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I'm pretty sure the Montreal one is somewhere in Fletcher's Field or at the base of Mount Royal if its paired with Verse 2. The image has the Montreal Flower in it, refers to Pie IX station (the square with PX1), and if you count that to the end of the green line (21 stops) you get off basically at Mount Royal. The Mount Stephen club has the same weird statue as on the pope dude as well which is right outside the same station. The three stand watch could refer to the three peaks, and the sound of friends in the afternoon would be the tam tam players that surround the George Etienne Cartier statue. The palace could refer to the Crystal Palace that was in Fletcher's Field. I just can't figure out what the gnomes and fays are about but its been a while since I've been there.
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FrozenVent posted:Quebec doesn't have a significant celtic heritage, at least outside of the Irish-Canadian group. According to wikipedia they started in 78.
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May 31, 2013 18:07
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Verse 5 also refers to a sovereign people where Quebec had just recently had a vote on sovereignty.
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Jun 1, 2013 07:14
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Here's an album with some help for the montreal pics: http://imgur.com/a/4o2yk and here are my thoughts on it.  The "music note" on the flower seems to be 67, so referencing the expo.  The P1X thing could be a flag of some sort not a P, like a golf flag, racing flag something like that. Perhaps where two roads meet? A major and minor road. Could be something with the namesakes?  Outline of the three peaks of Mont Royal perhaps? I can't find a could source image online. Darude - Adam Sandstorm fucked around with this message at 07:27 on Jun 5, 2013 |
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Jun 5, 2013 06:55
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Montreal So why the checkered pattern everywhere? Well maybe it has something to do with this?  Finishing first gets you the checkered flag?
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Jun 5, 2013 07:26
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PunkNickel posted:Cask 9 The Canadian constitution/bill of rights came after the book.
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Jun 6, 2013 08:41
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Montreal Here is a sovereign people Who build palaces to shelter Their heads for a night! I thought before that this part could refer to the Crystal Palace that was near McGill and then moved to Fletcher's Field before it burned down, but it might also have to do with the ice palaces that Montreal built during the late 19th centure during its Winter Carnival. They were erected in Dorchester Square which is two blocks from the Mount Stephen club.
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Jun 7, 2013 11:02
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Le Monstre wasn't built until 85.
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Jun 9, 2013 03:56
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Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:This is pretty much exactly what I was already planning to do. You can get lengths of metal rod at home depot.
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Jun 9, 2013 04:22
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Unicode was developed in 1991.
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Jun 9, 2013 07:36
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Of course they were but that particular language set with all three symbols wasn't. I think the runes may simply be a marker in the end.
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Jun 9, 2013 07:39
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I still think its possibly nearby the legeater and as I stated earlier it may have something to do with Dominion/Dorchester square and I have a few more reasons for that aside from the Ice Palaces that used to be built there. I can tie the namesakes meeting to that square as well. Sir John A Macdonald and Wilfred Laurier both have statues in this square that face each other in a sort of stare down as though they are meeting once again. There's also a statue for the Boer War, perhaps linking to the dutch. 67 in the flower could refer to the founding of the Dominion of Canada, not the Expo itself, thus Dominion square. Oh yeah and during WWII, the British Crown Jewels were held at the Sun Life Building in Montreal, adjacent to the square. Darude - Adam Sandstorm fucked around with this message at 08:23 on Jun 9, 2013 |
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Jun 9, 2013 08:09
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Jun 9, 2013 08:36
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Merlot Brougham posted:I like the Boer War angle. That building was built in the 90's sadly.
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Jun 9, 2013 08:39
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I really hope its not in the square cause it was renovated over the last 4 years, but like I think it is.
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Jun 9, 2013 19:38
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stab posted:some pics of dorchester square Cool pics, but that info on the plaque that adds to 15 won't help since a lot of those buildings were built after '81-'82 and the plaque itself is from 2004.
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Jun 9, 2013 23:48
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Something I just noticed.... Saint Patricks Basillica, a few blocks north of Dorchester/Dominion square. And it definitely has a bell tower.
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Jun 9, 2013 23:56
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Yeah I'd be willing to read through all the Montreal stuff if I can get access to the Q4T threads.
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So I'm reading through the q4T Montreal/St.Louis thread. Nothing interesting so far, until I got to this which is pretty hillarious:quote:Wrll, here is the present status of St. Louis. I suspect the Friedrich Jahn sculpture, in Forest Park, as the site of the treasure. It is U-shaped (verse 2: in the middle of 21=U from end to end), and there ius a recebtly renovated boathouse with a waterway leading up in the direction of the sculpture (verse 2: 15[O???] rows down to the ground.) That last line coukd be a reach; I am puzzled. The plaques on the sculpture are appropriately black and gold, and there is a large center-plaque with two torches in a large X-pattern.
