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I'm trying to tie in the egg with the film noir story. One possibility is that we associate a method of cooking an egg with each replaced word.

For example:

stiff --> Hard-boiled
flipper --> Over easy
scram --> Scrambled
...

This has potential but I don't know all the ways to cook an egg and if this continues to work. Anyone want to try some more?

**Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:14 pm

Andy · Boot Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 55

Detectives in film noir are often decribed as "hard-boiled", but I don't know how that hels solve the puzzle, or what a triangle of silverware has to do with it.

**Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:26 pm

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http://www.ilovebees.com/outbound/space_elevators.wav

when I figure out how we got that in chat, we'll let you know...

edit: from @least Chloe, not sure others

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Thanks to strifey and framed, we have:

http://www.ilovebees.com/outbound/space_elevators.wav

this was taken from chloe.jpg, dana.jpg(?) and margaret.jpg

They used http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html to translate the words in chloe.jpg, and strifey came up with ?????_elevator... framed filled in "space".

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**Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:29 pm

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farva · Veteran Joined: 20 Aug 2004 Posts: 90

Has anyone bothered to try hard_boiled as an answer? The puzzle .wavs are always blocked by my work firewall so I can't try it.

**Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:30 pm

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i think we might be looking into it too much
"sometimes i like my stories like this"
"hard boiled"

the silverware is just a clue to show how the egg was prepared

again, how that ties into the "hard boiled" detective story, no idea at the moment

**Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:30 pm

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Is it possible that silverware egg picture is a representation of another more recognizable symbol?

P.S. Is it my imagination or is the egg floating? I see a shadow, I think.

Framed · Boot Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 60 Location: Ft. Worthish

Chloe & Dana (the egg) have led to http://www.ilovebees.com/outbound/space_elevators.wav

margaret too?

anyway, we're down to the enigmatic numbers...and topsy turvey probably...

**Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:32 pm

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**Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:33 pm

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**Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:34 pm

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wow...... that's just..... wow

i guess the pic was just to get us to translate the regular speech into "hard boiled" slang

good job

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Re: space_elevators.wav

**Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:34 pm

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