Oprah didn't complain but Ann Margret was not amused.

TV Guide.

re: #38 DownRightMeanAmerican

Hopefully he was an entry level employee and it only cost the company $8.50 an hour for all that wasted time.

I am sure the company will now have to pay to have all those photos retaken.

Don't have to retake the photos, they're just reprinting, but...

It will cost the company $85,000 to reprint 1,100 yearbooks, she said.

Officials from Lifetouch National School Studios Inc., the Minnesota-based photography company, said someone at the company made the alterations in an attempt to comply with the school's photo guidelines.

The school wanted student head sizes approximately the same and students' eyes at the same level in the photos.

"Unfortunately, we misinterpreted what those guidelines were," said Sara Thurin Rollin, a spokeswoman for Lifetouch.

Lifetouch is bound to know exactly who in their company was assigned the job of getting these photos ready for publication.

The school seems to have wanted some degree of uniformity in the photos, which I would think could be done during the actual photo sessions, by making sure the camera is at a certain distance from wherever the student is sitting, and then just adjusting up or down depending on the student's height.

The nameless "somebody" at that company should be fired. Here's what one student said:

"I paid $80 for a cropped picture of my head on someone else's body,"

re: #46 gop_patriot

That DOES piss me off. All that $$ down the drain because some asshat thought it would be funny to screw around with a few pictures.

re: #33 wolfie

Seriously! I have a friend who got Photoshop for Christmas and she is now incapable.....I mean incapable.....of keeping her little shoppy fingers off a photo.
She hands me a couple of prints from an Easter party:
My dress is green instead of blue. ("goes better with the table decorations")
My hair is up instead of down. ("can't see your earrings")
Earrings? I've never seen those earrings in my life!
And so it goes.
She CAN'T stop.

Needed: 12-Step Program for PSA (Photoshop Addiction)
1. Realize you are powerless before your Photoshop Program.

re: #34 Charles

Yeah, but in their defense I don't think high school yearbook producers have the same amount of detailed fact-checking that the mainstream media does.

Cough.

Bwahaha. Then in that respect they did a better job!

OT: anyone thing its really strange that at 5:39 EST, Drudge still has no link to Kennedy's health issues?

re: #45 Geepers

wolfie (#11),

TV Guide.

Geepers, Geepers!
But no wonder Oprah didn't complain!

re: #37 wolfie

OMG! National Geographic?! I didn't know that. Wow!
Well, they sure set a good example, didn't they?

Here's the infamous cover of National Geographic with the moved pyramids and Bedouins.

It was the first time a major publication got caught absolutely red-handed. The three components of the picture -- eahc of the two pyramids, and the Bedouins on camels - -where overlaid separately.

re: #49 Shaky Louie

I think there's a growing market for that program!

This could start a whole new trend in yearbooks.

We had the little section of text you could put next to your senior picture which included memorable bits like "Fast times in '82 IROC. 83 spring break with buds. Jenny 4ever."

Now you can have: "Orgy at photostudio. Xtra arm. Cool blur effects with buds."

re: #43 Charles

Rollin declined to say if the company fired or reprimanded the employee who altered the images.

Lifetouch, one of the largest private companies in the country, said it will provide a corrected version of the yearbook to McKinney students by the time the school year closes -- at a cost of $79,500 to the company. The high school has previously won local and national awards for its yearbook design.

Firing someone cant be easy, but in this case I would make an exception,

a $79,500 exception, now that’s a lot of swearing.

Here's a pdf essay about the NatGeo scandal -- from 1982!

Who Moved My Pyramid?

It was the FiRST time the public became aware of digital manipulation of photos.

It was pre-Photoshop even.

mikeinmd (#48),

That DOES piss me off. All that $$ down the drain because some asshat thought it would be funny to screw around with a few pictures.

More than a few:

All told, 39 percent of the 1,486 photos were changed,

That's 580 pictures screwed with.

How did this ever get to the printer?

