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[Projectyl]

This is a bit of a digression from the current discussion (and may be a total coincidence) but:

In Episode 8, Mulligan says he's ITCHY.
In Episode 2, Black Tom blows up the SUN.
In Episode 6, the gorilla thinks Mulligan is a SHE.

If there were an explicit reference to a KNEE somewhere in the series (beyond the general Crothers's-leg thing), we'd have a complete set of Japanese number homonyms up to four. What we'd actually do with that is beyond me, but I may as well toss it out there.

[Cap'n Slim]

Noted.

[FK]

Re: Also?

[david718]

Fort Greene Park

[UDbmas]

[Cap'n Slim]

There it is David718!!!

[adamantium]

i know myself and captain slim both made arguments supporting that this treasure hunt should be able to be solved completely online.. But has anyone actually been to the colombus circle main entrance (by silver globe) subway station? Wondering if it would help

[DPNJ12]

a different way to look at it

[Cap'n Slim]

Only FOUR lines, though.

[Projectyl]

I thiiink (with a bit of a stretch) I can see how to view the subway in such a way as to make the four/five docks thing true and reveal the identity of the Port of Cortland.

I'm a non-local, but from what I can tell from Wikipedia's lists, with very specific definitions what Mulligan says is eerily true. Define "port" as "station on a line" and "dock" as "numbered or lettered service" - so for example, Columbus Circle has two "ports", the IND one with the A, B, C, and D "docks" and the IRT one with the 1 and 2 "docks".

Now if you check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_City_Subway_stations, and click through to the four individual borough lists, there's many docks with four ports, but only two with more. One is Manhattan's West Fourth Street – Washington Square, with seven ports on multiple levels, and the other is Brooklyn's DeKalb Avenue, which has five ports, but as one only runs during the day two others only run at night, you can't see all five at the same time.

The splitting of stations into multiple "docks" is weird, and I don't know if physical reality reflects that split, but it seemed like a good enough fit to share. Why they'd call DeKalb "the port of Cortland" is another question I haven't resolved.

So if there's four in the crew, and one of the Columbus Circle "ports" has four "docks"... that suggests a natural way to split them, albeit a way that disregards the colors used. (But maybe that's intended? That there pitcher of Crothers's fine blue hat did be in black 'n white, after all...)

[CatsMeow]

[Cap'n Slim]

Yup.

[UDbmas]

[UDbmas]

[Cap'n Slim]

Yes.... but