Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs ( Los Angeles: Feral House ).

Films such as Class ( film ), The Breakfast Club, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Mannequin ( 1987 film ), Porky's, Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles, St. Elmo's Fire ( film ), Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science and Valley Girl were popular teen comedies of the era and launched the careers of several major celebrities such as: Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Andrew McCarthy, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Sean Penn and Nicolas Cage.

In the Family Guy Season Four episode Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High, Peter Griffin is slimed after saying " I don't know ," followed immediately by a still shot that is a direct reference to YCDTOTVs opening sequence, with the words " You can't do that on television " written in red over a man's face.

Fundraising activity to support the school is notably achieved by the Sunday Times Fast Track 100, sponsored by Virgin Group, at its yearly event, where places to join Richard Branson on trips to South Africa to provide coaching and mentoring to students are auctioned to attendees.

The Sherman Oaks Galleria was popularlized as the home of the Valley Girl by 1981's Fast Times at Ridgemont High, with characters played by Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Jason Leigh working at fast food stands in its food court.

The school itself is featured in the title of the music album Fast Times at Barrington High from The Academy Is ....

Oingo Boingo appeared in a number of soundtracks in the early to mid 1980s, including Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which features " Goodbye, Goodbye ".

* Fast Times at Ridgemont High ( 1982 )

Roe maintains that he was not completely happy with half of the songs, although he went on to state that in spite of this, several of the songs such as " Fast Times at Dropout High " and " Road Signs and Rock Songs " were still to date some of the band's strongest of their earlier career.

Roe has confirmed the song " Fast Times at Dropout High ", from the End is Forever album, will be re-recorded for the new album.

Phoebe Cates Kline ( born Phoebe Belle Cates ; July 16, 1963 ) is an American film actress, model, and entrepreneur known for her roles in several teen films, most notably Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Gremlins.

Later in 1982, Cates Kline starred in Fast Times at Ridgemont High which features " the most memorable bikini-drop in cinema history.

* His book, Thinking, Fast and Slow was the winner of the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Award for Current Interest.

Among his other film music credits are the theme song to the short-lived 1993 CBS television series Johnny Bago ; " Turning Around " for the 1985 film Summer Rental starring John Candy ; " I Don't Know ( Spicoli's Theme )" for the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High ; " Hello, Texas " for the 1980 John Travolta film Urban Cowboy ; and " If I Have To Eat Someone ( It Might As Well Be You )" for the animated film FernGully: The Last Rainforest, which was sung in the film by rap artist Tone Loc.

He played Mr. Vargas, the biology teacher in the 1982 hit comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a role he reprised in the 1986 television spin-off Fast Times.

In 1982, she made her screen debut as a cameo character in director Amy Heckerling's coming-of-age comedy based on the Cameron Crowe book, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, as the wife of science teacher Mr. Vargas ( Vincent Schiavelli ).

Nielsen's use of the black and white checkerboard motif on his clothing was in line with the use in other parts of pop culture, including Checkerboard Vans sneakers, that feature in the 1982 movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

* On the animated sitcom Family Guy ( set in Rhode Island ), Chris attended Buddy Cianci Junior High School ; one episode was even named " Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High ".

The Platt Amendment is incorrectly referenced as being a 1906 amendment to the United States Constitution in the 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

The role of Paula was originally given to Sigourney Weaver, then to Anjelica Huston and later to Jennifer Jason Leigh, who dropped out to do Fast Times at Ridgemont High instead.

In addition, he is also remembered for his roles as Luther Billis in South Pacific ( 1949 / 1958 ), Mr. Applegate in Damn Yankees ( 1955 / 1958 ), J. J. Singleton in The Sting ( 1973 ), high school teacher Mr. Hand in Fast Times at Ridgemont High ( 1982 ), and Judge Henry Bone on the drama series Picket Fences ( 1992-1996 ).

* In the 1982 movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Missile Commands " The End " screen is used to help illustrate the film's ending.

A sketch about a boy who dies at school appeared on the unreleased The Hastily Cobbled Together for a Fast Buck Album ( 1981 ).

Almost every gas station in Canada offers some sort of program such as Esso Extra at the Esso gas stations, Petro Points at Petro-Canada, Save-On-More at some Chevron stations in BC, Canadian Tire money at Canadian Tire gas stations, or a coupon that grants the customer 3. 5 cents off per litre of fuel purchased at Sobeys Fast Fuel locations that can be used at a Sobeys banner store.

