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AntonChigurh
Kilroy

Joined: 06 Jan 2009
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 		Monday blasts. Today
New ARG?
Hi - I'm new to this so please go easy if I'm not doing this correctly or following the correct guidelines.

I recently signed up to a few ARG site e.g. Perplex City after I immensely enjoyed stumbling upon the www.wetellstories.co.uk ARG and my subsequent chase for Alice through St Pancras etc...

Anyway, I received an email recently that initially I just thought was spam, but when looking into it found that it was a collection of quotes from a G. K. Chesterton novel called "The Man Who Was Thursday". Below is the full text of the email. What put me off initially was the "IT's help you to make you bed games longer" at the beginning which is a link to some sort of viagra type product.

So I've been trying to work out what (if anything) it means and have emailed both c7i6ty2rhSPLATaim.com (mail delivery failure) and berndfoeSPLATyahoo.com (no reply) with the text "The Man Who Was Thursday. GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON (1874-1936)"

I've also done quite a bit of searching via Google and this forum but couldn't find anything. So now I'm running out of ideas - can anyone help!

Thanks,
Anton Chigurh.

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From: c7i6ty2rhSPLATaim.com [mailto:c7i6ty2rh@aim.com]
Sent: 22 December 2008 17:34
To: berndfoeSPLATyahoo.com
Subject: Monday blasts. Today




IT's help you to make you bed games longer

your anarchism, that is exactly what you would do."


Dunedin to Samoa spoke, and darkness unto day. "We are all spies!" whispered Syme. a terrible fighter, and that probably his last hour had come. not be neglected--


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come to the end of their story. They turned and faced the town.


what seems to them to be lesser lives. But philosophers hate life itself,
kisses grew stronger and saltier and each seemed to him a strengthening just as well to see a good man or two when one is possibly near to death."

is no small thing to be laughed at by something at once lower and stronger


The mysterious Marquis lifted his hands with a desperate gesture. He sunk on his chest.



Syme sprang erect upon the rocking car, and after staring wildly at the
definite limitation, he couldn't be so jolly paralytic as I was. Then he

corridor. "Near Mont Cornlien, last year. We put them to the bayonet and I was














anarchy?"

corner of the road. . . . Anyway, she comes up to me with a funny look in



"What you say seems utterly wild," began Syme. "Why, as a matter of
the world. Let that suffice you. Yet this one old Christian lantern you
"Yes, but I mean," said Syme impatiently, "there's nothing the matter services to the cause were considerable. He organised the great dynamite


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at an insane seance.


the incomprehensible went on.
of a sword, and then as it grew nearer the silver gleam of an old man's lies, in blood and sweat. Nothing was left but the quiet friendliness of

roses, scenting the darkness, then back again past the Opra towards the




















· together," said one of the Frenchmen.

· that white hair."





and street dancing an eternal jig. And long afterwards, when Syme was
ambition for worldly things, but for the love that is in them. The freedom


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®








"But we may not get it," said Bull. When they were all in, he closed and locked the door. Truth out of Tusitala spoke and pleasure out of pain.




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NB Some of the text is in different colours and there are some boxes in the email too.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 8:17 am
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Lysithea
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 		Re: Monday blasts. Today
New ARG?
AntonChigurh wrote:
Anyway, I received an email recently that initially I just thought was spam
My initial gut reaction is also that the email is just spam as there are somewhat similar messages in the email Analysis thread.

Upon receiving an email with so many apparently blank lines, I would hit ctrl+a to see if there is any additional text, but it looks like you have already tried that.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 8:54 am
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Leyton Stone
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Joined: 08 Dec 2007
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Location: London (NOT Ontario!)

 		It's spam dude...

Quote:
What put me off initially was the "IT's help you to make you bed games longer" at the beginning which is a link to some sort of viagra type product.


That should have set the alarm bells ringing instantly IMO lol. No self respecting PM (IMHO at least) Would advertise Viagra or the like in an ARG trailhead or an ARG in general.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 8:58 am
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natas
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Leyton Stone wrote:
No self respecting PM (IMHO at least) Would advertise Viagra or the like in an ARG trailhead or an ARG in general.


/me shamefully goes to remove the viagra links on my trailhead.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 9:18 am
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AntonChigurh
Kilroy

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 		Ok, fair enough. That email will be banished to my deleted folder.

Thanks for the rapid replies, just a shame as I got a little bit excited there!

Any pointers for some other light-weight-ish ARG's for a newbie to try?

PostPosted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 9:49 am
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Leyton Stone
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natas wrote:
/me shamefully goes to remove the viagra links on my trailhead.


lmfao...

AntonChigurh wrote:
just a shame as I got a little bit excited there!


Viagra apparently does that Embarassed

Quote:
Any pointers for some other light-weight-ish ARG's for a newbie to try?


Light-weight-ish? Not quite sure. But "The God Machine" has just started, you could check that out... I'm not really "playing" anything else atm but someone else might have some ideas.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:17 am
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Nighthawk
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natas wrote:
Leyton Stone wrote:
No self respecting PM (IMHO at least) Would advertise Viagra or the like in an ARG trailhead or an ARG in general.


/me shamefully goes to remove the viagra links on my trailhead.


Damn it.

*Delete*

Delays... delays...
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lergnag
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 		.... Damn there goes the Viagra based homebrew I had been working on..... I guess I'll just have to go with "Plan B" then Preperation H ARG here I come.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 6:43 pm
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Leyton Stone
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 		Night... Fish... Natas...

I've just had a major idea....


ROTFL!
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:45 pm
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magnet0
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 		Leyton,
Please don't say that you are thinking of the Medicine Chest version of Cupboard Castle.
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Leyton Stone
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magnet0 wrote:
Leyton,
Please don't say that you are thinking of the Medicine Chest version of Cupboard Castle.


Goddamn you Magnet0!!

And how the heck are ya!? lol
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:26 pm
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booba
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 		Ahhh shoot...

I've been playing the Male Enhancement ARG for about a week now.

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