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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on May 7, 2008 19:20:24 GMT -5
My favourite line from this book has to be Claire's response to the question - What would you do to help change the world? I'd help everyone to be friends and I'd give them all free French fries at McDonaldsAw ;D I loved that too ;D. And Myriah's answer, when she was talking about stopping wars .
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Post by Rie on May 8, 2008 1:08:39 GMT -5
^Oh,I loved their answers too! They were really cute!
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Post by murderedmymuse on May 8, 2008 10:40:14 GMT -5
I've got a theory how Sabrina Bouvier magically aged up between book 15 and the later book. Ann wrote book 15 and a ghostwriter wrote the later book (I'm assuming, I haven't read the later book). So once the ghostwriters are on board to write the later books, a BSC bible is created for the ghostwriters to reference (a bible that includes the Sabrina reference in book 15).
Now we have the ghostwriter writing the later book and they need a name for a random student, they're flipping through the BSC bible and they spot...'Sabrina Bouvier'. But they don't read the BSC bible close enough and probably think Sabrina was helping one of the contestants (making her Dawn's age, in theory) rather than being a contestant herself (thus a child). So they sit down at the typewriter and start banging away like the proverbial monkey...and presto, Sabrina the thirteen year old student was born. Or it could be I just think much too much about the BSC. There was a SVH bible for the SVH ghostwriters too. Writing a BSC or SVH bible would be a cool job.
Imagine if you took the phrase 'BSC bible' literally. Instead of the book of Matthew and the book of John, you would have the book of Kristy and the book of Claudia. And it wouldn't be 'the world was created by god in seven days', instead being 'the BSC was created by Kristy in seven days, and on the seventh day they all rested by having a pizza party.' The birth of Christ would be replaced by the birth of the baby Prezzioso. And the first line of the bible would be 'And god created the baby-sitter and her name was Kristy.' I wonder what The 10 commandments would be? Thou shall not covet another's baby-sitting job? Thou shall not make wrongful use of the club dues? Remember the BSC meeting and keep it holy? I can see Kristy embracing the 'I am your lord, the baby-sitter' commandment. Okay, I have officially got to stop now. (And I mean no offence toward anyone religious).
Edited for spelling
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Post by wenonah4th on May 8, 2008 14:08:08 GMT -5
No offense taken here! I'm familiar with the term "bible" , lower-case spelling, as it's used for writers' reference, but seriously, if one isn't able to see a little humor in one's dearly held beleifs then I wonder how truly you beleive them!
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on May 8, 2008 15:12:25 GMT -5
I just snarked this book for the bsc_snark community lol. One thing I agree with you all on is how Dawn is completely cool with the pageant, when you know if this was a later book, she'd be staging a protest outside the high school lol.
I think the message was a little too hard. I know that there's pageant-heads out there, and some kids are forced into it by psycho parents, but some kids just like being onstage. I noticed at the beginning of the book, when Kristy and Mallory are rolling their eyes and calling pageants sexist, Mary Anne take the opposite opinion and says that some little girls would jump at the chance to get dressed up and be onstage with everyone paying attention to them. Then Kristy changes her tune and says "Yeah...pageants can be sexist....but FUN!"
I mean, Karen "Look at meeeeeeee!" Brewer was a contestant. And when Kristy brings it up, Karen talks about the allure of Miss America and how it's all beautiful ladies wearing beautiful sparkly gowns and lying across pianos and singing. Not every girl is going ot make a face and say "ew, not for me!" (I would...I was more like Charlotte lol). Some girls, Karen being an example of it, would love to be onstage! And is that seen as bad if you're looking at this from AMM's point of view?
I also felt horrible for Charlotte. This whole "I need to win the pageant so I can be the bestest babysitter!" competition was stupid, stupid, stupid. And Claudia was completely wrong to drag, of all people, Charlotte Johanssen into it. I know she felt horrible about it later on after Charlotte ran off the stage in tears, but that was such a bonehead move on her part.
This book also contains one of the most ironic lines ever in a BSC book. After they're all discussing the pageant in the last chapter, Kristy says they learned a lesson and "After all, even the best babysitter can't change a kid." How many times before and after this was there a plot that involved a BSC member trying to change a "problem child" or help out a kid because they didn't want to worry their parents?
Sorry for the rambling, this book is still fresh in my mind and I had a lot to say lol.
