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Post by privyprincess on Jul 2, 2011 13:34:31 GMT -5
There hasn't been an update since February. I found it very insightful. I'm asking here because I think Tafultong posts here, or at least someone with the same font name does.
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Post by B on Jul 2, 2011 19:57:47 GMT -5
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Post by privyprincess on Jul 2, 2011 23:47:52 GMT -5
Hmm that's weird. I thought maybe someone here would know. I hope he's alright.
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Post by 65if2007 on Jul 3, 2011 1:48:11 GMT -5
Hmm that's weird. I thought maybe someone here would know. I hope he's alright. Tafultong has said before that family issues have become more of a pressing concern for him and that he didn't expect to contribute as often. |
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Post by aperiloushint on Jul 3, 2011 2:03:15 GMT -5
Hey 65... I'm new to the board. Can I get a clarification- are u Iamaphoney or are u connected to him?
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Post by 65if2007 on Jul 3, 2011 2:11:27 GMT -5
Hey 65... I'm new to the board. Can I get a clarification- are u Iamaphoney or are u connected to him? Ha ha. I answered this at great length in the "Drive My Car" thread. But the short answer is, "No." |
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Post by ramone on Jul 3, 2011 8:40:12 GMT -5
But, he is in possession of some COOL IAAF stuff!
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Post by 65if2007 on Jul 3, 2011 13:50:59 GMT -5
But, he is in possession of some COOL IAAF stuff! Ha ha ha. Ramone, my common sense tells me that I should offer to sell it to you for maybe a buck and a half plus shipping. But 1) that probably runs afoul of the rules of this discussion group and 2) the fact that I don't really have any common sense causes the back of my mind to harbor some irrational feeling that maybe this ***t really might prove to be historically valuable after all some day. But that's utterly stupid on my part. Iamaphoney put a lot of junk that he'd scribbled on in an old beat-up briefcase that he probably picked up at a garage sale and made a video in which he dropped the whole thing in a canyon area where it might have been picked up by a vagrant or washed away by the elements. That's how "cool" and how valuable it REALLY is. |
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Post by iameye on Jul 3, 2011 15:03:41 GMT -5
But, he is in possession of some COOL IAAF stuff! Ha ha ha. Ramone, my common sense tells me that I should offer to sell it to you for maybe a buck and a half plus shipping. But 1) that probably runs afoul of the rules of this discussion group and 2) the fact that I don't really have any common sense causes the back of my mind to harbor some irrational feeling that maybe this ***t really might prove to be historically valuable after all some day. But that's utterly stupid on my part. Iamaphoney put a lot of junk that he'd scribbled on in an old beat-up briefcase that he probably picked up at a garage sale and made a video in which he dropped the whole thing in a canyon area where it might have been picked up by a vagrant or washed away by the elements. That's how "cool" and how valuable it REALLY is. Imagine the effort put into the REAL suitcase dropped in a canyon area where it might have been picked up by a vagrant or washed away by the elements.! OMG! AN EVEN BIGGER RISK!  dare you venture another gamble, 65if? |
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Post by ramone on Jul 3, 2011 18:18:17 GMT -5
Hi 65, a buck.5 is very reasonable.
Ya know how it is - a bunch of stuff in the old basement and out of the few things chucked, one of them could be on the Roadshow - with some high estimates.
Well, I liked the adventure and play by play obtaining the stuff.
I suppose there's the value in a keepsake way - remembering the moments.
I don't know if you like to hold on to certain things for those reasons.
I've tuned into the IAAF stuff here and there - back when it was on the new side.
If memory serves, I made a little forecast here that we wouldn't be gaining
a wealth of info with the series anytime soon.
But, I don't know - has anyone really following learned anything substantial?
There could be an inside track involved (and I'll reserve why I say that for now)
but it could be just an art 'piece' as some have speculated.
So, my big question 65 is, if there was another adventure put out there
(reasonable distance) - would you do it again?
(road trip - wind in the hair - gps at full throttle!!)
