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A big one: if you're ever tied up by Nazis while they are about to open the Ark Of The Covenant, don't look.
Another valuable one: If your boss ever invites you to his vacation home but happens to die before you arrive, just throw some sunglasses on him and no one's the wiser. Why ruin your vacation plans?
When you die, don't summon Beetlegeuse and don't let Ortho get his hands on the Handbook For The Recently Deceased.
Does anyone have any other valuable life lessons they've learned from this golden age of cinema?

NightWatcher
(39,360 posts), not the evil Pet Semetary
sarge43
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(503 posts)Also, boomboxes have way better audio than shitty iPods.
Today, the FAA and DHS would not allow a person with a name like this anywhere near an airplane cockpit.
(Surely you don't mean "Roger Murdock."

Finally, today we know how it is in Ed Rooney's family...

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petronius
(26,680 posts)unappreciative of some of the finer works of '80s cinema...
Also, always lock the bathroom - no one ever fucking knocks anymore.

Rainforestgoddess
(436 posts)Well, not the sole leave it, actually, but the other leave it wanted to send it to mirt.
I didn't recognise the movie, but it was obviously in response to stupid things learned from 1980's movies.. I suppose we should assume the op approves of desecration of human remains by that logic.
NewJeffCT
(56,844 posts)Is based upon a real life quote from Genghis Khan, I believe. (Shortened to accommodate Arnold's mediocre English at the time.)
sarge43
(29,169 posts)The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.
The Military Quotation Book, ed. James Charlton
LostOne4Ever
(9,652 posts)[font style="font-family:papyrus,'Brush Script MT','comic sans MS',fantasy;" size=3 color=teal] One of the [font color=scarlet]STUPIDEST[/font] hides I have ever seen.
It's a quote from a Conan the Barbarian movie in a thread about 1980's movies for cryin out loud!!![/font]
NewJeffCT
(56,844 posts)where I was quoting a line from a well respected piece of literature. While the line was admittedly vulgar, it was a quote from a book.
(And, the author is a well known liberal as well.)
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LostOne4Ever
(9,652 posts)[font style="font-family:papyrus,'Brush Script MT','comic sans MS',fantasy;" size=3 color=teal]The theme song to the never ending story is just as addictive today as it was back then...[/font]
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(503 posts)It's selectable text, so I'm guessing you didn't copy and paste it as an image?
LostOne4Ever
(9,652 posts)Last edited Tue Nov 11, 2014, 08:46 PM - Edit history (5)
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1256&pid=1674
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp
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Edit:[font style="font-family:papyrus,'Brush Script MT','comic sans MS',fantasy;" size=3 color=teal][font style="font-family:papyrus,'Brush Script MT','comic sans MS',fantasy;" size=3 color=teal] Yes, I know I use the three most hated fonts on the internet. But I like them!!![/font][/font]
PS: [font style="font-family:papyrus,'Brush Script MT','comic sans MS',fantasy;" size=3 color=teal][font style="font-family:papyrus,'Brush Script MT','comic sans MS',fantasy;" size=3 color=teal] For anyone interested in trying this; just copying my post below the quote and pasting it into a reply and previewing it to see how it looks on your screen[/font][/font]
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(503 posts)Know what's weird? On my computer even the reply field is showing up in Papyrus
LostOne4Ever
(9,652 posts)>_<
Ill fix that.[/font]
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(503 posts)[font style="font-family:papyrus,'Brush Script MT','comic sans MS',fantasy;" size=3 color=teal]No worries... it was actually pretty cool.[/font]
Bosonic
(3,746 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,844 posts)Mr Miyagi had lots of wisdom to impart
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)Also, don't open the trunk of a Chevy Impala that's glowing and/or hot to the touch

