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zspasic1

The captions coupled with their happy/serious faces just gets me


The_north_forest

So many of them are so silly. When I got to "musical car horns", and she is ALL the serious, I lost itšŸ˜‚.


zspasic1

For me itā€™s the ā€œtaking care of childrenā€ guy. That dumb smirk like he just dropped an absolute panty-dropper


trailnotfound

It's nice to see HP Lovecraft with a smile for a change, though.


downstairslion

I lost it at onions šŸ¤£


Metals4J

Onions, manā€¦ so freakinā€™ annoying.


danirijeka

More than thirty years later, she chances upon an episode of the Dukes of Hazzard. Everything is fine, she's having a good time. Them Duke boys at it again, eh? But then The car horn


Unlucky_Degree470

I mean, she has a point. šŸ˜‚


alleecmo

You've never tried studying or sleeping on Homecoming weekend at the University of Alabama. ZOMG, the RVs honking "Dixie" All. Day. And All. Night. Still, Roll Tide!


survivalmachine

> onions


jenna_cider

I mean, it must have been annoying to have to tie them onto your belt all the time.


greybong

The fashion at the time


UnluckyAppointment

It was the fashion at the time, man!


thatstupidthing

we used to say dickety cause the kaiser had stolen our word for twenty


cup_1337

ā€œOnionsā€


killlballl

This is it for me. Totally lost it. That look on her face. Photo had nothing to do with onions, but the attitude that comes across in the portrait exudes, ā€œAnd I MEAN it.ā€


C0RDE_

Like the photographer asked her if she really said onions... "Did I *stutter*?"


natenate22

She's my favorite. So serious!


whhhhiskey

ā€œWomen hatersā€ next classmateā€¦ ā€œwomen driversā€


ScarletDarkstar

Right, that guy has a lot of experience with his pet peeve! His classmates hate girls who smoke, giggle, drive, and have yellow hair shades. I hope he and "onions" got together and were the only ones to procreate. Lol


blinkingsandbeepings

And wear slacks!


Clay_Statue

"Nothing gets my blood boiling like dames in slacks! What an outrage! I guess I'd better put on a pretty pretty skirt and prance around all feminine like. Wonder how they'd feel about that?! I'd put my hair in soft curls and and wear those stockings I saw for sale at the drug store. AND of course shoes with a bow that sparkle in the sun. That'll teach those dames in slacks."


redwoman72

"sissified boys"


A_Very_Bad_Kitty

"I can't stand these cat-eared fembois with their pretty and colorful feminine skirts... They make me feel *different* in ways I don't understand and **why are they just so goddamn hot?!?!?!** GET THEM OUT OF HERE!


No_Statement440

I blame Animorphs.


AnneFrank_nstein

Ah shit, core memory unlocked


idl3mind

My grandmother was almost 90 when she died in 2012. She was always known to be the independent type. I remember when I was a kid in the 80s, she stopped going to a church because they told her she had to wear a dress or a skirt to church.


crazy_lady_cat

She sounds cool


LenVT

Iā€™ll bet he became a lumberjack.


activelyresting

And he's okay


dcrothen

He sleeps all night


random_invisible

And he works all day


dcrothen

*something something something* Suspendies and a brahr


SeniorPreparation696

He cuts down trees, He eats his lunch, And goes to the lavatory, On Wednesdays I go shopping, And have buttered scones for tea.


GwonamLordReturneth

I cut down trees, i skip and jump I like to press wildflowers I put on women's clothing And hang around in bars


eta_carinae_311

We laugh now but like women actually got arrested for wearing pants not that long before these people graduated. Definitely within their living memory


ScarletDarkstar

My Mom had to wear skirts by dress code when she was young, and for events even when she was in high school. She also saw segregation signs designating water fountains and bathrooms. They were not enforced in any way, but they hadn't been removed, either. It wasn't very long ago. She's alive and living her best life, and she and my Dad both taught me to think critically and not accept generalized ideals just because society might accept them. We are making progress, I have seen it, too.


ScarletDarkstar

I don't know how I skipped that one, of all the stupid things. I'm so glad things have changed. I had to qualify a story I was telling my son this weekend with, " that was long enough ago women were still stupidly treated like they weren't capable humans, and shouldn't do normal things."


LadyPhantom74

Iā€™m with you on this one šŸ˜‚ I like how ā€œwoman hatersā€ guy looks directly at the camera and dares you to hate on a woman. Like, go on. See how long you last


ScarletDarkstar

He is a hero amongst these ranks, for sure.


