How about the guy who sits backward in a chair when he’s trying to reach the keedz?
We had to take a ten week class called Guidance in High School. Usually it would be aptitude tests and people from different professions coming in and telling us about what they do. This would have been in 1981.
Once a week the chairs would be set up in a circle around the room and we’d have “Rap Time with Lavester Williams.” (Rap meaning talk as mentioned by others up thread.) Lavester was a thin black guy who acted like and looked a little like Huggy Bear from Starsky and Hutch. He’d be all, “today we’re gonna talk about drugs, man. Everything that you say in this room stays here and it’s all cool. If you use drugs or grow dope, don’t be afraid to speak your mind.”
To this day I have no idea what the purpose of that was supposed to be.
I’m 44yo and the last video game I played was Space Invaders, yet I occasionally use l33tsp34k for ironic effect. Am I fake cool, or just fake geek? And which is worse?
Mr. Rosso from Freaks and Geeks
God, no. It’s just embarrassing for all concerned. 
Tapping your ‘r’ (which is the sound you are describing) will also make you sound like a real Italian since it’s a the sound real Italians make when pronouncing a single ‘r’.
(I know what you are talking about and I too sometimes find it obnoxious, but it is the proper way to pronounce the letter in Italian.)
I seem to remember flipping channels and coming across a guy on a religious channel talking to an audience of teens. He had on his all black clothing, complete with his Britney Spears-type hands-free microphone and spiked-gelled, bleached-tip hair telling his audience it wasn’t cool to look at porn and making some surprisingly nasty joke about how real sex with his wife is so much better.
I’ve been to a few in my high school days. And the lock-in was more of a reference to the outside doors. You could leave if you want but the doors would be locked. So if you got sick pf Pastor Joe’s rad speech about that Jesus dude and left to score some weed, you wouldn’t be able to get back in when they brought the chocolate fountain out at midnight. And I question the assumption that there is a teenage audience for how cool Jesus is anyway.
I’m guessing “Gay Fairy” was a playground moniker he heard a lot, when it wasn’t drowned out by the timpani thunder of relentless blows.
Wow! That takes me back. I remember her, when we all worked together.
Sorry for the hijack. Back to the matter at hand…
Oh, I already know I wont be cool. Hell, I’m not cool now, but at least I wont try to be cool, so I wont be fake cool guy, just uncool guy. But at least my kids will be miserable.
No, the idea of being locked in is that you are locked out of the sleeping rooms. The whole thing is a night-time sleepover where the kids are encouraged not to sleep. If anyone did ever lock the front door, it would be to keep the kids from sneaking out. I don’t think the parents would like it so much if their kids are allowed to sneak around like that.
At least, that’s how every one I went to as a kid was set up. The idea of it being a Jesus session, even at church, is completely foreign to me, and I would assume it was a co-opting of the concept.
I also think that a lot of the people you guys mention can be legitimately cool. I think that’s what fuels the ones who can’t.
We got some random woman who came in and was all ‘cool’ about how she used to be an addict, and ‘understood us’ for an hour (what happens in this classroom stays in this classroom). It was all sort of ‘hey, I know you kids are worried about endin’ up on the streets, but don’t worry! I dragged myself back off the streets, and look at me now! Yeah! Sure you’ll try drugs, nothin’ wrong with that, but y’don’t wanna get yourself depending on them, yeah?’
It was a rather posh extremely competetive girls’ school, we all just sat there looking prim and awkward, and at least one student wrote a letter of complaint about her use of profane language. 
I’m not saying none of them have ever tried drugs, and I’m not saying none will even end up on the street, but at age 13 we were going to be running the country by now…
OK, another addition to my list of Things Never to Do for Ironic Effect.
Wait, Shrek didn’t come out until 2001. Smash Mouth had already existed for five years?
First dude I thought of!
I’d never heard of Guy Fieri, but based on this pic he looks like Shane Warne’s slimmer brother. 
Oh and:
Bonus points if you pronounce it “Ell-thirty-three-tee”.