This is your notice.

[VampireCrono]

Snizz we all know it's hidden in the ancient giraffe can of Hjaloris, which contains Zebras and calculators.

[Shoden]

It's in Looney BoB's pants!!!

Hmmm, If he did go to the libary then he is a nerd, where would a nerd hide something stolen?

[-N-]

Ic wæs fæmne geong feaxhar cwene
ond ænlic rinc on ane tid
fleah mid fuglum ond on flode swom
deaf under yþe dead mid fiscum
ond on foldan stop hæfde forð cwicu.

I was a young maiden, a gray-haired woman
and singular man, all at once.
I flew with the birds and swan on the sea
dove under the waves, dead with the fish
and walked on land. I had a living spirit.

You does not equal you, by the way.

[Zell's Fists of Fury]

I already translated it, sheesh.

[Chemical]

I'm not sure I follow your clam rules?

Please explain in lamens terms.

Otherwise I'm excited in this cryptic adventure.

I'll be like the little Hoo. Lulu

[-N-]

I already translated it, sheesh.

I know, but I also included a link to some interpretations.

[Del Snizz]

if you've stolen christmas then why do i still have tinsel in my cuboard huh answer that

It's not a trick. Just ask the greatest of all the men of the east.

I liked that old riddle, and contrary to what many scholars have thought, I say the answer is Death. Death is truley the one omni potent being that was at one time all of these things, and clearly cannot be anymore.

Well, that's quite a metamorphosis. A bit too extreme, though, I think. I don't want to get too philosophical, but what you should be starting with is basically Ovid, except what came first wasn't golden. Maybe that's because money doesn't grow on trees; maybe it's because there's no such thing as magic beans. Anyway, we're not talking evolution here, but I'm sure Darwin could help.

Luckily, that should be the end of the Old English portion of my week. I hope I justified the right Angles, but I've been told I can be a bit obtuse.

Oh I noticed that you Signature ended on the day that triggered the Thirty years war. Or the Boheamean war. A war fueled by hate between Catholics and Protistents, in which the protistents were given rights to worship, but only under a single protestant sect.

What is it they say? "When God closes a door, he opens a window?" It seems some of his followers have a similar philosophy. But speaking of Prague schools, <i>you</i> might consider that referential ambiguity that's been mentioned. I like Ike. Do <i>you</i>?

But back to your point, I've had bad experiences with cannibals, and comparative Eucharistology is not the goal. If that's the case, it might just be a theme. Am I on a roll or what? (I know it doesn't work as well in writing.)

I'm not sure I follow your clam rules?

Please explain in lamens terms.

There's no need to follow them. They're purely optional. And I must say that I fail to see why we should bring the black arts into this.

That's all for now. I had intended to update this thing religiously, but this is ridiculous.

Be seeing you.

[Raistlin]

Trying to follow what Del's saying reminds me of when PG was new and posting regularly in EoEO.

[Rase]

Well, time for plan B:

Hanukkah.

[Del Murder]

Wait, so am I dead?

[Doomie]

Well, I've looked into the riddle, (And now, I wanna buy that Exeter book of Riddles). But anywho... There have been different translations of the riddle. While some do translate into something that contains both a man and a woman at the beginning, others have just women. While reading Neel's page, the one that hit me was a Siren, sooooo...

Siren. Siren is a summon from FFVIII. FFVIII sucks. Just like prostitutes. I GOT IT! Christmas is in Del Snizz's pants!

EDIT: Seriously, why is 'you' always in italics?

[herbie08]

So, wait, if you're running down the road at 5 miles per hour, and a wheel falls of your canoe, how many flapjacks does it take to shingle a dog house? And wouldn't the birds eat the pancakes?

[Doomie]

We’ll start from the beginning. This is my official Microsoft Word attempt into solving this riddle.

