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Spaniard
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HMS Pickle
brainstorming Pickle

Ahoy, hms Pickle was a 10-gun topsail schooner o' the Royal Na'y.

To this day the Royal Navy's petty officers have an annual Pickle Night dinner, as do many private clubs in the Commonwealth of Nations. (Pickle Night parallels Trafalgar Night, the commemoration of the battle by the Royal Navy's commissioned officers.) The historic and epic 1805 voyage and journey were commemorated in 2005, the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar, by the New Trafalgar Dispatch and the Trafalgar Way. An exact replica of HMS Pickle was built and took part in bicentenary anniversary celebrations of the Battle of Trafalgar in 2005.

The battle was the most decisive British naval victory of the war. Twenty-seven British ships of the line led by Admiral Lord Nelson aboard HMS Victory defeated thirty-three French and Spanish ships of the line under French Admiral Pierre Villeneuve off the south-west coast of Spain, just west of Cape Trafalgar. The Franco-Spanish fleet lost twenty-two ships, without a single British vessel being lost. Pickle Night commemorates the arrival of the news of Nelson's victory at Trafalgar � and his death � in Britain, thanks to a fast passage by the sloop HMS Pickle.

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 6:26 am

Spaniard
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Pickle / Master and Commander
brainstorming Apple vs. Pickle

Nelson's leadership at the Battle of Trafalgar is a feature of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and is subject of the discussion of the change of course and serving of hasty pudding.

At the dinner celebration, the new course SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST is set -- in which the ship is turned around so as to head into the sun.

Captain Jack Aubrey of The Surprise (played by Russell Crowe) is at the table, and he gives a yarn about his boyhood encounter with Admiral Nelson. Crowe stuffs the hasty pudding that he has fashioned into the shape of his nemesis into his mouth to the cheers of his fellow celebrants.

There was a scene in Master and Commander where the young boy with the red sleeves had his arm amputated by the ship's surgeon. He was then given a book about Lord Nelson for inspiration. This compares closely to the scene which Tom cuts off Crothers and Crothers protests dramatically.

The ship, Surprise, recreated for the movie, was docked at San Diego for many months. I don't know if there ever was an event planned involving both HMS Surprise and HMS Pickle but I think the point immaterial.

If you look at the image of the fireball passing the Crow's Nest -- as Tom rises from the deck, you'll see it matches exactly the architectural features of Gothic Bridge in central park. You get to it by walking through Strawberry Fields -- with its sun and the square stones (see squares from exploding sun). The Arthurian references and other clues, under this interpretation (see Delacorte theatre) just are things you pass on the way after turning around at Columbus Circle north toward Gothic Bridge.

If I lived in New York City, I would go immediately to the apple trees in the north woods -- and also the other iron bridges around the Reservoir, particularly those that use gothic architecture, known as the "French Style".

I would be glad to trade photo recon of Gothic Bridge in exchange for photo recon of Belvedere Castle, to include the turret.

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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 6:51 am

Spaniard
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as another example of MASTER AND COMMANDER motif
the flag with the diamond on it - raised to disguise as merchant ship

To get the drop on their adversary (which had a superior ship design), they raised a flag like the Captain raised in the video -- to make it seem like they were a merchant whaling ship.

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 8:10 am

czg22
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Joined: 02 Aug 2010
Posts: 30

Apple, B&W Pictures, Homage, queens or Bk?

There's a huge Apple at Citifield that the Mets use for homeruns.

The captain pronounces and writes pictures as pitchers (check out his tweet to LaMosca2). Also in the lobby of Citifield (The Jackie Robinson Rotunda) there are huge black and white pictures of Jackie Robinson.

Citifield is an homage to the Brooklyn Dodger's Ebbets Field.

Having said all that and having read absolutely everything that's been posted here, I'm not convinced either way that we're going to Flushing Meadows, Fort Greene or all the other possibilities. The pattern I've seen with Ep. 1-2 is that once we've deciphered a clue it makes a perfect match. So far every one of our ideas for Episode 3 are not perfect and are open to interpretation. I feel that a Nietzche quote would best summarize what I feel has happened to us for Episode 3. Something like the truth is suppressed by the urge to will. I guess we won't get real confirmation until today's episode.

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 1:34 pm

VelociraptorPancakes
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Joined: 02 Aug 2010
Posts: 91

This week's video just went up. It's...confusing.

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:19 pm

galenblade
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Joined: 02 Aug 2010
Posts: 13

New video's up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_fnxDLcgeo&feature=player_embedded

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:19 pm

galenblade
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Joined: 02 Aug 2010
Posts: 13

VelociraptorPancakes wrote:

This week's video just went up. It's...confusing.

I'm gonna guess that Black Tom's dialogue is reversed, it sounds like it. Trying to extract and reverse the audio right now.

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:20 pm

Spoonsy
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Joined: 05 Aug 2010
Posts: 47

i have no clue what i just watched.

can anyone translate the kanji?

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:25 pm

galenblade
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Joined: 02 Aug 2010
Posts: 13

Spoonsy wrote:

i have no clue what i just watched.

can anyone translate the kanji?

Showed it to a friend of mine. The one on the right is "NORTH", but it's actually backwards as well. He doesn't know the first one.

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:29 pm

Spoonsy
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Joined: 05 Aug 2010
Posts: 47

got the audio.

"Sometimes to follow the way, you must avoid the way you know."

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:35 pm

Cap'n Slim
Unfettered

Joined: 20 Aug 2010
Posts: 325

What Tom Says.

He says

"Sometimes, to follow the way... you must avoid the way you know."

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:36 pm

galenblade
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Joined: 02 Aug 2010
Posts: 13

galenblade wrote:

Spoonsy wrote:

i have no clue what i just watched.

can anyone translate the kanji?

Showed it to a friend of mine. The one on the right is "NORTH", but it's actually backwards as well. He doesn't know the first one.

Updating this: Friend claims the kanji says "NORTH PART", as in the north part of somewhere. This is when you view it reversed, as in a mirror.

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:39 pm

Spoonsy
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Joined: 05 Aug 2010
Posts: 47

here's said reversed kanji

reverse kanji.png
Description	The kanji, reversed
Filesize	30.43KB
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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:42 pm

Spoonsy
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Joined: 05 Aug 2010
Posts: 47

third factoid: 28 furlongs is 3.5 miles

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:45 pm

1st_Wench
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Joined: 22 Aug 2010
Posts: 13

27 Furlongs

27 furlongs = 3.375

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:56 pm

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