Okay, Romy and Michelle would never have been unpopular in highschool.

They're hotties.

Teenagers are, by and large, shallow.

If Romy and Michelle were promiscuous, they may have been reviled by some of the girls, but not any of the boys.

If they were chaste, they'd be even more popular, as unobtainable objects of desire.

Their brains could have been scooped-out and replaced with angelhair pasta and shredded erasers, and they still would have been popular.

They could have reeked of rotten newt chowder and cat shit, and they still would have been popular.


There. I've said it. And it feels good to get this off my chest after so many years.

if they were "different" the fact that they were hot would have spared them the crap janeane garofolo's character went through, but they still wouldn't have been the prom queens. I knew plenty of breathtaking girls in high school who didn't play the "must conform" game and were thus not "popular".

I'm not talking prom-queen, I'm talking basic, non-ostricised popularity.

what you're dealing with is the perception of popularity in a teenager's mind. If the guy who has a crush on you isn't cool, that sucks. If the guy who you have a crush is way too cool for you that's even suckier. I don't think many people in high school are really ostracized, it just feels that way sometimes.

and it really stung her at the reunion. She was well aware her friends really didn't give a damn about her--neither did her husband.

I'm glad someone else gets it the way I did.

why should they care about the divas? If they have lots of other friends, they are fairly high in the social circle, but they seem to act like they are in the same circle as the Frinkazoid and Toby Dumbfu$%.

Of course, there is a problem that one of them likes Billy and he is boyfriend of the diva. Billy is an odd character. He seems pretty whipped, but he is the prom king. It seems to me that very few prom king and queens are couples - at least not in my school. Often the future prom queen was dating seniors when she was a sophomore.

It seems to me in my school that the divas were a very large group which would readily welcome a pair of babes. I am not sure they would have a choice.

One of them wore a backbrace.

Isn't it quite unusual for a girl to wear a backbrace in high school?

The backbrace and the weight were gone by the senior dance - they looked pretty sharp. Poor Sandy had no chance (until he became a brazilianaire).

but it was more common at one time.

I remember they used to pull us aside in either 5th or 6th grade and check our spines for scoliosis. If you had a curved spine you had to see a specialist. If it was bad enough then yes, you had to wear a backbrace.

Girls would sweat on check day. They were always afraid that they would be the one who was stuck w/ the brace but I never did. I knew that even if I needed it my parents couldn't afford it.

Thank goodness I didn't need it.

5th or 6th grade. Not still wearing them in high school. I knew one kid who wore one in Jr. High, but never saw one in Sr. High.

If it was really bad it could be worn into early adulthood. I knew a girl in college who had to wear one until she was 21.

It's all about the severity in reference to how long they have to wear them. And one year of jr high would have been enough to ostracize that girl all through high school.

This was the early to mid eighties.

until she was 21. They told her that if it wasn't corrected by then they'd have to look for more drastic measures.

She has scoliosis but was never treated for it when treatment could have benefited her. Back when she was younger the prevailing attitude was still that people with MR and related disabilities were not worthy of more than the most basic medical care. Now she has a very pronounced curvature of her spine which continues to get progressively worse as time passes. It interferes with her gait and ability to stand for any length of time, and very likely causes her pain. It's sad and infuriating at the same time that such neglect was allowed to go on.

and have noticed many things that a "normal" person would not have had to dealt with.

It really is sad.

They're the ones who invented post-it notes :P

which is where you add an epoxy, which is just a fancy-schmancy name for any oxegenated adhesive. So I thought, we could increase the viscosity level by mixing in a complex glucose derivative. And it turns out, I was right.

But I thought that was a guy named Art Frye from 3M.

Hot to moderately attractive girls never have a problem making friends in high school. The boys will seek them out and they will have all the friends they could ever want.

how could a teenage girl not be blissfully happy with a gaggle of teenage boys willing to get into her pants? What more could she possibly want? :eyes:

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You tell us what they want that would be so fucking hard for them to be happy with their social lives at the time. Remember the OP said they would be popular, while that is not necessarily the same as happy, I don't see why they would not be popular

I was quite the hottie in high school, but I was not especially popular. I was attempted to be a sexually harassed, but I usually verbally annihilated the jock idiots who did so. I dated artsy guys or older guys, was very politically (and otherwise) opinionated, and just didn't enjoy the whole scene. I had some "popular" friends, but mainly enjoyed being an individualist who thought outside the box (I also had plenty of friends the majority of popular kids called "weirdos" :eyes:)- or often behind my back "bitch who thinks she's better".

I was one of those weirdos. ;)

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I believe that one of them only became thin when she caught mono during senior year.

But generally you're correct.

Wait, I didn't enjoy it before. Nevermind.