This fauxtography thing has been around pretty much from the day one invent of photography. It was called posing. Matthew Brady was particularly creative with the positioning of dead soldiers for civil war "reality" shots. That said, I doubt he would have put any of those casualties in a dress or presented them as an airbrushed nude. At least I don't think so?

re: #4 zombie

MCKINNEY SCHOOL PHOTO GUIDELINES:

1. All students must have their heads in their yearbook photos placed on someone else's body.

2. Extra credit if the body is someone of the opposite gender.

3. Extra long necks are encouraged.

4. No fat chicks.

5. Nudity is OK, as long as chest is blurred out.

HA! HA! HA!

You know - I would pay to have a copy of my senior yearbook reprinted if they'd photoshop out that stupid powder blue tux with the ruffled shirt and the giant collar.

A new feature for yearbooks could be face morphing with your BFF!

re: #54 wolfie

Get in on the Ground Floor now. Cash in later!

re: #61 karmic_inquisitor

You know - I would pay to have a copy of my senior yearbook reprinted if they'd photoshop out that stupid powder blue tux with the ruffled shirt and the giant collar.

The one that's still in the back of your closet today ?

re: #53 zombie

My parents have that one! LOL I need to call them and tell them. I'll bet they never knew about it, I sure didn't. Thanks!

I know that it is a prank, but it fails the first rule of pranks.It is not funny

I can see a very small amount of body-swapping, etc to happen if the student wore something that would look out-of-proportion after they resized the head and moved the face to keep the eyes on the same level. But it should not have happened on this scale, and digitally removing clothes is not good.

re: #67 RememberSekhmet?

I can see a very small amount of body-swapping, etc to happen if the student wore something that would look out-of-proportion after they resized the head and moved the face to keep the eyes on the same level. But it should not have happened on this scale, and digitally removing clothes is not good.

You're correct. I'm an old fashioned guy. I prefer to MANUALLY remove clothes

The UN is setting up a commission to investigate.

It will be composed of Reuters photographers.

re: #64 sattv4u2

The one that's still in the back of your closet today ?

With the leisure suits?

Rollin chalked the situation up to a misunderstanding between Lifetouch and school officials. "Our people misinterpreted guidelines for the yearbook,'' she said. Rollin declined to say if the company fired or reprimanded the employee who altered the images.

This is a misinterpretation of guidelines?

Another girl is missing her clothing – and was left with a blurred chest.

I'd say that's a severe misinterpretation of propriety.

I feel sorry for that girl, and I hope this is her graduating year. Kids can be very cruel to one another, and I hate to think of the kind of unearned reputation she may get from this style of misinterpretation.

that's hilarious! i wonder if there were any hitler or groucho marx mustache additions? a third boob would be funny... i wonder if this yearbook place is hiring?

re: #67 RememberSekhmet?

I can see a very small amount of body-swapping, etc to happen if the student wore something that would look out-of-proportion after they resized the head and moved the face to keep the eyes on the same level. But it should not have happened on this scale, and digitally removing clothes is not good.

This really shouldn't be necessary at all. If you remember school pictures, they are taken at a standard distance from both the background and the camera, neither of which moves. There really is no purpose at all - and no excuse.

re: #64 sattv4u2

The one that's still in the back of your closet today ?

LOL. What sux about the tux is that it was this velcroed thing that they'd slap on you. They took the pictures right before the school year started so it was still hot outside. My last name comes toward the end of the alphabet so the thing reeked by the time I slapped it on.

As for the ladies - they had a shoulderless velcro dress, so all the girls came in tube tops.

Remember tube tops? I sure do.

re: #51 ziggyelman

Drudge already had a link...

Fauxtography in Texas
Wait just a minute
I seem to remember Dan Rather is from Texas
?
You would think he learned his lesson the first time

re: #74 karmic_inquisitor

LOL. What sux about the tux is that it was this velcroed thing that they'd slap on you. They took the pictures right before the school year started so it was still hot outside. My last name comes toward the end of the alphabet so the thing reeked by the time I slapped it on.

