Antenora
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Post by Antenora on Oct 5, 2004 17:35:04 GMT -5
Before TGG came out, there was some speculation that Phil was a VFD member, although I've always seen him as just another clueless bumbling adult. However, there's some minor circumstantial evidence for his VFD-hood in TGG, in which Phil is the cook on Captain Widdershins' submarine. He writes "Violet's Fifteenth Date" on a birthday cake for her, which it is implied that he made. Do you think that Phil is in any way connected to VFD, or is he just a poor limping optimist looking everywhere for work?
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Post by LargeManFeOrMale on Oct 6, 2004 9:42:22 GMT -5
He's definetly in VFD. They were talking about VFD in front of him.
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Post by champ103 on Oct 6, 2004 12:20:07 GMT -5
I was thinking maybe he found the balloons with VFD on, so decided to make them stand for 'Violet's Fifthteenth Date'
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Antenora
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Post by Antenora on Oct 6, 2004 14:37:26 GMT -5
Interesting theory; it implies that Phil doesn't know the true meaning of VFD but sees the initials and thinks "Let's have them stand for something nice!"
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Post by Dante on Oct 6, 2004 14:47:22 GMT -5
If he wasn't in V.F.D., how did he get the job? It's not as though V.F.D. takes out full-page adverts in The Daily Punctilio asking for cooks for their secret submarines, is it?
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Post by kjlsnicket29 on Oct 6, 2004 20:06:56 GMT -5
Definetly. In my opinion, at least. I mean, why would he randomly get on the Queequeg with Widdershins? And about the Violet's Fifteenth Date...well, just another proving fact he IS in V.F.D.
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Antenora
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Post by Antenora on Oct 7, 2004 7:32:01 GMT -5
It's interesting how Lemony is taking characters from the pre-VFD books and working them into the mystery, as he did in the Autobio with Orwell and Larry, among others. I wonder if he'll bring back any characters in book 12 (Sir, maybe? Or Charles? or Jerome?)
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Post by LargeManFeOrMale on Oct 7, 2004 14:38:34 GMT -5
i want jerome back nero to
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Post by Sypher on Oct 10, 2004 12:12:01 GMT -5
Phil is in VFD now, obviously, but since when?
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Post by ~QuigleyRules~ on Oct 11, 2004 18:55:19 GMT -5
I think he is in VFD because of the evidence that other people have posted previously.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2004 22:58:34 GMT -5
I think he is
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