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Just perusing for the umpteenth time, but isn't it a little strange that of the ones that have a month listed, it is only ever the last 3 months of the year? (Oct/Nov/Dec)

**Posted:** Mon Nov 22, 2004 1:18 am

Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

Yeah, noticed that, but not sure what to make of it. MU ran from August (..ish...well, October, officially, not counting pre-game stuff) to November.

I was just trying to do the first letter thing with the abstracts, and am having more luck than with the full texts, although there are still a few dead ends here and there.

What I've got:
P
A
T
A
5?
6?
7?
8?
T
9?
I
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PATA????T?I
May well be gibberish, dunno. It's in chronological order from the current year. 5?, the PSYCHOTHERAPEUT one, is in German (Eine neue Methode zur Behandlung posttraumatischer Belastungsst�rungen). I don't speak a word of it, so maybe someone who does could have better luck. 6? and 7? are both in that journal that doesn't archive past 1997. 9? doesn't seem to be available online.

**Posted:** Mon Nov 22, 2004 1:39 am

GWing_02

m-w search for any words PATA????T?I in it yielded nothing, so it's definitely not a word in and of itself, regardless of the missing characters.

**Posted:** Tue Nov 23, 2004 1:29 am

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**Posted:** Tue Nov 23, 2004 9:13 am

GWing_02

I've tried about everything you can with what's given, so it's probably something with the full-text.

**Posted:** Tue Nov 23, 2004 8:06 pm

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Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

[edit]Wongmo update! Hee. Wongmo's really subtle with the clues.

**Posted:** Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:59 pm

Ehsan · Entrenched Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 992

Ironically, I had already solved this a long time ago, when we got the first hint. But I was trying so many different things that I wrote it off as another gibberish word. I even tried to anagram it because there were enough vowels, not realizing that it's already an English word..

Enough of that..

**Posted:** Wed Nov 24, 2004 1:36 am

GWing_02

HAHAHAH that was me writing in trying to be random. Funny how they turned it into a clue. They're probably really disappointed in our lack of puzzle-solving ability all of a sudden right about now though.

PS the quote is from the game Metal Gear Solid 3, which owns my soul.

**Posted:** Wed Nov 24, 2004 3:26 am

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Caterpillar

You let a game that goes ""La-li-lu-le-lo" own your soul?

Wink

**Posted:** Wed Nov 24, 2004 10:51 am

GWing_02

Hahaha. You have no idea.... Wink

**Posted:** Thu Nov 25, 2004 1:20 am

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