As for the ladies - they had a shoulderless velcro dress, so all the girls came in tube tops.

Remember tube tops? I sure do.

Is everybody here born between 1957 and 1964, or does it just seem that way?

re: #75 Psaturn

Drudge already had a link...

it's there right now also

re: #77 zombie

Is everybody here born between 1957 and 1964, or does it just seem that way?

I'm born in 61, right in the middle.

re: #77 zombie

Is everybody here born between 1957 and 1964, or does it just seem that way?

I was born in 65 myself

re: #77 zombie

Is everybody here born between 1957 and 1964, or does it just seem that way?

Nah...I'm older.

/today's 60 is yesterday's 40.

re: #77 zombie

Is everybody here born between 1957 and 1964, or does it just seem that way?

I'm pre-1957 ,,,,,,,,,

damn ,,, I'm old ,,,,,,,,that doesn;t look good now that I read it ,,

re: #75 Psaturn

Drudge already had a link...

Now I see it...I swear it wasn't there before....perhaps I was so used to not seeing it, I missed it above the Bush photo....still took him forever to cover it...no big deal, Drudge didn't die or somethin' : )

re: #73 galloping granny

This really shouldn't be necessary at all. If you remember school pictures, they are taken at a standard distance from both the background and the camera, neither of which moves. There really is no purpose at all - and no excuse.

There may be very slight corrections needed. Digital solutions are more reliable than analog. But in most cases, the editing should be completely unnoticeable.

I fit the age parameters. Sadly.

re: #74 karmic_inquisitor

They took the pictures right before the school year started so it was still hot outside.

I was sick on the day I was originally to get my Sr. pic taken, so it was rescheduled- for right after my 1st soccer practice. Couldn't skip practice, no time for a shower. My mom brought me a cold washcloth, I rinsed my face and brushed my hair and put on makeup in the car on the way over to the studio. Wheee. Didn't turn out too bad; honestly, the worst part was the 80s hair.

re: #82 sattv4u2

I'm pre-1957 ,,,,,,,,,

damn ,,, I'm old ,,,,,,,,that doesn;t look good now that I read it ,,

I would have guessed you to be younger, you are still young at heart as your posts would reflect.

re: #77 zombie

Is everybody here born between 1957 and 1964, or does it just seem that way?

it just seems that way, 1966.

re: #77 zombie

Is everybody here born between 1957 and 1964, or does it just seem that way?

Nope, 1973 for me, and they were still doing the tube top under the strapless gownlike thing for senior pictures in 1991.

re: #85 song_and_dance_man

Man you guys are old.

as soon as I can find my walker, glasses, and oxygen ,,,, I'm coming over and hitting you with my dentures

They just sent our retakes of my son back from school last week as we didn't like the first ones. You guessed it, LifeTouch. They did a very nice job this time. Pictures are great.

I just had to go check that he wasn't wearing a dress..

re: #77 zombie

'71 here. I'm one of the younger fellers here.

re: #77 zombie

Is everybody here born between 1957 and 1964, or does it just seem that way?

1966 here.

re: #88 VegasRick

I would have guessed you to be younger, you are still young at heart as your posts would reflect.

it's the dementia, actually

re: #83 ziggyelman

Now I see it...I swear it wasn't there before....perhaps I was so used to not seeing it, I missed it above the Bush photo....still took him forever to cover it...no big deal, Drudge didn't die or somethin' : )

No problems! I was following it too !

re: #85 song_and_dance_man

Man you guys are old.

LOL!

re: #77 zombie

Is everybody here born between 1957 and 1964, or does it just seem that way?

"We are the old fogies we have been waiting for!"

re: #92 mikeinmd

They just sent our retakes of my son back from school last week as we didn't like the first ones. You guessed it, LifeTouch. They did a very nice job this time. Pictures are great.

I just had to go check that he wasn't wearing a dress..

in the picture ,,,,, or up in his room ?

re: #85 song_and_dance_man

Man you guys are old.

