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[QUESTION] Where did the Wilbur password come from?
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rowan
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 		[QUESTION] Where did the Wilbur password come from?
Ok, trout me all you want, but I just cannot find where this information orginated.

Where did we get the password "wilbur" from??

I know it's mentioned on Drexel's blog that one of the boys uses his mothers maiden name as a password, but I can't figure out where the Wilbur comes into play. The only Wilbur I'm aware of is Malynn Wilbur, and I get the feeling we're looking for her to help out Hans Racey in some way. I read through all the posts yesterday and did a search for Wilbur this morning, but none of what I've found tells me how we discovered this information. It's just kinda there.

So please be kinda and help an idiot out. I'd be most grateful.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 9:48 am
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 		not an idiot ; spec about the guys
Rowan: make room in that club for me too. I have no idea where Wilbur came from.

Do we know Jude's mother's maiden name? I couldn't find that either, but, to me, he seems the most likely candidate to use her name as a password. [Marty would do that only as an out-fox people move, like, "noone would ever think someone as smart as me would use that as a password" and Mark just doesn't seem at all like a mother's boy, as probably any woman here who has chatted with him could verify.] Maybe, as Jude's mother died, he would be more likely to use it.

[sorry: i'm not great at solving puzzles; but, making things up about the characters is just what I do]

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 		Drexel didn't say "his mother's maiden name," he said "a mother's maiden name." We know only two maiden names so far and Virginia Roddington, ne้ Vogel, didn't have any kids (that we know of).

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Zzedar wrote:
Drexel didn't say "his mother's maiden name," he said "a mother's maiden name." We know only two maiden names so far and Virginia Roddington, ne้ Vogel, didn't have any kids (that we know of).


So to clarify: the second maiden name, and the source of my confusion, comes from Malynn Wilbur, who later becomes Mrs. Hans Racey?

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Zzedar wrote:
Drexel didn't say "his mother's maiden name," he said "a mother's maiden name." We know only two maiden names so far and Virginia Roddington, ne้ Vogel, didn't have any kids (that we know of).


I think what everyone wants to know is how you know Wilbur is the maiden name of the mother of one of the 3 ideltech boys. I know I want to know how you found that. I've read everything and I can't find a mention of it.

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dashcat wrote:
Zzedar wrote:
Drexel didn't say "his mother's maiden name," he said "a mother's maiden name." We know only two maiden names so far and Virginia Roddington, ne้ Vogel, didn't have any kids (that we know of).


I think what everyone wants to know is how you know Wilbur is the maiden name of the mother of one of the 3 ideltech boys. I know I want to know how you found that. I've read everything and I can't find a mention of it.
Nonono -- she isn't the mother of one of the Ideltech group. She's a mother. Drexel said that one of the Ideltech guys used a mother's maiden name as a password; he never said that the guy used his own mother's maiden name.

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 		I have to admit, I never, ever, would have read that passage that way. Is the lunatic professor that careful with his words? And even if he is, it doesn't mean that "wilbur" is a password for any the ideltech boys. The whole mention of the password could just be setting stuff up for the real game rather than all of this pre-game stuff. I know that Marcus & Marty were friends with Hans (so by association also his wife?), but to use Malynn's maiden name as a password? Odd, unless one of them also had a thing for her. It could easily be that the professor knew Jude's password (I haven't yet seen where Jude has mentioned Hans/Malynn). The professor was Jude's mentor, and could have known his parents as well.

At least now I know where the whole thing came from. I'm not entirely sure I agree with it, but I'm more than willing to keep it in mind if and when we have to do something envolving the ideltech boys and logins/passwords.

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 		Ok, now Im completely lost.
Please someone answer this simple question:

Who told in the first place that "Wilbur" was the password for something?

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Shelina wrote:
Ok, now Im completely lost.
Please someone answer this simple question:

Who told in the first place that "Wilbur" was the password for something?


As far as I can tell (doing a search for "wilbur" on the fourms here, showing posts in the order they were made) the first mention I see is by Zzedar on the blueloyboyle.com (4/13/04) update. (All the rest of the "wilbur" posts to that point had been about the part 1 interview). Zzedar links back to the professor's blog page for that day. At some point I must have read that post and accepted it as fact cuz I did quote it later as being a possible password. It was after I posted that I realized I had no idea where that fact came from and started this whole thread.

I may be wrong about who first posted since I dont actually remember, I'm just going by what I can piece together in the fourms. If I am wrong, I do apologize and I'll edit/delete this post if you let me know.

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 		Rowen, thank you very very much for the explanation, it's all clear know Very Happy

So: According to Drexel's blog:

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These kids need to be more inventive when coming up with passwords. To simple. He used a mother's maiden name as a password


But this does not means in any way that "Wilbur" was that password... Im not sure why Zzedar told that Confused Actually I think we should forget all this thread Rolling Eyes

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Shelina wrote:
But this does not means in any way that "Wilbur" was that password... I'm not sure why Zzedar said that.
I'm not claiming that we know for a fact that the maiden name in question is "Wilbur," but the balance of evidence is that it is. I'd say I'm somewhere between seventy and eighty percent confident that it is.

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