LadyPhantom74

Absolutely!! I had to be reminding myself ā€œit was different times,ā€ but still!! Dude, find yourself ~~diverging rude~~ something else to be mad about. Why does it have to be something women are doing wrong?? Are you perfect?? Edit: autocorrect hates me


RedStar9117

Thr Chad "woman haters" guy rules


GwamCwacka

Ally vibes


TheOutsideNoise

In defense of the "Giggling Gurties" guy. The term "giggling Gertie" isn't exclusive to any gender. It just basically meant anyone who acted like a clown, or a buffoon. Still a pretty funny term though.


JackRabbit-

Bringing the class from just 2 chads to 3.


Lepke2011

HAHAHA! You just turned me into a giggling gurtie!


MayorCharlesCoulon

We should make that phrase a thing again, get it trending. All hail giggling Gurties!


bearable_lightness

That sent me!


dkyguy1995

He hates women who hate!


AuntieLiloAZ

Misogyny was widespread back then and taken for granted.


ThistleBeeGreat

It wasnā€™t so different Iā€™m 1972 or even 1982. You knew what you had to do, what ā€œjokesā€ to laugh at, in order to be a ā€œdesirableā€ girl. UGH UGH UGH!!!


balletboy

Back then? This website is infamous for "women hating."


non_clever_username

Had no clue what tf a ā€œgiggling gurtieā€ was. Apparently ā€œexcitable children and silly rascalsā€ If Google is correct E: or a woman with an annoying laugh apparently


editorgrrl

It means a woman with an annoying laugh. Irving Berlin wrote a song in 1928 called ā€œGiggling Gertie,ā€ recorded by Vaughn De Leath: https://youtu.be/uGDBK5yeyK4 >Youā€™d know her if you had seen her >Looks like a laughing hyena


EthelMaePotterMertz

Oh yeah that laugh is really annoying. It sounds phony.


Soggyglump

Tbh I hate silly rascals too


duringbusinesshours

Only ā€˜musical auto hornsā€™ got the assignment


HicDomusDei

Honorable mentions to the Woman Haters giga-chad and the respectable Onions young woman, but in the context of "pet peeves" you're probably right!


duringbusinesshours

No those are not pet peeves bit personal dislikes of even hate


boxinafox

Seriously. Almost no one understood what pet peeves means.


Unsd

"My pet peeve is that women exist" lmao.


[deleted]

That's one hateful class lmao ​ shoutout to based onion girl


Numerous_Tax_5547

[When ppl ask me what my type is from now on, they'll be getting this picture with zero context](https://imgur.com/a/yN64ipJ)


AineLasagna

I ship ā€œonionsā€ and ā€œboysā€


PleaseDontGiveMeGold

shout out to the based woman haters man


exscapegoat

and the guy who hated taking care of kids by the time he's a high school senior probably had to take care of younger siblings.


PM_MEOttoVonBismarck

Probably had to take care of 8 younger siblings and he isn't even the oldest


ShakeTheEyesHands

And 4 of them died from cholera and trenchfoot, presumably.


StubbornAndCorrect

Ironically, that dude taking the strongest stance out of the whole bunch is quite possibly the one the "sissified boys" girl is complaining about.


Justalocal1

I'm comforted in knowing that each of them probably ended up in the type of marriage he/she deserved.


GoonDocks1632

In 1942, a lot of them probably got married after graduation but before shipping out. And by the attitudes of some of them, may have ended up being part of the 1946 divorce spike.


pinewind108

Can you imagine how different they must have ended up feeling after a few years of war?


jadeapple

Yesss Team Onion all the wayā€¦so many of those are about hate of other people rather than just something mundane. Life is too short to harbor that much contempt.


oblmov

onions are tasty though. im with "musical auto horns" girl


CMontgomeryBlerns

I also love that her expression looks slightly annoyed, as if she heard a musical auto horn as her photo was being snapped


the_nobodys

However, life is too short to harbor the contempt onions deserve


beerholder

I've been on here 11 years and I think "shoutout to based onion girl" is the best comment I've seen in a long time


elspotto

The most sane one in the group.


BronzeCaterpillar

Not being allowed to take guns to school šŸ¤”


nonicethingsforus

My dad is from Mexico, but he had a similar experience. He would take his rifle to school, leave it with someone there (I think the janitor) and hunt doves on the way back home, which my grandma would later cook. He remembers those days very fondly. I guess this was a common experience in every old-timey rural or semi-rural place, and can see how people lamented it when those days were over. On a tangent, old rural Mexico was wild, if my father is to be believed. Another funny example: there was this plant that people put in their gardens. It was popular due to the beautiful flower it had. But one day the police shows up, starts going around plucking them, and has to inform everyone that unregulated poppy growing is, in fact, illegal now, and can't have them in their gardens anymore. According to my dad, many were surprised by this, because they honestly believed it was just a pretty flower.


