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[UPDATE] A-M-W-B.com Website 5/16
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Silverkun
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[UPDATE] A-M-W-B.com Website 5/16

I'm not sure when this changed, but it's new...

From www.a-m-w-b.com:

screphy dweri trepcot. I driwe ot eb. scagim dol twinhi em lobi. I clanbae lod streero. I stebd dhaostun reysa odl testel. nibuesss doewn yb oyu dnim. trecess fo ryuo won dnif.

Anagrams all. Spoilers follow:

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Whoever's gotten into this system (frickin' Sleeping Princess...Smile) can't build a proper sentence:

CYPHERS WEIRD PROTECT. I WEIRD TO BE. MAGICS OLD WITHIN ME BOIL. I BALANCE OLD RESTORE. I DEBTS THOUSAND YEARS SETTLE. BUSINESS OWNED/ENDOW BY YOU MIND. SECRETS OF YOUR OWN FIND.


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PostPosted: Tue May 16, 2006 8:25 pm
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You got in just before me. When i figured it out however i used now instead of own. Own makes more sense but put in the context of that sentence it could possibly be either of them.

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Silverkun
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So what can me make out from Terri's blog?

"Anyway, he was trying to tease me, telling me that there was some sort of secret thing on his website. "Oh, oh! It's hidden really well! I bet you'll never find it! But hey, check it out. I'll give you a hint!"

And then he said to me, and I hope I'm getting this right:

"The start plus end of this verse is one
Until your death and then there's none." "
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Re: [SC] A-M-W-B.com Website

Silverkun wrote:
Anagrams all.


Maybe you didn't quite take the anagrams far enough, as in the words are deliberatly jumbled, better would be this:
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CYPHERS PROTECT WEIRD
I TO BE WEIRD
OLD MAGICS BOIL WITHIN ME.
I RESTORE OLD BALANCE.
I SETTLE THOUSAND YEARS DEBTS.
YOU OWNED BY BUSINESS MIND.
FIND SECRETS OF YOUR OWN

?? OK still pretty much gibberish...
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Re: [SC] A-M-W-B.com Website

ALISDAIRPARK wrote:

?? OK still pretty much gibberish...


Definitely still gibberish, but the general meaning is still there.

"I know what you are. I've got more of a right and a reason to be here, and the old magics to back me up. Sod off an mind your own business."

Whoever this entity is, they need a kick in the teeth. Assuming, of course, that they have teeth...Wink

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Re: [SC] A-M-W-B.com Website

Silverkun wrote:
Whoever this entity is, they need a kick in the teeth. Assuming, of course, that they have teeth...Wink


Oh come on, of course they have teeth, what good's an entity if they don't have lots of sharp little pointy teeth, or large jagged pointy teeth, or viscious curved pointy teeth, or...OK you get the picture..and it's got pointy teeth in it.
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Didn't see this posted elsewhere yet, but it looks like there's a new threat against Charles on this site.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Charles Lehner, you stupid old man.
You're in my hands now. Your life, your death, they are both mine.
Soon I will possess all of your secrets and your power.
Then the king of clay will crumble at my feet, and we will regain our crown.


Yeah... definitely pointy teeth involved here.

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Kythen wrote:
Didn't see this posted elsewhere yet, but it looks like there's a new threat against Charles on this site.


You're half right...I don't think we ever posted those lines anywhere, but they are definitely not new (they've been there since we found the site). This is where they should be though, so thanks for keeping us on our toes. Very Happy
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Kythen wrote:
Yeah... definitely pointy teeth involved here.


*imitates Monty Python* Big, Pointeh Teeth!

Good eyes, though Puck is right. It's not exactly new.
Perhaps you could peek into the source code, though? I think the text is getting blurry on me and I don't think I'm really seeing it now. Too close to the trees and all...Wink

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<3 Monty Python


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OK, I"m getting nowhere on the clue John gave Sue, so I thought it might help to post some of the things I've tried that don't seem to be solutions. At the very least it should reduce duplication of effort.

I'm thinking that "this verse" is the couplet itself. If so, then "start" could be the first letter, "T" and "end" could be "e". "plus" might mean addition. Adding the positions of T and E in the alphabet gives Y. Which might mean "why". A question? This would seem to fit with the second line, if you think that there are no questions after death (you certainly don't ask as many!). But trying things like www.a-m-w-b.com/questions.html doesn't seem to work.

If "plus" means concatenation, then we get "Te" which is the abreviation for Tellurium, one of the elements. But it doesn't seem to work as well with the second line, and things like www.a-m-w-b.com/elements.html also don't work.

Maybe the "start" and "end" are the first and last words of the verse, in which case we get "The none". That's actually a time of day in the Liturgy of the Day, or the Hours. It's about 3pm. This seems to fit well with the second line too, if we say that you have no time after death, but again, things like www.a-m-w-b.com/time.html and www.a-m-w-b.com/hours.html don't seem to work.

I also thought maybe "this verse" might be something else, like the universe or something. The word uniVERSity seemed promising; because the start plus end of that could be "unity" which is 1! But this doesn't seem to have anything to do with the second line, and really just shows how badly I'm stumped!

Anyway, I hope one of these bad ideas will trigger a better one in someone else!

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AliasNode00 wrote:
But this doesn't seem to have anything to do with the second line, and really just shows how badly I'm stumped!

Anyway, I hope one of these bad ideas will trigger a better one in someone else!


Wow. That's some really good deduction there.

Here are somethings I also tried:
y.html
why.html
one.html
1.html

None of these flew. Good thought, though. And none of them address the second line, sooooo...

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Ok, I'm not even really lurking...but here's just some of my re wording

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
CYPHERS PROTECT WEIRD
WEIRD TO BE I
OLD MAGICS BOIL WITHIN ME.
I RESTORE OLD BALANCE.
I SETTLE THOUSAND YEARS DEBTS.
YOU OWNED MIND BY BUSINESS.
FIND SECRETS OF YOUR OWN

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Guessing things that stop when you die, I got:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
http://www.a-m-w-b.com/thought.html


which links to:

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http://www.a-m-w-b.com/thought/


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well done Sorites!

Don't see much in there that helps, but it confirms the real John is innocent I guess.

The only other thing I've noticed is the archives, which are only set up for March and May, but both links are inactive.
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