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gnarlyhotep posted:these posts alone are worth keeping the thread open when he's hot he can whip out dozens of these like it ain't no thang
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bonestructure posted:when he's hot he can whip out dozens of these like it ain't no thang it's like some sort of schizo improv "Hey! Hey! Do timecube next!"
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Jan 10, 2015 23:59
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Urban Smurf posted:M and B are set in stone 
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Jan 11, 2015 00:12
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gnarlyhotep posted:it's like some sort of schizo improv 
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Jan 11, 2015 00:29
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I was told someone dug at the Kosciuszko monument in Milwaukee back in the Summer. Whoever it was, please PM me. I'd like to help.
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Jan 11, 2015 00:31
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Urban Smurf posted:I was told someone dug at the Kosciuszko monument in Milwaukee back in the Summer. Whoever it was, please PM me. I'd like to help. I'm thinking your legal guardian forgot to give you your daily meds and/or left you alone at home without disconnecting the wifi.
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Jan 11, 2015 00:40
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Tony Homo posted:I'm thinking your legal guardian forgot to give you your daily meds and/or left you alone at home without disconnecting the wifi. 
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Jan 11, 2015 00:58
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Ignore them, Urban Smurf. Haters gonna hAte. Just keep on doing your thing.
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Jan 11, 2015 00:58
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With regard to the Jackson Bridge Reconstruction in 2007-2008 along Grant Park in Chicago, I found a article that states the work was to restore the bridge to its original specification while making some structural reinforcements. The lamp fixtures and balustrades were added. That leaves some doubt as to how well my theory plays out. I suppose the original street side lamps were there in 1982, but the secondary lamps on the bridge shoulder didn't exist until 2008. Just for the record, I don't know for sure if the parapets were restored to their original state or there in the first place. I still think the tree grid is bunk. Tungsten halogen lamps is where its at.
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Jan 11, 2015 01:07
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Tony Homo posted:I'm thinking your legal guardian forgot to give you your daily meds and/or left you alone at home without disconnecting the wifi. Dude, urban smurf used to post his amazing theories daily before the unfunny GBS nerd brigade ground this thread to a halt. Just hang back and enjoy.
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Jan 11, 2015 02:45
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Urban smurf will find the treasure
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Jan 11, 2015 02:56
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Jan 11, 2015 03:03
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Urban Smurf posted:I was told someone dug at the Kosciuszko monument in Milwaukee back in the Summer. Whoever it was, please PM me. I'd like to help. Lol. This is great. Because not only did someone attempt to snag a cask based on stealing xie's theory but, someone tried to snag a cask based on stealing an Urban Smurf theory.
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Jan 11, 2015 03:26
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Urban Smurf posted:M and B are set in stone You need to either start taking drugs or stop taking drugs. Just do whatever one you're not doing already.
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Jan 11, 2015 06:02
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Someone asked me to find that pic of the tree next to a bench along the roadway near the Palace of the Legion of Honor.
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Jan 11, 2015 06:25
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Urban Smurf posted:Someone asked me to find that pic of the tree next to a bench along the roadway near the Palace of the Legion of Honor. What was the reasoning behind this?
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What's my reasoning? Image 1 Verse 7: San Francisco From far Cathay, the Dragon's pearl: Chaste, perfect as the silver moon Two key insights may be drawn from each of the Litany of the Jewels poems that precedes the verse/image puzzles. 1) Chaste, I believe refers to something very simple and ordinary 2) perfect as the silver moon, I believe refers to the relatively small lunar body's capacity to reflect powerful rays of the much more massive sun. This bench near this tree is plain and ordinary as can be and yet it reflects or shares the same general shape as the glorious Golden Gate Bridge. I arrived at this vantage point unaware that a tree would contain the characteristic shape of the dragon's head and woman's arms. It helps that the long rectangular shape of the bench is similar to the long rectangle on the woman's dress. It also represents something like the table that a watch sits upon. Although I find the disc shape of the table draws its inspiration from the large pool out front of the Palace of the Legion of Honor. The support beneath resembles the balusters that surround the parking area. The verse gave me the idea to look for a bench in the reference to Twain. I believe the "object of Twain's attention" is ultra subtle. Twain is a writer. A writer writes sentences. Sentences have indirect and direct objects. This combines with the context of Justice and the imagery of a prison in the distant background. A sentence is also something which a Judge hands to a convicted criminal. The alternate name for a Judge is "The Bench". There's a lot of other details that I feel fit the Palace of the Legion of Honor, mainly the fact that two pieces of August Rodin's masterpiece The Gates of Hell were displayed there. The Thinker in the courtyard and the Three Shades at the end of the parking area stood upon a giant pedestal (ped = step). In the center of the parking area in 1982 stood the very large flag pole known as the Betsy Ross Memorial Flagpole. Very little photographic evidence of all this exists for some ungodly reason. It took a long loving time piecing this together. Anyway, I took the giant pole and giant step as two points to go in that direction until I found something interesting and I discovered the benches that sat across the road from the 15th hole of the Lincoln Park golf course. (Yes, I verified that the 15th hole is currently and has always been the 15th hole area, since someone suggested that golf courses change their holes around).  
