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Post by eggman on Nov 16, 2004 13:32:34 GMT -5
it may be in victorian times......look at the evidence
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Post by Ennui on Nov 16, 2004 14:02:57 GMT -5
This is in the wrong section, really, though I can see why you'd try it here. And it's a topic that comes up far too often. About 70% of the threads in Perilous Places attempt, usually unsuccessfully, to deal with it.
The answer is that they do not take place within a feasible time period or place at all. They are in "Lemonyland" and "Snickettime", concepts beyond our comprehension. Have you ever heard of a King of Arizona? Thought not. Do you think advanced computers existed in Victorian times? Thought not.
(Actually, computers...sort of...did. Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, can be called the world's first ever computer scientist. In a way. But I digress.)
Interestingly, the only element, apart from languages and to an extent culture, that links our world to Snicket's is literature. All writers and poets mentioned by him exist.
EDIT: I see you already asked this question in Perilous Places. It's a good idea not to post the same topic over and over. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt this time.
Ahhh...power is so enjoyable...
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Post by snicketfan on Nov 16, 2004 16:16:46 GMT -5
if i had a quarter for every time this thread as been created i could be richer than bill gates ;D
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Post by eggman on Nov 17, 2004 12:30:02 GMT -5
that was a where thread not a when...but yes, im a newb, as you might have guessed
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Post by cwm3 on Nov 17, 2004 12:38:56 GMT -5
that was a where thread not a when...but yes, im a newb, as you might have guessed You should have checked first.
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Post by Ennui on Nov 17, 2004 13:09:54 GMT -5
Try and live up to your name, old chap. Where threads are as common, if not more so, as when ones. Because you're new I'm letting you off scot-free, but please try and learn from the mistake.
Also, make an effort, please, with your grammar and spelling. It makes all our lives that little bit pleasanter.
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Post by cwm3 on Nov 17, 2004 13:12:35 GMT -5
Also, make an effort, please, with your grammar and spelling. It makes all our lives that little bit pleasanter. I agree totally.
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Post by eggman on Nov 17, 2004 15:14:10 GMT -5
Ennui are you talking to me?
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Post by Ennui on Nov 17, 2004 15:19:08 GMT -5
Yes. Your grammar is better. Well done. Keep it that way, and don't make pointless posts either.
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Post by cwm3 on Nov 18, 2004 2:17:28 GMT -5
Yes. Your grammar is better. Well done. Keep it that way, and don't make pointless posts either. Fully agreed.
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Post by PJ on Nov 20, 2004 6:09:01 GMT -5
Like i've said before. It's a whole lot more believable, to have olden day stuff in a modern world, than to have modern things in an olden day world. Also, we never find out what "advanced computer" actually is. For all we know, advanced computer is advanced compared to a calculator and can do some things. Besides, it seems to be the only one of the kind, which re-inforces my statement. Also, all the picture in the UA are colour-less so meh. I believe it was made... perhaps... the early 30s or so... I dunno. The cars and other things indicate it so. Meh.
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Post by Phoenix 4242424242424242424242 on Nov 30, 2004 0:38:47 GMT -5
The answer is that they do not take place within a feasible time period or place at all. They are in "Lemonyland" and "Snickettime", concepts beyond our comprehension. Have you ever heard of a King of Arizona? Thought not. Do you think advanced computers existed in Victorian times? Thought not. Interestingly, the only element, apart from languages and to an extent culture, that links our world to Snicket's is literature. All writers and poets mentioned by him exist. EDIT: I see you already asked this question in Perilous Places. It's a good idea not to post the same topic over and over. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt this time. Ahhh...power is so enjoyable... Yes, I agree. I have been think of this subject in my spare time, alot it seems. The conclusion I have reached is that by looking at the fashions, dialouge, and the way of life hown mainly in LSUA, but also in ASOUE, we find alot of 1920's context. Seriously, who holds balls in this day and age? You just have to look at the cover of LSUA, and you see a woman's short, crimped hair, such as those that were in fashion in the 20's.
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Post by PJ on Nov 30, 2004 0:49:11 GMT -5
It DOES seem a bit oldisher. Perhaps a mixutre of 1920's with advanced computers and such. BUT it is after the first world war, cos Lemony says the moral of the First World War is: Don't assassinate Arch Duke Ferdinand. Though this could be Lemony's time, not the baudelaires. But he is only a few years behind them, it seems. So most likely after the first world war. Bleh.
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Post by Phoenix 4242424242424242424242 on Dec 1, 2004 0:22:45 GMT -5
It DOES seem a bit oldisher. Perhaps a mixutre of 1920's with advanced computers and such. BUT it is after the first world war, cos Lemony says the moral of the First World War is: Don't assassinate Arch Duke Ferdinand. Though this could be Lemony's time, not the baudelaires. But he is only a few years behind them, it seems. So most likely after the first world war. Bleh. Good points. Computers where introduced in the 1950's, and that's 30 years later. I'm pretty sure the Baude.'s lives are not set in the Victorian times, because people have been saying that ASOUE takes place in Australia, but it can't of if we're saying that they lived in the Victorian times, which was in th 1800's, but Australia was only established in the 1700's. In TWW, Aunt Josephine was afraid of the heater, telephone, and stove which are all electrical appliances, that they certainly not have had in the 1800's. I don't know.
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Post by PJ on Dec 1, 2004 0:59:12 GMT -5
Also, they have taxis, submarines, blimps, optometrists, and sawing mills. As well as electronic password doors (TSS)
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