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Post by liss31d on Oct 9, 2007 7:15:02 GMT -5
Especially since Dawn told her that she had clown make-up and a boy haircut! Although I found it really odd that Mary Anne bought a new blusher when she went on the shopping trip and then told Dawn on the night of the January Jamboree that she had run out of blusher... how much blusher did she apply to her face in order for it to run out that fast! Haha again maybe Dawn had a point ;D
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Post by sotypical42483 on Oct 11, 2007 11:51:39 GMT -5
^lol. The time machine subplot annoys me so much because its so STUPID. carolyn legitimately seems to believe its going to work and then they have to be all sensitive til she gets a freakin' clue. and those kids are all just happy to go stand in her box and then make dumb stories up about what they did?
maybe i just don't have a child-like imagination but that sounds boooring.
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 11, 2007 15:12:59 GMT -5
^ I can't stand that subplot, either, for the same reason that it just seems stupid to believe the machine will work. It is one thing to pretend but another to be so convinced. Then again, I guess childlike innocence is sometimes refreshing but I've always had a more "realistic" imagination (called some of the kids in my kindergarten class "ridiculous" ;D) so I can't relate. I can see how making up the stories about what you did in time might be fun - just the pure fantasy aspect of it - but not actually believing in it, especially at 8.
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Post by mckay on Oct 11, 2007 19:13:13 GMT -5
I had a somewhat ridiculous imagination as a kid, and even I would've thought the time machine thing was stupid. Like, I could understand actually building one and playing those sorts of games, but I wouldn't just DECIDE to go stand in line so I could do it. It would have to be something that I just sort of did on my own, or I'd have found it dumb. If that makes any sense at all...
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Post by sotypical42483 on Oct 11, 2007 22:16:51 GMT -5
Thinking about Carolyn believing that at 8 is even more ridiculous. I hadn't factored her age in at all when I thought about it before, but my niece is 8 and there is NO WAY she would buy into anything like that. I would probably be thinking 'where did you come from, dum-dum?' if she did...because she is really smart and clever so yeah...wth carolyn!! lol.
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 11, 2007 23:36:59 GMT -5
^ Do you think Carolyn really believed it or did she just want everyone to think that she believed it so they would go along with her fantasy. My little cousin used to do that with Grandma and her mom's encouragement and it drove me crazy. So manipulative...
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Post by hitzpink on Oct 15, 2007 17:23:14 GMT -5
I didn't mind the Carolyn subplot when I first read the book years ago. I thought it was kind of fun, but now I agree with you guys that it's pretty annoying. I REALLY cannot imagine those kids going along with it and just making up stories like that!
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 18, 2007 7:53:43 GMT -5
The subplot was okay when the girls were just playing but it got annoying when Carolyn became so convinced that it was all real. At first, I wondered if she really did believe it or was just faking it. Then I decided that she really was conviced, which made me want to shake her. I think even Jenny P was skeptical (that was the cutest part was Jenny's involvment. I always like her ;D) I'm surprised that Marilyn and the other kids didn't really make fun of Carolyn. I would have almost felt sorry for her if she wasn't being so annoying with the whole thing.
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Post by janey83 on Oct 18, 2007 11:29:21 GMT -5
Dawn keeps her blush in an old pancake container. I cannot even imagine what that is...like, tupperware? Why not keep blush in the container it came in??
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Post by alula on Oct 18, 2007 14:07:10 GMT -5
^ I haven't looked at the book for a long time, but I think maybe that's supposed to refer to "pancake makeup," which is that heavier cosmetic applied with a sponge. I hardly know anyone who uses it today, especially for blush, (except maybe as stage makeup) but I think it was more popular in the late 80s/early 90s.
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Post by booboobrewer on Oct 18, 2007 14:07:46 GMT -5
^OMG. I always puzzled over that -- I thought she was keeping it in some big ol' container and had no idea why she'd do that.
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 18, 2007 15:21:51 GMT -5
^ I guess I never noticed it or maybe I just thought of those old kinds of makeup like Alula mentioned since I do remember those. It is funny to think of a big pancake container, though, since I'm visualizing some kind of big, flat, round tupperware container for pancakes. ;D
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Post by u4me on Oct 18, 2007 18:59:11 GMT -5
It's not like they pay for Dawn to fly back and forth to California every other week or anything. Ooh, that can't be good for global warming!
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Post by fluffycakes on Oct 18, 2007 19:16:27 GMT -5
Especially since Dawn told her that she had clown make-up and a boy haircut! Although I found it really odd that Mary Anne bought a new blusher when she went on the shopping trip and then told Dawn on the night of the January Jamboree that she had run out of blusher... how much blusher did she apply to her face in order for it to run out that fast! Haha again maybe Dawn had a point ;D Ahahahahaha, I can only picture it! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2007 12:28:24 GMT -5
The girls were mean in this book. I can't help but picture Mary Anne with a Dorthy Hamill hair do.
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