Girl Genius 23/Nov/2009
Joy Beeson
And I laughed right out loud when I finally noticed the cbcpbea.
Fortunately, I didn't wake my spouse.
--
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at comcast dot net
Robert A. Woodward
Joy Beeson <jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
> And I laughed right out loud when I finally noticed the cbcpbea.
>
> Fortunately, I didn't wake my spouse.
Look where she has her right foot planted, somebody is going to
need a new spleen.
--
Robert Woodward <robe...@drizzle.com>
<http://www.drizzle.com/~robertaw>
David DeLaney
> Joy Beeson <jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>> And I laughed right out loud when I finally noticed the cbcpbea.
>>
>> Fortunately, I didn't wake my spouse.
>
>Look where she has her right foot planted, somebody is going to
>need a new spleen.
She can rebuild him. Make him better, more colorful, more digestible!
Dave
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Brenda Clough
> Robert A. Woodward <robe...@drizzle.com> wrote:
>> Joy Beeson <jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>>> And I laughed right out loud when I finally noticed the cbcpbea.
>>>
>>> Fortunately, I didn't wake my spouse.
>> Look where she has her right foot planted, somebody is going to
>> need a new spleen.
>
> She can rebuild him. Make him better, more colorful, more digestible!
>
> Dave
And it won't cost any six million simoleons, either.
Brenda
seagu...@mailandnews.com
Okay, I have to ask, "cbcpbea" whats that mean?
J Larson
David DeLaney
>Brenda Clough <Brenda...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>David DeLaney wrote:
>>> Robert A. Woodward <robe...@drizzle.com> wrote:
>>>> Joy Beeson <jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> And I laughed right out loud when I finally noticed the cbcpbea.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fortunately, I didn't wake my spouse.
>>>> Look where she has her right foot planted, somebody is going to
>>>> need a new spleen.
>>>
>>> She can rebuild him. Make him better, more colorful, more digestible!
>>
>
It's rot13.
Dave "you may now ask what THAT means, and we're off!" DeLaney
seagu...@yahoo.com
DeLaney) wrote:
>seagu...@mailandnews.com <seagu...@mailandnews.com> wrote:
>>Brenda Clough <Brenda...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>David DeLaney wrote:
>>>> Robert A. Woodward <robe...@drizzle.com> wrote:
>>>>> Joy Beeson <jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> And I laughed right out loud when I finally noticed the cbcpbea.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fortunately, I didn't wake my spouse.
>>>>> Look where she has her right foot planted, somebody is going to
>>>>> need a new spleen.
>>>>
>>>> She can rebuild him. Make him better, more colorful, more digestible!
>>>
>>>And it won't cost any six million simoleons, either.
>>
>>Okay, I have to ask, "cbcpbea" whats that mean?
>
>It's rot13.
>
>Dave "you may now ask what THAT means, and we're off!" DeLaney
Thanks,
I actually know what rot13 is, just haven't used it enough to
recognize it, the word looked like an attempt at Cyrillic in English.
J Larson
Wayne Throop
: It's rot13.
: Dave "you may now ask what THAT means, and we're off!" DeLaney
It's an encryption. You need to download some software to decrypt it.
Or, alternatively, using the newfangled "cloud computing" concept,
you can run a netapp from a server to do it.
Wayne Throop thr...@sheol.org http://sheol.org/throopw
Bill Snyder
wrote:
>:: Okay, I have to ask, "cbcpbea" whats that mean?
>
>: It's rot13.
>: Dave "you may now ask what THAT means, and we're off!" DeLaney
>
>It's an encryption. You need to download some software to decrypt it.
>Or, alternatively, using the newfangled "cloud computing" concept,
>you can run a netapp from a server to do it.
Unless, of course, your name is Dorothy. Cloud computing doesn't
work in that case, due to interference from the Wicked Witch of
Ludd.
--
Bill Snyder [This space unintentionally left blank]
P. Taine
Or, if you use Fort� Agent select the text and use the drop-down menu on "Edit".
It's right there.
J. Clarke
It's right there on Outlook Express and Windows Mail, too, on the "Message"
menu, but it doesn't work unless you uncheck "Tools/Options/Read/Read all
messages in plain text". They broke this somewhere along the line and
decided to make it a "feature" instead of fixing it.
Quadibloc
> Unless, of course, your name is Dorothy. Cloud computing doesn't
> work in that case, due to interference from the Wicked Witch of
> Ludd.
You could always go here:
http://www.quadibloc.com/crypto/ppen01.htm
and decode it using the chart for "Albam" adapted to the English-
language 26-letter alphabet.
I even convert *Atbah* to the 26-letter alphabet.
John Savard
Dorothy J Heydt
It looked like an acronym to me.
--
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at hotmail dot com
Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the hotmail edress.
Kithrup is getting too damn much spam, even with the sysop's filters.
Dorothy J Heydt
No, but I do know what rot13 is, and how to hit ctrl-X to decrypt
it.
Dorothy J Heydt
cbcpbea?
Wayne Throop
: cbcpbea?
Yes, a kind of garbanzo bean, which thrives in warm climates
in rich nitrogenous soil with good drainage.
Joy Beeson
Whereupon I learn a new grammatical rule: never rot 13 an isolated
word.
I think that "abgvprq gur cbcpbea", or even "gur cbcpbea" would have
failed to confuse.
