Ma’am, You’ve Been Slammed

At loadedquestions.com you can order your own slambook for girls and guys where people write thought provoking questions and answer them, passing them around for all to participate.

There are over 90 questions in each book and a variety of three kinds are sold.

Slambooks were books that looked like autograph books that were passed all over school. Eventually the teacher would take it and then everyone would panic knowing that there were comments in there by students about other kids they didn’t like.

Slambooks would also have entries like this:

Page one: Choose your line
1 – Jody
2 – Jackie
3 – Tim
4 – Felicia
5 – Charles

Etc.

Page two: What is your favorite food?
1 – Fried oysters
2 – Quarter pounder, strawberry shake
3 – Chocolate cream, cookies
4 – Liver and onionsâÂ?¦just kiddingâÂ?¦broccoliâÂ?¦still kidding
5 – Spaghetti

“Kids call each other names on online bulletin boards now. It’s not a new idea,” said Vance. “Back in my day teenagers did the same thing only it was handwritten in slambooks. If they’re not writing it, they’re saying it.”

Writer Rebecca Wider said, like it or not, the interest in finding out what others think about us is common. Slambooks became popular in the 1980s.

“I remember only two things about sixth grade and they both made such an impression on me that I fear they will stay with me always,” she said. “One is Def Leppard’s Hysteria, the other is the slambook.”

At angelfire.com you can find categories of slambooks from “Cat’s Meow” to athletes.

I remember when I was in middle school we used to number the slambooks too as they circulated around so we could keep track of them.

Now there are even slambooks for college students which seems immature to me.

But then I haven’t been in college since 1988.