Now see here, young whippersnapper! Don't make come over and club you with my walker!

re: #88 VegasRick

I would have guessed you to be younger, you are still young at heart as your posts would reflect.

Oooo, Rick just called sattv immature. I'm telling.

;)

re: #95 sattv4u2

it's the dementia, actually

What? I couldn't hear you!

re: #82 sattv4u2

I'm pre-1957 ,,,,,,,,,

damn ,,, I'm old ,,,,,,,,that doesn;t look good now that I read it ,,

1946 -- I never expected to make it past 60 but I'm going strong.

re: #83 ziggyelman

In fact, I posted this in the last Open Thread :

#13 psaturn 5/17/08 1:53:06 pm reply quote report 0

Finally Drudge has story on Kennedy! Gee !

About an hour ago..

LOL

I got in trouble in grade school for pasting Stevie Wonder's head on the Sphinx in a book about Egypt. That was old school Fauxtography.

re: #99 sattv4u2

in the picture ,,,,, or up in his room ?

Walked right into that one...

re: #88 VegasRick

re: #101 gop_patriot

Oooo, Rick just called sattv immature. I'm telling.

;)

and if they ever let me out of the home ,,,, I'll throttle him with my jello cup

re: #101 gop_patriot

Oooo, Rick just called sattv immature. I'm telling.

;)

LOL!

re: #86 hermeneutics

I fit the age parameters. Sadly.

Me too...and my belly agrees with you, the sadly part...

re: #80 LeftJustAintRight

I was born in 65 myself

Same here.

re: #107 sattv4u2

re: #101 gop_patriot

and if they ever let me out of the home ,,,, I'll throttle him with my jello cup

HAHA! You would never know where to find me! Oh, wait!

re: #30 Slumbering Behemoth

I blame Hugh Hefner for making photo alteration an acceptable practice.
//

I think you should back up that false attack on Hugh Hefner with some examples, sir!
///

re: #90 RememberSekhmet?

Nope, 1973 for me, and they were still doing the tube top under the strapless gownlike thing for senior pictures in 1991.

damn , there are things in my FREEZER since '73 !

re: #57 zombie

Here's a pdf essay about the NatGeo scandal -- from 1982!

Who Moved My Pyramid?

It was the FiRST time the public became aware of digital manipulation of photos.

It was pre-Photoshop even.

This is a superb essay on the whole problem of ethics in photography.
Very informative and thought-provoking.
Thanks so much for finding and linking it!

Lizards may be especially interested in the section on the use of digitalized photography in the Iraq war. (Just scroll to where the 3 Iraq photos and read around them.)

re: #109 Psaturn

I am not out of shape.

Round is a shape I will have you know.

re: #113 song_and_dance_man

Class of 1980....I think that was when Carter was president?

You're all lucky I suck at math.

_{^{Hmm...let's see...carry the one...add three...err...}}

Aw, to heck with it! You're all 25!

1943

When getting ID'd for buying alcohol makes you happy...

re: #116 DownRightMeanAmerican

I knew that already...

It is that the rotundness makes it difficult for me to tie my shoes...

re: #29 Charles

You can't turn in dozens of altered high school yearbook photos and think they aren't going to notice.

Yeah, if you really wanted to get away with some sick prank like that, you would only do it to a few, and not make the alterations obvious.

re: #119 Mike in Georgia

1943

...It was a very good year...

re: #112 karmic_inquisitor

I think you should back up that false attack on Hugh Hefner with some examples, sir!
///

I have compiled a few years worth of evidence, but it's all hard copy and I don't have a scanner.

If you wanna see the proof you'll have to come over and peruse my archives.

/bring beer

re: #123 song_and_dance_man

You named your band that and they let you play at the school? LOL! Most of the adults must not have known that term yet. X)

Now that I think of it, the only yearbook I have is a poorly printed one from fourth grade. I think my school had just got their first xerox machine that year.

re: #127 song_and_dance_man

I don't think they knew what it meant. The Dean announced us LOL

Don't tell me ,,,, his last name was MARTIN? ( dean Martin !_)

re: #77 zombie

Is everybody here born between 1957 and 1964, or does it just seem that way?

