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girlfrendonfire
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SeekerX: Might TROGL stand for something like "Things Retrieved on GROOM LAKE"?

I keep seeing the "GL" together and just going back to "Groom Lake"

PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:07 pm
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xumx
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Hi i'm new here

A few things I've noted.

1. in the photo from josh, there is something in the top left corner. could be a pen or a hardcover of a book.

2. The binder offer page is significantly different print posted by rocket

ex.
the word order and formatting is different.. "simulated brown leather"..
the formatting is different
The 3rd page is different

should we try and find the Version josh is holding?
if we cannot find the exact print version.. are they modified on purpose?

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according to josh's blog post

Quote:
When I was little, I stole a book from the library. It was a Classics Illustrated #5 Moby Dick and I searched four different libraries to find it (don't tell anyone – not sure how the laws of prosecution work). I still have it on my bookshelf, even though the cover fell off years ago.


Note "the cover fell off years ago."
this seems to prove that there are indeed 2 Copies of Moby Dick.



My Speculation: He did not lie to Mystero about receiving the TROGL version from someone else.

PostPosted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:22 am
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punxtr
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Perhaps his dad sent him another copy with TROGL on it to signify he hid something in Josh's stole copy.

PostPosted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:27 am
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r.m
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Mysterio reads the HLM site since he has used the calendar, post # and fish viewer to set the chat time and create the password. So it wouldn't make sense for Josh to lie about the source of the Moby Dick copy. He should figure that mysterio has read his original stolen book post from the coelacanth blog.

It looks like this new pic is of another newer issue of Moby Dick - unless it's of another title altogether. There are so many possibilities, ifs and maybes that I just keep turning in circles.

This could be a different version of Moby Dick(there are many). This could be a-whole-nother title (there are just this side of countless). The written message could be from any number of people - Josh's mom or dad or mysterio or other good guy or other bad guy. Does Josh clearly remember receiving it as a kid or does he just assume it? Does he remember seeing the message there the first time he saw the book or was this book in with items he has been sorting through and he just saw the message recently? Is trogl a cavedweller or an acronym? Could all these circled and lined letters be an anagram or a cryptogram?

Sorry to go on and on but Bang Head !!! I just want to share my misery...

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why there's always updates when i have "daughter weekend"

is my little girl mysterio and is updating the printout from my pc????

Very Happy

b2t: so we wait till 16th for the next chat.............
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KevsterSD
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blocked out word?

Thinking about the crossed out/obscured word "backbone", it looks like the "bone" has been crossed out only.... maybe something about the back of the binder? I noticed that the binder only holds 12 issues... that last issue would be "12- Rip Van Winkle", and the last page of that issue happens to be the same ad for the binder that Josh is holding (looks more similar than the actual one in the Moby Dick issue, anyway)... Just thinking about this while procrastinating from doing paperwork.... Okay... too much caffeine...

http://www.ladue63.com/library/Classics%20Illustrated%20v1%20012-Rip%20Van%20Winkle/index.html

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KevsterSD
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image of binder ad #2

This image seems to look more like the actual one that Josh is holding in the picture... Found it here...

http://www.ladue63.com/library/Classics%20Illustrated%20v1%20012-Rip%20Van%20Winkle/imagepages/image68.html

definitely the word that was partially obscured was "backbone" (Per Xeno earlier...)
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 4:31 am
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r.m
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Kevster -

Good thinking to come up with back being the last copy that would be in the binder. I was considering it meant the back of the actual binder if something was somehow hidden there. But I think I like your idea better. It could be something anywhere in the Rip Van Winkle comic, since it would be the back copy. I wonder if Josh has one of these binders.

Here's some pics from an ebay ad where someone is actually selling one (this does not appear to be In Game).



http://cgi.ebay.com/CLASSICS-ILLUSTRATED-SILVER-AGE-COMIC-BOOK-BINDER-/380256635374?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item58890fc9ee

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JumboTron
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EDIT: All removed, cuz I can't read

PostPosted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 10:59 am
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Xeno Lambrose
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Some things to consider:

Mysterio states: "This account is no longer secure." What account, STIES? If so, how will contact be made in the future?

Also, the writing of "TROGL" looks very similar on the badge and the book? Are we then to assume that possibly Josh's dad penned them both, and if so, and he at least wrote only the one in the book Josh received, why write something in a book you're going to give to your son that he may, or may not ever find? The message, you would think, should have had some meaning to his son, or why write it? And it's quite an assumption (if that was the case) that Josh would still have the book after a number of years.

The point about the last book in the binder being a "Rip Van Winkle" is interesting if you think that Rip dropped off the radar for a number of years, and apparently the same thing happen to Josh's father!

Just thinking.

PostPosted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:28 pm
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davedubya
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Which file is it that prints?

I just get file read errors.

EDIT: Scratch that, I've seen it now.

PostPosted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 7:34 pm
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punxtr
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tyler123456 wrote:
OK, FlynnLives over - time to work on Super8.....

Forgive me for stating the obvious here - no-one else has mentioned it - "Same protocol. 3D and 5O's last leg":

Therefore, "3D & 5O" = 16th December
"Last Leg" = 8:03PM to 8:49PM

Now, does "Same protocol" mean the same password - toadfish112 ? That would appear to be a bit sloppy, don't you think?


I already mentioned it, post one...

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KevsterSD
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page of Josh's comic book...

I was just noticing that the front page of Josh's copy of the Moby Dick does not match the one that is included in ladywyntir's link to the issue or any of the other pages.
http://www.ladue63.com/library/Classics%20Illustrated%20v1%20005%20-%20Moby%20Dick/imagepages/image3.html
I looked through some other titles, but not all of them on the site have working links to actual pages of the book, and none of them seem to have an "MO..." in the title, as the page of Josh's book does... Did they ever release a reprint or a redux of Moby Dick in classics illustrated?

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KevsterSD
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alternative version?

Just following up on a possible alternative version... I found an alternative cover to the Moby Dick issue, which seems to cost a dime more than the other one, but it's not clear if there are any differences in the issue itself... probably not important really to this, but just for the sake of being thorough I guess...
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MrFett
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Just few things about Moby Dick releases.

There is a site with all the information about Classics illustrated
http://comicbookdb.com/title.php?ID=7592

And according to this site

Version posted by Ladywint is 14th edition and one posted by KevsterSD is 23th edition.

And here what's on the site about editions -

* Based on a novel by Herman Melville
* Price increases and page reductions with various reprintings
* New cover and art (14th edition)
* New cover (23rd edition)
* 24 editions (9/42-Win/71)

And since 14th edition has new cover and art - the one Josh has must be the one prior to 14th

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