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So, at my school, this week is spirit week. Tomorrow is Superhero day. I was thinking I was going to be a Ninja, kind of like that described in the Ask a Ninja video Thr33. But I don't have a Ninja outfit and don't have any money whatsoever, so my next thought was MacMan, but I don't know how I would manage that, either.

I kind of have to do this as well, because I wasn't participating the rest of this week, and (as a Freshman) I got a lot of crap from upper-classmen for not being "spirited".

Any ideas on what Superhero I should be, and how I could "Dress Up"? I do have a black cape, if that helps....

s### hasn't changed that much in the decade since I was in your shoes. School spirit is still for suckers, pussies, and pawns of the establishment.

Tell the upperclassmen that you're "My Own Man," steadfastly not willing to suckle at the breast of conformity like the rest of the proles who mindlessly surge through the hallways like lemmings off a cliff. Tell them that they can continue dressing as superheroes, demanding conformity to Great White Father's ideal, building up Big Brother's invented facade of togetherness. You proudly stand apart from the crowd, shocked at the willingness with which your fellow man jumps on today's bandwagon, at how quick they are to condemn those outsiders - those "others" - who realize that they need not partake of the pleasures of a shared fantasy of unity to find fulfillment in life.

When they dress up as those pillars of individualism that are superheroes so that they are not singled out and identified as nonconforming "individuals," they bastardize the concept of what a superhero is. Embody the truth; remain your own man. Be "My Own Man."

-Pufer

You know, that's actually a good idea. Superheros usually stand out from the crowd, so if I stood out as "Unspirited", I'd be something of a superhero.*

*Theoretically.

Pufer, on Oct 23 2008, 03:33 AM, said:

The best thing is, once you've awoken from your coma, and have learnt to walk again after saying all that, spirit week will be over, as will all your problems!

So what the hell is spirit week? Another stupid American school bonding exercise?

Pufer, on Oct 22 2008, 09:33 PM, said:

Once again the day is saved thanks to Pufer!

Lektor, on Oct 23 2008, 03:31 AM, said:

Lektor, on Oct 23 2008, 04:31 AM, said:

Basically.

Fair enough. It's amazing any of your children survive their schooling years, never mind doing so with enough brain cells to make any sort of impact on the world. At least your President has all his aforementioned cells...

Oh, wait a minute...

Pufer, on Oct 22 2008, 10:33 PM, said:

Fixed (you ended the quote too early and started it too late).

Uh, no not really, what he said was fine. "My Own Man" is the name of the superhero, then he went on to describe said hero.
And anyway correcting tiny things like that is pointless and annoying anyway.

I probably should've italicized it instead, but I'm lazy and didn't feel like typing in the code.

-Pufer

@ Sponge Tom: Do you really not know that your verse is from Joshua 24:15? And "Lord" should be spelled "LORD".

On topic: Don't ridicule us for our awesome school bonding days, foreigners. It's just to make school less mind-numbingly mind-numbing. I just got back from homecoming after a week of dress-up days (80's day, nerd day, PJ's day, and school spirit day). It's been the best week of school so far.

EDIT: Since the "on topic" wasn't actually on topic...
Actually on topic: The Punisher would have been nice.

This post has been edited by kingofvwcosmos: 23 October 2008 - 11:22 PM

The foreigners are right.

Homecoming week: A Pufervian history

Freshman year: Someone asked me if I was going to go see the powder puff football game. I said, and I believe I quote, "What the ###### is a power-puff football game?" Whomever I was speaking to didn't notice the fact that I said "power" not "powder," and responded, "Oh, you know. When all the football players dress like cheerleaders and the cheerleaders play football on the basketball court." I looked at them with a dumbfounded look on my face when, just then, the football team went flouncing on by in cheerleading outfits. I decided that this whole thing was stupid (and I stand by my decision of a decade ago) and went to the library. With the exception of that minute-long exchange, I was completely oblivious to all the homecoming happenings.

Sophomore year: Someone mentioned the results of the homecoming game to me about a week after the fact. I missed the event completely.

Junior year: I remember getting into a line at lunch thinking that it was the line for the burrito lady. Turned out that it was the line for homecoming dance tickets and I was ######ed out of a burrito because it took me too long to realize that fact and get into the correct line.

