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Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

Last time the answer was "MLO" encoded in base64, so perhaps we're encoding mlo again. No guarantee of that, though. Potential clues for the keyword (or encoding word, whichever):

Note to self: buy better sunscreen. ...Something to do with sunscreen or his age? I'd guess it may be connected to Wongmo, but Ormond didn't have any connection with him at all, did he?
Sad Ormond picture. I've no idea how this could be a clue, but it is different, and therefore suspicious, I guess. Hee. Poor sad Marcus.
The movies/song. Dunno what it would be, as this last update seems to have killed the nice vision/periphery theme they had going there. But there's a lot of data.
Numbers? The movies have years next to them. Is this strange? It struck me as strange and not strictly necessary unless they meant something. Although I guess the year for Tunnel Vision was needed to distinguish it from the other one that came out in the 70s. Re: numbers, there's also 3.1 in the song. Yeah, this is fairly stretchy.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 6:05 pm

Wolf · Decorated Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 292

**Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:01 pm

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eyepokety pokety poke:

**Posted:** Thu Oct 21, 2004 4:02 pm

Wolf · Decorated Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 292

Yep, I got it too.

Now...what's it mean?

I'm leaving for 8 days on Saturday morning, so we need to solve this by tomorrow at 5 pm eastern. Very Happy

edit: Is the 1971 possibly relevant in the movie title?

**Posted:** Thu Oct 21, 2004 4:57 pm

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Wolf · Decorated Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 292

**Posted:** Thu Oct 21, 2004 5:06 pm

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Wolf · Decorated Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 292

Googling "bon appetit" "they might be giants" gives this (probably irrelevant) IMDB page:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281241/

**Posted:** Thu Oct 21, 2004 5:39 pm

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**Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:33 pm

krystyn

Oh, gah. Nice work. Smile

Wheeee!
Peeps, I am quite impressed.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 2:42 am

Ozy_y2k

Might I take a moment to suggest to you forum admin goon types that, given the unwieldiness of this single-subject thread, now might be a good time to dust the old Metacortechs forum off and take it out of mothballs so as to use in the solving of this here puzzle thingy? It looks like a lot of work has been put into this "redux", and that it might actually be a little bit bigger of a story than just a mere Timewaster. Very Happy

I'm just sayin'.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:50 am

joebrent

**Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 12:47 pm

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AnthraX101 · Entrenched Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 797

Well, since the header pages are named in the form http://www.lessonstolearn.net/anomaly#.html, I gave http://www.lessonstolearn.net/anomaly4.html a shot. Heh. Wink

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**Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:29 pm

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The only thing I noticed was that the second "event" took place 45 days after the first and the third 90 days after the second.....

So I was thinking the fourth "event" might take place 180 days after the third......which I "think" (just did it in my head) would be April 30th 2004.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 7:49 pm

GWing_02

Oh wow.
And to think, just yesterday Metacortechs just randomly leapt into my brain. (I was a lurker through the first Metacortechs)

**Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 7:52 pm

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Ehsan · Entrenched Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 992

Wow! Metacortechs deja vu all over again.. reminds me of the good old days when we didn't chase payphones..

Anyway..

**Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:54 pm

Caterpillar

Great job!

I was on the right track....but *never* would have gotten that far!

This swf file:

**Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2004 12:08 am