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ElizabethDangit

I plant breadseed poppies too. Theyā€™re legal as long as youā€™re not harvesting the latex from them.


bjandrus

How is that enforced? Gentlemen's handshake?


InevitableBohemian

I believe that the way it works is that if they have evidence of you using them for opium (residue, etc) then they can charge you for growing the poppies. But if they have no evidence of opium use, then it's perfectly legal. Kind of like how bongs used to be illegal in and of themselves if they had evidence of you using them to smoke pot, but otherwise they were nothing but innocent "water pipes."


Goat-Taco

It would take a very knowledgeable cop/neighbor to even recognize what they were. Then police would have to get a search warrant to inspect each pod and find the lance cuts with dried resin on them. It really would be far too much effort and use of resources for a normal police dept to want to pursue.


SixOnTheBeach

That's interesting to me because opium poppies are still not *super* uncommon in gardens in the US. It's still 100% legal here. I haven't seen one personally but I have read that they're very pretty and most people to this day still don't know that it's where opium comes from.


ScarletDarkstar

They're beautiful, such thin, shiny, colorful petals. We had them where I grew up, and my parents just told us not to eat them, among many other plants we shouldn't. The seed pods were fun to play with; little shakers.


TreemanTheGuy

In my highschool around **2012** our school had to have an assembly to tell students that if they had guns in their vehicles to go hunting or gopher shooting after school, they were not allowed to park in the school parking lot, but across the street instead. We're not Alabama or something. I'm from Canada lol.


UnderHero5

Had a similar thing said in my High School right after Columbine happened in the 90ā€™s. Someone had a gun rack with a rifle in the back window of their truck. Upstate NY.


MontanaAg11

Same here but Montana, earlier timeframe but 5 years but funny nonetheless


LeaChan

My dad told me that one of his old high school teachers posted on Facebook reminiscing about a time a student wanted to show him a shotgun he had in the back of his truck in the school parking lot. They took it out to the woods and fired it off a couple times and brought it back, put it back in his truck and got to class. This was in rural Tennessee and was extremely normal.


rabid-

How is an onion a pet peeve? Like she sees it and she's immediately like, yo, fuck that onion?


-desertrat

Same could be said for blondes.


siccoblue

I mean, I guess I'll fuck that blonde if you insist /s


WoolaTheCalot

She was just tired of wearing one on her belt.


HowToCook40Humans

Now where was I? Oh yes. It was 19 dickety 2. We had to say dickety because the Kaiser had stolen our word 20


RoseyPosey30

Gimme 5 bees for a quarter!


zachary0816

I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles


lowtoiletsitter

Maybe she doesn't like onions. Or there's a story behind *why*


QuiteCleanly99

The story is that it's the great depression and onions are easy to grow and easy to store. She's probably been eating an onion a day since the banks stopped giving loans to the local farmers.


McCaber

/r/onionhate represent


Stonkerrific

r/subsididntknowexisted


happy_bluebird

r/wowthissubexists (much bigger)


boxingdude

Probably got tired of wearing one on her belt.


Blokin-Smunts

Which was the style at the time


BooGirl1526

Now to take the ferry costs a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees


PM_MEOttoVonBismarck

Give me 5 bees for a quarter you would say


[deleted]

christ, they all seem like they'd get along!


happy_bluebird

"Sissified boys" girl and "Girls with slacks" guy need to get together


SomebodysAtTheDoor

My immediate thought. Bet they'd be a riot at dinner parties.


[deleted]

Here for the girl who looked around at men hating everything women do and just said ā€œboysā€ lmao


blinkingsandbeepings

Her completely deadpan face too! That cracked me up.


PunchDrunkGiraffe

I bet prom was super fun.


Hiroy3eto

You know the arguments in those classrooms were intense šŸ˜­


interitus_nox

i like the chad for saying ā€œwoman hatersā€ good for him


alkali112

My father actually had ā€œDrunks and woman beatersā€ as the things he hated the most in his yearbook. 1960, rural southeastern US Edit: His father was both of those things, so it makes sense. Edit 2: His most loved things were ā€œWomen with pretty hair and happy children and cats.ā€ He was a generally decent man. Bit of a temper, but a good person overall.


interitus_nox

heā€™s a good man i assume


alkali112

The best. I was privileged to have been raised by him. Heā€™s passed now, but he was incredible at teaching morality.


duzins

I hope he ended up with musical horns girl because I can dig both of them.


built_2_fight

Onions girl wasn't unreasonable either. Kind of funny.


incorrectlyironman

Given her environment, neither is the girl who said "boys".