April '64 here. In the womb during MLK's I have a Dream speech and JFK's assassination.

re: #113 song_and_dance_man

For the record, I'm no youngster. Class of 1975.

This is a yearbook thread after all

My village didn't have schools or yearbooks.

Our system was: When you accumulate three shrunken heads, you are deemed ready to enter the adult world.

Me, I ran away to the bamboo airport and John Frum he come and took me to America.

re: #123 song_and_dance_man

How cool is this. I didn't buy my yearbooks, but I found the yearbooks for both my Junior high school years and my Junior and Senior High school years.

I'm buying them and taking a walk down Nostalgia road. There's a picture of my rock band Snatch playing in the quad in the Senior year book. Yes we named the band Snatch.

HA! I never got mine back (1963) from by so-called "best friend."

This thread pushed me to look for it.

I found it! The entire yearbook on the internet! All my photos and memories. How wonderful is this?!

We had a year book, too. The monks down the road got the contract.
They're still working on it.

zombie

1961 was a VERY good year, IMHO. :D

When I was working for a consulting company, we had CYA procedures such as saving every email and correspondence so we all knew what to deliver to the client and had proof of it. I'd imagine if this was so unusual, why not double-check it with the school to make sure that this is what they want before you finish a project that costs nearly $100k? Is there even review or QC at this place? Unbelievable.

re: #127 song_and_dance_man

Oh that's hilarious!

Ooh, Preakness is running, brb

Horses heading to the starting gate at the Preakness. Go Big Brown.

re: #113 song_and_dance_man

For the record, I'm no youngster. Class of 1975.

This is a yearbook thread after all

'75? heh... you're way older than me dude...

re: #121 Psaturn

Tie my shoes, sh*t I was just hoping to see them while they are on my feet without looking in my wives full length mirror or throwing my back-out just trying to tie them, I now use slip-ons or flip-flops or I tie my tennis shoes a little lose, now they are slip-ons.

Oh, and I really dislike having to use those store bought magnifying glasses so I can read the small print, I had something like 20/10-15 sight 10 years ago, WTF!

If my dad could only see me now, he would laugh, because the chickens are coming home to roost.

re: #77 zombie

Is everybody here born between 1957 and 1964, or does it just seem that way?

Nope. 1943 here.

-- Ann

Big Browns not even trying ,, and is in 3rd !

OT: Fjordy's wordy tome about the causes of Christian antisemitism is up over at GoV. Like most of his writing it doesn't really address what the title suggests.

re: #134 wolfie

We had a year book, too. The monks down the road got the contract.
They're still working on it.

They're still waiting to hear from tech support.

there he goes

Big Brown!

Big Brown ,,,,, 2 down ,, 1 to go

re: #132 zombie

My village didn't have schools or yearbooks.

Our system was: When you accumulate three shrunken heads, you are deemed ready to enter the adult world.

Me, I ran away to the bamboo airport and John Frum he come and took me to America.

I hope he brought you much cargo first.

At my HS one year the long-time yearbook adviser took a year off after some issues with the BOE and how he managed the yearbook. The person the found was an idiot. Instead of using one of the school's high-end digital cameras they used a crappy 1-2 MP thing to take "candid" shots of students in the halls, cafeteria, etc. The actual individual student pics were professionally taken.

They yearbook people sent off the designs to the company, along wiht the crappy pics. Most of the candid pics were noticeable pixlated. The seniors that year were pissed and some threatened to sue if the school did not refund them. The BOE was begging for the old adviser to return after that, which he did.

Ooh... possible triple crown winner. He's making it look easy.

re: #147 snowcrash

Big Brown!

What a win! Beautiful run.

