Comments on: Poe's mysterious stranger misses annual grave visit http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 18:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-693517 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-693517 Did anybody just ASK him? Did anybody just ASK him?

]]> By: Yamara http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692509 Yamara Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692509 The mystery will deepen when, many miles to the northeast, the Boston Police Department will report that a John Doe of approximately the same build as the Toaster was found last night lying in a state of delirium outside a polling place, before being taken to Massachusetts General where he was admitted in critical condition. Efforts to save him proved fruitless; his only words before he died were repeating the name "Scott Brown". The mystery will deepen when, many miles to the northeast, the Boston Police Department will report that a John Doe of approximately the same build as the Toaster was found last night lying in a state of delirium outside a polling place, before being taken to Massachusetts General where he was admitted in critical condition.

Efforts to save him proved fruitless; his only words before he died were repeating the name “Scott Brown”.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692525 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692525 wasn't this resolved last year when the "mysterious stranger" revealed himself to be a member of a local historical society engaged in a cross generational publicity stunt? wasn’t this resolved last year when the “mysterious stranger” revealed himself to be a member of a local historical society engaged in a cross generational publicity stunt?

]]> By: UncommonSense http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692791 UncommonSense Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692791 35 posts until a "nevermore" reference? For shame. 35 posts until a “nevermore” reference? For shame.

]]> By: technogeek http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692561 technogeek Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692561 Poe was a temperance man. Amontillado might make sense. Cognac feels stylish but pointless. What am I missing? Poe was a temperance man. Amontillado might make sense. Cognac feels stylish but pointless.

What am I missing?

]]> By: dr.hypercube http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692308 dr.hypercube Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692308 Poe toaster = http://j.mp/81vmMy + http://j.mp/4nWwxp (I was on the case yesterday! http://twitter.com/drhypercube/status/7951837494) Poe toaster = http://j.mp/81vmMy + http://j.mp/4nWwxp (I was on the case yesterday! http://twitter.com/drhypercube/status/7951837494)

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692310 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692310 There is no consistency in the end only inconsistency randomness and chaos There is no consistency
in the end only inconsistency
randomness and chaos

]]> By: Felton http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692311 Felton Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692311 <i>Yesterday though, the man never showed up.</i> Sounds like the premise for an amazing tale of mystery and macabre. Yesterday though, the man never showed up.

Sounds like the premise for an amazing tale of mystery and macabre.

]]> By: dbarak http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692319 dbarak Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692319 So if the Poe toaster is toast, who's going to toast Poe AND the toasted Poe toaster? So if the Poe toaster is toast, who’s going to toast
Poe AND the toasted Poe toaster?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692321 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692321 Maybe he got a DUI from drinking half a bottle of Cognac? Maybe he got a DUI from drinking half a bottle of Cognac?

]]> By: Felton http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692325 Felton Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692325 Ask David, the Poe toaster poster. Ask David, the Poe toaster poster.

]]> By: arkizzle / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692335 arkizzle / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692335 ^ Well played, both! :) ..of course, you could further ask Ken Snider, the Poe toaster poster hoster. ^ Well played, both! :)

..of course, you could further ask Ken Snider, the Poe toaster poster hoster.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692337 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692337 I think the Toaster is toast. The mystery here is how to solve the mystery of the missing Toaster, without ruining the mystery <I>of</I> the Toaster. Quite a jam. I think the Toaster is toast.

The mystery here is how to solve the mystery of the missing Toaster, without ruining the mystery of the Toaster. Quite a jam.

]]> By: David Pescovitz http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692340 David Pescovitz Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692340 Fanfic at the cemetery! Fanfic at the cemetery!

]]> By: dbarak http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692342 dbarak Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692342 A toast to the host! A toast to the host!

]]> By: coaxial http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692348 coaxial Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692348 Shit! That was yesterday? ;) Shit! That was yesterday?
;)

]]> By: Felton http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692352 Felton Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692352 The host with the most, baby! ;-) The host with the most, baby! ;-)

]]> By: Felton http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692357 Felton Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692357 Boy, it's been a while since we had a writing contest. (wink, wink!) Boy, it’s been a while since we had a writing contest. (wink, wink!)

