Yeah, he’s a cartoon character. Just because it happens to be a movie in an anime style doesn’t mean it isn’t a cartoon. But that’s not really important here – what’s important is that a high school senior not only included a quote from a kid’s movie in his senior yearbook, but it’s actually a really good one.
It’s not like people will put just anything in their yearbooks. (Looks at the rest of this article) Never mind. The lab-grown Pokemon has the right idea – it doesn’t matter who you were born to or where you grew up, but how you act in life that makes all the difference. Anybody can be a good person, or a hero, or just someone that helps to encourage other people. Even if you have ridiculous psychic powers.
It's the Man Himself
“Mean Girls” is a movie that a lot of people from high school seem to love. This gal not only included a quote from the “too gay to function” character Damien in her senior yearbook, but she was then able to meet the actor who played him, Daniel Franzese, and get him to sign the quote! He, in perfect fashion, signed it with another quote from the movie: “You don’t even go here.”
It’s close to a quote, at least. Kristen Beever does have a whole lot of hair (that’s one of the upsides of curly hair) but it doesn’t look like it’s big enough to hold all those secrets. On top of the head, at least – she could probably hang a whole lot of secrets around her neck and nobody would ever notice.
You Can’t Tell Me What to Do
When you’re 18, your rebellious nature is probably at its very highest. You’re about to head off for college or enter the workforce, which means you know that your parents won’t have control over you for much longer. They’re trying to exercise their control for as long as possible – maybe because they don’t want you to do anything stupid before you’re out of their hair – but you can still do your part to make them happy when you're out of the house.
Like this guy, Griffin, who very much did use that stupid lumberjack photo, no matter what his mom said. It’s the perfect amount of rebellion: it doesn’t really mean anything, nobody will care even a little, and Mom might be peeved for a little while, but she’s going to look back and laugh eventually.
A Quote That Didn't Age Well
Really as soon as this book was printed the quote started to have issues. It’s easy to dislike Nicki Minaj, but at least she knows that she has some self-worth. We guess she makes some music, too, but that’s not all that important. Dajah Miller, who actually looks a little bit like Nicki Minaj if you squint and stand far away in a dark room, wants to make sure everybody in the school knows how she thinks of herself.
Dajah seems like the kind of charming person that thinks she is friends with everyone – indeed, they should be blessed to talk to her – but nobody really enjoys her company. But who are we to judge from just an image? Maybe she just thought the quote from Nicki was stupid and funny and it makes her laugh.
He Knows What He Really Really Wants
We couldn’t tell you why Mark Culbreth included a quote from the Spice Girls song “Wannabe,” but maybe he just liked it. Maybe it was a dare from one of his friends, and he walked away with a cool twenty bucks in his pocket for doing so. They seem important at the moment, but senior quotes don’t really hit all that hard once you have a taste of college life.
Then again, take a look at the expression that Mark has for the camera – this is a guy who seems like he knows what he wants. What he REALLY, REALLY wants. And he’s going to tell us, don’t you deny it. Was he planning to include this quote all the way back on senior picture day?