Teen petitions school to allow Embarrassing Cat-Themed Yearbook Photo He Will Regret in 6 Months

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/09/teen-petitions-school-for-cat-yearbook-photo.html

petitions school to allow Embarrassing Cat-Themed Yearbook Photo He Will Regret in 6 Months

[NYC_SKP]

1. I don't think he'll regret it.

Ever.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. I don't either! I think it's great of him and the kit!

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. even the cat's embarrassed.

[tabbycat31]

4. I would have totally done that

And most people don't touch their yearbooks after high school. I haven't.

(I have looked at my dad's as an adult but never my own).

[GoCubsGo]

5. He won't regret it, but...

It looks like the cat already does.

[mythology]

12. In my experience, cats regret pretty much anything that wasn't their idea

I had a cat who loved to sleep on me, but if I put her on my lap she would get off and come back about 20 seconds later because it was then her idea.

[NV Whino]

6. You have two choices in my opinion

Either everybody gets standard formal portraits, as we did in my high school, or you let them do whatever they damn well want.

Let the kid have his cat.

[mackerel]

7. That cat regrets it already.

[Arugula Latte]

8. That is Teh Awesome.

I want to be friends with him and his kitty.

[Wait Wut]

9. While his fellow students will mock him for being...whatever...

...this kid has more courage than any of them. Beautiful cat, let him have the picture so he can show the rest of the world what bravery truly looks like.

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. attractive young man, attractive cat

[orleans]

10. i think it's pretty damn funny

i had to click on the link to see if this was a joke (because it certainly appears as if it is)

the comments section at the link show the majority of people think it's great & he should be allowed to do it

i was wondering whose senior picture this is and whose name will be put beneath the photo--mr. bigglesworth or the kid's name. but apparently it won't be put in the senior portrait section (as stated below)

here's a snip from another link:

"When the Schenectady High School yearbook came out last spring, the then-junior vowed his senior portrait would be, well, different. That way, when classmates looked at it years later they would remember him.

“I don’t want to go in the yearbook with the generic ‘I-look-like-everyone-else’ photo,” he said. “I wanted a ‘He looks great. Only he would try that’ photo.”

“When people look at it,” the 16- turning 17-year-old added Wednesday, “they will know that was me.”

and this:
“That will not appear in the portrait section,” she said, stating photos there must adhere to certain uniformity. “There are other places in the yearbook where those photos can be placed."
http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2014/sep/11/schenectady-high-senior-portrait-absurd/

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

13. People have been messing with their yearbook photos forever

A guy at my high school showed up for his senior portrait dressed like an Appalachian hillbilly.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

14. I don't get it.

Why does the school care?

[Kali]

15. Last chance to hammer the conformity into one of the prisoners.

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. cuz if they allow it, next year everyone will want their pet in the photo

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

17. That'd be cool!

They don't have the picture taken at the school anyhow so again, why should they care? Can you imagine?

[Arugula Latte]

20. A girl at my son's high school had her cat in her senior photo this year.

She was the editor of the yearbook.

[cemaphonic]

18. So that's what my cat does all day...

I've warned him about raccoons, but now I think a lecture about attending raves with weird teenagers is in order.

Gotta love kids that find more creative ways to be rebellious than smoking weed.

(seriously though that really does look exactly like my cat)

[In_The_Wind]

19. It's his choice. Let him use this photo.

[hifiguy]

21. Nice cat. Big, too.

But the expression on that cat is "Why am I here? What is going on? Why am I not asleep somewhere comfortable??"

[840high]

22. He won't regret it. Lovely pic.