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09-08-2006, 09:15 PM
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Funkadelic
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Originally Posted by doormat
I've been looking for runic fonts but none of the ones I could find would match up with the symbols I see in the screenshots.
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I just found some Lord of the Rings/Hobbit fonts and they're a little more formal looking than these. Hmmm... Anyone know Klingon? We obviously need to search 'alien fonts.'
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09-08-2006, 09:18 PM
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I already checked Klingon and Futurama Alien (the first two allien languages I thought of). Neither are it.
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09-08-2006, 09:27 PM
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http://www.uo.com/archive/runic/runic.gif
thats the ultima runic font. The ST one is right, but I'm having a harder time making out the symbols, the "N" looking one after ST-I-?? isnt on that image.
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09-09-2006, 06:57 AM
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TiVo yes, DVR no!
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I believe everyone is missing the point of the Tivo.com/bluemoon Web site. Everyone knows that if an item is posted on the Internet, then it must be true. Therefore the Bluemoon movie is a true story. Aliens delivered a TiVo like device to the U.S. in 1973 and then two former government secret agency technical computer scientists (Mike Ramsay and Jim Barton) started selling the TiVo service in 1999.
It had to be a government job since it not only took them 16 years to start shipping the TiVo's, but as with all other Government ventures, TiVo Inc. has never made any money.
A. Waterman disappeared in 1998. It is believed that he was leaking information from the Hewlett Packard board of directors' meetings.
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09-09-2006, 02:34 PM
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Thanks that helped me find it. The font is StarWars Yavin 4 temple font I was able to install the font and find all the symbols. Looks like its just a bunch of gibberish though. Under refreshments I translated the alien code to: H Dgafc. Since the lowercase font is incomplete if you type Hot Dog you will get H Dg. No idea what the afc could be.
I'm thinking a Star Wars nerd at Tivo already had the font and decided to have some fun with it.
Do I win a Tivo? 
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09-09-2006, 06:07 PM
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Pawn in game of life
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Cool. Here's a key to the font, for those who can't/won't install it. (See attachment.)
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09-09-2006, 06:20 PM
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Pawn in game of life
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The text below the Sonny & Cher Description (and in the Music menu) reads:
dcae KJSDhg Sfe
In the cryptogram solver at http://www.oneacross.com/cryptograms/search.html, this translates to:
BODY NUMBER MAY
LIKE OUTLAW THE
SIDE WATSON THE
USED AMOUNT OLD
NICE PLANTS ARE
MADE LITMUS THE
WHAT FLOWER OUT
MAKE LITMUS THE
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09-09-2006, 06:26 PM
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Pawn in game of life
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The text in the "Search By Title" screen reads:
fch bda aea aecaA
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Che c hab L dcae fVA
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09-09-2006, 06:30 PM
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Pawn in game of life
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Wishlist text: Which id a wihLi d ie ceae
Sanford & Son text: Che c hab l dcae fvA
I can't make out the text in the Photos screen. It's too fuzzy.
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09-09-2006, 06:48 PM
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mad north-north-west
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Originally Posted by Spiff
The text below the Sonny & Cher Description (and in the Music menu) reads:
dcae KJSDhg Sfe
It looks like someone just typed jibberish using that font, no true meaning here.
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Oh well, you can't say we didn't explore this fully.
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09-09-2006, 06:50 PM
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ROT13 doesnt make any of those above phrases meaningful. It looks like gibberish.  |
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09-09-2006, 08:43 PM
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Funkadelic
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Originally Posted by Spiff
It looks like someone just typed jibberish using that font, no true meaning here.
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We've barely scratched the surface... now that we have letters we recognize, let's try moving them over by one and reversing it or something. 
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09-09-2006, 09:04 PM
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or run them all through the crytogram solver and get a bunch of words and then see what all the words together will say....
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09-09-2006, 09:07 PM
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or run them all through the crytogram solver and get a bunch of words and then see what all the words together will say....
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hmmmm... that didn't get much...
has to be something though...
what about the first five posts the guy did in the thread- anything there like the superfriends of reality garage band?
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09-10-2006, 08:15 AM
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Or, get this....
Maybe, just maybe...
They were clicking random keys in a non-recognized font to fill up the screen because they didn't want to burn the brain power to fill out every single line of text?
I think some folks are taking this waaaaay too far.
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09-10-2006, 02:59 PM
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could be, but it's alot more fun to imagine the other way...
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09-10-2006, 06:50 PM
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It's funny, but if you read the alien letters in column order and then run through the cryptogram solver, you get
Free Series three
With lifetime
to the first responder
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09-10-2006, 08:15 PM
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Funkadelic
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Originally Posted by pdhenry
It's funny, but if you read the alien letters in column order and then run through the cryptogram solver, you get
Free Series three
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Weird... when I ran it through, I got "Buy two for the price of one."
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09-10-2006, 08:32 PM
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Be sure to drink your Ovaltine
First post...hi everybody (waves)
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09-10-2006, 08:41 PM
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huh I got
Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three
hey DM_MM welcome to the forum but no Christmas Story jokes until November, even if it did make me 
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maybe noting that a TiVo representative has no desire to post in the TiVo community forum can get the forum owners to wake up
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PLEASE. Seriously, life is rough enough. Let's make it easy when we can.
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09-10-2006, 09:53 PM
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Originally Posted by dm-mm
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine
First post...hi everybody (waves)
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suspicious...
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09-10-2006, 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Test
suspicious...
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I thought so too when I saw it and was curious see if anyone else thought so, given the way this thread got started.
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09-10-2006, 09:56 PM
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Weird... when I ran it through, I got "Buy two for the price of one." |
Strange I thought it was "Buy one for the price of two" ZING
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09-10-2006, 10:19 PM
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So how did you find that video?
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09-11-2006, 12:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Test
suspicious...
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Nah...Just "A Christmas Story" movie reference.....
Where the kid spends all that time decoding the mystery message from the radio show....and it turns out to just be a crummy advertisement message
"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine"
 to dm-mm for the reference 
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09-11-2006, 06:53 AM
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eltiT resU motsuC
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Originally Posted by Test
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Sorry for setting off your conspiracy detector.
Last edited by dm-mm : 09-11-2006 at 06:56 AM.
Reason: Early-morning grammar correction.
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09-11-2006, 01:12 PM
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Avatar, take 2.
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So how did you find that video?
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A "new user" here gave us the link. We think it's a TiVo employee in disguise.
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09-11-2006, 10:12 PM
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Just got a reply to my email. I asked why it was ironic that the crash happened in 1973:
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IT IS IRONIC BECAUSE DESPITE MY YOUTH-FULL LOOKS I ALSO WAS BORN IN THAT YEAR (YES I AM GETTING OLD!!!!!)
(P.S I HOPE CHAD IS NOT YOUR REAL NAME BECAASE I HAVE EVIDENCE THAT TIVO IS POTENTALLY TAPPING OUR EMAIL CONVERESATIONS!!!!!)
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09-11-2006, 10:32 PM
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Lawyer & Blogger
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Sorry for setting off your conspiracy detector. |
Oh Fuuuuuuuuuddddddggggggeeee
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