jen
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Post by jen on Aug 1, 2006 3:21:45 GMT -5
I want them to rerelease them, so I could buy them and have a collection that's in mint condition! That would be so dibble.
Back to inconsistencies... Kristy and the hot lunches. In some books, it says that she always brings her lunch from home, and then makes disgusting comments about everyone elses' lunches. In other books, she buys her lunch, makes gross comments, and I remember one scene where someone asks her "Why do you buy the hot lunch if it's so disgusting? You could just get a salad", and she says that it's more fun to make comments aboout the hot lunch.
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lilafowler
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Post by lilafowler on Aug 1, 2006 14:36:39 GMT -5
I thought Kristy and Mary Anne only packed their lunches in the seventh grade books -- they thought it was babyish after starting eighth grade. I never understood that; my school district's lunches used to be greasy and unhealthy but palatable, and then one year someone had the meals analyzed and discovered they weren't nutritionally sound. So then they redid the school lunches and they became positively disgusting. They may have been extra healthy after that, but I just brought sandwiches from home and I'm not dead.
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Post by greer on Aug 1, 2006 15:08:48 GMT -5
my school did a food self-study and took away anything with any taste. dawn would have loved it.
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macca
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Post by macca on Aug 1, 2006 17:35:33 GMT -5
Yeah, I thought Kristy only brought her lunch from home in the first few seventh grade books. Why it was babyish to bring a packed lunch, I'll never know. It's certainly not more babyish that squealing "ewwww, this muck looks like a cat that was run over!!!" every single day.
Also, the girls never seemed to actually EAT their cafeteria lunch. They'd pick at it for a while, Kristy would make some revolting comment, everyone would turn green and the lunches would be thrown away.
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lilafowler
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Post by lilafowler on Aug 1, 2006 17:57:45 GMT -5
Does anyone else remember Stacey bringing her lunch fairly often? Maybe it was a Stoneybrook thing to think bagged lunches were a sign of immaturity.
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jen
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Post by jen on Aug 2, 2006 1:56:00 GMT -5
Oh, okay. Maybe it was the earlier books that I remember the comment from.
I don't think Stacey brought her lunch that much, did she? She buys it in the most recent I read (Mystery 33, I think. That missing Valentines one) - she says that the fish sticks with their crunchy bread crumb coating would fulfil the carbohydrate and protein requirements of her midday meal, and that salad and an apple rounded off the meal. Or something like that.
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macca
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Post by macca on Aug 2, 2006 6:30:47 GMT -5
^ I can't remember whether Stacey brought her lunch from home or not. She probably did, considering her strict diet and all.
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Post by greer on Aug 2, 2006 10:29:28 GMT -5
i think she did sometimes. i think later on the bsc cared less about what the other kids at sms thought about them because, well, they never really hung out with anyone else.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Aug 2, 2006 10:53:47 GMT -5
I just reread a book (I wish I could remember which one...) where Logan was supposed to be writing a baby sitting entry, but the handwriting looked nothing like his. It was actually Kristy's. I was so confused for the whole freaking chapter. Also, did anyone ever notice that Karen is the only character who ages two full years? I'm pretty sure she was five when she was first introduced, then six, then seven. Stacey's hair nas rarely ever shown as being curly on the book covers, much less permed. The only curly haired Stacey cover I can think of right now is "Stacey and the Mystery at the Mall."
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Post by sotypical42483 on Aug 2, 2006 11:39:15 GMT -5
hmm when I was in junior high, it WAS dorky to bring your own lunch from home. Then again we all just bought candy, fries, hot pretzels, and bagels in the cafeteria so it's not like we ate the "hot lunch" offered by the school - eating that was rather dorky as well, unless it was nacho day.
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lilafowler
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Post by lilafowler on Aug 3, 2006 19:40:13 GMT -5
For some reason, I recall Mary Anne saying Kristy made up the flashlight code they used to send messages after dark, but in Kristy's Great Idea, Kristy says it was Mary Anne.
It used to annoy me that the only people who had ideas were Kristy and the narrator of a book. I realize now that it made sense for the book to be about whoever had the idea that would become the main plot, but it bothered me so much when I was little -- I guess I wanted to read a Jessi book about Claudia thinking of some project, or something like that.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Aug 21, 2006 10:47:49 GMT -5
Here's a possible inconsistency. In "The Secret Life of Mary Anne Spier," on the very first couple of pages as Mary Anne was buying the book for Sharon with her dad's credit card, she gets excited and says she'd never done that before. Well, she says later in the chapter that she'd done all the shopping for her friends the day before, and since the gifts were all so fancy, it stands to reason that she used the card. Not only that, but she HAD used a credit card before. In "Logan Likes Mary Anne," her dad gave her his Bellairs charge card to buy an outfit for the dance. That's where the possible inconsistency part comes in. If you see charge cards and credit cards as being the same thing, then it is. If you think they're different, then it's not.
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Aug 21, 2006 19:15:44 GMT -5
Also in The Secret Life of Mary Anne Spier, MA says that the house she lives in was built in 1774, when, as we all know, it was built in 1795. And in Mary Anne and the Playground Fight, she says that when she was a baby, her father sent her to live with her grandparents in Nebraska for a while. Now I kind of regret mentioning that, because I keep meaning to write an LJ post about #120 titled "Because Nebraska is the new Iowa," but I still haven't gotten around to it. If I ever do post that somewhere, can you guys all just forget I ever mentioned it here?
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Post by greer on Aug 21, 2006 21:17:01 GMT -5
What always struck me as strange about these inconsistencies that they're not just something that I notice now, as an adult. It was something that I noticed the first time reading the books. If a little kid notices it, how come adults who are being PAID to not be inconsistent can't be bothered to remember that Mary Anne went to Iowa?
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macca
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Post by macca on Aug 21, 2006 22:13:06 GMT -5
^ Yeah, as a kid I noticed heaps of the inconsistencies, especially about who had their ears pierced and who didn't and what earrings Jessi and Mallory were allowed to wear, probably because Mallory and the Trouble with Twins was my favorite book. I'm trying to remember other inconsistencies that stuck out for me as a kid...
I'm so overwhelmed with them NOW, I can't even remember if it occurred to me when I was little just HOW many times the writers stuffed up. Maybe I didn't expect books to be 100% accurate all the time or something.
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