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Post by zaphod73491 on Apr 26, 2019 13:04:35 GMT -5
This is mostly for astree, but I've posted this here several times before. "To an ant a mud puddle can be like an ocean." Just anagram the first 9 letters of that sentence: TOANANTAM = AT MONTANA.
Now, what I don't think I have shared here before. That reply to Milan from Forrest starts with: "It's not that easy Milan." That will (incompletely) anagram to "Yes, it's at Montana" with the letters HILT leftover.
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Post by goldilocks on Apr 26, 2019 13:38:19 GMT -5
This is mostly for astree, but I've posted this here several times before. "To an ant a mud puddle can be like an ocean." Just anagram the first 9 letters of that sentence: TOANANTAM = AT MONTANA. Now, what I don't think I have shared here before. That reply to Milan from Forrest starts with: "It's not that easy Milan." That will (incompletely) anagram to "Yes, it's at Montana" with the letters HILT leftover. To Zap and all of you anagrammers out there, "like an ocean" anagrams to "on a nice lake" so I think we can pick and choose words and anagram them to suit our needs.
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Post by heidini on Apr 26, 2019 15:58:25 GMT -5
Maybe Forrest was referring to his name, and the treasure's image, being "mud" under the circumstances and in some people's mind, at the time. I'm referring only to my article linked above. This still leaves open the claim made to Sacha. What an ENTERPRISEing idea. đ Was the ALAMO made of mud bricks? I like her video mentioning adobe- that is mud bricks.
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Post by heidini on Apr 26, 2019 16:00:55 GMT -5
I still think I heard forrest say âcovered in mudâ about the finder. Was it in a video?
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Post by zaphod73491 on Apr 26, 2019 16:11:42 GMT -5
This is mostly for astree, but I've posted this here several times before. "To an ant a mud puddle can be like an ocean." Just anagram the first 9 letters of that sentence: TOANANTAM = AT MONTANA. Now, what I don't think I have shared here before. That reply to Milan from Forrest starts with: "It's not that easy Milan." That will (incompletely) anagram to "Yes, it's at Montana" with the letters HILT leftover. To Zap and all of you anagrammers out there, "like an ocean" anagrams to "on a nice lake" so I think we can pick and choose words and anagram them to suit our needs. Hi Goldilocks: yes, anagrams are a poor, ambiguous way to deliver hints - especially long ones, at which point it's hopeless. But in the example I gave here, you can pull "at Montana" from the first sentence of Forrest's reply *and* the first 9 letters of the last sentence in his reply -- the SAME reply. By this same system, Forrest has hinted at an important word over a hundred times in his books, Scrapbooks, MW Weekly Words, and so forth. And most importantly, multiple times in the poem. When you have that much repetition of a rare word (that isn't short), you know it's intentional and not happenstance.
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Post by goldilocks on Apr 26, 2019 20:39:28 GMT -5
To Zap and all of you anagrammers out there, "like an ocean" anagrams to "on a nice lake" so I think we can pick and choose words and anagram them to suit our needs. Hi Goldilocks: yes, anagrams are a poor, ambiguous way to deliver hints - especially long ones, at which point it's hopeless. But in the example I gave here, you can pull "at Montana" from the first sentence of Forrest's reply *and* the first 9 letters of the last sentence in his reply -- the SAME reply. By this same system, Forrest has hinted at an important word over a hundred times in his books, Scrapbooks, MW Weekly Words, and so forth. And most importantly, multiple times in the poem. When you have that much repetition of a rare word (that isn't short), you know it's intentional and not happenstance. Are you suggesting the state of Montana because Montana also means mountain in Spanish and there sure are a lot of those in the Rockies!
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Post by zaphod73491 on Apr 26, 2019 23:54:29 GMT -5
Montana is also the "Treasure" State.
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Post by harrytruman on Apr 28, 2019 22:09:43 GMT -5
Sacha took the video down, and I think I understand why, but I wanted to listen again to catch what she was saying about "bruises."
Does any recall what that comment was (or was about)?
Zaphod: I don't know if "home by suppertime" was feeding a line, per se, but I don't think it means he was literally back at his home in Santa Fe by a certain hour -- just that he finished up that day's "work" in good time.
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Post by heidini on Apr 28, 2019 22:29:57 GMT -5
[quote author=" harrytruman" source="/post/31355/thread" timestamp="1556507383 Zaphod: I don't know if "home by suppertime" was feeding a line, per se, but I don't think it means he was literally back at his home in Santa Fe by a certain hour -- just that he finished up that day's "work" in good time.[/quote] I agree.
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Post by fennster on Apr 29, 2019 11:11:25 GMT -5
The whole back by dinner clue has always been a little weird to me. It isn't verified enough by me. Third hand knowledge at this point doesn't work for me. This journalist could easily have misunderstood the context. "I was up and back in time for supper" could easily have meant that I was up and back in a day or two. Also we know that Forrest is very independent. He's often gone on adventures by himself. That is mentioned multiple times. So the versions of this quote that I have seen with Peggy not realizing he was gone, don't hold a lot of weight with me. He stays up late and often wakes up early. He's out on adventures. She didn't realize he was burying the treasure but nothing was out of the ordinary.
My very firm belief is that he was gone over night.
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Post by goldilocks on Apr 29, 2019 11:25:23 GMT -5
Also home doesnât literally mean home, could mean back to his hotel or wherever he was staying by supper.
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Post by zaphod73491 on Apr 29, 2019 13:25:47 GMT -5
Sacha took the video down, and I think I understand why, but I wanted to listen again to catch what she was saying about "bruises." Does any recall what that comment was (or was about)? Zaphod: I don't know if "home by suppertime" was feeding a line, per se, but I don't think it means he was literally back at his home in Santa Fe by a certain hour -- just that he finished up that day's "work" in good time. Hi Harry -- we actually have no evidence that Forrest ever said the words "home by suppertime." It's all hearsay. For instance, he might have said "...back by suppertime," leaving open the question of "Back *where*? Your hotel?"
Sacha took the video down not that long after putting up her short correction video last week, and I think it was the right thing to do. It came down to hearsay of hearsay: the reporter's recollection of what Forrest said, and then Sacha's recollection of what the reporter said to her ... from, what, 6 months ago? That she confused Chris with the book writer only reinforced the level of uncertainty about the whole thing.
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Post by robjohnson on May 12, 2019 8:20:48 GMT -5
On the "home by suppertime" supposed quote, remember that Forrest doesn't give private hints to anyone: especially not a reporter who is ALSO a searcher. So three possibilities: Forrest was feeding him a line, the reporter misunderstood the context of the statement, or Forrest doesn't consider the information helpful. On that third possibility, consider three facts: 12:01 is "afternoon", Forrest is a man in means, and he hid the treasure in either June or early July--the longest days of the year. Given that, can any of the four states truly be ruled out? And take it a step further, if you want. His "home" for the day does not have to be in Santa Fe.
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