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Things we learned from Little House

posted 7 years ago by Ditto-head (50)
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- Southwestern Minnesota is mountainous

- Southwestern Minnesota has very mild winters unless there is a sudden, freak blizzard.

- Rich people are greedy snobs who lead shallow, empty lives and never share anything with the poor. Except when they're emptying their store stock to save the town from an epidemic or aforementioned freak blizzard.

- Farmers who usually wear shirts and broad brimmed hats have perfect, oily tans on their face and chest.

- Said farmer cannot afford shoes for his children, but the hair salon is doing a booming business.

- Young boys in the 1880's had 1970's haircuts

- There is apparently something hilarious about seeing little children run to the outhouse.

- Colonel Sanders was a time traveler.

- Walnut Grove can support a restaurant and hotel, even though the townspeople are cash poor and the railroad does not stop there.

- Caroline values education a lot- but not enough to have taught her eight year old to read.

[–] wanton87 (934) 7 years ago

Let’s see.

It’s freakishly easy to break one’s ribs.

It’s cash on the barrel head only, except when you need credit.

Men spent a lot of time shirtless in the Victorian era.

Nellie was a really mean girl that turned 100% nice overnight.

That a wimp like Percival could tame a bad girl like Nellie, when she was bigger, much meaner, and could literally kick his ass, up one side, and down the other, of the main St of Walnut Grove.

And that a 10’ x 12’ shed can house a heck of a lot more people than you think!

[–] CoriSCapnSkip (2170) 7 years ago

Said eight-year-old also kept a diary before learning to read albeit spelled incorrectly.

[–] jason88cubs (2444) 7 years ago

the school teacher was a single woman who got in heat everytime she saw charles ingalls

[–] CoriSCapnSkip (2170) 7 years ago

The one from which I never recovered was that blind artists can paint better than some sighted people!

[–] Reverand Alden (60) 7 years ago

A young girl can be raped and impregnated and no one in a small town with maybe ten suspects even bothers to investigate, not even the town doctor.

When you are trying to flee from your rapist, you don't run like crazy out of the barn, you just climb a ladder to nowhere because that's much safer.

When you have a mixed-faith marriage, your daughter will be raised Christian and your son will be raised jewish because that makes much more sense.

Bunny is a great name for a male horse!

[–] jason88cubs (2444) 7 years ago

the blizzard episod eblow smy mind to this day

they acted so shocked that there was a blizzard in minnesota

[–] Shounenbat (27) 3 years ago

And the PTSD from the rape is temporary, the cure is to fall in love. After all, the one truly suffering from your rape is a boy with a crush on you, and his father will spend his time reassuring him that your resulting pregnancy wasn't actually because you cheated on him. Remember, his feelings are more important than the fact that you were raped, and someone obviously wants you killed.