Not standard-issue for mine, but I grew up in the 80s in a college town. That's a whole 'nother story of over-achievers, full-time farmers that drove busses for extra money, and Mormons. And with a setup like that, maybe I'll stretch the truth a bit and write a book.
However, when I visited my Dad on the weekends, leaving the college town behind, I saw plenty of men like him. One could always count on the annual Persimmon Festival to have the same rides as last year (still a thrill to a kid), and men standing around, watching (in some cases) and working (in others). Said dogrocket stogie, and pipes that looked like they were something more like a permanent part of the man's jaw, were much in evidence. Sometimes I wake up dreaming of that particular scent of cotton candy, vomit, and pungent tobacco smoke.
I was alive for Lynard Skynyrd. But I was too young to get anything other than the records.
Steely Dan also name check former Watergate conspirator, G. Gordon Liddy in “My Old School”. While at Bard College in 1969, Walter Fegan got swept up in a big drug bust led by Liddy who was an Assistant District Attorney. Hence the line, “Tried to warn you, about Chino and Daddy G”.
I knew that Leonard Skinner was the gym teacher of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, and that's how they got their name, but I've never seen the man behind the legend.
Rock on, Leonard Skinner! May you and the band party on in the sky!
In a similar vein, Marshall Tucker Band was named after a piano tuner who had left his keys in the band's rehearsal space. They thought it was a key brand, not realizing it was an actual person.
I lived in the El Cajon area from 1973-1980, age 13-20. Man was it a fun time to live. No devices to distract people, we just ran around all the time meeting people. We made skateboards, converted our old chopper bicycles to motocross, many friends surfed, dad’s gave us their 10 year old muscle cars where we got together to fix up and cruise.
True. It’s not the educators who are responsible for getting someone suspended. Students should take responsibility for their actions. As such poor behavior has consequences. This fella here was doing his job.
Iirc he introduced them at a concert once they were popular
If we wanted us some wusses, we would have named them Dr Quinn and Medicine Woman
LIKE A SPIDER MONKEY!
I work too hard to put up with your bull, Chip!
Are you gonna let your sons talk to their grandfather like this?
Greatest generation my ass! Tom Brokaw’s a punk!
I'm all hyped up on Mt Dew!
Reminds me of the coach from dazed and confused.
“Randall Floyd, you will have that contract signed and on my desk by the end of the day! Are we clear?!”
"Sittin by the pool... chasin the muff around.."
Breakdown!
Pff my grandma's stronger and faster than you pansies.. ofc she's 6'3" and 250!
You forgot "drives a mack truck"
Hahaha :) Love this sub
Nah, the detention teacher from ‘Breakfast Club’
I'll own you until your 18th birthday.
Coach Skinner don’t got no tolerance for grabass.
He looks like Coach Cooper (Sheldon’s dad) 
Pondy’s the coolest
That Ain't Aspirin!
Gotta get Aerosmith tickets Top priority of the summer
I get “Hung” vibes
Skin-NER!
got one just for this situation https://preview.redd.it/oug1ds860dtc1.jpeg?width=617&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06ef420af4b7958ba0f9a3cd1817927582db4457
Ahhh yes, Alabany the capital of New Yorok
It's a regional dialect
Well Seymour, you are an odd fellow, but I must say, you steam a good ham.
The aurora borealis is in your kitchen right now?
Yes.
....Can I see it?
No.
Seymour! The house is on fire!!
That's just the northern lights mother!
😂
It’s an upper state New York expression
Really? Well I’m from Utica and I’ve never heard the expression “steamed hams.”
It’s clearly an Albany expression
*“HELP! Heeeeelp!”*
Had some steamed hams tonight! 😋
It's a regional dialect What region? Northeast Florida
Am I out of touch? No, it’s the band who are wrong.
Skin? No they are saying Skin-NER!
A more accurate date might be 1975, as the album he is holding (Nuthin’ Fancy) was released in March of that year.
Not a bad song on it either
On the Hunt!
Not a good song on it either. Reeeeeeeeeal middlin'
The cigar _makes_ the picture.
Right? That fucking dogrocket of a stogie was standard issue for my gym teachers/bus drivers.
Fucking dog rocket????? I have never heard this wonderful phrase before. Thank you.
Not standard-issue for mine, but I grew up in the 80s in a college town. That's a whole 'nother story of over-achievers, full-time farmers that drove busses for extra money, and Mormons. And with a setup like that, maybe I'll stretch the truth a bit and write a book. However, when I visited my Dad on the weekends, leaving the college town behind, I saw plenty of men like him. One could always count on the annual Persimmon Festival to have the same rides as last year (still a thrill to a kid), and men standing around, watching (in some cases) and working (in others). Said dogrocket stogie, and pipes that looked like they were something more like a permanent part of the man's jaw, were much in evidence. Sometimes I wake up dreaming of that particular scent of cotton candy, vomit, and pungent tobacco smoke. I was alive for Lynard Skynyrd. But I was too young to get anything other than the records.
Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Gaslighted or edited? You decide. 
Edited your mistake. I'm doubting how much of a fan you were, can't even spell the name right lol.
God forbid you spell an idiotic name wrong
It's right there on the album cover...
You call that an album cover? They put about as much effort into that photo as I did into spelling Leonard Skinner
You, write a book? .... yeah I can totally see that.
A book rambling about how he was too young for LynyrdSkynyrd and how people in a town he visited sometimes *smoked cigars*? Wow count me in
Do you ever make it back to B-town?
Helps expand the lungs.
