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Bill's avatar

Growing-up with means in the suburbs of Minneapolis during the 80's is the ultimate Must Be Nice trap. If a man is capable of envy, this would be the most enviable thing I can imagine.

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Nibmeister's avatar

The girl farthest to the left looks like a blonde Winona Ryder.

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Stonewall's avatar

4, 6, 1, 5, 2, 3.

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Mile High Bear's avatar

High side with the majority of the commentariat here. Add my yes vote please to a continuing SSH analysis.

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MontenegroBear's avatar

Yes please Vox, sounds great.

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James Allin's avatar

Having only known about Sigma Game for about a year or so, its interesting to see the experiences that shaped Vox. I wonder if his high IQ resulted in Sigma status, or if he would have been Sigma anyway, even with average IQ.

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CK1's avatar

IN...this is edifying.

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Nibmeister's avatar

I never encountered any girls named Heather until I was in an ROTC class in college (for the activities of rappelling and sky diving). There were two Heathers in the class, both were nines.

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Heather's avatar

That’s literally why my Mom gave me my name.. she never met an unattractive Heather

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No Name's avatar

If you will enjoy writing it - say as a walk down memory lane - my advice is to go for it. A case study may turn out to be useful - even if it is set among high school kids. If it isn't useful, you will still have had fun.

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Masked Menace's avatar

Me, during high school reminiscence...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3SoX_0rZiFU

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Jehu's avatar

Hey Vox---any take on the Heather thing? As in, why is it the least good looking Heather back in the 1980s at high school/early college age was about 90th percentile? I'm at a bit of a loss to explain it.

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Vox Day's avatar

No idea. But it was absolutely true. Heathers were reliably hot.

And, as you know, I married one.

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Jehu's avatar

All the Heathers I knew were middle middle class or upper middle class. Most of them had done ballet or dance as a significant activity. But those weren't rare activities back then, and plenty of MMC and UMC girls weren't all that. I do miss the days when even the Math Club had hot girls in it.

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Masked Menace's avatar

Based on one semi-blurry photo - (1) the blonde first row lower left, (2) the brunette first row far right, then (3) the blonde second row right.

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Vox Day's avatar

The three elite girls are all on the right. Your (1) was definitely not top tier, but she did blossom considerably our senior year and it was a good picture of her there. Our lockers were next to each other for six years...

Back in the day, they would have ranked, from the right: 6,5,4,3,2,1, although I would have personally ranked them 4,6,3,5,2,1. As it happens, 1 is the woman referenced in the previous post, whom I ran into the day after my wedding.

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Masked Menace's avatar

So "my" blonde cutie moves up two spots... nice.

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Leland Crinner's avatar

Based on the photo I would definitely rank them 1,4,3,5,6,2.

Although you can't really tell much from an old photo.

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Coffee Guy Chris's avatar

I would be very interested in a case study. Thanks for giving us the offer!

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Sean's avatar

“I should also point that none of the young men had mullets, those are just shadows left from the old black-and-white picture.”

How unfortunate. As a fellow late 50s bald man, I have a fond recollection of the glorious day of the mullet.

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DREWIEY's avatar

Wow ! people look so mature.

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John's avatar

Very interested

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