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MassaShowtime posted: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. not really possible for the 21 stop thing as you need to transfer at berri for that and technically it can go in any direction. the gnomes thing might have something to do with la parc olympique or botanical gardens, who had a gnomes display in 1983.
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# ¿ May 31, 2013 16:33 |
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# ¿ May 21, 2024 05:06 |
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im sure this has been mentioned but somebody needs to run off this for cask 9. the dude's neck is st.joseph's oratory. to shape and form. in mont royal park, which has three statues at its base. the numbers are most likely the paces to take from the stairs. what are the numbers hidden in the picture? also, st.josephs is known for devotees stopping and praying on their knees at each step. fifteen hail mary's to one our father (yay catholic alterboy upbringing! ) so mtl goons, thoughts? two edits: upside down neck= go south from the oratory 2) how many stairs are there to get to the basilica? stab fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Jun 4, 2013 |
# ¿ Jun 4, 2013 04:15 |
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Dive Kick posted:I feel like we are awfully close to the Montreal Cask, it seemed like a few of the theories earlier on in the thread showed promise. While I suck at riddles, perhaps we should focus a bit more attention back in that direction. As well, it seems as though a few times the author has spoken and given vague clues. Are we sure the ones we have discussed (mainly that the ethnicity of the image relates to the spot)are the only relevant clues? yeah if somebody can blow up and identify stuff for the montreal picture it would help. the around stjoseph thing is screaming at me
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2013 03:45 |
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okay somebody please blow up cask 9. the flower has a finger or a music note. the lapel has an x an inverted p and a weird 1. that can stand for pie ix as discussed before, or my tired observation, what if that reverse p has somethinf to do with Euclidean geometry. or x marks the spot? or if the p isnt a p but rather a flag? flag+1= formula 1...which races on ile ste helene...one massive park.... also, I cant find any numbers unlike the other casks, but im guessing the hair has something to do with it. and did anybody count the amount of squares in his shirt? and run long/ lat off the answer? I count 30 and 35 do those numbers appear anywhere? a: gently caress yes, both are in the long/lat for montreal. now can I get some help hahaha? and that dog looking thing has three different clues, but I cant make them out... stab fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Jun 5, 2013 |
# ¿ Jun 5, 2013 06:21 |
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Imazul posted:Pie IX is a street that pretty much cross Montreal completely from South to North. It's also a metro station on the green line that is neat the Olympic Park. It's nowhere near the legeater statue though. which is the metro that connects to the Olympic stadium, which opened in 1976 there a 76? anywhere in the picture?
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2013 19:06 |
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PunkNickel posted:Cask 9 oh gently caress w= world t= tomorrow that was the name of the exhibit that famously burned down and you guys can see when you watch the f1 race this weekend (the ball that looks like epcot) edit: just spoke to my dad and hes corrected me. world of tomorrow was also the theme of the new york expo and that was the working title of the usa pavillion stab fucked around with this message at 13:25 on Jun 6, 2013 |
# ¿ Jun 6, 2013 12:45 |
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stab posted:oh gently caress oh shittttt guys read the wikipedia page for expo 67 right now. look at the picture of the habitat 67 building across from the port of montreal on ile ste helene and there's the botanical events of the 1980's on that island...can we research what type of flower he's wearing? stab fucked around with this message at 13:05 on Jun 6, 2013 |
# ¿ Jun 6, 2013 12:58 |
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Rick Deckard posted:Montreal oh my god I work a street away from the legeater..im going to check it out on my next shift on Sunday and report back and ive passed by this place a hundred times and never noticed the statue...curse you cultural city! stab fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Jun 7, 2013 |
# ¿ Jun 7, 2013 02:52 |
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Phony Username posted:MONTREAL!! yeah thanks for confirming what I posted like 3 pages ago but the verse is hard to crack
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# ¿ Jun 7, 2013 05:14 |
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can somebody blow up the right side of cask 9? specifically to the right of his hair...there's something there, much lighter than the rest of the background shading...also edit again: is the usa expo 67 display visible in the background of habitat 67? a picture where they align over each other somewhere?
stab fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Jun 8, 2013 |
# ¿ Jun 8, 2013 00:29 |
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Devyl posted:Original: thanks! have we done this exercise with all of cask 9? with our markings and all....
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2013 00:41 |
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god if it is on ile ste helene, the odds of it being still there with all the demo and renovations there is like zero ...I mean there's what like 150 000 people on foot there thia weekend?
