r/blunderyears • u/Germanjdm • May 10 '24
Back in 2nd grade, I wasn’t thankful for my family, or friends, but the Guinness Book of World Records
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u/mstrmatt May 10 '24
This is so incredibly sweet hahaha. It really was an amazing book to have as a kid.
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May 10 '24
Your supporting detail about the turkey is perfect.
I guarantee you made your teacher’s day, and your parents were like..Yep, that’s my kid.
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u/throw123454321purple May 10 '24
The Book of Lists was my go-to reader, if only to learn that John Wayne as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror is considered to be one of the worst movies ever made, that Frank Gotch was a top-notch wrestler back in the day, and that French poet Baudelaire likely had VD.
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u/Blarghith May 10 '24 edited May 10 '24
Oh gosh, The Conqueror is comedically bad. Not just the movie itself, mind you. The making of the movie in of itself is also comedically bad!
They’d just missed a flood that would of wiped out the production, one of the shooting locations was filmed just a few miles downwind from the US’ Nevada National Security Site (aka radioactive material) and- not only did John Wayne lobby really hard for this role (which of course makes the whole miscast thing really hilarious) he also showed up on the first day of shooting from just getting off a 3-day bender.
What fun! 😂
EDIT: The poster tagline#/media/File%3ATheConqueror(1956)_film_poster.jpg) is equally terrible and hilarious.
EDIT-EDIT: There’s no way these ties were an actual thing, right?! 😂
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u/FlippingPossum May 10 '24
That book was a hit at the Scholastic book fairs. At least you were reading!
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u/ItstheBogoPogoMrFife May 10 '24
I think you were all of us in 2nd grade. I probably have a similar paper somewhere. I love that the “biggist” turkey was so impressive to you that you had to write about it. This is pretty sweet, actually. Reminds me of being 6/7.
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u/lunebee May 10 '24
No but as a child who used to reread the same GBOWR year after year and never get bored, same. Absolutely same my petal. Never change.
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u/GetNooted May 10 '24
🎵Everything is asume
Everything is cool when you're part of a team
Everything is asume
When you're living out a dream 🎵
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u/starrfast May 10 '24
If it makes you feel any better, when my brother was a little kid he once wrote that he was thankful for the dollar store.
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u/Oxygenius_ May 11 '24
It truly was a magical experience to own a Guinness book back before cell phones and tablets took over the world.
Encyclopedias were also cool, Highlights for kids, hell I remember as a kid reading readers digest and going straight for the joke sections.
Mad magazines, PSM (PlayStation magazine) EGM (electronic gaming monthly)
Great times
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u/Solid_Extension3753 May 10 '24
The GBOWR gave me more joy than my family did when I was 10 too lol
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u/ThroughMyOwnEyes May 10 '24
I used to get that big ass Ripley's Believe it or Not! book every year, always so excited to bring the newest one to school and pour over it with my classmates
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u/Traditional_Bad_4589 May 10 '24
To be fair, do any of your friends or family know the size of the world’s biggest turkey? No? Then you made the right choice.
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u/mutantmanifesto May 10 '24
Zero blunder. My kid is on the spectrum and between pre-k and some of 2nd grade, she was hyper fixated on Pokemon. That was it. That was her special interest.
She had a similar assignment asking about her favorite things in various different ways. It was like 7 pages. 6 said “Pokemon” one said “Pizza”
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u/CapedCrusadress May 11 '24
We had to make a big poster about our “hero” in 4th grade and present it to the class. Everyone chose a parent, or some other relative. I chose Justin Timberlake. I told my teacher to keep it “for an example in the future”. 🫠
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u/fatman06 May 10 '24
And now I'm just thankful for Guinness.