Quote: Leevil @ August 7 2009, 2:15 PM BST
Donger need food!
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Quote: Griff @ August 7 2009, 7:15 PM BSTThat'd be you then.
Sounds like you're up for it Griff. 
Quote: Tim Walker @ August 7 2009, 1:16 PM BSTBut at least he never followed the convention of bad 80s comedy films where, whenever a Chinese/Japanese person appeared, it would be accompanied by the sound of a "comedy" gong. (What were they thinking?)
No, instead he used 'Turning Japanese' by the Vapors when Long Duk Dong - the Vietnamese exchange student - appears in Sixteen Candles. Good song.
*snigger*
Turning Japanese by the Vapors is all about wanking.
*snigger*
So's Dancing With Myself by Billy Idol
*snigger*
I'm not sure what I Touch Myself by the DeVinyls is about though. It's quite cryptic.
In school, a group of my teachers participated in the annual talent show and the least "with it" of the teachers picked "I Touch Myself" as her song to dance to. I have never laughed so hard in my whole life. How does this tie in to the John Hughes RIP thread? Well, this women was in her mid 50s and sounded like a female Ben Stein.
Quote: AndreaLynne @ August 8 2009, 1:57 PM BSTIn school, a group of my teachers participated in the annual talent show and the least "with it" of the teachers picked "I Touch Myself" as her song to dance to. I have never laughed so hard in my whole life. How does this tie in to the John Hughes RIP thread? Well, this women was in her mid 50s and sounded like a female Ben Stein.
Teachers in a talent show. *shudder*
As if school kids don't think they're teachers are dorky enough. The last thing you want to do is give the little monsters even more ammunition to shoot them down. (Ammunition and shoot them down is figuratively speaking, we know what you Yanks are like.)
I'm sure that watching a 50 year old woman singing about wanking herself off had no lasting ill effects on the student body.
She wore a sparkly headband and "Flashdance" legwarmers. It was painful to watch.
Quote: AndreaLynne @ August 8 2009, 2:12 PM BSTShe wore a sparkly headband and "Flashdance" legwarmers. It was painful to watch.
I think it's some kind of Trans-Atlantic law that every school in the UK and America has at least one teacher who is some kind of failed actress wannabe, usually with mad curly hair, too much make up and very weird dress sense.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 8 2009, 2:27 PM BSTI think it's some kind of Trans-Atlantic law that every school in the UK and America has at least one teacher who is some kind of failed actress wannabe, usually with mad curly hair, too much make up and very weird dress sense.
Yes, we called her "Sweaty Betty" and she at one time was the cheerleading coach. She had really bad gray curly hair and wore skin tight polyester shirts and skirts with crocheted sweater vests over them. The worst part was that when she talked for a while she had large spit balls that formed at the corners of her mouth. Her glasses were extremely thick and she resembled Mrs. Doyle on Father Ted in so many ways.
Every school I've ever been too has had the same matching set of teachers -
Mad failed actress wannabe.
Youngish hip teacher who thought he was a man about town but was really a dick.
Lesbian PE teacher who looked like Ray Winstone.
Incredibly angry shop teacher with a red face and missing fingers.
Insane science teacher who'd obviously been making his own drugs from the chemicals available.
Punchy McPunch, the one teacher you would not mess with, because he didn't give a damn and would knock your block off.
Monotone nerd, the worst kind of teacher, as they would just send you to sleep.
And finally -
'The Victim' - very nervous and obviously scared, they were easy pickings for the rebellious pupils and would often run from the class crying. Sometimes they would have a public breakdown in front of the whole school.
Yes, on every single one. Good call.
You forgot:
Slutty art teacher, who encouraged the male students to do alarmingly sexy paintings for their final project and always came back from summer break mysteriously pregnant (happened twice).
Stuck in the 70s world studies teacher with a metal plate in his head.
Shit. Just heard when I got online. RIP, loved Ally Sheedy in the Breakfast Club, Planes... is a comic classic.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 8 2009, 2:43 PM BSTEvery school I've ever been too has had the same matching set of teachers -
Mad failed actress wannabe.
Youngish hip teacher who thought he was a man about town but was really a dick.
Lesbian PE teacher who looked like Ray Winstone.
Incredibly angry shop teacher with a red face and missing fingers.
Insane science teacher who'd obviously been making his own drugs from the chemicals available.
Punchy McPunch, the one teacher you would not mess with, because he didn't give a damn and would knock your block off.
Monotone nerd, the worst kind of teacher, as they would just send you to sleep.And finally -
'The Victim' - very nervous and obviously scared, they were easy pickings for the rebellious pupils and would often run from the class crying. Sometimes they would have a public breakdown in front of the whole school.
Well 'monotone nerd' could match a couple of my teachers. But the others I don't recognise outside of bad American TV shows and films.
Quote: Aaron @ August 8 2009, 6:38 PM BSTWell 'monotone nerd' could match a couple of my teachers. But the others I don't recognise outside of bad American TV shows and films.
My school had every one of them. RC was exactly right. I went to a very small district that didn't pay very well and took whoever they could get, thus the character flaws. Made for great writing material for me however.
We definitely had the butch lesbian PE teacher. And the insane science teacher.