Have you been heard this question before: "What is a slam book or slambook?". Personally, I did, and I found out some answers.
Wikipedia says:
So now when your kid uses the word or the expression, you know what is all about. :-)Slam Books are traditionally spiral-bound notebooks passed among Junior high school students who add comments, often anonymously. Now aday they are often on the internet and are now made and edited by high school students as well as junior high students. Around since at least the 1940s, slam books typically list one person, topic or question per page, and several readers write their comments, which are often harsh and slam the person listed. Questions focus on the group's social structure, teachers and fads, such as, who is most popular or worst dressed, or whether they like/dislike a specific teacher, administrator or celebrity. Many internet based slam book sites exist.
Slam books are so-called because they:
- "slam" students and teachers
- are slammed shut when teachers are nearby
Most popular among teens and young adolescents, slam books are notorious (and thus intriguing) for insulting and humiliating their subjects, which is why schools have banned them.
Other slam books, however, aren't mean-spirited or designed to humiliate, and include gentler, tamer questions, such as, "What pet would you like to have?" or, "What's your favorite movie?"
Though traditional slam books are passed in the hallway among students in their peer group or clique, online slam books are becoming global. The owner signs up and send around a virtual notebook, whether within their continent or internationally, and once completed, it returns to the original author, full of comments.
4 comments:
yeah i found a new version
that is pretty cool
www.slambooksite.com and then www.theidiotdirectory.com
they have george w. bush,
dick cheney, kyane west, and other celebrities calling them idiot's and loser brat's and slamming the government. and barrack obama playing paintball with john mccain in the whitehouse! what a scandle
I had a slam book as a teenybopper and it was all very positive and fun, a way to get to know people. Yes I have seen the internet stuff... but not all people are ugly and nasty. Most of the internet stuff I have seen is very friendly and nice... themed like CHristmas: Home or away?
This is a fun project to do with your family as well.
When we used these back in the 70's, the original keeper or starter of the book had all the participants sign their names and pick a number to use. Then when they wrote their slam, they would use their number rather than name. That way only the originator of the slam book knew who made what comments. Some of the comments could get really nasty, depending on who or what the topic was (hated teacher, class dork, plain Janes girls, etc.)
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