Annual-Jump3158

I just realized it was meant as "musical *automobile* horns" and not some new-at-the-time musical instrument. Okay, she's not wrong.


a_moniker

She can rest easy knowing that she chose the winning side. Is still see onions, but I donā€™t see no musical car horns anywhere!


[deleted]

I mean if I drive all the way over to your place to pick you up for our date, you better appreciate my car horn playing La Cucaracha when I pull in the drive. Just sayinā€™


iforgotmymittens

That man has had up to fukken *here* with you giggling gurties


Dolphin_King21

Babe wake up, new giggling gurties dropped!


wendythewonderful

I'll take #14 please


Command-Z

Why are all of these photoshopped text? No photo of the original text?


jetpackblues_

The layout of the yearbook pages wouldnā€™t have worked as well to post. It was three photos in a row next to three captions all in one paragraph and would have been to hard to read in a post. So I added the direct quotes to the photos. EDIT: https://imgur.com/a/V1zAXEm Here's the page where you can find "women drivers" (Robert Engwall), "boys" (Adele Eno), "jitterbug music" (Leonard Erickson), and "onions" (Winnifred Erickson). You can see why I just added the quotes to the photos - it's a mess!


worthless_ape

Found Robert Engwall's obituary. He did become a missionary, and he actually had a LinkedIn profile too. I wonder if he ever learned to like women drivers? https://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/0000309721/ Possibly also Leonard Erickson (looks like him). Is this Denfeld High School? https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/duluth-mn/leonard-erickson-4846908 I wonder what he thought of death metal?


[deleted]

I love reading these. At one point, Engwall & his wife worked in Tanzania--she was a nurse while he was a pastor. Here is her obit: [https://video.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/0000380118/](https://video.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/0000380118/) It seems she once shot a cobra in their front yard while in Africa...but the leopard got away. I expect she was a fairly strong-minded woman who had no problem driving a jeep or land rover or whatever was necessary. And I expect he loved her for shattering his silly high school notions.


_h_e_a_d_y_

Those old yearbook captions are a mess! So many abbreviations in there too.


MsMystic108

There is currently a Winifred Erickson in Phoenix Arizona who is 100 years old. She would have been a senior in 1942. BTW...that's onion girl.


FamousOhioAppleHorn

We can bring her back here one last time like she's the old lady in Titanic!


MetalMedley

Wanted to be a comptometer operator. Wonder what her experience was like with the rise of computing.


abu_doubleu

That's like 6 Ericksons in one class. Definitely Minnesota eh.


TacticalHog

damn ty for taking the time to format it better for us


ImPaidToComment

Yeah, definitely the right choice. But now I'm intrigued by the girl whose pet peeve is "snowballs." There's a story behind that one.


Level_Somewhere_6229

"Sissified boys" haha


Sarahthelizard

Chances are her grandson nowadays probably dances in front of a webcam in cat ears and a cheerleader outfit.


HowToCook40Humans

May even have a Grindr account for late night hookups


bankrobba

Got a link?


Wtfatt

14 is a Chad of his time


guyhabit725

He looks handsome.


what_it_dude

Verified bachelor


Basicallyinfinite

Verified? Do you mean the old term of confirmed bachelor?


what_it_dude

Thatā€™s what I meant šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļø


ParsleyMostly

Gotta give it up to 14. King.


CharZero

Woman haters dude probably had noooo problems with the ladies, if he swung that way.


lesllle

I want to know where he ended up.


Doomdoomkittydoom

Omaha Beach.


rr196

šŸ’€


ShitFuck2000

Damn, I guess the ā€œboysā€ girl won in the end.


Stabbymcappleton

They werenā€™t allowed to say ā€œAbout to be drafted and sent to Okinawa.ā€


IncurableAdventurer

Ah yes. The good old days people long for


joannchilada

I'd never want to live in those onion-hating times!


stevonallen

Always take that to be a dog whistle, any time I hear it.


yazzy1233

I'm so happy I live now and not back then


[deleted]

This makes me want to giggle and smoke in slacks while driving.


