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Updated: 10/17/2005

in no order, The most painfully dated senior quotes from my high school yearbook, 1987
these are not just dumb quotes, they have to have an element of timeliness in addition to dumbness -- there are plenty of dumber ones than these -- these are just the ones that make you cringe and wonder just who you were back then

1. "But oh what can you do when she's dressed in black -- Depeche Mode" (one of several D.M. and New Order quotes; I'll stop here)

2. "october the trees are stripped bare of all they wear what do i care october and kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall but you go on and on -- bono"

3. "Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again"
This joker (who got like a 1580 on his SAT's) didn't have the nerve to attribute it, but I am ashamed to admit I know it's Billy Joel (I will only list this one Billy Joel quote, there were at least five to choose from). 

4. "Reagan + Gorbachev + all those phoney tough guys in suits who dream about bombs aren't worth 1 Mookie Wilson" (OK, I kind of like this one)

5. "If I fail, If I succeed, at least I live as long as I believe -- W. Houston"  Now this one is a little bit too much of a sitting duck, but I had to point it out because a) they sort of got the quote a little bit wrong and b) they wrote "W. Houston" as if we'd be fooled into thinking it was some little-known philosopher.

6. "...and I begin to wonder what the point was if we ever knew -- Bret Easton Ellis" 

7. "Stay tall.  Don't think small.  Don't get your back against the wall"  -- no attribution, but I am pretty sure this is from the Tommy Shaw song "Girls with Guns"

8. "CATCH THE WAVE -- Max Headroom"

9. "CRACK IS WACK -- Thoreau"  (I remember thinking this one was a laugh riot)

10."Quite frankly, I'd rather be David Lee Roth than a damp and dumpy water fowl with a zit on his nose!  -- P. Opus"  I never liked "Bloom County," or the people who liked it.

11. "The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted.  It belongs to the brave. -- Reagan of the Challenger disaster"

12. "But seriously -- WE ONLY BUGGIN' "

13. "Experience = the name so many give to their mistakes -- Oscar Wilde   
Heartbeat, beating like mine  -- DJohnson"  I love how the Oscar Wilde quote was just not sufficient.  it took the words of Don Johnson to put it all together. I would venture to say this is the only person ever who quoted both of those sages in one yearbook.  Again, note how abbreviation is used to throw us off the trail.

14. "Hold on to 16 as long as you can; changes comin' round real soon make us women and men!  -- JCM"

15. "I DREAM MYSELF ALIVE --AHA"  I swear.

16. "Nothing is impossible if you put your all in it.  The sky is the limit.  Ya gotta believe!!! -- Mets '86"  -- I remember this dude having bad breath.

17.  "We are spirits in the material world -- Sting"

18."Aw come on, don't fess."

19. "TRACK TEAM!!! Is my hair messed up?  OH SWEAT!!!"

20. ***the LEAST dated quote: "All we can do is understand what's going on... -- Frank McCourt"  If I remember, this girl was very short but had big boobies.

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