Comments | bsc_snark: Please Mr. Dickinson, but must you start banging? How is a man to sleep?

veggievixen in bsc_snark

Please Mr. Dickinson, but must you start banging? How is a man to sleep?

Jul 26, 2010 17:46

Where last I left off, some serious character assassination was going on. Claudia was out of her mind and not even describing crazy outfits. Then she went with Abby and Stacey to learn about the birth of our great nation.

( Forgive me, Dr. Franklin, but must YOU start speaking? How is a man to stay awake? )

claudia, ackaminnie, pete black attack, #97 claudia and the world's cutest baby

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glitterberrys July 26 2010, 22:41:18 UTC

After a frantic search it was revealed that the boys were safe and at Hooters.

This is hilarious to me.

And "ba" is not a first word, okay? It's a grunt that all babies make. She probably just happened to be pointing at something that started with "b."

adamant_turtle July 26 2010, 22:59:02 UTC

LOL, thank the Lord I quit reading the series by this point! This is seriously some crazy-ass shit...it's like the ghosties wanted to see how wild they go and get away with before someone finally called them out on it :-/

sushimustwrite July 26 2010, 23:06:20 UTC

You know what you don't hear about much anymore? Contests where you can win a shopping spree and then you have ten minutes to fill a cart with whatever you want. We need to bring those back, or else all my childhood hours spent strategizing were for nothing.

YES YES YES. I watched that show all the time as a kid and wanted to be on there so badly, never mind that kids never showed up on the show. Pushing a shopping cart equals adult power, right?

veggievixen July 27 2010, 03:01:52 UTC

was there a toy one on nickelodeon? at the very least you could win some kind of drawing and get to go to a toy store. me and my friends would spend forever arguing about how it would work, and someone's older brother said you had to go to the most expensive toy and just get a fuckton, then sell them all and buy the other toys you want. and whenever we went to the toy store together it was like running recon. "dudes how are we going to make this work. this is all legos right here you gotta skip them, and these super soakers too."

man the nineties was a confusing decade.

sushimustwrite July 27 2010, 03:14:22 UTC

The nineties were confusing. I'd say they were better than the last decade, but that's a bit of my nostalgia showing.

Nickelodeon Super Toy Run? That's what Google's telling me. I found this blog post on the topic but don't remember having watched it myself.

veggievixen July 27 2010, 03:23:40 UTC

ah he also called it a reconn mission! i feel so unoriginal. but YES THIS IS EXACTLY IT i want it in my life again. here is the promo:

I am glad to know I didn't make this up, because it seemed very ludicrous to me as I was describing it and no one's talked about it for like, fifteen years.

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absolut_heather July 26 2010, 23:56:59 UTC

think of the fun you can have on supermarket sweep...alas, the pain.

"The Liberty Bell did not, under any stretch of the imagination, break because some colonist with a boner for liberty rang it too hard."
oh, God. marry me.

veggievixen July 27 2010, 02:55:06 UTC

supermarket sweep! I was trying to come up with that title forever. game shows are less awesome now. we need a revival.

thtsgoodsquishy July 27 2010, 13:07:48 UTC

Oh, I know, except I, uh, imagined the boner of liberty doing the actual ringing of the bell...
Note to self: Do not read snark first thing in the morning.

kakeochi_umai July 28 2010, 00:05:03 UTC

Hahaha, I'm glad I'm not the only one.

littlelatte July 27 2010, 00:35:18 UTC

This is the book where Alan tests the echo of a random alley by neighing (sp?) like a horse, right? For some reason, that always makes me laugh. I love it when the ghosties put little bits of randomness like that, it ~almost~ makes the characters seem more realistic for a fleeting moment or two.

I don't know why her classmates are super pissed at her for getting lost. Once, my friends and I waited for the bus in the wrong place during a field trip, and everyone had to wait around for us for like 10 minutes, but no one cared.

Still...for some reason this was one of my favourites. I think it's partially because my cousin had a baby right around the time the book came out, so I felt cool for my life being similar to that of a BSC member, lol.

A+ for snarking, please snark again!

glitterberrys July 27 2010, 01:05:22 UTC

I don't know why her classmates are super pissed at her for getting lost. Once, my friends and I waited for the bus in the wrong place during a field trip, and everyone had to wait around for us for like 10 minutes, but no one cared.

Yeah, I've done that - well, something similar - and the teachers were miffed but the other kids were like, whatever, that's less school we have to sit through when we get back.

veggievixen July 27 2010, 02:49:10 UTC

I love the way Alan gets handled. All though he's not always consistent in how he's obnoxious (sometimes he's just a doofus, sometimes he's cruel) but he's one of the only people who gets established by short events rather than a paragraph that tells you what to think about it.

When I was younger I really liked this book too. I really liked how Abby was in this book, and I thought Claudia was lucky that she could bike to her aunt and uncle's house.