starrynight
Sitting For The Kuhns
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Post by starrynight on Jul 25, 2006 10:41:33 GMT -5
I can't for the life of me find the thread where this was being discussed, but I recently reread two books that give evidence for the phone being in two different locations. In "Jessi and the Awful Secret," it says that Stacey was sitting on Claudia's desk, next to the phone. In "Stacey and the Cheerleaders," it says that Kristy kicks the phone out of the wall while demonstrating cheer moves and it causes a delay in the club meeting. Personally, I always thought the phone was on the desk. After all, didn't they hold the phone in their laps during the first ever club meeting because they were so eager? You couldn't do that if the phone was wall mounted.
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Post by greer on Jul 25, 2006 11:56:05 GMT -5
I just don't think there was ever a standard in phone location for the ghostwriters to follow. Claudia probably just moved the phone to wherever was convenient. A wall-mounted phone doesn't make sense, however; I believe I always read it as the phone cord coming out of the wall.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jul 27, 2006 20:34:44 GMT -5
In my mind the phone was always on a desk, or the floor maybe, since they always dove for it (or a table close to the floor). I've pictured it like that always. I was probably never observant enough to notice mentions of Kristy kicking the phone out of the wall and the like (which is hilarious.)
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lilafowler
Sitting For The Johanssens
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Post by lilafowler on Jul 27, 2006 20:52:52 GMT -5
Same here. I assumed she had a cordless phone, for some reason, but I figured the cord for the cradle was what got kicked out of its outlet.
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Post by greer on Jul 27, 2006 20:56:57 GMT -5
There is a book where Claud's dad buys a cordless phone, but it seems to be the Kishi family phone. When she gets it, she calls Stacey or Kristy or something and is just freaking out over the excitement of having a cordless phone. This is in Baby-Sitters Beware, I think, so it's pretty late in the series.
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lisa
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Post by lisa on Jul 28, 2006 7:44:48 GMT -5
^ It was Claudia and the Recipie for Danger where they got the cordless phone.
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Post by greer on Jul 28, 2006 10:29:02 GMT -5
Ohh, ok. For some reason I thought it was the cordless phone excitement that lead to the discovery of the trashcan fire.
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Post by secondhandshoes on Jul 28, 2006 23:13:07 GMT -5
I always assumed that it was in the middle of the floor....or like...a stand of some sort. Not the desk. Not a table. Just some typle of..stand? lol
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jen
Sitting For The Johanssens
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Post by jen on Aug 1, 2006 1:29:23 GMT -5
I always pictured it as having it's own special stand, right in the middle, so that everyone had an equal shot when they all dove for the phone. Heh.
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inge
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Post by inge on Aug 8, 2006 16:51:32 GMT -5
I always pictured it to be on the desk, or sometimes on the floor next to the bed. On the wall just wouldn't make any sense!
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Amalia
Sitting For The Braddocks
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Post by Amalia on Aug 14, 2006 14:59:54 GMT -5
In Kristy's Great Idea, the phone is sitting on the floor (the one where Claudia is laying on the floor). But the cord seems long enough, so it could be placed at different places at various times, but wow, I never imagined that the phone could be wall-mounted. Starrynight, you're observant. I asked my sister about this, and she said that she remembered Claudia taking the phone out of her room and being able to do so because the cord was so long. It was when Claudia was tutoring Lindsey Dewitt for Stacey. Of course she's not sure though.
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wanderingfrog
Sitting For The Arnolds
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Post by wanderingfrog on Aug 20, 2006 15:28:37 GMT -5
I've always thought that the wire connecting it to the phone jack was long enough that she just put it in different places around the room from time to time... on the desk, on the floor, whatever.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Sept 6, 2007 22:07:03 GMT -5
I never thought about it! I guess I just assumed it was on the floor...
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 7, 2007 7:48:57 GMT -5
For some reason, I always pictured it as sitting on a night stand or table somewhere near Kristy's director's chair. But I never gave it much thought.
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blossom114
Sitting For The Papadakis's
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Post by blossom114 on Sept 7, 2007 10:19:20 GMT -5
I've always assumed the phone cord was long enough that it was just placed wherever was convenient, and could stretch a fair distance from the wall. Not an exact placement. never overly thought it
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