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[UPDATE] Favors for the Dead
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skywisej
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Joined: 27 Jun 2005
Posts: 70
Location: Green and rainy Oregon (Go Ducks!)

 		If anyone is in Maryland I've got one for you:

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Milstead, Harris Glenn 'Divine'
born Oct 19, 1945
died March 7, 1988
@ Prospect Hill Park Cemetery
Townson, Baltimore County, Maryland
Plot: lower level, near small parking area


Hope someone can use this Smile

Edit:

I also found one in Ohio. I wish I was having better luck closer to home Smile

Quote:
May, Robert Eugene
born Oct 19, 1945
died Jan 9, 2000
@Dorset Cemetery
Dorset, Ashtabula County, Ohio

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skywisej
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 		Has anyone submitted a favor lately and had a huge delay in response? I submitted 3 favors on the 22nd and I haven't heard anything back yet. The first favors I submitted only took a day and a half to get a response from. I'm wondering if I should be worried.
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aliendial
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 		The DC live event favors have not posted either.
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konamouse
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 		I think that this game has garnered more and more folks as time goes on and 42 may be a bit busy Cool
My graveyard mission & small favors last week took 2 days.
Oct 22 is pretty far away. Maybe it got lost in the giant ethernet? You could try re-submitting (saying you hadn't heard back yet)?
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krystyn
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Joined: 26 Sep 2002
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Location: Is not Chicago

 		Armageddon Jones Small Favor
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Dear Lucky,

I took the last of some simple satin ribbon off of a cardboard spool, and threaded it through a heart-shaped millefiori bead that I made myself, and I left it with an infant at Mount Carmel.

In matters like these, it *really* helps to tell your troubles to a child. They so soon discard the bullshit you ramble, and provide the most excellent foil to the foolishness we put ourselves through as adults. Perspective? Honey, don't waste your money on a therapist. Try putting your heart into terms a kid will understand. Oh, how it all unravels.

I figured that my confessional might best be served at the feet of a small angel who would enjoy hearing my semi-bashful murmurs, as I wound the ribbon around his arm and left a note he will never be able to read.

Regards,

Krystyn


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krystyn
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Lucky,

I must learn not to make simple assumptions.

Once I found Mrs. Heane, everything fell into place, but until then, with Tombstone Hold 'Em on the brain, I found myself scouting the area looking for stones that were -not- flat markers flush with the ground. I completely missed most of these dearly departed, but I soon rectified the situation, and went to work.

Martin Schultz's stone appears to be a flat-topped stone, and even though he says he died in 1932, you list him as 1933. No matter. Let's move on. Smile

Johanna Heane has a cross atop her tomb, and a well-worn visage.

The Foxy ladies made me sad: Deloris only lived to be 7, and her mother Mary only lived to be 52.

Santa Ginino died in 1949, it's true, and the world suddenly experienced a shortage of candy canes until a replacement could be found.

Flora's stone was plain. I wanted to build a garden around her.

And Grace Pantaleo could've used a little TLC as well.

Adeline was only 3, but her mother nearly lived to see a century of experience before passing on. That's pretty neat.

Dear Mother rests next to Sadie - nothing to mark her passing but a clean, plain stone, and a tilted cross. Poignant, and yet it made me smile.

If I were to be strictly strict about the Tombstone Hold 'Em Values for these stones, I'd have:

Jack of Diamonds
6 of Clubs
Jack of Diamonds
Jack of Hearts
5 of Hearts
5 of Hearts
Queen of Hearts
Diamonds

Well, that doesn't make sense. I can't have doubles of actual cards, so I must take the individual values of each *name*, I suppose, which gives me:

2 (or 3) of Diamonds (ahem.)
6 of Clubs
7/8 of Diamonds
9 of Hearts
5 of Hearts
3 of Hearts
Diamonds

I decided to play a 5-9 straight, showing Capone that it's not always the paint that flashes brightest at the table.

As for the stones - I could say that most of them were surface markers, surrounded by many actual upright, large stones. But Ginino breaks that pattern, with a good-sized monument stone replete with miniature portraits. I think I am more inclined to notice that all of the names you had me find were decidedly *not* Italian (or the also-prevalent Irish). Even Santa appeared to be Hispanic, married to an Italian, and the dear Flora seems a bit French in origin, with a surname of Chartrand.

Of Dear Mother's origin I will never know, for she didn't tell me. The only tell she gave was having a stone marked in English only, with no "Riposa in Pace" or "Qui Riposa" in sight.

Sincerely,

Krystyn

P.S. Please forgive the crooked shot of me standing at the grave. I used a timer on my camera, since I was alone, and the back end of my car roof kinda slopes down a bit. How silly.



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ThaJinx
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 		Very nicely done, Wellsie. Done me proud Very Happy

PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:22 am
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alcofribas
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Joined: 06 Dec 2004
Posts: 131
Location: England

 		Hi Guys, this is the first post on this forum, so hope I'm not repeating anything.

Re the Westminster Abbey puzzle:-

Quote:
1. Justice delayed is justice denied.

2. Listen

3. Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ?

