Geek off!

[Claire]

Hey now now.....I'm a teacher who reads incessantly...but I'm sure you're talking about a certain teacher in particular, Ponine. And fractions....gotta say I didn't learn them in school. I learned them at Nordstrom during sales. And that's how I've taught fractions to my old two--in the real world, usually involving pizza. The schools teach fractions in a crap way.

Hhhmmm.....my useless knowledge....comes from Tiger Beat and Bop and 16 circa 1984.

Okay. Here's the cast of The Outsiders:

C. Thomas Howell was Pony Boy Curtis (the C stands for Christopher...named after his dad who was a successful stunt man in the movies. Tommy Howell's first movie was E.T. He was handpicked off the set....his dad was working on E.T.....by Steven Spielberg. He played one of the older brothers friends--was in the poker scene at the beginning and then on the bikes later on.)
Rob Lowe was Soda Pop
Patrick Swayze was Darry
Leif Garrett was.....Bob? Can't remember, but he died.
Diane Lane was Sherry (Cherry) Valance
Matt Dillon was Dallas
Ralph Macchio was Johnny
Tom Cruise was Steve
Emilio Estevez was Two Bit (love the Mickey shirt!)
Darren Dalton was Randy the Soc

I jonesed for all these guys at one point or another in my adolescence. I used to have a mental imdb of every single freaking movie all of them have been in, together and separately. For example, Tommy Howell and Patrick Swayze were in Grandview USA together (Jennifer Jason Leigh was in that and The Hitcher with Tommy Howell). They were also in Red Dawn, with Darren Dalton and Charlie Sheen, Emilio's brother. And Patrick Swayze was in Dirty Dancing with Jennifer Grey who was in Red Dawn. Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze were also in Youngblood together. And Rob Lowe and Jennifer Grey were in a crappy French Cinderella movie that I watched FAR too many times in high school.

Man...if I morphed into the random people in the John Hughes movies or any of the John Cusack movies.....this could go on all day.

And any mistakes are because of my aged brain.