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04-19-2007, 05:38 AM | #1 |
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Re backpacks - when I was at school the fashion for girls was canvas shopping bags - either plain or usually with a polital/ pressure group logo (Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Amnesty etc).
They were great because you could draw all over them and they kept your books/ folders upright which stopped any loose notes falling out. Only problem was you had to carry your lunchbox separately because it wouldn't fit. Once you've got a bag over your shoulder, a lunchbox in your hand and say a can of Coke for your breakfast in the other hand, you don't have a spare hand to read your Sylia Plath as you walk along, and how on earth are people going to realise how troubled and deep your are otherwise? Boys just had big sports bags, which eventually they were told had to be left in the cloakrooms because there wasn't enough room in the school corridors for teenage testosterone and big bags. As the only things boys kept in their bags were schoolwork and manky old sports clothes it's not as if anyone was going to steal anything, so it worked quite well.
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04-19-2007, 07:06 AM | #2 |
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I always hated lunchboxes. No matter how much my mum washed it, it smelled and then the smell invaded my sandwich because it was wrapped in waxed paper.
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04-19-2007, 07:25 AM | #3 |
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Then it wasn't packed right. My Lunchbox never ever smelled.
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04-19-2007, 07:52 AM | #4 |
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Smelly boxes = poor hygiene
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04-19-2007, 08:49 AM | #5 |
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04-19-2007, 09:19 AM | #6 |
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Wolf, the rubber strap and briefcase were for misfits. Either you carried them in a stack against your side (the front was for girls) or in your "gym bag". Anything else would get your balls busted. ravenranter, waxed paper? even hear of plastic zip-lock bags?
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Anyways, I used a brown paper bag for grades 6-12. Lunch boxes were strictly for elementary school. You couldn't be popular if you brought a bright green lunchbox (actually for me it'd be a mushy soft bag) to school and had to take it with you to recess.... |
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04-19-2007, 08:57 AM | #8 |
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Coke for breakfast, Sundae Girl?
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04-19-2007, 09:13 AM | #9 |
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04-20-2007, 09:23 AM | #10 |
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Didn't everyone have unhealthy breakfasts as a teenager?
As soon as I started earning my own money (evening & weekend job) I was able to indulge in all the things that were rationed at home. Hence sugary fizzy drinks as soon as I left the house
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04-19-2007, 08:59 AM | #11 |
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No thanks, I like smack.
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04-19-2007, 09:15 AM | #12 |
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Speaking of breakfast, I think I'm going to White Castle.
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04-19-2007, 09:25 AM | #13 |
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A high post count means nothing except that you have too much time on your Goddamned hands.
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04-19-2007, 10:14 AM | #14 |
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. . . or are addicted to the Internet.
Just to clarify--this is a place to put one-off, random, or silly posts that don't rise to the level of a whole thread itself. I find it useful for sharing my occasionally brilliant bon mots. ahem.
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Oh no...any post can rise to the level of a thread. This is the Cellar after all.
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