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Offline Kitulean

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Re: Do you remember...
« Reply #30 on: September 27, 2008, 02:31:36 AM »
It has nothing to do with being retarded. I was in junior high... 13 years ago and I can tell you most of us wouldn't have recognized any world leader who wasn't the President. It's just the way the educational system combined with most teenagers not caring works.
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Re: Do you remember...
« Reply #31 on: September 27, 2008, 02:36:02 AM »
Well, yeah, but before the interw3bz and new-school MTV devolved the youth of the population into degenerate gibbering gimps, kids were able to be given a little more credit.  I don't think it's unrealistic at all for a 13 year old Jake to know the occasional general model names of U.S. military tanks and aircraft carrier classes, or for Rachel to recognize the face of an international leader she saw on TV, or for Tobias to know a good deal about dinosaurs.

That would be more rare these days, but if we're assuming these books took place in the time frame they were published, it's not a big deal.
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Re: Do you remember...
« Reply #32 on: September 27, 2008, 05:43:09 AM »
Sorry, what I'm saying may be confusing, but I mean.... I don't think it's unrealistic that they could know, but I also don't think it would be unrealistic for them NOT to know. Does that make sense?
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Re: Do you remember...
« Reply #33 on: September 27, 2008, 06:06:07 AM »
Not for kids of reasonable intelligence growing up before this decade, I would think.
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Re: Do you remember...
« Reply #34 on: September 27, 2008, 06:15:28 AM »
Xeno it's completely plausible that kids 'of ordinary intelligence' would not recognize the Russian or French or whatever leader. I don't care WHAT decade it is.
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Re: Do you remember...
« Reply #35 on: September 27, 2008, 06:42:48 AM »
Aiiiiight, yo.
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Re: Do you remember...
« Reply #36 on: September 27, 2008, 11:52:46 AM »
    Cassie: Aaaaaaaahhhhh!
    Jake: Look out! Lookoutlookoutlooko utlookout!
    Marco: Would you both shut up? I'm trying to drive here!
    Jake: Car! Car! Car!
    Marco: (yanks wheel left)
    Driver: (speeds by, blares horn, and flips Marco off)
    Marco: That's rude. And totally uncalled for.
    BAM!
    Cassie: Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!
    Marco: Oh, it's just a trash can. Chill out.
    BAM! BAM! BAM!
    Marco: Okay, so it's four trash cans.
    Jake: Get off the sidewalk, you lunatic!
    Marco: (yanks wheel right, bumps the sidewalk, grazes a parked car)
    BAM! BAM! BAM!
    Jake: Do you hate trash cans? Is that your problem? Do you just HATE TRASH CANS?!!
    Marco: I can't drive with you screaming in my ear.
    Jake: You can't drive at all!
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Re: Do you remember...
« Reply #37 on: September 27, 2008, 07:15:36 PM »
Quote from: Cerulean on September 27, 2008, 11:52:46 AM
    Cassie: Aaaaaaaahhhhh!
    Jake: Look out! Lookoutlookoutlooko utlookout!
    Marco: Would you both shut up? I'm trying to drive here!
    Jake: Car! Car! Car!
    Marco: (yanks wheel left)
    Driver: (speeds by, blares horn, and flips Marco off)
    Marco: That's rude. And totally uncalled for.
    BAM!
    Cassie: Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!
    Marco: Oh, it's just a trash can. Chill out.
    BAM! BAM! BAM!
    Marco: Okay, so it's four trash cans.
    Jake: Get off the sidewalk, you lunatic!
    Marco: (yanks wheel right, bumps the sidewalk, grazes a parked car)
    BAM! BAM! BAM!
    Jake: Do you hate trash cans? Is that your problem? Do you just HATE TRASH CANS?!!
    Marco: I can't drive with you screaming in my ear.
    Jake: You can't drive at all!

I had forgotten that -- scenario, is probably a good term. ;D Love it!  Gives me a laugh every time . . . because that's basically how I'd drive. . . . That's how my grandmother drives, come to think of it. . . .
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Re: Do you remember...
« Reply #38 on: September 27, 2008, 09:33:22 PM »
I think these characters were the best role models I ever had as a kid. Man, Marco is awesome, and Jake is brilliant.
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Re: Do you remember...
« Reply #39 on: September 27, 2008, 10:42:13 PM »
 oh yes! i remember that trash can scenario now!

 the one with marco and his mom....wow. awesome. and it's a young adult book too.
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