Wayne Throop
: Whereupon I learn a new grammatical rule: never rot 13 an isolated
: word.
:
: I think that "abgvprq gur cbcpbea", or even "gur cbcpbea" would have
: failed to confuse.
True. I caught it mainly because I'd already noticed the cbcpbea
in the panel, so I'd have taken it to refer to that no matter
how it was spelt.
Quadibloc
> In article <l3dkg5pgvbuqi01kd500c3mlk24v7ri...@4ax.com>,
> Joy Beeson <jbee...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
> >And I laughed right out loud when I finally noticed the cbcpbea.
> cbcpbea?
I wondered what it was too, until I saw the discussion which revealed
it was rot-13.
However, now that the next page is up, spoilers need not be feared.
Look at the last panel. Think Orville Redenbacher. The joke involving
Snaug *is* funny, but we can move on now.
John Savard
Gene Wirchenko
<jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>Whereupon I learn a new grammatical rule: never rot 13 an isolated
>word.
Some words when ROT13ed result in another word. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13
I particularly liked:
irk vex mean about the same
gnat tang reversals, too
The list was not very long, so my attempts to come up with a pair
of sentences did not work.
[snip]
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
Stewart Robert Hinsley
<ge...@ocis.net> writes
To build the vocabulary
cat <dictionary> | tr <incantation to do rot-13> | uniq -d
>
>[snip]
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Gene Wirchenko
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley
The Wanderer
> In message <ga0sg5p0jc3oa4poq...@4ax.com>, Gene
> Wirchenko <ge...@ocis.net> writes
>
>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:50:03 -0500, Joy Beeson
>> <jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> Whereupon I learn a new grammatical rule: never rot 13 an
>>> isolated word.
At least not without explicitly announcing that you've done so.
>> Some words when ROT13ed result in another word. See
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13
>> I particularly liked:
>> irk vex mean about the same
>> gnat tang reversals, too
>>
>> The list was not very long, so my attempts to come up with a pair
>> of sentences did not work.
>
> To build the vocabulary
>
> cat <dictionary> | tr <incantation to do rot-13> | uniq -d
Doesn't seem to work as presented on my system; there is no output.
What I did instead is
cat /usr/share/dict/words | rot13 | cat /usr/share/dict/words - | sort |
uniq -d | grep -v '[A-Z]' | grep -v '^.$'
The last two steps cut out all entries containing a capital letter,
since otherwise the list would include quite a few proper nouns, and all
of the single-letter entries. That done, we're left with 192 results, at
least on my system - where the wordlist has over 390,000 entries. At
least a few of them are garbage, though, and I don't think there are
enough "connector" words to make paired sentences practical.
Probably the most interesting pair, at a glance, is "abjurer" and
"nowhere"...
--
The Wanderer
Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any
side of it.
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
Stewart Robert Hinsley
<wand...@fastmail.fm> writes
>On 11/26/2009 05:19 AM, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
>
>> In message <ga0sg5p0jc3oa4poq...@4ax.com>, Gene
>> Wirchenko <ge...@ocis.net> writes
>>
>>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:50:03 -0500, Joy Beeson
>>> <jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Whereupon I learn a new grammatical rule: never rot 13 an
>>>> isolated word.
>
>At least not without explicitly announcing that you've done so.
>
>>> Some words when ROT13ed result in another word. See
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13
>>> I particularly liked:
>>> irk vex mean about the same
>>> gnat tang reversals, too
>>> The list was not very long, so my attempts to come up with a pair
>>> of sentences did not work.
>> To build the vocabulary
>> cat <dictionary> | tr <incantation to do rot-13> | uniq -d
>
>Doesn't seem to work as presented on my system; there is no output.
Oops. The intent I hope is obvious, but the implementation is flawed. I
plead not running UNIX, and therefore not having the opportunity to test
it.
>
>What I did instead is
>
>cat /usr/share/dict/words | rot13 | cat /usr/share/dict/words - | sort
>| uniq -d | grep -v '[A-Z]' | grep -v '^.$'
>
>The last two steps cut out all entries containing a capital letter,
>since otherwise the list would include quite a few proper nouns, and all
>of the single-letter entries. That done, we're left with 192 results, at
>least on my system - where the wordlist has over 390,000 entries. At
>least a few of them are garbage, though, and I don't think there are
>enough "connector" words to make paired sentences practical.
>
>Probably the most interesting pair, at a glance, is "abjurer" and
>"nowhere"...
>
I'm mildly surprised that the number is so low.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley
David DeLaney
>The Wanderer <wand...@fastmail.fm> writes
>>The last two steps cut out all entries containing a capital letter,
>>since otherwise the list would include quite a few proper nouns, and all
>>of the single-letter entries. That done, we're left with 192 results, at
>>least on my system - where the wordlist has over 390,000 entries. At
>>least a few of them are garbage, though, and I don't think there are
>>enough "connector" words to make paired sentences practical.
>>
>>Probably the most interesting pair, at a glance, is "abjurer" and
>>"nowhere"...
...as noted several decades back, now, by Martin Gardner's Dr. Matrix.
>I'm mildly surprised that the number is so low.
Well, English only has five vowels out of its 26 letters (and sometimes y),
and while e does map to another common letter, r, i maps to v and o to b,
so you're a bit limited by the necessity of having to arrange a +pronounceable+
outcome by sticking the right other letters in the pre-rotated word in the
right spots.
Dave