Nancy Drew can:
Just your everyday, average girl...
- Horseback ride
- Do circus tricks on horses
- Tap dance (in morse code)
- Play the bagpipes
- Play the piano
- Skillfully manuever her blue roadster at extremely high speeds
- Revive a fainted person
- Administer whatever kind of first aid a situation calls for
- Decipher codes
- Win golf tournaments
- Win tennis tournaments
- She could use ventriloquism to throw her voice and confuse a crook
- Fly a plane
- More importantly LAND a plane
- Make beautiful stained glass
- Speak enough of several languages to get by
- Paint
- Bake
- Sew
- Pass a college level test (with flying colors) after only an hour's study in the library.
- Do a high jump in ballet
- Divert numerous dangerous animals such as charging bulls, crocodiles, angry dogs,and rearing horses.
- Find a hidden room, hidden staircase or hidden anything just by looking in the room.
- She was a superior chemist
- She knew "more than most people" about art, music, literature and theatre
Just your everyday, average girl...
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If she's "average" I do not exsist.
haha!! Ditto Lydia! If that is average I am a stupid nothing. And I prefer to not think of myself in that way. It would be very depressing after the first time.
Don't forget, she can also do the hula. She also seems to have the stamina of a two-year-old (which I recently found out is equivalent to us playing tennis all day). Who else could stay up until the wee hours of the morning, yet still be spry and beautiful the next day? She can charm her way into an Amish community; use a flashlight for Morse code (admittedly less difficult than tap dancing it); escape from almost any sort of enclosure, even while bound hand and foot; learn all there is to know about rare plants and birds in a single hearing; swim; ski; ride a decrepit old house out to sea; read license plates from the length of a football field; chase crooks; and all in pumps (except skiing, of course). Hmmm. Mr. Darcy's expectations weren't so high, after all.
QueenOrual from S&S Board
Oh, yes, and can't she wrangle marionettes like an expert? I don't think there IS anything she can't do.
LOL!!!! I knew I hadn't listed everything she could do. Thanks Serena! Mr. Darcy would LOVE Nancy!
Darcy--he's head over heals :D
No, There's nothing Nancy Drew can't do, but what I want to know is: Where does she get all this money to hire a private plane for her to fly? Have a baseball field in her backyard? Perfect Horse stalls & tack, bagpipes, piano, blue roadster, french, spanish and art lessons (or was she talented enough to teach herself?) and much, much more.
I'm figuring on being Nancy Drew the second in a few years, so if you want to learn how to tap dance in morse code just come over to my place and we can practice together!
I love Becca!
-Merrill
"Fly? Yes. Land? NO!" Even Indiana Jones couldn't do that ;-)
~Nack
Ha! You know, I never really thought about how much she could do when I was an avid Nancy Drew reader (somewhere around 12 years old, I think...) Maybe I figured that by the time I was 18, (cause that was WAY old) I would be able to do those things too. And then when I was 18 I never thought about it because I wasn't reading the Nancy Drew books anymore...
I don't recall thinking of her as average though. Did the books actually say that? If so, I am totally with Lydia and Katie! :-)
...And one more thing. 18 is NOT very old. Neither is 27, for anyone who is wondering.
KW
Hmmm... you are very right Kristi. However, I must point out that I am as addicted to Nancy Drew books as I was when I was 12. So, I must be less mature than you... :-) Maybe when I'm 30 I'll grow out of them!
Merrill I would love to learn how to tap dance in Morse code. I'm just not sure how I would ever be able to use that particular accomplishment.
No, I think you're plenty mature! I don't know why I stopped reading the books, to be honest. I don't think I considered myself to have outgrown them...
After thinking about it, I recall that I did pick up a Nancy Drew book sometime in the past couple of years. It was the one about the old house with 2 towers on it, and I remember she dressed up in colonial garb, complete with wig, which made the plainclothes policeman do a double-take when she came running out of the house to find out what all the commotion outside was about. (Of course, it was a prowler that had been lurking about and the policeman tackled him.)
Did that make sense at all? :-)
Anyway, I bet I would enjoy them immensely now since I only remember bits and pieces of just a few stories, and don't have a clue how any of them turn out (except, of course, she's the heroine and always rescues the kidnap victims, returns the valuables, and gets the bad guys). And I bet I would look at the books in a whole new light after reading your post on the matter! :-D
Kristi
Well, Kristi,if you do happen to check out a Nancy Drew mystery from the library, you must let me know!
Well Rebecca, since you asked... I have checked out a few. Have we mentioned that she can change a tire (even though "she never relished the task")? She can also draw pretty well. And one thing (maybe this is too obvious to mention) that stands out to me in all of this is that Nancy Drew has the most PACKED 18th year of anyone I ever heard of! I haven't done the math exactly but with 56 mysteries to solve, that's more than one a week! I don't know how she managed to pull that off... :-)
Oh, and don't be surprised if you hear from David. He says you have turned me into a Nancydrewaholic, and he'll have to have a talk with you. :-o
KW
Yes, and did you notice that she has been 18 for over 50 years???
Merrill,
I was wondering the same thing about her finances... My guess is it's because her dad is a lawyer. I mean, he didn't hesitate to look for a yacht for her so she could seek buried treasure in the South Atlantic... Otherwise I don't recall reading that Nancy worked anywhere.
Kristi
What a great list! Nancy is my hero! You have inspired me to read her books again...they are classic! :-)
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