Funniest Yearbook Mistake

[jym626]

<p>In another thread, Digmedia and Over30 each posted funny yearbook photo goofs that happened to them in their yearbooks. To summarize, I will cut/paste their posts:
DIGMEDIA:

True story - in HS, I was absent for the yearbook photo of a club that I was the president of. When the yearbook was published, there I was in the photo, but with a head about 25% bigger than it should have been. My head had been cut from another photo (before the days of Photoshop, so when I say cut, I mean cut) and pasted over someone else’s face.I felt bad. Because I was the president, they thought it was more important for me to be in the photo than _____(?). Never did know who it was.

and OVER30:

Dig, I wasn’t missing from a picture, but running a high fever when my picture was “photoshopped” in 9th grade. Long story, but I was a candidate for some “queen” thing and wearing a long white velvet dress I made. Here’s the lovely photo of me (and my actual boyfriend) walking across the junior high gym to the stage and I was barely conscious. My eyes were completely closed, and for some reason the yearbook staff decided to use that picture. They took an ink pen and drew in my eyes, and for some inexplicable reason, very long eyelashes. I was supposed to look glamorous but instead I looked like a zombie with Cher eyelashes! I’m proud to say its the funniest picture in the yearbook, beating out the rather large principal in drag at a pep rally.

So, what was the funniest yearboook mistake you can recall? I had what was voted the best mistake in my HS yearbook. The editor called me early one morning to tell me he’s just finished proofing all the galleys. Our graduating class was very large (HS had 3000 students) and I was at the end of the alphabet, so by the time he got to my name it was the wee hours of the morning. One of the categories we had under our pictures was our hobby. For my hobby, I’d put “flattening pennies on traintracks”. However, the editor informed me that the typsetter had inadvertently left out one of the "n"s and the final “e” in “p-e-n-n-i-e-s” :eek: (please, don’t make me type it-- do the visual…) I gasped and without missing a beat, said “you fixed it , didn’t you?? You changed flattening to squashed, right?” We both roared! He said it had certainly woken him up from his bleary-eyed fog at 4 in the morning, when he finished proofing the yearbook! He thought he was hallucinating! We laughed for days! It still makes me laugh, 30+ years later…</p>

[jym626]

<p>gosh… no one has a funny yearbook story? Did our 3 say it all?? C’mon-- I am sure there are many former yearbook editors among you— share your stories!!</p>

[mirror_of_dirt]

<p>There was a kid in school 5 (?) years ago named Richard Cant who was known to everyone as Dicky. They used “Dicky” in one of the club photos and mistyped the a as a u in Cant. Contradicting, yet hilarious, typo. They framed the page and it is forever enshrined in Yearbook Room.</p>

<p>EDIT: Oh, man. I hope he doesn’t come on this site.</p>

[warblersrule]

<p>My high school band teacher, Mr. James, was both shocked and amused when the '04/'05 yearbook listed him as “Jamar.” We’re still not sure where that came from. :eek:</p>

[m_c]

<p>This isn’t really a mistake, per se, but it’s a funny story :D</p>

<p>In my HS, all seniors get a “senior page” to fill with pictures and messages however they like (we have a small high school). Oh, and nearly everyone drinks at my school. We have a lot of Euro kids and where I live the drinking age is 18 but IDs aren’t checked very stringently… so anyways.</p>

<p>A few years back, one senior had lots of pictures of himself and his friends with very red faces. They were clearly at bars, drunk, with beer bottles strewn all over the place. This senior cropped every single beer bottle out of his pictures and pasted in pictures of coke bottles instead! It was very obviously done and no one believed it for a second, of course, but it was quite funny. I think he did it just to spite the teachers…</p>

[shagpin]

<p>In our yearbook traditionally the editors slipped in drug/movie/popular culture references into diferent spreads. I’ve been shown a couple but I’ve been told theres loads more.</p>