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Post by 65if2007 on Jul 4, 2011 15:05:59 GMT -5
Hi 65, a buck.5 is very reasonable. Ya know how it is - a bunch of stuff in the old basement and out of the few things chucked, one of them could be on the Roadshow - with some high estimates. Well, I liked the adventure and play by play obtaining the stuff. I suppose there's the value in a keepsake way - remembering the moments. I don't know if you like to hold on to certain things for those reasons. I've tuned into the IAAF stuff here and there - back when it was on the new side. If memory serves, I made a little forecast here that we wouldn't be gaining a wealth of info with the series anytime soon. But, I don't know - has anyone really following learned anything substantial? There could be an inside track involved (and I'll reserve why I say that for now) but it could be just an art 'piece' as some have speculated. So, my big question 65 is, if there was another adventure put out there (reasonable distance) - would you do it again? (road trip - wind in the hair - gps at full throttle!!) Good question, Ramone. I guess that my grouchiness stems from the fact that my common sense won out in the sense that there really was nothing of significance in what I found. It also stems from the fact that iamaphoney didn't fullfill his commitment -- made through MikeNL -- to submit to an interview if the suitcase was retrieved. It also stems from the fact that some people here -- still harboring hopes that what I had found contained secret information -- made additional demands on me after the fact -- to bombard all that stuff with nuclear photon radiation; to dust it for fingerprints; to test it for DNA; to go to the trouble of playing a phonograph record that had been in public circulation for 40 years, etc. etc. I mean; COME ON people. And also, it's a little annoying -- though amusing, as well -- that some people still think that I'm part of the iamaphoney corporation, as a result of all this. All of that having been said, you're right; I did have fun -- though again I was worried about running into snakes in the underbrush -- and I would probably do it again. It's about as much adventure as I have had in an otherwise uneventful life. But I wouldn't do it again at iamaphoney's bidding. Maybe I would do it at someone else's. Hope you and everyone else are having a happy 4th of July. |
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Post by B on Jul 4, 2011 15:10:29 GMT -5
Maybe it was at someone else's bidding.   |
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Post by 65if2007 on Jul 4, 2011 17:58:25 GMT -5
Maybe it was at someone else's bidding. I live in Central California. I visit my parents maybe once a month or so in Los Angeles. Santa Susanna Park is in Los Angeles County and readily locateable on a map. Rotten Apple 101 was clearly an invitation to "come and get it" -- come to think of it, a McCartney song from "Magic Christian". Iamaphoney has a pretty sizable YouTube following, and Southern/Central California is populated enough that I thought for sure that there must be Iamaphoney subscribers in the area and that one of them would retrieve that thing long before my next visit to my parents. Really, I was amazed that no one had picked it up over the interval of several weeks, but by the time that my regularly scheduled trip came about, I guess that I figured that if it could be done in relative safety, it would "have" to be me. |
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Post by JoJo on Jul 4, 2011 19:43:12 GMT -5
I said at the time, drop in New England somewhere, heck even make it hard to find, I'd enjoy a good puzzler. Any other NIR New Englanders could join me, would be fun..
Maybe that was the only message the vinyl album was supposed to convey, who knows.
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Post by 65if2007 on Jul 5, 2011 1:28:21 GMT -5
I said at the time, drop in New England somewhere, heck even make it hard to find, I'd enjoy a good puzzler. Any other NIR New Englanders could join me, would be fun.. Maybe that was the only message the vinyl album was supposed to convey, who knows. Maybe. And that song was the one that Iamaphoney reversed for the purpose of creating "Harmless Game". |
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Post by iameye on Jul 5, 2011 7:50:03 GMT -5
I said at the time, drop in New England somewhere, heck even make it hard to find, I'd enjoy a good puzzler. Any other NIR New Englanders could join me, would be fun.. Maybe that was the only message the vinyl album was supposed to convey, who knows. Maybe. And that song was the one that Iamaphoney reversed for the purpose of creating "Harmless Game". g ame:
pertaining to or composed of animals hunted or taken as game or to their flesh.phoney's in touch with the ground, on the hunt and after you! backwards! ha ha |
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Post by 65if2007 on Jul 5, 2011 23:37:03 GMT -5
Maybe. And that song was the one that Iamaphoney reversed for the purpose of creating "Harmless Game". g ame:
pertaining to or composed of animals hunted or taken as game or to their flesh.phoney's in touch with the ground, on the hunt and after you! backwards! ha ha As is almost always the case in this board, that's way deeper than it needs to be. The overall phoney message might be more like this: 1) "Here's a briefcase filled with who-knows-what. *Come and Get It.*" 2) "Ha ha. There was nothing valuable in that thing, was there? It wasn't worth the trouble, was it?" "But I didn't ask you to go anywhere that I hadn't already gone myself beforehand, and you were never in any serious danger, as long as you used your head and watched your step. You had your little adventure and got to write home about it. So it was all a *Harmless Game*." |
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