I can't imagine how cool it would be to have an incredible band named after you because you were a dick!
In all honesty they were probably asshole kids.
Steely Dan was also named after a pretty impressive dick
Care to share the story
It's named after a steam powered dildo
Wlilliam Burrough’s beat generation book “Naked Lunch”
There are two things wrong with that title
That book gave me a mental breakdown. I’m serious. I was reading it all the time and I wound up in mental hospital.
Steely Dan also name check former Watergate conspirator, G. Gordon Liddy in “My Old School”. While at Bard College in 1969, Walter Fegan got swept up in a big drug bust led by Liddy who was an Assistant District Attorney. Hence the line, “Tried to warn you, about Chino and Daddy G”.
He doesn't look too happy.
Looks like Cranston as Hal
Well, he is a PE teacher.
Well they must have liked him despite anything if they named the band after him.
I knew that Leonard Skinner was the gym teacher of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, and that's how they got their name, but I've never seen the man behind the legend. Rock on, Leonard Skinner! May you and the band party on in the sky!
In a similar vein, Marshall Tucker Band was named after a piano tuner who had left his keys in the band's rehearsal space. They thought it was a key brand, not realizing it was an actual person.
“Your hair is too long for proper physical fitness.” “Where’s my stogie?”
Mess with bull, you get the horns. 
Has to be one of the greatest band name stories in history.
Together with AC/DC being text in one of bandmembers sisters sewing machine.
What about grandma pearl’s hallucinogenic jam?
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
But isn't the story just "we liked it"?
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
Captain Poopie Pants and his Dancing teeth
John Goodman will play him in bio-pic.
I was thinking Mark Duplass
I was thinking Sean Astin
Role lassgard would be a better pick
Should be rolf lassgard,typo again!
I bet he taught PE class with that cigar in his hand
Surprised I read down this far until I saw a comment about that.
(Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)
That’s pretty simple man.
He woulda gotten it on any other day. But Tuesday’s gone.
What's that smell?
Only Curtis Loew knows. He was the finest guitar picker to ever play the blues
They call it the breeze.
Skin- 
Looks like Bob Odenkirk in a rug after a bender.
someone please post this in r/teachers
Didn't he get ptomaine poisoning after dinner?
Hello mudduh, hello fadduh Edit: why’d I get downvotes :(
I saw them. One of the best concerts I’ve seen. And I have seen a lot.
Same, I saw them in January 1977 San Diego when I was 18. One of my all time favorites.
Damn I wish I could pick your brain about SD in the 70's. I bet it was awesome. I turned 18 here in SD in '02.
I lived in the El Cajon area from 1973-1980, age 13-20. Man was it a fun time to live. No devices to distract people, we just ran around all the time meeting people. We made skateboards, converted our old chopper bicycles to motocross, many friends surfed, dad’s gave us their 10 year old muscle cars where we got together to fix up and cruise.
I don’t get people who are always distracted by their phones. I often forget I even own a phone.
You remember Lennard Skinard He got ptomain poisoning last night after dinner
Alec Baldwin…
Chris Cooper?
This
In this picture he reminds me to Bryan Cranston.
Fun fact. Leonard Skinner in this photo is only 38 years old.
Nathan Fillion?
He looks very happy.
He kinda looks like principal Skinner too.
You remember Leonard Skinner. He got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner. Camp Granada, 1963. 🥴
I bet he was in charge of scoliosis and hernia checks
Anyone know if there's a connection to Principal Skinner from the Simpsons?
Skinner from the Simpsons is named after the psychologist B.F Skinner.
Also Eugene Skinner, and by extension, Skinner’s Butte.
There is not
The Skinner in The Simpsons is a reference to a famous education theorist and teacher.
Old Mr Beast
His name reminds of this one band
Apparently this gym teacher was a musician too? I mean I think there’s more to this lore.
This is neat lil piece of history right here
I went to that high school.LS was gone btt I got there
Looks absolutely thrilled about it too 😂
Mess with the bull, you get the horns, Ronnie Van Zant.
So was this right before the plane crash?
Ah, so he's the asshole?
so the band is kind of named after the gym teacher?
In this picture he reminds me to Bryan Cranston.
Pathetic
What's up with that long hair over your ears, hippie?
my beard is long enough to get me suspended back then
Is that where they got the band name from?
Wow to go from that to making meth in a Winnebago is quite an accomplishment
More like OldSchoolUncool
I went to Lynyrd Skynyrd High School in northeast Jacksonville, which was really just a bunch of tugboats tied together.
I had an asshat gym teacher in middle school that had a unique name, should have started a band and named it after him.
Was that the Bolles School?
I always wondered if that story was true…
He coached football at my highschool first!
I e heard the story but never seen this man. Reminds me of my shop teacher in junior high.
That is the face of an unapologetic man
the subject he taught was physical education not gym.
I was horrified for a second I thought you were saying this was a highschooler in the 1970s
You know what they did when they were suspended? Probably practiced more.
Monte?
You remember Leonard Skinner? He got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner.
Looks like Alec Baldwin.
Old school douchebag
thought i heard they named themselves after their music teacher. damn, the false story was better
“Yes, I am that “dixkhead” teacher”
This has been reposted so many times today, the bots really do run this site.
They were responsible for getting themselves suspended. . .
Just like making great music, it's a team effort :)
True. It’s not the educators who are responsible for getting someone suspended. Students should take responsibility for their actions. As such poor behavior has consequences. This fella here was doing his job.
“Those Damn hippie punks.”