Re: St Jon Speaks

Ground Zero Games wrote:

> >On 23-Dec-99 at 17:22, Laserlight (laserlight@quixnet.net) wrote:
> >> >The blessed St Jon spoke thus:
> >> ><<<
> >> >Wishing you a HAPPY XMAS and a good and prosperous 2000!
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Darryl muttered:
> >>
> >> >Where does Fleet Book 2 have the letter 'M' in?  :-)
> >>
> >>
> >> It's a substitution cypher.  Noting that St^3 Jon wrote Xmas
instead
> >> of Christmas, we observe that "Fleet Bk v2" has the same number of
> >> letters as "Happy Xmas."  Note the double P in Happy coresponds
with
> >> the double E in Fleet.  Apparently the cypher base shifts with each
> >> word, since the "L" in Fleet is represented by an A, and there is
also
> >> an A in Xmas, where is probably means "v" for "volume", or possibly
> >> "zero" for a reading "Fleet Bk02".
> >>
> >
> Sometimes I REALLY worry about you guys out there in list-land..... 
<GRIN!!>
>
> Jon (GZG)

Laserlight:
You must have gotten close there...considering his answer...8D

Donald Hosford