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Post by Alfred is Present on Jun 24, 2006 2:29:32 GMT -5
I think the theory may be true. Whose notebook is dark green again? Lemony. No, no. Which triplet?
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Post by Dante on Jun 24, 2006 3:06:34 GMT -5
Duncan's notebook is dark green, Isadora's black, and Quigley's dark purple.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Jun 25, 2006 21:08:48 GMT -5
I really need to start checking that email acount so I can get these authortrackers...
*is excited about the quote*
I'd say she is in VFD if for no other reason than she used the initial O.
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Post by Phoebonica on Jun 29, 2006 15:17:53 GMT -5
More information!  I love the quote, if only because it confirms my impression of what Olaf was like as a kid. (Does it seem suspicious to anyone else that someone who does anagrams for his own amusement supposedly can't spell? I mean presumably he can spell his own name, and most dirty words are quite short, but still...) |
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Post by Dante on Jun 29, 2006 15:21:34 GMT -5
Olaf seems to be an expert at spelling his own name, as he's used anagrams of it so many times. That could be attributed to vanity. He's probably fairly familiar with obscene words, too. Maybe it's just "poison" that he has difficulty spelling. *shrug* Or his spelling's gotten worse as the years have passed.
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Post by Phoebonica on Jun 29, 2006 15:36:00 GMT -5
And "innocent".
Maybe he can spell, but just likes to pretend he doesn't care.
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Post by Dante on Jun 29, 2006 15:38:39 GMT -5
Even if it was just to annoy volunteers, he probably would. I certainly wouldn't put it past him, although there isn't much you can put past Olaf.
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Post by PJ on Jun 30, 2006 19:43:39 GMT -5
I'm sorry, but I just can't remember which book this quote: "The middle Baudelaire looked at his mother's coat, which had a secret pocket on the inside." came from. TSS? |
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Post by Dante on Jul 1, 2006 2:56:15 GMT -5
THH, I believe, when the Baudelaires were looking at the photograph on page 13 of the Snicket File (or the Baudelaire File, as it was known at the time).
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Post by Dear Dairy on Jul 6, 2006 16:58:34 GMT -5
I'm posting this here, because it seems to refer to the "13 Shocking Secrets" information.
I found this poem on "Yahoo Answers." It was posted about two months ago. Does anyone know where it came from? Is it canon, or should I disregard it?
The questioner asked what "He is finished" could possibly mean. The following is one of the posted answers:
You would think that it means he has finished writing the final book, - but Clue 1: Lemony Snicket is not who you think he is
The following was recently posted on the Lemony Snicket message board:
With the end on its way, a battle is nigh,
On which side of the schism does Lemony lie
For year after year there has been this great faction,
A clue can be found in Skinner's Civil Action
How does he know word for word what they say,
You shall find out very soon, when they land at the quay
Perhaps he was with them, long long long ago,
And hid the survivor in the man made of snow
Now the clue to the mystery, Is he’s not what you think,
But the question you should ask is, Will The Boat Sink?
Count Olaf had more troops than the Baudelaires could see,
Perchance one of those knew the fate of the three
Jerome Salinger, To Esme he wrote,
The answers can be found on Count Olaf’s boat
Victory will come from up in the sky,
But think of the saying and remember - you will die.
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Post by Antenora on Jul 6, 2006 17:26:45 GMT -5
I don't think that should be taken as canon, as I've never seen it(and it also doesn't appear on Google). If it were an authentic dispatch from Lemony or some such, we'd probably have seen it by now, seeing as it was posted so long ago. It seems like a fan-poem to me, and some of it doesn't really make much sense-- the random mention of Jerome (JD) Salinger, and the incorrect grammar in some lines.
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Post by Dante on Jul 7, 2006 1:00:48 GMT -5
I believe I can guess the origin of this poem. For quite a while, a forum thread I have been following has been referring to vague quotes, unanswerable questions, and atrocious poetry posted by a "Mystery Man" on a tiny, tacky little Snicket forum, named "The Lemony Snicket Message Board," one of those ones with thread replies you have to click on and see and there's no design other than a brown background and countless blue links. People believe that this "Mystery Man" is Lemony Snicket, posting information about Book the Thirteenth. They are almost certainly deluded and should be ignored completely.
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Post by Dear Dairy on Jul 7, 2006 14:15:23 GMT -5
You're right, Dante. I finally found this tacky little message board, and the post is indeed by "Mystery Man." Not only is he winding people up on the "Lemony Snicket Message Board," he's doing the same on "Yahoo Answers." I figured that if the poem I found had been around for two months, someone here would know about it. Thanks very much.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Jul 7, 2006 14:26:24 GMT -5
what if mystery man really is lemony snicket? Then we'll feel rather foolish.
Of course it's probably not true but I'm not going to absolutely ignore the possibility.
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Post by FROZEN ACCOUNT on Jul 10, 2006 13:53:40 GMT -5
Could the He is Finished secret mean that he was never real and that Daniel Handler was him all along?
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I love the quote, if only because it confirms my impression of what Olaf was like as a kid.
