Over at  The Green Bathtub  Amy L. Sonnichsen is hosting a crazy-fun blog hop wherein we all go back to our teenage journals and share some embarrassing poetry, prose or other silliness. Lord but there’s a lot to be embarrassed about in my high school journal and very little to be proud of, but I AM kind of proud of this ABC of insults I created, which my journal tells me was directed at a certain boy (of course).

So here they are: (warning – explicit language)

Now that I have shared this list with the world I feel I should make some apologies. Firstly to prehistoric humans, Java- man, Neanderthal and Zinjanthropus Man (now known as Paranthropus Bosei). It’s completely unfair to use these names as insults for modern people. I have a deep and abiding respect for pre-humans now, so much so that I named my daughter after one (Lucy, an Australopithecus afarensis). Secondly I should apologise to Quasimodo and everyone with a spinal deformity. It’s not cool to use disabilities as insults. Check out 
http://www.r-word.org/
 for more on that.

I will say, though, that I’m  pleased to note I neither used the pejorative ”retard” which was very common at the time, or “fag”, also an 80s favorite. I’m pretty sure I used those words in speech as a teen but I remember being schooled about “fag” by an older  gay friend one day at a party and I never used it that way again.

XENON by the way, is a colorless, odorless highly nonreactive gas. YAWS is a skin disease.  And I, as a teen, was clearly a Meathead.