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2013 17:43 |
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Merlot Brougham posted:Cask 9 - Montreal, Verse 2 the race course hasnt changed a bit. also crazy thing I just noticed (can google maps confirm?) but there looks to be four ridges near the top of the dudes hat. can those ridges not be a mountain, but actually the outline of "le monstre" (its the wooden rollercoaster at La Ronde) and is still there to this day (and its an awesome coaster too! ) edit: cause if that theory works; another thing to transpose but if we use the dudes head as a map will give us compass bearings, just like that awesome theory for new orleans on this page (if I were a N.O goon id be running there imo) stab fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jun 9, 2013 |
# ¿ Jun 9, 2013 03:28 |
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CronoGamer posted:I like what you have so far with St. Helen's Island and definitely find it intriguing. But I think you're in error here in this picture. Look again at the sigil, specifically at the P part of it. The P you're pulling from the Expo logo is different from the P on the gnome's badge. His P is like a backwards 4, with the angle on the right being like 45 degrees. Yours looks much more like a P and the angle is (roughly) twice as large. I had thought I'd seen the rune-shapes in a few other places around Montreal but you have to be careful on seeing it correctly. I never noticed it or heard of it and I work a street away from it fwiw. buuutttt its around an anglo institution that was known to cater to the elite, the bourgeoisie and the writers so again it might have definetely been something that caught the authors eyes...
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# ¿ Jun 9, 2013 03:38 |
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MassaShowtime posted:Le Monstre wasn't built until 85. yup, youre right. google map if we can see mount royal from any of the four directions?
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# ¿ Jun 9, 2013 04:05 |
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so im at mount stephens house now... let me get home and ill upload the pictures I took. fyi there are six legeaters and what looks to be the flower in that cask pic is plastered all over the building (goons will correct me if im wrong) give me ten hours or so... edit: personal note, after seeing it in person, I feel we can rule out st.louis beyond a shadow of a doubt... stab fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Jun 9, 2013 |
# ¿ Jun 9, 2013 16:15 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Yeah, my guess is the writer just traveled to Montreal and was looking for distinctive landmarks, and the legeater is pretty distinctive. they are not as distinctive as you think, they are super tiny and I can see why I never noticed them before
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# ¿ Jun 9, 2013 16:28 |
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did i say ten hours? i meant ten minutes! load of pics incoming!
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# ¿ Jun 9, 2013 16:45 |
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I work in the sunlife building fyi. I checked out both squares. marie reine du mondes dome is directly across from the mcdonald statue, and theres three statues there as well. its a block and a half away from the legeaters. there is also a flowerbed identical to the cleveland find in the square. but I cant find anything that lines up with the verses. ... ohh and all the tiles on the ground match the checkerbox pattern... stab fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Jun 9, 2013 |
# ¿ Jun 9, 2013 19:21 |
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some pics of dorchester square the interesting one is the fountain...look at the hollow part of it and compare it to the hat. as well, its part of a statue of a lion lying down, dedicated to her SOVEREIGN queen victoria...does that fit a verse? thanks tia stab fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Jun 9, 2013 |
# ¿ Jun 9, 2013 23:33 |
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MassaShowtime posted: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. tell you the truth i didnt even notice that!
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# ¿ Jun 9, 2013 23:53 |
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Guuse posted:Verse 2 has its the YMCA across the street, and according to their website they moved there in 1911.
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2013 00:48 |
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id kill for somebody to break down the mtl picture, the ones on the net reference st.louis in them...
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2013 01:34 |
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Merlot Brougham posted:Montreal ok bear with me, this is a stretch and a half but it's kinda cool imo I wiki'ed trafalgar SQUARE (the square in the px thing gave me the idea) this is a description that shot out at me: On the north side of the square is the National Gallery and to its east St Martin-in-the-Fields church. The square adjoins The Mall entered through Admiralty Arch to the southwest. To the south is Whitehall, to the east Strand and South Africa House, to the north Charing Cross Road and on the west side Canada House. to the north we have the church (du monde basilica, which matches the neckline), to the south we have the monument for canada in the Boer war, fought in south africa, to the west we have the john a macdonald statue, the founder of confederacy, and to the south, we have a big rear end white building (the sunlife building). education and justice? we have sir wilfred laurier monument, the founder of our school system. justice? the queen victoria monument of course. oh and this to say about canada house: Canada House (French: Maison du Canada) is a Greek Revival building on Trafalgar Square in London that is part of the High Commission of Canada in London. Canada House hosts the cultural and consular sections of the High Commission, while the political, trade and administrative functions are carried out from Macdonald House in Mayfair oh and last thing, the lion i spoke about with the victoria monument is in the SAME position as the lion in trafalgar square at the base of Nelson's statue. one hell of a stretch, but eh, why not?
