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    Graduating Like a Gossip Girl

    The Holed World In His Hands

    Gossip Girl: The Five People You Meet in High School Hell

    Bristol Palin: Successfully Educated

    Ten of Our Favorite Commencement Speeches
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    Image of IAmChuckBass IAmChuckBass
    06/17/09

    In reply to Graduating Like a Gossip Girl
    My mom spoke at our high school graduation. Ouch.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    06/17/09

    @IAmChuckBass: OMG I THOUGHT YOUR MOM WAS DEAD AND IT WAS YOUR FAULT.
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    Image of sakade sakade
    06/17/09

    In reply to Graduating Like a Gossip Girl
    At my boarding school graduation, Arnold Palmer was the speaker and told us all how we could one day have a private jet, like him. Well. I've been working in Arts Administration for over a year now and I ask you, Arnold, where is my jet?!
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    Image of hamburgerhotdog hamburgerhotdog
    06/17/09

    In reply to Graduating Like a Gossip Girl
    Remember when Julia Allison spoke at a commencement last year? It's not like they're all that picky...
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    06/17/09

    In reply to Graduating Like a Gossip Girl
    Good to catch up on what happened to those socialites' unplanned pregnancies from the early '90s...
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    Image of StonedAndDethroned StonedAndDethroned
    06/17/09

    In reply to Graduating Like a Gossip Girl
    In the real world, there is only sex.
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    06/17/09

    In reply to Graduating Like a Gossip Girl
    Yes, it does make me want to cry. Cry for my embarrassment, cry for my indignation, cry for those who believe that in the real real world, there is only love.
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    Image of marshmallory marshmallory
    06/17/09

    In reply to Graduating Like a Gossip Girl
    But, were any of them wearing their tassels in their hair like that bohemian free spirit Serena van der Woodsen? These are the things I would like to know.
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    Image of El Matardillo El Matardillo
    06/17/09

    In reply to Graduating Like a Gossip Girl
    Stop teasing us. You know what we want.
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    Image of T.S._delegate T.S._delegate
    06/17/09

    @El Matardillo: AUGH. My sentiments exactly.
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    Image of blix blix
    06/17/09

    In reply to Graduating Like a Gossip Girl
    Where's my guitar? I have an urge to lead us in a swaying, ernest rendition of Terry Jack's Seasons in the Sun. Come on, everybody!
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    Image of blix blix
    06/17/09

    @blix: Earnest even.
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    Image of pssshwhatever pssshwhatever
    06/17/09

    In reply to Graduating Like a Gossip Girl
    I graduated high school with the son of former pro wrestler Dusty Rhodes (who now is also a pro wrestler, which is kind of surreal), and I hoped against hope that they would let him speak at our graduation, because how awesome would THAT have been? Alas, my dream went unfulfilled.
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    Image of blix blix
    06/17/09

    @pssshwhatever: He could have displayed the atomic elbow of commencement.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/17/09

    @pssshwhatever: Georgia girl, are you? That would have ruled!


    Wrestling used to be so fagtastic. Flashy/glam-gay even if none of them were gay. Ric Flair, where are you now?

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    Image of blix blix
    06/17/09

    @BookishLookish: Rick Flair is no Georgeous George.
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    Image of ms.conniving ms.conniving
    06/17/09

    @pssshwhatever: The Hart family (Stu, Brett, Owen, Bruce, etc) were family friends. I had the hugest crush on Chris Jericho and convinced Stu to let me over whenever he was training and I would sit and watch.


    Later when I was in highschool I was on the wrestling team and Stu was there to hand out the metals during a tournament. I won gold and when he gave me my metal, he said "I am so disappointed in you." Man, considering Stu let his girls marry wrestlers, he really didn't want them to be one.

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    Image of pssshwhatever pssshwhatever
    06/17/09

    @BookishLookish: Yep! Raised in metro Atlanta, live in Athens now.


    One time in high school, Dusty organized a pro-am wrestling tournament of sorts as a fundraiser for the school's team. Instead of the school's wrestlers selling tickets, they had lower-level pro wrestlers come and sit at a table in our cafeteria, at lunch time, in full regalia and sell tickets. Like half a dozen of 'em.


    I look back on certain parts of high school fondly.

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/17/09

    @pssshwhatever: Wow. That is some surreal goodness!
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    06/17/09

    @ms.conniving: Do girls get to wrestle in high school in Canada? I want to know more about this.
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    Image of Trulymadlyme Trulymadlyme
    06/17/09

    In reply to Graduating Like a Gossip Girl
    We had the local weatherman speak at my high school graduation, which was outside on the football field. He spent the entire week before predicting it wasn't going to rain. Within five seconds of his speech, a thunderstorm broke out. Fun times.
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    Image of htotheomo htotheomo
    06/04/09

    In reply to The Holed World In His Hands
    Harvard Grad Just Now Learns of Compound Interest.
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    Image of Awesome X Awesome X
    06/04/09

    In reply to The Holed World In His Hands
    Bill Gates' Clone Shudders at Post-College Expectations
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    06/04/09

    In reply to The Holed World In His Hands
    Sitcoms are in trouble and Conan's moved to L.A. ... It really is a bad time to be graduating from Harvard.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    06/04/09

    In reply to The Holed World In His Hands
    'Nerds of a feather frock together.'
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