"Brett Aaronfield" <brettaaronfield@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Pahsons - Somnolent wrote:
>
> > Falling asleep through Santa Claws's post...
> >
> >>>- preppies ?
> >>
> >> The elite. The ones that will go on to top schools, become lawyers
and
> >> doctors. Often more because of family money than intelligence (to
> >> distinguish them from Krelboynes). The people who will own the pools
> >> that people like Reese get jobs cleaning.
> >
> > Wrong, preppies are the ones whose parents have lots of money and
> > therefore the kids act like they are Kennedys. They wear the extra
> > expensive clothes, have the expensive cars. They can be ugly and fat
> > as all hell, as long as they have money, it's up the popularity poll
> > for them
>
> Now I'm confused :-)
I don't think it has so much to do with money as it does just "looking the
part". At my school I knew kids that were preppy and their families
didn't
have two nickels to rub together. It usually does take money to lead that
kind if lifestyle, but not always. Basically your preps are all about
appearances - trying to look more sophisticated and intelligent than they
might actually be underneath. I knew some preps that partied hearty their
freshmen year of college and flunked out.
> >>>- posers ?
> >>
> >> The wannabees. Kids who have to try too hard to be cool. The right
> >> clothes, the right image. The right underwear...
> >
> > Posers are that, but more of those punk kids who think that "beating
> > the man" is the most im****tant thing in the world. Or kids similar to
> > those that shot up Columbine. Poser is a rather all encompassing
term.
> > Those goth kids? Same catergory.
>
> The goths are a distinct grouping of their own though. I suppose what I
> guessed posers to be was those who desperately wanted to be affiliated
> with one of these groupings but could just never make it for one reason
> or another. As such they're a fickle, desperate and gullible lot,
> prepared to do anything to get them recognition or association.
Actually, it could be said that the goths are the "anti-posers" in a
sense.
Posers try to be everything they see the mass populus liking and approving
of in constant search of being accepted or noticed. Goths will usually
work
overtime at eschewing and detaching themselves that even whiffs of
popularity or normal acceptance, and will tell you flat out that they
don't
care about being accepted and sometimes even fear it.
> >>>- jocks ?
> >>
> >> S****ts; football players, hockey players. Guys who overcome lack of
> >> intelligence through physical prowess. Reese maybe should have been
> >> ****trayed as a jock; hockey, wrestling, bullying... But jocks have
> >> friends; Reese, as has been cruelly pointed out, doesn't.
> >
> > Bullying doesn't make you a jock. Physical prowness doesn't make you
a
> > jock. Only playing a s****t does. Preps like jocks for some stupid
> > reason.
>
> I don't think the word "jock" was actually mentioned in the episode, but
> I did spot it in the end credits. I presumed that these "jocks" were the
> ones who played basketball.
Plus, being a jock would mean Reese would have to have teamwork skills,
attend grueling practices regularly, keep his grades up, and at least make
a
bold attempt to be a civil human being for the sake of show.
Of course the groups can intertwine. Some jocks can be preppies. Some
geeks can be goths. Then you have the occasional "skater" that could be a
wild card and fit into any of the above...
> > Where did you go to school?
Good old Small Town USA, where jockdom ruled and it was noble to be a
ne'er-do-well. :( (I was a geek/Krelboyne, can't you tell? :) )
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