I haven't thought about this since 1996.

[At Home]

Is it not the Stussy symbol? You know, the guy partyin' in hawaii and shit.

[Guest Beastalentier]

Nah, but there's another blast from the past.

 

and that

[The Niggardly King]

My mind is blown, I thought this was a SoCal thing

[Youth N Asia]

My name is Shannon so I used to write the hell out of those in front of my name

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

I thought they had to do with nazis or suicide, but that's the kind of kid I was and the kind of place I grew up.

[CanadianGuitarist]

No, I was using it as a bail-out. If it took me two years before giving up, but someone did it here in ten minutes, I was covering my bases by saying time actually went backwards when I was trying it, in an attempt to not look stupid.

 

Teh phail.

[The Metal Maniac]

I don't recognise it either.

 

My grade 4 thing, which I gave up on in 1996 was: Draw a square, with an X in the centre. Don't lift your pencil off the paper, and don't go over the same line twice.

If anyone figures it out reasonably quickly, I actually started grade 4 in 1997.

We did that, but with a triangle on top, to make it a house.

 

I'm reasonably certain you need that triangle to actually make it possible.

 

I can still draw it, actually.

[Brett Favre]

I thought my friend used to do that cause his name was Steven.

 

I never really got into that though. I used to and still only draw faces and stars on my books.

[Sideburnious]

Nah, but there's another blast from the past.

 

and that

 

What the fuck is this symbol?

[Youth N Asia]

clothing line I think

[Darthtiki]

It was in fact a variation on the Stussy logo, the orignal famous mark was a signature in the vein of Mossimo.

[Maztinho]

Nah, but there's another blast from the past.

 

and that

 

What the fuck is this symbol?

 

Everyone had Mossimo stuff in the 90's. I think it was prevalent at the Gap. Okay, I should rephrase, everyone but _me_ had Mossimo stuff in the 90's.

 

[NoCalMike]

I remember the way people used to teach other was to draw six vertical lines about half an inch apart.(draw three, and then draw another three a half inch below the first three). Then start connecting the middle ones. Also, I remember the inner left and right of the symbol was connected diagonally...

 

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[Guest Vitamin X]

I always thought it had something to do with the Superman logo.

 

 

[Copper Feel]

Yeah, I can remember these things really vaguely, and Superman is what immediately springs to mind.

 

I also remember that the ying and the yang were popular drawing material amongst the primary school crowd, but atleast that's an obvious reference.

[Guest Beastalentier]

SUPERMAN IS AN S INSIDE A PENTAGON

 

WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU GUYS GETTING SUPERMAN FROM

 

YA RETURDS

[Guest Vitamin X]

According to this WikiHOW entry, it's called a "Storybook 'S'". The discussion on there is pretty similar to the one here, referring to gang signs, stussy, etc..

 

I'm going to guess it just had to do with graffiti, is all. I recalled it as Superman because I remember classmates telling me that was what it was, so I couldn't have been the only one who thought that. A stylized version of the logo, made entirely of straight lines.

[Jorge Gorgeous]

Oh yeah, this thing was huge in Beaverton, Oregon when I was in grade school. HUGE! We were under the impression it was a Stussy S.

[Red Baron]

The only bands I can think of that were big in the 90's that had an S were:

 

Silverchair

Semisonic

Savage Garden

Spice Girls.

 

 

And none of them had that silly S thing. I thought it was some silly Master P refernce saying he was from the South.

[Nighthawk]

Oh, there were more than that. What about Stone Temple Pilots? Soundgarden? Even Stabbing Westward? There were lots.

 

I drew one of these S's on my forearm today, and every single person of the correct age group commented on it. Comments similar to what was being said here.

[dubq]

I've never heard of or viewed this crazy S thing until this thread.

[Maztinho]

I've never heard of or viewed this crazy S thing until this thread.

 

You sir have not lived until this moment. Welcome to the rest of your life.

[Red Baron]

Remember Pogs?

[Spaceman Spiff]

Remember Alf? He's back...in pog form.

[Twisted Intestine]

Speaking of pogs, was marbles big where anyone else went to school?

 

I remember marbles as a big thing at my school, where it would almost be a gang mentality. People would create little teams with each other, and share their marbles, and at the end of the day the members of the teams would have to come back with their winnings/losings and put them back together. You needed the good kind of marbles to be able to battle anyone for the good kind. There was also this one fat kid, who always had about 5 big bags of corn chips everyday. He would trade them to kids for their marbles. Eventually, like everything else, marbles got banned from the school.

[CanadianGuitarist]

Speaking of pogs, was marbles big where anyone else went to school?

 

I remember marbles as a big thing at my school, where it would almost be a gang mentality. People would create little teams with each other, and share their marbles, and at the end of the day the members of the teams would have to come back with their winnings/losings and put them back together. You needed the good kind of marbles to be able to battle anyone for the good kind. There was also this one fat kid, who always had about 5 big bags of corn chips everyday. He would trade them to kids for their marbles. Eventually, like everything else, marbles got banned from the school.

 

Same thing in Grade 3, except for the fat kid.

It was Pogs next year, and hockey cards the following year. All banned.

 

[Copper Feel]

I remember these special Star Whores cards you could find inside packets of Walker's, they were all the rage when I was in year 3.

 

By the time I got to year 6, it was all about Pokemon cards.

[Jericho2000Mark]

I vaguely remember a very brief marbles trend. I definitely remember pogs though. I was really into comics when everyone else was trading Pokemon cards, though I tried my best to convert them. It didn't work.

[King Kamala]

Was anybody else's elementary school into Spin Fighters? Those were the shit. I think the happiest moment of my childhood may have been when I found out they had WWF Spin Fighters.

 

 

[The Metal Maniac]

I was never into marbles, but there was a multi-year marble craze at my elementary that drove me nuts. I could never understand how kids were allowed to dig holes all through the fucking track, thus meaning anyone attempting to run the track for any reason had to constantly watch for holes, lest they destroy their ankle.