Senior year: I remember that one of my friends went to the dance because he figured that it was some sort of rite of passage. From what I understand, he showed up to the dance (held at a local museum) alone, dressed up like a Sikh. This was apparently a bit of a faux pas seeing as it wasn't fancy dress and he was just some jewish guy. That exhausts my knowledge of the happenings of that homecoming week.

Five years of undergrad at the University of New Mexico: I'm sure they had some sort of homecoming game or something every year, but I wasn't aware of it or any associated happenings.

This year at the University of Colorado School of Law: I was asked to attend some sort of alumni event to help pump them for money. While I was begging the task off, I learned that the event was somehow associated with Homecoming weekend. I believe that the Buffs were crushed by Texas that weekend in honor of the occasion.

I am all but certain that the entirety of the time I've spent not participating in homecoming events has been better spend doing other things, even if those things consisted of sitting someplace, staring off into space.

-Pufer

See, this is my problem with university. Isn't the idea to go to learn? Not to get drunk, dressed up like god knows what and sleep with anything that moves whilst being so off your face you vomit on said 'anything that moves' on the way to the taxi.

kingofvwcosmos, on Oct 24 2008, 12:20 AM, said:

Cut me some slack, I've only read through the whole Bible once.

And technically, I think it should look more like LORD, only smaller.

This post has been edited by Sponge Tom: 24 October 2008 - 11:08 AM

Lektor, on Oct 24 2008, 02:34 AM, said:

At best, I think the point is to get a piece of paper. Actually learning anything is clearly an ancillary goal, likely about even with getting sauced and screwed while wearing a toga.

-Pufer

Hey, togas are awesome! I've just never worn one.

You foreigners are right. How do we survive school with all this "Spirit" crap going on? Today, someone brought up why spirit totally sucks, and I agree 25%. (The other 75%, I just hate Spirit.) He said that all the staff and everyone is trying to get people spirited about school so they'll go home, spend the time they should've been doing homework on a costume, and then enjoy school while getting low test scores along with low homework grades and everything.

Somehow, I actually managed to memorize that whole thing the first time through. When I went to school yesterday (as "My Own Man") I explained the whole thing, how, theoretically, I was more "super" than everyone else. By the end of the day, I had said that entire thing at least 5 times and had over twice the number of friends as I did originally.

Captain Zaphod Beeblebrox, on Oct 24 2008, 07:53 PM, said:

0 x 2 = 0.

This post has been edited by Sponge Tom: 24 October 2008 - 09:49 PM

Sponge Tom, on Oct 24 2008, 07:48 PM, said:

2 / 0 OH SHI-! *vanishes in a puff of logic*

Sponge Tom, on Oct 24 2008, 06:48 PM, said:

Jerkwad.

Actually, the correct thing to do is to completely reject school spirit in high school and then embrace it in college. In high school, you are supposed to be rebelling against any authority or arbitrary structures hoisted upon you by the administration. Obviously, Homecoming falls under that. By college, on the other hand, you are supposed to be sufficiently self-confident and assured in your own maturity that you are willing to get involved with things like school spirit that you would have shunned as not cool before. This will let you look like an independent, self-possessed person while doing the same thing as lots of other people, which is the key to social success.

This post has been edited by Veritus Dartarion: 25 October 2008 - 01:31 AM

No, in college you're supposed to be a wild-eyed idealist that rebels against every part of the system way more than any high schooler could ever hope.
And smokes pot. Lots of pot.

Rickton, on Oct 24 2008, 11:55 PM, said:

Dude, it's not the sixties anymore.

The pot's okay though.

Rickton, on Oct 25 2008, 02:55 AM, said:

Ever wonder if the pot and wild-eyed idealist rebellion against the system are somehow connected?

Veritus Dartarion, on Oct 25 2008, 04:49 AM, said:

Unfortunately!

Sponge Tom, on Oct 25 2008, 11:20 AM, said:

Actually, based on my one experience with pot, I totally understand why the hippies were such tree-huggers.

That said, you ever been around anyone who's smoked pot? It tends to make them docile and sluggish. Not very rebellious at all.

Rickton, on Oct 24 2008, 10:55 PM, said:

Say, I don't want to be a hippy.