McLoughlin Union High School
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Mac-Hi's Class of 1977
Twenty Questions . . . and then some
by Mike Noftzger
Please use this as a springboard to generating your own profile for inclusion in the 25th Reunion booklet
What did you do in high school that you’re afraid your kids might do? --- When did you realize you’d grown up ... or older? --- What greatest athletic achievement? - Disappointment? ---
What’s gone the most in the last twenty five years? --- Did your parents go to their twenty fifth high school
reunion? --- What scandals from Mac-Hi can you recall: --- Most bizarre incident in your life? --- What is the most unpopular opinion you continue to hold? --- How do you measure the years? --- What spot you most cherished is now gone since the last twenty five years? What thing? --- What is the most interesting spot you’ve discovered in the last twenty years? --- Most interesting thing that’s happened to you? --- Which city is best the barometer of the country? Of yourself? --- What excuse or phase do you think those who fail to show up to the reunion will likely use? --- Favorite recipe? --- Who -- in the last twenty five years -- didn’t you get a chance to meet? --- What’s your
term of affection for Mac-Hi / Milton-Freewater? - Any special memories associated with the place? ---
Favorite drink recipe? --- How many bands consisting only of initials can you name? Of alpha-numeric names? --- What was your greatest misconception about someone in our graduating class? --- How many people are named after you? How many of these are related to you? --- Why? --- Do you like jazz or opera? Folk or rock? --- What was the craziest thing you did in college? - In high school? - And the last time you did it? --- If you had to rank things, what would you rank? --- Do you remember Dan Ackroyd? --- --- What do you remember about: Mac-Hi, college, grade school, swimming pool, sports . . . that no one else if likely to remember? --- Can you find New Jersey on a $5 bill? --- Favorite place? --- How long since your last automobile accident? --- Do you still watch SaturdayNightLive? --- How many laps did you do on the circuit? --- Which visual artist has had the greatest influence in how you’ve decorated your living room? --- What is the best car in the world? --- Is there something no one in the world knows about you, but
you’re now ready to tell everyone? --- What was your best vacation? - And worst vacation story? --- How many lives does any one person influence? - Who have you unexpectedly had an influence on? --- Favorite joke? --- In your opinion, who owns the means of: production? - Information? - Joy? - Salvation? --- Five years ago,.. where didn’t you expect to find yourself that you are now? --- In a job interview, what’s the most hated question? --- Bitter? --- If Hollywood was doing your life story, who would play you? In high school? Now? --- How many miles on your car? --- When was the last time you deliberately listen to Stairway to Heaven…and why? --- What was the last book you read? --- Best movie of the 80s? --- If you bought a vanity plate, what would it say? - (If you have a vanity plate, why?) --- What lie did a classmate tell you in high school that you wish to confront them with at the class reunion? - What lies from a class reunion? --- What organizations do you belong to? - What secret organizations do you belong to? --- How many Steven King books can you identify? --- What was the toughest question you ever had to answer? The
toughest you never gave an answer to? --- Last time you read a Kurt Vonnegut book? --- Death / sex / baldness: are they related? --- Is there a cult of childhood? Its well spring? Its defining line? Its
place with the death penalty? --- Cloning makes you first think of: Hitler Cindy Crawford/Brad Pitt The pope Your kids Yourself --- How do you survive pain? --- Better? --- Who’s on the guest list for your fantasy dinner party (limit to 12)? --- Which phrase did you think you’d never hear yourself saying: Skim milk’s not so bad. Bran flakes aren’t so bad. Sex isn’t that important. I really enjoy sermons. Without infomercials, I don’t know what I’d do. Nixon was really misunderstood. I really like the ballet. Is there a cosmetic operation to correct this? If somebody made a good station wagon, I’d buy it in a heartbeat. Lite beer just tastes better. I remember when OJ Simpson was just a football player. --- What information do you have under your yearbook picture that you’d now like to remove? Missing that you’d like to add? --- To keep up with the times, you now indulge in which of the following: Cigars? Wine tastings? Tai Chi? The Internet? Prozac? Wheatgrass juice? Disney World? Heroin? Martinis? Fen-Phen? --- What would be the appropriate amount of time at the reunion for a moment of silence for Princess Di? --- Which of the following books have you read: The Anarchists Handbook, The Turner Diaries, The Talmud, What Color Is My Parachute? In Watermelon Sugar, Trump, Horse Whisperers, All Things Bright and Beautiful, The Book of Virtues --- What book would you add to this list? --- Which classmate would you have suspected of being the UNIbomber? --- Which Civil War hero do you most closely identify with? And
why? --- Which classmate do you most hope is at the reunion? --- My mother/father was right about ______. --- The fact is that ______ isn’t good for you after all. The fact is that ______ is good for you after all. --- How do you intend to celebrate the dawning of the next millennium? When do you intend to celebrate it? --- After a glass of ______, I’m ready for anything. --- When I have trouble sleeping, ______ usually does the trick. --- Do you still have your old bell-bottoms? --- Have you bought any recently? - Why? --- Which of the following statements best describes you: I get my satisfaction through my children. If the stock market crashes, I’m toast. My husband/wife and I have an arrangement. Lawyers are what’s wrong with this country. I’m happy. Honest. I’ve learned to live with failure. Honest. I have reoccurring dreams. Small firearms fascinate me. --- Most of my regrets have to do with ______ doing _______. --- Given the option of transportation, I’d rather
_______. --- From the perspective of God and DNA, what is the difference between proselytizing and promiscuity? -- My ideal job involves: stepping over other people, late nights away from the family, earning more money than I can spend, activities I once considered immoral, high doses of adrenalin generated from crisis --- The most expensive piece of software I own is ______. - The most expensive piece of software I stole from work is _______. --- As part of the aging process, what part of your body do fear will fail? - What part already has? --- ____________ has put me on a pedestal that I’m
afraid of falling off of. --- I've given up _________ but I’ve taken up ____________. --- If born a Buddhist, I think I would have seen the world in what terms? - (If born a Buddhist, please substitute Presbyterian.) - If born a Buddhist, I think I would have found Presbyterianism at what point? - (If born a Buddhist, please substitute Catholicism and Methodistism.) --- Did you ever finish reading Gravity’s Rainbow? --- Which class / subject / teacher / activity had the most influence in shaping who you are today? What would you say to them because of this? --- What question did most enjoy answering in this questionnaire? - What question was missing from this questionnaire? ---
We Want Your Pictures & Memories!
Besides answers to the above questions, Mike Noftzger is also seeking reflections, photographs, drawings, short stories, a blurb or two -- things to piece together a class personality. We are also looking for photographs of you and your family! (Family members of the non-human sort count, too!) This questionnaire and your photos will be available for others to see at the reunion. Please fill out the questionnaire that will be mailed to you and then mail it back. You may also email answers to Mike's questions (cut n' paste into Notepad or Wordpad, answer them there, then cut n' paste into your email). The usual reunion questions are below and may be answered now.
The Usual Questions:
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