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jrc
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 		Socrates Sculpture Garden
I found someone's old album that showed a giant snake at Socrates Sculpture Garden in Long Island City, Queens. It was from 1994, a year mentioned in the T-shirt ad. I don't know if the snake is still there. It looked like it would probably not last 16 years outdoors, and the sculpture garden has had a lot of activity over the years. If anyone in the area wants to make a visit, it sounds like a nice place to go for an hour or two. I have been trying to figure how a couple of subway stations and a cemetery could be aligned correctly, but no fit so far.

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jrc
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 		Re: exclamations
RoBeastRollie wrote:
UDbmas wrote:
I wonder if there is any thing to be found by combining the "verbalized" esclamations given in the comix print:

UALUEALUEALUEALE!!! (mulligan)
BLLRAAPHAAR! (gorilla)
WAARRGGG! (gorilla)


Much like "1337", "UALUEALUEALUEALE" is another internet reference/meme. It may predate this, but YTMND was the first place I'd ever seen it: http://ualuealuealeuale.ytmnd.com/

The other two... no idea Smile

There are also RRAHH (Crothers) and SNACKT (Tom's sword, Vorpal sword going snicker-snack?) and of course WHUMP and BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAM. Oh yeah, and the gorilla also says RRAAARRHH and the Captain WHUUFFF.

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 		Lenape Playground in Marine Park
very interesting to consider
UDbmas,

That's a very intriguing possibility. Although not objective, he certainly is just as cute and adorable as I would imagine Tutty to be. On the aerial view, is the rattlesnake (see webpage on park) the line that looks like the outline of a squid? If so, is it really the snake that one must avoid? Or is it the rattlesnake.

Whether it proves out or not, thanks very much -- it's fascinating to consider the new possibility. There is a webpage that gives the background of the Lenape, the people originally here. We might consider whether any of the words we that seem like nonsense are Algonquin. There is an online dictionary somewhere of quite a few hundred words that would at least let you get a sense of whether they are from the language.

It would help if someone did photo recon of all of Marine Park. I would but I'm not in NYC.

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 		hmmm
I find that interesting except that the turtle and snake weren't in the same video, so I feel like they need to be two different milestones.

My two thoughts I was pondering after Vid 6 -

1) any zoos or parks with reptiles (and/or monkeys) or at least "reptile houses" of note in NYC?
2) any particular road that looks like a snake or has a snake-like name? I keep thinking it must be a figurative snake, and I know cemeteries tend to have windy roads like that...

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 		"Don't eat those vitamins there's too much aluminium in um"
I can't stop thinking about this line but am getting no where with it.
I noticed that if you take the in from vitamin and the um from aluminium to spell "in um" you can take the LO from the end of Ghoulo and the ST from Ghast to make LOST in the same way....and clearly there are refrences to LOST in this episode. I don't think the show has anything to do with the gold but I think switching the letters around is something we need to do....with what words and letters I have no idea.
Also....if you try to find anagrams using aluminium vitamin you get the word umlaut in there....I only thought this was interesting because Mulligan posted on Twitter about Umlaut.

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 		Nobody has mentioned the popular cliche... are we somehow missing the 800 pound gorilla in the room? Or better, the cabin?

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monkeypanky wrote:
Nobody has mentioned the popular cliche... are we somehow missing the 800 pound gorilla in the room? Or better, the cabin?


That's what that made me think of....well actually it made me think of there being an elephant in the room.

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 		Another snake in a park
A media advisory from March 2000: Giant Snake Found in Brooklyn Park. Not terribly exciting. They found a large (10 foot) Burmese Python in Prospect Park at the Parade Grounds. It was probably someone's abandoned or escaped pet, torpid from cold.

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 		Re: A challenge to SpyGuySailor
SpyGuySailor wrote:
Puttup R. Shaddup wrote:
Who else here wants to finally see some proof of what "SpyGuySailor" has been spewing about since this forum started?

He's claimed to "find it" or "have a hot lead" like seven times now... and his incessant talk of The Water Club's Crow's Nest is just getting ridiculous now.

I have been silently watching this forum, have been hunting for treasure just like all of you and I just happen to live in New York city. The Water Club is a CRAPPY CATERING FACILITY and there is NOTHING of value at that stupid Crow's Nest that pertains to this hunt. It is EASILY found in a Google search of "crow's nest" and would be the easiest and simplest minded clue so far if that actually it.

So, "SpyGuySailor"... post a picture, proof from Google (maps or otherwise) SOMETHING, ANYTHING to back up your words.


No one says anyone has to believe anything I say...and I am not the only one who thinks there are clues there....nothing has to be Valuable or of any desired appearance to be a clue. Why are you such a pud?no need to smack talk at me....as I am very into all the clues that lead there, have found MATHAMTICAL reason in thr flags at the crows nest. and HAVE figured out some things that PROVE it is an important location.....
If it was ok to say whats really on my mind here, I would...but I will bite my tongue. You are the perfet example why I don't want to share everything I have discovered. From this point further, I may not share anything else ..


Not sure if you are talking about the flags at the Water Club or on the stairs leading to the Crow's Nest, or the flags on the roof outside...

Have you actually been into the Water Club or just viewed the photos in their website gallery? I can say this about the flags in the Water Club gallery... most of them seem to be nonsense and are not even part of the international code flags.... there are a few which are identifiable, and these are I, V, S, N, C and 1st Substitute. None of the pennants in this photo are numerical pannants, which makes no sense of your "Mathematical Reason" for these flags. Perhaps you may like to enlighten us on this?

As for the flags on the stairs leading up to the Crow's Nest, these have to numerical significance... they are all yacht club burgees, one of which happens to be that of Auckland's RNZYS, of which I am a member!

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 		Re: Another snake in a park
jrc wrote:
A media advisory from March 2000: Giant Snake Found in Brooklyn Park. Not terribly exciting. They found a large (10 foot) Burmese Python in Prospect Park at the Parade Grounds. It was probably someone's abandoned or escaped pet, torpid from cold.


I really like the playground snake idea because it throws back to the first two episodes where they were giving us actual physical things that one would need ground time to see.

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 		Re: Another snake in a park
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I really like the playground snake idea because it throws back to the first two episodes where they were giving us actual physical things that one would need ground time to see.


I agree. One problem is that this is a long way from any subway. I assume Crothers is talking about the NNW compass heading at the end of episode 5 when he says "following a close compass heading to ours". So that implies the "next port", that is where the Captain and Tom got off, is SSE of where they are.

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 		Yet another snaky park
Marcus Garvey Park in Manhattan has connections to snakes and British fortifications:
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The social and political history of this site reaches back into the early colonial period. Dutch settlers referred to the park as "Slangberg," or Snake Hill, because of its reptile population. British fortifications on the site guarded the Harlem River during the Revolutionary War. The Common Council considered razing the hilly area in 1835 to accommodate new streets but local citizens successfully petitioned to preserve it as a public park. It opened as Mount Morris Park in 1840.


It seems unlikely that we would head back to Manhattan, but I suppose it is a possible fit.

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