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Jan 11, 2015 07:26
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Urban Smurf posted:Someone asked me to find that pic of the tree next to a bench along the roadway near the Palace of the Legion of Honor. somebody please break the news to him, I can't bear to do it
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Jan 11, 2015 07:33
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Urban Smurf posted:The verse gave me the idea to look for a bench in the reference to Twain. I believe the "object of Twain's attention" is ultra subtle. Twain is a writer. A writer writes sentences. Sentences have indirect and direct objects. This combines with the context of Justice and the imagery of a prison in the distant background. A sentence is also something which a Judge hands to a convicted criminal. The alternate name for a Judge is "The Bench". What This sounds like crazy person logic. This is the logic that a crazy person would use. "Object of Twain's attention" -> "Bench" is not a logical leap anyone would ever make in any universe I mean I hate to say negative things about Urban Smurf, but it's just... so baffling
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HJE-Cobra posted:What What's crazy is not having the context for the riddle. I spelled it out for you in clear contextual steps. What's really hard to deal with is seeing how people point to just about anything as Twain's focus and it's almost always some random poo poo. Yeah, Twain liked Joan of Arc, or he liked ferry boats, etc, but try and start at a sensible and clever place like I have with the Thinker of the Gates of Hell being "At stone walls door", knowing full well that people sometimes use the idiom "I've hit a stone wall" to say they've thought of everything they can and still can't find the answer to a tough question. I think you get my point. I'm a bit of a crackpot, but take a minute to consider these puzzles...they be crazy to begin with. poo poo. E: Anyway, I don't mind explaining my reasoning. There's not going to be any easy answers for the remaining puzzles. People gotta deal with it. Urban Smurf fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Jan 11, 2015 |
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Urban Smurf posted:The verse gave me the idea to look for a bench in the reference to Twain. I believe the "object of Twain's attention" is ultra subtle. Twain is a writer. A writer writes sentences. Sentences have indirect and direct objects. This combines with the context of Justice and the imagery of a prison in the distant background. A sentence is also something which a Judge hands to a convicted criminal. The alternate name for a Judge is "The Bench". Seriously, have you ever been evaluated for a thought disorder?
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Seriously, have you ever been evaluated for a thought disorder? Why do you ask? I mean, why would you see something disordered with recognizing Twain is a writer, or that a writer writes sentences, or that sentences have grammatical structure, or that a riddle that uses the subject of a "sentence" might make a lateral movement to a principle function of a Judge, or that a Judge is also known as the Bench?
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Urban Smurf posted:Why do you ask? This is exactly why he was asking. The reason you don't understand is why he is asking if you have been diagnosed. But you haven't which is why you are confused.
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Waltzing Along posted:This is exactly why he was asking. The reason you don't understand is why he is asking if you have been diagnosed. But you haven't which is why you are confused. No, I think he was asking because he's an idiot who needs you to speak for him.
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Jan 11, 2015 08:08
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One thing I enjoy about Urban Smurf's theories is that they are often reliant on the internet, recent photographs on the web, aerial photography, schematics, et cetera -- things that wouldn't necessarily have been so accessible or even "thought about" by the average solver in 1981, but would be today. Like, if you wondered what it would take to make a modern visual puzzle hard but still solvable, where people with ready access to GIS and stuff would still need to work... you'd probably have to narrow it down to a single city for people, but your solutions might resemble some of Urban Smurf's solutions.
