Who was the weirdest or most eccentric classmate you've had?

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-07-16 04:54pm

Back during my final two years of high school, I knew this dude named Brian. He was really really funny and he laughed like a hyena. I'm serious. One day in the cefetaria, we were both feeling incredibly bonkers so I started talking nonsense about bisexual bedsheets and something I don't remember. So he starts laughing like a hyena and it made me laugh so hard I fell backwards. Everyone looked at us and started giggling and laughing it up. That was my 2nd greatest moment ever.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-07-16 05:01pm

Well, there was Richard. I really feel sorry for him, he had some sort of problem where he experienced emotional extremes constantly. Opposite of a schzoid. Anyway, he was pretty much a genius, but he took failure very personally, had the expected terrible temper, and overreacted to most anything.

I like to think I helped calm him a bit, but I doubt it. He was a fun guy when you caught him in an upswing.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-07-16 05:02pm

When i was in highschool i had this classmate that just said the weirdest, off the wall crap that you've ever heard. This guy would says shit just to piss you off. One day my teacher was asking the class room "What do you think women most desire in life. People were saying the usual stuff like Happiness, A family, Equal rights and then the teacher gets to him and asks the question "What do you think women most desire in life John?"

His answer

"Women most desire to cook and clean"

Oh man the whole class room went into an uproar. All the guys were laughing(myself included) and ofcourse all the women were pissed off. One black girl in the back of classroom yelled out that she was going to fuck him up after class. It was great

RadiO · Post by **RadiO** » 2003-07-16 05:27pm

I had a classmate called Ed. In a class of class clowns, he stood out. His quirks were many and varied. But the biggest one was that, for all his clowning, he was absolutely unshockable, apparently living in a different, more languid reality to the rest of us. Nothing phazed him.
Once we spent a morning filming a tour of the school for French (the slight hitch being none of us could speak French, so it was a video presentation for French in English). Ed was the cameraman.
After much dicking around, we spotted an ambulance parked outside the sports centre. We filmed a segment where we incorporated this into the tour, saying how cool the school was because it had its own special ambulance ready 24/7. This was stupid, yes, but then so were we.
We never stopped to consider why that ambulance was there.
So we walk up to the doors into the centre, but we never get there because there are three paramedics inside, restraining a kid having an severe epileptic fit.
We ran.
On regrouping, we felt chastened. There we were, taking the piss out of the presence of an emergency vehicle on a film that everybody would see, and all the time that poor lad was suffering a terrible and demeaning experience. We felt like shit.
Then it occured to us:
"Where's Ed?"
"And where's the camera?"
He was still by the sports centre. He never left the scene. He never stopped the tape. He actually walked to the ambulance with the paramedics like a news crewman, filming all the while, and filmed the ambulance as it took off, lights blazing. IIRC we had to stop him filming inserts where he asked the teachers and bystanders for reaction.
The film was never shown. Mrs O'Brien came out the editing suite looking pale and haggard. The eventual cut that was released to us lasted four minutes, out of an hour of material.
Ed? He didn't care particularly. As far as he was concerned, it had all been just another, uneventful day

J · Post by J » 2003-07-16 06:14pm

This one's too close to call, it's a tie between my BF and my roomate Brian in Princeton, the former for his general weirdness and Brian for his drinking escapades.

Brian is for the most part normal, a nice charming guy...until he goes for drink or 2 or more with us. Then he's just weird, and he's not even drunk, he's just "inspired" as he puts it. Inspiration which leads to him doing things like falling off a bridge on purpose into the canal they use for rowing so that he can do his impression of a Baywatch drowning victim, or donning a garbage can over his head and pretending to be R2D2 complete with beeps and whistles. It's like "Brian! What the hell are you doing??!" "Beep-deee-dooo-weee!" Oy!

And my BF in highschool, every English class he'd come in late soaked, muddy, or bleeding and out of breath with this manic grin pasted on his face. English was right after lunch break and it turns out he'd go mountain biking with his buddies and have fun wrecking himself then. One time he came in dripping blood all over the floor, and he still has that silly smile on his face. He even managed to bleed on the test we did that day, and handed it in like nothing was wrong. We spent the whole class trying to get him to the nurse or something and get patched up, but he didn't, and just left a nice puddle of blood on his desk and anything he touched.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-07-16 06:16pm

I used to do that, although it wasn't mountain biking. I don't remember what I did, but I'd always show up after lunch muddy/dirty (depending on season) and cut up and happy. This was in like 7th grade though.

Damn, I can't believe I wasted my 4000th post on that.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-07-16 06:20pm

Most of my high school classmates would probably point the finger at me. Doesn't really bug me now that I probably have a larger paycheck than most, if not all of them.

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2003-07-16 06:30pm

Well, I had this colleague in Uni, she had some weird problems...
First, she was (is? I haven't seen her in years) hydrophobic, so in hot days... PHEWWWW!!!!
(Since she didn't bathe, her long hair was always plastered to her skull.)
Second, she never, ever, looked straight in the eye of anybody, and always walked with her head low. My Uni main building is all marble, and the marble tilings on the floor are grey and white, well, she never stepped on the grey tilings, ever.
Third, when she was in classes, she always cleaned her seat and table with a handkerchief, and then she sat very straight, spending several minutes aligning her chair with the table, then spend another few minutes aligning her stuff with the table's edges.
Sometimes, she had bursts of fury, and just left the classroom with a lot of noise, dragging the chair, stomping her feet and slamming the door.

