Except for the Actually Terrible ones, yes.

I wonder if there was a precipitous drop in babies named Katrina.

I don't remember ever being physically bullied. Teased, yes, always about my weight (but never about my glasses or me being a big ol' nerd, surprisingly enough), but physically abused, never.

For me, the biggest bad memory from junior high was the fact that my nickname for those three years came from one of my classmates saying when we were in 6th grade that I was "as big as the Caspian Sea," so my nickname became "Kaspee." It was ubiquitous--if we ever had a reunion now, that would be the name most of my classmates would call me.

I would bet that, by 7th grade, if you had asked the kid who came up with that line where my nickname came from, he couldn't tell you.

But I could.

msbelle, I'm so glad that mac is home safe, and I just echo what everyone has said about the hard work you do every day. I'm in awe.

{{Suzi}}

Good luck, Amy, with the transition.

"Big things are easier to see than small things! Think about it! ;-)"

Someone would have to die.

Departure time keeps getting pushed back. BAH. Fuck you, Tino!

For me, the biggest bad memory from junior high was the fact that my nickname for those three years came from one of my classmates saying when we were in 6th grade that I was "as big as the Caspian Sea," so my nickname became "Kaspee."

Remember when BK came up with the fish sandwich named the Whaler?

I do, because that was my nickname for years. t edit And I still avoid eating at BK out of habit because of that. I don't even know if they still have such a sandwich (AND BEFORE ANYONE LINKS, I DON'T WANT TO KNOW SO KEEP YOUR LINK TO YOURSELF).

I'm not real sure why those nitwits from grade school keep requesting to be friends on Facebook. (Though I'm impressed that more of them seem to be not currently in prison than I thought there would be.)

I wonder if there was a precipitous drop in babies named Katrina.

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Oh, yeah, that could be called precipitous.

I was skinny as fuck in high school (6' 3", 125#) so my nickname was "Slim Goodbody." I hated it, but that doesn't seem as bad as Kathy and Teppy's nicknames....

There was one bully who would grab my wrist to show how skinny it was....

I was bullied pretty significantly in middle and high school.

In middle school it was the typical middle school girl evil mental warfare because I broke up with the darling of the preppy girl crowd. And also because the girls I went to elementary school stopped hanging out with me. They called me "Fly" - short for "McFly" since my lat name was "McVay". Pretty innocuous. There was also a guy that was in 7th grade when I was in 8th that was pretty ... I don't know - out there. Big time into heavy metal and wore these upside down pentagrams and stuff. I told one of my "friends" that he kind of scared me. He came up behind me at lunch one day and tapped me on my shoulder and asked me why I was scared of him. I was still pretty shy and couldn't answer him. That was when he started slapping me on either side of the back of my head. No one stopped him, including me. He didn't quit, even after I sat there crying.

It's sometimes amazing to me, when I think back about middle school and how horrible it was for me, that I'm not more fucked up. Having almost no friends and even having teachers humiliate you on a daily basis is pretty awful.

t is suddenly quite thinky

High school was a daily name-calling thing, but nothing really physical and the couple of times that it was, I got physical too and that put an end to that.

The two memories I have of a kid named Brian Jones from elementary school are him teasing me by calling me "Skinny legs" and him getting his penis stuck in his zipper and running out of the bathroom crying for the teacher.

Ah practically instant karma!