Top Gun Day 2011: Do You Feel the Need For Speed? (TWEETS)

It's Top Gun Day!

Strap on your aviators, grab a volleyball, and break out you best lines to celebrate 25 years of this American classic. While the official anniversary of the film's release date isn't until Monday the 16th according to IMDB, today's the perfect Friday to celebrate.

But what does it take to participate? Top Gun Day's official site has compiled a list of 9 ways you can show your spirit:

1. On May 13th update your social network profile picture / avatar to be anything Top Gun related. Use an image from our photo gallery or get creative and make your own. If you do make your own we’d love it if you could share it with us. If it’s good we’ll post it to our user gallery so other people can use it.
2. Use as many Top Gun lines throughout the day as possible. For example, say your friend Jim asks you what you’re doing on Friday night, you should respond: “Hey Jim, you stink”.
3. Wear aviator sunglasses. Cheap or expensive. Inside or out. Just don’t “Scratch one”!
4. Grab your Top Gun Day T-Shirt and “CALL THE BALL!”
5. Go to a bar…wearing a flight suit or aviator wings and order a glass of Hemlock.
6. Call your friends and tell them, “I’m going to Top Gun!” and then hangup.
7. Buy some rubber dog s**t.
8. Don’t wear deodorant and only respond to the name, Slider.
9. Join us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter!

If you simply can't get enough Top Gun, check out the official site (topgunday.com) for more tips, videos, and even a "Call Sign Generator."

Also, check out some of the best Top Gun tweets below!

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\"All right, Jester, I\'ll give you a run for your money here.\" #topgunday

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[understandthis]

12:23 PM on 05/14/2011

WHAT A WASTE OF PRINT

[FlangeSqueal]

12:27 PM on 05/14/2011

The cult of $cientology is doing their best to cover-up the upcoming expose on their Messiah, L. Ron Hubbard.

[MajorKong]

09:44 AM on 05/14/2011

Iceman, the later years -

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9p6gv_snl-top-gun-skit_fun

[O K Ali]

09:41 AM on 05/14/2011

Nah.

[jokamachi]

03:45 AM on 05/14/2011

Stupid.

[bocoe]

02:32 AM on 05/14/2011

I liked this movie. This was before Tom Cruise became the man everyone loves to hate right now. I still enjoy this flick whenever I catch it, I cannot say this about many of his other movies.

[MrPragmatic]

12:53 AM on 05/14/2011

I'd rather see the (almost) 30 year anniversary release of Risky Business. Not only do you get to see Tom wiggle about in his tighty whiteys to Bob Seger but it really is his only good movie as a leading man. Or in this case boy.

[NoSillyName]

11:15 PM on 05/13/2011

Substitute GWB's head, add a "Mission Accomplished" sign and I'm having a flashback.

Never cared to watch the TC flick.

[Joshy X]

10:32 PM on 05/13/2011

has that movie been um audited?

[FlangeSqueal]

08:55 PM on 05/13/2011

Is it REALLY necessary to "celebrate" the anniversary of a Grade B action hero movie that "featured" the tiny $cientologist-In-Training, Tweetsie Tom Cruise ?

Is the odd, airbrushed, pseudo-iconic painting that runs with this article from the studios of Gold Base in Hemet, California - the place where the foil-hat $ciento's keep a fully staffed, fully furnished mansion for the (hoped-for) resurrection of their silly "Leader," L. Ron Hubbard ? It is silly to the extreme.

I believe this push to "commemorate" this movie is an attempt on the part of the cult of $cientology to deflect attention away from the upcoming movie, starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the zany, drunk, pill-popping Messiah.......as well as shore up Teeny Tom's failing "career."

Any other feelings on this ?

[Catherine Defrancesco]

09:22 PM on 05/13/2011

Agree 100%, fanned and faved.....

[blssme]

01:34 AM on 05/14/2011

Um, he played a character...you know, like all actors play? Don't even know how into Scientology he was at that time (but something tells me you've researched it fully). Not sure why you would bring his personal religious beliefs into this but whatevs...too bad you have nothing better to do. The movie was a good distraction at that time (especially the volleyball scene)

[FlangeSqueal]

12:25 PM on 05/14/2011

Lemme guess - you find your "bliss" by wearing a $cientology-inspired tinfoil cone hat ?!!

Can you name any other movie from that era that is enjoying an "anniversary commemoration" ?

As if we're talking about the Ten Commandments or something.

You silly cult-bots make me sick.

[jdevans]

05:48 PM on 05/13/2011

Why was Kelly McGillis' character in "Top Gun" an astrophysicist, when astrophysics has nothing to do with what she was teaching -- aerodynamics and combat maneuvering?

[Wistfulslinking]

11:23 AM on 05/14/2011

My bf is an aviator, combat flight instructor, he has a PhD. in History.

Degrees are irrelvant.

[addisonsteele]

04:56 PM on 05/13/2011

They forgot: Engage in a great deal of homoerotic behavior.

[RedDogBear]

04:25 PM on 05/13/2011

Tarantino describes the hidden meaning of Top Gun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyN8VN4BSzM

[jokamachi]

03:48 AM on 05/14/2011

Tarantino gets it.

[akrazyrunner]

02:36 PM on 05/13/2011

Iceman: You! You are still dangerous. You can be my wingman any time.
Maverick: BUIISHlT! You can be mine.

[Ichigo Kurosaki]

02:19 PM on 05/13/2011

I flew F-14s in the Navy. Went to the Fighter Weapons School. The movie took quite a few liberties on the personal interaction front, but was technically accurate.

[FlangeSqueal]

02:29 PM on 05/13/2011

"...the movie....took a few liberties...."

Like portraying Teeny Tom the $cientology shill as a MAN.

[KIVPossum]

02:58 PM on 05/13/2011

Your wife has the same complaint

[HighDesertBob]

02:36 PM on 05/13/2011

I enjoyed the film, but is it possible to fit a person Tim Robbins' height in the RIO seat? What is he, abut 6' 8"?