find one in every car...you'll see
kentauros
(29,414 posts)and so the place I looked it up said Impala. Yet, it appears to be a good article about the movie, and some behind the scenes stuff
"The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."
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uppityperson
(115,920 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)The "cool" kids in high school had the appearance, means, maturity and most notably; autonomy, of a person in their mid-20's.
Never saw anything like that in my HS years ( late 70's ) and neither did anybody else I mentioned this to. As "cool" or popular as they were, and how much "stuff" they had; they were still kids living under some sort of authority.
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(503 posts)Alan Ruck was born on July 1, 1956, making him 29 years, 11 months, and 11 days old when the film was released on June 11, 1986.
Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962), would have been 24 years, 2 months and 22 days old.
Mia Sara (Sloane Peterson) was born June 19, 1967, the youngest of the trio of Cameron, Sloane and Ferris and the only actual teenager. Age at release: 18 years, 11 months, 24 days old.
Judd Nelson (born November 28, 1959) was 25 years, 2 months and 19 days old when The Breakfast Club was released on February 15, 1985. Second-oldest: Emilio Estevez (born May 12, 1962), 22 years, 9 months and 4 days old at time of release. He slightly edges out, by a month and one day, Ally Sheedy (born June 13, 1962), who was 22 years, 8 months and 3 days old on the release date.
Youngest by far were Molly Ringwald (born February 18, 1968), just 16 years, 11 months and 29 days old, and Anthony Michael Hall (born April 14, 1968), 16 years, 10 months and 2 days old and the "baby" of the cast. He remains the youngest-ever cast member of Saturday Night Live.
Overall, though, it seems most of these teen roles were played by 20-somethings.
MrScorpio
(73,759 posts)He told me that it was the director's idea, who was a native metro Detroiter.
I'd had finally gotten an answer to a question that bothered me for over two decades.
AwakeAtLast
(14,315 posts)
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Ampersand Unicode
(503 posts)...but what can we do about 2016, Marty?
We've got to stop Reagan! We've got to go... BACK TO THE FUTURE!
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)
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(503 posts)Somebody did a supercut on YouTube a while back where the annoying paper boy chases John Cusack around through ~25 years of his entire film career. I think it got DMCA'd but boy it was funny. Especially when he's running around with the convicts in Con Air and even shows up at room 1408. (Of course he attacks "Lloyd Dobler" standing outside with the boom box.) He even goes after him singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" at Wrigley Field.
It must be from 2009 or so, because his bike falls off a cliff in (the movie) 2012.
Or did it....?
LeftinOH
(5,511 posts)with pulsing synthesizer music is all you need to do.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)(Chris Knight is trying to hit on Susan, a beautiful woman he finds in Professor Hathaway's house)
Chris Knight: So, if there's anything I can do for you - or, more to the point, *to* you - just let me know.
Susan: Can you hammer a six-inch spike through a board with your penis?
Chris Knight: Not right now.
Susan: A girl's gotta have her standards.
(She walks out)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/quotes?ref_=tt_ql_3
dr.strangelove
(4,851 posts)hammer a six inch spiek through a board with your penis.
What do you do with your weekends. I hammer away at metal spikes all weekend long.
Thanks, I always liked that movie. I still can't make homemade popcorn without thinking of this film.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)dr.strangelove
(4,851 posts)Let her go on stage and dance!!!
Plus, the lift is easy!
orleans
(35,934 posts)sakabatou
(44,643 posts)Ampersand Unicode
(503 posts)
...but he'll grow up to become the richest man in the world.
(That's Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates in Pirates of Silicon Valley.)
Wounded Bear
(61,791 posts)you say, "Yes!"
Generic Brad
(14,374 posts)Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha thunk.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)GreatGazoo
(4,135 posts)unpins her hair, sets the glasses aside and walks down the stairs in slo-mo.
Also: Teachers see us as who you want to see us but each one of is a brain...
...an athlete
...a basket case
...a princess...
and a criminal.
Contrary1
(12,629 posts)Shawshank Redempttion from 1994, but I didn't see the movie until '97.
Laying on the couch...going through chemo, and feeling pretty pukey.
"Get busy living, or get busy dying. Thats God damn right."
Sounds strange, but I needed to hear that, right then. That line carried me through a couple more surgeries, and many more months of treatment.