484 - Meaning Of Mr. Mustard, Le Tit Beu, The Voynich Manuscript Was Meant To Be Sung, Pyramids Of The Hol-Li-Udh Dynasty, and "Herr... Herr."

[9:49 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

I'm horrible with names

I can recognize a person but not know who they are

[9:50 AM] 

Text is weirder that way.  All names, really

[9:51 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

Like I do it all the time with family

Not immediate but extended family.

I know I'm related to them but have no clue of their name

[9:51 AM] 

From my POV, having reread and edited and color coded so much.  I'll always associate some folks with color more than name

[9:52 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

I know remembering names you have to come up with associations to remember them

or at least its a technique

[9:52 AM] 

(retirement home orderly) "Mr. Silver is talking about some guy named Mustard again."

[9:53 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

Mustard took my ice cream

[9:53 AM] 

Irony there is his real last name means white

He got mustard because of...oddities...

Not least of which was the inability to post his comments in here highlighted in white.

[9:54 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

I feel bad for him.

I feel like his mind is going to go if not gone already

[9:54 AM] 

Colonel Mustard...the retired potential killer from Clue.

And the condiment, due to our chronic conversation topic of cannibalism gags.

He suuuuure liked talking about cannibalism... (nervous suspicions)

[9:56 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

Throw in a little brown sauce

[9:56 AM] 

LOL

You know you are "Mr. Brown" right?

[9:57 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

Heheh

I was looking at it last night when you posted it, so I should be a hit from USA

[1:13 PM] 

New client emails:  “letitbeme” “letitbeu”

(me) ["French?  Le tit beu.  "The drunk tit"?  What's beme?]

[1:14 PM]  Mr. Brown: 

HAHAH

[1:15 PM] 

"I want to set up "let it be u" first."

"OH!  Okay."

[10:49 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4861262/Expert-claims-Voynich-manuscript-medieval-health-manual.html

[10:50 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

How do we know its not gibberish?

[11:12 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I remember we read and discussed it but I forget the conclusions we came to.

There have been some old manuscript hoaxes

I think a few were actually old manuscripts but they were blank and someone added nonsense when they re-discovered the blank book

BTW, I'm certianly not going to read DM for my history

I remember that the alphabet in the Voynich Manuscript is completely unknown, and even the repeating letters do not match any known past or present languages.

I think the prevailing wisdom among experts was hoax

[11:28 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Probably just some weirdos journal

[11:32 AM]  Mr. Brown: 

It definitely looks like they were looking in on women at a bath

[11:44 AM] 

Just an easily amazed monk filling page after page of pictures of things he was amazed by and writing "Oooo!" in excitement

[11:44 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Y'ever hear of this bloke Mr. Silver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dee

[11:59 AM] 

Yes

(tries and fails to recall partner's name)

Did all the angelic script

[11:59 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

He's linked to this manuscript

[12:00 PM] 

Yeah? Not that I ever heard.

[12:01 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Like he possibly owned it

[12:01 PM] 

Kelley... Partner was Kelley.

[12:01 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Or possibly a buddy of his forged it

Yeah, Kelley

[12:01 PM] 

Well, Kelley had a rep for fraud anyway

[12:02 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Seems like it

Seems like there's more evidence that it's a natural language - possibly germanic -

based on:

Statistical analysis of the text reveals patterns similar to those of natural languages. For instance, the word entropy (about 10 bits per word) is similar to that of English or Latin texts.^[3] In 2013, Diego Amancio et al argued that the Voynich manuscript "is mostly compatible with natural languages and incompatible with random texts".^[57

 1976, James R Child of the National Security Agency, a linguist of Indo-European languages, proposed that the manuscript was written in a "hitherto unknown North Germanic dialect".^[58] He identified in the manuscript a "skeletal syntax several elements of which are reminiscent of certain Germanic languages

There are instances where the same common word appears up to three times in a row

WTF?

[12:40 PM] 

"And so, the translation of this section - with all the repeating words - seems to be as follows: 'She loves you, yeah yeah yeah.  She loves you, yeah yeah yeah.  She loves you yeah yeah yeah yeah.'"

"Ending with 'with a love like that, you know you should be glad.  With a love like that, you know you should be glad. Yeah yeah yeah. Yeah yeah yeah. Yeah yeah yeah yeah.'"

[3:05 PM] 

Howdy

So this has been bugging me all day when I get back to it....

http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/a23283/the-diy-history-of-haunted-houses/

Not the whole thing, but: "Fangoria Magazine wrote that many ancient civilizations had their own versions of haunted houses. To keep body snatchers and gold diggers away from the treasures of the recently deceased, Egyptians built within the pyramids mazes, moving walls, and traps filled with snakes and insects. "

[3:07 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Why'd it have to be snakes?

[3:07 PM] 

Now, while I'm sure the writing staff at Fangoria are experts in Egyptology...

[3:07 PM]  Mr. Brown: 

Booty traps

[3:08 PM] 

I've never found a single real instance of a pyramid with a maze, moving walls, traps, snakes or insects

There's a reason for this...

[3:08 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Because you haven't been in a pyramid?

[3:11 PM] 

The reason is that no pyramids have mazes, moving walls, traps, and...unless they are collections of dead ones...snakes or insects.

[3:11 PM]  Mr. Brown: 

Not good facts for the film industry

[3:12 PM] 

I'll take one back - they had stone walls that moved...once...to permanently seal them.

Nothing moves in pyramids

[3:27 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

There’d be nothing for the snakes to live on

Archaeologists and grave robbers aren’t a reliable enough food source

[3:27 PM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Enchanted snakes!

[3:31 PM] 

(Indy and Sallah, looking down into the Well of Souls)

"Why does the floor move?"

(drop torch)

"Enchanted snaaakes....why did it have to be enchanted snaaaakes...?"

[3:32 PM] 

"Undead asps...very dangerous. Let the Nazis go first...they'll be totally F'd if THAT shit is real."

[10:00 AM] 

Hehe

Agent - "Herr, David"

(Ellis Island official) "Next?  Name?" 

"Herr Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff"

"... ... Herr...?" 

[10:02 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Hehehe

[10:03 AM] 

"Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff.   Dopple-vow...O..."

"Welcome to America Mr. Herr.  Line 7 please."

(real surname, BTW)

[10:03 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

The Wolfeschlegel one?

[10:03 AM] 

Yes

[10:03 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Jesus

[10:03 AM] 

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The longest name used by anyone is Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Senior, who was born at Bergedorf, near Hamburg, Germany, on 29 Feb. 1904.Oct 20, 2005

[10:05 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Wolf killer [from the] rock house [in the] mountain town

In 1964, a widely reprinted Associated Press wire story reported that the IBM 7074 computer at the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. could process one million policies but refused to handle that of Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, which was specially processed by hand

So this guy was just a troll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Blaine_Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff,_Sr.