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Post by wenonah4th on May 27, 2008 6:19:17 GMT -5
So that is actually real...I wasn't sure if the bracelet thing was an urban legend. Needless to say it wasn't in my junior high or high school, and I'm not that much the great-aunt around here! I only graduated from high school in 2000! The closest thing I can think of to that was that for a while people wore pop tops on strings or pins, and they were supposed to represent how many times you'd had sex, but they didn't necessarily. They could also represent the letters of your significant other's name and I forget what else. It sounds so wierd from more than a decade's distance!
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Post by greer on May 27, 2008 11:24:20 GMT -5
we didn't have it at mine either, and i graduated from HS four years ago. but then again perhaps if i had gone to a different kind of school, i would have. at boarding school nothing is secret, so no one would even need to wear a bracelet. you could tell who was getting busy by who was reserving classrooms on weekends. And of course on a dormitory floor with every girl in your class, everybody knows everything about everybody.
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Post by wenonah4th on May 27, 2008 12:43:46 GMT -5
Pennylane, that's my take on it too. My high school (a public school) was really surprising in how little actually went on sex wise. There were not many rumors, and a bare handful of pregnancies, and I don't remember one single rumor or confirmed instance of abortions. I expect there were some, this having been the late 90s, but really it's amazing how little seemed to happen.
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Post by Penny Lane on May 27, 2008 13:12:55 GMT -5
Wow, I just re-read my post. I just want to remind everyone of the filter because.. well, that was not what I wrote. Also, yeah. I graduated in 2000 and I know there must have been some of that stuf going on but it was just not something you bragged about.
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Post by sparklymouse on May 27, 2008 14:00:34 GMT -5
^I was wondering what a "sleeper" was. I thought maybe it was Michigan slang.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on May 27, 2008 19:34:47 GMT -5
I've never even heard about the colored bracelet game until now, neither my high school or junior high did anything with that.
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Post by luckymojo on May 27, 2008 20:51:09 GMT -5
what do you mean, sex games??? the color game.you know,flashing,oral,lapdance according to the color of the bracelet.
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Post by Kylie90210 on May 27, 2008 21:17:53 GMT -5
Haha, kids these days... it's pretty darn scary. I really worry about the pressures my kids will face (when I have them)
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Post by luckymojo on May 27, 2008 22:24:37 GMT -5
Thats what I feel too.The things that I had heard from little kids these days is a d**n disgrace.
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Post by booboobrewer on May 27, 2008 22:26:37 GMT -5
Concur, kylie. Kids grow up so fast these days.
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Post by greer on May 27, 2008 22:48:14 GMT -5
the color game.you know,flashing,oral,lapdance according to the color of the bracelet. i understand the color game part. to me, "sex games" has a different connotation.
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Post by Penny Lane on May 27, 2008 22:54:24 GMT -5
^ me too.
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Post by murderedmymuse on May 28, 2008 6:05:09 GMT -5
In response to a lot of these, I'm not going to quote them all... If they wrote out the BSC notebook online, Claudia could spell-check it! . I still wonder how Claudia's notebook entries would turn out cause even if she used microsoft word spell-check she would probably 'ok' all the bizarre grammer suggestions that the spell-check makes. I imagine her entires would look like they were run through BabelFish first. If they updated the BSC today to make it culturally curent, would you still read/buy it? On SVH forums most people seem to stay loyal to the 80s SVH, rather than the 2008 reissues.
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Post by wenonah4th on May 28, 2008 9:34:23 GMT -5
^It's probably not fair to ask that of those of us who read them back in the original, because there's the nostalgia factor to them. That being said, there are some updates in the graphic novels and a lot of us adult fans snatched them up and can't wait for the next one.
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Post by greer on May 28, 2008 10:43:14 GMT -5
I think the difference between the BSC updates and the SVH updates is that Raina is a big BSC fan and feels the same fondness that we do toward the series. So she would have never made a decision like getting rid of 1BRUCE1. She just changed things like prices to make sense with inflation, and added things like that flashback from Stacey's portrait in The Truth About Stacey which BSC fans would recognize and appreciate.
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