My oldest is a Senior in High School. Last weekend was Prom. Nice. This morning we went with him to a local TV station studio where they filmed the commercials for the "Brightest and Best" TV spots where one student from each high school gets to represent their school. You Detroit area lizards can try to figure out which one is him!

re: #123 song_and_dance_man

Alright - high school band names ...

How about "Jony Vomit and the Leather Scabs" (not my band, but one in the area)

Via Instapundit..

NARAL stupidly endorses Obama...

[Link: www.politico.com...]

Two former members of Congress (and Clinton supporters) — Geraldine Ferraro and Pat Schroeder — jabbed at NARAL for endorsing before the general election. “Looks like some higher ups at NARAL are trying to get jobs in the new administration ... nothing else makes sense to us,” they wrote in a joint letter.

Change you can believe in.

re: #154 karmic_inquisitor

Alright - high school band names ...

How about "Jony Vomit and the Leather Scabs" (not my band, but one in the area)

'Painful Rectal Itch"

re: #144 Killgore Trout

Boy, that’s the truth and the guy has the audacity to make everything he writes novel size.

re: #154 karmic_inquisitor

Alright - high school band names ...

How about "Jony Vomit and the Leather Scabs" (not my band, but one in the area)

Grand Theft and Honest Abe were a couple of my high school rock bands.

re: #153 Mich-again

Congratulations! My son is a senior this year also. :)
(We homeschool, though.)

re: #144 Killgore Trout

OT: Fjordy's wordy tome about the causes of Christian antisemitism is up over at GoV. Like most of his writing it doesn't really address what the title suggests.

It's funny. A year ago some people here fell over themselves to heap praise on Fjordman. He was so brilliant, illuminating, specific, etc etc etc. I remember someone posting, "When Fjordman speaks we should all just shut the **** up and listen."

Times change, I guess.

re: #6 _remembertonyc

can i get my face put on arnold schwartzenner's body circa 1980?

/Nothing personal tonyc, but I doubt Arnold wants a tattoo of your face on his body. : )

Man - this one sounds like Scrappleface.

What the heck is wrong with people? My father would have said "they must have been on drugs" (his answer to all lunatic behavior).

I don't recall any names of high school bands, but the R.H. Chili Peppers played at my school once. Of course, being the delinquent that I was, I cut school that day and missed out. :(

re: #157 DownRightMeanAmerican

Yes, Fjordman is very prolix and I find him often unfocussed.

Bush in Saudi Arabia?

/well, you just knew this was going to happen

Hint on when I was graduated from high school - Sugarloaf played at my senior prom. Green Eyed Lady - their one big hit - is still cool.

re: #77 zombie

Is everybody here born between 1957 and 1964, or does it just seem that way?

1953

re: #160 Cognito

I always found him too wordy but respected his opinions because everybody else did. I guess you don't really notice that somebody doesn't have a point until you disagree with them.

OT - just bought a new laptop! :D

re: #166 Killian Bundy

Gag.
Holding hands with a Saudi... just gag.

/and they still won't lower oil prices, the jerks.

re: #164 Slumbering Behemoth

I don't recall any names of high school bands, but the R.H. Chili Peppers played at my school once. Of course, being the delinquent that I was, I cut school that day and missed out. :(

Huey Lewis and The News used to play SF Bay Area high schools right up until they hit it big. Saw them in a couple of gyms.

'64 here.

GEMINI,
R

re: #141 DownRightMeanAmerican

Tie my shoes, sh*t I was just hoping to see them while they are on my feet without looking in my wives full length mirror or throwing my back-out just trying to tie them, I now use slip-ons or flip-flops or I tie my tennis shoes a little lose, now they are slip-ons.

Oh, and I really dislike having to use those store bought magnifying glasses so I can read the small print, I had something like 20/10-15 sight 10 years ago, WTF!

If my dad could only see me now, he would laugh, because the chickens are coming home to roost.

