Antenora
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Fiendish Philologist
Put down that harpoon gun, in the name of these wonderful birds!
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Post by Antenora on Dec 4, 2004 6:51:38 GMT -5
My father likes to put horseradish on his roast beef.
On Daniel Handler's birthday last year, my family had a VFD tea party. My mom made these squares of chocolate with VFD insignias painted on them in green frosting.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Dec 4, 2004 20:03:56 GMT -5
Lucky you, my parents have no clue what in the world VFD is. I have LOTS of coincidences since I haven't posted here in more than 2 weeks:
VFD seems to have strong presence in Connecticut. For instance, on one road there's a volunteer fire department, then a restaurant called duchess and a place called lesko miners(sure mr. lesco isn't in VFD but who cares) Also, in certain readings my teacher assigned me I found key vfd words like exonerate and reading matter. Then, although this has nothing to do with connecticut, my brother who is also the youngest of three children like sunny was wheezing a few days ago. I know there are more I just can't think of them right now.... Wait I think I saw the number 667 around here somewhere. And there's another big one I told myself to remember but I forgot. argh.
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Post by SnicketFires on Dec 4, 2004 20:06:58 GMT -5
I played with fire today. Annie and I were burning string for a science experiment.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Dec 4, 2004 20:22:18 GMT -5
In Ohio we burned lots of stuff for chemistry. There was one lab where we just burnt various stuff to see what colors various elements gave off. And our gas valve was messing up so the fire would get huge and then go out entirely. Or else shrink really small and swell up again.
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Post by SnicketFires on Dec 4, 2004 20:27:45 GMT -5
When we were playing with fire, in a can, the fire flared up, and was huge. It wouldn't go out, and would flare up even bigger when we blew on it, or poured water on it. I took pictures, and will post them when I upload them.
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Antenora
Detriment Deleter
Fiendish Philologist
Put down that harpoon gun, in the name of these wonderful birds!
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Post by Antenora on Dec 4, 2004 20:46:35 GMT -5
In Ohio we burned lots of stuff for chemistry. There was one lab where we just burnt various stuff to see what colors various elements gave off. And our gas valve was messing up so the fire would get huge and then go out entirely. Or else shrink really small and swell up again. I remember doing labs like that in seventh grade! We'd take various kinds of salts and put them into the flame of what I think was an acetylene torch. The flames turned such pretty colors, blue and pink and greenish-white. Last year, I did a similar sort of lab in which we heated magnesium, and it burst into white flames and then turned into magnesium oxide, a powdery substance. This class was led by a woman who once used the phrase "Very Front Desk", and referred to "Very Fine Details" at some point. |
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Dec 4, 2004 21:08:00 GMT -5
My chemistry teacher burned magnesium in the aforementioned element lab, mangesium not being one of the elements we were supposed to burn. He just did it for fun because I described burning magnesium as: the sun. It flares so brightly when it burns...
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Post by Cassandra's Ruins on Dec 5, 2004 7:42:04 GMT -5
Yes, that lab was fun. I liked burning copper, or the thing with copper in it, it turned that nice green color, if memory serves.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Dec 5, 2004 19:31:38 GMT -5
Burning copper was awesome. And more coincidences:
my sister had a fear of smoke alarms for awhile and kept bringing up stuff and saying after: "in case there's a fire."
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Post by SnicketFires on Dec 5, 2004 19:46:57 GMT -5
I found some article in a magazine called "Playing with fire" It was about fireplaces.
Last night I watched Eloise at Christmastime, and there was a man in a suit and hat with Lemony's build who kept hiding his face with his newspaper. He turned out to be a CIA agent.
I just read Murders of the Rue Morgue, and learned the orgin of Detective Dupin.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Dec 5, 2004 20:06:17 GMT -5
What's the origin? I should scan the post office near the volunteer fire department for a possible hidden hq...
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Post by SnicketFires on Dec 5, 2004 20:14:52 GMT -5
C. Auguste Dupin, a very intelligent man who loves books and solves two murders, thus leading to the "detective" bit of Detective Dupin. Except everytime I read "Dupin" I thought of TVV or George.
I've christened some of my village houses with ASOUE names:
School: Prufrock Prep
Church: Cathedral of the Alleged Virgin
Station: That station at Paltryville
Hotel: Hotel Denouement
Bank: Multuary Money Management
Firestation: the VFD, of course
Tea House: Cafe Kafka
Library: Library of Records
I need ASOUE names for:
Antiques shop
Butcher shop
Baker's shop
Barber shop
Toy store
Tailor's
Jewelry store
Any help?
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Dec 5, 2004 20:38:52 GMT -5
The Antique's shop reminds me of the ad in the daily punctilio advertising a sale on three piece suits at a store that turned out to sell nothing but indian rugs, but that doesn't help you... And the tailor's could be the one jerome was going to go to fix the kids' pinstriped suits. [/not helping]
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Post by Cassandra's Ruins on Dec 6, 2004 6:59:02 GMT -5
To go back a little, yeah, I had read "The Murders in the Rue Morge" before TVV, so I was laughing hysterically when Olaf said that name. Detective Dupin, the name, is right out of "Rue Morge", but the way Olaf acts is definetely not. The In Boutique. If you go to TEE, and find the chapter with the pinstripe suits, the bags should say "The In Boutique" The various departments of the Last Chance General store broken up. Coincidence, sorta: When I was looking at some Magritte pictures (as in Rene Magritte, a surrealist), there are a fair few of views of this guy's back looking at various things and what-not. If you want to see an example, go here: usuarios.lycos.es/magrittefan/images/works/magritte8.jpg |
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Antenora
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Post by Antenora on Dec 6, 2004 7:50:02 GMT -5
I've seen those Magritte drawings, and I wonder if the photographer Meredith Heuer based Snicket's photos on them. There's also one with a white bird flying in front of the hat-wearing man's face, and perfectly obscuring him.
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