Monday, September 17, 2018

Once they get out the high school yearbooks no one is gonna look good

This latest Kavanaugh controversy has people rummaging through the high school yearbook of Kavanaugh and his character witness Mark Judge (previously known for a racist essay and his book about being a black-out drunk the whole time he was in high school with Kavanaugh). I also went to a private high school, where all the seniors got to design their own entire page in the year book. So I understand how the inside jokes and pithy quotes that seemed funny or profound when you were a 17-year old designing your page often do not age very well.

I mentioned below how Judge's book might have recounted incidents from Brett Kavanaugh's past with the pseudonym "Bart O'Kavanaugh." But what I found interesting from the yearbook pages is among the inside jokes and references to who-knows-what on Kavanaugh's page it says "have you boofed yet?" Meanwhile, on Judge's yearbook page, also buried in a series of references is: "Bart, have you boofed yet?" Which suggests to me that "Bart" really was Judge's nickname for Kavanaugh in high school and "Bart O'Kavanaugh" in Judge's book is almost certainly Brett Kavanaugh.

As for what "boofing" means. Who knows? It could have just been a term the two teenagers made up for their own private joke, on the other hand, there is the urban dictionary definition...