This May Mean I’m Cartoonish
“No, I saw him on TV the other day; he was holding five elephants in one hand.”
Who do you look like?
Not mom, dad, or the mailman – someone famous.
When I was in elementary school, kids called me Casper. Something to do with pale skin. In junior high, they stopped with ghost references and started calling me Lucy, as in Charlie Brown, due to a certain crabby quality rather than physical appearance. At least that’s my hope.
I don’t look like anyone anymore. Just me.
Or so I thought.
Yesterday was my first day in a new high school and I overheard two students whispering about me as I passed by their desks. Did they compare me to a summer’s day? Minnie Driver? That chick from Judging Amy? Not so much. One kid called me Cucumber Head and the other said I looked like either Beavis or Butthead – he couldn’t decide. They were serious – like the boys in Stand By Me who argued about Mighty Mouse vs. Superman. I stood at my desk pretending not to hear them put forth convincing arguments while my face turned five shades of red. I marked one of them tardy just for kicks.
Man. Who the hell is Cucumber Head?
posted by kate @ 5:45 AM
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8 Comments:
remember to consider the source
From Cucumber Head Johnson:
On a hot summer day when I was a kid, my grandmother would peel cucumbers (for dinner) and stick the peel on our foreheads.
It actually did feel quite cool!
But I bet we were the stupidest looking family in the neighborhodod (sic).
On a personal note, when I was a kid, my grandmother put on the a/c.
who do I look like?
...as a kid, my family said I looked like "cousin it"
...late H.S./early college peeps said, "Tori Spelling" -yuck.
Do not smile until June
another reason to dismantle the u.s. public school system.
apparently you are, and I think we should hold an open debate on this blog as to whether or not that accusation holds merit.
THANK YOU JESUS, FINALLY THIS BLOG HAS SOME CONTENT I CAN GET INTO. I swear to you, I think Cucumber Head is a reference to some bad Winter Park Arts and Crafts Fair ceramic figurines, molded and fired in wacky poses with etched-in sayings like "Hang in there, baby!." Two words: Googly eyes.
Cucumber Head? And I thought big hair was bad.
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