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Post by Ace is Back! on Sept 14, 2004 20:23:19 GMT -5
Please, please, please don't flame me. I'm just a harmless newby. Anyway, I realize that in other threads, all the other continents have been eliminated as possible settings for the series, but I do have proof. Just grab your coby of The Wide Window. As I'm sure you know, the book contains Hurricane Herman (sp?). Well, this means that the setting must be somewhere in the Atlantic. In Australia, they're called cyclones. Also, in the Pacific, they're called typhoons. Therefore, I must conclude that it cannot take place on any of the continents. This just adds to the knowledge that the setting is no where based in reality. Oh, and also, the time has to be after 1969. This was when hurricanes began to get male names in addition to female names. I highly doubt that this is significant, but I was just pointing out an observation that I'd made. If I'm wrong, please feel free to point the fact out. Also, you may discuss where you think it could take place now that every continent has been eliminated from the list (except technically Antarctia, but it's common sense that it can't take place there). Again, please don't flame this harmless newby if this observation has been made before. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
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Post by Dante on Sept 15, 2004 12:12:51 GMT -5
Very good evidence, although I think that some may deride it as flimsy. And we're also into the idea that it isn't set in a particular time, either. Frankly, I don't think that this section was originally made to debate the details of the setting in real life.
That was a jumbled paragraph. But it all makes sense if you read one sentence as though it's not connected to the one before it.
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Post by Ace is Back! on Sept 15, 2004 16:02:02 GMT -5
I'm sorry that my paragraph was jumbled. My second grade teacher hasn't really gone over grammar a whole lot. I was just pointing out what I had noticed. Oh, and I realize that the section wasn't technically made so that we could discuss the real life setting (if there actually is one), but I'm new to this. In the future, I will do my best to state my ideas and opinions without upsetting anyone.
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Post by xluckylemonx on Sept 15, 2004 16:04:32 GMT -5
its pretty good 4 a new person. no one is going 2 get mad @ u. i dont c how u would b able 2 think that yet cuz yr new, unless yr an old member on a new account which i bet ur
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Post by Antenora on Sept 15, 2004 17:49:06 GMT -5
Your evidence is interesting, and I have never heard it before. However, one can refute it by claiming that Lemony(the author) isn't familiar with Australian dialect and therefore wouldn't know that the hurricane should be called a cyclone(Cyclone Cyril?). However, it's generally accepted that Handler did not intend the series to be set in a particular place or time.
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Post by Dante on Sept 16, 2004 13:27:49 GMT -5
As Tocuna said. And I was referring to my own paragraph. Yours made sense.
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Post by Ace is Back! on Sept 16, 2004 15:25:18 GMT -5
I know that mine is jumbled as well, but thank you very much for not making me feel like a complete idiot.
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Post by Dante on Sept 17, 2004 11:44:04 GMT -5
I don't question that the thread should be here. I hadn't even noticed that it hadn't originally been in Perilous Places. I meant that the Perilous Places section was probably originally to discuss whether somebody liked a certain location, or the precise locations of V.F.D. hideouts, and that it was not meant to become an endless discussion of where the series takes place, but eventually became as such.
I meant it in the same way that I think (but haven't yet said) that the Cheerless Characters forum wasn't anticipated to becoming the board's centre of polls, but it has indeed become as such.
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Post by Ace is Back! on Sept 17, 2004 18:08:32 GMT -5
I'm sorry...again.
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Post by Ace is Back! on Sept 23, 2004 15:59:50 GMT -5
. no one is going 2 get mad @ u. i dont c how u would b able 2 think that yet cuz yr new, unless yr an old member on a new account which i bet ur I am new, I've just been coming to this site and reading for months.
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Post by Ace is Back! on Sept 25, 2004 19:21:56 GMT -5
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Post by Lx on Sept 26, 2004 14:34:31 GMT -5
I'm here.
It's definitally a good idea. I've never heard it before. You have good observational skills.
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Post by Ace is Back! on Sept 26, 2004 14:42:54 GMT -5
I'm here. It's definitally a good idea. I've never heard it before. You have good observational skills. Thank you.
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Post by marisa on Sept 26, 2004 15:17:13 GMT -5
Your a newbie and have already posted 160 times? Wow. If your lieing I can just look at the day you regitserd on your profile you know.
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Post by Ace is Back! on Sept 26, 2004 16:49:18 GMT -5
Your a newbie and have already posted 160 times? Wow. If your lieing I can just look at the day you regitserd on your profile you know. Go right ahead, I'm not lying.
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