The girl had serious problems, and managed to reach the final year just because most teachers had pitty for her.

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2003-07-16 06:38pm

And my BF in highschool, every English class he'd come in late soaked, muddy, or bleeding and out of breath with this manic grin pasted on his face. English was right after lunch break and it turns out he'd go mountain biking with his buddies and have fun wrecking himself then. One time he came in dripping blood all over the floor, and he still has that silly smile on his face. He even managed to bleed on the test we did that day, and handed it in like nothing was wrong. We spent the whole class trying to get him to the nurse or something and get patched up, but he didn't, and just left a nice puddle of blood on his desk and anything he touched.

Ah, those were the days

. I had to stop biking during the week after I entered college. My grades were getting fucked up and I finally had to choose between being a good student and my bike

As for the weirdest classmate, I've introduced a while ago the guy who used to jerk off in the classroom, during the classes. Ugh.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-07-16 06:40pm

Um, thats gross.

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2003-07-16 06:41pm

Howedar wrote:Um, thats gross.

We called him "The Jerker"

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-07-16 06:51pm

Either myself or Nick. We were so the weirdest people and yet easily the funniest. Our geography lessons were godly.

I remember the time i got out of taking some books to the storeroom at hometime by pulling my hands inside my hoodie and saying "i have no hands i have no hands!" and running off...great stuff.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-07-16 07:05pm

Once a friend (after playing Counter-Strike all night before) got up and started jumping around the room. When asked what he was doing, he said "bunnyhopping!".

(for those who don't know what the hell that is, it's a game exploit that allowed you to move at double, maybe triple your normal speed - clicky, goes to some forum somewhere, all i could find)

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-07-16 10:03pm

Colonel Olrik wrote:Ah, those were the days . I had to stop biking during the week after I entered college. My grades were getting fucked up and I finally had to choose between being a good student and my bike

Biking cost me a guaranteed co-op placement for 2nd year university, I was biking every weekend and even skipped class a couple times to go biking. The only thing that stopped me was winter and snow, and thank god for that or my grades would've dropped even more. Note that my university was about a 20-30 minute bike ride away from a huge national park where they hold Canadian National races every year, a park that's filled with tons of amazing trails.

Weird classmate award goes to Amanda, a chick in my physics class who lived on the same floor as me and showed me the ways of the world. She was into a whole bunch of kinky stuff and we'd have the weirdest conversations about fleece-lined bras and sex positions and techniques. She also listened to Bob Marley and had her room lit by scented candles while dancing around naked smoking weed and having sex with me. She also handcuffed me in my sleep and molested me, but it felt good so I didn't exactly complain.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-07-16 10:18pm

[quote="aerius]
Weird classmate award goes to Amanda, a chick in my physics class who lived on the same floor as me and showed me the ways of the world. She was into a whole bunch of kinky stuff and we'd have the weirdest conversations about fleece-lined bras and sex positions and techniques. She also listened to Bob Marley and had her room lit by scented candles while dancing around naked smoking weed and having sex with me. She also handcuffed me in my sleep and molested me, but it felt good so I didn't exactly complain.[/quote]

I got robbed going to SJSU. Well, I did sorta botch a couple chances to sleep with two different Viet girls. ( not at the same time ) . One was really nice, and shapely. The other was beautiful but she wanst quite right in the head. So I guess its best I didnt do her.

It kinda sucks going to school thats only 5 or 6 miles from your house. You save a bundle on housing but dont really ever have a "college" life.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2003-07-16 10:18pm

I would say that the weirdest classmate would be me. In highschool I had this one semi-gothic chick so mad in Society Challenge and Change class that she threatened that if I were to get married, she would take my wife, kids and dog from me. Boy was it ever fun to piss her off.

Then in my final year in highschool, a group of guys and I came up with an extreme backwards version of Tag. Whoever gets tagged must run away or else that person would get beaten up. When it came to be my turn, I ran into the library. To make a long story short, I cannon-balled one of the players by jumping off a short flight of stairs, tucked in my legs and rammed into the guy's chest. He went flying backwards, hitting a library bookshelf. Fortunately I didn't hit him too hard or that would've caused a domino effect of falling shelves.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-07-16 10:26pm

aerius wrote:Weird classmate award goes to Amanda, a chick in my physics class who lived on the same floor as me and showed me the ways of the world. She was into a whole bunch of kinky stuff and we'd have the weirdest conversations about fleece-lined bras and sex positions and techniques. She also listened to Bob Marley and had her room lit by scented candles while dancing around naked smoking weed and having sex with me. She also handcuffed me in my sleep and molested me, but it felt good so I didn't exactly complain.

...I so hate you..

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-07-16 10:37pm

Dalton wrote:...I so hate you..

I love you too! You wanna hug?

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-07-16 10:41pm

Larz. And no, I am NOT kidding.

