Comments on: Sometimes it is all in the …. subtext. https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/ Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:12:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/#comment-549854 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:12:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/#comment-549854 Kapitano: Yes … and???? Did you want me to SAY that in the post? That would have totally given it away, don’t you think?

]]> By: Kapitano https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/#comment-549853 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:42:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/#comment-549853 Today’s word: Acrostic.

Can be used as an adjective (eg, acrostic poem) or a noun (eg, the bill is an acrostic).

Acrostics are texts written in such a way that the first letters of successive lines for a word or sentence.

You see? Humanities degrees *are* useful for something.

]]> By: Diane G. https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/#comment-549852 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:52:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/#comment-549852

But really, you don’t want to go there. You just want to look at the memo fragment above and tell me what the hidden message is!!!!!

Actually, the first time I looked at the posted fragment I was concentrating on it being a response to the “Kiss my ass” bit, so I was trying to make something out of the “kicks the can down the alley” line. Not seeing the forest for the trees…

]]> By: havoc https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/#comment-549851 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:46:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/#comment-549851 From the article:

…apparently the only one [veto message] like it in the batch sent out Oct. 11.

If this Ammiano was truly the only one to get that version of the memo, then it’s pretty clear it was intentional.

Also, I think it’s worded pretty strangely. It seems like whoever wrote it threw in unnecessary words to make it work.

]]> By: Boz https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/#comment-549850 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:56:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/#comment-549850 Was this intentional, or a coincidence?

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/#comment-549849 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:18:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/#comment-549849 The link is not broken. It just does not always work the same for everybody. I’ve clicked on it ten times todayto test it and three times it worked like a charm, seven times it sat there and did nothing. So I’m pretty sure it is the other end that is broken.

But really, you don’t want to go there. You just want to look at the memo fragment above and tell me what the hidden message is!!!!!

Come on, folks, you can SEE it!

Let your mind stay open
Eyes on the prize
Forget any distractions
To understand the note

Surely you can do this
If…
Do this is what you want
Enough clues.

]]> By: Nemo https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/#comment-549848 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:04:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/#comment-549848 The “nclick_check=1” seems to break it, though it gets re-added automatically. When I pasted the URL in the location bar and stripped that part, it worked.

Try this:

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_13662995

]]> By: Paul W. https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/#comment-549847 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:49:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/#comment-549847 Schwartzenegger is losing it.

He forgot the line. It’s “Fuck you, asshole.”

See

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inTRblYTevk

and especially

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeV-DI09Q3w&feature=related

]]> By: Gwenny https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/#comment-549846 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:38:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/#comment-549846 It’s broken for me as well, using newest FF.

]]> By: JRo https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/#comment-549845 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:56:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/29/sometimes-it-is-all-in-the-sub/#comment-549845 Assemblyman Tom Ammiano should not have messed with Schwarzenegger. All the bad guys that Schwarzenegger has ever faced have met their doom in a painful way.
Serves him right.

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