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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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Phyllis Nefler
06/17/09

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

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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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hamburgerhotdog
06/17/09

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Remember when Julia Allison spoke at a commencement last year? It's not like they're all that picky...
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City_Dater
06/17/09

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Good to catch up on what happened to those socialites' unplanned pregnancies from the early '90s...
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StonedAndDethroned
06/17/09

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In the real world, there is only sex.
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depardoo
06/17/09

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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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marshmallory
06/17/09

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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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El Matardillo
06/17/09

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Stop teasing us. You know what we want.
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T.S._delegate
06/17/09

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

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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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blix
06/17/09

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

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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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blix
06/17/09

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

@BookishLookish: Rick Flair is no Georgeous George.
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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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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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BookishLookish
06/17/09

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

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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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