13 Ways Lisa Frank Totally Predicted the Future

I’m not telling you anything you don’t know: when it came to school supplies back in the day, it was Lisa Frank or nothing. You could have all the Yikes pencils you wanted. Without some rainbow-splattered, vertigo-inducing animal jumbles, you weren’t complete.

And upon closer, grown-up inspection, I now can see that there was more to this phenomenon than folders. In hot-pink whispers, Lisa was trying to tell us what our futures would look like. She was trying to tell us things like:

Neon and leopard will both be part of your life forever.__

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The ice will start to melt, and the penguins will need to stick together.

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You will have your friends create distractions around you as you go from sitting to standing (and vice versa) in a two-piece.

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I know you think a rapper would never wear checkered slip-on sneakers. But in the future, there shall be a man named Lil’ Wayne, and he shall take his inspiration from these hip-hop bears, and the word, it shall be written: “Skinny pants and some Vans.”

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Two words: side braids.

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Securing your secret information will be oh-so-important as that thing they’re calling the World Wide Web becomes a bigger and bigger part of our lives.

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This little girl will be on the cover of Glamour.

You will still have that one friend who’s totally into daredevil stuff and that one friend who looks pukey whenever you do something risky. And you’ll be in the middle.

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Unicorns still won’t be real, sadly. But rainbows will be doing huge things in the civil rights department.

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Take a good look at this image. You’ll see it again years from now, in your mind, when you’re trying to do the South Beach Diet.

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And they shall call the dreamboat of the future: Taylor Lautner.

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Laugh all you want, but long into your twenties–nay, your thirties!–you’ll still be looking at kitties at your desk.

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And you’ll still be in the Lisa Frank Friendship Club. ‘Cause according to the ad below, that membership you sent away for was good for life.

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What do you remember about Lisa Frank stuff? I think I had something in every motif except one that showed a “hot girl” in a bikini reflected in the hubcap of a convertible. I tried to sneak it through checkout with the index cards and rulers, but my mom made me put it back.

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