wanderingfrog
Sitting For The Arnolds
Official BSC Archivist
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Post by wanderingfrog on Mar 15, 2009 21:43:03 GMT -5
-we always had a xerox machine growing up at my house, so i remember not getting why people in the books (especially karen) would just handwrite ALL of the flyers. but maybe a xerox machine isn't a thing that people regularly have in the house? i do not know to this day since i don't go around surveying people about it. A Xerox machine isn't a thing that most people regularly have in the house. I agree with you, though, that it is particularly odd that Karen would be handwriting all of her flyers, since her father is a "real, live millionaire." I don't think it would be strange for a millionaire who is the CEO of a company to have a photocopier in his house mansion in the late '80s, and even if he didn't, you would pretty much expect that he would have a computer she could use for stuff like flyers.
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Penny Lane
Sitting For The Arnolds
The Girl With Colitis Goes By
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Post by Penny Lane on Mar 15, 2009 21:56:36 GMT -5
^especially once he started working from home. we didn't have a xerox or anything, but we did have a printer with our computer. Couldn't she have just made her flyers on the computer?
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Post by zoar3 on Mar 15, 2009 22:14:04 GMT -5
Claudia is charged for local phone calls. I am guessing that maybe only Kristy and others outside of the Bradford Court neighborhood might be a toll call for the BSC but shouldn't most everyone else be free? The only "charge" each month should just be the cost of her line and when Stacey is in NY all the calls to her but otherwise, her phone bill shouldn't be that much, should it?
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Post by greer on Mar 16, 2009 7:28:03 GMT -5
I assume that since they're using her phone as their central line, they pay a little to her to subsidize their usage.
My dad a car phone when I was growing up.
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Post by Honeybee on May 3, 2010 19:57:33 GMT -5
i remember YM. (i think, I still have couple store in bin, down in a basement.) I didnt know, YM fold. Maybe, that's why, I couldnt find them in the magzine rack @ the store. Mc Calls also fold back in 1999 (that has been back in early 1920's I think.)
Car catalogs. Those where fun to look through. Wonder why, I didnt see them @ the library, last year in Dec. (When my comp was down. My laptop was still being hook up.)
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oldhickory
Sitting For The Arnolds
Heather Loves Boys and Gym
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Post by oldhickory on May 20, 2010 23:29:22 GMT -5
my family never had a car phone. i was born in 89, so i don't know if that would have been a time when car phones were big. but i've had a cell phone since i was 12 or something.
this isn't really something that is outdated, but i love the way claudia has to explain the atm in the clue in the photograph. these days everyone knows how they work, but the way she broke it down and made it seem so complicated is funny now.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jun 18, 2010 16:50:21 GMT -5
The phrase "Gay Nineties" in #5
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Post by anzuhana on Aug 27, 2010 10:04:07 GMT -5
In Stacey's Problem in FF, there's a mention of Princes Diana being on a magazine cover, wearing some dress. This was when she was still alive.
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lilafowler
Sitting For The Johanssens
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Post by lilafowler on Aug 27, 2010 14:51:24 GMT -5
In Stacey's Problem in FF, there's a mention of Princes Diana being on a magazine cover, wearing some dress. This was when she was still alive. I'm fairly sure she died before the FF series started (they weren't published for much more than a year, were they? And I'm positive Graduation Day came out in the fall of 2000). Great job, Scholastic editing team.
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Post by anzuhana on Aug 27, 2010 16:49:06 GMT -5
^ Stacey’s Problem was published in June 2000 and Princess Diana died in August 1997.
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Post by greer on Sept 14, 2010 11:28:45 GMT -5
The phrase "Gay Nineties" in #5 The Gay Nineties are still called the Gay Nineties... just as long as it's understood that you're talking about the 1890s and not the 1990s!
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Post by wenonah4th on Sept 14, 2010 14:17:58 GMT -5
I'd think people would be afraid to say that, with the more recent maning of "gay".
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Post by greer on Sept 15, 2010 16:33:03 GMT -5
^I'd think that if someone were well-versed enough in history to know of the term "Gay Nineties," then there wouldn't be any issue. It's not exactly a term that would come up in everyday conversation among, say, seventh grade boys. And "gay" meant homosexual in the 80s and 90s when the books were coming out as well, so that's not something that's changed, really.
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Post by wenonah4th on Sept 18, 2010 16:04:17 GMT -5
Personally, I usually refer to the 1890s (and slightly thereafter and before) as The Gilded Age....
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Post by BuckinghamAlice on Oct 1, 2010 20:23:38 GMT -5
^I believe the term "the Gilded Age" refers to anything from around the 1880s until just around WWI. "The Gay Nineties" refers specifically to the 1890s. Neither term is incorrect, or more correct (if that were possible ). Something that makes the series seem outdated was in MA Saves The Day. Mr. P gives MA and Dawn both $10 for taking such excellent care of their little angel *gag*. Later, MA and Dawn were like "wow, ten whole dollars! He's SOOO effing generous!" (to paraphrase) Of course things like the hair, clothes, VCRS, tapes, few people having cable, and the fact that the BSC doesn't have a facebook page for their clients to "like" them (lol) kinda date the series.
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