Imagine if cell phones were available in the "Little House on the Prarie" days.

[LeftyFingerPop]

This might be a typical text:

I just smashed Nellie Olsen in the face. LOL. Be home soon paw. Love ya, Halfpint

[oshyposhy]

1. teh locousts r heded r 4 ur frm!

another possible one....

[flvegan]

2. The click to talk would make the "good night John boy" part easier.

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. But would Reverend Alden wear Hawaiian shirts in church?

:shrug:

[CreekDog]

21. you mean like Rich Warrren?

ugh. :eyes:

[Dr. Strange]

4. Gilligan's Island

from the professor: plz res-q us. gilligan is pissing us off. kthxbai
from the skipper: help! gonna kill little buddy.

[csziggy]

5. Or if the Waltons had cell phones - no "Good night" to each other, just texting n/t

[Aristus]

10. johnboy - plz turn off lite & play hrmnica - thxnite!

B-)

[CreekDog]

22. from a Rush concert:

help, my ears hurt. kthxbai. :evilgrin:

[Dr. Strange]

44. Let the truth be known.

CreekDog was responsible for the Minnow crash.

[Broken_Hero]

6. well, if there were cell phones back then

all the kids wouldn't have to run all over the place, delivering messages....

They did get a phone line in though, eventually, but no cell service...Mrs. Oleson was very upset about the no cell service....

[XemaSab]

7. "Mary is such a goody two-shoes bitch.

And I can type this 'cause she'll never see it hahaha."

[CreekDog]

23. OMG

:spank:

[WolverineDG]

33. ...

:spray: :rofl:

:spank: to us both.

dg

[Initech]

8. YE3 H4W!!!!!

[smalll]

9. Nellie, unavoidably a rich-bitch apple snob, would have had the iPhone --

... I hated her. But yet and still, she was hot. I would have loved to have caught her faking invalidness that one time, and demanded sex for blackmail. (yes, it is late tonitght. :shrug: And fuck you, iPod kids -- if you grew up in the late 70s and/or early 80s, you'd have Nellie and/or blind hot sister issues yourself!)

[CreekDog]

18. If Victor French's character had to use an iPhone

he'd probably throw it in the creek. :rofl:

[Sebastian Doyle]

31. Only if he couldn't figure out how to download the "Old Dan Tucker" ringtone

But then he would probably get drunk and lose the phone anyway.

[guitar man]

11. actually

It might be more like this:

Paw, OMG like I just totally PW3NED Nellie!!!OMW LY HP :)

[uallupinmykoolaid]

12. Funny--I saw an episode where a phone is installed in someone's home

and I thought to myself that it probably wasn't realistic. Yes, phones may have been available in the late 1870s (?), but having them in one's home was probably not common until after the turn of the century...I dunno, but I think it was a device for info to quickly reach a particular character.

[CreekDog]

24. i think the Olesen's got a phone in one episode

if memory serves. :hi:

[Sebastian Doyle]

32. The Olesen's had the switchboard.

Whatever calls came through Walnut Grove were transferred by old Harriet the town gossip/snob/bigot herself.

[CreekDog]

35. That's right! And she snooped on the calls too!

by golly, they made a whole episode out of that. :D

[Bucky]

30. phones started going into middle class homes in the east in the 1880s

In the 1870s the local post office, telegram office, big bank, or perhaps a large town's city hall. I don't think you could call out of state until the 1880s, so lord knows who the Olsens would've called in 1876.

[geardaddy]

13. I've been to Walnut Grove.

They still don't have regular phones there. ;)

[susanna]

36. I've been there too. Small club I'm sure LOL.

Took a trip a few years back tracing the route of Laura and family from Pepin, WI to DeSmet, SD then on to Mansfield, MO to see where Laura ended up settling for good. Really cool, took the books with me and enjoyed the whole thing. I've loved her books since childhood. Still read them every so often.

