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Post by sparklymouse on Feb 3, 2022 23:23:26 GMT -5
Karen's Half Birthday. Karen threw a birthday party where they did things halfway. Half a cake, stop games halfway through, sang half of the Birthday song, etc. Jannie asked where the bathroom was. "It is over there," I said. "But, remember, you can only go..." "Do not even say it, Karen Brewer," said Jannie. Lol.
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Post by sparklymouse on Feb 9, 2022 20:31:15 GMT -5
Karen's Secret Valentine. This had the funny Evil Karen line. Karen wanted to be the Rich Girl in the skate show, but she was cast as Evil Girl instead. First she thought "I cheered up. It would be fun to be evil." Later when rehearsing, "You may not believe this, but I was good at acting evil." I do, Karen. I do.
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Post by sparklymouse on Feb 11, 2022 20:16:26 GMT -5
Karen's President. Karen couldn't decide on her class project about what she would do if she was President. She thought maybe she would be impeached if she couldn't think of something. "I did not want to be impeached. It sounded very embarrassing." That made me laugh. Clinton was impeached in December 1998. This book says copyright 1998/first printing February 1999. I'd like to think that line was a shoutout to Bill.
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Post by booboobrewer on Feb 11, 2022 23:15:46 GMT -5
It totally was. Haha amazing.
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Elsie13
New To Stoneybrook
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Post by Elsie13 on Feb 13, 2022 18:26:34 GMT -5
Karen's Secret Valentine. This had the funny Evil Karen line. Karen wanted to be the Rich Girl in the skate show, but she was cast as Evil Girl instead. First she thought "I cheered up. It would be fun to be evil." Later when rehearsing, "You may not believe this, but I was good at acting evil." I do, Karen. I do. Haha, I haven't read that one, but that line is hilarious and such a Karen line. I think I enjoy reading the Little Sister books more as an adult, they are so much more funny!
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Post by sparklymouse on Feb 13, 2022 18:46:21 GMT -5
^I really have been enjoying my re-read the past few months! Some of them get downright goofy.
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oldhickory
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Post by oldhickory on Feb 14, 2022 13:35:59 GMT -5
The "good at acting evil" line was someone's signature here (a long time ago)! I'm not a LS fan but it made me laugh. I'm trying to remember who it is.
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Post by anzuhana on Feb 14, 2022 14:42:15 GMT -5
^ It's greer's signature!
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Post by sparklymouse on Mar 4, 2022 17:19:44 GMT -5
Karen's Lucky Penny. Karen was afraid that Lisa and Seth would find the hidden wallet in her room and think that she stole it. Maybe she would have to go to jail. "How could I go to jail when I also had to go to second grade? What would Mommy say to Ms. Colman? 'I am sorry, Ms. Colman, but Karen cannot come to school today because she is in the pokey.'" There's also an illustration of Karen in a jail cell with the word "Mother" inside of a heart scratched into the concrete wall behind her, lol.
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Mar 5, 2022 22:01:08 GMT -5
Karen's Lucky Penny. Karen was afraid that Lisa and Seth would find the hidden wallet in her room and think that she stole it. Maybe she would have to go to jail. "How could I go to jail when I also had to go to second grade? What would Mommy say to Ms. Colman? 'I am sorry, Ms. Colman, but Karen cannot come to school today because she is in the pokey.'" There's also an illustration of Karen in a jail cell with the word "Mother" inside of a heart scratched into the concrete wall behind her, lol. OMG I remember this XD
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Post by sparklymouse on Mar 6, 2022 21:31:42 GMT -5
Karen's Big Joke. The family invited a friend of Lisa's over to pretend to be an interviewer for a contest that Karen entered. They were trying to be as obnoxious as possible to prank Karen. Watson offered the guy some lunch, including "nice leftover baloney."
"Daddy, I think the baloney is moldy," I said.
"Oh, well, Mr. Sand can just scrape off the green places, can't you?"
Then on the next page Watson gave the guy a plate of baloney that actually was moldy. I thought that it was funny that apparently they all just knew that there was moldy baloney chillin' in the fridge.
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Mar 9, 2022 10:45:27 GMT -5
Karen's Big Joke. The family invited a friend of Lisa's over to pretend to be an interviewer for a contest that Karen entered. They were trying to be as obnoxious as possible to prank Karen. Watson offered the guy some lunch, including "nice leftover baloney." "Daddy, I think the baloney is moldy," I said. "Oh, well, Mr. Sand can just scrape off the green places, can't you?" Then on the next page Watson gave the guy a plate of baloney that actually was moldy. I thought that it was funny that apparently they all just knew that there was moldy baloney chillin' in the fridge. This was a funny one. I remember everyone was dressed all sloppy except Karen and she was particularly mad at Sam because he promised he'd wear a tux. Then Kristy leads the kids in a singalong of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts
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Post by sparklymouse on Apr 22, 2022 13:22:00 GMT -5
Karen's Stepmother. Karen liked to listen to the big kids talk at meal time because they talked about things like dates and dances and driving cars. "Charlie even has his own car. It is called the Junk Bucket. Also, he and Sam have a snowblower. Big kids are so lucky. Just wait until I am big." It made her sound like she was really envious of a snowblower. Lol, when Karen is big maybe she'll get her own weed whacker.
Karen was angry and wouldn't leave her room. David Michael kept knocking on her door. "I know you are in there. I can smell you." That's such a brother insult.
Karen and Andrew finally got their race car working properly. "Nannie watched Andrew take a ride in it one day, and afterwards she told both of us we would have to start wearing crash helmets. I was flattered." Haha, your car could kill you now, yay!?
Elizabeth asked Karen to stop interrupting her while she was on the phone. Karen agreed to try harder. "But once I had to interrupt Elizabeth when she was on the phone. I thought she would want to know that whatever was in the microwave had just exploded. And she did." But why? Was she going to be like "oh, gotta go! Have to scrub my microwave out in a hurry!"
Then of course there were the dead flowers that everyone remembers about this book.
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Post by sparklymouse on May 5, 2022 18:18:34 GMT -5
Karen's Gift. Karen had to decorate her little papier mâché hand for art class. She was supposed to draw pictures of things that she liked or represented her. She was preoccupied by her money thoughts/mother's day gifts/job earnings and didn't know what to draw.
Later Nannie took the kids shopping to pick out Mother's Day gifts for Elizabeth and Lisa. This is what we need illustrations for! Not Karen gazing lovingly at the day planners that she picked out!
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Post by sparklymouse on May 26, 2022 21:06:09 GMT -5
Karen's Ducklings. Andrew freaked out over the toy commercial and wanted Karen to order it. She didn't catch how much it cost. He said $2. This was funny because #1, he apparently didn't know a zero when he saw one. The car was $20. #2, When they got the bill and pulled their money out he only had two quarters to his name. The little sneak didn't even have his half of what he thought was the cost of the car, lol.
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