In which we yet again post yet another ten thousand plus interesting or amusing -or neither- tweets

Tell me this is an attempt at a joke? Did you never skip school as a kid?

 

Is this some kind of age related in joke or pun? Cause I'm not getting it either.

 

Context

 

Okay, so yes, I never skipped school as a kid, at least not like that, which is maybe why details from that movie are not found in my quick access files...

 

I love NYC and miss it!!

 

Ok obviously I get it now.

For me, to me, FBDO is more a movie noted for a small handful of iconic, timeless lines, than a great movie. I watched it once, it was ok, and then I had no desire to watch it a second time.

Now, Red Dawn from the same era, THAT’S a movie I can watch over and over again. One of my art guilty pleasures, because while I understand the fascist message behind it all, it’s still one hell of a fun ride.

And in the Matthew Broderick category…War Games. “The only winning move is not to play.”

I posted this because I know yall can’t live without my thoughts on mid 80s teen movies.

You’re welcome.

 

Iirc correctly you’re a few years older than me. I imagine that movie may have hit differently if your first memories of it are from when you were 12 vs your mid to late teens.

 

My Mom showed my Ferris Bueller while home sick with pneumonia in 7th grade and said “don’t get any ideas” I was out for like a week and jokes on her, was absolutely wrecked. Definitely wasn’t faking it (which she knew, just her sense of humor).

 

I love NYC and miss the city I knew. But that's life. Everything changes.

In other news

 

I was a recent college grad when it came out.

It’s like when I made a reference to Porky’s and 1 or 2 got it and the rest were like wut?!?!

If you find Kim Cattrall sexy in Sex and the City, you need to check her out in her youth. Yummy.

 

I was gonna say early twenties but I didn’t want to call you older than dirt.

 

The sunshine of potential has long fallen below the horizon of experience.

 

This @NYTimes editorial is simply excellent.

It deserves to be read by everyone.https://t.co/cM1cFRYJad pic.twitter.com/S2SQxlmUEJ

— Avi Mayer אבי מאיר (@AviMayer) June 15, 2025

 

The formative movies when I was twelve were "The Great Escape," "Savage Sam," and "The Pink Panther..." Not quite a quarter century earlier. James Garner, Steve McQueen, Tommy Lee Jones.

Yvette Mimieux was in everything and Ursula Andress in everything Mimieux wasn't.

 

My little league baseball coach called her Ursula Undress.

 

He always leans forward like he's taking a dump

 

I don't trust the lying, fake news NY Slimes

 

It's a memorable movie though in a fun escape from reality kind of way.

Granted I was born a year after it came out, I still watched it. I think it'll be one of those movies that's memorialized the same way The Graduate is.

 

The thing about FBDO that I always found confusing is that his friend wore a Gordie Howe jersey. They were in Chicago, so I would think it would be Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, Tony Esposito or someone like that.

 

I took that as a way to suggest that he was a bit of a rebel, marched to a different drummer...

 

John Hughes, the director is from Detroit, specifically Grosse Pointe, which makes sense considering the homes and lifestyle of the characters of his movies. I've also seen things that the character had a great relationship with his grandfather, who was from Detroit. Hughes's favorite player was also, understandably, Gordie Howe given that Hughes grew up while Gordie was playing.

If you've seen the National Lampoon Vacation movies, he also had a part in those. The character Clark Griswold, is named after Griswold street in Detroit.

 

I was so sure he was from. Chicago since his movies are based there that I looked it up on Wikipedia and lo and behold, I learned something today.