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Clayfoot
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 		Lucky 7 dates for Palmer Strauss favor
To save myself from doing math in my head, I wrote a Perl script to generate a table of Lucky 7 dates. It turns out that every month in every year has either 3 or 4 dates. I generated all of them since 1800 for you, but feel free to generate your own list to suit the age of your local cemetery. Read all about it in my blog entries:

Perl script

Lucky 7 dates since 1800
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krystyn
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 		You know, it occurred to me, right before my brain exploded and splattered the pretty fall leaves, that I should've asked one of you number-cruncher tool types to make something like that.

frkn Perl!

Very Happy That's awesome.

Shad0's tip with the 9s canceling out was very useful, by the by. Saved me a LOT of heartache as I walked around.
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imbri
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 		v.cool!

However, those of you that use this will not have the "joy" of looking at every date for the next few days and unconsciously adding up all the numbers. Today, for example, is a 5.... damn.

And, yes, much love to Shad0 for the 9 trick!

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thunderclap8
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 		Note to self: Lucky gets very grumpy when you accidentally submit a picture of people playing a DDR type game instead of tombstone poker...
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thunderclap8 wrote:
Note to self: Lucky gets very grumpy when you accidentally submit a picture of people playing a DDR type game instead of tombstone poker...


C'mon, you know you want to share the grumpy email with us. Smile
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 		if you insist!

lucky wrote:
For one thing, there are only 3 people in this picture, not 4. Secondly, it sure as HECK doesn't look like a cemetery. Thirdly, there's NO evidence of a game of poker here.

-L.

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 		Bang! Bang! Bang!
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thunderclap8
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 		After my previous Bierce submission was turned down, today I tossed in:

I wrote:
Hi Lucky-

Now that I'm clearer on what you asked for this favor, I've got a much better submission for you.

The epitaph of W.W. Darwin reads: "One we loved sleepeth here".

What better way to describe a Nursing Home?

It seems like that's all they are to some people - a place to dump someone they loved until it comes time to move them to a more permanent resting place. Sad, but true.


I also submitted this letter for the Frank and Mary Alice favor, from an unknown Confederate soldier's grave to the grave of a known one, Andrew Ferrel Riley.

Unknown wrote:
Dear Mr. Riley,

It is my great pleasure to extend to you an invitation to join the Maple Hill Cemetery Veterans of the War Between the States Association. We regret not contacting you sooner - as your grave is somewhat distant from our own section of the cemetery, we did not become aware of your presence until recently.

As an additional excuse, we have been here so very long. Our memories grow fainter with each passing season. You, on the other hand, arrived fiftysome years later! The stories you could tell at our meetings! We hear tell of this "aeroplane" developed prior to your death, for example. Men in the sky? At least this was one menace spared us in our own battles.

While most of our members hail from Alabama locally, we welcome you to our small group of Tenessee veterans. Please let us know if we can be of further assistance to you. While your current residence is located away from our meeting hall, we hope you can attend in spirit.

Sincerely,
Unknown Confederate Soldier
Confederate plot, NW corner, Maple Hill Cemetery


I'm so sad that this may be the last batch of favors I submit - I've really come to enjoy them!
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 		I finally got over to Marrec's house and uploaded our favors pics myself. Boo on him.


Older easy ones, but I'm still posting them. Hope they get accepted.

Robert's favor...

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Hullo Lucky. My name is Nos.

I haven't spoken with you as of yet. I've always wanted to, but that's besides the point. The point here is Robert.

I live in the middle of nowhere. And that's serious middle of nowhere. Billy the Kid country; I'm twenty minutes from where he sleeps. But his grave is very well cared for (and often stolen, but always seems to make it's way back home), and there are many more around here that aren't. You really wouldn't believe the number of abondoned and forgotten cemetery's I've discovered in my quest. It's sad, really, the way the living forget. I don't want to forget. In fact, this whole endevour has got me thinking in directions that might just turn into books someday. One never knows.

To honor Robert, my brother Marrec and I trekked to the middle of a field, fence off by rusty barbed wire, and a old swinging gate. An abandoned cemetery we've come to find out used to be called Brownhorn Cemetery. Vast amounts of open space; who knows how many bodies lay in unmarked graves under our feet, the stones to mark them long since stolen or broken down by dust and wind.

