Slipping PBR can photo in yearbook was "defiant and subversive"

The "best and the brightest" in Chicago's North Shore attend New Trier High School, and the place is shaken up by news that a beer can photo was slipped into the yearbook. Someone will pay for this! (Chicago Tribune)

Comments

[Reno the pregnant goddess]

Nasty nasty beer! I was almost expelled in Jr. High for drinking one of those nasty things in the girls' room with a couple of friends. BIG mistake, if only for the terrible taste of that beer.

[How do you know]

OK - Lets say that I have never drank beer and never been around someone who drinks beer and really don't pay attention to the beer signs. How would I recognize a Pabst Beer can that is partially obscured (no pun intended) by someone's hand? I would say that the teacher/faculty who is responsible for proofing the book should be held responsible. Then decide if the student who put the picture in there even has any idea of what a beer can may look like.

Sounds like some adults are just trying to cover up their own incompetence.

[Navy Chief]

Defiant and subversive? How about creative and inventive. It's all in the perception...

[vksjk]

Thankfully it wasn't a photo of anyone's cock.

[RockyMtnMac]

lol @ Reno...
Now my preference for Coors Light faux pas doesn't seem as bad!

[nauip]

OMG NOH! Not a Beer can! Heaven Forbid! The students could learn about BEER!

[nauip]

and basically like HDYK said - someone's trying to employ a bit of misdirection.

[LimeGreenLizard]

More petty, officious school admin's having their shock and indignation parties, huh?

[pnwgal]

I'm convinced. School admins officially don't have enough to do.

[Lee]

"Administrators said they are trying to pinpoint the culprits, with suspicion falling on the yearbook staff."

Gee...YA THINK?

[Dellos]

high school is just senor kindergarden

[Charles Brobst]

High school officials take themselves far too seriously. They really need a dose of reality.
1) The children are everything,
2) You are nothing,
3) It's only a photo,
4) It's only a yearbook,
5) The normal healthy maturation of a person into an adult must include behavior that is "defiant and subversive",
6) We do NOT —nor would we ever want to— live under a repressive disciplinarian regime where ordinary people did not regularly defy authority just because it's authority, this is America!
6) Shoot off the illegal fireworks!

[Phranqlin]

Yet another tempest in a teapot ... or in this case, a beer can.

[Lokidogg1]

Welcome to the New World Order "subversive" LMAO

[jojo]

It's a can for heaven's sake, and you can't even tell if it's an open can. Do they still make PBR? It's one of those things that I just look over I guess...my taste in beer has gotten much better over the years. This is so none news. Now had they all had a can under their grad gowns and popped the top right after they threw their hat...that might have been news worthy!

[petep]

PBR rulez! $1 half-quarts at Bandito's every Tuesday night!

[me2]

Some teacher is just upset because it was their beer can that was in the picture.

[Lou Sussler]

I don't get the pun that wasn't intended in the post above.

"How would I recognize a Pabst Beer can that is partially obscured (no pun intended) by someone's hand?

Whats wrong with me?

Little help? On the pun, not whats wrong with me.

[Navy Chief]

@Lou - Hello, Obscure Store and Reading Room? ;-)

[Lou Sussler]

Thanks.

I guess that qualifies as a pun.

[nellagain]

Oh Charles, you have so misread the purpose of schools.

Specifically Item Five. Defiance and subversion are necessary so that High School Officials can invoke their authority. They'd have no job whatsoever if there wasn't a mob of unruly and injudicious children whose energies are directed at them (rather than, say, the study of useful arts and sciences).

[Reno the pregnant goddess]

Useful arts? Useful... arts? Like the Golden Gate Bridge, right? Is that what you mean by 'useful arts'? Because so far the only use I've found for art in my home is to keep the dust from hitting the carpet too quickly.

[nellagain]

Art has a rather wide set of definitions including "useful arts":

the principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning: the art of baking; the art of selling.
and
the craft or trade using these principles or methods.
and
skill in conducting any human activity: a master at the art of conversation.

"Fine Art" is what keeps the dust off the carpet. The art of baking is what keeps you rosy and handsome.

[me]

I was hoping to find a picture of this. Why is it yearbook hijinks are never shown?