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Arana
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 		[puzzle]misplaced word in new 404 text
I have found misplaced/misspelled word in the new 404 text. SP has not made such errors before. The first misplaced word I see are:

rears (as in "years and rears")
hand (as in "much as the last one hand")

Let's get going!
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 		Re: [puzzle]misplaced word in new 404 text
Arana wrote:
I have found misplaced/misspelled word in the new 404 text. SP has not made such errors before. The first misplaced word I see are:

rears (as in "years and rears")
hand (as in "much as the last one hand")

Let's get going!


It seems the "rears" one was corrected, then, because it now reads "years and years". The "hand" one is still up, though.

And I submit another one: boot (as in "climbed to the top of the phone boot where Perdita had tied her last red balloon")

PostPosted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 12:21 pm
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 		Re: [puzzle]misplaced word in new 404 text
Arana wrote:
I have found misplaced/misspelled word in the new 404 text. SP has not made such errors before. The first misplaced word I see are:

rears (as in "years and rears")
hand (as in "much as the last one hand")

Let's get going!



Well, fwiw, they fixed "rears" to "years"

But there is a "phone boot" near the end. Smile

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boot (as in "phone boot")
"behnid" or "in" (as in "hidden spot behind in a ball-bearing", although that doesn't follow the pattern of the other three)
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 		Beat ya guys. ^_^

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 		Re: Found more
/me respectfully notes that a spell-checker would miss every one of these. Dunno
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 		Re: Found more
Shad0 wrote:
* Shad0 respectfully notes that a spell-checker would miss every one of these. Dunno


Yes, but "rears" was corrected by "SP" within a couple of minutes of the first posting in this thread, and the others are persisting.

There is proof that "rears" was there and has changed, as it is present in the text posted here.
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 		Re: Found more
Arana wrote:
Yes, but "rears" was corrected by "SP" within a couple of minutes of the first posting in this thread, and the others are persisting.


Which, of course, lends credence to your assumption that this might be a puzzle. So, any ideas as to how to proceed?

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 		Re: Found more
Arana wrote:
Shad0 wrote:
* Shad0 respectfully notes that a spell-checker would miss every one of these. Dunno

Yes, but "rears" was corrected by "SP" within a couple of minutes of the first posting in this thread, and the others are persisting.

There is proof that "rears" was there and has changed, as it is present in the text posted here.

Oh, no question. I was just observing, in my own unnecessarily obnoxious way Embarassed , that these might have been plain ol' ordinary typos -- like when one of SPDR's very first coordinates was in the sea, and the PMs fixed it. There are at least three possibilities:

(1) The PMs will fix the rest of the typos.
(2) Too many of us have noticed the typos already, so the PMs will reverse-engineer some sort of explanation, like when they blamed all the wrong coordinates on SPDR and posted a completely new table.
(3) This was a puzzle from the beginning.

While I think #3 is less likely, that is absolutely NO reason not to investigate it as if it is definitely a puzzle. I've been wrong before, and I'll certainly be wrong again. (Many many many many times, no doubt).
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 		Re: Found more
MeKiwi wrote:
Arana wrote:
Yes, but "rears" was corrected by "SP" within a couple of minutes of the first posting in this thread, and the others are persisting.


Which, of course, lends credence to your assumption that this might be a puzzle. So, any ideas as to how to proceed?


I have tried boot, hand, hand_boot, and boot_hand as pages and as .wavs without success. Perhaps there are other words hidden elsewhere that we can assemble into something bigger?
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 		Re: Found more
Arana wrote:
I have tried boot, hand, hand_boot, and boot_hand as pages and as .wavs without success. Perhaps there are other words hidden elsewhere that we can assemble into something bigger?


Hehe, funny, I tried the same. Also tried booth_had, had_booth, booth, and had as well. I don't see any more typos... but I could be missing some (I missed the hand one you mentioned the first time I read it).

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 		I don't think we need to assume anything out of the ordinary from now on is another set of hidden clips...

remember the first time letters were missing, it was "A" and "I". if there are missing letters or misplaced letters, it may or may not be significant, and it may just be some kind of subliminal message, like AI, and not really a clue to any hidden puzzles or anything...

this is all assuming of course, that these aren't just typos
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thebruce wrote:
I don't think we need to assume anything out of the ordinary from now on is another set of hidden clips...

remember the first time letters were missing, it was "A" and "I". if there are missing letters or misplaced letters, it may or may not be significant, and it may just be some kind of subliminal message, like AI, and not really a clue to any hidden puzzles or anything...

this is all assuming of course, that these aren't just typos


Well, in that case, hand and boot are both physical things. [SPEC] Maybe SP is referring to the physical body which she once had but has lost (like Perdita).

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MeKiwi wrote:
Hehe, funny, I tried the same. Also tried booth_had, had_booth, booth, and had as well. I don't see any more typos... but I could be missing some (I missed the hand one you mentioned the first time I read it).


Good idea. The best anagram I found is "DNA booth". Nothing from that either. If we don't find more words to add somehow I might get discouraged!
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 		I think that if there is any significance to these words, I think that MeKiwi has stumbled upon it:

That hand and boot are both body references, and if a clockwork rat had been working on you, maybe you'd notice a difference in those same types of places... Mind you, it's just forming now, but I think that's the idea we're heading towards here... at least it makes the most sense (other than a simple typo, which makes the absolute MOST sense!)

BTW MeKiwi, I think that the clockwork rat had no objective except to keep Perdita helplessly "dumb" to the fact that she wasn't going home. (maybe the CR just wanted a friend, for all we know, and the whole exchanging of body for metal was just inbred into his character...)
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