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Post by ozlingula on May 29, 2015 23:24:42 GMT
Oh, well! I'll just have to wait for the answer, because I now need a clue to your final clue. BTW: I went there about 15 years ago (the place in your final clue), I've got a photo of that place too, but this time it doesn't help.
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Post by johnluke on May 30, 2015 4:11:53 GMT
Oh, well! I'll just have to wait for the answer, because I now need a clue to your final clue. BTW: I went there about 15 years ago (the place in your final clue), I've got a photo of that place too, but this time it doesn't help. Did you read what I say in the answer for that puzzle?
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Post by ozlingula on May 30, 2015 4:52:30 GMT
I did read your last clue, several times! It took a while!! Hats Off to those that found the place without a clue. I still wonder why!!
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Post by krenek on May 30, 2015 14:35:44 GMT
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Post by johnluke on May 30, 2015 14:52:59 GMT
all that blah blah blah for that?! i really wonder why...?! Don't you get the irony?
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Post by johnluke on Jun 3, 2015 17:39:02 GMT
First of all, well done all and thank you for your patience with this puzzle. Yes, two answers, one short, one long. This is at 49°48'22.84"N 2°59'40.35"E , in the French village of “Y”.
It is the shortest name for a town in France, and according to Wiki, “one of the shortest in the world” (I don’t know what name can be shorter!).
The name of the place is “hidden” in the OP: the letter “y” is in italics in the second “why”. And of course “why” is how you pronounce that letter in English. There are several things that I need to explain. Bear with me. First, I had just made a puzzle about the longest placename in Europe. That puzzle had already been made in the past (not sure if it was by me though) at a time before SV and 3D buildings. GE image only. And I’d been thinking of making “nostalgia” puzzles, old puzzles revisited, so to speak, “used to be in GE, now in brand new SV!!!”. And since in the old days I had also made a puzzle about the village of Y in France, I wanted to see what the place looked like nowadays in SV, with the goal of making a puzzle there too. I don’t know about all other countries, but in France when you leave a town, there is a sign with the name of the place crossed out with one red line. It is usually on the right side of the road, since we drive on the right. But when I arrived at that spot in SV, I saw the sign for “leaving Y” was facing the wrong way! How beautiful is that! What would you have done? I just had to use it! But to be fair on you guys, I also had to warn you that something was wrong and misleading, which I did in the OP! No, this wasn’t a country where they drive on the left side… If you had missed the letter y in italics in the OP, and the fact that I had written the word “why” twice, and also the fact that I had just said something about “find this” (ring a bell? Yes, the French village of “This”, from a recent puzzle of mine, also a nostalgia puzzle!), there was a very thin clue: the sign in the image is very small, and only a short name could be on there. And I had just made a puzzle about a very long placename… Walter_V_R told me in a PM that he had noticed the little sign above the bigger sign. To him this meant France, where apparently the roads numbers are shown above the name signs… He therefore searched for “noms de ville” (“names of town” in French), and found a photo of the same sign for Y facing the right way and with the water tower in the back! That photo is in fact the first illustration photo on the wiki page about short placenames! I didn’t even know that a photo on the Y sign was on that page! I thought it was kind of ironic (in a vague sense of the term) just like the fact that my text clue was soooo loooong (as long as this answer too, or, if you prefer, as long as a bridge in an ndrqu puzzle! ). My image clue was a sign of the French village that has the longest name in France, easily googlable. Long name, big sign, so… small sign, >>> …… ? That was supposed to help. Then the last clue was the link to my puzzle about the longest placename in Europe. That's it. Thank you for reading. I hope I wasn’t too long. But sometimes, even a short “why” needs a long “because”. 530 views
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Post by hhgygy on Jun 3, 2015 18:21:56 GMT
Actually the OP image did NOT show what was wrong any more than it showed the Eiffel tower or the Liberty Statue On the other hand I found it by mere chance. I found a similar water tower in France which had a caption: Yes, water tower France. I thought there was a town called Yes but there was not any. And then came the absolutely unrelated idea of the place of Y I knew about from a previous puzzle.
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Post by johnluke on Jun 3, 2015 18:28:56 GMT
Actually the OP image did NOT show what was wrong any more than it showed the Eiffel tower or the Liberty Statue It didn't, and I didn't say it did, I said the OP said there was something wrong (just like the title did). And frankly, looking at the image, what else than the sign could be wrong? There was nothing else there except a perfectly normal water tower!
Good job on your find though. I should be so lucky sometimes...
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