* 1994 – Fast Eddie Clarke – It Ain't Over Till It's Over – guests on " Laugh at the Devil ".

The standard bootloader for the HC11 family is called BUFFALO, " Bit User Fast Friendly Aid to Logical Operation " ( a BUFFALO prompt seen on the serial port at bootup is a sign that a board's flash memory has been erased ).

The FBTR ( Fast Breeder Test Reactor ) in operation at Kalpakkam ( India ) uses Plutonium as a fuel and liquid sodium as a coolant.

When the 924 turbo models came out, Car and Driver magazine proclaimed the car " Fast ... at Last!

Steve Bracks and Transport minister Peter Batchelor at the launch of the Regional Fast Rail project Geelong line upgrades in February 2006

The design goals were to avoid the radio frequency radiation emitted at the higher frequencies required by Fast Ethernet and to leverage existing wiring installations of Category 3 cabling that most organizations had recently installed to support 10 megabit twisted-pair Ethernet.

Fast Ethernet switches were not commonplace at first because of high cost and limited availability so, initially, 100VG had a significant performance advantage.

at N. Y. U. and also for the Baltimore underground newspaper Harry and the New York Ace, before joining National Lampoon in 1973, where he served as managing editor among other roles and authored articles such as " Foreigners Around the World " and " How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink.

The Portland GMB also hosts many social and educational events, notably Music for the Working Class, a free event that occurs on the last Wednesday of every month at the Red and Black Cafe, 400 SE 12th St. Acts that have appeared include Brendan Phillips and Fast Rattler, David Rovics, and the unofficial band of the Portland branch, I Wobble Wobble.

The franchise company was started in 1969 as National Fast Food Corp. National Fast Food's principals at the time included S. Robert Davis, a real estate developer who built and leased several Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken properties, his friend Dave Thomas, who sold his Colonel Sanders franchises back to that company for $ 3, 000, 000 and went on to found Wendy's, and L. S. Hartzog, who at the time ran a chain of bakeries selling biscuits to Colonel Sanders franchisees nationally.

In particular, the Fast Ethernet 100BASE-T2 medium ( now defunct ), running at 100 Mbit / s, uses five-level PAM modulation ( PAM-5 ) running at 25 megapulses / sec over two wire pairs.

This album was more strident and political than its predecessor, including the pro-vegetarian title track ( Morrissey forbade the rest of the group from being photographed eating meat ), the light-hearted republicanism of " Nowhere Fast ", and the anti-corporal punishment " The Headmaster Ritual " and " Barbarism Begins at Home ".

* The Operational Naval Grouping ( Groupement Naval Opérationnel ), which is divided into three flotillas and one group: the High Seas Patrol Boats ( Patrouilleurs de Haute Mer ), the Coastal Surveillance Vessels ( Bâtiments de Surveillance Côtière ), the Fast Coastal Boats ( Vedettes Côtières Rapides ) and the Transport Group ( groupe de transport ).

Recent revisions of I²C can host more nodes and run at faster speeds ( 400 kbit / s Fast mode, 1 Mbit / s Fast mode plus or Fm +, and 3. 4 Mbit / s High Speed mode ).

It was promoted as a development of the operationally ( if not economically ) successful Magnox design, and was chosen from a plethora of competing British alternatives-the helium cooled High Temperature Reactor ( HTR ), the Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor ( SGHWR ) and the Fast Breeder Reactor ( FBR )-as well as the American light water pressurised and boiling water reactors ( PWR and BWR ) and Canadian CANDU designs.

Tullahoma High School Alumni include former NFL QB Steve Matthews, former NFL LB Antonio London, Red Sox draft picks OF Tony Sheffield and 3B Sam Melton, 3rd Overall pick in the 2001 MLB draft Dewon Brazelton, former Giants minor leaguer Gary Phillips, former Mariners minor leaguer Marshall Nisbett, 2006 Dodgers 1st round draft pick Bryan Morris, actress Samantha Burton, star of The Sandlot 2, Don " Fast Hands " Felts, world jacks champion and Lawson Binns Jordan, " The Voice of Tullahoma.

A number of other Manchester bands gained the attention of the music press during 1990, including World of Twist, New Fast Automatic Daffodils, The High, Northside, Paris Angels, and Intastella.