starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Feb 27, 2009 11:52:59 GMT -5
I'm fairly certain that Zack Morris was the only teenager with a cell phone when this book was written.
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Post by zoar3 on Feb 27, 2009 12:47:47 GMT -5
Lol, starrynight, that could very well be. I admit to getting hooked into SBTB when I was already "too old" for it..early college but Zack was cute. If I remember correctly, wasn't his cell phone gigantic? It looked more like a long rectangular (vertical though) walkie talkie than a phone. What I meant to say was the Community Center should have found something (CB's, walkie talkie's, whatever) for the girls' to bring along. I believe from The Fire at MA's house that Mrs. Arnold had a cell phone and Stacey's mom? had a car phone? No, she couldn't have or she would have (wouldn't she? have called AAA in Snowbound? Someone's parents..ah it was Sharon! Sharon had a car phone. Alas, I.A. was a favorite of mine anyway.
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Post by sparklymouse on Feb 28, 2009 17:45:11 GMT -5
You know, wouldn't there have been other boats out on the water that day? It's not like they would clear the water for some silly race between two kids. Someone who would see the kids struggling and help them back to shore or would alert them to turn around as the sky got darker. Strangers tend to help each other in disastrous times.
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Post by zoar3 on Mar 1, 2009 23:56:20 GMT -5
Sparklymouse, you are so very right. I admit to never having thought of that! I've never been to CT or anywhere on the East Coast (save being born in NY--moving to CA when less than a year old) and PA once) but Long Island Sound has to be a big body of water, doesn't it? And since the day started off so sunnily bright and on a long weekend, there should have been (many) other people out enjoying the water that Saturday. One more reason this would make a great fan fic re-write! I'm currently working on a very long Strong Medicine story but if anyone wants to take this up let me know and I'd do my best to help.
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Post by candykane on Mar 2, 2009 14:19:14 GMT -5
You know, wouldn't there have been other boats out on the water that day? It's not like they would clear the water for some silly race between two kids. Someone who would see the kids struggling and help them back to shore or would alert them to turn around as the sky got darker. Strangers tend to help each other in disastrous times. This has never ever occured to me before, but it certainly makes a lot of sense! Stoneybrook is a coastal town and I'm sure there would have been other boaters out on the water that day. Random: don't the Pikes own their own boat in this book? Is it ever mentioned in any other book that they own a boat? Why didn't they ever take the boat with them to Sea City, then? And, why am I thinking about this so much? ;D
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wanderingfrog
Sitting For The Arnolds
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Post by wanderingfrog on Mar 5, 2009 22:16:11 GMT -5
I believe from The Fire at MA's house that Mrs. Arnold had a cell phone and Stacey's mom? had a car phone? No, she couldn't have or she would ahve (wouldn't she? have called AAA in Snowbound? Someone's parents..ah it was Sharon! Sharon had a car phone. Well, SS #4 was published in 1990 and #131 was published in 1999. In the crazy BSC timeline, they take place in the same year, but in the real world, cell phones were not common in 1990 and people having cell phones in BSC books written years later can't magically change that fact.
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Post by candykane on Mar 6, 2009 9:26:26 GMT -5
^Hell, even in 1999 I hardly anyone I knew had a cell phone! Lots of people still had pagers! I didn't get my first cell phone until 2001.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Mar 6, 2009 12:22:40 GMT -5
^ Me, too, and I never had a pager. Those were big when I was in middle school (1993 to 1995).
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Post by zoar3 on Mar 6, 2009 13:30:03 GMT -5
I never had either in high school let alone middle school! I only got a cell phone about 8 years ago when I was a full time caregiver to my Grandma. I now, have one of those pre-paid, pay as you go phones which I rarely use except for long distance calls. That said, maybe it's just me but I still think it was not right that the Community Center didn't provide the girls' with some communication device. Of course, that is no comparison to the fact that they were the only boats out on that patch of water that sunny day.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Mar 6, 2009 15:29:56 GMT -5
It's odd that the boats wouldn't at least have had some sort of radio. I don't know much about sailing, but I would think that most boats would have them!
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Post by featherearrings on Apr 28, 2009 9:58:14 GMT -5
I had a pager in H.S. - around 1996/1997. They were very popular then. I didn't get a cell phone until around 1999 and it was pretty expensive at the time. I think I paid about $35/month for 15 minutes. It was ridiculous. So them not having cell phones seemed normal to me.
As far as CB radios or the like, I would think they would have had those. At the very least, walkie talkies.
I don't know where my copy is so I haven't read it in ages, but I remember liking it okay. It got boring quick though. There's only so much of Dawn whining and Claudia saving the day that I could take. ;D
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msstock87
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Post by msstock87 on Apr 29, 2009 1:03:54 GMT -5
I never had a pager, but I did get my first cell phone when I was a junior in high school...for emergencies only though of course.
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Penny Lane
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Post by Penny Lane on May 12, 2009 21:12:49 GMT -5
I got a cell phone with my first car, when I was in high school. That was 1998, I think. I used to drive around talking on that thing all the time. Everyone I knew had one or a pager.
I am not that surprised that they didn't run into other boats. well, a little surprised, but not completely shocked. Once you get away from the shore, it's easy to not see people for a while. that's part of the fun of boating and water recreation.
I love this book so much, my copy from when I was a kid is in pieces.
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Post by greer on May 13, 2009 1:41:05 GMT -5
I got my first cell phone in 2004.
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Post by booboobrewer on May 13, 2009 2:47:16 GMT -5
I actually think that's kind of nice. I could see a girl Haley's age feeling proud that the person who came to save her was a smart, capable woman.
They were wet.
I would have liked more Claudia/Dawn interaction. Stacey and Mary Anne vacation together and have their problems with each other but it seems like their friendship grows stronger/closer because of it. I noticed that Claudia and Dawn do team up a lot in Baby-sitters' Haunted House, and since that's one of my favorites, I always like seeing it when I reread.
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