HAHA! This is for you. :D

O/T, but I just got this email from politico.com re: Ted Kennedy-

Sen. Edward Kennedy is conscious and talking to his family, a spokeswoman has confirmed. He is recovering at Massachusetts General Hospital after suffering an apparent seizure in Cape Cod earlier today.

re: #174 Render

'64 here.

GEMINI,
R

Year of the dragon.

re: #162 song_and_dance_man

Isn't that cool. I already ordered mine.

Do today's seniors still have their 'all-night senior party?'

One of The Righteous Brothers appeared at ours (obviously before they were famous).

I just received an email invitation to our 45th Reunion!

OMG! The muscle-tone has been replaced with wrinkles! LOL

re: #176 Bob in Breckenridge

O/T, but I just got this email from politico.com re: Ted Kennedy-

Sen. Edward Kennedy is conscious and talking to his family, a spokeswoman has confirmed. He is recovering at Massachusetts General Hospital after suffering an apparent seizure in Cape Cod earlier today.

Sounds like good news (not a stroke) - apparently they are now looking for the cause of the seizure. My daddy had a seizure - it is truly scary. I'm glad I was there, because my mom, normally a very together lady, when all to pieces.

re: #159 gop_patriot

Thanks. Question, how do Colleges handle applications from home schooled students? Do they just go by ACT's or do they make the student take placement tests?

OT --

Fox is reporting Kennedy's watching a Red Sox game and has ordered out for food, with family, talking and joking.

Looks good! Now if he'll just take it as a hint to retire ...

-- Ann

PIMF WENT all to pieces. Humpf.

re: #166 Killian Bundy

Eh.

re: #182 Empire1

OT --

Fox is reporting Kennedy's watching a Red Sox game and has ordered out for food, with family, talking and joking.

/After all these years, Ted Kennedy and I have something in common. Watching the Red Sox/Brewers.

re: #178 gettinby

Went to me fourtyfifth about six months ago. What a
bunch of old people.

re: #182 Empire1

OT --

Fox is reporting Kennedy's watching a Red Sox game and has ordered out for food, with family, talking and joking.

Looks good! Now if he'll just take it as a hint to retire ...

-- Ann

Which reminds me - I have left-over pizza in the fridge.

1961

re: #175 Miss Trixie

LOL!

I was born during the Truman administration.

re: #191 PoorMan

I was born during the Truman administration.

Me too. Way at the end of it. :D

re: #191 PoorMan

Was that before or after the Lincoln admin?

/

New thread!

re: #85 song_and_dance_man

Man you guys are old.

But - folks don't necessarily feel old in their heads.

Here's my experience: I was at my doctor's office recently, at the desk paying my co-pay, and I saw a patient chart lying on the desk, and it said "Patient's Age: 55". So I started looking around to see if I could see who the little old lady was - and then I realized - IT WAS MY CHART!

In my mind I'm stuck somewhere between 35 and 40.

The mirror says something else - so I just avoid the mirror.

re: #181 Mich-again

Depends on the schools, but so far for the ones my son has applied to, it's transcripts and ACTs. We did our transcript through the state homeschool alliance, which is recognized by colleges and universities. :)

Over the years I've asked a lot of people, "Who was President when you were born?" You'd be surprised how many folks don't know.

re: #196 gop_patriot

Cant remember where I read it, but some recent studies have shown home school children to be socially better adjusted in life, then us public school products, besides much smarter.

re: #187 Mike in Georgia

Went to me fourtyfifth about six months ago. What a
bunch of old people.

Let me thank you for helping me to make my decision to not go.

/Don't want to make everyone feel bad. I might be the only one there that still looks to be in her 40's. Heh.

I've worked with a lot of graphic artists over the years, and every so often you'd come across one who would make random, bizarre changes with no authorization. It was always "artistic vision" from someone whose ego far exceeded their talent.

Of course, there's always good old stupidity as an excuse, too. People play with the images to goof off, and the joke images get mixed up with the real ones.

re: #199 gettinby

Go! Make the other women green with envy.