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Jun 10, 2013 03:27
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11 is in the middle of 21 though. 1-10, 12-21. The Q4T thread seems to think that the middle of 21 end to end refers to a U shape, as if you join the two ends of 11 you get a U.
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Jun 10, 2013 03:33
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Guuse posted:Montreal I previously tied 67 to the Dominion of Canada, its how we started talking about that square. If we're going with the giant pole theory its more likely imo that that would refer to Nelson's monument since its a giant column. Also her hands don't look anything like the guy in Cask 9's photo.
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Jun 11, 2013 02:41
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What park is that?
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Jun 12, 2013 09:12
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Invicta{HOG}, M.D. posted:I walked all through the Boston Public Library, Copley Square, Commonwealth Avenue Mall, Public Gardens, and Boston Commons. Nothing really stood out. I took a few pictures but nothing really matches. So much detail on all the buildings that some are bound to be similar but no perfect matches. I did find legeaters on lamps all through the Public library entrance though they are not as well matched as the "Montreal" one. Just shows that it may have been a common thing at some point and that calls into question whether the one in Montreal is one of a kind. In Q4T thread they found both this legeater statue as well as one in NYC, though they were never to identify one with a hoof like in Montreal, always with a claw. They looked into manufacturers and such but were never able to find where the Montreal leageater actually came from.
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Jun 13, 2013 02:20
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Uhhh I dunno what you're seeing but I don't see it like at all. Its not going to be nearly that obscure and weird to make out. Invicta{HOG}, M.D. posted:Ah, haven't read the thread for that image. It doesn't mean that that legeater statue doesn't exist elsewhere though. The problem with cask 9 is that the only thing at all that ties it to Montreal is that foot and the fact that there is supposed to be a cask in Canada. Therefore, cask 9 could or should be Montreal. But there's not really much in the way of actual evidence (long lat is fuzzy at best, the collar sorta looks like the St. Lawrence near Montreal). They tried in the Q4T thread to find something else to either tie it to Montreal or to place that legeater elsewhere and I actually think that's not without value. They were able to find lightposts that were exact in every detail but the foot, so its not impossible that the feet could exist elsewhere as well. Darude - Adam Sandstorm fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Jun 13, 2013 |
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Jun 13, 2013 07:28
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Its not going to be in 12 inch deep planters in a parking lot lol.
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Jun 14, 2013 22:54
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Anyone disputing the 4 doesn't understand perspective and foreshortening or thinks they do but doesn't. Like it may not actually BE a match, but I mean that would be because of coincidence not because its not a visual match between object and image.
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Jun 20, 2013 08:30
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I'm waiting on an email from an instructor at OCADU where I am a student. He wrote a book on Tutin Thomas and its possible he has information on the lamp. NM, he returned my email and he wrote about his father.
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Jun 24, 2013 01:25
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That's awesome work.
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Jun 24, 2013 21:03
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What does Vancouver have to do with Alaska?
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Jun 25, 2013 05:47
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Deteriorata posted:Geographical proximity. He mentions in the story about the Russians encountering the Mohicans (page 23, from here): Except that that part of the book has nothing to do with the puzzle because he didn't write it and its been made pretty clear that its just filler and not to do with the treasure hunt.
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Jun 25, 2013 08:25
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The only problem with the square is how exactly does that tie into the legeater?
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Jun 26, 2013 22:24
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Oh poo poo, I forgot about this. I was in Chicago in the middle of July and came across a copy of the leg eater in a design store. I forgot to email the store to find out if they knew the origin of that particular feature. I'm gonna do that.
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Sep 1, 2014 06:06
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I'll be in Montreal at the end of the month and would take photos.
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Sep 12, 2014 04:13
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Is this thing like 10 hours away or something? Just drive your car or rent a car and take a shovel and dig a hole. I'm not sure why there's so much hemming and hawwing about doing it at the precise right time. The right time is now cause you can take the evening to dig a hole.
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Nov 12, 2014 04:50
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HMMMMM, I've spent enough time to write a novella about this other novella and am sure where this prize is and I really really want to do it. Better post about it then re read my novella and alter the syntax and check out amazon for a camo shovel cause my other 4 shovels may break. Welp, bedtime, gonna dream about maybe digging and maybe post about maybe digging.
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I'd just like to remind you all that I have seen a legeater statue replica in a store in Chicago. Just because one was stumbled upon in Montreal, doesn't mean that it is definitely the same thing.
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