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0bs01337

Posted: Saturday, April 25, 2009 2:04:09 AM

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otherpaul

Otherpaul was in the kitchen, making everyone a cup of coffee.
“You’re all a bunch of lazy cunts,” he said.
“Two sugars Otherpaul,” said Pauli.
“He’s a good lad, you know,” said Bob. “Don’t you think?”
“Fuck off,” said Otherpaul, from the kitchen. “It’s your house. Why don’t you make the fucking coffee?”
“It’s my house,” said Bob.

On the TV, Clint Eastwood was making himself a breastplate out of iron.
“You’d always shoot Clint in the head,” said Dixon.
Pauli nodded.
Dixon looked serious. “I mean - you never know when a motherfucker like Clint is going to be wearing a breastplate made out of iron.”
Pauli nodded more.
Too right,” he said.

“Cheers,” said Bob to Otherpaul, taking one of the two cups of coffee that Otherpaul brought into the living room.
“Cheers,” said Pauli, taking the second cup.
“Hey,” said Otherpaul, on his way back to the kitchen to collect the rest of the drinks. “What’s everyone doing this weekend?”
“But,” said Pauli, thinking, “it’s harder to shoot someone in the head, isn’t it?” He took a sip of his drink. “Smaller target.”
“Not if you’re Clint though,” said Dixon. “Or Lee Van Cleef.”
“Or what’s-his-name,” said Bob, “The Ugly.”
“Yeah, Lee Van Cleef would have shot Clint in the head,” said Pauli. “No fucking about.”
“Too right,” said Bob.
“I said,” said Otherpaul, coming back through the door, “what’s everyone –”
“We heard you,” said Dixon.
“Well why didn’t you fucking answer me then?”
There was a pause.
“What?” said Dixon, distracted and still watching Clint.
“Why didn’t you answer me then?”
“I think Otherpaul’s in a mood,” said Pauli to Bob.
“I’m not in a fucking mood, I just asked what everyone was doing this weekend and you all just ignored me.”
“We didn’t ignore you,” said Dixon, taking his coffee.
“Well why didn’t someone fucking answer me then?”
“Nobody said anything,” said Dixon, turning back to the screen, “because nobody’s doing anything, are they?”
“Jesus,” said Otherpaul, sitting down. “You want to know what I think?”
“No,” said Bob.

asked

Bob was eating a miniature Mars Bar.
Paul was rolling up a cigarette.
Clint was wearing a poncho.
Dixon was eating some toast.
Mr. Morris, Otherpaul, Big Andy, Lawrence J and Mark were not there.
“You’ve not got any Jam, Bob,” said Dixon, peering out through the curtains.
“Oh”, said Bob.
“How come?”
“What,” said Bob.
“Did you just run out?”
Bob looked at Pauli.
“That’s probably what happened, Dixon, yes.” Pauli said.
“Why do you keep looking through the curtains?” said Bob to Dixon.
“No, nothing,” said Dixon.
Bob thought that, as an answer, ‘no nothing’ didn’t quite fit with the question he had asked. He didn’t say anything about it.

MiaVRO

Posted: Saturday, April 25, 2009 5:36:10 AM

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I thoroghly enjoyed that.
Very intriguing.
Where did you find that, 0bs0?

0bs01337

Posted: Saturday, April 25, 2009 7:34:25 PM

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otherpaul (in bob 1) links to the text section that follows (bob 2)
asked (in bob 2) links to the next bit (bob 3)
didn't find any links in that, but they might come later

blanckien

Posted: Thursday, June 04, 2009 3:59:11 PM

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in looking at the source code for http://steven-hall.org/blog/ today, i found this really long piece of gibberish that no web designer in their right mind would keep in a page by accident:

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edit: just tried to make it more readable, but keep in mind that that's one continuous line of code.

blanckien

Posted: Friday, June 05, 2009 9:25:55 PM

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i was thinking of the qwerty code from eva signet's blog decryption and the hint "We control the horizontal, we control the vertical", and i think this code is like the one we decoded earlier (where each bunch of letters, if you trace them out on a qwerty keyboard, forms a letter)... BUT the letters are distorted, stretched out and rotated so it's not that easy.

i've been tracing out the ones in the first part that are separated by spaces. for example, qwlkej sort of looks like a capital R stretched out if you're looking at the keyboard diagonally from the bottom left-hand corner. e;lqk looks like a suuuper stretched out capital N if you're looking at the keyboard sideways from the QAZ edge. qwlk looks like a J if you're looking at it from right edge of the keyboard (as in, rotate your keyboard 90 degrees clockwise).

that's it so far though. anyone see the others?

jimmy007

Posted: Friday, March 05, 2010 6:04:06 AM

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I don't know what is secret stuff over here.

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Posted: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 9:05:59 PM

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The iron breastplate definitely refers to A Fistful of Dollars (1964). Maybe there's some connection to something?

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