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[ARG] Philipp Retingshof (German)
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Argata
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 		[ARG] Philipp Retingshof (German)
Hi everybody,

Last Monday some people got strange post via snail mail. Some of them
got photos with an url hidden in it. Others got cards and again others
got kalaidoscopes (again with a hidden url). They all lead us recipients
to the weblog of Philipp Retingshof, who is a young restorer in Berlin - Germany.

Within the last few days and weeks some strange things happened to him.
He was been working on an old mirror, when he found an old letter behind
the frame. This mirror belonged to a woman who died in an car accident
some days ago.

In dem Rahmen des Spiegels war ein Brief versteckt

Argata

PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:51 pm
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Nova Loop
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 		if only i spoke german i might be able to read some of this stuff Shocked
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 		Re: [ARG] Philipp Retingshof (German)
Argata wrote:
Hi everybody,

Last Monday some people got strange post via snail mail. Some of them
got photos with an url hidden in it. Others got cards and again others
got kalaidoscopes (again with a hidden url). They all lead us recipients
to the weblog of Philipp Retingshof, who is a young restorer in Berlin - Germany.

Within the last few days and weeks some strange things happened to him.
He was been working on an old mirror, when he found an old letter behind
the frame. This mirror belonged to a woman who died in an car accident
some days ago.

In dem Rahmen des Spiegels war ein Brief versteckt

Argata


Were the people who received these items also German?

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jamesi
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 		I received something in the mail about this as well, and will update this post when I can spare a few moments.

Update: Here's a scan of the mail I got.
retingshof.jpg
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Unfortunately, this file is no longer in our archives.
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jamesi
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 		A terrible Babelfish translation:

In deep mourning around our friend Helena Stavros. Your life is divorced there, by death strong hand. But you only run ahead and prepare ours away. We will eternally remember, what connected us together. Full hope for you, stand we wait at the last bar.

I will ask a German friend of mine to assist in a better translation.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:40 pm
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jamesi
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 		The out-of-place capitals in the text at the bottom-left seem to be: LHITHLFWMHIRS. I can get a HTML out of that, but that leaves me with LHIHFWIRS.

Our friends at ARGR have already had some experience with this.
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catherwood
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jamesi wrote:
The out-of-place capitals in the text at the bottom-left seem to be: LHITHLFWMHIRS.
I think you took too many capitals to be "out of place"; German capitalizes their nouns as a matter of course.

HIFMIRS

(um, no, that doesn't translate back to "Help Us.")

PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:49 am
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Varin
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jamesi wrote:
In deep mourning around our friend Helena Stavros. Your life is divorced there, by death strong hand. But you only run ahead and prepare ours away. We will eternally remember, what connected us together. Full hope for you, stand we wait at the last bar.


I think that last word should be bridge. I didn't think that was the word for bar so I looked it up in two of my dictionaries - one said "bridge", the other "footbridge, path" It also should be capitalized so the out of place capitals should be HIFMIR.

I might have to play this just to refresh my sorely unused German skills.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:12 pm
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Methos
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 		"HILF MIR" (= HELP ME)

http://projekte.patmo.de/wiki/index.php?title=Philipp_Retingshof_%28ARG%29_-_Gel%C3%B6ste_R%C3%A4tsel

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