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To: KLP who wrote (5313)	10/11/1999 8:42:00 PM
From: faqsnlojiks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7442

Thanks K! Yeah, I made it through them, and had quite a few laughs. Techride is the best thread on SI! The streaking email is hilarious. You can now reach me at: quack@streaking.org. LOL! I probably won't use it much, but like joanie says, it's good to have this one in the hip pocket (so to speak) for emergencies. :*) 909's, -Joe

To: KLP who wrote (5313)	10/12/1999 10:43:00 AM
From: Joana Tides	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7442

Happy "The Real" Columbus Day At The Cusp of The Millenium! So hyar's yer Card....Happy Day 2U ! co.roanoke.va.us " The Beale Papers " is A Map To A Huge Treasure... location's in cipher that's still uncoded. There are clubs, newsletters, and Dogpile has many more links to " The Beale Cipher " as it's called. I found this link 2B simplest 4 a looky or mebbe a start. The warning in the letter, well, you'll see.... (sometimes i resemble those remarks, made me THINK) The article was in today's WSJ p.A24 in Bookshelf in: "Secrets From The Cryptographers" by Clifford B. Hicks. It reviews "The Code Book" by Simon Singh (Doubleday, 402 pp., $24.95)..mentions The Beale Cipher..dars gold in demdar hills! Enjoy Your Day & Your Columbus Day Card! The Story Of Columbus (from what gibberish i can gather) A long time ago many people migrated here from many other lands by land, sea, and maybe even air -who really knows?! When they got here, they found others already living here. Some said they'd come here from other places too, others said they'd come up from the underground, others had different stories passed down from ancestors like they'd hatched from giant eggs or fallen from the stars or made from clay by an invisible power or formed by the wind. They started out as differentiated-looking tribes - but as the centuries went by they looked more and more alike from all the mingling that of course went on because folks've known since early times how families inbreeding leads to weakness eventually. Unless they're Royals i guess, who either haven't noticed that or don't care. Anyway, as all folks do, they had their wars over differences and territories; some had their ways that weren't very nice according to the standards of others,but on the whole they were unified in their love of their land and their respect for the bounty and independence they enjoyed. It was barely possible to survive outside the tribal group; and because The Chief usually said "Papa Don't Take No Mess" the threat of exile was usually enough to keep the whole thing running pretty free of crime as we know it. One day, some of these Native American People on a tropical island saw a beautiful thing on the horizon; three winged giant canoes coming closer! (It was The Fleet Of Columbus!) They welcomed them because they had been welcomed by others a milennium or so ago... and now some say they're probably sorry they didn't keep 'em there by destroying their vessels but that would have just put things off anyway is my opinion, might as well get on with the show. Columbus had come thousands of miles on open ocean; looking for a fast way to trading ports and looking for treasure. They'd known in Europe about these new lands for hundreds of years, it didn't take a rocket scientist it was just from birdwatching and beachcombing that they knew. Others had disappeared trying to go there, Scandanavians had even briefly established a colony a hundred years before, but Columbus was the one that made it here & back. He just got a look at the size of it from offshore that first time & headed on back. After he got back, i think he came here again a time or two & then they say he died in poverty. Why that would have been, i don't know. Since then, much has happened especially around here. Everyone loves progress, adventure, inventions, exploring, and treasure hunting. We're starting to get a grip on that it's always a good idea to take the good stuff from the past along, moving it forward while Remembering Everything, when Travelling Into The Future. Cyberland, Healing, The Human Mind, Space, Undersea, & Other Forms Of Life Around Here & maybe Elsewhere too... these are the Frontiers of our times. Wonder What In The World Could Be Next? 909s, Joanie ps. Anyone else here of The Delaware? Like so many other longtine American families, we dunno the exact details. We just know.