We found the most lonely of them all. We couldn't even read the marking anymore; it appeared to have been made from a block of cement, with a name scratched in it with a stick. We could make out just one letter: A. So that's what we called the lonely grave. We did what we could, but it might not be enough. If you like, I'll go back and make an impression of the stone, to try and get the name off it. And flower shops are unheard of out here in the desert plains, so I cut some from my own garden; some bright red Rose of Sharon to take along. A candle, some flowers, and the grass that obsured it pulled up and the grave still doesn't look like much more than a stepping stone. But hopefully, A saw our efforts and maybe it gave him or her a smile.

Attached are the before and after pictures. As I said, it doesn't look like much. But someone's there.


Thanks,
Nos




And the cemetery B&E

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Hullo again, Lucky. Nos here.

Marrec and I went to the abandoned cemetery of Brownhorn in the middle of the night. Don't know if it was allowed; there were no locks on the old gate, and no houses for a spell. But, we decided, it would be the perfect place to get this favor done for you.

The best toomstones left standing there were two tall, beauifully carved Woodsmen of the World stones. Couldn't get the whole thing in the picture, our flashlight was being a bit tricky. But here you. Marrec and I at Brownhorn. I'm the female.

Thanks,
Nos







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krystyn
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 		I got my (second) Bierce approved, but it still wasn't good enough.

I am understanding the favor a little better now, but I had kinda thought that the mealy-mouthed epitaph I found, in conjunction with the word I stuck it with, would give it that sarcastic edge that the Devil's Dictionary is steeped in.

Sigh. Nope, the epitaph itself needs to be snarkilicious.

Honestly, for the five separate cemeteries I've visited in the greater Chicagoland area during this ARG, I've seen very few stones with any great amount of writing on them with more personality than what you'd find in a Bible verse. Maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough, or maybe the cemeteries here are fairly strict on what sorts of words/ideas may be used on the stones, even though I've seen crazy stones and statues of all kinds during my Favor Festivities. Maybe that favor was written knowing it would be that difficult.

Now, about that October 19th, 1945 one ... Pony?!

Bierce Small Favor wrote:
Redress:
granting you this favor despite the fact that you STILL haven't given
me an epitaph that belongs in the Devil's Dictionary but you're
more stubborn than the army mule I had to walk through the French
countryside. Maybe you just don't have sarcastic/wry people buried
in Chicago.

The living forget, but the dead remember. I will remember what you've
done for me.

You'll be getting a little something from me, a
mark of my appreciation for everyone to see.

Thanks again.
It means a lot to me.

Lucky




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: The Devil's Dictionary
From: krystynSPLATglitterbook.com
Date: Sun, November 13, 2005 8:21 pm
To: smallfavorsSPLATlastcallpoker.com

Lucky,

REDRESS,
n. Reparation without satisfaction.

James Curtis
Major United States Army
Born Eastport Maine 20 March 1831
Died Chicago Illinois 19 January 1878
"Farewell to fallen faded flowers"
"And hours of hope - Farewell!"

Shyly,

Krystyn


Lucky's just so hot and cold with me. It's enough to make a girl dizzy.
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Phaedra
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krystyn wrote:
Bierce Small Favor wrote:
Redress:
granting you this favor despite the fact that you STILL haven't given
me an epitaph that belongs in the Devil's Dictionary but you're
more stubborn than the army mule I had to walk through the French
countryside. Maybe you just don't have sarcastic/wry people buried
in Chicago.


<snip>

Lucky's just so hot and cold with me. It's enough to make a girl dizzy.


Hmm. Email Lucky seems a lot grumpier than Live Chat Lucky.
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 		You're tellin' me!

Although, I suppose if he strikes out with a girl at the tables, he's still got his cards and his chips.

If it's through e-mail, all he's got is the blinking cursor mocking him from the Inbox of his EtherMail program.
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 		St. Paul's photos
here are some pictures i took for the Anita DeFazio favor. As I mentioned elsewhere, I put roses on the graves at St. Paul's chapel in Manhattan - the WTC site is in the background of these shots.
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krystyn wrote:
James Curtis
Major United States Army
Born Eastport Maine 20 March 1831
Died Chicago Illinois 19 January 1878
"Farewell to fallen faded flowers"
"And hours of hope - Farewell!"


Use "Farewell to fallen faded flowers" as a definition for a word not in the dictionary.
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krystyn
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konamouse wrote:
Use "Farewell to fallen faded flowers" as a definition for a word not in the dictionary.

Heh. Then I wanna know how all these other people submitted using existing Bierce definitions, and got approval. I understand where you're coming from, but that is not showing to be the case with others. I do not think that that is the defining factor.

I think the epitaph had to have a Biercian quality.
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