request for a single LT screen capture

[Matthew Hunter]

Those of you who have the credits to "Adventures of the Road Runner": Can you make me a screen capture of the sketch of Wile E. Coyote as a scholar? Thanks. I just had my high school graduation today, and I thought it would make a good avatar...
-thanks. Just PM it to me!
-Matthew

[dendawg]

Congratulations, Matthew! :D

I wish you luck going to college! Don't get bogged down by all the senoritas. ;) :p

[Andrew Gilmore]

Congratulations, Matthew! To be frank, I'm PROUD of you, because I've always considered you one of my best friends. (remember my old message board on InsideTheWeb.com? We got to know each other quite well there). Good luck in college..come to think of it, ARE you even going to college?

[Matthew Hunter]

Thanks guys! Yes, I'm going to college. I will be attending William Woods University, a small liberal arts college in Fulton, Missouri (It's not far from Saint Louis). I want to get a good liberal arts degree and probably minor in art, and then I want to do something with my cartooning ability...many people, including my art teacher, think I could actually do very well in the cartooning/animation field.
-Matthew

[Patrick McCart]

I just found my Lost Cartoons special tape and I'll try to capture it tonight.

I'll pm you when I have it captured!

[Cartman]

Originally posted by Matthew Hunter
Thanks guys! Yes, I'm going to college. I will be attending William Woods University, a small liberal arts college in Fulton, Missouri (It's not far from Saint Louis). I want to get a good liberal arts degree and probably minor in art, and then I want to do something with my cartooning ability...many people, including my art teacher, think I could actually do very well in the cartooning/animation field.
-Matthew

Good luck in college, Matthew. I'm sure you'll find it a lot better than high school. A minor in art, huh? We have one thing in common, except that I have a major in art (minor in Spanish).

[Matthew Hunter]

Well, for me high school has been one of those "mixed" or "bittersweet" experiences. We have a small graduating class (57, having started with 60), but it's the biggest the school has ever had. This can be both a blessing and a curse, because with such a small group, and such a diverse group, your educational experience is great, but the social one is rather difficult.( I know this has become an off-topic post , but I'm a moderator and I myself think off-topic is fine once in a while, because this is an experience many of you would enjoy hearing.) I had a middle-school class of maybe 27, (unusually small for even that school) and I started out as the enemy...joining in 6th grade as the "new meat" to pick on, and everyone was mean as hell to each other...and nearly our whole class ended up best friends by 8th grade. I even took one girl from that class to my prom this year. We had a class reunion just last week...we all got these weird looks from friends at our respective high schools... like "A MIDDLE SCHOOL reunion?" but we were just that special. In fact, nearly everyone showed up at that reunion...only one horror story about one of my best friends who ended up in serious trouble with the law...I won't go into it further. She was there, and she is doing just fine. That's what counts.

That's what I was going into high school in 1998 hoping for again...and it just didn't happen. At this school I started out not knowing a soul. We had a dividing line...really (and I mean this lovingly) nerdy kids, and preppy, pretty, popular kids. On top of that, we are such individuals...everyone has their own goals, their own interests. At first I had very little in common with either crowd...I am an active member of my church and a Boy Scout (now Eagle). Because of this, I have a slightly different outlook on life than some...I don't drink, I don't do drugs. Throughout our 4 years, a lot of my friends did both. I tried very hard to break the mold...I tried to position myself in the middle, to be friends with everyone individually on our varying grounds. I also know that you can't please everybody, and doggone it, when somebody did something wrong against me or stupid on the weekend I spoke my mind...it ruffled feathers, but they got over it. Standing up for yourself and the right thing is not popular, but in the end, trust me, you'll be glad you did. It was nearly impossible the first two years, but I managed. I made some good friends of many different types and interests. I learned that I sucked at sports, but the crowd who played sports liked me a lot anyway...so junior year I was a football trainer's assistant, and I would not trade the experience for anything. I've met a lot of those people who are best friends on a good day...and your worst enemy when the chips are down. Also many solid, good friends. And a few total jerks who I never will be friends with no matter how hard I try. Either way, wherever you are in high school, college, wherever, a good class is luck-of-the-draw...but get to know them whether they have a close-knit unity or not, and stick with it through the tough times. I remember one day earlier this year, a bunch of us were hanging out at the end of lunch hour, and two of my classmates were picking at each other...a guy and a girl. Over all things: a pack of cigarettes someone left at a party. I said "you know, can't you guys be a little nicer to each other, this is a really stupid argument". One other guy at the end of the table said "Hey, maybe we should all try to be as cool as Hunter over here!" And it just went downhill from there. I talked to my firends of a very different crowd in the following clas, and they were actually quite sympathetic and consoled me about the bad day. As Claude Cat might put it, "A hobby sometimes helps"...so in rough spots, I drew cartoons and collected and watched classic cartoons. As that went on, people started reading my work and loved it...and began to admire it. That cured the "new guy" syndrome in a hurry. And looking back on some of my stories (which in the beginning were not the greatest) I could see how my mood was the day or week I drew it... if a character was in a good mood throughout a story, I was that week, and there were some such dark, angry or downbeat stories I shudder to think how I felt. I didn't do many cartoons this year because I was so busy taking the worst class of my life....trigonometry. Had I had the time to draw, the work might have been interesting :p Same goes for anyone...music, art, sports, whatever is your hobby, keep at it. In the end, I made close friends with a lot of enemies (the specifics would take up FIVE off topic posts) and I can look back on my experience fondly. I won't ramble on anymore, but I think it's still an interesting story, and I hope some of you younger members can learn from it.
-Matthew

