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moonboy writes "From the CBSNews.com article: 'The experts who cracked Nazi Germany's secret codes are tackling a 10-letter enigma that has stumped fine minds for more than 250 years - D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M. Former code-breakers from Britain's World War II intelligence center at Bletchley Park set out this week to decipher a cryptic inscription on an 18th-century monument at an English country estate. Legend says it reveals the location of the Holy Grail. Some believe it is a private message to a deceased beloved. No one knows for sure."
If you ignore the other uses of a tool, does that make the tool less useful, or you less useful?
LOL, WTF? IMO, IIRC, tho IANAL, this looks familiar!
Isn't that the code for infinite lives on Contra?
Another mind boggler...
U U D D L R L R B A S
I need more lower case letters so that this will actually post, hehe.
If they really want to know where the Holy Grail is, they should just ask the old man in Scene 24.
When you look at the state of the world, how can you not become a radical, liberal anarchist?
D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M, eh? That's easy. It stands for "Does Our Universe Often Say Very Ambiguous Variegated...." oh. I give up. Don't listen to me, I'm a moron. I apologize. That could have been really funny in the hands of the right /.er. Me, I dropped the ball and said something amazingly stupid. I think I'm gonna go cry now.
"All Your Base Are Belong To Us"
I.S. O.V.R. T.H.E.R.E
Unfortunatly, the arrow that would accompany the message must have gotten rubbed off.
:)
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
Exactly.
I wish people would stop reading meaning into everything, it's just stupid. It's just like those people who see Jesus on tortillas...pure idiocy.
I'm amazing. You aren't. SUCK IT
Most old geezers sit around and do the cryptic crossword when they retire. I guess these guys need something a little more challenging. :)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
He must have died while carving it.
clearly it was test run with enigma and says:
F.I.R.S.T._.P.O.S.T
There are no atheists when recovering from tape backup.
I've seen it. It's actually a three line inscription. The entire text reads as follows:
S T E A L U N D E R W E A R
D O U O S V A V V M
P R O F I T !
QBHBFINIIZ. Nope. I give up.
I.M. Hotep & Sons, Builders & Contractors, Est 4004 BC. The Old firm.
It's an ancient Greek slogan, often used to commemorate the Greeks' victories over their opponents in war. Curiously, the slogan is not grammatically correct, even in the original Greek, but the fractured phrase, once established, was never corrected out of deference to tradition.
So in English, it roughly translates as:
All
Your
Base
Are
Belong
To
Us
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
It's just an acronym!:
D.O.U.O.S.B.A.V.V.M:
"Deadly Odour: Underpants Or Socks Violently Aromatic - Very Very Manky."
don't overanalyze unusual old scriptures,
verily always void of valuable meaning
There are no karma whores, only moderation johns
And who was "D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M."? And how did he manage to write his name in solid cement?
I know! Let's use technology to bring him back.
Wow! What's normal to him amazes us.
He is a lot smarter than his sister "M.V.V.A.V.S.O.U.O.D" of whom we no nothing.
He will be our new god.
"Oh dear, she's stuck in an infinite loop and he's an idiot" -Prof. Farnsworth (Futurama)
Come on... It's quite obvious that it's a cheat mode for a popular 18th century FPS. D O U O S V A V V M = Extra Ammo
Duh.
You need a FREE iPod Nano
your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries!
Do not decrypt the above message! Contains early goatse!
Just be careful. What you believe is meaningless may have another meaning for someone else.
My brother in laws name is Jeff Costello. He bought a new GMC truck which is his pride and joy. His license plate is GMC 4JC.
I asked him who the religious nut was parked in his driveway the first week he had the truck. He about went through the roof. What the hell else are people going to think though?
My reality check bounced.
The MPAA recently commissioned Lawrence Livermore Laboratories to create a working time machine, in order to seek litigation against the first known cracker of CSS.
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
Of course it's random numbers generated by the Arethusa algorithm seeded with the string "COMSTOCK".
Help! I'm being repressed!
They probably died before they could buy a vowel.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
What the hell else are people going to think though?
Whenever I'm asked questions like that, I say to myself "What Would Jeff Costello Do?"
