Little House on the Prairie

**Beo** · 07-22-2008, 07:25 AM

I say again.... Utterly frig'n stupid. Little House on the Prairie, more like Little Losers on the Prairie... hated the show cause it was so dumb and corny and my sis had the books, read part of one and thought them really stupid, made me wanna slit my own throat but I projectile vomited instead. Straight chick books and tv show was a sad try. Read the Frontiersman series if you wanna know what it was like, really like and not some sugar coated lines from a stary eyed kid. And Northwind its not really all that great for a first hand look into another time, living next to nature? Are you serious, they were actually only two miles outside of town, long way by wagon but still only two miles.
Try reading Boone by Cameron Judd, Stockades in the Wilderness by Richard Scamyhorn (1788-1795 frontier life) the Frontiersman-Blue jacket War Chief of the Shawnees-Wilderness Empire-That Dark and Bloody River: Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley all by Allan W Eckert who won awards for his straight way of telling how frontier life really was,or any of the books that tell you what actually went on. Sorry but when I read the about the frontier I wanna read what they went through and how they overcame it, THE WAY IT HAPPENED... not sugar coated by some little girl.

**Rick** · 07-22-2008, 07:35 AM

(Hands Beo a Red Bull) So, I'm not yet clear on your opinion of the books or the TV show. Are you saying you don't like either one or did I mis-interpret something?

**Beo** · 07-22-2008, 08:09 AM

Well yeah I don't like them. But for little girls they are a good form of reading, but do not think that it is historicaly correct, its not. I read to my son, read him the books I mentioned above, they tell the truth even though its violent and not politicaly correct, but its the true histroy and evem more exciting.

**Beo** · 07-22-2008, 08:13 AM

Here check this out:
The Little House series (also known as "Laura Years") is based on decades-old memories of Laura Ingalls Wilder's childhood in the Midwest region of the United States during the late 19th century. The best-known of the books is Little House on the Prairie. The books are told in the third person, with Laura Ingalls acting as the central character and protagonist, and are generally classified as historical fiction rather than as autobiography.
Source: TheSmithsonian Institute

So there ya go

**TrappinGal** · 07-22-2008, 08:39 AM

Originally Posted by smokelessfire

baaah, i still say there are and were little girls out there who took for granted conditions that'd make a mighty mountain man squirm.

i agree

**smokelessfire** · 07-22-2008, 09:25 AM

thank you and amen northwind. it seems machoism is a necessary trait for survival for some, but to me it leads to chaos and stupid mistakes and death.

**trax** · 07-22-2008, 12:35 PM

I read the letters column in Penthouse one time...boy there was some people stuck in some weird situations, and apparently all true....whoops, never mind. I never read the Little House books but the last time I shot at a tv screen it was a picture of Michael Landon all teary-eyed with that mopey friggin' look on his face. Read the one about the Walton's when I was a kid and even the book made me feel like I was a candidate for diabetes afterwards.

**Rick** · 07-22-2008, 02:15 PM

Isn't that so like you to poke fun at a dead guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1bDq...eature=related

**trax** · 07-22-2008, 02:21 PM

Hey, I'm not poking fun at him, I just shot out a tv screen, that wasn't what killed him Rick

**Rick** · 07-22-2008, 02:21 PM

Oh, my bad then.

**smokelessfire** · 07-24-2008, 09:55 AM

yes i hate the tv show and michael landon's eternal bawling. liberal television at its best. nothing like the people in the books. they were about the family's survival, not making the perfect family.

**Beo** · 07-24-2008, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by smokelessfire

thank you and amen northwind. it seems machoism is a necessary trait for survival for some, but to me it leads to chaos and stupid mistakes and death.

Because of what I said means I think machoism is a survival trait? No I said if your going to read something historical then read the truth, unless your into fiction in colonial era, which was what those books were, and lil laura engles was no survivalist in the pioneer days, give me a break. Its historical fiction, meaning the people were real not the things going on.

**trax** · 07-24-2008, 02:45 PM

I think that means Remy liked the show

**BraggSurvivor** · 07-24-2008, 05:13 PM

I watched the show a few times as a kid........ I thought Nellie Oleson was frickken hot!

Anyone else?

**nell67** · 07-24-2008, 05:27 PM

Originally Posted by BraggSurvivor

I watched the show a few times as a kid........ I thought Nellie Oleson was frickken hot!

Anyone else?

Not one stinking comment about my name here guys,not even a tiny little one,GOT IT???

**trax** · 07-24-2008, 05:37 PM

Believe me Remy, it's not my culture either, would it be safe to guess that it was a ....brief...intellectual curiosity?

Nell, can I say anything about Nell being hot?

Bragg: I always thought Ma Ingalls would have been a looker if someone had dressed her up a bit, lol.

**nell67** · 07-24-2008, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by trax

Nell, can I say anything about Nell being hot?

Yes dear.But only about Nell,not that person that Bragg mentioned.

**danmc** · 07-30-2008, 01:04 AM

I read them all as a kid and have re-read about half to my kids recently. I wouldn't say there is great survival knowledge but I still found the stories pretty interesting. Most folks these days wouldn't last 2 weeks if put in the best conditions that family was in much less the worst conditions. Of course the people in that story might have a pretty tough time of it if they found themselves thrust into 2008 atlanta.

Now just in case we all go away thinking no harm can come from these..... I did something incredibly stupid as a kid based in part from having read those books. I somehow got ahold of some fireworks which I cut apart for the powder. I then loaded a toy muzzle loader cap gun which for some wierd reason actually had a hollow barrel and a pin hole from where the cap goes into the barrel. I then proceeded to send the little cork ball that came with it out of sight with one big bang. My inspiration? Tales of pa loading his gun. I had essentially zero exposure to real guns at that age which may have contributed to my curiosity and stupidity. How that thing didn't explode I still don't know. You'd better believe my kids and I had some side discussion about that part of the book.