Re: St Jon Speaks

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".
> 

You obviously have too much time on your hands.  You need to do
something a little more useful, go challange someone to a game
of FT/DS/SG.

Roger