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| Lauri Ahonen (Klaivu)
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Hmm. You said that the place was nearby. So maybe not. | ||
| Larry Troxler (Quackscience)
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By Lauri Ahonen (Klaivu) on Friday, September 30, 2005 - 05:09 pm: Hell? "Hello There" with "O" and "T" struck out? No | ||
| Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
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A street sign? | ||
| Larry Troxler (Quackscience)
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By Tim A. Dowd (Bodo) on Friday, September 30, 2005 - 05:57 pm: A street sign? Yes! | ||
| Lisa (Dlcygnet)
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*confused, thought we'd eliminated the possibility of a street sign earlier* Ok then. Was it the intersection of two oddly named streets? Or just the name of a single street? | ||
| Larry Troxler (Quackscience)
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By Lisa (Dlcygnet) on Friday, September 30, 2005 - 06:21 pm: *confused, thought we'd eliminated the possibility of a street sign earlier* That's why I was wondering if I answered a question the wrong way at some point. In any case, sorry! Ok then. Was it the intersection of two oddly named streets? Yes, depending on what you mean by oddly named Or just the name of a single street? But the answer here is also Yes! You're actually pretty close now, and this is the part that of the puzzle that I thought would be the toughest! | ||
| Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
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Do they invoke a specific, well-known location which is not usually identified with New Yawk? Do they specify a characteristic usually not associated with New Yorkers (e. g. the intersection of Sweetness and Light streets)? | ||
| Lisa (Dlcygnet)
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*looks at a map* Intersection of Washington and Houston? | ||
| Larry Troxler (Quackscience)
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By Tim A. Dowd (Bodo) on Friday, September 30, 2005 - 06:38 pm: Do they invoke a specific, well-known location which is not usually identified with New Yawk? Do they specify a characteristic usually not associated with New Yorkers (e. g. the intersection of Sweetness and Light streets)? Nope, none of that | ||
| Lisa (Dlcygnet)
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*points back to her previous post* There aren't that many named streets... this shouldn't take long if that's not it. *rofl* | ||
| Larry Troxler (Quackscience)
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By Lisa (Dlcygnet) on Friday, September 30, 2005 - 06:42 pm: *looks at a map* Intersection of Washington and Houston? No | ||
| Larry Troxler (Quackscience)
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By Lisa (Dlcygnet) on Friday, September 30, 2005 - 06:46 pm: *points back to her previous post* There aren't that many named streets... this shouldn't take long if that's not it. *rofl* Mmm, your map must not be a complete map then. There are quite a few named streets in Greenwich Village. | ||
| Lisa (Dlcygnet)
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Ok... is the name of the street... A person's first name? A person's last name? A number? Bank Street? Gay street? Other? | ||
| Larry Troxler (Quackscience)
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By Lisa (Dlcygnet) on Friday, September 30, 2005 - 07:01 pm: Ok... is the name of the street... A person's first name? A person's last name? A number? Bank Street? Gay street? lol None of those. You like taking the brute force approach, don't you  Other? Yes | ||
| Larry Troxler (Quackscience)
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BLOOPER A person's last name? To be more accurate: I'm not sure. But in any case irrelevant. This puzzle could be solved without knowing the specific street(s) involved. | ||
| Barbara Johannessen Bailey (Rabrab)
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Hmmm. For a street sign, personally I probably would have said Yes to 'informational?' and Yes-ish to 'identifying?' But that's me. It's hard to tell on the map I'm looking at--is Marginal Street in the East Village? | ||
| Larry Troxler (Quackscience)
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By Barbara Johannessen Bailey (Rabrab) on Friday, September 30, 2005 - 07:31 pm: Hmmm. For a street sign, personally I probably would have said Yes to 'informational?' and Yes-ish to 'identifying?' But that's me. Ok, I thought that may have been the issue. I should have asked for clarification. It's hard to tell on the map I'm looking at--is Marginal Street in the East Village? It looks to me that there's a Marginal street in Midtown - do you see it at all on your map, and just aren't sure what neighborhood it's in? (In any case Fred isn't on Marginal street). | ||
| Tim A. Dowd (Bodo)
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The specific street names are not relevant per se? What about the descriptor-thingie (street, avenue, court, way, drive, road, route, boulevard, parkway, expressway etc.)? One-way vs. two-way relevant? Any sort of foreign language? | ||
| Lisa (Dlcygnet)
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Avenue of the Americas? Greenwich Street? Bleeker Street? YES. I like the brute force method. Finesse only works when I'm lucid and can think in a round-about way. Which is definately not this Friday. | ||
| Larry Troxler (Quackscience)
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By Tim A. Dowd (Bodo) on Friday, September 30, 2005 - 07:49 pm: The specific street names are not relevant per se? Hmm, maybe because it's the end of a long week, I'm not sure how to answer this without spoiling the puzzle. Let's just say that if you woke up tomorow in an alternate universe where all the "A"'s in the world were changed to "B's, all the "B"s changed to "C"'s etc, so that all names were meaningless, the situation would still be amusing. What about the descriptor-thingie (street, avenue, court, way, drive, road, route, boulevard, parkway, expressway etc.)? Nope One-way vs. two-way relevant? No Any sort of foreign language? No By Lisa (Dlcygnet) on Friday, September 30, 2005 - 07:51 pm: Avenue of the Americas? Greenwich Street? Bleeker Street? None of those YES. I like the brute force method. Finesse only works when I'm lucid and can think in a round-about way. Which is definately not this Friday. lol, I know what you mean. I've been trying to think of a good question for your "Get 'er done" puzzle, and my mind is just fried. Anyhow, let me know if you want to email you which of your guesses might be geographically closest. You will need a *good* map though if you want to crack it this way. In researching this puzzle, I found that some of the online map services had problems with this situation and/or weren't detailed enough. | ||
| Lisa (Dlcygnet)
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Was that his problem? He had an internet map and the street he was on wasn't shown? | ||
| Lisa (Dlcygnet)
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Another good question... what do you count as being greenwich village? What streets count as the borders of the village? I'm guessing the water... Houston... and ? |
