SVT #80: The Gossip War

[amandahug_nkiss]

 Ahhh, "The Gossip War."  At first glance, it looks like this is where the inspiration for the Mean Girls three-way call war came from, but really, it's a lame, bland, hot dog flavored substitute.

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[esc_key]

Ellen gets home from school and thinks about how awesome her see-through phone is. Even Lila doesn't have a phone that cool! Was that really a rarity? I knew at least four girls who had that phone!
My sister had that phone (except it wasn't pink it was blue and yellow). The same year I got a phone that was a phone, and then when you picked it up what would've been the cradle was also a phone--so two people could talk. But it really just served tp confuse everyone who used it.

Ooh that Screech.

[dramaturgy]

LOL Nice tie in with the McCarthyism. The only thing I remember is Bertolt Brecht, who basically never actually answered the committee's questions and then was held up as a model witness. Oh Brecht.

Nice recap.

I used to feel bad for her, but now she's kind of like Screech. After we found out what a crazy ass Dustin Diamond is in real life.

NO KIDDING. After the Celebrity Fit Club (Biggest Loser? One of those shows) shit, I lost all sympathy for Screech. I'm just like BOO SCREECH. >\

[amandahug_nkiss]

Yeah I'm so over Dustin Diamond. I live in Milwaukee, and you should've seen the spectacle when he was trying to save his house. Insane!

[dramaturgy]

My BFF thinkatory lives in Milwaukee. I heard ALLLLLLLL about it.

[design_star_21]

What? Tell! Tell!

[unnecessaryhat]

I'm new & just had to say I love the blog!
I remember wanting that very phone SO BAD as a tween.

[jessica_siler]

i loved this book when i was a kid! i remember coveting that bathing suit on the cover...mmmm hmmm. i was a fashion maven back in the day!

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I remember really loving this book - I was so disappointed when, for some reason, my copy ended mid-sentence somewhere on the last page. It was truly weird.

[xbexuniquex]

SAME! My school library just got donated a bunch of books, and this one was among the ones which my librarian didn't want, so I've just finished reading it. The book stops right in the middle of what Maria is saying:

"OK," Maria said. "Next time I go

I suppose there probably wasn't much after this, just a little advert for the next book, but it kind of sucks. I wonder if all of the 1994 British copies were like this?

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Ha!

My copy was actually American, and I don't remember the year (although 1994 sounds about right.) I guess this just means quality control at SV headquarters is shoddy all over the world.

[melody_power]

Mine did too! I just finished reading that and came here to see if anyone else had the same problem.