Maybe they should R E A D the submitted content for Student of the Week before printing?

[The Big Ragu]

That's what I thought. Weren't they making a comeback? If you have an old one in your attic with strange artwork on it, take it to eBay and you might amaze yourself.

I always wanted a Trapper Keeper, but my parents' budget for school supplies only provided for a generic looseleaf binder and a couple of folders. That was with my dad being a school principal who got way more geeked up about shopping for school supplies for me than I did.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Trapper Keepers were the shirt. They carried such promise, and by the second week of school, they were dinged up, disorganized and at the bottom of the desk or locker.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Trapper Keepers were the shirt. They carried such promise, and by the second week of school, they were dinged up, disorganized and at the bottom of the desk or locker.

The thing I always hated was that we had to make paperbag covers for our school books because 1. I liked how the books looked without the bags, and most importantly 2. It was a pain in the ass to have to make the covers.

 

[Mngwa]

Book covers were everything. How could you pledge your undying love for ______ if you DIDN'T WRITE IT ON YOUR BOOK COVER?

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Book covers were everything. How could you pledge your undying love for ______ if you DIDN'T WRITE IT ON YOUR BOOK COVER?

Or your favorite hard rock bands.

DOKKEN ROOLZ

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

Or your favorite hard rock bands.

DOKKEN ROOLZ

When I was 14 you could have blindfolded me and I'd have a brown bag book cover filled with typographically perfect band logos in under 10 minutes.

(Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Fates Warning, Testament, Overkill, Metal Church, Nuclear Assault, Suicidal Tendencies)

Dokken...thought George Lynch was cool, but couldn't openly admit as much on a book cover.

 

[DanOregon]

And then there's that time in elementary school when you suddenly realize lunch boxes decorated with your favorite cartoon characters are for "little kids" and you're fine with a brown bag. Loved my Speed Buggy and Fat Albert boxes.

 

[TigerVols]

Kids today don't know what it's like to open a lunchbox thermos on a Monday and discover mom forgot to replace Friday's milk.

 

[spikechiquet]

My son carries his lunch about 2-3 times a week. And yes, he has forgotten to finish his lunch Friday, leave the lunch bag in his bag over the weekend, and because of the pandemic, he didn't go back to school until Tuesday. Then he got to school and saw his lunch bag and so he didn't get lunch at school, opened up his bag and was greeted with a half-eaten 4-day-old Lunchable & a cut up apple! LOL
He's better at emptying his lunch bag now!

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

When I was 14 you could have blindfolded me and I'd have a brown bag book cover filled with typographically perfect band logos in under 10 minutes.

(Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Fates Warning, Testament, Overkill, Metal Church, Nuclear Assault, Suicidal Tendencies)

Dokken...thought George Lynch was cool, but couldn't openly admit as much on a book cover.

Listen to this faux thrash metalhead shirt. Overkill! Metal Church! Nuclear Assault! And there you are in your room bopping along to "Dream Warriors."

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Kids today don't know what it's like to open a lunchbox thermos on a Monday and discover mom forgot to replace Friday's milk.

I once opened up a Thermos (is that a proper noun? it feels like it should be) only to find it'd broken and my drink was submerged in shards of glass. Glass Thermoses. WTF.

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

Listen to this faux thrash metalhead shirt. Overkill! Metal Church! Nuclear Assault! And there you are in your room bopping along to "Dream Warriors."

NGL, "Dream Warriors" and "Alone Again" got played more than I will ever admit to.

"Mr. Scary," though...that still gets cranked to this day.