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Lyria · Boot Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 29

Re: not looking at it correctly?

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 1:18 pm

shinything · Veteran Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 75

This is probably nothing, but I thought I'd mention it anyways. The way the image looks, with all the vertical scratchy lines, it reminds me of those images of words that you have to tilt at an extreme angle to find out what it spells. Has anybody tried printing the image and seeing if there's anything like that? I know, it's a stretch Confused

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 1:21 pm

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jw133 · Boot Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 20 Location: York, England

I'm thinking that it might be along the lines of one of those optical illusion pictures - like this one http://www.grand-illusions.com/woman.htm

I've tried to turn it around and have tried squinting at it... I can't see anything though....

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 1:24 pm

Lyria · Boot Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 29

I printed it, but I don't see anything. (ymmv!) It's a 72 dpi (screen resolution) GIF, which means it's probably designed to be viewed on screen - it's also 400 pixels wide by 600 pixels high, which would probably imply that it's designed to be as large as possible to fit an 800 x 600 monitor (which seems to be the standard size they're working with).

I also tried looking for q9als2002.jpg, .png, and .pdf on hole2.thf.org, thinking perhaps we're looking at the wrong image ("not looking at it correctly") - no luck.

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 1:31 pm

Obes

By the way...

No mouth, no eyes, no nose...

I'd say he's Missing Organs.

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**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 1:54 pm

GateKeeper · Decorated Joined: 22 Apr 2005 Posts: 156

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 2:00 pm

Obes

See a rat, hear a rat, smell a rat.

Mwahahahaha.

Obes. Twisted Evil

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 2:07 pm

smmarl · Boot Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 21 Location: USA

Maybe they mean that we aren't looking at it correctly because it is being compared to Marvin Candle and we should be looking at somebody else?

-S

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 2:10 pm

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**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 2:16 pm

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chief · Veteran Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 126

hole2 image

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 2:21 pm

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Obes

Elephant with his trunk in the air.

Ha ha!

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Not in helpful mood today.

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 2:25 pm

chief · Veteran Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 126

re: hole2 pic

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 2:26 pm

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jw133 · Boot Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 20 Location: York, England

It reminds me of some sort of bird - emu or the like - with a long bendy neck!

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 2:43 pm

fred_bled · Boot Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 16

When interpreting the top row of lines and dots as morse code, I'm getting "JNTEO" (though the reading of those markings is a bit inexact to say the least) - this could be anagrammed into "ON JET" I have absolutely no idea if this means anything at all to be honest.

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 2:56 pm

Etymologician · Boot Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 59

The dots around the edges (top and right side) map (in the mathematical sense) to the stuff coming out of the elephant's trunk. It's weird... the image looks cleaner in both coordinate spaces without those pixels. Makes me think there's something in the them. Don't know if this is the type of map people were talking about chief, but it doesn't look much like a map of a place to me.

Edit: More... the "letters" in the hair wind up on the trunk (which is pretty obvious, but I isolated them to be sure). They don't look any more readable in polar coordinates. Ok, so it's an elephant. Is there more we're supposed to get out of this? Does this shed any new light on the filename?

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 3:10 pm