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OMG!!! Noooooooooooooo. Dave, train, stairs! :'(





and there's a pole in the background lol

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I'd say something witty, but all I got is...


Billfred! Caption Contest hopper!

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Whoa. Definitely confirms all the train related conspiracy theories.

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After the game hint came out, I was inspired to do more research and to hear what others had to say. This picture only reinforces my Theory, which I shall summarize and ask for critiques on:

After the Delphi pack mirrored the game hint image and reverse-image searched it, the person in question came about. I think it would be a fair assumption that the person in the image is Eva Boyd (AKA Little EVA). She was a singer, and a fairly good one at that! One of her hit songs turned out to be "The Loco-Motion".

This conspicuous and apparently non-related picture includes a Mr. Dave Lavery. We all know that Dave, being the conspirator he is, has a hand in much of this mischief. Odds are (In my probably incorrect opinion) that these two instances of trains and or Loco-Motion leads us down a path, or shall I say a rail-road, which will in turn bring us to kickoff ;)

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Was this recently taken? When Dave knew the game? If yes we will be seeing a train game if no, Jan. 8th can't come sooner.

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Pretty sure Dave knows the game when it's designed. ;)

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Did he know of the game during that picture? (correction lessen to what I mean not what I say)

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Or he could just be messing with us...

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just proves those guys have loco-motives

:p

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So one day John was playing with Photoshop..........

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Thats quite puny! :D

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Nope, it's a real picture.

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Yay, another red herring for them to mess with us, or is this supposed to be another hint that they won't admit to? Either way, I am going to be over-analyzing this just as I did with the last picture. Now I have something to do on the 8 hours of driving I have left today.

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I'm thinking this is just Mr. JVN having a bit of fun with the people desperate for something to interpret. ;)

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It's true. I've seen this picture before.

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Wow traffic cones;)

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I noticed them as well...

Also, I bet Dave had a series of pictures setup so based on what we started guessing on, then that's what he would post... Oh I'm on to you....

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Dave is wearing what appears to be a Lynyrd Skynyrd t-shirt...I'm sure he intended this to mean something. I think I'll go grab a plate of mashed potatoes and try to figure it all out now.

Also, what is written on that piece of paper Chris is holding? Probably the password to the encrypted game rules.

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JVN:


Why.

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I've often thought (at least for the past 3 years...) that Dave 'rewards' us with something like a dot or a photo or pun/post - when we get something or partially get something. It's like a puzzle. Ok, you have that piece - somewhat - now here's another one.

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I remember the photo that JVN posted. He and Dave both like linkages. There is also a great admiration (from at least one of them) for steam and locomotives. I, personally, like the bell. Clang, clang, clang. And, of course, there is the whistle. Nothing like a mournful whistle of train.

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Because he can. :ahh:

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Ulterior loco-motives, I dare say.

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One of the game pieces in this year's BEST game is the traffic cone. It's an interesting game piece.

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FFFRRRRRREEEEEEBIRD!!!!! Its a flying game, all robots will have wings and the goal is shaped like Alabama

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I, for one, refused to be railroaded down this train of thought so easily! Geeze, one lousy game hint just builds up steam for any old picture to come through and go two pages in a matter of hours.

I got a million of 'em. If you're right, CD will hear them all. ;)

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A picture says a thousand words

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Nice one, Karthik. Did they escape one of the cars?

oooo, I get to use a sarcasm smilie... :rolleyes:

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At this time of the season, there is only one response: BAAAAAAAAA-humbug!





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I didn't expect ewe to say that.

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This from the guy who's been trying to pull the wool over our eyes for so long? :p

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Another locomotive....next to dave's picture....seems to be a 2-10-0
decapod type. Hard to tell from such a small picture. Might be one of the former mid western roads (Frisco,IC, MP,
Katy, etc.)Yes I'm a train nut.

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Like lambs to the slaughter.

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Herd that!

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Hay is the new corn.

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Not to get anyone's goat, but it is done for the shear joy of spinning a good yarn. And if we can yak about fleecing JVN out of a few good ideas at the same time, then it is worth ramming through the discussion before hoofing it out of here. At least, that is what I heard from Dan Merino...