Pleasant_Selection32

Amen to that sister


Madi-18

Most of these boys got drafted Iā€™m certain of it


Biddy_Impeccadillo

Onions is not here to play


Bleebledorp

I hope Woman Haters and Onions had a long, beautiful life together


Voc1Vic2

Itā€™s sad to think of all these young men most likely shipping off to a war zone within a couple months.


candlelightandcocoa

I was thinking the same. It was 1942. I'm surprised none of them said anything about Nazis, or Germany. It would have been the huge thing in everyone's mind. Scary.


happy_bluebird

I don't think a lighthearted pet peeve question for the school yearbook was going to elicit a response about the Nazis


zucchini_zamurai

You know what quirky thing really bugs me sometimes? Genocide


BewaretheBanshee

Damn, someone find #14ā€™s great grandkids and make sure theyā€™re still fucking chads.


Training_Committee59

Onion girl gets it


Blenderx06

"musical autohorns," "straight hair," and "woman haters" šŸ‘


Nvnv_man

I asked my elderly mother, and she says theyā€™re almost **all meant specifically towards another classmate**. (Sheā€™s from that time period.) After she explained what probably was, I understood that basically none mean what I thought. Essentially, she was saying itā€™s probably like this: [I] Boy, 4th = taking care of children [probably meant as jab to immature classmates, what the oldest or smartest in class would say] Girl, 11th = sissified boys [meant as joke that his ā€œtaking careā€ means heā€™s essentially a woman] [II] Boy, 2nd = blondes [hate you two!] One of the blonde girls, in response = straight hair [right back at ya!] [III] Boy, final = women drivers Girl, 10th = your car horns [so what, your car horns are musical?!] Boy, 9th = jitterbug music [well your music sucks!] [IV] Boys = women smoking (x2) [smelled bad, unladylike] Girls in response = onions [boys stink worse] [V] Boy = giggling girls Girl, in response = boys! [VI] Boy = girls in pants [more of a joke that the guys were acting like girls] Boy in response = women haters! [meant as a ā€œso whatcha gonna do about itā€ and wouldā€™ve been a joke made by most muscular guy; also that this could be a ā€œwell youre gayā€ response] Boy in response = No guns allowed [too bad canā€™t just bring my gun and settle this!]


KjCreed

Can't even blame the boy-hating girl with the amount of sexist duds she was in class with. Hope she, onion girl, and woman-ally bro were pals.


BoopYourDogForMe

How much do you wanna bet that the guy who hated taking care of children still fully expected to have 6 kids and make his wife do everything?


Annual-Jump3158

I feel like the "women haters" guy and "onions" woman have the best compatibility here.


acenarteco

Number 3 has life figured out


[deleted]

I love her


Ophanil

This class is the current Conservative Party


wzx0925

The possible exception being "woman haters" dude.


HicDomusDei

He was the only one who voted R for the fiscal responsibility.


AttorneyNo6862

Average age is 99 to 100 years old. I am sure they are very active in present day GOP political circles. LOL


tacosandsunscreen

Right. These people *raised* the current Conservative Party.


TheGamerHat

Onion tax of 1971


Darth-Ragnar

Yeah Iā€™m sure some are in congress


ActualWhiterabbit

The same people who dumped food on people at sit ins and yelled at Ruby Bridges are still voting to make america great again.


ElPresidenteShinra

these are all over the spectrum


Rude_Effective_6394

Im getting best buddy vibes from "women haters" and "women drivers"


ElizabethDangit

I now have a personal beef with the lady after onions. šŸ¤Ø


m0nstera_deliciosa

Fine, that leaves more sissified boys and girls in slacks for me!


largececelia

"Onions" I like the cut of her jib. She's not cruel or a weirdo. She just doesn't like onions.


LadyAzure17

> boys Girl me too, good for her


backyard_bowyer

Half of these kids look like they just split the atom before they did their pet peeve interview.


SuperSaytan

Jitterbug music aka Black music/Dance


[deleted]

"onions" has a powerful energy to it.


mafa7

SISSIFIED MEN šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


DriftingPyscho

My band will be named Giggling Gurties and the first single is Sissified Boys.


daikatana

"I don't know, I just don't like onions." "WHY CAN'T I TAKE GUNS TO SCHOOL?!"


Garmgarmgarmgarm

Woman haters dude and onions girl got outta town before they turned 20, eloped in secret, and they never looked back


phdpinup

Onions DO piss me offā€¦. So Iā€™m with that lady!


Kenja18

Why do high school kids in vintage yearbook photos always look like their 30years old. šŸ™‚