space case (1976), waste case (1986)

[Mullins, Bill]

>
> 1989 _Christian Science Monitor_ 11 Oct. 18 (Nexis) I went to
> a small Jewish high school. We had our share of waste-cases,
> punks, princesses, brains, geeks, dumb jocks and, yes, cool people.
>

This reminds me of the quote from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (1986)

Grace [Edie McClurg]: "Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sportos,
motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads - they
all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude."