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Word: spicoli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...This sort of thinking plays into all the movies I make. When I first saw Fast Times at Ridgemont High, I thought: That's what my life is like. That's my day-to-day. I didn't know anyone as funny as Spicoli, and we didn't grow up in California, and we had burnouts instead of surfers, but I could relate to working at a shitty job at the mall and poor Judge Reinhold having to dress up like a pirate to deliver food, and also Jennifer Jason Leigh getting an abortion, which was really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Greg Mottola, from Superbad to Adventureland | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

...Though there is often more teenage slang in these volumes than Jeff Spicoli's analysis of the Declaration of Independence at the end of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"("So what Jefferson was saying was, 'Hey, you know, we left this England place because it was bogus'") adults, refreshingly, are the intended audience. Thus "U.S. History for Dummies" is able to quote a Richard Nixon Watergate tape in all its four-letter-word glory. If a high school textbook cited a sitting president telling his aides, "I don't give a shit what happens," parents would sue the school board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patriotism for Dummies | 7/3/2002 | See Source »

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