4. Listen

5. He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

6. Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

7. Listen

8. Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

SHOW ME: You and any friends, in the Cloisters, making a special house of cards. Lay out 8 poker cards, one for each of the tombs you visited. Use an Ace for the first, a two for the second, and so on. Lay out the cards like a rough and ready map, showing me where the tombs you found are in relation to one another.
TELL ME: Whose tomb each card represents.


I think I know 5 of the 8 tombs, but 3 seem to be located in Poet's Corner, so I don't know how accurate the "rough and ready map" needs to be.

1. (ACE) William Gladstone is buried in "Statesmen's Coner) also known as the North transept

2. (TWO) music - don't know

3. (THREE) Henry Irving - Poet's Corner

4. (FOUR) music - don't know

5. (FIVE) Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Poet's corner

6. (SIX) Joseph Addison - North Aisle of Henry VII's Lady Chapel

7. (SEVEN) music - don't know

8. (EIGHT) Thomas Hardy - Poet's Corner

Some composers who are buried in Westminster Abbey are: Handel, Purcell, Britten, Samuel Arnold, John Blow, Ralph Vaughan Williams.

I think the missing 3 composers will probably include Handel and Purcell (ie the more famous ones) but I don't recognise the music samples.. does any one know?

I'm attaching a floor plan of Westminster Abbey but more info can be got from the Abbey's own website
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thunderclap8
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 		Woo, did 3 today. What a gorgeous day!

Numerology I won't bother posting the picture, as it isn't very exciting.

I left my secret balancing on the edge of a grave of two Confederate Soldier brothers.

And I left flowers on a section surrounding Brigadeer General Jabez Leftwich, who fought in the VA Militia in the War of 1812! This cemetery has no real 'oldest' section, despite being the oldest and largest in the state. Families bought up very large plots long ago and have used them up piecemeal since - so no one area is earliest. So I went with the oldest birth date grave I could find (that always impresses me more than the earliest death date), which was this one. Sept. 22, 1765.

So attached below:
1. confederate brothers
2. flower section
3. Gen. Leftwich up close



C'mon Lucky, that's 6 you need to approve for me now Razz
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thunderclap8
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 		p.s. favors I sent in last week are starting to get approved in the last 10 minutes or so!
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ThaJinx
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thunderclap8 wrote:
p.s. favors I sent in last week are starting to get approved in the last 10 minutes or so!
Very cool. Good job on your most recent Smile

alcofribas, I've never even left the US, so I'm afraid I'm not much help to you on that favor. Don't worry, I don't think anybody's beaten you to that favor yet.

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Shad0
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Joined: 20 Jun 2004
Posts: 2180
Location: Southern California, USA

 		Re: [UPDATE] Favors for the Dead
thunderclap8 wrote:
p.s. favors I sent in last week are starting to get approved in the last 10 minutes or so!

Ditto! And there was much rejoicing! Rock On

Only one nonstandard response, for "The Banker":

Shad0 wrote:
I know that Maurice came late to observance, but I thought he might appreciate having his name spelled out in t'fillin. (Tell him I didn't let the important part touch the ground.)

Unfortunately, it didn't come out so well.

Besides, I know you wanted Maurice's name left as an offering, and I really didn't want to leave the tfillin behind. So I ended up spelling out his name in pine needles as well.

thedealer wrote:
You get points for style, kid.

In other news, that phony photoshopped grave has been removed from "I'll see him in Hell." Good riddance. Mr. Green

Now, in the "Is It Just Me?" category: Has anyone noticed the different fonts that keep showing up? Some of the text files on LCP have been in different fonts... and then Lucky's e-mails were in mixed fonts. Anyone think this means anything? Or is this just AOL brain damage or something along those lines that no one else is seeing?
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jamesi
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 		LOL, I have to share this one:

jamesi's email to Lucky wrote:
I'll give you a little token of my appreciation if you did the job right, and you put your Last Call handle here: jamesi

I know the picture doesn't show much, but it was the best I could do with my getting-cranky-in-the-cold 2 year old friend (and daughter) Rebekah. The gravestones are back there, trust me please? Do it for the 2 year old, Lucky!


Lucky wrote:
I believe you. Few things in this world are tougher than a cold, cranky 2 yr old, unless they're crusty old men. The living forget, but the dead remember. I will remember what you've done for me.


Nice to know 2 year olds have a soft spot in the heart of the recently deceased Very Happy
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Shad0
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 		Re: Numerology
thunderclap8 wrote:
Numerology I won't bother posting the picture, as it isn't very exciting.

By the way, a quick tip for this one that can make your math a bit faster (and that a lot of you probably already know): Nines cancel. That is to say, any numbers that add up to nine may be disregarded when doing your calculations, because 9+X will always reduce to X. Examples:

1945-->1
1894-->4
1987-->7

9/9/1999-->1
3/7/1968-->7
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Raider
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 		I've done ten so far and only 9 are posted.

It took me a very long time to find a stone that had both the birth and death both equal 7 for numerology, but I found it.

I'm very lucky with this game as a very large cemetery is right behind my house. (Man, I never thought I'd say that. Smile )

I have yet to actually ask a person for help though. I actually like walking through miles of stones and trying to think about what each person's life was like.

I really liked the Bad Detective one and I also received a personalized response with that one, but I have since deleted it. I went all out though(attached files):
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