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[duckiemonster]

Banana.

[BrianEnigma]

I see your banana and raise you a barrel of monkeys.


Today, I tweaked the Card Catalog to display the card letters in playing-card-order instead of numeric order, giving a slightly better view of the message:

http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/letters.html

Unfortunately, there are a few issues. First, I do not have complete "enhanced partial letter" scans/photoshops for all of the cards. Second, when people have submitted those photoshopped cards to enhance the letters, they don't always see the big picture, so there are some very visible errors in interpreting the letter shapes when you place the cards next to one another.

Obvious data errors (missing cards, missing "enhanced" scans) are shown by outlining the card in red dashes. Interpretation errors are subjective and are not specifically shown any differently.

[RockOnFlutterBy]

Code name?

[modern_hero]

As GasparLewis pointed out, The tense is all wrong for 'help me combed'

When looking at the pictures that people have made using the cards, along with my own little wall chart, I am definitly seeing the original 'Help Me Comb LC Thunder Clap'

I'm taking it to mean that LC is London City and that Thunder Clap is either an area/place or a way to let people know who did it, without giving a name (I.E, John Doe = JD = Jammy Doughnut).

As also pointed out, I am jumping on the 'Thunder' bandwagon here. It's possible that it's 'LCTH Under Clap' wherein LCTH could be... London City Terminal; Heathrow. or something equally obscure.

[Dranioth]

Taking away from the actual message at the moment, This is a call out for people who actually own the cards that have lettering on them. After El Briano posted that new picture (Thanks alot! ) I started redoing some of the images that needed photoshopping, an noticed that a certain card,#003 "Earth, Sea and Moon, was undoable simply because the scan wasnt quality enough. So, If someone with a scanner could redo it, It would be apreciated.

I would do it myself, but round these parts PXC cards are harder to come by than a Timmies in New York.

[doublecross]

FYI - although I don't have a scanner, but may take a digital photo if it comes out OK, the large letters are quite clear on card 003, despite it having a black background - they are dark grey. This contrasts with Up Down, Right etc. or whatever it is called, which also has a black background but the large letters are invisible. In fact on the new version of the card, even where the large letters fell across the white characters on the card, these have been removed when they were apparent on the previous version. The card symbol has also changed from grey to red.

[GasparLewis]

Well, my original objection of tenses is out the window in the phrase is a name; and the connection to an outside work (the Borges quote) is more than enough to bring me around. But, you can see what I was trying to get at originally. I was also a bit antsy because the L in Thunderclap, for some reason, was being portrayed as an E in the reference picture, and THUNDER CEA__ doesn't bear much context at the mo'.

So, now agreeing with the Combed Thunderclap theorem, I would read it as...

[Sh1ft]

Card #007 (6-clubs) was identified as a card with red-dashes here:

http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/letters.html

I can't make out any grey "letter" marks at all. I tried freezing then heating the card, but no joy.

I have also tried scanning and adjusting brightness/contrast (and levels) but can't see anything in the upper right which is supposed to complete the "M" or in the lower right which is supposed to complete the "D".

UV?

EDIT: You can see the upper right "M" at PXC's site:

[DarkHuman]

duh, it's.
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cube
help
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comb
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under
clap

[Hawkeblu]

A thought

[ryandrew]

For your first paragraph, I would like to award you with this:
The book, Combed Thunderclap was mentioned at the top of page 6 by Ollie, and is then discussed briefly.
Your speculation about Isaac is interesting though, that could be a fresh way to look at it.

[Mecha Angel]

Didnt Isaac newton help with the invention of electricity.

[Jon79]

?

[e_nygma]

Re: ?

[fretty]

Was just thinking, the message supposedly says:

"I stole the cube help me combed thunderclap"

Couldn't it be some variation on istolethecubehelpme.com/