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Re: What if a state has more than one town with the same name?
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Reply to: #99459 by Doc's Menagerie
Jun 12, 2007 3:41pm
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Quote Or lack of imagination.


Oh ho! Don't be dissin' the Commonwealth. We got LOADS of imaginination. Just a few things that we started:

Mr. Yuk :)
Zippo Lighters
Harley Davidson Motorcycles
Daylight Savings Time
the Ferris Wheel
cream cheese
the typewriter
the banana split
Bingo
the accordion
the Big Mac
Sesame Street/Mister Rogers

Additionally, every Pennsylvanian is within 15 minutes of a state park, state forest, or game land.

How's THAT for boxing territoy?

We can't be bothered with naming towns. That's trivial to us. We gotta be out DOING stuff.

Mr. Yuk
Re: What if a state has more than one town with the same name?
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Reply to: #99461 by Mr Yuk
Jun 12, 2007 3:47pm
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Well, I am DEFINITELY enamored with PA, just because of Daylight Savings Time and Mr. Rogers!

The rest on the list are good, too.

KuKu
Re: What if a state has more than one town with the same name?
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Reply to: #99461 by Mr Yuk
Jun 12, 2007 4:00pm
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It's like the Mecca of kitsch....except maybe the typewriter they are far too dignified for kitsch.

AGJ
Re: What if a state has more than one town with the same nam
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Reply to: #99313 by Bungalow Boxer
Jun 14, 2007 5:57am
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People do travel around quite a bit these days but I'd start my search in Panther country. If that one didn't fit then go down the list.

Gerania

Quote OK, I was just checking out a new box by Pink Panther (I believe) in Egypt, PA. (Caught my eye since I didn't know PA had a town named Egypt. I went to mapquest the town via AQ and it gave me THREE towns named Egypt in PA, all in different counties.

Now, I don't know enough about PA to know which county this particular Egypt is in. Is there a way to narrow it down to just one when going to Mapquest via AQ? Perhaps the planter needs to put in a zip code or something? Just wondering.....

Music Woman
Re: What if a state has more than one town with the same name?
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Reply to: #99461 by Mr Yuk
Jun 14, 2007 9:52am
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Quote Oh ho! Don't be dissin' the Commonwealth.


Didn't mean to diss the Commonwealth and I definitely give you snaps for the following:

Harley Davidson Motorcycles
the Ferris Wheel
cream cheese
the typewriter
the banana split
Bingo
Sesame Street/Mister Rogers

Especially cream cheese. But I think you might lose points for the accordian, daylight savings time and the big mac. Don't get mad, it's a personal opinion, and mostly teasing.

Quote Additionally, every Pennsylvanian is within 15 minutes of a state park, state forest, or game land.


You've got me there.

Quote We can't be bothered with naming towns. That's trivial to us. We gotta be out DOING stuff.


Okay, but don't be surpirsed if everyone who comes to visit is LOST!

Doc's Menagerie *looking forward to being lost in Pennsylvannia someday*
Re: What if a state has more than one town with the same nam
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Reply to: #99317 by Otis' Friends
Jun 15, 2007 4:32am
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I like this situation. Pink Panther has provided a non-vanilla clue, which is refreshing. Determining which Egypt is correct offers a little puzzle for the finder to solve. Took me under 5 minutes to find the correct Egypt. As Otis Friends points out, there is enough info to narrow it down. I would add, more than enough.

I definitely would not support using Ryan's muscle to force planters to provide more definitive info on anything. That would set a precedent that could prove to be more than unfortunate. AQ provides an excellent service to the letterboxing community without being the letterbox police.

oldhounder
Re: What if a state has more than one town with the same nam
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Reply to: #100306 by Oldhounder
Jun 15, 2007 6:17am
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>>
I like this situation. Pink Panther has provided a non-vanilla clue, which is refreshing. Determining which Egypt is correct offers a little puzzle for the finder to solve. Took me under 5 minutes to find the correct Egypt. As Otis Friends points out, there is enough info to narrow it down. I would add, more than enough.

I definitely would not support using Ryan's muscle to force planters to provide more definitive info on anything. That would set a precedent that could prove to be more than unfortunate. AQ provides an excellent service to the letterboxing community without being the letterbox police.

>>

I'd like to echo upon what Oldhounder and Otis have said. There are many references within the clue that will give those willing to expend a little effort the answers to finding these boxes. The clues are very clever and tell the story in an Egyptian theme. Kind of like "Old School Boxing," is it not?

After all, a certain prominent CT blogger did recently ask "Whatever happened to the sense of Discovery?" or something in a similar vein.

LB