Comments on: Ready, team? Okay! (Clap)

By: Mary Witzl

Mary Witzl — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:50:00 +0000

Oh, how I remember the days when my kids ate dirt. When I had to pry the cigarette butts out of their grubby little hands.

And I remember being a nerd in high school too — someone whose humanity the cheerleaders wouldn’t even have bothered to acknowledge. Good for your niece, who sounds like a nice kid. MY niece actually made the soccer team. Neither my sister nor I can figure out how that happened.

By: DraMa

DraMa — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:56:00 +0000

“this is not a democracy! it’s a CHEERocracy!”

Gawd I love that movie. No, really, I do. I have to watch it every time it’s on.

Shut up.

By: theflyingmum

theflyingmum — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:19:00 +0000

Maybe the water boy can go hang out with the two girls who didn’t make the cut. Then they can secretly plot to put ex-lax in the water, and pepper in the pom-poms…
Tell your niece to shake her pom-poms really hard before she uses them, just to be safe.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:49:00 +0000

Man, you totally took me back to high school with this post.

And how cool is your niece! I remember a few girls who were cheerleaders who would ignore everyone in their family (or, you know, the geeky girl with whom they played softball over the summer) as soon as school started and they donned their spanky pants. Grrr. (and yes, I’ve watched Bring It On a couple times too many and know the bloomers underneath the skirt are supposedly called spanky pants. Dork!)

By: Beck

Beck — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:20:00 +0000

My highschool had a cheerleading team and all the fat girls were on it, to the immense disappointment of the male athletes.

By: Alpha DogMa

Alpha DogMa — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:30:00 +0000

High School Cheer Squads are uniquely American. Thank doG. Cheerleaders scare me. They’re so over the top, like drag queens but with out the good humour. Or penises. But I’m sure your niece is lovely at it.