[Pietro]

Good job Matthew! As soon as I get my capture card fixed I'll get that pic for you.

-Pietro:D

[rodney]

Great story Matthew! You really are an example to younger board members!

And remember kids: You don't have to be a clone to be cool!

[frogboxer]

Originally posted by Matthew Hunter
I didn't do many cartoons this year because I was so busy taking the worst class of my life....trigonometry.
Trig was the worst class of your life? That's too bad. :(

I guess I wish more people liked math, like I do.

Oh well, at least we have a common ground in classic LT's and MM's. :D

[Matthew Hunter]

Oh, math has always been my weakest subject...but if you combine that with a bad teacher, and whohohoooooaaaaaa, NELLY!
-Matthew

[Andrew Gilmore]

I have the same problem. Not only am I no darn good at math, but the teacher, despite being a friend of my mom's, is a mean b*****d who won't even let students leave to go to the bathroom! (except me, for some reason- I guess he trusts me more, as some students are known to go disrupt other classes or sneak outside and smoke instead of actually going to the bathroom) Math (Algebra I, yet) and science are, and always have been, my two worst (and most boring.. a coincidence? I doubt it) classes. Especially so at Wyncote Academy, where they are scheduled for the last two periods of the day, thus the two classes where I have to think the hardest take place at the time period in which I'm thinking least! :p I'm fine up to social studies, but for those last two periods, I get pretty restless and out-of-control...

[Matthew Hunter]

Don't we all at the end of the day...for the past three years I got lucky, I had a study hall the last period of the day three years running. Then this year they put my study hall right after lunch, and the only other classes I had were English and Anatomy...which were not terribly difficult.
-Matthew

[Andrew Gilmore]

anatomy, eh? Well, all I have to say about that is, screw the textbooks! If they're gonna teach ANATOMY, let's have a few live demonstrations and keep the students awake! :D ;) :D :p ;) :D

[Emmanuel Cruz]

Congrats on graduating, Matthew!! Good luck in college. Personally, do better in college than my brother! He's graduating next month.

Anyhoo, I'm gonna be a freshman in September, and my biggest fear of high school is that my brother has a good reputation, and he wants me to live up to it. He's a popular kid, while I'm in the middle. I am very different from other kids, due to the fact that I have a very weird vocabulary, I liked to goof off and have a good time, I eat a lot (And brother, when I eat, I CAN EAT!) and I've gotten a reputation for being obsessed with classic cartoons. Now, isn't that one hell of a load for me to carry on my back! My brother's leaving high school while I'm entering, and he's warning me not to (This word is deleted) his reputation.

Oh, raspberries.

-Emmanuel :bosko:

[Matthew Hunter]

anatomy, eh? Well, all I have to say about that is, screw the textbooks! If they're gonna teach ANATOMY, let's have a few live demonstrations and keep the students awake!

And considering some of the girls I graduated with...rowr rowr! That's all I'm going to say about that. Know what they say about Texas women? It's true. :D

-Matthew

[Andrew Gilmore]

Originally posted by Matthew Hunter


And considering some of the girls I graduated with...rowr rowr!

My point exactly.

[The Dork Knight]

Congradulations Matthew! Go to college and make your TZ brothers and sisters proud!

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