Post by Hermedy on May 16, 2005 3:16:42 GMT -5
The Sugar Bowl
There is a lot of mystery surrounding the sugar bowl, everyone seems to want it. Olaf wants it, and the fire fighting side of VFD seem to want it as well. The mysterious duo from TSS, however, don’t seem to care much about it. From this we can conclude that it concerns Olaf and the fire fighting VFD, rather than the entire organisation. Now, on page 101 in TSS, Lemony writes a letter to his sister:
“I have at last learnt the whereabouts of the evidence that will exonerate me, a phrase which here means: Prove to the authorities that it is Count Olaf and not me, who has started so many fires. Your suggestion, so many years ago at that picnic, that a tea-set would be a handy place to hide anything important and small in the event of a dark day, has turned out to be correct.”
This means that the sugar bowl, which is most likely what is meant by the tea-set Lemony mentions, contains evidence that will prove Olaf guilty of some crime, most probably arson. Assuming that the sugar bowl is a normal one, one can assume that normal evidence, such as papers and object, would most likely not fit into it (although I recall Lemony mentioning that he was trying to smuggle a page of his book within one of his teeth into another country; I still doubt that the sugar bowl contains papers). So the sugar bowl probably contains another form of information storage. A logical choice would be a CD or perhaps a floppy disk, but the mentions of an “advanced computer” indicate that computers (or maybe just the advanced ones) are rare, as only the police and a school have one, and it seems to be a normal computer by today’s standards, so chances are the information is stored another way. A more common way would be a recording of a conversation (VFD have recorded and hidden the tape of the VFD Building Committee, so the use of audio tapes is not unheard of). A tape would fit just nicely in a sugar bowl, and they can store several hours, so they would be able to contain an appropriate amount of information to free Lemony.
So we can conclude that the sugar bowl most likely contains a recording of a conversation. What exact information this recording contains, we cannot know. One should note that the sugar bowl has spent quite a bit of time floating on water, so the information within might be somehow damaged.
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There is a lot of mystery surrounding the sugar bowl, everyone seems to want it. Olaf wants it, and the fire fighting side of VFD seem to want it as well. The mysterious duo from TSS, however, don’t seem to care much about it. From this we can conclude that it concerns Olaf and the fire fighting VFD, rather than the entire organisation. Now, on page 101 in TSS, Lemony writes a letter to his sister:
“I have at last learnt the whereabouts of the evidence that will exonerate me, a phrase which here means: Prove to the authorities that it is Count Olaf and not me, who has started so many fires. Your suggestion, so many years ago at that picnic, that a tea-set would be a handy place to hide anything important and small in the event of a dark day, has turned out to be correct.”
This means that the sugar bowl, which is most likely what is meant by the tea-set Lemony mentions, contains evidence that will prove Olaf guilty of some crime, most probably arson. Assuming that the sugar bowl is a normal one, one can assume that normal evidence, such as papers and object, would most likely not fit into it (although I recall Lemony mentioning that he was trying to smuggle a page of his book within one of his teeth into another country; I still doubt that the sugar bowl contains papers). So the sugar bowl probably contains another form of information storage. A logical choice would be a CD or perhaps a floppy disk, but the mentions of an “advanced computer” indicate that computers (or maybe just the advanced ones) are rare, as only the police and a school have one, and it seems to be a normal computer by today’s standards, so chances are the information is stored another way. A more common way would be a recording of a conversation (VFD have recorded and hidden the tape of the VFD Building Committee, so the use of audio tapes is not unheard of). A tape would fit just nicely in a sugar bowl, and they can store several hours, so they would be able to contain an appropriate amount of information to free Lemony.
So we can conclude that the sugar bowl most likely contains a recording of a conversation. What exact information this recording contains, we cannot know. One should note that the sugar bowl has spent quite a bit of time floating on water, so the information within might be somehow damaged.
This theory brought to you by PJ Productions.