]]> By: Brainspore http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692364 Brainspore Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692364 Job opportunity! Any Boingers live in Balitmore? Job opportunity! Any Boingers live in Balitmore?

]]> By: Shlepzig http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692370 Shlepzig Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692370 I think this means 6 more weeks of winter. A particularly dark and forboding winter. -Shlep' I think this means 6 more weeks of winter. A particularly dark and forboding winter.

-Shlep’

]]> By: greytone http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692376 greytone Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692376 Yes. But organization skills and punctuality not up to snuff. Yes. But organization skills and punctuality not up to snuff.

]]> By: macho http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692381 macho Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692381 My favourite part of the story was that it was, in fact, a <i>half-full</i> bottle of cognac. My favourite part of the story was that it was, in fact, a half-full bottle of cognac.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692896 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692896 As soon as the "torch" had been passed, the notes left by the toaster start to get moronic. One about how he's reluctant to leave a FRENCH product (the cognac). One predicting the outcome of the superbowl. It's a shame the torch has been passed to a war-loving football lunkhead. Not sad to see the tradition end if it's just gonna get stupided-up. As soon as the “torch” had been passed, the notes left by the toaster start to get moronic.

One about how he’s reluctant to leave a FRENCH product (the cognac). One predicting the outcome of the superbowl. It’s a shame the torch has been passed to a war-loving football lunkhead. Not sad to see the tradition end if it’s just gonna get stupided-up.

]]> By: HolyJaw http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692394 HolyJaw Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692394 Sounds like it must have been Robert Jordan. http://lrc.pjc.edu/blog/uploaded_images/Jordan_Robert-740756.jpg Sounds like it must have been Robert Jordan.

http://lrc.pjc.edu/blog/uploaded_images/Jordan_Robert-740756.jpg

]]> By: Cowicide http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692404 Cowicide Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692404 Ug... the guy didn't want to give Poe a French cognac during the Iraq war? That sours the mystery for me a bit if that's really true. I guess he could have brought him a freedom cognac instead... :/ Ug… the guy didn’t want to give Poe a French cognac during the Iraq war? That sours the mystery for me a bit if that’s really true. I guess he could have brought him a freedom cognac instead… :/

]]> By: Chentzilla http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692416 Chentzilla Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692416 <i>a mysterious man would visit Edgar Allan Poe's grave on his birthday</i> Whose birthday? The tombstone clearly says that Poe's wasn't yesterday. a mysterious man would visit Edgar Allan Poe’s grave on his birthday

Whose birthday? The tombstone clearly says that Poe’s wasn’t yesterday.

]]> By: semiotix http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692417 semiotix Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692417 To be fair, this is precisely the sort of thing that gets a lot less romantic and interesting when the "mysterious figure" is staked out by a mob of people standing <i>right there</i>, probably tweeting the whole thing from their smartphone which also uploads video. Whoever had the job probably realized this was the year a bunch of people were just going to follow him back to his car and crowdsource his license plate number. To be fair, this is precisely the sort of thing that gets a lot less romantic and interesting when the “mysterious figure” is staked out by a mob of people standing right there, probably tweeting the whole thing from their smartphone which also uploads video. Whoever had the job probably realized this was the year a bunch of people were just going to follow him back to his car and crowdsource his license plate number.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692418 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692418 Perhaps the toaster read the New Yorker's recent piece on Poe -- which pointed out his evil, greed and alcohol-fueled deeds -- and decided to give it a pass this year. Perhaps the toaster read the New Yorker’s recent piece on Poe — which pointed out his evil, greed and alcohol-fueled deeds — and decided to give it a pass this year.

]]> By: Felton http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-692420 Felton Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-692420 Or some amontillado. Yeah, I missed that part upon first reading. Keep your partisan pot-shots off the final resting place of Poe! Or some amontillado.

Yeah, I missed that part upon first reading. Keep your partisan pot-shots off the final resting place of Poe!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/20/poes-mysterious-stra.html#comment-795845 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-795845 Very nice post. I really enjoy the reading. I come here from the google while searching for some good article. Very nice post. I really enjoy the reading. I come here from the google while searching for some good article.

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