I’m not proud of them, I don’t often show them off, but nevertheless I have kept them perfectly preserved in an old folder from Junior High. They are, of course, FUNSHIETS, the ‘publication’ Jeff Flinn and I created during our seventh grade year at Ankeney Junior High. I would have never recalled the exact history of the formation of the FUNSHIET, but as fate would have it, one of my editorials in issue #4, actually detailed it for me.
The contents generally included making fun of other students and faculty from school, cartoons (mostly plagiarized), rantings, and pseudo-games. They were crass, often exhibiting flagrant profanity. They were vulgur and immature. They were in fact, the perfect representation of what was going on in the adolescent mind. And somehow, I found myself chuckling at some of the contents even today.
Although I had to be very selective on what I am sharing on here, I did find a few items that I could use to represent the era of the FUNSHIET. To be diplomatic to my earlier self, I’ll simply defend these as a creative outlet that would eventually lead to more meaningful publications and writings. Do your best to enjoy.
Lies I made up in Issue #2
A real rebuttal from the real Reed Eggleston in Issue #8
Like anyone really cared…
More pontificating…and a dig at our English teacher
Another stolen cartoon, and a line from an L&H movie in Issue #14
Gather what’s left of your brains and return to 1985…
So much for this being a family friendly website…Just kidding. What seventh grader didn’t swear like a sailor?
Aaron
November 14th, 2007