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Not true, and as an old Gen X mimeograph sniffer, it's not something we believed at the time, either. We just liked the smell.


** The scene where students are sniffing the tests? Probably lost on most people these days, but that actually used to happen. In the days before photocopy machines were commonplace (the late '80s or so), most schools still used a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph Mimeograph machine]] to copy handouts and tests. Sniffing fresh mimeo ink produces a mild high.

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** The scene where students are sniffing the tests? Probably lost on most people these days, but that actually used to happen. In the days before photocopy machines were commonplace (the late '80s or so), most schools still used a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph Mimeograph machine]] to copy handouts and tests. Sniffing fresh mimeo ink produces a mild high.
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* ParodyDisplacement: People who watch this movie today will not realize that the joke that involved Jeff Spicoli saving Creator/BrookeShields from drowning at the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue is actually an allusion to [[Film/TheBlueLagoon1980 the 1980 movie adaptation]] of ''Literature/TheBlueLagoon'', where Shields starred in.

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* ParodyDisplacement: People who watch this movie today will not realize that the joke that involved Jeff Spicoli saving Creator/BrookeShields from drowning at the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue is actually an allusion to [[Film/TheBlueLagoon1980 the 1980 movie adaptation]] of ''Literature/TheBlueLagoon'', where ''Film/TheBlueLagoon1980'', which Shields starred in.

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