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Alcoe80 · Boot Joined: 18 Apr 2005 Posts: 29 Location: New York

Hey everyone...i'm new to this forum but I've been following this for a little while now. I work on 40th and 6th in new york, about a block from the library where the cards were found in Alice in Wonderland. I'm thinking about heading over there after work to check out Charlotte's Web.

**Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:27 pm

menace1 · Boot Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 54 Location: london

cool. well worth a try, I say.

**Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:28 pm

Scott

daylight savings time has me a little off kilter. could someone authoritatively say what time 3:00pm GMT is in other parts of the world? It looks like it'll be 10:00 am Eatern US. But i hear England handles DST much differently than us, so i'm not sure.

**Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:40 pm

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menace1 · Boot Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 54 Location: london

it's currently 19.41 in Britain, which is currently operating on British Summer Time (BST). This is Greenwich Mean Time + 1 hour.

**Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:42 pm

Scott

oh good!

ok, so it'll be:
noon in argentina
11 am atlantic
10 am eastern
9 am central
8 am mountain
7 am pacific
6 am alaskan
5 am hawaiian

**Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:47 pm

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filmguy1013

So I guess the big question is do we go by GMT or BST?

... and of course there's the question of if I should be sitting in front of my computer, TV, or radio at this time.... maybe I'll set up all three!

Very Happy

**Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:47 pm

Alcoe80 · Boot Joined: 18 Apr 2005 Posts: 29 Location: New York

as an update...i ran over to the library on a "coffee break", unfortunately its closed today. ah well...i'll check it out tomorrow.

**Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:54 pm

geofortean · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 70 Location: Halifax

Doesn't the reference to recruiting large numbers of volunteers and the broadcast to a wide audience point towards an email though - everyone who put their name in the email box on perplexcity.com? And that the email is going to be sent out at 3pm? Maybe Perplex City has different time zones that it calls districts?

It's just the large audience part is disuading me from it being a meet or anything when, for starters, Friday is a work day - if they wanted a turn out they'd do it at a weekend surely (eg Abbey Road). But large numbers have entered their email into that box, and if it served no purpose than the original january email from Sente then surely it would have vanished in one of the sly updates to perplexcity? Maybe on friday at 3pm, amongst the email for increasing the size of breasts or manhoods there will be an email from Sente, saying

"Remember me, been a bit quiet over here because I can't get any work done cos I can't get near a computer for Scarlett and her, like, totally amazing blog. But I've kicked her off of t'internet for a few and had time to type this mail....Oh yeah, and by the way do you like how I've named my kids after colours? Wait until you meet my son Apple White..."

[edit: added lame colour related child joke]

**Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:55 pm

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dead weight · Veteran Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 80

Another interesting spec. Just to add more information, I came on board after the initial email, and have received absolutely nothing, even an auto-responder.

**Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:10 pm

geofortean · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 70 Location: Halifax

Yeah, aside from that email no-one has had anything from that box. Plus, I would guess that anyone who has emailed whichever department @ the sentinel, and good ol' smiley freckle-faced Scarlett has also been added to the list if they weren't there already.

It'll be an email that says "Oops, yeah, found it. Back of sofa. Also found 5 Lecks. Bonus! Sorry for any trouble."

**Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:14 pm

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**Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:19 pm

Kensuke · Greenhorn Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 3

This doesn't seem to have been discussed, except for AF's post, so:

If the information was leaked to PCS, it would mean that it shouldn't have been there in the first place, right? So it is possible that we'll get some kind of comunication from Sente before friday, right? Probably something to the e-mails "registered" on www.perplexcitiy.com.

But, as AF said, isn't Sente, or MC, the responsibles for thePCS version we read here on Earth? If they really wanted it secret to us (although I think the secrecy is related to perplexians) it wouldn't even appear on PCS site.

Anyways, I think some more info should come regardin this meeting.

(okay, so this wasn't exactly some useful post, sorry)

**Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:23 pm

geofortean · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 70 Location: Halifax

And if that was the mail, the headline from the next edition of the Sentinel would read:-

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I think that Sente has been devising a plan for opening a connection or something between our internet and PPC's internet. He'll then appear at the right time in the IRC chatroom or something. Just my guess.

**Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:28 pm

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**Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:50 pm

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