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    A Glossary Of Terms Inspired By The Ladies Of Children's Literature

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    Image of bornkonfused bornkonfused
    05/03/09

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    I can't believe there are other people who know the magic of Anne Shirley...I read all 8 of those books over and over...I didn't know there were others!!
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    05/03/09

    @bornkonfused: Don't be silly. Anne girls are everywhere.


    I went to Green Gables last summer! And saw the Lake of Shining Waters! And the Haunted Wood! It was awesome.

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    05/03/09

    @bornkonfused: Chronicles and Further Chronicles? Rainbow Valley? Rilla of Ingleside? Which ones did you miss?


    (A caveat -- if you haven't read the tales of the Shirley-Blythe clan growing up, you will want an extra Kleenex box.)

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    05/03/09

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    There's no telling what it will take to save Rhyme and Reason...


    (inspired by Amy Pohler's Leslie Knope filibustering a meeting by reading The Phantom Tollbooth.)

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    Image of MarissaExplainsItAll MarissaExplainsItAll
    05/03/09

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    I try to pull a Nancy Drew at least once a month... so far this month was sort of a success, but one more piece of the puzzle needs to be figured out.
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    Image of gangey gangey
    05/03/09

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    When I was really little my family used "rolling down the haystack" as a euphemism for doing something naughty after you have just been told to stop doing that particular thing.


    From, of course, the incident in (I think) On the Banks of Plum Creek where Laura and Mary Ingalls ruin Pa's haystack two days in a row.

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    05/03/09

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    Two that I currently use in real life:


    1)Laura Ingalls style: in a manner deliberately avoiding modern conveniences

    Ex: I should have done a load of laundry, but I just washed my underwear in the sink, Laura Ingalls style.


    2)kindred: referring to someone or something that is not conventionally cool but is exactly suited to your tastes

    Ex: The fact that B___ plays the bagpipes? Totally kindred.

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    Image of gangey gangey
    05/03/09

    @mbot in ... Hushed Rapings: Me too! We did homemade presents for Christmas this year, and when people asked about it, I was all "I'm just knitting presents, Ingalls style."
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    Image of CherriSpryte CherriSpryte
    05/03/09

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    My friends and I still put up "wants to move to Australia" as a status message when we're having terrible, horrible, no-good very bad days.
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    05/03/09

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    Hortense, you TEASE me with a picture of Matilda and then nothing from that perfect, perfect book.
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    Image of gangey gangey
    05/03/09

    @loltofu: Trunchbulled: violently bullied by an authority figure.
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    05/03/09

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    ok the twilight thing is just TOO funny. i am totes mcgotes adding this to my thesis on Twilight (no srsly-- i have a big section where i talk about Twilight on the interweb, and this counts). HUZZAH!
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    05/03/09

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    ok I'm on the radio here at school and every time I think the get dressed cute before doing my show, I recall that Babysitter's Club book in which Claudia gets teased for dressing up for the radio. "No one's going to see you! What, are you going to describe your outfit to the listeners?"
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    05/03/09

    @bangers: *think to get cute.

    serves me right for jezebelling instead of writing a final paper.
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    05/03/09

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    Going Wakefield: Showing signs of having a good twin/bad twin split personality.


    Example: She knows what the right choice is, but she's totally going Wakefield anyway.

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    Image of AprilLayne AprilLayne
    05/03/09

    @LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman:

    Oh my lord. The Wakefields were Mary Sues before there were Mary Sues. Was there anything in their life that wasn't perfect?
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    05/03/09

    @AprilLayne: Elizabeth DID get kidnapped.... but wasn't that only because she was perfect?
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    05/03/09

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    The Margaret Effect: Desperately wish for your bust to be bigger, or your period to start.
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    05/03/09

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    The Beezus Years: The ugliest, most painfully awkward period of adolescence that you remember well enough not to wish on your worst enemy.


    "Please don't mind Beverly. She's having a rough time right now, what with the Beezus Years and all."

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    05/03/09

    @mightykaytor: Oh poor pizzafaced Beezus, how I felt your pain!
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    05/03/09

    @gangey: And the bad haircut. Don't forget the bad haircut!
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    05/03/09

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    "Jennifer-Hecating" - the phase many teenage girls go through (usually after horses, before boys) where they become fascinated by witchcraft and/or pseudo-Wicca & practice casting spells, communing with Isis, & wearing crystals & silver jewelry.


    ex. Oh, back when I was 14 & I was Jennifer-Hecating, I'd have slumber parties where we would do candle magic & play Ouija. But I'm over all that silly stuff! Now I only believe in scientific things, like astrology.


    "You've Been Blubbered" - to designate someone the punching bag of the entire school. This person should probably move to another city.

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    05/03/09

    @Your Screenplay Sucks: For an advanced cases of Jennifer-Hecating, please see "The Craft".


    (Question - didn't Linda/Blubber end up bullying someone else, in a bizarre twist on survival of the fittest? Deenie and Margaret were my good friends, but I was always afraid to read that one.)

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    05/03/09

    @Rooo sez BISH PLZ: Oh yeah - one girl tried to protect Blubber, so the in crowd cast her out and the Artist Formerly Known as Blubber jumped at the chance to make her defender the school punching bag instead.


    I suppose "you've been blubbered" could also mean "don't stick your neck out for nobody, they're not worth it/the road to high school hell is paved with good intentions"

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    05/03/09

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    I always thought Isabelle the Itch's learning how to box at 11 would turn out to be a survival tactic. I bet she was one of the first girls Reebok every photographed.


    Granger Danger is always potentially endemically pandemic among erudite Jezebelles, yeah?

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    05/03/09

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    To Superfudge

    When there is a new addition to the family that causes jealousy, resulting in the baby being covered with stamps and being offered to strangers for sale.


    Ex: My sister had a baby boy and my niece attempted a superfudge.

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