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Delivery McGee posted:Edit again: I've promised my partner I won't, because he's got it sewn up this afternoon, and nobody else should bother trying either, because he's got a location/ghost story everybody has heard of. Disney made a movie based on the story in question.  My dad's Kia in front of the Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse and the Van Alen House. I gotta start this off by saying that Tarrytown bastards can eat my rear end Washington Irving was buddies with folks here in the town of Kinderhook, New York, and he stayed here before he went to England and wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He based many of the characters on local people -- Ichabod himself was based on his good buddy, local schoolteacher Jesse Merwin, Katrina van Tassel was a daughter of the Van Alen family who lived in that little brick house in the background of the above photo, and supposedly Brom Bones was a Van Alstyne -- that family still lives in the area, so I couldn't take a picture of their house or that would be creepy. The story of the Hessian ghost who inspired Brom Bones' prank is also a Kinderhook legend, associated with a particular old cemetery that has a section of Hessian graves, but I forgot how to get to that cemetery and gave up after I found myself going in circles. Additionally, this site in the pictures is itself supposed to be haunted by some sort of phantom who whistles at people when no-one else is around; I didn't get whistled at while I was taking this picture, though. (I have heard a "phantom whistler" while hanging out doing night fishing with a friend of mine who lives on the creek, just through the woods behind this house, but for all I know there might be some kind of local wildlife that makes a noise like a human whistling; I'm not ready to assign it to a ghostly schoolteacher!) When you're basing a ton of characters on real people who live in a real small town, it's just rude to outright state the specific location where they live and thus expose them in all their not-very-flatteringly-depicted glory to all of your readers; Irving namedropped Tarrytown in the introduction to the story, and Tarrytown ran with it, but they're a bunch of lying liars and it's our story not theirs gently caress Tarrytown  e: if this gets accepted for the prompt, mine is: a live bird on a car, or a large number of live birds near a car InediblePenguin fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Jul 13, 2017 |
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I like seagulls, but I think grackles are cheating because every Walmart parking lot in North America contains 10,000 of them and they're not even cute
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Jul 14, 2017 01:11
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What a good bird!
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Jul 14, 2017 09:26
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 I still don't have my own car yet but I took my mom's minivan to the local ice cream parlor for you yesterday. It was unusually cold so I ended up being the only one in the parking lot, but it was still hard to get a good photo because of the layout of the place. Hope this works? If it's cool, my challenge will be:  your ride and a LARGE statue -- a piece of public art, not like, a garden gnome. Double points if the statue is pointing at your vehicle
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Jul 27, 2017 04:08
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Human-sized or larger -- just, like, not a dinky lawn trinket, that's all!
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Jul 27, 2017 21:22
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You could try it anyway! I don't require the statue of liberty here, that's just Delivery McGee's bonus challenge
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Jul 28, 2017 19:16
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Excellent entry and a couple neat stories here, very nice!
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Jul 29, 2017 14:35
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quote:Ephphatha really deserves the win for that pic. It might not be world renowned but it's important.
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Jul 29, 2017 14:59
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