The first thing that comes close to a clue is the Giant clam thing. The Giant Clam, also known as The Bear’s Claw Clam, is found all over the world from; from Africa to Fiji. Although it’s not much, here’s another definition for Bear’s Claw:

1. Bear claw - almond-flavored yeast-raised pastry shaped in an irregular semicircle resembling a bear's claw; Bear paw - coffee roll, sweet roll - any of numerous yeast-raised sweet rolls with our without raisins or nuts or spices or a glaze

2. Bear claw - an incised design resembling a bear's claw used in Native American pottery; Pattern, design, figure - a decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on the doors"

3. Bear claw - claw of a bear; often used in jewelry; Claw - sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles.

The next clue is about the letter E. While it is possible that when he gave us that ‘clue’, he was referring to replacing the letter E with something else, I think we should dig deeper; don’t forget Snizz is much smarter than that...or is he? I decided to go slightly deeper into the Greek Letter E: Epsilon, as well as looking slightly further into the history of the letter.

Epsilon:

Epsilon (upper case Ε, lower case ε) is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 5. "E psilon" ("simple e") was coined to distinguish the letter from αι, which by the medieval period was pronounced the same way.

Epsilon is the lowest and least intelligent caste in Aldous Huxley's dystopic satire Brave New World.

The lower-case letter ε is used as the symbol for:

1. In mathematics, a small positive quantity, usually denoted ε; see limit.
2. By analogy with this, the late mathematician Paul Erdős also used the term "epsilons" to refer to children (Hoffman 1998, p. 4).
3. In set theory, the limit ordinal of the sequence.
4. In computing, the precision of a numeric data type.
5. In computer science, the empty string.
6. In mathematics, the Levi-Civita symbol.
7. In mathematics, set membership (often written ∈ instead of ε), especially in older texts.
8. In physics, the permittivity of a medium.
9. In automata theory, a transition that involves no shifting of an input symbol.
10. In astronomy, the fifth brightest (usually) star in a constellation. See Bayer designation.

For all we know, the E could be referring to children. Sure, Epsilon may not even be close to figuring out the clue, but it’s a start. Also, I may not be able to see anything that helps me, other may when I finally decided to post this. Also, if Snizz is a Brave New World fan, (Which btw I am not) he may be referring to something really stupid. (Most newbies)

The history of the letter E from Wikipedia:

E is derived from the Greek letter epsilon which is much the same in appearance (Ε, ε) and function. The Semitic h&#234; probably first represented a praying or calling human figure (hillul jubilation). In Semitic, the letter was pronounced /h/ (in foreign words also /e/), in Greek h&#234; became Εψιλον (Epsilon) with the value /e/. Etruscans and Romans followed this usage.

The Semitic h&#234; probably first represented a praying or calling human figure.

This might loosely fit in with the riddle he gave us. (I will look into it later)

Something more interesting follows:

Like other Latin vowels, e came in a long and a short variety. In modern English, the long variety is sounded as in see and the short as in pet. However, Latin and most European languages sound the long variety differently, as in English vein. In other languages which use the letter it takes on various other values, sometimes with accents to indicate which one (&#234; &#233; &#232; &#235; ē ĕ ě ẽ ė ẹ ę). Digraphs starting with E are common in many languages to indicate diphthongs or show a different value of E, such as EA or EE for /iː/ or /eɪ/ in English, EI for /eɪ/ in English or /aɪ/ in German, or EU for /juː/ in English or /ɔɪ/ in German.

E is very often silent in English (silent E), particularly at the ends of words where old noun inflections have been dropped, although even when silent at the end of a word it often causes vowels in the word to be pronounced as long (compare rat and rate).

E is often a miss-understood letter in the English language, silent in many cases, badly portrayed in upper cases and exchanged with Y by many unschooled and illiterate.

This is the most common letter in English and many related languages, which has some implications in cryptography. This also makes it a difficult and popular letter to use when writing lipograms.

I especially like that second to last paragraph, so if he indeed wanted for us to replace it with a letter (And has studied illiteracy =P), he may just be asking us to replace the letter ‘e’ with the letter ‘y’ or possibly ‘i’.

*stretches*

Ic w&#230;s f&#230;mne geong feaxhar cwene
ond &#230;nlic rinc on ane tid
fleah mid fuglum ond on flode swom
deaf under y&#254;e dead mid fiscum
ond on foldan stop h&#230;fde for&#240; cwicu.

