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".
>>
>
Sometimes I REALLY worry about you guys out there in list-land..... 
<GRIN!!>

Jon (GZG)