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2013 03:02 |
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if we go north past the church door, it brings us to the second park where macdonald is. what about giant pole giant step? thats what is bugging me, was there or is there a giant pole there? im guessing veres 7 is very close based off the last observations...
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2013 06:07 |
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Merlot Brougham posted:Montreal god drat how did I miss that connection. read the wikipedia page (can somebody copy paste for me im on my phone) the section on the five memorials forming a cross? (go to the boer war memorial page) can somebody google earth the memorials and form a cross for us? and more importantly, where do the five memorials intersect (ie the middle of the cross)? also bad news, tons of renos in 2009 in this park where they uprooted everything...so if by magic the cask was here, the odds of it surviving the renos are super low
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2013 23:29 |
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anybody feel like checking montreal's city archives? I was just told by a friens who works for the city that they photograph every 5 years all landmarks
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# ¿ Jun 12, 2013 03:38 |
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Guuse posted:Huh. It turns out that the Boer War was an "object of Twain's attention," too. with better weather ill take requests for anything in the square. so ask specifics and ill try to get them in to you guys for friday. rule out the checkerboard tiles folks, those were installed in 2009. and in that square alone, that is the correct formation, with macdonald on the other side of the street across from marie reine du monde.
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# ¿ Jun 12, 2013 03:44 |
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Kingnothing posted:Why? It's not even Russian, it's Ukrainian. If you really want more pictures of it ill take some tomorrow, I pass it on my way to work. not like It means much, but wasnt ukraine part of the ussr (russia) in 1982?
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# ¿ Jun 13, 2013 04:48 |
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Montreal (crapload o'pics) so i took a bunch of pics from dorchester square yes, i missed a giant loving flagpole my first time by, some explorer i am. the steps is the closest ones to the flagpole the seagull directed me to where the cask might be i think it's under the squirrel! also, can somebody run the names from the queen victoria lion statue and tell me if they mean anything? thanks talk away...lots of these pics mean nothing but its a batch upload to help you guys out. also fyi, marie reine du monde and st.george's church are a street apart, i never even knew that! can somebody research to see if st.george's has a belltower? it has a spire but that could mean anything... also, i couldnt find the wooden door at marie reine du monde and there was a turkish protest (wtf) outside the church so didnt feel like going around there too much. also if you count the posts and the doors of the sunlife building, theres 21 of them but i put zero stock in that. and theres always a ton of people there fyi
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2013 04:49 |
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umm also can somebody blow up the X in cask 9? what if the x is actually roads or paths intersecting? theres a circle im seeing in the thicker pat of the x... could that be the where to dig clue?
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2013 05:00 |
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yeah the canons are right next to the macdonald statue, didn't take a pic of them because I didn't really see the relevance of them. (yet I did of a squirrel taking a dump)
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2013 06:27 |
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GWBBQ posted:I've gone over street maps and historical imagery as far back as I can for NYC and just about every city in the US with a significant Russian-American population; I haven't found anything past a vague resemblance, especially going on the assumption that the irregularities in the panels behind the bird are significant. oh im very aware of the trouble in Turkey, I was just confused on their choice of location!
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2013 15:13 |
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rookhunter posted:Im sorry I should explain. That backyard is the parking to the former Mount Stephen Club. yeahhhhhh going to need more than that or something a tad more specific. fyi I work two minutes from mount stephen. also, what verse are you using? what images match? etc etc
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2013 22:21 |
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tell me what you want pics of, ive posted over a hundree in this thread...
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2013 23:10 |
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rookhunter posted:Pictures of the parking lot behind the Mount stephen club. Pictures of the planters might help my theory. ill try. the area is closed since 2010 and its under heavy renovations so no promises as I have to enter a construction zone
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2013 23:25 |
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were the cannons used to take down airplanes in a war? sounds from th le sky, ace is high makes me keep thinking of planes....curse you Iron Maiden (the song "aces high") deals with planes during war..... I got nothin'
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# ¿ Jun 18, 2013 12:13 |
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Ive posted angles of the legeater multiple times in the thread. Go look for my batch pics for montreal, its in there...
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2013 19:07 |
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Ceciltron posted:I don't know if they were there before, in 82, because they aren't there right now. No, they are still there.
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# ¿ Jun 30, 2013 03:16 |
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# ¿ May 21, 2024 05:06 |
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Waltzing Along posted:Since no one commented before, I'm just going to repeat and add something: Fifty four percent of montreal considers english their first language . Its okay, us anglo montrealers are used to that.
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# ¿ Jun 30, 2013 05:18 |