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meat_paste_dave · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:56 pm

Sorry if I'm not the first to point this out, but I think its more likely to be _under_ something (possibly Clapham common?). I don't have any of the new cards yet (waiting for the firebox to deliver my wave 3 only packs), so I can only go on the posts/scanned images.

Meat_paste

duckiemonster · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:26 pm

Full text of Borges' work is here http://www.dxarts.washington.edu/coupe/wk5/babel.pdf

oliverkeers13 · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:08 pm

Yeah, that's definitely a "D" making it "Combed".
Just done some research into "Combed Thunderclap"
(the following all refer to Borges' book) It was a book in The Library Of Babel, a library of infinite size, with infinite hexagonal rooms. The Books were full of random characters, but they all made sense. "The Combed Thunderclap" was one of the more coherent books that he saw, but none was entirely senseless.

European Chris · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:05 pm

It's the 'thuderclap' bit which I find more out of place.

duckiemonster · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:03 pm

Are we sure on the 'combed' bit?

oliverkeers13 · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:48 am

yeah, you're right. There is no middle bit on that card (NAND), so it is an L.

Quote:

I Stole The Cube Help Me Combed Thunderclap

Any ideas?

doublecross · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:43 am

Surely that last E is an L, giving THUNDERCLAP?

It cannot be a coincidence that Borges referred to a book called 'Combed Thunderclap' (or in the original Spanish, Trueno Peinado).

oliverkeers13 · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:16 am

I've spent a while photoshopping in the letters using the image from the wiki. A couple of card images are missing, and I've guessed a few wave 4 shadings (but that's what they are, honest folks, after you stare at the typeface for long enough, you know what the letters look like)
The Message I get is:

Quote:

ISTOLETHECUBEHELPMECOMBE?THUNDERCEA?

Quote:

I stole the cube, help me comb E(C?) thunder cea(B,D,E,F,H,I,K,L,N,P,R)

Hope you can make something of it.

Ruthless X · Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 6:19 pm

I have emailed the owner of combed thunderclap http://www.blogmad.net/varb/?blog=2127, I'll tell you when I get a reply......this is bound to be funny.

beastman · Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:29 am

there is a 3 of clubs on card 193 three thousand words, but the letters in each corners are so faint i can hardly see them, let alone trying to make out what they are! hope this helps, dont no how it will but oh well.

beastman.

cat · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 8:44 am

does anyone actually read the subject?

Macavity · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:21 am

Don't tell me Randolph Flagg stole the Cube . . . !

X_x · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:39 am

I Stole the cube help me comb(ine) thunderclap?

perhaps the cube is part of some sort of superweapon.

Codename Thunderclap?

echidna · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:21 am

sixsidedsquare wrote:

I think I'm going mad trying to read the message tho, as what I see just seems silly. I don't want to say what I'm seeing so I can get an unbiased pair of fresh eyes to say what they think it is.

I STOLE THE CUBE HELP ME COMB ?? THUNDERCLAP

is what I'm seeing - definitely quite silly Smile

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sixsidedsquare · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:33 pm

Oh, sorry, I should have posted this the other day after it went up on the wiki. I got a preliminary arrangement of the cards how I'm pretty sure they go together from the jaffas world pics. Some still could use better scans, as the letters can be quite hard to see.

Anywho here it is. * Warning: the page the thumbnail picture links to is a 800KB *pic.

I think I'm going mad trying to read the message tho, as what I see just seems silly. I don't want to say what I'm seeing so I can get an unbiased pair of fresh eyes to say what they think it is.

Oh, and x, PLEASE REGISTER AN ACCOUNT! IT WONT KILL YOU!!

-EDIT- just noticed I was missing some cards, dont know how 101 and 102 slipped past me..