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[edgar]

About the fish and the sole thing, in the AA it shows a pic of fish in shoes, and Olaf claims throughout the book that he can't take off his shoes because they'll stink. It may just be a pun about stinky feet, or since the first video focuses a lot on AA, perhaps the AA or Prufrock or AA's characters have more than meets the eye...?

Also, does any one have snapshots in the video of the hand-drawn accomplicies of Count Olaf? Who is the last one, with the beard? There is the hookhanded man (Fernald) (with only ONE hook), the "Orlando" person of intermediate gender, but the last one has a very triangular beard. ?? Who is he? Is he ever mentioned in the books, or am I just plain stupid? Maybe it's the return of Warty! (the important looking man with warts on his face)
Very strange. Please help me on this via PM or...just post below.

[Dante]

I think I assumed he was the bald man, his baldness implied by the prominent hair elsewhere on his face.

[Antenora]

I assume the bearded man was supposed to be the long-nosed bald man, as the other cards show the hook-handed man, the large genderless person, and what look like the white-faced women. And that the "sole/soul" thing was just an amusing pun, and mispelling "despair" made the card look tidier and more symmetrical, with the three suffixes in a stack next to "DIS".

Also, I've just been to Borders and I saw a poster for The End on which the book seemed to have a gray spine, so perhaps a mock-up of it with that spine was made at one point and used for these promotional things. That'd also explain why TBL has no strap on it or holes in the cover; they're both mock-ups.

[Skeleton Key]

Liek OMG! Bob Dylan homage! Excuse me while I go get my fainting couch out of the garage.

[Gigi]

The video didn't include the second verse of the song, which describes the henchmen:

"Two women with powdered white faces" (Did you see them on the Person of Indeterminate Gender card?)
"And one long-nosed bald man with warts" (I think that's the bearded man on the card)
"Things worsen and worsen
There's a hook-handed person
And others with nastier parts"

[The Snicket Letters]

Or perhaps the drawing of that bearded man is... The Man with A Beard But No Hair? Maybe? Because I can't recall the long-nosed man having a beard, and the sinister judge (MWABBNH) is the first person that have a beard that came in my head when I saw that drawing.......

[The Snicket Letters]

Although it'd be confusing... why isn't the long-nosed man in the drawing? Mr. Snicket didn't write or implied that the long-nosed man had any beard, left alone that Lemony Snicket just said "the bald man".

[Gigi]

The song was written way back at The Bad Beginning. I don't think Handler had worked it out in his head all the way to The Slippery Slope for the "man with a beard but no hair" way back then.

[The Snicket Letters]

I guess that's true... but the issue is with that mysterious beard. Have any of you read something that could imply the long-nosed man actually had a beard? I can't recall that. Hmmm.......

[Dante]

His main feature is being bald; I'm not sure how frequently the long-nosed man's long-nosed-ness is even mentioned. How do you convey baldness on a stick figure when none of the others have hair either?

And if it was the man with a beard but no hair - who isn't a member of Olaf's troupe, and therefore not one of his direct accomplices - then he'd have to have the woman with hair but no beard with him, as they operate as a single unit. It'd be like drawing one white-faced woman without another (on which note, it would have been difficult to include them as stick figures too, what with all the others also having white faces in those drawings).

In conclusion, I think you're looking too hard at this.

[Deleted]

the man with no hair but a beard?

[Gigi]

Wasn't the long-nosed bald man Foreman Flacutono in TMM? He had an ill-fitting wig and wore a surgical mask that held his long nose in. At the end, his mask was removed to reveal his long nose. (Or am I remembering it all wrong?)

[Dante]

That is correct; he wore a very similar disguise in THH.

[The Snicket Letters]

Well..... yeah. You're right, Dante. It's just when I saw that beard, it kinda confused me.....

[Shelly]

I think you should look at that video again, but don't watch Daniel, look to the right. Something Interesting there . . .