Brookfield Central High School - Legend Yearbook (Brookfield, WI)

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The Seereh fer Khewleelge The Quest Ter Uliirheie Truth Askihg ihe Eierhel Quesiieh-. :QF . ,ks f -3 .ti he le Like ie Khew 22 f I'd Llke to Know. . . Everyday in your life, you find a countless number of unexplainable objects, activities, and concepts. They are taken for what they are, and no questions are asked sometimes because the would be inqulsitor is too inhibited, because lt sounds stupid, and sometimes because there is no real answer. You are not alone if you find that you must convey your message with hand expressions, so the Legend asks, What would you like to know . . . l'd like to know why girls color their toenails and why people read the National Enquirer. - Kevin Cronin. l'd like to know why we have to go to the dentist, what animals think of humans, and how to drive a stick-shift car. - Steve Walby. l'd like to know why it's always hard to get up in the morning no matter how much sleep l've had, and why knives are placed on the left side of the plate. I'd like to know why my dog always has to go to the bathoom at three o'clock in the morning, why my elder sister looks younger than me, and when you lose some weight, where does the weight go. - Astrid Schmid. I'd like to know why the only morning you can sleep in your little brother decides to practice the drums. I'd also like to know lf we really landed on the moon or if it's all a big farce, and I'd like to know all the secrets the government keeps from us. - Julie Boucher. I'd like to know why I always get the black jelly beans, why Arby's is in business, and what compels people tp pick their noses when driving alone. - Andy Smith. I'd like to know why guys are supposed to have short hair, why girls wear make-up, why girls can wear guys clothes but guys can't wear girls clothes, and why there isn't air in space. - Steve Donley. I'd like to know why there are different kinds of belly buttons, if turtles would like to move faster, if insects ever sleep, and why soaps have impossible plots which you become addicted to. - Amy Letter. I'd like to kriow why time is forever, and why we are all here. - Paige Augustine. I rd like to know why half the stalls inthe bathrdoit do not have toilet paper, I how long Doerf's hair really is, why there are no two people exactly alike althoiti they say everyone has a double, ' -'!. 5 where fingernails and hair really come from, why it is such an important decision as to who ge elected to take out the garbage or do the disheq why people think they look bad in pictures when, actually they don't at all, 1 how anyone could name their child Prudence, , why kids don't like vegetables tespecially 1 spinachi, why people buy things they will never use, why when you really have to go to the bathroom , there is always somebody else in there, J and why little kids love to do exactly what they'rq not supposed to do. - Cindy Flaiski. L I'd like to know why you can never put a bottlecai back on a bottle without first dropping it at leash two times, why there is always some dust left when you finis dusting, I 4 why they put all school assemblies after first hott why we have to sit in homeroom for ten minutes l every day, Q why Phy. Ed. teachers wear sweatsuits and nevei sweat, and f why darkness is black. - Jo Brinkley: V 1 I'd like to know why the insides of car windows ai so hard to clean, , why the cooks weigh the french fries and tater i tots, 'g and why the FBLA sells doughnuts for thirty-five' cents a piece. - Bob Gresser. 1 I'd like to know why people take bread from the R middle of the loaf instead of the end, i why the raisins in the middle of the cereal box arg all at the bottom, l why a person who wakes up on a television show looks so good, I why the floor creaks louder when you're trying to be quiet and why you can't go to the bathroom Q the doctors office. - Cindy Collins. 5 I'd like to know why Brook Shields doesn't plucld her eyebrows and why it is so hard to write on unlined paper. - Heidi Swan. A - E I'd like to know why there is so much worthless f junk in this world, ' 2 why people think a person is inferior because ol? the color of his skin. why freaks hate jocks and ' jocks hate freaks, if it is possible to live without the bother of monel and why people work so they can afford to buy 1 S i 3 I I 1 I t

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Prep - Formerly referring to anyone T h e prominent at Central, filtering into who attended a preparatory school, the many school organizations. As long word has now come to describe a per- as his hair stays neat and his clothes son who belongs to or wishes to belong remain spotless, the prep cares little to the upper-class social set. The prep is about his status among non-prep- distinguished by immaculate and very pies. expensive clothing, including Topsider deck shoes, button Socially, the prep loves any high-bred occasion, such as a down Oxford shirts, and lzod anything. The true preppie yachting excursion, and during really big events, like when big always drives a very expensive car tusually Daddy'sl such as brother comes home from Yale, likes to go out drinking fbeerl an Audi or a Porsche, which he has wrecked more than once. with the guys, passing out after perhaps the second bottle. ars, the preppie has become more and more Like the freak, the prep is sheltered from reality, as he hides under his alligator in a protected world. ln recent ye Hair - Perfectly combed, above t like Barry Glasses - 20-20 vision, but they do add maturity. 1O0'V0 Wool Tie - Just like Dad's. the collar. Jus Goldwater wore his in 1964. Teeth - 33000. Oxford Cloth Button Down ed. Co llar Shirt- Perfectly press Alligator - Absolutely GSSel'lTl3l. College Handbook - The family . Dad was class of '43 alma mater - you know he s a shoo-in Three Stripe Web Belt- To hold up those designer jeans. Front Pocket - Keys to Dad's Ferrari, Mazda, BMW, Audi, Porsche, Jaguar, or Triumph. Jeans - Calvin Klein or Jordache. Always look brand new. No socks - For maximum tanning area. Nicknames -Dirk, Skip, Bud, Chip. Sweater - Parrot green. Goes perfectly with the pink Oxford shirt. Back Pocket- Mom's credit cards. Brooks, Abercrombie and Fitch . .. fl es - Always crossed whe Kne sitting. irst Cuffs - Rolled up since f ' ldl. sailing lesson lfive years o Sperry Topsiders - Of course.

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things so they can reldx, instead of not working and relaxing. - Andy John. I'd like to know why teachers are so impersonal, how the Egyptians built pyramids, why it snows in winter and not in summer, why puppies can't stay soft and fuzzy, what teacher invented homework, why I hate Larry the Legend so much. - Julie Kuether. I'd like to know if Paul McCartney is really dead, what is a comma spliqe why pens leak when you wear white pants, why cars always break down at the most inopportune moments. - Kay Schwinn. I'd like to know why p rents always start their arguments with, Wh n l was a kid.. . , an encyclopedia if l asked, if Andy would send m How are babies ma e? , why Floyd is Pink. - . ike Mumper. I'd like to know who e' why were things give r invented T.V., the names they were, is there life after deat . - Lisa Boucher. I'd like to know why y u're seated alphabetically in classrooms, why people ff in the middle of the J, hallways, why seniors don't care about their apathy, where pens and pencils always disappear to, and why dogs, instead of gnus, are man's best friend. - Sue Skony. E l'd like to know why you always get sunburned on the first day of vacation, why Euclidean geometry is accepted rather than non-Euclidean geometry, why we never have blizzards on Sunday nights, and why apples turn brown before you finish eating them. - Melissa Mundt. I'd like to know why frogs croak, why your voice always cracks during a speech, does school food all come from a tube, and what happened to volume 21 of the Legend. -- Sean Smullen. I'd like to know why Pringles are not convex circles, it Godot ever comes, who is his mother, if money could grow on trees, is a recession a drought, why do people bother to gargle and floss. - Chris Bergh. I'd like to know why we each can only have one birthday, why people think water is blue, why there are two different brands of bananas, and why has no composer ever written more than nine symphonies. - Bob Puchner. Why do basketball games attract so many people? ,, , v. X film 'K 5 ra Like ro Know ! 23