Select Webpages From Google Where Upper(Words) like "D% O% U% O% S% V% A% V% V% M%"
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
Damnable Odorous Unscrupulous Open Source Vandals Always Vilify Valiant Microsoft
[Sits back and awaits the mods]
It must be an equivalent to TDNMATBICPLY :-D
Heck of a lot.
That was until someone got in touch with a former vicar, who informed them the mysterious "HWP" was in fact...Hot Water Pipe.
Plays violent online games as: Nerfherder76
Sorry, only the British /. readers will understand this.
Sigs. We don't need no steenking sigs.
IDDQD
IDKFA
IDCLIP (or IDSPISPOPD)
Hmm... no.
DNKROZ
DNHYPER
DNITEMS
DNWEAPONS
neither.
/god
/give all
/noclip
bah. Beats me.
Vacuum cleaners suck. Kings rule.
I always knew this would come up one day.
Once I found a piece of news I was going to submit to slashdot. Since I only knew that Quark 6 for OS X was going to be released, I figured I'd throw in an extra bit of information. I asked a question, relating Diablo 2's release to Quark 6's to see how people would make the connection, or to see if anyone would see that it was just bunk.
I found it very humorous
Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M
Down step
Over there
Under there
Over a bit more
South two steps
Very close now
Another step backwards
Very close
Very close now
Move another 4 steps
Bet this
Not if you're catholic. They eat stale crackers made out of Jesus all the time.
Not more than you need, just more than you want
It's obviously a hash of the picture, when the old owner saw he had errors in downloading (Picture in reverse) he just left it in the download dir and forgot all about it.
+0, too subtle.
Just get Jon Johansen to do the damn job!
I wish people would stop reading meaning into everything, it's just stupid. It's just like those people who see Jesus on tortillas...pure idiocy.
1) Make Jesus Tortillas.
2) Sell Jesus Tortillas.
3) Profit!
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
The Latin version of "ALl Your Base Are Belong To Us"
the virgin mary has seen jesus on a tortilla?
wtf... what's this world coming to...
Legend says it reveals the location of the Holy Grail.
This is of course based on the assumption that The Holy Grail is an object. Most often it refers to the cup Jesus drank from at the last supper, or the cup used to catch his blood as he hung on the cross, or both.
This is most likely a mistake, or a misunderstanding due to faulty translation of the original text.
The original term used for the holy grail is "sangraal", and that's where the problem starts.
San Graal does in fact mean "Holy Grail".
Sang Raal however, means "Royal Blood".
Since there is ample evidence to suggest Jesus was in fact the descendant of Solomon and David, and therefore he was true Royalty, the rightful heir to the throne of Palestine, and a threat to the Roman Empire. Which is exactly why they killed him (jews did not), if he was even killed, which is not even certain and cannot be proven.
So if Royal Blood is indeed the proper translation of sangraal, and due to its inherent connection with Christianity then it most likely refers to Jesus' bloodline.
As is generally believed, Mary Magdalen moved to the South of France after the crucifixion carrying with her the Holy Grail, so it's not such a big leap of logic to assume the Holy Grail was in fact Jesus' son, being brought out of Palestine in order to save his life, and the Royal bloodline.
There is also ample suggestion in the gospels of Jesus being married, and that Mary Magdalen and Mary of Bethany were one and the same. Seeing how close Jesus was to this Mary of Bethany, and her brother Lazarus, it's also very likely Lazarus was in fact Jesus' brother-in-law, and that Mary Magdalen was in fact Mary of Bethany.
Also, Mary Magdalen was not a prostitute and Magdalen was not her last name. If you can point to the passage in the Bible that specifically says she was a prostitute, please make a note of it and inform the world, because not a single biblical or historical scholar has been able to do so to this day. It is in fact a lie concocted by religious leaders trying to obfuscate the fact Jesus was a married man with a family; being married and having children was practically required at that time and it's unfathomable that he didn't.
If you found any of what I said interesting or infuriating, please read "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" available here.
Oh, and in case you were still wondering, I am an Atheist.
However, just to stay a little bit more on topic, here are a few suggestions as to what DOUOSVAVVM stands for:
Designed Overreacting Usage Of Some Very Agitated Violent Viagra Malfunction.
Do Only Uneducated Overly Simplistic Villains Accept Very Violent Methods?
