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 Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 3:07 pm
In the books it says many times, it is evidence against the bad( or mostly bad, what with the chef salad analogy...) side of the schism... ninja
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 6:06 pm
i think that the sugar bowl is definetly a code or message. Why else would BOTH sides of VFD want it that badly. It must include some sort of message....
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Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:31 pm
With the childrens' game theory, I was wondering why the photos from the set of the movie were all children. Even Sebald was shown as a child, and wow that's big evidence. Snicket never leaves anything that could possibly be a clue, that isn't a clue.
But then again you'd have to elaborate on it.
My theory of VFD is that some of the VFDers met as children (not Snicket, since he was carried off) and became good friends and started a club. As they grew older more people joined this club and eventually they started a fire-fighters organization called Volunteer Fire Department, although it was secret. A lot of their activities were illegal, like carrying off children by their ankles, tattooing them and training them to join. Lemony, Jacques and Kit were carried off, and upon coming to VFD they were immediately trained. During his time at VFD, Snicket met Beatrice, and they were in love. All this time VFD had been branching out into other things, becoming a giant secret organisation. Their official name was not Volunteer Fire Department anymore, but rather, VFD. But arguments started brewing (about what I don't know, we need more info on the schism) and VFD was split into two groups. The sugar bowl was stolen by the 'bad side' and Esme hid it in her house. VFD was falling apart. Lemony and Beatrice came in disguise to Esme's home to get the sugar bowl, and Lemony stole it. Esme, enraged by this, set out to kill Lemony. She almost suceeded, but instead she failed, except she thought she had killed him. The newspapers posted his obituaries, Beatrice eventually found another man, got married and had the Baudelaires. Many years later (14, to be exact) Olaf was still searching for the sugar bowl, which was fireproof, he found out it was in Beatrice's house and set fire to the house...
And that's where our story left off. I think the sugar bowl contains the only thing that can set fire to the One Safe Place.
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 7:58 am
i've just noticed this while reading the slippery slope again. The slippery slop, page 101: Quote: I have at last learned the whereabouts of the evidence that will exonerate me, a phrase which here means "prove to the authroities that it was count olaf, and not me, who has started so many fires." Your suggestion, so many years ago at that picnic, that a tea set would be a handy place to hide anything small in the event of a dark day, has turned out to be correct. (incidentally, your other picnic suggestion, that a simple combination of sliced mango, black beans, and chopped celery mixed with black pepper, lime juice, and olive oil would make a delicious chilled slad also turned out to be correct turn page... Quote: i am now on my way to the valley of four drafts, in order to continue my research of the Baudelaire case. i hope also to retrieve the aforementioned evidence at last. it is too late to restore my happiness, of course, but at least i can clear my name a tea set could contain a sugar bowl, no?
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:46 pm
no-one have any comments on my theory? i think it makes good sense.
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:29 pm
definatly a code of some sort. it has to relate to V.F.D. biggrin and maybe it shows how to kill count olaf. (oh i wish) 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:14 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 6:33 pm
don't know if anyone mentioned this yet, but i think it might contain MEDUSOID MYCELIUM, because it might explain why everyone wanted to get their hands on it: VFD, so they could keep it contained, and Olaf, so he could release it. And if it was air tight, it was so to keep the mycelium trapped inside.
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 5:18 am
I asked my history teacher if there was any significance of a sugar bowl in anything and they replied that some people hid arsenic in them to poision people.
*shrug*
Just a thought.
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 2:42 pm
In the Unfortunate Events Forum someone cleared up that they personally asked Lemony Snicket and he said that it was just one of those things to capture the readers.
Cant remember the word.
One of the ways he allows readers to set up the story and be creative.
Just like the big unknown, what VDF stands for, what happened with the rest of the orphan's life and so on...
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 5:51 pm
Yell at if you want..But I don't think it has meaning to it. As for Esme I think that she'll just sell it so she can become weathly. But yeah Yell if you want
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