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K0 H17 K1LL · Boot Joined: 09 Apr 2009 Posts: 13

Re: Number posters around Seattle

**Posted:** Tue May 26, 2009 4:20 am

Aiobhan · Decorated Joined: 14 Apr 2007 Posts: 223

Re: Number posters around Seattle

**Posted:** Tue May 26, 2009 3:10 pm

neurodyne · Kilroy Joined: 29 May 2009 Posts: 1

Just a quick update... I work near the intersection of Fairview Ave N & Valley St. And I was riding the South Lake Union Streetcar home around 5:30p last night and I noticed a guy pasting up new numbers over existing numbers on a building at that intersection. This is the building in question.

They appear to be the same numbers and sequence, but the blue background is darker... Don't know if that's because the old one's were faded though.

So whatever is it, it's still active because they're repasting the numbers. Makes me wish I had gotten off the streetcar to ask the guy some questions...

**Posted:** Fri May 29, 2009 12:24 pm

tchow · Boot Joined: 02 Nov 2007 Posts: 14

**Posted:** Sat May 30, 2009 1:38 pm

tchow · Boot Joined: 02 Nov 2007 Posts: 14

Looks my sighting was different than neurodyne's -- I was looking at
this building, which is a few blocks away (and also has been re-poster'd to a deeper blue).

Anyway, I've now got pictures of all the locations I know of. The Ballard pictures are from last week (I finally realized I have a card reader built into this laptop... and it even sort of works under linux), the seattle-a pictures are the Mercer & 8th location, the seattle-b pictures are Fairview & Valley (as are the close pictures).

**Posted:** Sat May 30, 2009 7:47 pm

Daeld

The following are num to alpha/ rot / anagram "solves" (not spoilerable as they don't really clear up anything)

Do any of you people in this town find any of these meaningful in any way?

UPBEAT
FLAP ME
ELF MAP
ID SHOP

TUBE PA
UNIT MX
UNMIXT
FLAME P
PALE FM

I expect the answer is "Are you crazy!? How long did you spend looking up stuff to make sure none of it is of any use?"

So please don't flame me (at least not too much! Wink

)

**Posted:** Sun May 31, 2009 8:25 am

Aiobhan · Decorated Joined: 14 Apr 2007 Posts: 223

**Posted:** Sun May 31, 2009 3:31 pm

DeadbyDawn · Unfettered Joined: 16 Jul 2007 Posts: 678 Location: S Mart

**Posted:** Sun May 31, 2009 5:11 pm

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mahaffie · Kilroy Joined: 01 Jun 2009 Posts: 2 Location: UW

Hooray, I've solved the mystery. After seeing some of the same numbers on University Way (the Ave), I found that these numbers all correspond to players on our lovely Seattle Sounders MLS team. Kind of a cool advertising trick. At least it got the attention of a few unfictioners here, I don't know what everyone else thought. Smile

**Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:11 pm

DeadbyDawn · Unfettered Joined: 16 Jul 2007 Posts: 678 Location: S Mart

**Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:23 pm

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tchow · Boot Joined: 02 Nov 2007 Posts: 14

Yeah, the one downtown now has player pictures up over the numbers too. Says something about obscurity that when checking that hunch earlier I failed to find that there was a soccer team in Seattle.

**Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:35 pm

mahaffie · Kilroy Joined: 01 Jun 2009 Posts: 2 Location: UW

Yeah, as you probably know, this is the first or second year we've had the team. I'm not even sure which year since I don't follow soccer, and the only reason it occured to me was the shape of the numbers and the color. I had probably seen someone wearing a jersey elsewhere and subconsciously remembered. I wish a large scale ARG took place in Seattle again, 'Twould be much fun.

**Posted:** Fri Jun 05, 2009 2:29 am