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[Big Joe]

Originally Posted by Mr. Ears

('We');('What was all that about?');('Live');('As');('We');('Dream...');('Did I kill Kiki?');('There was nothing I could do. He had disappeared.');

These are all Dance Dance Dance refrences:
What was all that about - Kiki's line in the movie
Did I kill Kiki? - Gotanda's line in the pizza shop
There was nothing I could do. He dissapeared. - Gotanda Suicide

Originally Posted by Mr. Ears

('wrapped in his sheep costume.')('any indication.');('boarded up from inside.');('No Bath.');('directly into the saucer.');('must\'ve slept on the floor');('worm-eatten');('Whatever became of him?');('very, old, round, set with one candle in the middle.')('walls and ceiling');('No lights.');('It was the Sheepman\'s Room.')('There was barely enough room to walk.');('It wasn\'t the old hotel either.');('piles of books.');('Narrow and Cramped.');('No bed.');

This is all the description of the Sheep man's room, also from Dance Dance Dance. TINP seems to like to throw stuff around, so although its an interesting find, I dont think it has much significance...

I suggest reading Dance Dance Dance, its a really good book, and it will help with the website

[MuadDib]

I've jsut discovered another Murakami reference.
some of the ASCII in the dutch truck page translated to "what comes after we tire of chasing wild sheep" (or something)
an amazon searh of Murakami brought up this http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...610496-4454233
possibly meaningless, but another thing to look at

[Hajik]

hey, im new, but complete awesomeness, im not sure of the exact specifics but ill post them tomorrow or at the very least sunday, a friend found something about a shovel and snow, something like "Shovel the best snow", something like that, also me and my friends are splitting up Dance, Dance, Dance, Frankenstien and a few other books, also im checking out the short story Death of a Salesman, so we're trying very hard to crack this, be back soon

[BrianR]

WOW! Not a single period. Anywhere! Must be a teenager with a cell phone and texting.

[Hajik]

Damn. I'm sorry grammer was so importent to you. If it bothers you that much then I'll make sure to use the proper grammer next time.

[Griff]

I don't know if this was mentioned yet, but on that Rober Silvers page with the pictures of the freaky robot head, one of the popups has the title 'a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy'. That line is from Shakespeare's play Hamlet and it refers to Yorick, the court jester. Hamlet finds Yorick's skull while digging around in a graveyard and the he does the 'to be or not to be' thing.
Hamlet also says "When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause......For who would bear the whips and scorns of time.....but that the dread of something after death"
Maybe that has something to do with how robots don't die? Or maybe about Frankenstein?

[Aizen]

Just finished reading Dance Dance Dance. Hmm.

-Usually when the protag thinks about Mei, he says 'cuck-koo' and something about her 'shoveling sensual snow'.

-The protagonist saw six skeletons in Honolulu. They belonged to The Rat, Kiki, Mei, Gotanda, Dick North (one-armed skeleton), and the sixth one maybe belonged to the Sheep Man.

-The Maserati seems important to Gotanda's character. It's connected with death and despair...

That's all I can think of :/

[Big Joe]

Originally Posted by Aizen

-The protagonist saw six skeletons in Honolulu. They belonged to The Rat, Kiki, Mei, Gotanda, Dick North (one-armed skeleton), and the sixth one maybe belonged to the Sheep Man.

FYI, that the final skeleton is revealed in Wild Sheep Chase, another book my murakami

[Kiache]

Hi guys, I'm only on page 16 of the thread right now, but I noticed nobody has mentioned the picture of the boy. On the main page, if you click the "abandon all hope" text at the bottom, it brings up a little picture. If you right click it and click proporties, and then type the URL in to your brower, it shows the full picture, and it's of a little boy.

[XRedBlazeX]

Originally Posted by Kiache

Hi guys, I'm only on page 16 of the thread right now, but I noticed nobody has mentioned the picture of the boy. On the main page, if you click the "abandon all hope" text at the bottom, it brings up a little picture. If you right click it and click proporties, and then type the URL in to your brower, it shows the full picture, and it's of a little boy.

That link changes every once in awhile. It used to be a link to the TINP official forums (http://www.thisisnotporn.com/forums/index.php) and it's also linked to various pictures in the past. Thanks for pointing this out though, I'm not sure if we've talked about it here but I know there's a big discussion about it at the TINP forums.

[juuhanna]

Originally Posted by Kiache

Hi guys, I'm only on page 16 of the thread right now, but I noticed nobody has mentioned the picture of the boy. On the main page, if you click the "abandon all hope" text at the bottom, it brings up a little picture. If you right click it and click proporties, and then type the URL in to your brower, it shows the full picture, and it's of a little boy.

Go to page 33 of this thread and you'll see me talking about it. =P I used that 'Abandon all hope'-link for about few months and it always lead to the official TINP forums, but lately it has been leading to different pictures and such.

[Dunlavy]

Seems the website updated for one of the lightbulbs. There is now one for what I believe to be Death of Salesman, and it also says audition. I'm now stuck here. I've been trying to sort characters similar between books, find uniwue passages within the section, but to no avail. thought I'd just bring it to attention. Peace.

[XRedBlazeX]

Originally Posted by Dunlavy

Seems the website updated for one of the lightbulbs. There is now one for what I believe to be Death of Salesman, and it also says audition. I'm now stuck here. I've been trying to sort characters similar between books, find uniwue passages within the section, but to no avail. thought I'd just bring it to attention. Peace.

This has been here since before Frankenstein was solved. We've come a long way while working on it, but we're still far from a solution.

[BrianR]

And spelling too, while you're at it!

[glatt]

And sit up straight, damnit!