macca
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Post by macca on Oct 29, 2007 18:20:10 GMT -5
^ Jessi Ramsey, Pet Sitter
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Post by booboobrewer on Oct 29, 2007 19:22:50 GMT -5
Logan Bruno, Boy Baby-sitter
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2007 23:10:04 GMT -5
"Claudia's Big Party" always bothered me--It made me excited, thinking "Whoa, finally a BSC book that addresses beer and wild teenage parties!" Instead I got a book about cookie making contests and a vase breaking. Wow, hardcore.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Nov 16, 2007 23:19:33 GMT -5
"Claudia's Big Party" always bothered me--It made me excited, thinking "Whoa, finally a BSC book that addresses beer and wild teenage parties!" Instead I got a book about cookie making contests and a vase breaking. Wow, hardcore. Lol, I thought that too when I finally got this book from Amazon in eighth grade. I was like, "Oh yeah, the BSC is finally going to go wild, awesome!" and then I start reading and the "Big Party" consists of lame party games (from what I could remember from this snooze of a book and they also have teams too), cookie-making contests and the "Ultra-Sophisticated" Stacey balancing pizza boxes (or something like that). Seriously WTF? It was a total waste of trees to write that.  |
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Post by aln1982 on Nov 17, 2007 0:55:36 GMT -5
^ I didn't mind the book but agree the title was dumb. I'm really glad, though, that there wasn't more to the "party". There are too many of those in real life. ;D
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Lauren
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Post by Lauren on Nov 17, 2007 0:59:57 GMT -5
I'm suprised they didn't play spin the bottle or 7 minutes in heaven at the party. Of course this is BSC-land where they don't act like actual 13-year olds.
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Penny Lane
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Post by Penny Lane on Nov 17, 2007 1:20:56 GMT -5
^ Did any of you actually have those kinds of parties? We always joked about it, but we never actually had unsupervised co-ed parties during middle school. The closest we ever came to unsupervised co-ed mingling was hanging out at the skating rink on "teen" night.
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Lauren
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Post by Lauren on Nov 17, 2007 1:29:49 GMT -5
^
I had a couple of friends that had makeout parties in 8th grade. They weren't technically unsupervised, the parents just stayed in their room while all the kids were in the den.
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Penny Lane
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Post by Penny Lane on Nov 17, 2007 1:39:16 GMT -5
^ I think I just realized why we didn't have those parties. I was trying to figure out a short reply to the conversation on Mal hates boys, and I remembered that my "jr high" was part of a prek - 8 program in a small school. We had one class per grade, as was the custom at the catholic schools. My class had a ratio of something like 7 boys to 19 girls. One was completely out of teh question (no interest, smelly kid who didn't talk to anyone but his guinea pigs, might have been borderline autistic, in retrospect), one was rumored to eat dog biscuits at lunch, one was really cute and had a crush on me and danced with me at our mixer with a different school before this girl totally stole him away, one was kind of mean, and one was .. completely forgettable. Seriously, no memory, no name, just that he hung out with the mean kid.
No one ever wanted to hang out with the guys in the class below us. I guess we could have mixed with the 8th graders when we were seventh graders - they had more boys then girls, but that just made it overwhelming.
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Post by janey83 on Nov 19, 2007 15:15:41 GMT -5
It's not that they're dumb, but they're confusing -- I mixed up "Stacey's Mistake" with "Stacey's ex Best Friend" and I mixed up "Stacey's Choice" with "Welcome Home Stacey". Ahhhhhhhh. "Kristy and the Mother's Day Surprise" sounds too much like "Kristy and the Baby Parade". I almost bought the latter this weekend, but I thought I had it already......turns out I didn't, because once again, I was confused.  |
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Penny Lane
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Post by Penny Lane on Nov 19, 2007 15:21:04 GMT -5
^ I always mix up Mary Anne Saves the Day with Mary Anne to the Rescue. I think it's because I referred to them by number when I was a kid. IF the books are in front of me, yeah, I know which is which. But I usually need a second to think about it when I see posts referring to either of those books.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2007 15:39:27 GMT -5
I always hated "Poor Mallory!" (it sounds like a book for toddlers) and "Mallory Hates Boys (and Gym)". The brackets annoy me and I hate reading out the title! "Mallory Hates Boys..." *deeper voice* "...and Gym."
Poor Mallory indeed for getting stuck with such lame book titles.
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Penny Lane
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Post by Penny Lane on Nov 19, 2007 15:52:15 GMT -5
Kristy and the Copycat for the sole reason that it related to the subplot which barely had anything to do with the main plot. I know Karen, like, convinced Kristy to be herself and bla bla bla, but I think I would have prefered something like "Don't Smoke Kristy" or "Kristy's Big Secret" "Kristy and the Initiation Rite" Kristy and the Graffiti. Something... These people get paid to write titles. I'm sure they could come up with something.
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Post by aln1982 on Nov 19, 2007 17:07:52 GMT -5
I always get Poor Mallory confused with Get Well Soon Mallory and Don't Give Up Mallory. Actually, they all could be legitimately called Poor Mallory or Don't Give Up Mallory. ;D
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Post by janey83 on Nov 19, 2007 17:19:56 GMT -5
Ever notice how she never has a title like, "Mallory's Mystery Admirer" or "Ben likes Mallory" or even "Mallory, Queen of the 6th Grade" -- in fact, Mallory had the TOUGHEST time out of anyone in order to join the club. The funny thing is that they all knew Mallory the longest, yet they were so mean to her in "Hello, Mallory". Poor Mallory. |
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