And Walnut Creek was my both my favorite AND least favorite stop. Favorite because the family who own the land where Laura's cabin stood are very, very gracious and open their place up to visitors...you can walk along Plum Creek! It's really neat to do. Least favorite because the local Shop/Museum dedicated to LIW was supposed to be open until 5:00 (it was a Wednesday), but the really obnoxious lady who was running it closed up for the day as we pulled in - at 4:30pm. She was really hostile to boot because we asked her why she was closing early. Guess you don't do that in Walnut Creek. I had seen what I wanted back at the creek, though, so no biggie.

We did find a good pizza there, in a gas station of all places. :-)

[Sebastian Doyle]

38. I thought they blew up the whole town?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ne4ZOL4wlw
Best ending to an otherwise sappy TV series ever (the damn terraists!!) :nuke:

[geardaddy]

14. As much as I hated Nellie Olsen...

I hated Mrs. Olsen more.

I kind of had a crush on Nellie because she was a bitch. :shrug:

[CreekDog]

16. I figure the actress who played Mrs. Olsen must have had a blast

she was the only character really allowed to let it fly.

Nellie was played by a kid, so she probably didn't relish or enjoy playing a bad guy the way an older actor would.

[geardaddy]

19. You're probably right.

She was SUCH a bitch.

[JohnnieGordon]

27. I think she did enjoy it

I've read interviews by the woman who played Nellie and she said by an interesting coincidence, she and her friends were obsessed with the movie The Bad Seed, and whenever it was on they have a party to watch it and dress like the bad seed girl. And this was before she'd been cast to play Nellie, that's why she was so good at playing the part, she really understood Nellie and enjoyed playing her.

[CreekDog]

15. Nels Olsen would be even more whipped

:banghead: :eyes:

[jakefrep]

20. Nils Olsen....

...easily the most whipped character in the history of television. His wife AND his daughter were total bitches.

[CreekDog]

25. so true

i could almost give him a pass for not being able to stop them, but when he went along with what they were doing even though you could tell he disagreed with it --ugh. :banghead:

[Chovexani]

17. In all seriousness

It's amazing how many plots of old shows and movies would be rendered instantly pointless if mass market consumer cell phones existed in their time.

80s sitcoms especially.

[CreekDog]

26. Well heck, not being able to find somebody when out somewhere has gone by the wayside

:hi:

[Bucky]

28. In later seasons, Mary would have sent text messages like "ai34 39qjjj8"

You know, once she actually found her phone.

[Arugula Latte]

29. "Pa's crying in teh snow again. :-( I h8 that"

[WolverineDG]

34. They could have used the GPS capability

to walk home from school in the blizzard.

dg

[susanna]

37. Excellent point.

To heck with the clotheslines! :-)

[WolverineDG]

39. Hee hee

well I wasn't thinking about Pa using the clotheslines to get to/from the house & barn, but Laura & Carrie walking home from school after the blizzard hit. I think Cap Garland may have had a GPS, because he was the only one to head into town; the rest headed out to open prairie & only came back when Laura slammed into the side of the hotel.

dg

[susanna]

40. Ah - I remember that one now!

Little Town on the Prairie, I think. I always wondered if Laura had a secret crush on Cap before he started dating Mary Power. She always wrote so glowingly about him... ;-)

[WolverineDG]

41. I think she actually did

but he died shortly after his last appearance in the books. She didn't mention it in the books, nor did she mention Mary Powers' death in childbirth shortly before Laura had Rose (I can't read that part of "The First Four Years" anymore). :(

dg

[Orsino]

42. "Hi, mom, it's Timmy. Can you come get me out of the damned well?" n/t

[SOteric]

43. Imagine thousands of years in mankind's future,

a few cell phones are unearthed from archaelogical digs. Teams of academics spend dozens of years trying to understand the workings and then decode the messages within; only to determine they've no resources to tell them what a KIBO, a H4XX0R or a BFF is.