jen
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Post by jen on Feb 18, 2006 1:00:36 GMT -5
I've got a quick question... Does California get winter? It seems as though in this SS, on one side of the country it's snowing and wintery, and on the other, it's summery and beach weather. How accurate is that?
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ktag
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Post by ktag on Feb 18, 2006 3:12:16 GMT -5
Southern California winter can be pretty nonexistent some years, such as this one. It does get colder, just not, you know...snowy cold. They may have exaggerated a little, but it's more accurate than their portrayal of Californians as blonde and vegetarian.
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Post by jen on Feb 18, 2006 6:33:20 GMT -5
Ah, okay. So they would wear sleeveless/short sleeves on a beach?
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ktag
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Post by ktag on Feb 18, 2006 7:27:15 GMT -5
Well...if it's a really warm winter, short sleeves aren't uncommon during the day. But beaches are usually cooler/windy. Let's just assume it was a really, really warm year with very good weather that day. It hit the mid-80s last week while the East Coast had the snowstorm.
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macca
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Post by macca on Feb 18, 2006 17:34:17 GMT -5
The mid-80s! That doesn't mean a lot to us Aussies! ;D - the high 20s makes more sense to us! And yes, that would be unusually (if not impossibly) warm for mid-winter (at least where I live ) For the record, I don't have this book - but I'm waiting for it to arrive from eBay! Woohoo! I'm always outbid on those later books so I couldn't believe I found a whole bunch available Buy It Now!!!
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Post by bscfan24 on Feb 18, 2006 23:59:36 GMT -5
Does anyone else but me think that those dresses were attrocious? *shudders* Geni
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Post by jen on Feb 19, 2006 0:50:11 GMT -5
I liked the colour of the dresses! But the rest of it... Not so much. Were the dresses as they were drawn on the cover an accurate portrayal of the description? I'm hopeless with technical clothes terms and can't imagine what the dresses would look like based on the description.
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Post by buffykay70 on Feb 19, 2006 6:01:16 GMT -5
carols dress in the drawings was fugly. not even dressy. dawn and MaryAnnes dresses were ok. a bit too pink for my liking.
and what is that terrible sleeveless yellow pantsuit that 'stylish' claudia is wearing on the front cover?? my eyes
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on Feb 19, 2006 6:05:54 GMT -5
how about Kristy's blue dress? It looks like a small version of a moo-moo. How loose it is and all.
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Post by booboobrewer on Feb 24, 2006 19:52:19 GMT -5
Mary Anne was initially going to wear a plaid (presumably Christmas-y) dress to a beach wedding...yuck. Those puffy magenta things weren't an improvement, of course...they remind me so much of these awful dresses girls were required to wear in the choir at my middle school.
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Post by bscfan24 on Mar 4, 2006 14:32:31 GMT -5
LOL. That reminds me. I had a blue dress exactly like that in choir for 7th grade. We wore them for show choir in the 8the grade. We were going to cut off the sleeves for our last show, but we didnt do it. Although we did sew rhinestones along the waist. I bet we looked like a crazy Claudia thing (well..not quite) Geni
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Post by lovelylemontree on May 6, 2006 2:30:16 GMT -5
Ugh. The worst Super Special. I seem to have blocked out most everything about it. A few things I recall that bothered me:
- Stacey as Mrs. Barrett's replacement bridesmaid. That's just weird. She's the babysitter, not Mrs. Barrett's girl friend.
- Dawn assuming Mary Anne would be a bridesmaid at Mr. Schafer and Carol's wedding. Why would she think this? Why was Mary Anne even flying across the country to attend the wedding of her stepsister's father? I'm surprised the adults involved felt that was appropriate. Or necessary.
- More importantly, why were Kristy and Claudia there?
- A thirteen year old wedding coordinator may be more ridiculous than using your babysitter as a bridesmaid. I haven't decided yet.
- Jessi the Black Santa. Whatever.
But what annoyed me the most about the book was all the hand wringing the Barrett-DeWitts did over finding an affordable house. If money was such an issue, why were they blowing so much on an expensive wedding? Priorities!
However, the book does offer up this gem from Mallory after she's been hired to babysit at the Barrett wedding:
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Post by macca on May 6, 2006 6:01:42 GMT -5
The only - ONLY - reason this is remotely appropriate was that MA was Dawn's best friend. The fact that she was the grooms ex-wife's current husband's daughter is totally irrelevant.
Ugh don't get me started. Not only was she BLACK, she was female and eleven yrs old. The BSC covers may portray her as a mid-20s mannish looking thing, but haven't these people seen what 11 yr old kids look like? They could NEVER pass as Santa. The only way the Jessi chapters could be more ridiculously PC was if she was in a wheelchair, blind, pregnant and breastfeeding!
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Post by booboobrewer on May 6, 2006 17:54:23 GMT -5
Not to mention that Claud turned out to be (surprise, surprise) a dork at the job. At least they made a mention later that while they let her shoot candids of the wedding as well, they had hired a professional photographer. Whew. I'm sure otherwise they'd have had to deal with an album full of a thirteen year old's "artistic" photos.
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Post by jen on May 7, 2006 0:42:47 GMT -5
And the even funnier thing is that they *paid* for Claudia to be there. Her skills are worth a plane ticket to California! (Well, half of a return ticket).
Re: Jessi as Santa... I never actually thought about how an eleven year old would look as Santa. But true, now that I think about it... having a primary school kid dress up as Santa seems, well, odd.
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