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heavyunderground
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Xeno Lambrose wrote:
Not sure is this has any meaning whatsoever, but this is a map of "4D & 5O," obviously in Australia.

I know we had some posters from down under--can you make any sense out of this and the latest printout statement?

Here's the link:
http://www.acronymfinder.com/~/search/af.aspx?Acronym=4D+and+5O&Find=find&string=zip


I have no clue, sorry, and I don't live in Sydney, so I can't really investigate. I found the point on Google maps, though:

http://bit.ly/dhKGMP

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 		bus station
in the "Official Set Photos" thread is one pic from a Bus Station


maybe 4 D is the line and 5 O the specific station..........
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 		Re: bus station
gramma wrote:
in the "Official Set Photos" thread is one pic from a Bus Station


maybe 4 D is the line and 5 O the specific station..........


This map is the same as Weirton WV - same street names too. You can see the steel mill (same location) however is called Lillian Steel Mill. Not sure it matters in the overall scheme of things, but it is interesting.

Also - I've never heard of Greyhound having local bus routes. In fact few small towns in the US have their own mass transit, even today, let alone in the 1970s. I checked and could not find local bus lines in Weirton. Why would they need Lillian to have a Bus Line I wonder...?
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r.m
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 		Re: bus station
jchiv wrote:

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Also - I've never heard of Greyhound having local bus routes. In fact few small towns in the US have their own mass transit, even today, let alone in the 1970s. I checked and could not find local bus lines in Weirton. Why would they need Lillian to have a Bus Line I wonder...?


The bus station was already there on the edge of the set on Main St. Weirton, so they probably just went with it. The bus line map might just be a small detail made to 'authenticate' the set. I don't think the bus station or bus line have much to do with the movie. But I could be wrong.

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 		4D and 5O's last leg
Can 4D stand for Ford and 5O's last leg be related to th police? Is there a Ford street/rd/lane that intersects a police station or a street called Ahab?

4D= Ford
5O's= police/cop/somethng releated
last leg= Ahab

The books "The Fog Horn" and I guess Josh Minker's love of Moby Dick. Does anyone have a copy of that particular comic? The way it state 5O's last leg grammatically sounds like it belongs to a thing/person/object. So again, just from the grammatical structure of the sentence 4D and 5O's last leg are apparently belonging. Maybe a car? An old Ford from the police impound?

Am I over analyzing?

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 		Re: 4D and 5O's last leg
simplicityjones wrote:
Am I over analyzing?


For someone named simplicityjones - yes.
But would it be as much fun if you didn't?

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 		4D and 5O's last leg
interesting thought, a lot of weird concidences there.

You can read the illustrated Moby Dick at http://search.4shared.com/q/1/Classics_Illustrated_Moby_Dick.pdf, its the second on the list. Sorry don't post as a attachment, but is a little big.

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Awesome site. Appresciate the link Very Happy Still not useful for the clue, but it did make nice reading.

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 		Why did Mysterio use the "&" in the latest message?
I was checking into the latest cryptic message, "meet me at 4D & 5O's last leg" and was wondering why would Mysterio use the ampersand (&) rather than just the word "and," and so looked up "&" on wikipedia, and in part is says this:

"There are two common uses for the "&" symbol as a binary operator in programming languages: as the logical AND operator, and as the string or array concatenation operator. There are also various idiosyncratic uses of & by various languages, for example as a short form of the verb PRINT in BASIC-PLUS on the DEC PDP-11."

My computer skills are ( I was going to say "basic" and thought better) minimal, but perhaps some of you can see some relation with the "&" and the PDP-11 console and unlock some clue(s).

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parmav
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 		foghorn
I notice that the description of the Toadfish on HLM says that it has a distinctive 'foghorn' sound. Coincidence?

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 		I believe someone else has mentioned it. However, "4D & 5O" I believe refers to Josh's "Best Times To Spot Rare Fish" calendar. "Last Leg" would refer to the specific period during that day.

Therefore, "4D & 5O" = 21st October
"Last Leg" = 11:09PM to 11:46PM

...So I assume that the IM conversation between Josh and Mysterio happened on this date and during these times.

Something to remember if another IM conversation is planned!

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 		Tyler...;

Yes you're correct, but I wonder in what way Josh, or Mysterio, will know when the other wants to talk.

For those of you more computer savvy, is there some app that notifies one when the other is "online" and desires to speak?

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Xeno Lambrose wrote:
Tyler...;

Yes you're correct, but I wonder in what way Josh, or Mysterio, will know when the other wants to talk.

For those of you more computer savvy, is there some app that notifies one when the other is "online" and desires to speak?


Xeno,

It's possible, that kind of functionality is available in most messenger services, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, etc. But this looks like something else. Plus, Mysterio had to give Josh a clue through the email to tell him when to meet this time, so if they had some other form of communication going, I don't think that he would have used the email to tell Josh when to meet online for chat this past time.

It's possible that Mysterio will just write another short email clue for the next time he's available.
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 		4D & 50's last leg
Idk why this wouldn't make sense, but people continue to look at 4D and 50 as one when there is an and in between them... there could be more meaning in 50's last leg then there is in 4D and 50's. Last Leg

For clarification
To me it reads:
4D
and 50's last leg

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