That may have been true in our day but I think (based on news reports) that at least 1 in 100 kids are learning sex from their teachers now. IYKWIM :eek:
Hi Guys,
I don’t get much chance to post and read forums, but the High School Arc and especially The Breakfast Club made this inevitable . . .
Its a moral imperative . . . .
So, I was thumbing through my high school yearbook about 3 or so years ago, and saw something interesting. I was moving pretty fast through the pages and it was one of those time where you ask yourself, “did I really just see that?”. Lo and behold, here is the picture I found:
I called it in as a message for the podcast, but I will let people guess who it is and if Chuck is nice enough to play my message, the truth will be revealed!
I thought you might find it interesting.
-Ethan
Oh SNAP!!
Is that Cameron Diaz?
Ally Sheedy?
I won’t say her name until after this week’s podcast, just in case Chuck plays my message . . .
My school was also home to Snoop Doggy Dogg and one or two pro football players too. I forget all the names off hand. Shoop graduated 1 or 2 years before me so I do not have his picture . . .
In light of the high school arc and cliques, I look back and wish I could have been in this young woman’s circle of friends . . .
NOT Ally Sheedy. . . . although, I think it would have been interesting to be in her high school class.
My HS stories are pretty great and mostly shareable with a PG-13 rating. My college stories are amazing and a lot less family friendly.
Here’s a chestnut:
Several of my friends lived in the neighborhood development owned by PGA, the Professional Golf Association. This meant that we could take walks around all the courses at night. One evening, either in my junior or senior year of HS, we gathered at my friend Maria’s house for a sleep over. We decided to take a walk around 8, in time for the last gasps of the sunset. It was hot and humid, as South Florida tends to be. We found it unbearable. Because we were idiot teenage girls, we fixed the problem by stripping down to our bras and undies, stashing our clothes at the base of a palm tree, and continuing our walk. No one was golfing, so it was totally fine, right?
No.
We got a little too close to a house where the lights were off, assuming that no one was awake (SFL’s average age is, after all, about 15 years older than the general population) or that no one was home. Not true!
Suddenly the lights went on and revealed an appalled looking old lady standing at her kitchen sink. We ran. But within 10 minutes we spotted a PGA security golf cart rolling around the green in the distance. We raced back to our clothes, got dressed, and raced home. Probably we were in no danger of anything other than a very embarrassing encounter with a very embarrassed guard, but we felt so naughty and daring!
The time that an old lady sent the golf cart cops in hot pursuit of we scandalous, semi-nude young ladies quickly became part of our clique mythos.
Susan Sarandon?
I think I nailed it.
Now you’re being funny.
Aw’ight, y’all: This Sunday (Aug. 22) at noon (EST), IFC is running five episodes of Freaks and Geeks, one of the great TV shows of all time. As far as high school documents go, it’s up there with My So Called Life. Mandatory viewing. The eps will start with the pilot and run commercial-free.
Set in 1980 Michigan, it’s stocked with the whole Judd Apatow acting company, including Seth Rogen and James Franco. Episodes seem to be directored by either Apaton or Paul Feig (of Nurse Jackie renown). Show follows two groups of high school outcasts: underclassmen boy geeks, then a group of upperclassman burnouts, including a former mathlete who starts running with the bad crowd.
Consider this supplemental material for the Superbad episode. There will be a quiz.
I realize this is old news; I somehow missed it over the last 10 years and just discovered it. Converts are the worst zealots, you know?
'Talos,
You Win.
Its Cameron Diaz.
I wish I could have been one of her High School Friends!
-Ethan
WooHoo!!
fraggledance
Did she take some guy to the prom, and he wound up with his beans above the frank? Or was that just in the movie?
“Franks and beans! Franks and beans!”
and…ouch! :eek:
You know what else would be awesome to add to the arc before Grosse Point Blank? My Bodyguard.
Cuz if not now, then when? Heart-warming tale of a new kid who’s bullied by a young Matt Dillon, finds salvation at the hands of bodyguard Adam Baldwin, bonds with bodyguard while refurbishing an old motorcycle, and learns important life lessons, including how to kick ass on his own?
Yup. Dittoing that.
Here’s your coffee/lunch time reading:
RT @jefito RT @moviebuffs: “Better Off Dead” turns 25: an oral history of a [high school] comedy classic http://bit.ly/aNeDjv