Talk:V.F.D.

message: Do it. --Franciscoh (talk) 01:05, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add spoiler alert now! 

message: In the Unauthorized Autobiography, Gustav Sebald announced in "Zombies in the Snow" that one parent survived the fire. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.85.168.149 (talk • contribs) 
:Sebald said there was one survivor of the fire. He did not specify which fire or the age of the survivor.-Bobguy7
:The Baudelaire fire, of course. -V.F.D. K 20:52, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup request

message: ^ I fixed a minor spelling error. --V.F.D. K 20:54, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jacques Snicket 

message: :I've not tried updating articles or discussion in Wikipedia before, hope I'm not doing anything wrong....
:"The sugar bowl was noted first in The Bad Beginning (containing fruit on Count Olaf's foyer tables),..." I used Amazon to search the text of the book for 'fruit' 'sugar' 'bowl' 'foyer' 'table' etc and find no references, other than to a bowl holding apple cores located in the bedroom the siblings are given.
:"....again in The Hostile Hospital (on a table holding pomegranates and other fruits)" I cannot find any reference like this in the book. In the Hostile Hospital (book 8), the sugar bowl is mentioned by the author when he says he stole the sugar bowl from Esme Squalor (page 91). I believe this is the first mention of the sugar bowl in the series. Note: an Amazon text search indicates the word pomegranates does not appear in the book.
:A sugar bowl is mentioned by the author on page 114 of The Carniverous Carnival (book 9). The sugar bowl really comes into the story in a big way in The Slippery Slope (book 10) and the following books (11 and 12 at this time). These books haven't been mentioned at all.
:So do I just go in and edit the entry?
TJC.CA 03:26, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The A Series of Unfortunate Events are unfortunately riddled with speculation. Every single bowl which appears in the books is described as a possible Sugar Bowl. The article is also pretty new (yesterday) so it could do with more info. Edit, certainly. smurrayinchester(User), (Ho Ho Ho!) 10:21, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It also seems like people see VFD members in every character. I would think that WP:NOR requires that anyone not explicitly mentioned as being a member or very closely affiliated to VFD shouldn't be listed, or at the very least have (suspected) next to their name, preferably with some evidence as to why they're a suspected member. I mean, I've considered the possibilities of most of those people being in VFD as well, but I don't have enough evidence to put it on Wikipedia. Confusing Manifestation 15:23, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect information on the sugar bowl? 

message: I don't think that the merge is a good idea. This is a fairly big article on the most important group of characters in a fairly major book series, and as such, would overload the article. smurrayinchester(User), (Talk) 21:56, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ASUE Merge 

message: I did some list cleanup on the possible members. Hope it helps! Random the Scrambled 00:26, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  You want it, you got it 

message: The chart is really messed up. Could someone fix it? (Clamster5 21:26, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chart 

message: I cleaned up the places with possible v.f.d. activity the best I could. Clamster5 18:15, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean Up 

message: Many people think V.F.D. is not real. It is, and people are sill joining it to this day, filling their notebooks with every scrap of info that they find doing codes to each other, reading the books, trying to learn more and more and showing the symbol on this, studying the Sebald Code and hoping that the very bad Olaf is not watching them to get the books. http://lifelifetolive101.mysite.com/
Dear Reader,
This is a disgrace. How could someone make so many grammar mistakes? And, about the organization I work for! How dare you.
With all due respect,
K
(To first comment) Your page doesn't work. I am a member- to some extent. The volunteer fire dept. of a neighboring town's chief was my sister's history teacher. Isn't that cool? Plus, Olaf's dead. Just so you know :)
Thank you for your suggestion! When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes.  Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the  link at the top. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to).  The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes — they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills.  New contributors are always welcome.TheMadBaron 04:48, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They were referring to the comment above -- look in the history and see that they fixed all the grammar in that comment. --Anaraug 17:10, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Joining V.F.D. is Easy  

message: In The End, Snicket confirms that V.F.D. stands for Volunteer Fire Department. What Page?
He never really does, but he calls it the Volunteer Fire Department.204.147.20.204 (talk) 18:22, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Volunteer Fire Dept. 

message: Pure speculation, but does anyone think VFD might be a reference to Vicarius Filii Dei? Has Handler ever discussed the origins of VFD? howcheng  {chat} 07:28, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Like you said, its pure speculation. Please don't put it in the article unless theres a credible source, and i honestly don't think there is. Clamster5 12:36, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I wasn't planning to -- it was just something I noticed, and given Handler's habit of making references to literary and historical figures/happenings, I was just raising the possibility. howcheng  {chat} 17:49, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Vicarius Filii Dei]] 

message: I added a fictional organisation box. Maybe the information in the box could help streamline what belongs in the article and what doesn't. <3Clamster 03:01, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Userbox

message: "In The End, it is revealed that the initials stand for Volunteer Fire Department, although it has since become a much more secretive society, perhaps with little or nothing to do with fighting fires at all. The name could possibly just be a cover for the organization's actual intentions or maybe just another unanswered riddle."
Isn't the whole "starting fires" thing in the books more of an analogy than anything? Like, VFD compares the villains to fire and it is their job to extinguish the fire?
:The problem that bothers me is that it was established in the tenth book what VFD meant. Book 13 doesn't really reveal anything new about the name.
:I think the group originally did start out as a fire department but changed over time. Perhaps the LS biography explains it a little more.--CyberGhostface 23:09, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doesn't seem right. 

message: The section about V.F.D. being a MacGuffin plot device would have been written quite a long time ago, it is out of date. I have removed it entirely.
VERY VERY SAD!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.127.164.194 (talk) 04:33, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  MacGuffin plot device 

message: Is the logo used the official (if you can say that about a fictitious organization) logo? It strikes me that, nice though it is if it isn't actually official it shouldn't be portrayed as if it is. I could be wrong, as I haven't read the books, only listened to the whole series on audio CD, but I didn't think that the logo was shown anywhere. Like I said, correct me if I'm wrong, but if there are no objections, I'll remove the logo in 24 hours (it can then always be replaced). TalkIslander 00:34, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's the official insignia used in The Unauthorized Autobiography.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.162.211.63 (talk) 08:59, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logo 

message: In the passage it says Mrs. Baudelaire is alive and hiding in Lucky Smells Lumbermill Disguised as a worker. This isn't right, so I am changing it to that she's dead.Goku's Rival (talk) 22:18, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beatrice Dead