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Post by Dear Dairy on Sept 25, 2006 22:43:56 GMT -5
In the TBL Discussion thread, a newcomer called "mm" came up with an anagram for "root beer float" - "flee boat or rot." Interesting!
I don't mean to steal your idea, mm; I just wanted to bring that anagram to this discussion.
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Post by Alfred is Present on Sept 30, 2006 1:17:50 GMT -5
I found an anagram for 'Beatrice sank': Kit's niece brat
You may wonder where the 'it' of 'Kit' came from. It came from a letter 'a' which was unused in the 'Beatrice sank'. The 'A', as a punch out letter, (i think) looks like to joined letters, forming a presumed 'it'. Just imagine that a small 'i' is attached to a t by the 't's horizontal line. Then you form an upper case 'A'.
Maybe I don't make sense.
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Post by RockSunner on Sept 30, 2006 14:28:06 GMT -5
A clever suggestion Professor, but both A's in the punch-out set look alike. If one should be broken into two letters, so should the other.
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Post by beatricesank on Sept 30, 2006 20:29:14 GMT -5
I had worked on which letters go with each side of the poster.
bat side: EICNRA shipwreck side: KETABS
Those could be: A NICER BASKET [/quote]
Sorry about that.
A Nicer Basket can turn into A Brae Snicket.
And since Olaf is probably the brae man in the play, maybe he is a snicket
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Post by TopHat on Oct 3, 2006 22:03:58 GMT -5
root bear float comes out to:
boater stole for boats flee or rot
Beatrice Sinks:
bank ice sister (Kit was a secretary at a bank?) aresenic be kit
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Post by snapdragonsea on Oct 5, 2006 22:19:03 GMT -5
The punch out letters could be: BEA CAN STRIKE Maybe the punchout letters are the large type letters referred to in the telegram (LS to BB #6) and LS is telling BB that it is time to act.
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Post by baudelairefreak667 on Oct 10, 2006 8:36:41 GMT -5
Hey I found more letters..... I think.
In LS to BB #2 the drawing at the bottom shows an N but it also looks like an A In LS to BB #4 the note on the top says: "Clearly the bats need better trainin!" There is a missing G
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Post by nathandiction on Oct 14, 2006 7:14:11 GMT -5
Wait a minute, the code in TWW IS the letters you replace form the code. So Fear Of is right... Yes, you're correct. The letters you use in that sort of message are the ones which are the correct letters. For example: "My heart is as cold as i ke, and I find life inbearable." K is supposed to be a C, and I is supposed to be a U. These, as we all know, went on to spell out CURDLED CAVE. In The Beatrice Letters, however, F is not the correct letter. The message says "The Duchess of Winnipeg is Dea f" The correct letter is D. I know, it's sad, isn't it? I wanted the secret word to be FEAR, but unfortunately it is not. I know, it isn't fair. ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/253263/images/aKebVqvfXozMvrLoISGi.gif) That would have been keen maneuvering on Snicket's part, though.
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Post by RockSunner on Oct 15, 2006 18:13:25 GMT -5
Another anagram: "BANKER ACES IT" -- perhaps Mr. Poe?
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Post by Ernist on Dec 15, 2006 9:39:12 GMT -5
I agree and think all other letters are just reprints of the punch outs..............
so the only anarams are-
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(1) BEATRICE SANK
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Post by queequegcaptain on Dec 28, 2006 1:09:50 GMT -5
I got Niece Kars Bat which could translate to Niece Cares for a bat. Then you end up with c, e, and a. Which makes Ace, as in smeone who is really good at something...oh, and the for. In conclusion: Niece cares for ace bats. or something like that. ;D
Also, on LS to BB #6, it says "nocturnal phonographic telogrammatic cops." I just checked the dictionary, and telegrammatic is not a word. And, like baticeer, you know what that means...another anogram!
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Post by Dante on Dec 28, 2006 4:05:26 GMT -5
Also, on LS to BB #6, it says "nocturnal phonographic telogrammatic cops." I just checked the dictionary, and telegrammatic is not a word. And, like baticeer, you know what that means...another anogram! Dictionary.com has "telegrammatic," and I think it adds a nice rhythm to the name. By all means, search for anagrams, though. "A cage term Milt" has a handful of aSoUE connections.
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Post by queequegcaptain on Dec 28, 2006 14:45:55 GMT -5
That's funny, in both of my computer dictionaries, the closest word is telegram. *runs to go look it up in actual dictionary* Yeah, its not in the dictionary. But, in my classroom there is this huge unabridged dictionary (seriously, it probably weighs more than me), so I'll check it when I'm back in school.
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Post by 2yoshi101 on Dec 29, 2006 10:06:32 GMT -5
There are certainly a lot of anagrams. Did anybody notice that corresponding to MOST of the punch-out letters there's a little doodle or picture of the letter: Ex: the S punch-out letter and the Lachrymose Leech is in the shape of an S? If you could all these little things, and the punched-out L and S near the end, you can spell A NIECE STALKS.
Also, the four pictures are in the shapes of letters, and when you unscramble them, you can get CIST, which is a stone coffin. By the way, I couldn't figure out where Denouement was. Could you please point that out?
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Post by Dante on Jan 2, 2007 13:29:08 GMT -5
Denouement (misspelt as "Denoument") is on one of the younger Beatrice's letters, BB to LS #5. Also, all of the punch-out letters correspond to a diagram, photograph, or otherwise remarkable letter hidden in the correspondance themselves (with the exception of the LS, which are notable by their absence - hence I don't count them, I believe them being punched out on the previous page is merely for decorative significance); it is my belief that these were how Handler originally intended the hidden letters to be conveyed, but that HarperCollins chose to make the book more elaborate and the letters a little more prominent.
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