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Unless Clayfoot is being super-dry with his wit and hyoomah, I think that would probably make Vic pretty unhappy. Wink

**Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:09 pm

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Lucky mentioned Vic talking about the gnome in "Amelie". Which is one of my favorite movies.

Those of you who have see the Travelocity commercials will be familer with the consept.

Amelie's father always wanted to travel, but they never did because they thought Amelie had a heart condition.

Amelie's father installs an ugly garden gnome on a shrine he has made for her mother. A garden gnome he liked but the mother hated that had been given to them as a wedding present I think.

During the course of the movie, the Gnome is stolen, and her father starts getting letters from around the world with pictures of the Gnome at famous places.

At the end of the movie, we discover that Amelie gave the gnome to a friend of hers, a stewerdess, to take around the world and send her father pictures.

Without her father ever knowing what really happened, she installs the gnome back in the garden and he walks out to find it sitting there in it's place on the little shrine.

As a result, Amelie's father goes off at the end of the movie on his own world tour.

I agree with Krysten, take the hat outside. But I also think we need to give its travels an international flair. Perhaps we should be slightly less consirned about getting the hat back to the states for the Tombstone hold'em games and more conserned about getting it to people in other countries like Chippy.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:40 pm

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KermieD · Veteran Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 70

There have been 2 specific references now: Brazil (forget the movie referenced) and now the one about

**Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:47 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:49 pm

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KermieD · Veteran Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 70

I'm saying, though, that I believe the references are more specific than merely sending the hat overseas. You posted as I was typing my post and I wasn't 100% sure of the validity of the Amelie solution until I read your post after hitting "submit", so at the time I quoted the original reference from Lucky.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:58 pm

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I think it's just a lark, not a puzzle.
I don't see that there's any particular place the hat must go, just get it out there on the road.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:36 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:19 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:35 pm

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I think it's overthinking it. He just wanted to see it out of the city it was found in...to see it travel around.

I just had a great idea. Vic's favorite director was Errol Morris. If we could get the hat to a place from a Morris movie, vic would love it.

If I remember (and I'm not sure this is right...it's been a while since I saw the movie), there was a key location in the movie A Thin Blue Line - a Burger King drive-thru in Terre Haute, IN. Also, a drive-in theatre and a specific stretch of road. Seems like a really good place to stop by if anyone can make it there. The roadside spot was where a murder happened...it'd fit with the game, and I'm positive that Vic would totally freak!

If anyone could get it there (don't think I could, it's at the opposite end of the state), that'd be teh awesome.

**Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:20 am

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**Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:10 am

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baseball3190 · Veteran Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Posts: 90

Isn't there a tombstone event in atlanta GA?

**Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:34 am

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**Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:10 pm

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baseball3190 · Veteran Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Posts: 90

Why isn't the hat running through Atl?

**Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 4:05 pm

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Because it needs to go around the world (based on hints from Vic that came after some initial plans had been made) and if we send it to all the live events we suspect the game will be over before it gets to Ehsan. First things first.

**Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 4:18 pm

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Just wanted to let everyone (especially konamouse) know that the Hat arrived safely today. It is size 7-1/4, which is bigger than my noggin, but probably smaller than many of the boys' heads that shall be sporting it.

**Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:59 pm

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