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UDbmas
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Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:04 pm
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Spoonsy
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Re: crap...I hate it when this happens...

UDbmas wrote:

Just when I think I have it figured out, i hit on something else. Here are 2 bits to add to the Dodger/Ebbets Field column:

Remember this:

Quote:

Mulligan: Oh. That lieutenant on the foredeck is giving the sign of victory.

Check this out:
http://www.baseballforum.com/photopost/data/501/1945_ebbets_field_rotunda_V_sign.bmp

And:

Quote:

The Brooklyn Dodgers played their final game at Ebbets Field on September 24, 1957, which the Dodgers won 2�0 over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

(cut him twice?)

grrrrr............

uh...

you know what?

Ebbets Field is now a self storage facility.

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 12:57 am

Spaniard
Guest

does anyone know of a self storage facility underground?
if underground, it is buried

Big picture, it simply is unrealistic to think that the poor puppeteers parted with $10,000 in November 2009 -- as distinguished from gathering it up and finding a place for safekeeping while they pursued an enterprise that took months of work to polish their finished product. (They needed the coins for filming).

Now where do you keep such a chest of coins? In a self storage unit.

Is it realistic you gather it in November while you continue to work toward a launch in August? Yes. But it is unrealistic to think they went out and buried a chest in NYC in the sense of digging -- especially a half year in advance of launch. Heck, a simple hack of their computer might divulge the location -- they at least need the security of having the key on their key ring. Take the storage unit the person mentions at that baseball field. Does it operate using a key or a combination? And what does such a key look like?

To the one person in the world that someday may watch the Maddie Hayes episode, the puppeteers have fulfilled the stated representation that they buried the treasure if they put it in an underground storage locker. See Maddie Hayes explanation to the effect that is how we bury our gold in the United States. (The woman who imagined herself a leprechaun who wanted to bury her gold was quite a stickler -- and insisted that it be "buried".) But she deemed the safe in the floor to satisfy the requirement.

If this turns out to be the solution, it will be extremely elegant and up to what appear the puppeteer's standards.

Missry's point about "111" being a Nelson is simply an utterly brilliant interpretation of Tom's numbers. If you look at the episode with the number, it has always appeared as a sideways "111."

And IMO opinion points again not only to the importance of MASTER AND COMMANDER but also Mr. Nelson, the legendary NYC puppeteer who is the voice of the Count Von Count who lives at Belvedere. Someone might trace the background of the Brooklyn puppeteers to look for any connection to either Mr. Nelson or the muppets. Mr. Nelson, by one interviewer, is described as like the Beatles is to music. He has retired except he continues to do the voice for the Count. He has released a CD called Truro Daydreams.

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:38 am

Spaniard
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one legged man in a leg having contest
captain's remark

You'll recall the captain's remark to Crothers..something like... that's about as useful as a one-legged man in a leg-having contest.

It was an odd thing for him to say that until now was unexplained -- but now is yet one more corroboration of NELSON.

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:54 am

Spaniard
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Ebbets Field storage units
5 x 5

You can get a 5 foot by 5 foot unit -- the size of a large closet. Are they secured by padlock? (See picture)
http://www.safeguardit.com/measure-and-move/unit-sizes/5x5

115 Empire Blvd. Brooklyn, NY

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 3:42 am

Spaniard
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burying the chest in an underground mini storage unit
mini-storage units with underground units

There are many alternatives for storage units big enough to hold a chest but small enough to fit a tight budget. You can rent storage sufficient to hold the chest for $29. For reasons, I've explained, I only favor one that is underground (if there is one).

http://www.manhattanministorage.com/do/reserveZip?location=422&step=0&checkPricesFlow=true

"Each one of our storage rental units are individually locked and you hold the only key."

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 4:11 am

monkeypanky
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Joined: 04 Aug 2010
Posts: 15

The last few lines mention God and Lightning -- is there a Zeus statue anywhere that we can eyeball?

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 6:57 am

tammyrichards43
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Joined: 02 Aug 2010
Posts: 113
Location: WV

111

Spaniard, it was me who found the 111 not Missry. Sorry.

