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Post by aln1982 on May 13, 2007 23:39:54 GMT -5
Just reread Kristy's Worst Idea and felt so sorry for Jackie. He knows he's accident prone and just can't seem to help it - makes me not able to help but like him He seems like such a kind, well meaning boy. All of the Rowdowskys really do.
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Post by mckay on May 14, 2007 2:54:01 GMT -5
I feel for Jackie because I'm just like him. Not with the more outlandish disasters, but I knock things over, trip on them, spill them...it's not that I'm careless, my mind just wanders at the worst possible moment!
My mom, on the other hand, manages some Jackie-caliber disasters. It must be genetic...
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Post by aln1982 on May 14, 2007 16:10:14 GMT -5
I am getting more clumsy as time goes on. Maybe it is genetic since my dad isn't on Jackie-caliber but we call him "butterfingers" and "the fumbler". He said in college, he broke so much glassware in Chem class that they finally told him he couldn't touch it Ah, I am now imagining Jackie in a lab class....
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Post by lyricalangel on May 15, 2007 1:39:20 GMT -5
He could blow up the school mixing chemicals
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Post by mckay on May 15, 2007 1:55:21 GMT -5
I am getting more clumsy as time goes on. Maybe it is genetic since my dad isn't on Jackie-caliber but we call him "butterfingers" and "the fumbler". He said in college, he broke so much glassware in Chem class that they finally told him he couldn't touch it Ah, I am now imagining Jackie in a lab class.... I once fell off of my stool in Physics. I was just sitting there, leaned a little too far back and...oops. It got mentioned in the yearbook and everything (must've been a slow year...).
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Post by Amalia on May 16, 2007 2:04:28 GMT -5
I ate an m&m that we were using for Chemistry class, once. That was before they told us to not eat them.
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Post by aln1982 on May 16, 2007 14:57:04 GMT -5
^ Did it have something on it? I hope not. I had terrible experiences in my first Chem lab with not having ever done a lab and my partners never showing up. I'm also very short so the instructor ended up having to reach stuff for me all of the time. It was embarrassing but at least I only broke one piece of glassware (though my experiments never worked - no one's in the class did).
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Post by mckay on May 17, 2007 21:30:44 GMT -5
I ate an m&m that we were using for Chemistry class, once. That was before they told us to not eat them. *giggle* I hope you did that before the experiment. One of the girls in my class put phenolphthalein (an indicator) in one of her lab partners' water bottles. I'm sure she didn't realize how sick it'd make you, but they did warn us over and over again to be careful to wash our hands after using it. (And also not to bring drinks into the lab...heh.)
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Post by aln1982 on May 23, 2007 23:29:46 GMT -5
In the last few days, I have personally seen how little accidents – though nothing on a huge “Jackie” scale – all seem to happen at once. Yesterday, my mom spilled a bowl of sugar on our carpet and broke a filling out of her tooth. This is after just the night before dad had knocked his entire salad onto the floor, spilled the pepper all over the table, knocked all of the birthday cards that were sitting on the corner of the table over, and came dangerously close to spilling my water (I grabbed in just in time I just kept laughing and asking them if they were Jackie.
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Post by Lauren on May 23, 2007 23:42:50 GMT -5
I can relate to Jackie in that I'm extremely clumsy just like he is. Everybody I know calls me Grace because I'm so klutzy, hence my username.
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Post by fluffycakes on Jun 4, 2007 16:14:08 GMT -5
I like all of the Rodowsky boys. I think Jackie's a good kid who just happens to be incredibly accident-prone. Like other people here, I really like how he's a sweet, happy-go-lucky kid. Yeah, it'd probably be a little frustrating to baby-sit for him, but it's not like he's doing these things on purpose. I don't like how the girls would always roll their eyes at him every time he had an accident. Poor kid. Shea and Archie are cute, too. Archie seems adorable, and Shea seems like a really sweet kid. Too bad that the girls usually only baby-sat for Jackie, because it would've been cool to see more of Shea and Archie. One of my favourite Shea moments was when Karen had a crush on him in Kristy and the Mother's Day Surprise. Imagine what that couple would be like! I was reading "Claudia and the New Girl" the other day where Jackie talks about breaking his piano teacher's doorbell. That was odd quirky got me thinking how one would go about breaking a doorbell. and then he mentions breaking his own doorbell too. How does that happen? A doorbell is not an easy thing to break. I mean it seems like you would really have to try. If he was doing this stuff on purpose it could be mildly believable. Are we just supposed to believe he has really bad luck? Bad karma? Unusually large fingers? He's possessed? Some people just have extremely odd luck - not necessarily bad, but definitely bizarre. I have a friend who somehow accidently set the washing machine on fire. Yep, a machine full of water caught on fire. He was just doing his laundry, and the next thing you know - poof, it went up in flames. To this day, he still has no idea as to how it happened. Definitely sounds like something that would happen to Jackie.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Jun 5, 2007 22:00:11 GMT -5
I don't remember Karen having a crush on Shea at all! I need to re-read that cause seriously, that's kind of hilarious.
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Post by mckay on Jun 10, 2007 23:33:44 GMT -5
Andrew totally had a boy-crush on Shea, too. I thought Shea was so cute, being so protective of Andrew, and telling him that if he ate his whole sandwich he'd get muscles like Popeye's someday.
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Post by memory on Jun 24, 2007 20:55:32 GMT -5
He could blow up the school mixing chemicals this accually almost arrived to my dad when he was in high-school he was told to mix a blue liquid into the yellow one but my dad is colorblind so he mix the yellow in the blue and almost make the school kaboom!
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Post by Lauren on Jun 24, 2007 21:35:11 GMT -5
^ ROLF. That's hysterical!
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