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krystyn
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 		OK, guys, I need help:

Lucky wrote:
So, being as this ain't horseshoes, I can't accept "close
enough." Let me tell you, you've got all the right stones so you're
mighty close. Perhaps some friends could help you figure out what these
stones have in common. Look at all the words thereon, not just the names
you looked for; c'mon, I'm sneakier than that....



http://www.flickr.com/photos/krystyn/tags/mountcarmel/

I am gonna ponder this, but any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Never mind. I figured it out. Very Happy

I AM SO DUMB

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Anyway, I wrote immediately back (like, a minute after I posted this) and told Lucky that each stone had the word "Mother" on it.

He just wrote back:

"Sometimes, we overlook the most basic things. Like our
mothers. Give yours a call."

Ouch. Heh. I actually talked to my mom THREE times today, so.

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ThaJinx
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 		Good job, wellsie! I miss out on completely obvious stuff all the time, so don't bother none. You did a great job, and definitely helped to build the best memory I'll have of this game.

Until LA, that is Very Happy

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 		krystyn, that is so cool.

You are anything BUT dumb. If you say that you are again I might have to cut you, just a little.

So, you owe your mom 5 more phone calls--one for each tombstone. Wink
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 		My Son

My 3-year-old daughter and I finally got around to going out to the cemetery and finding a grave that needed some fixing up. I got a good picture for 'after' so I wanted to post them.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 11:48 pm
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ThaJinx
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 		Lucky finally got around to the favors and approved all the ones I'd sent in, including my secret message, which I've been wanting to post but was sort of afraid would be rejected. Seeing as it was approved, here's the letter and photo I sent in. Hope you enjoy the story.
Quote:
Lucky,

Happened upon the resting place of one Merle W. Wells, who's epitaph
was put on a separate stone from his headstone. It reads:

"...what doth the Lord
require of thee, but to
do justly and to love
mercy, and to walk
humbly with thy God?"

Now, Merle was an appreciated historian of the area, as well as a
devoted Presbyterian, but what some people might not know is that he
played a mean hand of five card draw, and was phenomenally lucky.
There's a story that the people in those certain circles of his life
tell about him regarding an evening he tried to teach a friend of his
to play. Not fully understanding the exactly how to play the draw,
Wells tried to show him what not to do by putting all five cards in
for a fresh hand. Apparently the lesson didn't go according to plan,
because he went all in immediately after. Everyone else called, to be
sure, but Merle walked away with their cash. I don't think his friend
ever did nail down the mechanics of the game.

After looking over the stone with his epitaph, it occured to me that
the text is arranged in a very specific way, and after some
investigation I came to realize that it's one last little brag about
the hand he played so long ago. Five lines on the stone, and five
cards to a hand. Seems a bit more than coincedental, if you ask me.

Line 1: 4 words
Line 2: 5 words
Line 3: 5 words
Line 4: 4 words
Line 5: 4 words

Now I'm not sure how much truth and how much fiction goes with this
story, but I'd be proud enough to code it on my grave, too, if I drew
a boat (Fours full of Fives) from a fresh hand.

-Jinxie



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ahecht
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 		It looks like the PMs are working mega-overtime to catch up on Small Favors. I was sent a rejection notice for Armageddon Jones (I forgot to explain the symbol) at 9:30, I sent back a reply at 3:30am, and got the favor approved at 4:30am!

Quote:
Subject: RE: Nice try, kid
From: ahecht
Date: Thu, November 03, 2005 1:47 am
To: smallfavorsSPLATlastcallpoker.com

That's what happens when I send a bunch of emails at 2:30am -- I forget the important details.
[snip]

Quote:
From: smallfavorsSPLATlastcallpoker.com
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 4:32 AM
To: ahecht
Subject: Thanks for doing me a small favor!

Fair enough. We late-night emailers have to stick together.
[snip]

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 3:42 pm
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krystyn
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secret message small favor wrote:
Lucky,

Clever Max Brunnwasser was a rich man with a cunning sense of play. His
frugality, however, led him to invent new and eccentric ways with which to
hide his money from family members he perceived to be greedy and dumb.

