Yearbook Weirdness

The more Cupids it takes to bind a couple together, the higher the chances that the union won't endure.  From Duke's 1918 yearbook.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

The dentist's legs are an upper jaw.  From Tulane's 1915 yearbook.

Like something out of a Japanese horror film, these blurry-faced cheerleaders haunt the UC Southern Branch yearbook of 1959.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

Speaking of alphabet dice, recall the surprising message from a dinosaur I received via letter cubes.

From the State Female Normal School, Farmville, Va.'s 1902 yearbook.

From Washington College's 1931 yearbook.

From Swarthmore's 1932 yearbook.

From Lehigh's 1915 yearbook.

So few faces in yearbooks are even real.  From the Mississippi Delta Junior College yearbook of 1976.

From the University of Rhode Island yearbook of 1903.

The "economichthyosaurus" is a Googlewhack.  From Barnard's 1907 yearbook.

In the ghost-hunting community, this mournful spirit is known as "Our Lady of the Spoons of Damocles."  From UNC Chapel Hill's 1970 yearbook.

We checked, and it turns out to be true -- happiness is, indeed, an overhead projector, and as this technology becomes increasingly obsolete, sadness spreads across the globe.  From Wake Forest's 1975 yearbook.

"I am naughty."  From Colorado College's Nugget yearbook of 1954.

As a general rule, never hold your marotte upside down in front of a giant skull with a sword piercing one eye.  An ounce of prevention and so on.  From Tulane's 1896 yearbook.

From Washington University's 1909 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From Swarthmore's 1932 yearbook.

From Lehigh's 1915 yearbook.

"Victory Over Death" -- the most popular elective class after Music Appreciation.  From East Carolina's 1942 yearbook.

The autumn fairy.  From Montreat's 1947 yearbook.