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Post by booboobrewer on May 8, 2008 18:29:20 GMT -5
^All good points. I felt bad for Charlotte as well.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on May 8, 2008 19:48:38 GMT -5
Imagine if you took the phrase 'BSC bible' literally. Instead of the book of Matthew and the book of John, you would have the book of Kristy and the book of Claudia. And it wouldn't be 'the world was created by god in seven days', instead being 'the BSC was created by Kristy in seven days, and on the seventh day they all rested by having a pizza party.' The birth of Christ would be replaced by the birth of the baby Prezzioso. And the first line of the bible would be 'And god created the baby-sitter and her name was Kristy.' I wonder what The 10 commandments would be? Thou shall not covet another's baby-sitting job? Thou shall not make wrongful use of the club dues? Remember the BSC meeting and keep it holy? I can see Kristy embracing the 'I am your lord, the baby-sitter' commandment. Okay, I have officially got to stop now. (And I mean no offence toward anyone religious). Edited for spelling LMAO! ;D I'm catholic and I thought that was hilarious, so I'm not offended at all. Now I'm going to think about this every time I open the bible at school in my Theology class lol ;D. It would be awesome if that actually existed, I'd read it from cover to cover.
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Post by Rie on May 8, 2008 23:33:57 GMT -5
^I don't think people should post offensive posts about beliefs and races here,because...sorry,but I'm very disturbed with that post.
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Post by Lauren on May 8, 2008 23:50:34 GMT -5
^ How is that an offensive post? I'm a somewhat conservative Christian and I found that rather funny. I think you're overreacting just a little bit.
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Post by Rie on May 8, 2008 23:57:06 GMT -5
^I'm not overreacting,I'm just saying what I feel about it,no offense to the poster. I think we shouldn't compare what you(or she or he) and I think about it,we have different opinions about it,of course.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2008 17:22:39 GMT -5
This is still one of my favorite BSC books, which I find sort of ironic because Dawn is one of my least-favorite babysitters. That being said, I really liked her in this book. I really felt for her when she and her mother when she had to say goodbye to Jeff. Its actually kind of funny - it is even more eye-opening now to read this book because my nephew is in pageants, so reading the description of this little pageant with the pageant-heads was pretty funny. Of course, I took issue with Jessi's statement that pageants were sexist because little boys weren't in them. Of course, this is true in some pageants, but more and more of them are including boys these days. In addition, many of the pageants in the south have always had a good number of boys. Actually, my nephew, sister and I will be going to a pageant on Sunday...I think maybe I'll re-read LMSAD for posterity
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2008 18:32:10 GMT -5
Am I the only one that, when I read this one, is reminded of that case a couple years ago with that one girl? I forgot her name.....
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Post by courtky10 on Jun 16, 2008 18:34:15 GMT -5
Are you talking about the Jon Benet (is that her name?) murder case, or the one where Miss USA was said to be on drugs? Or something completely different? Those are the only two cases I think about when I read this book.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2008 18:43:29 GMT -5
The first one, the girl with the crazy name.
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Post by liss31d on Jun 22, 2008 11:30:45 GMT -5
I've got a theory how Sabrina Bouvier magically aged up between book 15 and the later book. Ann wrote book 15 and a ghostwriter wrote the later book (I'm assuming, I haven't read the later book). So once the ghostwriters are on board to write the later books, a BSC bible is created for the ghostwriters to reference (a bible that includes the Sabrina reference in book 15). Now we have the ghostwriter writing the later book and they need a name for a random student, they're flipping through the BSC bible and they spot...'Sabrina Bouvier'. But they don't read the BSC bible close enough and probably think Sabrina was helping one of the contestants (making her Dawn's age, in theory) rather than being a contestant herself (thus a child). So they sit down at the typewriter and start banging away like the proverbial monkey...and presto, Sabrina the thirteen year old student was born. Or it could be I just think much too much about the BSC. There was a SVH bible for the SVH ghostwriters too. Writing a BSC or SVH bible would be a cool job. Imagine if you took the phrase 'BSC bible' literally. Instead of the book of Matthew and the book of John, you would have the book of Kristy and the book of Claudia. And it wouldn't be 'the world was created by god in seven days', instead being 'the BSC was created by Kristy in seven days, and on the seventh day they all rested by having a pizza party.' The birth of Christ would be replaced by the birth of the baby Prezzioso. And the first line of the bible would be 'And god created the baby-sitter and her name was Kristy.' I wonder what The 10 commandments would be? Thou shall not covet another's baby-sitting job? Thou shall not make wrongful use of the club dues? Remember the BSC meeting and keep it holy? I can see Kristy embracing the 'I am your lord, the baby-sitter' commandment. Okay, I have officially got to stop now. (And I mean no offence toward anyone religious). Edited for spelling That's really funny! ;D Another one could be 'Thou shall not use the phone when caring for a child" "Thou shall not allow thy sittee to watch television"
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