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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: BumbleB on Tuesday 07 March 17 17:51 GMT (UK)
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The things you find when you're looking for something else :o
Loved these notices in the London Evening Standard of 1880. The imagination can run riot :D :D
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Love the last one! ;D
A great string of letters - and then it has a question mark after them!
'Text speak' pales into insignificance! :)
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Obviously need to get the code-breakers in :D
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How intriguing...when is the next instalment BB ;D
Carol
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"see many previous advertisements since 31st July"
Maybe it would be possible to work out the code by looking at the earlier communications.
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Obviously need to get the code-breakers in :D
We need some one to crack that code!
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Where's Dan Brown when he's needed!! ;D
(Just in case you're a Rootschatter Dan). HELP!
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5000£ looks like could be a key to the code
numbers before £ not after
5 -1/2= 0.5
1 divided by 2 =0.5
50/50 (2 x 50 = 100) Half of a whole
Keyboard letters £=3 (QWERTY) (before 3 £)
Three 000
Before a £ is 240 pennies 20 shilling and 40 tanners
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Contact Alan Turing at Bletchley Park for assistance. ??? ???
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Contact Alan Turing at Bletchley Park for assistance. ??? ???
Think he popped his clogs years ago but he was the right man to break the code
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While I don't like to be a killjoy but....... newspaper editors have been known to make up "fillers" to fill up vacant bits in the columns in the last minutes before the paper is printed.
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....... newspaper editors have been known to make up "fillers" to fill up vacant bits in the columns in the last minutes before the paper is printed.
Does it matter, really :o This was one of the ways that people communicated with each other in the past - before the days of Twitter ;D
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Does it matter, really :o This was one of the ways that people communicated with each other in the past - before the days of Twitter ;D
... or even the fixed (non-mobile) telephone ....
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Very true :)