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Post by davebakedpotato on Jan 22, 2020 2:04:48 GMT -5
Which kind of map would be the most helpful in our search for your treasure...a road map, a street map, a topographical map or none of the above? Since we can't be sure what constitues a 'good' map, it seems sensible to use Google Earth, as it was specifically mentioned by f.
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Post by goldilocks on Jan 22, 2020 7:49:06 GMT -5
Which kind of map would be the most helpful in our search for your treasure...a road map, a street map, a topographical map or none of the above? Since we can't be sure what constitues a 'good' map, it seems sensible to use Google Earth, as it was specifically mentioned by f. I was hoping to narrow the scale of our search but you are right, Forrest mentions Google Earth AND/OR a good map so it would make the most sense that a general, large scale search area map would be helpful. The one and only map I bought for this hunt years ago is the National Geographic Rocky Mountain map. I appreciate that we help each other answer our questions.
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Post by CJ on Jan 22, 2020 8:30:02 GMT -5
Which kind of map would be the most helpful in our search for your treasure...a road map, a street map, a topographical map or none of the above? Apparently not a topo map:
Huffington Post Margie Goldsmith article (8/23/2011): "'Every day, people call begging for clues. The other day, I had 21 email requests. One man asked if he should buy a topographical map and I told him he’d be better served reading the book again.’" I would argue that a physiographic map of the Rocky mountains is useful in narrowing down the search area, but that's a pretty interesting comment.
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Post by heidini on Feb 29, 2020 7:55:52 GMT -5
What’s your killer question? I found this on Wikipedia and I randomly saw the word killer When I was looking up post marks.
“ A postmark is a postal marking made on a letter, package, postcard or the like indicating the date and time that the item was delivered into the care of the postal service. Modern postmarks are often applied simultaneously with the cancellation or killer that marks the postage stamp(s) as having been used (though in some circumstances there may be a postmark without a killer, and sometimes the postmark and killer form a continuous design), and the two terms are often used interchangeably, if incorrectly.”
Modern postmarks are often applied with cancellation or killer marks?
Postmarks without a killer?
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Post by fennzenn on Mar 1, 2020 2:17:09 GMT -5
Does hiding the treasure in an afternoon imply you went home afterwards?
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Post by davebakedpotato on Mar 1, 2020 3:03:57 GMT -5
Does hiding the treasure in an afternoon imply you went home afterwards? I think that would narrow the search area too much, so he would probably not answer it.
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Post by davebakedpotato on Mar 1, 2020 3:05:00 GMT -5
How about "Do we park at where warm waters halt?" - too much of a clue?
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Post by zaphod73491 on Mar 1, 2020 3:54:46 GMT -5
Does hiding the treasure in an afternoon imply you went home afterwards? Better define "home." Home is where you hang your hat; what if you're on extended vacation?
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Post by zaphod73491 on Mar 1, 2020 4:00:42 GMT -5
How about "Do we park at where warm waters halt?" - too much of a clue? What if he answered "Sure, why not?" Would that tell you anything other than it's a place you could park your car? I think a better question would be "When you left your sedan to hide the treasure, was that car parked at WWWH?" That is a question I doubt he'd answer (because I believe the answer is "No.")
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Post by jdiggins on Mar 1, 2020 10:50:47 GMT -5
If you were a searcher, what question would you ask yourself that you would answer truthfully? 😜😜😜
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Post by jdiggins on Mar 1, 2020 10:52:24 GMT -5
Or, rather, answer straight forward, or non embellished, or easy to understand, or understandably, undeniably a hint? 😜😜😜🤣🤣🤣🤗🤗🤗
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Post by fennzenn on Mar 1, 2020 21:11:06 GMT -5
Does hiding the treasure in an afternoon imply you went home afterwards? I think that would narrow the search area too much, so he would probably not answer it. Probably yea. But I'd still love to have heard it posed. Sometimes you can glean information from how he declines to answer ie- long pauses, words chosen,etc,etc ....For me, it's a natural follow-up since he did throw it out there himself that he hid it in a single afternoon.
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Post by fennzenn on Mar 1, 2020 21:13:29 GMT -5
How about "Do we park at where warm waters halt?" - too much of a clue? What if he answered "Sure, why not?" Would that tell you anything other than it's a place you could park your car? I think a better question would be "When you left your sedan to hide the treasure, was that car parked at WWWH?" That is a question I doubt he'd answer (because I believe the answer is "No.") Away on business or vacation still wouldn't be 'home' per se. Have you ever , in any sense, considered an extended vacation or business trip as 'home'? I haven't. Home is still home and there's only one, but that's just me.
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Post by zaphod73491 on Mar 1, 2020 21:25:33 GMT -5
What if he answered "Sure, why not?" Would that tell you anything other than it's a place you could park your car? I think a better question would be "When you left your sedan to hide the treasure, was that car parked at WWWH?" That is a question I doubt he'd answer (because I believe the answer is "No.") Away on business or vacation still wouldn't be 'home' per se. Have you ever , in any sense, considered an extended vacation or business trip as 'home'? I haven't. Home is still home and there's only one, but that's just me. Your point is taken, though we're still talking in hypotheticals. Forrest has never said he was HOME (by any definition of that word) the same day he hid the treasure. As a counterargument, lots of people have multiple "homes." Even if you don't own vacation property, suppose you were visiting your parents in the same house you grew up in as a kid. If you say you went out fishing with your dad and were home in time for supper, I think it would be understood that "home" in this case was your parents' place, not your own home.
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