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Post by RockSunner on Mar 30, 2005 1:10:49 GMT -5
There's another possible V.F.D. safe place mentioned on p. 130 of TSS, th "bookstore disguised as a cafe disguised as a sporting goods store" where the Snicket file was assembled in a back room at midnight.
I was wondering, could the Veritable French Diner be its cafe disguise?
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Post by PJ on Mar 30, 2005 1:56:44 GMT -5
Nice theory. Normally, i'd just assume it was a coincidence, but this IS Handler we are talking about.... It could be both things. But I doubt it matters much.
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Post by Antenora on Mar 30, 2005 7:55:03 GMT -5
This is one of those little clues that might be significant, but might just be jokes thrown in to confuse us. I don't think that every one of these clues is significant, but it's hard to say which ones are.
Good find regarding the VFDiner connection; I've never noticed that myself.
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Post by PJ on Apr 1, 2005 23:51:10 GMT -5
This is one of those little clues that might be significant, but might just be jokes thrown in to confuse us. I don't think that every one of these clues is significant, but it's hard to say which ones are. That is one of the many reasons why I love asoue.
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Post by champ103 on Apr 10, 2005 6:21:44 GMT -5
But the Vertable French Diner is disguised as a sporting goods store.
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Post by jayK on Apr 10, 2005 6:50:22 GMT -5
And this could be a possible clue to the time settings, how long have sporting good stores been around?
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Post by PJ on Apr 10, 2005 16:28:52 GMT -5
And this could be a possible clue to the time settings, how long have sporting good stores been around? Probably longer than advanced computers have been, so that's no good.
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Post by SpookyMeggie on Apr 14, 2005 17:06:53 GMT -5
I feel safe in saying that most academically-minded people are not quite so gifted in the sporting fields, though they do enjoy cafès...so, by extention, while a bookish individual may have stumbled on the bookstore-as-cafè, it is unlikely they will be quite so stumble-prone towards a sporting goods store.
Now if someone who is booky AND sporty shows up, my theory gets blown out of the water. Whoo!
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Post by Antenora on Apr 14, 2005 17:25:45 GMT -5
True; bookstores and sports stores appeal to different varieties of people, but I don't deny the possibility that someone both academic and athletic may show up.
Also, I wonder how you'd go about disguising buildings. Someone at the VFD meeting transcribed in the UA mentioned building facades as some of the items that needed to be moved, and carrying those about certainly seems inconvenient(although that doesn't seem to have hindered VFDers in the past.)
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Post by Dante on Apr 15, 2005 9:40:04 GMT -5
Also, I wonder how you'd go about disguising buildings. Someone at the VFD meeting transcribed in the UA mentioned building facades as some of the items that needed to be moved, and carrying those about certainly seems inconvenient(although that doesn't seem to have hindered VFDers in the past.) Whilst in France, I saw a terraced building on a street which had a huge painted canvas hanging from the house's roof and completely covering the front of the house. On the canvas was painted the exact image of a typical house on that road. Looking through a gate further down the road, it became clear that the house behind the canvas had been pretty much demolished. So they might try something like that. Or they could set the place up as something different - move all the books to the back room, get a new sign, add tables, chairs, a counter, and you have a café instead of a bookstore, for example.
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Post by PJ on Apr 15, 2005 17:43:26 GMT -5
Or they could set the place up as something different - move all the books to the back room, get a new sign, add tables, chairs, a counter, and you have a café instead of a bookstore, for example. Yeah, they hide the books, and it's a cafe. Then, they hide the sportwares even better, so it's a cafe, disguised as a bookshop, which, in turn, is disguised as a sport shop.
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