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Dr Adequate
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Message 1 of 32 (772087)
11-05-2015 11:21 AM


PPVCH
CAVMD
SHVPM
HPVLV
RHVTSON
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vimesey
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Message 2 of 32 (772091)
11-05-2015 11:45 AM
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11-05-2015 11:21 AM


Will a familiarity with American cultural references help here ?

Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?

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Message 3 of 32 (772092)
11-05-2015 11:52 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Dr Adequate
11-05-2015 11:21 AM


It's a limerick.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 4 of 32 (772093)
11-05-2015 11:55 AM
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11-05-2015 11:45 AM


Will a familiarity with American cultural references help here ?
No ... kinda ... not really. Not in the way you mean. There may even be a very slight advantage to being British, but not much of one.
Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

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vimesey
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Message 5 of 32 (772102)
11-06-2015 6:33 AM
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11-05-2015 11:55 AM


Might be making some progress here...give me some more time...tick tock tick tock...

Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?

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vimesey
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Message 6 of 32 (772103)
11-06-2015 6:35 AM
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11-05-2015 11:55 AM


Yep - got 1 and 4 - which are giving me something of a theme...

Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?

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vimesey
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Message 7 of 32 (772104)
11-06-2015 6:37 AM
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11-05-2015 11:55 AM


And 5 as well now...the precise theme will probably depend on the other two.

Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?

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vimesey
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Message 8 of 32 (772105)
11-06-2015 6:40 AM
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11-05-2015 11:55 AM


No. 3 has fallen - which is another clue for others....

Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?

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vimesey
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Message 9 of 32 (772106)
11-06-2015 6:48 AM
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11-05-2015 11:55 AM


And finally got them all - though No.2 was slightly sneaky, in that you have to slightly re-think the theme - though not much.

Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?

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Message 10 of 32 (772110)
11-06-2015 8:22 AM
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11-05-2015 11:21 AM


Is this a letter substitution puzzle, or something else?
--Percy

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Message 11 of 32 (772121)
11-06-2015 2:29 PM
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11-06-2015 8:22 AM


substitution puzzle, or something else?
Based on vimsey's responses, it is something else.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams

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vimesey
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Message 12 of 32 (772123)
11-06-2015 4:02 PM
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11-06-2015 2:29 PM


It is something else, yes.
Next line:
JBVESB

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Message 13 of 32 (772125)
11-06-2015 4:13 PM
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11-06-2015 4:02 PM


Jim Beam vs. Extra Special Bitter?

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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vimesey
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Message 14 of 32 (772126)
11-06-2015 4:26 PM
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11-06-2015 4:13 PM


Right structure, but the wrong theme.

Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?

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Message 15 of 32 (772132)
11-06-2015 6:54 PM
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11-06-2015 4:26 PM


Hewlet Packard v Lenova?

Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.

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