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Assassinations Foretold in Moby Dick!

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Monger
 
Reply Thu 1 May, 2003 09:35 am
The following challenge was made by Michael Drosnin:
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"When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby Dick, I'll believe them." (Newsweek, Jun 9, 1997)

Check this out: Assassinations Foretold in Moby Dick!

The prediction of the death of Princess Diana by Moby Dick is the most complex matrix crossword predicting a future event that I have yet seen. Princess Di in Moby Dick!
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 1 May, 2003 09:44 am
Lord, how those monkeys busily typing Shakespeare must be laughing!


Leave Moby Dick alone! It is the only book which has ever made me see visions.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 1 May, 2003 09:45 am
as opposed to smelling them, I suppose...
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Monger
 
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Reply Fri 2 May, 2003 05:54 am
dlowan wrote:
Lord, how those monkeys busily typing Shakespeare must be laughing!
Leave Moby Dick alone! It is the only book which has ever made me see visions.


LOL!!! Laughing
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Monger
 
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Reply Fri 2 May, 2003 05:55 am
Moby Dick predicted the "War on Terrorism"
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Afghanistan is mentioned exactly once in Melville's classic Moby Dick. Imagine our amazement to find clear indications of the attack on the World Trade Center and the subsequent American attacks on Afghanistan encoded nearby!

In the picture, apart from the obvious "bloody battle in Affghanistan" and "swift destruction", we can see "World", "Trade" and "Center". To make this clear, "twin" crosses "building" which is overlaid by "WTC". "It's NYC" is nearby. In addition, alleged key figure "Osama", Taliban leader "Omar", Osama's military chief "Atef" and alleged chief hijacker "Atta" are named. Also predicted is a "siege" and "ground war" involving "NATO" and covered by "CNN".

http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/osama.gif
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Ducky1
 
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Reply Fri 2 May, 2003 06:04 am
I think that if one played around with words a bit one could find any meaning which suited their fancy. First Nostradamus, now Moby Dick. What next? Fun With Dick and Jane???
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Monger
 
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Reply Fri 2 May, 2003 07:16 am
Ducky, here's what the creator of those pages, Brendan McKay, wrote:

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This picture contains (not marked) the name of a major US airline, a famous large building, and the name of its nearby airport. However, we must remember that, just like the Bible Codes, the Moby Dick codes occur purely by chance and must not be taken seriously.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Fri 2 May, 2003 07:44 am
Smegging weird wittle Mongers....
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BoGoWo
 
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Reply Sat 3 May, 2003 10:28 am
actually I have an amazing piece of software (one of the early voice/type issues) that produces the most entertaining "gibberish" one could hope for;
read anything in, and the output is hillarious!

But on this issue, I'll go with dlowen's erudite monkeys! Laughing
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dlowan
 
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Reply Sat 3 May, 2003 10:30 am
They ARE clever li'l smeggers, aren't they?

I have great hopes they will reproduce Finnegan's Wake and the rest of Joyce once they have polished off the last few problem plays of Shakespeare's.

Or - should we set them to do Moby Dick himself?
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BoGoWo
 
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Reply Sat 3 May, 2003 11:05 am
Maybe we should investigate in the other direction;
talking about "Dicks"
It seems to me they could have written the entire Dick Tracey series
single han.......oops I mean multi handedly!
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dlowan
 
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Reply Sat 3 May, 2003 11:12 am
oh, single would have done it, I suspect.

they have prehensile tails.
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BoGoWo
 
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Reply Sat 3 May, 2003 01:19 pm
I shiver to think I may perceive your meaning..... Rolling Eyes
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NNY
 
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Reply Thu 5 Jun, 2003 11:35 pm
I could find a sign for the end of the world in a coupon for cheese-wiz if it had enough adjectives.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jun, 2003 02:22 am
had you but world enough, and time.....
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Mr Stillwater
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jun, 2003 03:47 am
That's not all!! "War and Peace" actually goes into accurate detail about the conflict between the French and Russian Empires!!! Spooky!!
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PDiddie
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jun, 2003 03:54 am
Has anyone examined their goat entrails lately for fresh signs of the Apocolypse?

(I'm reminded of Father Guido Sarducci's "Counta the Popes in the Pizza" schtick on SNL...)
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Setanta
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jun, 2003 05:08 am
Well, call me Ishmael an' shave my head ! ! !

If ya package this right, ye can sell it to Weber and Rice, an, voilà!

Moby Dick, the Musical . . .

Oughta be a box-office gold mine . . .
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dlowan
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jun, 2003 06:50 am
It'll sink like a stone...
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JerryR
 
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Reply Fri 6 Jun, 2003 07:27 am
Hi guys,..(and wabbits),

That's funny!

All I can think of is a bit from "The Daily Show", when there was the big controversy from a christian sect over the Harry Potter books being the work of the devil.

The Daily Show went through the first book, circling letters until they spelled "The Bible Is Fake",...was very funny!! Laughing
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