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

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  1. diablodelsol

    diablodelsol Member+

    Jan 10, 2001
    New Jersey
    Tell me this is an attempt at a joke? Did you never skip school as a kid?
     
  2. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    Is this some kind of age related in joke or pun? Cause I'm not getting it either.
     
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  3. lanman

    lanman BigSoccer Supporter

    Aug 30, 2002
  4. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    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...
     
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  5. Deadtigers

    Deadtigers Member+

    Jul 23, 2015
    Independent Republic of the Bronx, NY
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ghana
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  6. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     
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  7. diablodelsol

    diablodelsol Member+

    Jan 10, 2001
    New Jersey
    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.
     
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  8. Bluto11

    Bluto11 The sky is falling!

    May 16, 2003
    Chicago, IL
    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).
     
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  9. Dyvel

    Dyvel Member+

    Jul 24, 1999
    The dog end of a day gone by
    Club:
    Leeds United AFC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    I love NYC and miss the city I knew. But that's life. Everything changes.

    In other news

    toilet trump.jpg
     
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  10. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     
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  11. diablodelsol

    diablodelsol Member+

    Jan 10, 2001
    New Jersey
    I was gonna say early twenties but I didn’t want to call you older than dirt.
     
  12. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The sunshine of potential has long fallen below the horizon of experience.
     
  13. Germerica

    Germerica Member+

    May 2, 2012
    SoCal burbs
    Club:
    Los Angeles
  14. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I had just graduated from HS when it was released and I didn’t see it in the theater.
     
  15. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    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.
     
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  16. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    My little league baseball coach called her Ursula Undress.
     
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  17. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    He always leans forward like he's taking a dump
     
  18. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
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  19. Kazuma

    Kazuma Member+

    Chelsea
    Jul 30, 2007
    Detroit
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    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.
     
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  20. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    IIRC there’s a good chance he got that name from Mad Magazine.
     
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  21. ToMhIlL

    ToMhIlL Member+

    Feb 18, 1999
    Boxborough, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     
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  22. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    I took that as a way to suggest that he was a bit of a rebel, marched to a different drummer...
     
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  23. Kazuma

    Kazuma Member+

    Chelsea
    Jul 30, 2007
    Detroit
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    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.
     
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  24. celito

    celito Moderator
    Staff Member

    Palmeiras
    Brazil
    Feb 28, 2005
    USA
    Club:
    Palmeiras Sao Paulo
    Nat'l Team:
    Brazil
    Tucker going at Ted Cruz for not knowing shit about Iran ... it's a bit amusing.

     
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  25. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     

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