That's exactly our own tactic when we encounter a moose or other mascot -- act casual and make no sudden movements.  From Pfeiffer's 1973 yearbook.

No status symbol in the late 1920s could beat a giant candlestick lighter.  From Cine-Mundial, 1929.

We tend to think of Little Red Riding Hood as a story at least as old as the Brothers Grimm, but the story merely depicts archetypes that have carried on through the ages.  A big bad wolf and a red riding hood graduated from Santa Clara in 1992.

If you don't have easy access to a banana costume (as per this important life hack we featured previously), you can compliment random strangers while wearing a giant carboard box.  Photo from Summit Christian's 1989 yearbook.

You've heard of trying to get a square peg in a round hole, and here's an achievement of the opposite challenge.  From the Locust Valley Friends Academy yearbook of 1968.

Memories of college.  From Kansas State's 1988 yearbook.

"Students are puppets because they want to be puppets--they don't have the guts to be anything else" (From The Stoutonia, May 17, 1968).  Photo from Park College's 1952 yearbook.

Memories of college.  From Centenary's 1963 yearbook.

"And we wave goodbye to the stately red solid and growing green and smile hello to the breeze."  From the Locust Valley Friends Academy yearbook of 1968.

Her official yearbook portrait is with a giant spider web.  Reblog if you wove a giant web for your own portrait (or wish you had).  From St. Andrews' 1979 yearbook.

Memories of college.  From Presbyterian College's 1998 yearbook.

"Man or beast?"  From Eastern Nazarene's 1956 yearbook.

Memories of college.  Our custom Uncanny Detector app verified that the figure in the foreground is a ghost.  From Ole Miss's 1971 yearbook.

Reblog if you go to lengths to be left alone.  From Brevard's 1940 yearbook.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to remove the sunglasses. From Duke's 1984 yearbook.

It's been said that college is about meeting people you will befriend for life.  From Park College's 1970 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

When a lens flare is the best part of your photo, you're doing well.  From Swarthmore's 1974 yearbook.

As wearers of genuine mop wigs, we confirm the authenticity of this photo.  From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1976 yearbook.

The caption to this photo said, "A rainbow is something that happens between sunrise and sunset."  That is incorrect.  They forgot to remember the night rainbow.  From Clarion's 1974 yearbook.

From Colorado State's 1969 yearbook.