VICTORY and a fun fact

This was the best picture from the front page of a google image search on "victory."  What Victory, you ask?  A victory against fate, academia, and tomfoolery!  Which is to say, I passed my thesis defense!  Woo!    Somehow it seems the Honors program bought my nonsense and will reward my months of work and angst with something shiny to wear at graduation.  Um.  Yes. Hooray!

Now for a fun fact:  never say my radio producing job is useless:  In looking at the research of some professors in the communications department I came upon an article about how old people are portrayed in teen film (badly, it would seem) BUT the interesting thing is in the appendix there's a list of the two twenty grossing teen films of the 80s, 90s, and um, 00s? Anyway, the top grossing teen film of the 1990s: CASPER.  As in:

Am I the only one who thinks that is WEIRD and sort of RIDICULOUS? The whole list is pretty surprising really--nothing on it is really that good?  I mean I guess we're talking teen movies so yeah, it's gonna be ridiculous, but still.  I mean, the 80s had Back to the Future, Dead Poet's Society, Ferris Bueller, RED DAWN, Karate Kid--the list goes on.  And the 2000s at least had like Spider Man and Harry Potter and THE LIZZIE McGUIRE MOVIE.  But shoot the 90s, it was Casper, She's All That, and The Brady Bunch Movie.  No kidding those are all in the top 10.  What a funny old decade.