I was just looking at the forum statistics and I couldn't help but notice that there appears to be more females who like Mr. Pizza and the Hardy Boys than males, since the ratio is for every 1 male, there are 1.2 females.
I guess the Hardy Boys aren't just a boys series anymore.
Well, yeah, because girls like to read about heroes (The Hardy Boys) just as much as we like reading about heroines (Nancy Drew)
Just because boys are the main characters, doesn't neccesarily mean it's for boys.
It was originally for boys. The thing is though, more girls will read a "kid's book" into their teen, than boys.
Girls like to read about the hero boys, because they're just so polite and nice and stuff. You just don't find many boys like that in the real world, so we read about them.
Um hello? The world is full of nice, polite people like me.
Quote from: NZone on June 23, 2009, 05:37:40 PM
Um hello? The world is full of nice, polite people like me.
Boys. Not older boys. Kids. Even though you're only 16. :P
You people scare me, please stay away from my home. If you don't wanna get beat down, just leave the presents and then leave me alone.
Quote from: JoeHardyRocks on June 23, 2009, 05:36:30 PM
Girls like to read about the hero boys, because they're just so polite and nice and stuff. You just don't find many boys like that in the real world, so we read about them.
I don't find the UB Hardy Boys that polite. Maybe Frank, but not so much Joe. And Frank's such a nerd it doesn't matter much.
I think she was talking about the whole "Chivalry" thing, more than politeness.
Chivalry is dead. Misogyny is the new "in" thing.
::)
I think NZone has been hanging around Chris Brown. (Just a joke).
For the whole "chivalry" thing it might depend on the maturity/background of the guy and/or his age and which generation he's from.
Everyone around my age has always been super nice (to me, anyways). Offering to drive me home, and so on.
I only know about... 0 guys like that. :P Maybe actually one, but all the other ones are just super rude and burp in our faces all the time. This one guy kicks us and karate chops us really hard at our church every week. :P :P :P
Karate chops?! That's both stupid and funny at the same time.
I do that all the time. I haven't yet perfected the Frank-Hardy-Karate-Chop-On-Neck-And-Knock-Them-Out part yet. I guess that's one of the reasons I still have a job.
Quote from: Kismet on June 25, 2009, 08:54:42 PM
Karate chops?! That's both stupid and funny at the same time.
Yeah, he's not a friend you'd want to sneak up on.
I can jump on the pogo stick longer than he can, though. But only because he challenged me, and I would have hated to lose to him. 869.
Quote from: NZone on June 25, 2009, 08:56:25 PM
I do that all the time. I haven't yet perfected the Frank-Hardy-Karate-Chop-On-Neck-And-Knock-Them-Out part yet. I guess that's one of the reasons I still have a job.
Yeah, well, I perfected the Joe-Hardy-fist-to-face. Can I practice on you? :P
And no switching. You're not allowed to practice on me.
Quote from: FrankJoeATAC on June 25, 2009, 09:41:28 PM
Yeah, he's not a friend you'd want to sneak up on.
I'll bet.
Quote from: JoeHardyRocks on June 25, 2009, 09:46:36 PM
I can jump on the pogo stick longer than he can, though. But only because he challenged me, and I would have hated to lose to him. 869.
Yeah! Go Emma!
Quote from: JoeHardyRocks on June 25, 2009, 08:38:40 PM
I only know about... 0 guys like that. :P Maybe actually one, but all the other ones are just super rude and burp in our faces all the time. This one guy kicks us and karate chops us really hard at our church every week. :P :P :P
Don't worry. In a few years, the same guy will be asking you on a date.
And she'll run screaming or think it's a joke. (The latter happened to me).
...and than he'll go jump off a cliff.
And thats the circle of life.
Quote from: SDLagent on June 27, 2009, 12:52:18 AM
Don't worry. In a few years, the same guy will be asking you on a date.
And I will show him pictures of everything he used to do to me. :P
While I'm in the process of clarifying, what I mentioned above happened when I was in grade 7 and the person was joking around at the time, so of course it was messed up.
I'm not that oblivious now (even if it seems like it).
Quote from: Buttercup on July 07, 2009, 04:20:18 PM
And I will show him pictures of everything he used to do to me. :P
You actually have photos lol.
Yeah, I do have some photos. :DWhen we went to camp, they had to take him to the hospital because he went chasing after this ball of play-doh and he cut his head pretty badly on a table... I always knew he would do something like that.... :-\
Kind of sad. But kind of ridiculous, and just a tad funny (chasing after playdough).
That reminds me of when we were shooting an episode in the downtown park on a Sunday afternoon. There were these kids with light sabers: one kid was holding one and riding his bike, while the other boy on foot chased his friend on the bike and kept hitting him with the saber. It was really funny at the time.
Then all these kids kept showing up with light sabers :-\
LOL! Some people are just really big Star Wars fans or something... :-\
I am a die hard Casefile fan. I recently purchased Tower of Treasure in bluespine to read because it was the first HB story. I have some newer versions but can't seem to get into them as much as the casefiles.
I am a 26 yr old married woman and I LOVE the Hardy Boys. My family thinks I'm a little nuts but I don't care. They allow me to escape into a different world. I found them when I was 12 or 13 and boy crazy so it makes sense that I am into them again...and twice as old. lol
Nancy Drew doesn't do it for me. I know some of you like her as a heroine but I like the fact that boys are getting into tight spots and having close calls. No more damsels in distress...And besides if I had to chose between two cute boys or one girl to rescue me....it would be Frank and Joe all the way!!
I take it your copy of "Tower Treasure" is a Picture Cover book with the picture right on the hardcover boards and no Dustjacket? Since while, technically, it is the "first" book in the series, all copies of The Tower Treasure published by Grosset & Dunlap since 1959 have been of the revised text which only contains 20 chapters.
The true "first" Hardy Boys book was called The Tower Treasure, but the Grosset & Dunlap edition of that book has been out-of-print since 1959. But in 1991 Applewood books did bring that edition back into print and it is still available from Amazon and a number of other stores.
Interesting...I just got it at Barnes and Noble so I know it's not THE first book but it's close enough. I bought it to compare it to the Casefiles. Whomever has a real first copy of the book is lucky!!
The Applewood book is a facsimile of the 1927 text, coverboards and dustjacket, and it is one of the six Hardy Boys books that Applewood is keeping in print (from 1991-2006 Applewood had a license with Simon & Schuster to republish the Original texts of the first 16 volumes, and they did publish the first 16 within that time. But in 2006, because of the split of Simon & Schuster's parent company Viacom into Viacom and CBS and with CBS becoming S&S's parent company, many contracts were broken and reshuffled, and Applewood took the time to rengotiate their contract with Simon & Schuster to just keep the first six books of the series in print, due to the later volumes declining in sales.)
So if you want to read the original 1927 text of The Tower Treasure it is still available from Applewood and can be easily ordered from any bookstore.
Thanks! I will keep that in mind. I haven't read the version that I have yet. My brain can only handle so much Hardy Boys at one time! :)