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Post by wenonah4th on Sept 23, 2007 14:06:20 GMT -5
My best friend uses "hun" a lot, but the only other people I don't mind that from are diner waitresses who are at least old enough to be my mother.
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Post by hitzpink on Sept 24, 2007 18:17:18 GMT -5
A couple of other things I liked about this book: the description of their first meeting, when Kristy shows up to Claudia's at 4:30 and Claud is sitting on her bed clutching the phone. Also, Sarge! The cat the Pike's allegedly have. This was the only book he was ever mentioned in, right? I guess everyone just forgot about him after Kristy's brief story about him in this book. And, err, as for what you guys are actually talking about.. lol.. I don't like when guys refer to girls as babes, chicks, or anything like that. "Chick" is a major pet peeve of mine. When I first started dating my boyfriend, he was in the habit of refering to EVERY girl as a "chick." I broke him of that habit though because I couldn't stand it! It sounds so patronizing.
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Post by booboobrewer on Sept 24, 2007 18:19:22 GMT -5
Hon and sweetheart are okay with me. Don't like chick, generally. I like "baby" but I can't stand "babe." I don't know why, lol.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Sept 24, 2007 22:50:55 GMT -5
I don't remember Kristy showing up at 4:30, that is so cute!! I'll have to re-read, but maybe skip the part where there's FOUR sitting chapters in a row cause that drives me insane.
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 24, 2007 23:14:22 GMT -5
I never noticed the Pike's cat but wonder why it wasn't mentioned again. Sometimes I wonder if the authors just forgot details like this or if they purposely left them out of later books. As for the "chick" thing, I'm with hitzpink that the word just bothers me. And I just can't really see a 15 year old saying someone is "foxy" (but maybe I just haven't heard it enough ;D)
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Post by liss31d on Sept 25, 2007 4:13:14 GMT -5
Also when the Pikes got their hamster Frodo, Mallory was yelling "We're getting our first pet!" Aww poor Sarge!
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Post by starrynight on Sept 26, 2007 11:05:51 GMT -5
^ She mentioned later on that they USED to have a cat, but never said what happened to him. Maybe he was in the wrong place at the wrong time on Daddy Stew night....
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Post by greer on Sept 26, 2007 14:06:18 GMT -5
^HAHAHAHA EWWWWWW
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 26, 2007 16:30:30 GMT -5
^ Ewww! I will never think of Daddy Stew (which used to sound kind of good in a very disgusting sort of way) the same way again. This reminds me of when I was five and told my grandma that I wouldn't eat one of her casseroles because it tasted like "dog stew" which was made of.... (Grandpa laughed, so it must have been pretty gross ;D)
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Post by starrynight on Sept 27, 2007 10:11:43 GMT -5
^I think I would have gotten in BIG trouble if I'd said that to my grandma!!!
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 27, 2007 16:39:29 GMT -5
^ I think mine cried and I did get in trouble - big trouble - but I immediately felt terrible, anyway. It just slipped out of my mouth. But it was kind of funny ;D (even though it did hurt her feelings, I'm sure, and I do still feel bad about it) I can kind of see a little kid in one of the books "slipping" and blurting something like this out.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Sept 30, 2007 20:46:43 GMT -5
I really liked this book, like everyone has said, it's cool to see Kristy and everyone else actually act like 12 year olds instead of the mini-adults they become later on (to me the BSC acted more like 15 year olds instead of 13). I loved the first chapter where Kristy gets in trouble and has to write that essay (I learned what decorum was after reading this), just because it was normal and a great way to start off the series. I also liked reading about Kristy's first baby-sitting job with Karen and Andrew because it was also mentioned in Karen's Book. I liked reading it from Kristy's POV because it talks more about how she really didn't want anything to do with Watson and his kids in the beginning while in Karen's Book, Kristy is just as cheery towards them as she is in the LS books. It was cool to see how Kristy really felt about them in the beginning. Oh and I loved Kristy and Mary-Anne's flashlight conversations. ;D
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 30, 2007 23:18:23 GMT -5
^ I just read Karen's Book for the first time a few months ago and was surprised that Karen had such a positive view of her first encounter with Kristy. I had just read things from Kristy's POV that shows her inner thoughts so glad those didn't come out to Karen and Andrew. I did think Kristy's feelings, though, were pretty understandable. I think I disliked this book for the same reason that others like it - Kristy acted "immature" compared to the mini-adult she becomes. I always pretend the girls are older so that is probably why this more realistic view of their ages doesn't work well for me. Still, I did like a lot about this book, i including the flashlight conversations (though they sounded impossibly tedious ;D I'm surprised Kristy had the patience to do them. I wouldn't have ;D)
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Post by sotypical42483 on Sept 30, 2007 23:39:52 GMT -5
I loved Kristy and MA's flashlight conversations, too! Although honestly it doesn't really make much sense. I imagine it was like morse code though, long flashes and short flashes. But to spell out entire sentences, it'd take forever!
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Post by hitzpink on Oct 1, 2007 20:45:01 GMT -5
I always imagine the flashlight conversation as being like morse code too! I wonder how they came up with that. I like when Kristy first signs her message about the idea for the BSC Mary Anne's response is "....What?" and Kristy has to sign it all over again. hehe. ;D
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