"To the brainy go the spoils," he'd chortle to himself, as he commissioned a
very special family stone laid over with a scroll and twining fronds of ivy.

You see, in his sprawling estate near the shores of Lake Michigan up near
Evanston, he hid a small safe with several stock notes and precious jewels.
One only had to search in the B section of his library (represented by the
scroll), and pull back a volume on horticulture (the ivy) to reveal a small
switch in the back paneling of one shelf. The safe combination?

Merely count the leaves and move clockwise: 6 - 3 - 11.

Perhaps a simple puzzle, after all, but even Max understood that he couldn't
take *everything* with him. A bit of know-how and initiative, he felt, were
sufficient prerequisites for discovering the fortune that would do him no good
in the afterlife.

Sincerely,

Krystyn



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 11:58 pm
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ThaJinx
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 		Definitely a creative way to work out that favor, krystyn! Good eye!

PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 12:01 am
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RigRat1
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 		As many now know the Navajo Indian language was one of our only "unbroken" codes used during World War II. The Navajo Nation is the largest Indian Reservation in the U.S. and spans across large sections of Arizona, New Mexico (where I live), and Utah. The picture below is from the tombstone of a member of this tribe. The translation of this code although I don't speak Navajo probably goes something like this:

Here lies our dearly departed brother who upon hearing his wife say "shut up" he thought she said "stand up" hence, here lies our dear brother.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 1:14 am
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Trillster
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thunderclap8 wrote:
i sent in two favors-

cleaned up a grave, and anagramed "Christine C. Peck" into a sort-of curse:
"Tick-chin creeps".


Completely of the track... how about Chicken Triceps.... I'd be offended

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konamouse
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 		PMs are busy (or not so busy) today. I submitted small favors this morning and they were already accepted a few hours later.

First was Palmer Strauss:
Quote:
I'm really not sure how lucky Mavis Gee was in life. After 79 years of life she left this world before her loving husband. But, maybe she'll bring some luck to Palmer.

Nov 17, 1923: 1+1 + 1+7 + 1+9+2+3 = 25, 2+5 = 7
Dec 9, 2002: 1+2 + 9 + 2+2 = 16, 1+6 = 7


For Secret Message:
Quote:
After the story of the GUN reached the old western era, I realized the double message the dearly departed Dolores was sending to others from the family memorial bench.
"We'd Rather Be in Steubenville" really is telling vistors & mourners "Never a Bell buried in the West" "Err the devil be unable in the west".
So as long as the other family members live in Las Vegas, they should wear a tiny bell around their necks to ward off evil spirits.


For The Devil's Dictionary:
Quote:
Brianna is a celtic name that means "Strong One".
This Brianna was very aptly named. I helped to take care of her for 5 years during her battle with an uncurable disease that eventually took her life in the summer of 2003. I was there & remember the day of her diagnosis, and I was there & remember the day of her funeral. And when I returned to the site the other day to find the epithaph her family had chosen, I was very impressed. The true definition for the Devil's Dictionary, and a very apt description of this very brave young woman.

BRIANNA, adj.
Quiet warrior of God


For Kellie O'Grady:
Quote:
The angry young buck, tough guy, gang banger? This Desperado Don tried to be all that. But to his momma he was just a little boy. He lived the fast life, and the fast sometimes die young. Fortunately, he's old enough to enjoy a drink.
Mike & I shared one a small one this afternoon and I left him the rest.


And for Anita Defazio:
Quote:
The back section of the Jewish cemetery was quite bare this sabbath morning. You were so right, Lucky. While I couldn't do anything about the dead grass, the red boutonniere on their headstones brightened up the corner.

Which garnered a personal reply from Lucky
Lucky wrote:
Kid, you wear your heart on your sleeve; I always kept an ace up mine. Don't change.

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thunderclap8
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 		Three more submitted today! Pictures attached at the end.

