Bobbsey Twins Liveblog 2009: So It Resumes

[nobleplatypus]

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[sinneahtes]

I can't wait for chapter 5, so let me guess--Nan ends up with a fractured skull, a shattered spine, and severe internal bleeding that she describes as "Oh, my ankle!" and is cured after a good night's sleep?

[nobleplatypus]

Well, a good night's sleep might take care of the internal bleeding, but the fractured skull would take milk and cookies to cure, and it's a well-known fact in the medical community that a shattered spine can only be fully healed by the concentrated loving gazes of family members.

[philosophercat]

a shattered spine can only be fully healed by the concentrated loving gazes of family members.

Yeah, but that only works on Gallifrey. Also works for PTSD and abrupt and inexplicable personality changes.

[nobleplatypus]

And, as we all know, if you're NOT on Gallifrey, a little make-out session will totally solve any problems your human sidekick may be suffering. ;)

Also, I approve of that icon!

[philosophercat]

I almost spit up my tea, I hope you're happy. :(

[nobleplatypus]

Why, yes, I am. :D I shouldn't be the only one spewing beverages over this book, darn it!

[philosophercat]

My mom kept going >_> and demanding to know what was so funny. ^_^

[nobleplatypus]

Hee! Did you tell her? ;)

[ember_firedrake]

Is it possible to get diabetes from how saccharine-sweet that story is. Ugh.....I feel like I'm going to hurl just from reading your descriptions of it. ;)

[ember_firedrake]

Epic fail grammar. I wish I could edit my comments. Meant for there to be a question mark after that first sentence.

[nobleplatypus]

I can edit mine! But only if no one has replied to them, yet... once they do, you can't.

[nobleplatypus]

I hope not. I don't like needles!

[madame_fifi]

Aunt Alice has Alzheimer’s, she gave the doll away years ago and is now too old to remember.

I almost feel sorry for Nan and her awful characterisation.

Almost.

Oh god, those `rhymes`! I... I think I vomited a little in my throat...

[nobleplatypus]

Oh my gosh, I bet you're right! The little flute is probably on her nightstand or something. Or in her pocket.

Poor Nan. This is what she gets for trying to be adventurous without a male around to look after her.

I know. I found it kind of sad that it apparently took them a few minutes to even think those up.

[madame_fifi]

Haha, I dreamt last night that I had this book and I was reading the next few chapters and then I thought that I shouldn't get ahead of you in the book and that I was ruining the Liveblog for myself XD

Aunt Alice is a poor dithering old dear. The Bobbsey family, Slipper Jenks, all of them are, I'm afraid, just figures of her imagination. She's sitting in her rocking chair, stroking an old china doll's hair and chuckling to herself as she watches imaginary children play outside her window. Aunt Alice isn't even an Aunt. Poor, poor woman, she's going to die alone and no one will realise until the smell is too stronge to ignore.

Yay! I'm morbid!

[nobleplatypus]

I laughed so hard at this that it hurt. XD

I'm kind of curious as to how the next few chapters played out in your dream.

[goddessofchaos]

Hah! I knew Cliff would get his comeuppance, although I didn't expected it to be so soon. I guess long attention spans weren't a feature of Bobbsey Twins readers.

Wow, those poems! These kids are clearly undiscovered geniuses!

[nobleplatypus]

Yeah, you can't expect little kids to appreciate someone getting their comeuppance eventually. They must be taught that if they misbehave, some horror will befall them before the day is even out!

They brought tears to my eyes, let me tell you. (I won't specify the kind of tears, but they were there.)