Antenora
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Post by Antenora on Apr 7, 2004 19:25:00 GMT -5
I think that the series takes place in Australia. (Today is my day for posting semi-plausible theories) My evidence is a list of countries listed as "foreign" *flips through commonplace notebook* Peru(because it has to be accessed by ship, that rules out all South America), North America, Africa, Asia, England, and Europe. This leaves Antartica(easily ruled out) Atlantis or Lemuria(not even semi-plausible), and Australia. No worries, mates! I've solved this mystery!
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Post by Snicket on Apr 9, 2004 1:14:48 GMT -5
on the lemony boards i suggested that too
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Post by Luigi on Apr 9, 2004 1:22:28 GMT -5
I think that the series takes place in Australia. (Today is my day for posting semi-plausible theories) My evidence is a list of countries listed as "foreign" *flips through commonplace notebook* Peru(because it has to be accessed by ship, that rules out all South America), North America, Africa, Asia, England, and Europe. This leaves Antartica(easily ruled out) Atlantis or Lemuria(not even semi-plausible), and Australia. No worries, mates! I've solved this mystery! *eyes widen* You used the same method I did! Excpet I don't think it takes place in Australia. Daniel means it to be a nonexistant time period and nonexistant place. For fairness.
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Post by tex mexx on Apr 9, 2004 1:28:38 GMT -5
yeah. I think it's just a nonexistant place that is modeled after the things in DH's city, San Francisco. Notice the fish district, the rickety trolley and the other things that resemble San Francisco.
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Post by ParsleySoda667 on Apr 9, 2004 14:26:35 GMT -5
yeah. I think it's just a nonexistant place that is modeled after the things in DH's city, San Francisco. Notice the fish district, the rickety trolley and the other things that resemble San Francisco. Yes, I agree. Also in LSUAB, there is pictures of telephone poles and wires and such, on another post someone who lives in SanFransisco took pictures of the same telephone poles and wires, that were in LSUAB.
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Post by tex mexx on Apr 9, 2004 22:29:55 GMT -5
is there a place in Australia that is like San Fran?
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Antenora
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Post by Antenora on Apr 10, 2004 9:20:41 GMT -5
is there a place in Australia that is like San Fran? I'm not sure of that. I think that the big city, if the series takes place in Australia, is Sydney or Melbourne. Both these cities are near the sea. Also, the "hinterlands" are the Outback, and the Mortmain Mountains the Great Dividing Range.
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Post by QuagmireSnicket on Apr 10, 2004 12:33:23 GMT -5
This has been discussed before in Sardonic Series, and people who posted there agree thats it takes place in Austrialia. It cant be South America. It cant be NA Europe Asia or Africa because Jerome ruled them out in TEE and Antarctica is obvious why so Austrialia is the only one left
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Post by StellaFantasia on May 3, 2004 7:37:22 GMT -5
While I don't believe that the series takes place in Australia (or anywhere specific), there is a comparison to be made between St Kilda beach and Briny Beach. Cloudy, depressing, littered with used syringes...(pictures: www.ee.mu.oz.au/conferences/MWP99/Tourism/pics.html)The main system of public transport in Melbourne is trams as well (or trolleys, as they might call them in San Francisco). The Mortmain Mountains would more likely be the Dandenongs. There are plenty of logging regions nearby where Paltryville might be right at home.
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Post by PJ on Oct 27, 2004 3:24:16 GMT -5
i've said it once, twice, three times, and several times, its in australia FIRSTLY the currency in ASOUE is Cents (see last page of TBB) and according to the timeline (baudelaire house burn down date is in the calender) I worked it out, too lazy to do so again, but to make a long story short: According to the calender and the false spring in TSS and several speculations that the series takes about 4 months means that it HAS to be in the southern hemisphere. And the only place big enough for deserts and Mountains and beaches as well as Cents in the Southern Hemisphere is Australia
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Post by Kai U. on Nov 1, 2004 16:53:27 GMT -5
If it does take place in Australia, then The Wide Window is inaccurate, because Australia doesn't have hurricanes, it has cyclones. Atlantis or Lemuria(not even semi-plausible) Hey, what about Mu? It's a 'lost continent' too!
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Post by Antenora on Nov 1, 2004 18:43:47 GMT -5
I thought that Mu was the same place as Lemuria--at least I did at the time of that writing, which was the first day I joined. At the moment, I'm not sure of that.
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Post by no-one on Nov 1, 2004 18:46:04 GMT -5
If it does take place in Australia, then The Wide Window is inaccurate, because Australia doesn't have hurricanes, it has cyclones. like in harry potter how they don't have football, they have soccer? they must have changed the word to fit a mainly yank audience
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Post by Phoenix 4242424242424242424242 on Dec 1, 2004 0:14:05 GMT -5
like in harry potter how they don't have football, they have soccer? they must have changed the word to fit a mainly yank audience *giggles helplessly* Why don't you just ask an Australian. *steps onto stage* (Ahem) We do have cyclones in the Southern Hemisphere, as opposed to hurricanes in the Northern. I would cancell out Melbourne, a hipish city, in which they do not have a suburb called Dark Avenue nor any where is there Lake Lachrymorse, but these could just be an emphasis. I'm not really from the southern part of Australia, so I might not be much help, but I do understand that Count Olaf could also be an emphasis of a criminal, but none ring a bell. That reminds me, we do have crickets, snakes and coded poetry. (Doesn't every country ) Just to fill you in on a few things, the name Terra Australius Incognita is Latin for Unknown Southern Land terra being land, australius being southern and incognita being unknown. the flag represents the Southern Cross, the Commonwealth, and the Union Jack (of England, our founders). I don't know who made the flag, because this is all off the top of my head, but I do know that people wanted the Eureka Stockade flag to represent Australia, but that never got properly established. Ummm, we have different grades to America. years tranition, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 are all in primary school, and you are usually 12 in year 7. Years 8, 9, 10, 11, & 12 are in high school, and you are usually 17 when you finish school. You compulrily attend school until you are 15, then you decide. Umm, what else happens here? Oh yeah, and it's illegal for a village to burn anyone at the stake, as the Baude.s where threatened in the 7th book. Umm, oh and don't worry Bush haters, we have a slimy president re-alected recently too! (No offence to Bush supporters). I think it would be nice if the books where set in Australia, but I don't really think they are. Maybe when we where first establishing ourselves as an indapendent colony, but after that, I don't think so.
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Post by SnicketFires on Dec 3, 2004 20:54:48 GMT -5
*giggles helplessly* Why don't you just ask an Australian. *steps onto stage* BSam is Australian... Thanks for some of that information. Canada has the same school system, only September-June.
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