For Kellie Sullivan:

Quote:
Hi again Lucky-

I found an excellent example of a woman worthy of the name "Wild Rose" today. The single-named "Pamela" has as her epitaph "Consort of Thomas Bibb". Pam was obviously pretty brazen, did whatever the hell she wanted to, and was proud of it to boot. As a token of my esteem, I left one of your DC wake's poker chips. If the woman on that isn't a Wild Rose, I dunno who is.


For Major Damon-

Quote:
Dear Lucky,

Paranormal appearances must be pretty rare, even in a graveyard. It took me a good while of hunting to come across this one. If I look at it at just the right angle, I can make out a man wearing a hat. Our dear friend Victor, perhaps?


For Devil's Dictionary-

Quote:
Dear Lucky,

Ambrose Bierce was indeed a snarky fellow. While perusing his Devil's Dictionary, I ran across the following entry:

RENOWN, n.
A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame -- a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.

What better fit than a Governor of Alabama, US Senator, and Confederate envoy to France? I present to you the grave of Reuben Chapman, died 1882.

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krystyn
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 		omg

I did 3 favors yesterday.

5 today.



Tie-RRRRRD.
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krystyn
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 		So, like I mentioned, I did 8 total favors this weekend. Here are the 5 I did on Sunday:

| |
Anita DeFazio Small Favor wrote:
Lucky,

You were so right.

I reflected the falling leaves with bright orange and yellow mums, dressing up
the Civil War markers at Rosehill Cemetery that had not been replaced with
nicer, clearer marble stones just yet.

You were so, so right.

Krystyn


Kellie Sullivan Small Favor wrote:
Dear Lucky,

Major General Thomas Ransom spent his years from 1861 until his death in 1864
getting wounded and recovering so many times he became known as The Phantom
General. That guy's got a lotta gumption to defy death so many times, don't
you think?

So I picked him as my Desperado Don - I left him some Silly Putty for his
bounce-back ability as well as a can of beans.

Oh, the can of beans? Because if you don't live your life with determination
and bravery like this man did, that's pretty much what your life amounts to
when the math is all done and dusted.

Sincerely,

Krystyn


Ambrose Bierce Small Favor wrote:
Lucky,

I found *several* candidates for Padre Inferno's definitive tome, but this one
struck me as perhaps the most poignant -- and perhaps a little more gentle and
understanding than most. To wit:

CHILDHOOD, n.
The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and
the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin of manhood and three from
the remorse of age.

Lulu's inscription is as follows:

Died Nov. 23, 1883.
Aged 16 years.

Many hopes lie buried here.

...

There's remorse, and then there's remorse.

Sadly,

Krystyn


Palmer Strauss Small Favor wrote:
Lucky,

The following paragraph is a direct transcript of my brain in the minutes
shortly before I found Chiu Sook Kim:

yyyyyyyyrgggggggblghhhhhhhhhhhhuhfugjghjhgjghufgsdiuyftyieugjbfshfsgfsjhfvshhh
bip bip bip bip
hfdskgfsiufgifuwfieugagweasaadjavjbjgjkhfghsfuierrrrrrrrrrrllllffffff
murrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrpopopopopopopopsquish fizzle


Math is hard! Let's play poker!

Love,

Krystyn

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Major Damon Small Favor wrote:
Lucky,

Mr. Chou is fairly luxuriating six feet underneath some well-appointed and
polished stone, next to the lane so that everyone can see him.

I took a picture, but as I got closer I thought it might be fun to kinda
bounce down into a low squat and look *through* the stone.

I could see two things: a tree in the short distance, perfectly-centered and
reaching up to the sky, and half of my own reflection. Suddenly, I felt a
little more connection to the world around me. Seeing myself connected to the
tree, to the stone, to the air, to the camera, to the voice on the cellphone
... this strange non-telescope of a stone, shaped like a stylized coin. To me,
it was more like a peek into possibility. There is more of us in the world
than we know, and there is more of the world dropping into our eyes every
single moment than we really know what to do with.

Scary, glorious.

Pondering that a bit,

Krystyn

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 		Jeez, way to go, wellsie. Here's hoping they're all approved, though I'm sure that won't be a problem.

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