-dave


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What that picture tells me is that someone is wasting their time with sheep. The real money is in Alpacas.

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Don't you have a game animation to work on, Dave, rather than figuring out the puniest way to reply to this thread? :p

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He is working on it. It's rendering.

Which explains why he's acting like a programmer whose code is compiling...:yikes:

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Ahh! I completely understand! Being an animator myself, waiting for scenes to render brings back memories of time on CD. :D

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As in "Alpaca suitcase for this trip"? :confused:

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See ya next fall!




[npoe] I love this thread, its so punny. [/npoe]

[side note] npoe is not the accurate notation, but its the best notation. [/sn]

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Pretty Close.

I think the locomotive in the Background is a Frisco 4-8-4 of the 4500 series, number 4501. Bell, hand rails, and headlight match.

The foreground locomotive has to be one of the monster 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy"s of the Union Pacific, number 4018. You can tell by the coupler door and louvers in the nose.

If my locomotive sleuthing is correct, then this picture was taken at the Museum of the American Railroad in Dallas Texas.

Just a wild guess, I'm a narrow gauge train nut. Give me big mountains and small locomotives. :cool:

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Well... Chris is also trying to push the train... Perhaps there is some sort of game element in which the teams will have to push?

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For the (very) few who don't understand this one: http://xkcd.com/303/

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Pretty Close.

I think the locomotive in the Background is a Frisco 4-8-4 of the 4500 series, number 4501. Bell, hand rails, and headlight match.

The foreground locomotive has to be one of the monster 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy"s of the Union Pacific, number 4018. You can tell by the coupler door and louvers in the nose.

If my locomotive sleuthing is correct, then this picture was taken at the Museum of the American Railroad in Dallas Texas.

Just a wild guess, I'm a narrow gauge train nut. Give me big mountains and small locomotives.
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Hi.... No I mean the picture next to dave's signature picture. thats no 4-8-4
in the picture....then again I'm a Pennsy nut ,closest thing they had to that was the T-1.
BTW....who took the thread picture? and note Dave has a camera.

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Trains, Stairs, and Poles, but what about the Traffic Cones in the picture? I see two, and I've always thought they could be a game piece. A traffic cone from my perspective represents a circle (top view), triangle (side view) and a square (at the base).

As far as how they would be used? I have no clue, just pointing them out.

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Or to quote citysearch.net - approximately 22 mi or 30 minutes north from Red Oak, Texas, location of the Steamboat Willie Memorial Overpass.

A more formal portrait of the 4018 may be seen at http://www.dallasrailwaymuseum.com/collection.html

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so...
who is Dan Merino?

(I may regret this.)

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Merino is a breed of sheep. Dan Marino is the former Miami Dolphins quarterback.

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Good ol' Monty Python! :D

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Be afraid

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I am very afraid!

Has anyone read his FIRST wiki any time soon?

http://www.firstwiki.net/index.php/Dave_Lavery

Despite the fact that it was last edited in December of 2006, some of the things are interesting.

In fact, I did not know that he was taken away by aliens at the VCU regional in 2005! :p

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I feel like were being led into the wrong direction...

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Off track? ;)

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Derailed. Cool game name, that.

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I think that the best parts of that wiki are the link to the badger video, "His teammate Heidi is fond of photoshopping the dignity out of him.", and the Dave Lavery Photo Gallery.

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No way! I completely missed that! Great find! Blackmail anyone? :rolleyes:

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Heidi's username in CD is MissInformation.

You can search some of her posts and will find that she was generous in sharing her wit, humor, and wisdom here in ChiefDelphi. If I remember correctly, some of her artwork found its way to the big screen at the Championship not too very long ago. :)

Jane

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Dozer is a great robot. Look at his amazing highlights.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm9nd-3hW_E

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I'm still fond of photoshopping the dignity out of Dave, it just happens more on FB these days...



Heidi
-I really do need to update that gallery...

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Love the Trekkie shirt. :)

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Boiler Up?

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Hmm. I think I sense Dave blushing... :p

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John:

A question that has nothing to do with any hints...
Is that the train museum in Roanoke, VA?

Just wondering.

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Here' ya go!