Deaths Of Unbridled Overreaching Sacrifices Values And Virtue Very Much.
But of course, DOUOSVAVVM is NOT an english acronym...
-- This sig for rent.
When I die, i want to be burried in an elaborate toomb, with false dates, and lots of armor and shit, and an inscription in Latin and Greek that reads "Here lies the king of all that is and ever will be." Imagine when archaeologists dig me up in a few thousand years :-)
This, However, I suspect is an abreviation of Latin words.
You can't give away the mystic step #2!! You'll ruin the market!
Speaking of car tags, if you really want to mess with the police, get a personalized tag that doesn't make sense. For example, if you own a 1999 Chevrolet, get a tag that says "98 FORD". When they see it, they have to run it through the computer just to see if it's been stolen. And they will run it every time they see it.
No, the crackers are made out of flour. They're transformed into actual Jesus on the spot just before you eat them, so they don't have time to get stale.
In the year 2021, experts have cracked the code. Anonymous spokesperson for Cryptographists International claims that the code is loosely translated from Latin to mean, "You have way too much time on your hands."
MOUNT TAPE U1439 ON B3, NO RING
I don't see how the U fits. If the word was "you," that'd be lame but acceptable. I don't think U can be used for "your" though. Mystery solved, it must have been carved by Prince.
God's favorite mint:
Testamints.
Yes, they exist. And they actually taste great...
I would sooner mess with a live hand grenade, thank you all the same.
Is it fascism yet?
"The Extra Key Is Under The Rug", only in latin?
The code is indeed directions to the holy grail (well, close enough), it breaks down like this
"Up Down Up Down Left Right Left Right A B A B Select Start"
Virtually All Voluminous Virginal Men
Slashdot, eh? Evidently a work of divination! There was also mention of the location of the Holy Grail - but I think they were probably mistaken.
Be careful! New moon tonight.
yeah people see jesus in tortillas in all the time. .. till they realise they're crackers
It's probably the Zip Code +4 for the Holy Grail's final resting place. The Romans, so I've been told, were fairly smart folks and I'd be surprised if the The Republic didn't have the idea of Zip Codes.
And with as fast as their Empire expanded they probably realized they needed four extra letters, what with the Goths moving in and all. (Not unlike the expansive nature of the American Empire under G.W. Bush, who may need to move towards "Zip + 5" after we add Afghanistan and Iraq to our growing list of suburbs).
Of course, they based their Zip Code on what was to become the U.S. system, so the letters "DOUOS" are the first five letters of the zip. The "V" is probably a weathered hypen, and the "AVVM" are the last four digits.
The Luddites were ahead of their time.
Those aren't crackers, they're Jes-itz!
these guys should take a look at some of the code that I have been left with after a former colleague left my company.... forget engima, DES, or blowfish--- now this is crytpic...
No, that's the Holey Grill, not the Holy Grail.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
BEDEVERE: Do you think he meant the Camargue?
GALAHAD: Where's that?
BEDEVERE: France, I think.
LAUNCELOT: Isn't there a St. Aaarrrgghh's in Cornwall?
ARTHUR: No, that's Saint Ives.
( A muffled roar is heard. )
BEDEVERE: Oooooooooh!
LAUNCELOT: No "Aaarrrgghh
BEDEVERE: No! "Oooooooooh!" in surprise and alarm.
The best alternate I've heard:
Who Wants Jack Daniels?
It's obvious where the grail is...
Down. Over. Up. Over. South. V... Vest. Ah, fuck it.
"Venture To The Land Of The Freeze Dried Godzilla Farts"
orsomethingtothateffect.
Keine eier
Actually it was Jesus who made the tortilla, and by the way it's pronounced "Hay Soose".
A well established use of Just-In-Time manufacturing.
The answer is simple
"4/15 connects to 21/15 which connects to 19/22 which connects to 1/22 which connects to 22/13"
Add those all up and subtract 666 to get 9/11, which obviously implies that Steve Gibson was responsible for the flooding of the nile.
Not quite. We still need to figure out how this reveals the location of the holy grail.
on their homepage (http://www.testamints.com), I see no indication of who has or has not endorsed their products (apart from God almighty, of course)
No no... it's:
3) Prophet
bytesmythe
Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.
-- Scott Meyer
Was?
I'm just saying...