I just thought of something else too. I had not thought of the underground storage thing much as I thought all along it would probably be in sand but when I thought of the WPPPT episode and it has 3 P's (maybe that is to represent the 111 or 3 numbers on a combination), and the table when blown open reveals what looks like a safe dial and it rotates with North being left. Then you think where are safes generally located? Behind pictures. The picture of Home (Sweet?) Home is also rotated left like the compass (safe?) dial on the table. Then I thought of the wood "pitcher" as the captain calls it of Tutty in the Monkey Business episode. Could this be a pointer to that picture? I thought Sweet is missing in the picture and Tutty is Missing. And now Tutty is supposedly switched with a potato. Sweet Potato? Yam is three letters. "Tutty" on the wooden headboard was also shorted by the hole that was blown in the cabin to "Tut" (which is three letters) in the Chase episode. I don't know, what do you guys think?

They are down to three pirates now that Cruthers is dead.

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 8:31 am

Spaniard
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FWIW, Monkey Bar was name of place on set M&C actors relaxed
Master and Commanders cafe was MONKEY BAR

As I recall, the birds were noisy and there were shenanigans but I may be misremembering. The character who played the doctor, a witty fellow, described it an interview. There was no liquor.

As always, it is never easy to know what it is mere coincidence and what is a clue. For example, in the Marx brothers' MONKEY BUSINESS, a wooden leg is pulled out in the melee at the PUNCH AND JUDY show. A crew member is chasing our mute stowaway who pretends to be a puppet (a girl?) in the puppet show. A clip of the famous scene is online.

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 9:48 am

tammyrichards43
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Joined: 02 Aug 2010
Posts: 113
Location: WV

Compass

I wanted to mention the Go Fish or Holy Mackerel. The fish looks like a cardinal or pope and it holds the cross. The cardinal directions are N S E W. Intercardinal or ordinal directions are NE SE SW NW. There are these and eight more in between the cardinal and ordinals: NNE ENE ESE SSE SSW WSW WNW NNW. It goes on up to 32 points on the sailer's compass rose sometimes called a windrose.

I also found this which goes with the letter T and the fleur-de-lis which has been posted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass_rose

The compass rose is an element of a map used to show direction, showing cardinal directions and frequently intermediate direction.

Naming all 32 points on the rose is called boxing the compass.

The "rose" term arises from the fairly ornate figures used with early compasses. A fleur-de-lis figure, evolved from the initial T in the north wind's name Tramontane, is sometimes used to indicate the north direction. Similarly, on old maps the east was marked with an L for Levante, or with a Christian cross indicating the direction of Jerusalem from the point of view of circa mediterreaneas countries.

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:08 am

SpyGuySailor
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Posts: 123

Re: Ram O Cam

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:19 am
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SpyGuySailor
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Re: crap...I hate it when this happens...

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:35 am
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SpyGuySailor
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Re: crap...I hate it when this happens...

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:39 am
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SpyGuySailor
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Crows Nest
is not a clue

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:42 am
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Spaniard
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The Monkey Bar and the monkey drawing in MASTER AND COMMANDE
from book on making of MASTER AND COMMANDER

The "Monkey Bar" is explained in the book "The Making of Master and Commander"

"It's made of corrugated iron -- a bit like an old-fashioned aeroplane hangar -- yet some of its furnishings come from the first-class lounge of the Titanic.

The MONKEY BAR has nothing much to do with the film: its firmly behind the scenes. Yet its existence provides interesting insight into the psychology of this movie."

The director, Peter Weir, explained:

"So I began to think a club -- a gentleman's club in England -- how could we do that? And it somehow evolved into the Monkey Bar."

The name "derived from the point in the script where the Surprise lands on the coast of Brazil. Stephen Maurin's servant Padeen draws a picture of one of the monkeys they see and rather than do this drawing themselves, the art department asked every other department to have a go themselves -- partly because it was decided that Padeen's drawing would be slightly crude and certainly unprofessional. The winning entry was chosen to feature in the film, the others were hung here, giving the room its name.

But this is more than just a private club for the principal actors. Producer Duncan Henderson calls it a "colonial outpost for the Brits' and, in many ways, it's exactly that. It's deliberately retro: there's no TV here and no music. ... Beyond anything else, it invites conversation
-- and if you don't want to talk, there's always the collection of Patrick O'Brian novels to read.

There is also a spectacularly annoying parrot but, its raucous shrieks apart, the Monkey Bar has proved to be an amazing morale booster for the actors."

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:53 am

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