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whatho ([personal profile] whatho) wrote2006-10-19 09:34 pm

Cryptoquote

Today's cryptoquote at East of the Web ( http://www.eastoftheweb.com/cgi-bin/top_scores.pl?game=cryptoquote - if you don't know it prepare to be addicted) was 'Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling'. I have no idea who wrote it, but so true!

ETA. Google tells me GK Chesterton wrote it.

[identity profile] peeeeeeet.livejournal.com 2006-10-19 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG that is so much fun!!!!! I must do it every day. I was quite shamefully low down on the scoreboard thingy. Yesterday's was easier but they don't keep previous scoreboards?

I was thinking Evelyn Waugh myself. It seemed to have that combination of whimsey and mental illness.

[identity profile] whatho.livejournal.com 2006-10-19 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
TWO YEARS it's had a hold on me. It's a thing of joy. Joy and fiendish morphine-like addiction.

They cruelly do not keep previous scoreboards, no. I think the people at the top of the scoreboards just find out what it is then race to enter it as quickly as possible anyway. I hope they have proper shame.

[identity profile] slemslempike.livejournal.com 2006-10-19 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh I am sorely addicted and not terribly good, but enjoying it very much.

[identity profile] whatho.livejournal.com 2006-10-20 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
I knew it'd snare you - I remember very cruelly showing you the texttwist game on that site....

[identity profile] slemslempike.livejournal.com 2006-10-20 08:57 am (UTC)(link)
I just woke up from a dream in which I was on the panel for ISIHAC, and the game where you think of appropriate media was "Goth Ball", and the only thing I could think of was "Let's Dye It".

[identity profile] whatho.livejournal.com 2006-10-20 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
*groan*
*and also applause*

[identity profile] peeeeeeet.livejournal.com 2006-10-20 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
Oh dear. Another embarrassing time. I'm not putting my name in from now on.

[identity profile] whatho.livejournal.com 2006-10-20 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Today's is impossible. I was at it for ten minutes before I got fed up with it. No apostrophes, no double letters, no one word letters. It's beastly.