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Michael Jackson -- Not Most Likely to Succeed

Posted Oct 10th 2009 7:40AM by TMZ Staff

Michael Jackson might have been the "most creative" and "best dressed" ... but he wasn't the "most likely to succeed" -- at least according to his high school classmates.



An auction of MJ memorabilia took place yesterday in L.A., including his 1976 high school yearbook from Cal Prep in Encino, CA. In the yearbook, Michael was voted pretty much what everyone would have expected -- best dressed, most creative, shyest -- but NOT most likely to succeed.

That honor was reserved for one Scott Ashdown -- who's probably a perfectly nice person, but we've never heard of him.

Even though success is relative and money isn't everything -- can we get a recount for MJ?

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1. First!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 12:44AM on Oct 10th 2009 by Simone

2. I SEE TMZ IS REMAINING SILENT AS TO WHY THEY REFERRED TO USHER'S WIFE AS HIS BABY MAMA. could it be they have no legitimate rationale. can't name a single WHITE MARRIED couple they referred to in that fashion. TMZ has shown its true colors

Posted at 12:48AM on Oct 10th 2009 by yessir

3. starligth


Come on Michael Jackson was the best ever...

We all love you Michael Jackson

King of POP Michael jackson For ever

Starligth loves you

Posted at 12:51AM on Oct 10th 2009 by StarLight ..MJ FAN

4. It's nice to see it. High school doesn't mean nothing to the rest of one person's life, if you will be successful or not. Michael was a living proof of this.

Posted at 12:51AM on Oct 10th 2009 by Simone

5. wasn't he successful at that point in time anyway?

Posted at 12:52AM on Oct 10th 2009 by ADAM

6. Nobel Peace Prize shoulda went to Michael Jackson at least once.

Posted at 12:54AM on Oct 10th 2009 by MJ Fan

7. Yes. Michael already was successful singer in that time. I don't know why his classmates said that. Maybe, thei were jealous of MJ. Who knows????

Posted at 12:55AM on Oct 10th 2009 by Simone

8. Obviously, this was a very lousy joke...

Posted at 12:57AM on Oct 10th 2009 by reena

9. Nice phallus one the cover of the yearbook. I still can't tell what the hell it actually is. And YESSIR, get over it. BLACK PEOPLE coined the term themselves, and I hear them use it quite often -- I'm sure Usher refers to her that way himself. Stop being so sensitive -- not every person in the world is a hate-mongering racist.

Posted at 1:02AM on Oct 10th 2009 by Rufus T. Firefly

10. A nice MJ post by TMZ with no name calling? I can hardly believe it! I'm guessing they didn't vote for him as most likely to succeed because he was already famous by then.

Posted at 1:01AM on Oct 10th 2009 by iFart

11. Cute http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO1-BG2UeTQ

Posted at 1:03AM on Oct 10th 2009 by MJ Legacy

12. I've decided to leave this site forever instead! Screw you all, I'm going home!

Posted at 1:03AM on Oct 10th 2009 by Simone

13. He went to prep school in -76? He was 18 - I thought he was home tutored from an early age, because he was so famous he wouldn't be left alone?

Posted at 1:07AM on Oct 10th 2009 by A.B.

14. White people dont use baby mamma, stop being such a racial snob

Posted at 1:13AM on Oct 10th 2009 by mike

15. this is so cute! michael was already super famous by this time anyways

look at that afro!!! love it. he's so cute

Posted at 1:37AM on Oct 10th 2009 by liz

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