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Post by jen on Mar 5, 2006 4:42:19 GMT -5
I'm typing up my notes for the Complete Guide project over on LJ, doing "Kristy at Bat", and I just noticed this:
...they also wear their dark, curly hair in different styles (Anna's is longer than Abby's).
Tsk, tsk, Scholastic editing team!
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Post by aln1982 on Mar 5, 2006 16:37:00 GMT -5
What's the complete guide project? Is it something for the BSC or something else? Just curious (maybe being nosy
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Post by jen on Mar 6, 2006 5:23:16 GMT -5
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Post by ktag on Mar 8, 2006 18:41:27 GMT -5
In Hello Mallory, Claudia yells at Mal for letting the kids choose their own snack. Two books later, she lets her kids eat whatever they want. Maybe they should kick Claudia out of the club. Umm...did Matt just talk?
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Post by aln1982 on Mar 8, 2006 19:58:59 GMT -5
Since it just reads "added," maybe he signed it. But I guess the Pikes are pretty good at sign language if they could understand what he meant. It must be hard to write for a deaf character.
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Post by jen on Mar 23, 2006 7:27:44 GMT -5
One that's been bugging me lately is Kristy and her gross food comments... In some books, it says she always brings her lunch and then makes gross comments about other people's food. In other books, she makes disgusting comments about her own hot olunch, and then someone else will ask her why she doesn't just buy a sandwich or something, and she says because it's more fun to be gross about the hot lunch. So what is it, Kristy? Do you or do you not buy the hot lunch?
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Post by ktag on Mar 23, 2006 7:57:06 GMT -5
I think it's that in 7th grade, Kristy and Mary Anne always brought their own lunches, and Stacey and Claudia thought that made them babies. In 8th grade, I only ever remember them saying that she and Mary Anne bought hot lunches, Stacey and Claudia usually bought sandwiches(?), and Dawn made her own because she's an individual (god that's the most overused word in the series).
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Post by macca on Mar 23, 2006 16:41:42 GMT -5
In Baby-sitter's Remember, Jessi's whole chapter is about Squirt's colic. In Kristy and the Baby Parade, Jessi has no idea what colic is.
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Post by sparklymouse on Mar 24, 2006 11:55:51 GMT -5
In Claudia and the Middle School Mystery, Shawna was supposed to be a fairly smart, good student in everything but math. In Mary Anne and 2 Many Babies, Shawna was a ditzy dumbass.
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Post by jen on Mar 24, 2006 18:09:09 GMT -5
In Stacey McGill, Matchmaker (I think it was that one, at least), Stacey and her mum talk about her dad as being a lawyer, and how he used to be a public defender or something. But in every other book, I always got the impression that he was a business man... He was VP of a company in "Stacey's Choice", and that didn't seem lawyery at all.
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Post by macca on Mar 24, 2006 18:28:12 GMT -5
Ugh, that annoyed me so much.
jen, the dad's jobs seemed to change all the time. Mallory's dad was apparently a lawyer, but in Baby-sitters on Board, he won the cruise after thinking of the new name for the company's product. That doesn't sound like he worked in a law firm!
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Post by jen on Mar 25, 2006 8:25:13 GMT -5
That's true... Mr McGill's annoyed me more, though. They have an entire conversation about Stacey's dad being a lawyer, when for most of the serieshe was some corporate hotshot. At least with Mr Oike, he's only mentioned as being in that company with the product naming once... The rest of the series, I thought he was a lawyer.
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Post by ktag on Mar 25, 2006 17:17:12 GMT -5
Maybe the company had to lay him off after being forced to pay for a cruise for ten people, so then he thought, "hey I have a law degree, why don't I use it?" Why so many lawyers anyway?
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Post by sparklymouse on Mar 25, 2006 20:47:20 GMT -5
Seriously. Mary Anne's dad was a lawyer too. And weren't Jessi's parents and Elizabeth all in advertising? You'd think there could be a few more careers in Stoneybrook.
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Post by jen on Mar 26, 2006 0:04:09 GMT -5
Jessi's mum was in advertising. I'm not sure if it ever mentioned what her dad did, just that he worked in Stamford.
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