Penny Lane
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Post by Penny Lane on Nov 29, 2007 18:09:15 GMT -5
^I rarely do. Sometimes, I will just throw them away if I clean out my change purse at work or something. They are SO annoying.
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mckay
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Post by mckay on Nov 29, 2007 21:26:04 GMT -5
Sometimes I leave pennies around face-up so that people can pick them up and have good luck.
*is kind of a dork*
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fluffycakes
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Post by fluffycakes on Nov 29, 2007 22:17:30 GMT -5
^ Aww, no, it's not dorky, it's sweet. And aln, I think Stacey just had a ton of loose change that she wanted to put away in her account or something like that. And I think cpenny's right, I think it was pennies, which is even funnier than quarters for some reason. ;D
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mckay
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Post by mckay on Nov 30, 2007 20:00:39 GMT -5
I once kept a piggy bank type thing full of pennies to see how many it would hold. I ended up with about five hundred. All that collecting and all I had to show for it was five dollars
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Lauren
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Post by Lauren on Nov 30, 2007 20:20:51 GMT -5
I usually just throw pennies away. My hands are always so nasty after touching them that it's not worth it to save them.
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Post by greer on Nov 30, 2007 21:46:56 GMT -5
^yeah they're always really greasy and yucky-feeling. money is yucky in general. like almost all dollar bills have cocaine traces on them.
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Post by aln1982 on Dec 1, 2007 1:26:51 GMT -5
^ Thanks for telling me all of this and totally grossing me out. ;D Now I'm considering wearing gloves when handling money (though I usually don't have much to handle.... ;D) Just kidding. ;D
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Post by booboobrewer on Dec 2, 2007 0:08:07 GMT -5
I once kept a piggy bank type thing full of pennies to see how many it would hold. I ended up with about five hundred. All that collecting and all I had to show for it was five dollars Five hundred is a lot, though! How long had you been collecting?
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mckay
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Post by mckay on Dec 3, 2007 21:00:50 GMT -5
Oh my Lord, I don't even remember! I had it there for years, it felt like, anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2007 23:47:20 GMT -5
Money is actually the most disguisting thing in the world. When I worked a register I had to wash my hands after every time I was done my hands felt so yucky. It's even in the health code that workers handling money can't handle food as well. But, I remember liking this mystery- though I haven't read it since it came out. I remember didn't Claudia think a cladugh (sp?) ring was some kinda secret code ring or cult symbol? LOL But, yeah... do you know how expensive ALL photo equipment is? A good manual camera, a PRINTING machine for gosh sakes and than there's the continual expenses like paper and film and chemicals. If memory serves when I did photo it was something like 25 dollars for a package of 15 pieces of paper... and you usually used up some making contact sheets and tester strips. Photography is one of the MOST expensive hobbies out there and Claud's parents gave her all this ON A LARK? wish mother had money to burn on my hobbies like that when I was 13. Heck, I know professional photographers that can't even afford to have a dark room in their own home. It would have been more plausible if they said she was using the dark room at the place where she took the class than having her own dark room. I mean, what if she grew tired of the hobby after the class? What the heck did her parents think they'd do with a printing machine?! MAYBE I would buy it if they said they'd get her a dark room if she stuck to it for a year if they had that kind of money to burn, but just because she decided on a whim to take one class for the first time??? Her parents are NUTS. Plus, wouldn't the smell drive them mad? For most non-photo people the smell of chemicals can be very hard. And didn't they have to give up one of their bathrooms for this??? Oy, my head hurts from trying to gain logic and plausibility in a BSC mystery....
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Post by aln1982 on Dec 15, 2007 0:28:23 GMT -5
^ That's why I don't bother and enjoy it for the unplausible aspects - like that having a dark room at home sounds fun. ;D
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Post by booboobrewer on Dec 15, 2007 16:58:59 GMT -5
Her camera was Mr. Kishi's old one.
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Post by aln1982 on Dec 15, 2007 20:32:58 GMT -5
^ I wonder if that means he was into photography, too. Too bad they didn't show them bonding over something like that.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2007 20:35:42 GMT -5
Was it? Oh, okay, that makes sense. Sorry, it's been so long since I read it, lol. But still, a PRINTING MACHINE??? Even communal college or HS dark rooms can only afford to have 5 of those things, TOPS and usually are purchased used to save money. LOL, Aln, you're right... I wouldn't be reminising about these sorta things if they weren't so darn incredulous. If they were realistic protrayals of the average lives of 13 year olds it probably wouldn't be as fun nor would I have devoured them when I was a kid with the kind of veracity I did! Maybe it was the BSC mysteries that gave me my undying love of junk novels, cheese TV, bad cinema, kitsch, and trash cinema.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2008 5:36:00 GMT -5
Hi, this is my first post.
I looooove this book! It is so great. I love the mystery and the way Claud solves it. I've read it over and over again and I have fun just the same way. When Claud finds that Janine had opened the door of the room she was working in.....it was so funny!
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