This reminds me of the story I read of a middle school in England - the principal (? - Head mistress?) decided that they would not show the faces of their students in the school's online newsletter, for security reasons.

So it ended up - for a month or so - like this:

[Link: www.p2pnet.net...]

(seriously - there were several pics of various activities where kids' faces were covered by the hideous smiley faces!)

re: #202 Intrepid

This one has more of the pics...

[Link: www.thisislondon.co.uk...]

re: #201 Mike in Georgia

Go! Make the other women green with envy.

LOL

/What an emotional roller-coaster life can be, huh?!
//At least we didn't have rap music. I truly believe I would have hated it, even as a young "adult."

re: #206 gettinby

Disco was bad enough.

re: #5 Mike in Georgia

Minnesota ? Hmm...

Yep, Minnesota "The Land Of The Liberal Loon, and 10,000 Treatment Centers!"

re: #77 zombie

Is everybody here born between 1957 and 1964, or does it just seem that way?

It's a second-cohort Baby-Boomer thing. You wouldn't understand!

Seriously, I think LGF caters to the growing chunk of us in that demographic who missed out on The Sixties. We don't have the immense emotional commitment to the New-Left/youth-culture worldview that so many people born between 1946 and 1956 do, and therefore were more likely to become conservatives or moderates in our middle age.

1958

were = we're. PIMF!

And for the record, I was born in late 1960. Dimly remember the JFK assassination, and my parents glued to the tube and crying. Much stronger memory of coming home from second grade, and my mom telling me, in a near state of shock, that MLK had been murdered (he was a hero in our liberal Democratic household.)

re: #211 mikalm

were = we're. PIMF!

And for the record, I was born in late 1960. Dimly remember the JFK assassination, and my parents glued to the tube and crying. Much stronger memory of coming home from second grade, and my mom telling me, in a near state of shock, that MLK had been murdered (he was a hero in our liberal Democratic household.)

JFK was killed in '63.

re: #212 theparson

JFK was killed in '63.

Yes, I was barely three when it happened.

re: #4 zombie

MCKINNEY SCHOOL PHOTO GUIDELINES:

1. All students must have their heads in their yearbook photos placed on someone else's body.

2. Extra credit if the body is someone of the opposite gender.

3. Extra long necks are encouraged.

4. No fat chicks.

5. Nudity is OK, as long as chest is blurred out.

That was freakin hilarious.

#77 Zombie

Born in '30...ain't dead yet, havin' too much fun lurkin' and LOL at LGF.

(raises hand)

Uh, that's McKinney High School in McKinney. Not Dallas. The McKinney Lions. McKinney is the county seat of Collin County, where Plano, Allen, and Frisco are also located. And Wylie, where I live.

#216 Ward Cleaver
Like he said. Mckinney High is in Mckinney Texas a separte and unique city from Dallas.

Dead thread, I know, but....

Isn't this the same company that did the Rolling Stones picture of Al Gore with the "beefed up" crotch? Or did they take a lesson from that?

:D

"someone at the company made the alterations in an attempt to comply with the school’s photo guidelines."

Thankfully, the school policy calls for blurring naked breasts.

I work for a few pro photographers retouching photos and this whole story doesn't add up. Whoever did this spent HOURS manipulating these photos - even if it was done poorly. 583 pictures? I average about 50-60 per week and that can take as long as 30 hours. And it's TEDIOUS work that I can't see anyone doing for the heck of it. It's normal to take out blemishes and bags under people's eyes - even take a few pounds off when necessary. The idea is that it should look natural, though. A professionally edited photo should like like it was never touched at all. Now that I've been doing it for a long time, I notice a LOT of shoddy work out there.

It's not unusual to swap out a head or two, but only in group photos. In group photos, someone's always got their eyes closed or making a silly face. I do that nearly every day. The correct head always goes on the correct body, though.

Some of it makes sense, like editing out wording on shirts. I could see where that might fall within the school's 'guidelines', but I can only come to the conclusion that the person that edited these photos did so maliciously. There's simply no other explanation.