~ver

Pablo Sanchez · Post by **Pablo Sanchez** » 2003-07-16 10:55pm

I was fairly weird in high school myself, but a funny weird. I was Hunter S. Thompson all of homecoming week (hawaiian shirt, short pants, big sunglasses, sandals with socks, cigarette holder, incomprehensible speech patterns, and erratic behavior--the works), for example.

Then there was a kid who I think was manic depressive. He was always either bitching or annoyingly bubbly. One day he ostentatiously strode into the room (the band's concert hall, where band members could have no-supervision study hall) sat on the floor, and pulled his coat over his head and went into the fetal position. When I asked what the problem was, he tried to kick me in the nuts. So I hauled him off the floor by his collar and threatened to kill him (I have a bit of a temper). He never got with thirty paces of me ever again. The system works.

Larz · Post by **Larz** » 2003-07-17 01:26am

verilon wrote:Larz. And no, I am NOT kidding.

~ver

Great google moogly! I always thought of myself as rather unecentric in comparison to people like Ray (Mrs. Robertsons (?) class... for verilons reference).

As for mine, I would have to say my friend Peter L. He liked to wear robes, had grown out his beard and hair (looked like Jesus), and was full of more energy than anybody should be... (he did calistenics in the mornings... on his own accord!). We talked about/did some of the strangest things when we were together... (okay, I did that with a lot of my friends, but I did some of the most odd things with him...). The one thing that always comes to mind is the extreme joy he got from breaking yard sticks over peoples heads.

Though another semi-eccentric person that I knew was a goth like girl with a great body who loved to glomp on me and have me draw on her... (okay, she wasn't extraordinarily eccentric, but I thought I'd just throw that in

)

UltraViolence83 · Post by **UltraViolence83** » 2003-07-17 01:37am

A friend of mine known as "Beakman." One of those little people that are the human equavilent of Chilhuahuas. Hyper, speaky voice and one hell of a showman. That kid could improvise comedy like hell.

Aside from him, me. Back in my early-mid years of high school, I looked EXACTLY like the protagonist in the movie Angus. Everything, from the omnipresent flannel jacket to the shaggy bowl cut.

Now I'm more Private Pyle from Full Metal Jacket except with shoulder-length hair. I can even do the infamous Kubrick Stare and say "Hi, Joker..."

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2003-07-17 02:12am

Actually, I think the weirdest guy I've ever had a class with was this guy named Dan. He was this guy who was, shall we say, really annoying. Now, I'm not one to dog anyone for their ideosyncratic behavior (after all, I'm no one to talk), but this guy kind of pushed the envelope. For one thing, he sort of drooled and had little bits of what he ate in his facial hair, which usually doesn't bother me, except when it's a foot and a half from my face, which leads me to his second behavior; having no concept of personal space. We used to call him the Personal Space Invader, cause he'd stand really close to you when he'd talk. And he talked. Alot. See, I'm a talkative guy, in general, but I know when not to talk, such as when a teacher who has trouble not shooting off on to tangents is teaching or when I'm stuffing a sub into my face. This part was the annoying part. He'd talk to teachers during lessons, interject little comments, agree with the teacher, and even attempt to expand on points. This sort of behavior makes even a tolerant person like myself want to whip my pen at the back of his head. Plus, he had no awareness of his own actions. He thought he was being great and social and involved and had no concept that he was pissing people off, not to mention being convinced he was friends with everyone. It would not be uncommon for him at all to plop down next to a person and start yammering at them or pretending to know what the subject matter is. Amazingly enough, he puts up a good show of knowing what he's talking about when it comes to things... until he actually has to do them and it becomes painfully obvious that he's utterly clueless and needs a classmate to bail his ass out or show him a program function or something. Finally, he has the habit of following folks around that have been friendly to him, such as myself or the poor Psychology and Flash teachers who were "marked" by him. He's a bit like a stalker there, to the point that my Flash teacher, Mrs Huettel, actually actively avoids him and goes "Good god..." under her breath when he approaches.

Yeah, he's about the weirdest.

Matt7 · Post by **Matt7** » 2003-07-17 02:33am

One of the most eccentric people I know: Wesley.
Wes is a pretty cool guy, but he is one of the few people I know that actually does not care what anyone else thinks of him. Some things he did:
-Pulled random disappearing acts - he would be there, and then he wouldn't. We played many games of "Where's Wesley?" this school year.
-Brought a teddy bear to school. However, this isn't your usual teddy bear. The bear's name was Wesley (after his owner), and had some...adventures... - the bear attempted suicide several times (once after being caught reading Nietzche), came with our tour choir to England, became a poster child for safe sex (he was known as the STD Grizzly), and even had a theme song.
Hilarious stuff, even though it was kinda creepy sometimes. The bear showed up in the strangest places...

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-07-21 09:24pm

Larz wrote:
verilon wrote:Larz. And no, I am NOT kidding.

~ver
Great google moogly! I always thought of myself as rather unecentric in comparison to people like Ray (Mrs. Robertsons (?) class... for verilons reference).

You = eccentric. Ray = Blatantly stupid.

~ver