It had to be pointed out to me...

[slowfox]

...that we haven't got any heating in the office. Again.

See, since I walk in, the building feels warmer than the outside world, and therefore it doesn't immediately register that it's cold. The drivers who've come aways, though (thus discounting the short-hop folk where the cars don't really warm up) definitely do notice.

The same thing happened yesterday; it's just that yesterday, we didn't have snow settled on the ground.

In other news, the tangential discussion on this week's Football Weekly was collective astonishment on the panel's part that Jimbo (the host) hadn't seen Pretty in Pink nor The Breakfast Club nor The Goonies (yeah, 'football' weekly :-) Also good for learning how to poach eggs). He had, somewhat redeemingly, seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The Lost Boys. For my part, I've not seen Pretty in Pink, nor the Breakfast Club and I'll also volunteer the cultural disadvantage that is not having seen St Elmo's Fire, nor even Heathers.

Any other 80s classics that I should've seen?

Comments

[cynthia_black]

I must admit, I've not seen Pretty in Pink or The Breakfast Club either. Or St Elmo's Fire.

Have you seen the following?:

* The Blues Brothers
* Back to the Future
* Dune
* Lethal Weapon
* Local Hero
* Roxanne
* When Harry Met Sally (I know you've seen this one and can quote the script, but I didn't realise it was a 1989 film)

That's the 80s films in my collection that I'm not sure if you'll have seen. The Princess Bride is also 1980s, of course :-)

[schnurble]

I must admit that I've seen Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club and St Elmo's Fire and have forgotten all about it...
I'd recommend The Outsiders. It's full of brilliant actors who started their careers with this film.

Oh, and Heathers is really fun to watch, so wonderfully macabre, if you have the chance then watch it!

[stripped]

Have you seen Better Off Dead?

[aome]

I've seen The Goonies (once, a million years ago) and Ferris Bueller, but that's all.

How about Say Anything? Back to the Future? Dead Poet's Society?

Why does your office heating go out so often?

[linaelyn]

I'd like to say that Breakfast Club possibly most-resembles my own youthful experience of that era, though I'm a bit too old for it to fit. (It came out when I was well into college.) Fast Times at Ridgemont High is both grittier (deals with date rape) and funnier (Sean Penn's finest role? Perhaps not. But he makes a hilarious surfer/stoner).

I'm not particularly a fan of it, but Sixteen Candles belongs on that sort of list as well.

[uninvitedcat]

I was going to suggest Pump up the Volume, but it transpires that that's a 1990 film!