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Post by GaryBaudelaire on Feb 19, 2004 19:31:21 GMT -5
All right... Let's see... I heard Lemony Snicket's voice and it was oddly familiar. Daniel Handler perhaps? According to www.quidditch.com Lemony Snicket means Jiminy Cricket. A good narrator, or conscience. Well, what's his real name then!? Maybe it is Daniel Handler... He seems to know everything about Snicket and his face is never shown, why? BECAUSE HE IS HIS OWN REPRESENTATIVE!! SPEAK OF THE DEVIL!! (Sorry...)
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Post by StellaFantasia on Feb 20, 2004 21:31:17 GMT -5
Um...you do realize that Lemony Snicket is a fictional character, right? Daniel Handler writes the books.
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Post by GaryBaudelaire on Feb 22, 2004 21:11:29 GMT -5
Well, Duh!! I mean who doesn't know Lemony's fictional?? I learned Daniel is Lemony.
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Post by negativenine on Feb 22, 2004 22:33:46 GMT -5
Okay, well... in the books, Lemony's a fictional character who writes ASOUE, but DH is also in there somewhere (see the VFD meeting transcript: D says he's there representing L... or something like that). In real life, DH writes the books under the name of Lemony Snicket.
I think he first used the name when subscribing to some shady mailing lists while writing The Basic 8, when he didn't want to actually give out his real name. And I think it just stuck (I've read interviews where he talks about how he had a whole bunch of lemons one time and he and his friends got together to make drinks called "Lemony Snickets", but I think the name was originally something he just came up with as a fake nicknamey type thing).
So Daniel IS "Lemony" in real life, but Lemony and Daniel are separate characters in the books.
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Post by Celinra on Feb 26, 2004 8:54:13 GMT -5
In the VFD meeting you're referring to, the person taking attendance asks D (presumably Daniel) if he's there for himself or representing L (presumably Lemony). L then replies that he's there, so he doesn't need to be represented by D.
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Post by GaryBaudelaire on Feb 28, 2004 17:15:51 GMT -5
Yes, but still... Lemony Snicket is a pen name. It's like Jimony Cricket, as in the American version of Pinnochio, and a good conscience and narrator. The name fits well. I think Handler has an obsession with books published by HarperCollins because of his Laura Ingalls Wilder page in teh biography. Also, maybe, Ramona Quimby books were published. My paperback book doesn't say. [glow=red,2,300]THE WORLD IS QUIET HERE[/glow] could refer to... what? A secret organization would be like the FBI or something. No that's not it... Whatever!!
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Post by Indistinguishable Blob on Feb 28, 2004 17:28:26 GMT -5
No, it's not like Jiminy Cricket. DH despises Jiminy Cricket. It just sounds like it.
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Post by damocles on Mar 1, 2004 0:22:49 GMT -5
"...Handler originally came up with the name as a pseudonym when he found himself unwilling to place his real name on the mailing lists of several right-wing organisations he was researching for one of his novels. It became something of an in-joke with his friends, who were known to order pizzas under the name. When he rather unexpectedly found himself writing a series of children's books, he decided to use the Snicket name to add an air of mystery to proceedings; Lemony Snicket is an elusive figure." This particular passage came from www.yourencyclopedia.net/Lemony_Snicket , but I've seen the anecdote repeated elsewhere.
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Post by negativenine on Mar 1, 2004 18:33:22 GMT -5
Thank_you. Is that not what we said?
Anyway, I suggest you read some of the other threads, Gary... there's a lot that you're mentionning that's already been brought up. Although Lemony Snicket's "obsession" with Harper Collins is something I've not heard of before.
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Post by damocles on Mar 24, 2004 0:06:25 GMT -5
Thank_you. Is that not what we said? Indeed it is...just supplying a quote to put the topic to bed, for the skeptics who wanted some proof.
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Post by Salmonella on Jul 3, 2004 21:47:06 GMT -5
this is an interesting conversation.
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Post by DreadKid92 on Jul 3, 2004 21:57:30 GMT -5
Oh Now I know .Ya-Know thought LS was real LOL LOl Realaty Shock ;D LOL LOL LOL ROTFL ROTFL ROTFL ROTFL ;D
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Post by Salmonella on Jul 4, 2004 10:25:57 GMT -5
Yea I figured out that Lemony was really Daniel Handler last year.
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