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Britain's WWII code-breakers tackle inscription mystery
The Times (N.W. Indiana)` ^
| 5-12-2004
| JILL LAWLESS
Posted on 05/12/2004 9:19:42 PM PDT by Prince Charles
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To: Psycho_Bunny
I'm going to go carve A.Y.B.A.B.T.U. on a rock off in the middle of nowhere, just on the chance I may annoy the hell out of someone 250 years from now. PUZZLED CRYPTOGRAPHER: What you say !
To: Ann Archy
Check the letters again against the initials in the verse - the beginning doesn't match up.
To: Psycho_Bunny
...
just on the chance I may annoy the hell out of someone 250 years from now. How about--- I. B. Y. N. F. O. W. T M.
To: anonsquared
Arcadia can also = Pastoral or Victorian poetic references to an idealized Britain, IIRC.
Part of the standard poetic symbology of the times, loosely based on their *percieved* values of the ancient Greek Arcadia. It also carried over into other literature & art.
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posted on
05/12/2004 10:36:14 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
To: Floyd R Turbo; Askel5; Velveeta
The Shepherd of Kyiv:
To: Dan(9698)
I bet you never figure out what this means. How's that?
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posted on
05/12/2004 10:36:27 PM PDT
by
Hitlerys uterus
(I have just about had it up to here with foreigners.)
To: Prince Charles
Do you owe S.V. a V.V., M?
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posted on
05/12/2004 10:37:06 PM PDT
by
JasonC
To: JasonC
Or equally, Do you own S.V. a V., V.M.?
S.V. and either V.V. or V.M. may simply be initials of people.
Do you own Vivian Vivaldi a fiver, Victor Morgan? - for example...
Not exactly the holy grail is it? lol. But one must consider all the pedestrian possibilities first.
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posted on
05/12/2004 10:41:52 PM PDT
by
JasonC
To: JasonC
Perhaps someone had a bet about who would outlive whom...
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posted on
05/12/2004 10:43:00 PM PDT
by
JasonC
Comment #30 Removed by Moderator
To: JasonC
Have they solved yet? Have they solved it yet?
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posted on
05/12/2004 11:39:37 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: struwwelpeter
TOPT ... hrm ... t ... o ... p ... t ...
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posted on
05/12/2004 11:50:29 PM PDT
by
Askel5
To: Prince Charles
This is easy.
Daily
Orations
Unite
Old
Sage
Veterans
Always
Visiting
Venues
Marvelous
Or, in other words, daily visits help keep wise old veterans united in visiting good places.
Just kidding....
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posted on
05/12/2004 11:54:29 PM PDT
by
neutrino
(Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. Robert Louis Stevenson.)
To: Prince Charles
I think it says:
"Hide in interns in Kenya, and don't let the Flying Squirrel talk to the press."
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posted on
05/13/2004 12:19:05 AM PDT
by
SkyPilot
To: SedVictaCatoni
PUZZLED CRYPTOGRAPHER: What you say !
Someone set us up the bombast!
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posted on
05/13/2004 12:20:40 AM PDT
by
Nateman
(Socialism first, cancer second.)
To: Prince Charles
D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M
Dirty odorous undertakers ought stop valuing Anglo virgin vixen meat!
Dead only until our savior verifies as very virtuous man.
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posted on
05/13/2004 12:46:28 AM PDT
by
Nateman
(Socialism first, cancer second.)
To: woofie
DRINK YOUR OVALTINE.
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posted on
05/13/2004 2:53:07 AM PDT
by
weegee
(NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS. CNN ignored torture & murder in Saddam's Iraq to keep their Baghdad Bureau.)
To: blam
ping
To: weegee
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posted on
05/13/2004 3:03:51 AM PDT
by
weegee
(NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS. CNN ignored torture & murder in Saddam's Iraq to keep their Baghdad Bureau.)
To: Prince Charles
Et in Arcadia Ego.
Even in paradise, I death, hold sway.
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posted on
05/13/2004 3:05:36 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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