Translated to:

I was a young maiden, a gray-haired woman
and singular man, all at once.
I flew with the birds and swan on the sea
dove under the waves, dead with the fish
and walked on land. I had a living spirit.

I read Neel’s page and reviewed some of the answers. Although some of the answers are really fitting (Water, Sun), I think the answer to this ancient riddle is something non-existent or omni-potent. Something like a spirit or death (Like bipper said) or maybe a God. I just have the feeling he is referring to a sort of deity. This is why I underlined that sentence above about praying. All these things may indeed be connected.

May 23rd, 1618

Too many times in history it has happened. A religious minority is promised rights, and then those rights are stolen by supposedly godly men. In desperation the minority rises up, peace is shattered, and bloodshed follows. The terrible Thirty Years' War, which wasted central Europe from 1618-1648, may have been unavoidable, but its immediate spark was just such an incident.

The Defenestration of Prague (detail at the window).

Greater Bohemia, consisting of Bohemia, Silesia, Moravia and Lusatia, had been torn between Protestant and Catholic, German and Slav for two centuries, ever since the martyrdom of the reformer Jan Hus. Although Protestants had a majority on paper, they differed so greatly among themselves as to be a minority. Power resided with the Roman Catholics. Under a Letter of Majesty issued by Emperor Rudolph II, freedom of conscience and worship were granted in Bohemia. This freedom was not total. All Protestants were required to form one denomination. However, they were permitted to build churches in cities which had none.

Rudolph died before an interpretation of the act could be made. Catholics seized various pretexts to forbid Protestants to build churches. Rudolph's successor, the weak and elderly Matthias, placed power in the hands of an ardent Catholic who sought to centralize the government. Matthias' heir-apparent was Jesuit-trained and uncomfortable allowing Protestants freedom to worship in their desired fashion. These trends made Protestants uneasy.

Matthias left Prague. In his absence the area was ruled by regents, many of whom had resisted the Letter of Majesty. They arrested Protestant delegates who came protesting what was being done to the churches they tried to build.

Under the Letter, Protestants had a right to elect "Protectors" to settle disputes which might arise among themselves and to negotiate with the Catholics. The Protectors gathered in Prague on May 5, 1618, but contented themselves with drawing up a letter to Matthias. They set another meeting for the 21st.

The response from Matthias came back with such rapidity the protectors suspected it had been prepared in Prague and accused the regents of duplicity. The meeting on the 21st was nasty; the regents presented a letter from Matthias dissolving the assembly of the protectors. The protectors met on the 22nd and there is little doubt they plotted what happened next.

"Defenestration" is from Latin "de" meaning "out of" and "fenestra," "window." On this day, May 23 1618, they flung two of the offending regents out a window, intending to kill them. This was the famous Defenestration of Prague which sparked the war. Fortunately, the men thrown out the window were not seriously hurt. Some say they landed in a soft manure pile. What a foul way to start a war!

P.S. Something on this later.


10-11-01

Like bipper mentioned before me, this is a palindrome. If, however, this is meant to be special date, I have yet to have found its significance.

Now towards the end of this thing, my mind is racing and I have no idea what is going on anymore. All I know is that Ovid was a very famous poet around the time of Jesus. He wrote most of his poems about love and such. In 8 A.D., he was banished for ‘a mistake and a poem’. What that has to do with anything....I have no clue.

His most famous piece of work was Metamorphoses. I don’t feel like looking into it, but when I do, I’ll be sure to post anything interesting.

What is it they say? "When God closes a door, he opens a window?" It seems some of his followers have a similar philosophy. But speaking of Prague schools, you might consider that referential ambiguity that's been mentioned. I like Ike. Do you?

This obviously refers to when they shot those two men out the window. As for Ike...I don’t know.

This is just a mixed jumble of ideas. Congrats to the person who can make sense of it.

[Del Murder]

Three Dels in one thread! Now we need Delglad to show up.

[eestlinc]

delglad got married though!