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Hello it's okay, everyone calm down, I am an Internet Doctor and I diagnose several posters with Armchairius Psychologistus, a rather nasty symptom of which is making public what would perhaps better suit a PM and thinking that this is E/N Calling Urban Smurf out on relying on the internet is valid though, because there can be an actual response to that beyond "You're crazy" "No I'm not" "You wouldn't know, you're crazy"
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Jan 11, 2015 08:12
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Urban Smurf posted:Why do you ask? Are you not aware that most of the thread is just humoring you, and having a laugh at your expense?
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Jan 11, 2015 08:14
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poo poo
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homullus posted:One thing I enjoy about Urban Smurf's theories is that they are often reliant on the internet, recent photographs on the web, aerial photography, schematics, et cetera -- things that wouldn't necessarily have been so accessible or even "thought about" by the average solver in 1981, but would be today. Like, if you wondered what it would take to make a modern visual puzzle hard but still solvable, where people with ready access to GIS and stuff would still need to work... you'd probably have to narrow it down to a single city for people, but your solutions might resemble some of Urban Smurf's solutions. I use to rely heavily on such methods. Then I wised up and figured out how to use the tools to express my ideas, knowing full well that there's a very significant potential for having such limitations. If I were a professional writer I'd use just words to get my point across. If I were an artist, schematics. Right now I'm using MS paint and whatever internet means I can muster but believe me I'm always on the lookout for things which introduce errors into the perspective. No worries. I appreciate the feedback. In this recent case, I used a recent photo of the Golden Gate Bridge in the background and a bench in the foreground. It's possible the trees limbs are too young or that a bench wasn't there in 1982, or that its a replacement of an original that looked much different. Just because I post a picture doesn't mean I'm fully committed to the presentation. To a person who actually stands at the site and considers the material in the way the author intended, I hope that my gathering skills might be helpful.
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Premeditated Toast posted:Are you not aware that most of the thread is just humoring you, and having a laugh at your expense? Are you aware that I'll beat your rear end senseless for your candidness?
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Urban Smurf posted:Are you aware that I'll beat your rear end senseless for your candidness? I wonder, would you suck my balls?
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Jan 11, 2015 08:32
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Get on the bus! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syLz1rcTKD8
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dad gay. so what posted:I wonder, would you suck my balls? Put you're balls out there like I have and everyone here will oblige. Hey, find a cask and your balls just might have a cozy new home.
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Jan 11, 2015 08:38
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Urban Smurf posted:Someone asked me to find that pic of the tree next to a bench along the roadway near the Palace of the Legion of Honor. Yes, thank you. This was my favorite Urban Smurf logical leap.
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Urban Smurf posted:I use to rely heavily on such methods. Then I wised up and figured out how to use the tools to express my ideas, knowing full well that there's a very significant potential for having such limitations. If I were a professional writer I'd use just words to get my point across. If I were an artist, schematics. Right now I'm using MS paint and whatever internet means I can muster but believe me I'm always on the lookout for things which introduce errors into the perspective. No worries. I appreciate the feedback. There's nothing wrong with MS Paint for context, it's a good tool for showing relationships that you don't have an image at hand for. Your posts are kind of free-association riffing on the verses and images. I think they're pretty far-fetched, but good brainstorming usually produces some far-fetched stuff. I would enjoy it if you continued to post, as long as it's fun for you to do so.
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homullus posted:One thing I enjoy about Urban Smurf's theories is that they are often reliant on the internet, recent photographs on the web, aerial photography, schematics, et cetera -- things that wouldn't necessarily have been so accessible or even "thought about" by the average solver in 1981, but would be today. As Xie said: "One of the things that Preiss was almost scary good at was "anticipating" some of the tools that would become available to us. Despite computers not really existing in a meaningful way in 1981, he still designed the Verses which contain quotes to be either incredibly esoteric (Sarmiento quote) or off by just enough to make them hard to google. "
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But did Preiss anticipate Urban Smurfing?
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Urban Smurf posted:Put you're balls out there like I have and everyone here will oblige. Hey, find a cask and your balls just might have a cozy new home. k
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I may be mistaken but, he also expected most of them to be found within a month or so. I like urban Smurfs theories because they help. They are bat poo poo crazy ideas but, there is advantages to putting warning signs down on paths you don't want to follow.
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