I'm with Consuela! Laura helped in the fields, and rode horses at Silver Lake and fought of some kind of animal with a pitchfork (I can picture the illustration).
Fire bad. Tree pretty.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 09, 2012 10:40:32 am PDT #13257 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
erikaj - Jul 09, 2012 10:50:08 am PDT #13258 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
a bear? Maybe.
Ginger - Jul 09, 2012 10:53:31 am PDT #13259 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Badger, iirc.
Jesse - Jul 09, 2012 10:59:25 am PDT #13260 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I can't believe I got invited to be in a flash mob and I can't do it! boooo. I mean, not that I definitely would have done it anyway, but I like the idea! I legitimately don't believe they actually happen in real life.
tommyrot - Jul 09, 2012 11:04:19 am PDT #13261 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
For folks who own a BWM, does it have an RF fob that lets you start it without a key?
Keyless BMW cars prove to be very easy to steal - Hack a Day
billytea - Jul 09, 2012 11:17:07 am PDT #13262 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Anne is certainly far better educated than Laura, and more confident in circumstances requiring intelligence or people skills. But come the zombie apocalypse, Laura would be more likely to survive.
It's astronauts and cavemen all over again.
flea - Jul 09, 2012 11:21:42 am PDT #13263 of 30001
information libertarian
Casper is having a somewhat self-conscious and hilarious meltdown over her difficulty drawing an oval for a head. Direct quote: "Why am I so uncircular? WHY? Ovals mock me."
Consuela - Jul 09, 2012 11:35:59 am PDT #13264 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
It's astronauts and cavemen all over again
Hah! To a certain extent, yes. IIRC, Anne never even ends up doing any work around the farm, except maybe bringing the cows in occasionally, or collecting eggs. She's all about the domestic arts. Whereas doesn't Laura have to go pick locusts off the crops at one point, and help haul water and all?
Calli - Jul 09, 2012 11:39:00 am PDT #13265 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
doesn't Laura have to go pick locusts off the crops at one point, and help haul water and all?
I remember during the long winter, Laura helps her dad twist straw into fuel for the fire. Her hands get so rough from it she wonders if she'll ever be able to sew again without the thread catching on her callouses.
flea - Jul 09, 2012 11:42:55 am PDT #13266 of 30001
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Anne was written by a woman who grew up solidly middle-class (her paternal grandfather was a Canadian Senator) and Laura was written by, well, Laura - the daughter of a hardscrabble and neither provident nor lucky farmer.