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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 7, 2009 14:47:02 GMT -5
Ah, a kindred spirit! Well, my cousins and I pretended we were a "research firm" and spent a whole day trying to find out things about things. Frankly that's as much as I remember. It is sort of funny when you know that our fathers are engineers.
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wanderingfrog
Sitting For The Arnolds
Official BSC Archivist
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Post by wanderingfrog on Feb 9, 2009 20:34:46 GMT -5
Maybe the BSC is Kristy's game based on the Henry Reed books...
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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 10, 2009 6:36:24 GMT -5
Those books were never mentioned in the BSC canon (that I know of) although they're the sort of thing the kids in S'book might like. I've found them to be obscurely known, however.
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Post by ringdings on Feb 10, 2009 16:37:43 GMT -5
It would have been cool if Ann mentioned those books, because they took place in a fictional town near Princeton, where Ann grew up.
*sigh* Now I want to find the books and read them again. ETA: OK, reserved the first one at the library.
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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 11, 2009 6:53:49 GMT -5
Oddly it's the same fictional place where Wells' War of the Worlds took place.
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Post by ringdings on Feb 11, 2009 7:45:52 GMT -5
And the play Our Town, though I think that Grovers Corner was in a different state.
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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 11, 2009 8:32:50 GMT -5
I'd forgotten that.
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starrynight
Sitting For The Kuhns
The Royal Diner of Pizza Express
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Post by starrynight on Feb 11, 2009 12:16:40 GMT -5
How big did you guys think the Kid Kits were? I always saw them as shoebox sided or a little bigger, so I could never figure out how they fit board games in there.
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Post by booboobrewer on Feb 11, 2009 13:14:58 GMT -5
Me too. I didn't imagine them as big as they were in the movie, though--like when Stacey brings hers to sit for Rosie, I think it was a pretty big box.
And for a short time when I was a kid, I pictured them as having straps attached so the sitters could wear them over their shoulder like a purse, for some reason.
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Post by candykane on Feb 11, 2009 13:43:44 GMT -5
I always imagined Kid-Kits to be smallish, like a shoebox. Then in the TV series there was one episode where one of the girls had hers on a sitting job and it was one of those giant art portfolio type things - big and flat with handles and zipped all the way around. Way bigger than I ever thought it would be.
When I was very young I made my own "Kid-Kit" using a Kleenex box. I put stuff in it like jacks, trading cards, and a couple of other small things that I can't really remember specifically.
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Post by ringdings on Feb 11, 2009 15:05:33 GMT -5
I think Abby's Kid Kit was from a box that once held her new soccer cleats, and in the graphic novels, I think they were boxes in which to store files. But I thought them to be somewhat in between. I can imagine them carrying those big file boxes on jobs, particularly on their bikes, would be awkward sometimes.
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Post by greer on Feb 11, 2009 17:41:37 GMT -5
Abby's soccer cleat box always confused me, because those boxes are pretty small.
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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 12, 2009 6:34:27 GMT -5
The games are the troubling factor. I rather wish they weren't mentioned.
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supprazz
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by supprazz on Mar 3, 2009 20:41:44 GMT -5
games could be small games like pocket puzzles, activity books, gameboy etc. that would fit perfectly fine in a shoebox
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Post by wenonah4th on Mar 4, 2009 6:53:04 GMT -5
That's an interesting thought. You could be right. There are also some games that come in smaller boxes, like card games or Boggle.
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