You're right. It was my first day out of the hospital after a gallbladder operation. Nothing was funny that day. Looking back, what you wrote was funny....
I also don't think that the G on the button should be interpreted as a G + J, but that it's just an artistic way of writing it. If you type a G in a few...
Point taken on Coronet and (somewhat) on Lucida Handwriting. However, those are script faces where flourishes are sorta the point. I think you're mistaken...
Gish, David
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Sep 2, 2003 8:22 pm
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David Gish wrote "The font in question doesn't exhibit anything remotely florid except for that G (from what we can tell.) Why should it have such an ornate...
Ok, you've got a point and I'm not going to question the expertise of someone who has worked that long whit different kind of fonds. So whe've got G+J or C+J...
... Check the messages already sent on this topic, which also includes the "A challenge" thread. Executive summary: Nothing helpful. John Lobert [Non-text...
... I know what you mean. I have been working at newspapers for the last 20 years and we do get to see a lot of typefaces, don't we? But something that ...
Aurélio Moreira
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Sep 5, 2003 3:58 pm
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Aurélio Moreira wrote: <But something that completely eludes the untrained eye is the overlong blank space between words, like the ones created by hitting...
Gish, David
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Sep 6, 2003 12:08 am
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... I had my first Mac in 1988, and while it's long gone, I don't remember any fonts that looked like that unless they were fonts that one could easily pick up...
I like David's thumbnail sketch of how this button came to exist. I am wondering if any of the letters might be someone's initials. A few posts into this...
BBC Television: Channel 4: Sat 13 Sept 2003: 21:15-22:15: (When any true Brit should be waving a Union flag to the strains of "Land of Hope & Glory" on the...
... I still have a working LC III Mac at home. My daughters use it for playing some very simple games. It still holds the original applications, so let me get...
Aurélio Moreira
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Sep 7, 2003 6:49 pm
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That G doesn't look like the usual G. It looks like the Latvian 'dew': http://ai1.mii.lu.lv/valoda/alph1.htm Sean __________________________________ Do you...
It turns out that I bought my LC III Mac new in 1993. However, the Microsoft Word 4.0 which came with it shows a copyright notice from 1987-1991 and the ...
Aurélio Moreira
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Sep 8, 2003 7:32 pm
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... As promised, here is the reply from Do It Now Foundation. No luck, I'm afraid :-( ... -- Cheers, Peter Hugosson-Miller. "When cryptography is outlawed,...
... oft > Word 4.0 which came with it shows a copyright notice from 1987-1991 and the > original fonts (I aded several others), as far as I can tell, are as...
I watched this program last night... ... There are two messages. The first consists of 17 symbols on one line. I've drawn them out over 2 lines here. You will...
Dave Smith, I guess you don$B!G(Bt realize your posting just ruined what was going to be my morning$B!G(Bs crypto exercise. You must not have been around...
Jim Mays
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Sep 14, 2003 11:29 am
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Jim, I hope you can just ignore my answer to Terry's question, and solve the ciphers anyway. I answered his question, "... But I'd be interested to see how...
Thanks, Dave, for your rapid response, and sorry, Jim, that I didn't ask people to reply to me not the group. ( I did toy with the idea but thought I might be...
Hi group, possible spoiler if your planning to slove the code suggest not to read anymore of this email. There we are, Okay, I watched the program last night...
... Yes, I watched the programme too... must say I was rather disappointed! They could have got Simon Singh on the case and sorted it in 5 minutes, rather...
Terry, My total time, from reading your message to final solution, was about 5 minutes. Your original messsage mentioned FreeMasons, and I remembered that they...
Well, no one has solved it yet, but here's what the newspaper columnist wrote about the button. By the way, although it only mentions ACA, I had written her to...
Hi, "hiding in plain sight" ISBN: 0471444499 I have not bought it yet, as it is a NEW book, but the review seemed interesting. Any feedback? Cya! -- I Like...
Andrew Bruno
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Sep 15, 2003 7:06 am
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Hello Terry ... Although it has been "Solved" I thought that this was the "Pig Pen" code. ... Regards -- "CATS. CATS ARE NICE." - Death, "Sourcery" Andrew...
Andrew Bruno
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Sep 15, 2003 7:10 am
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I was also very disappointed with it, I suppose you have to give the guy credit for spinning a simple cipher it into an hour long TV programme. He probably...
Terry, At the risk of overexposing the Diana Dors topic, let me add a couple of items. First, curiosity led me to google "Mary Fluck" to understand the origin...
