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Very funny guy (even if slightly obsessed with polygraph tests)

I think Sandy and Kersey should get done too. What a great article for the next edition of Rhedesium. Of course, if all three of them refuse then they are as good as guilty. That answer is....TRUE!

Very beige jb.

So just whose mother are you and why are you angry?

"Was it Bill or was it Ben ?"

I never could tell the difference - which one has the deeper voice?

Oh, I see, you're Mrs. Ben Hammott, his wife rather than his mother. So tell me, is the tomb model in the garage or the spare room? Also, how did you feel when he brought the mummy home for use in the full scale tomb set? Did he have a special storage case for it, or just a big duffle bag? Was it hard to keep the cat away from it?

Unfortunately we don't have a garage or a spare room and I can't stand cats. I do have a rather battered video camera though...

I thought of a good pseudonym for you, Betty Hammott. Ben and Betty Hammott. Here's your wedding photo;

jb you remind me of a little dog I had as a child. He was very friendly and playful and used to make us laugh but then he would suddenly snarl and grab the nearest object in his teeth and would shake it and shake it and would just not let go. Here's a photo of him.



Betty

Let me guess, Bingo Hammott? Now look at this image of the supposed mummy. That is not a real human head. Look at the teeth. Nobody has teeth like that. Look at the upper teeth. It's just a bunch of big squarish things stuck in there not even in a straight line. The teeth right next to the middle two are too big and all twisted. The bottom ones are even worse. That would have to be a British person to have teeth that misaligned and misshapen. They really scrimped on the special effects budget. Why didn't they get some real dentures and put them in there? Look at the eye holes of the skull. Not even as round as real human skull eye holes and the cheekbones are too flat and nose holes way too big. That would have to be Jimmy Durante's skull.

Cause I bet you are a real Adonis eh
Nic

Wasn't Jimmy Durante american?

In the days before orthodontia and daily brushing, I would imagine lots of people had teeth that looked like that. What caught my eye was the dirt caked between the teeth, which shouldn't be on a corpse laid on the ground covered by a shroud (which also looks a little bright for its purported age). This person has been "in" rather than "on" the soil at some point since his/her demise.

TCP

It certainly doesn't have Jimmy Durante's nose

It doesn't have anyone's nose anymore. BTW, JB, those big holes aren't the nostrils, that's the sinus cavity. Once the flesh and cartilage rots away, that's what all of us will be left with.

TCP

Yes, I'm Adonis. British people having crooked teeth is a common stereotype, apparently that Bulldognic guy is from a different planet and hadn't heard. I know it's the sinus holes and not the full nose, my point being that if the sinus holes of the skull are that large then the full nose must have been huge. Anyway, after looking at some skull images I guess it's not that unrealistic of nose holes and cheekbones. I still say the teeth don't look very realistic, though, especially the bottom ones.

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If only Sauniere hadn't used an ink which, after drying, will run when the paper/parchment gets wet, as was the case with the note showing the Gelis tombstone. It is well known that real inks used throughout history are not water soluble after they dry. Only modern synthetic "inks", like those used in cheap markers, will run like that when the paper gets wet. In fact, why would he even use a red ink? There are no examples whatsoever of him using such an ink. Why go to the trouble of getting a special water soluble synthetic ink from the future, requiring him to invent and construct a time machine, when he could have simply used his regular and more colorfast black ink?

I'll tell you exactly what that red ink is. It's a modern synthetic washable ink like what is used in an ink stamp pad;

"Ink-Dye based ink pads are water based and essentially leave a stain on the paper. Thus, they will run if they get wet and their colors aren't as vibrant as some other inks." http://ursm.tripod.com/glossary.html

Notice how non-vibrant the ink on the notes is? This is modern synthetic washable dye ink, which explains why Bloodline didn't have it analyzed, or suppressed the results. Didn't want to get your hands stained, huh Bill?

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If this "encryption" has yielded positive results for your team, then it goes without saying that the "code" must have been cracked. Perhaps now, in response to qualified criticism, would be a good time to demonstrate how this was done. Otherwise it looks like an ill-conceived fabrication.

TCP

Mr. Kersey, flippant comebacks won't make the critical flaws disappear. In fact it weakens your arguments considerably. Why not try to address the questions in a forthright manner? I'm sure we'd all appreciate honest answers, even if "I don't know" is the only answer you can provide.

TCP

I can think of plenty of stereotypes of Canadians,doesn't mean I post them. Anyway I do have to agree with jb the "mummy" looks wrong. For me there are just too many "holes", pardon pun, in Bloodlne for it to be credible at the moment. Perhaps Bill or another member of the team can just release a small nugget of relevant information to us all, maybe answering icremote's other forum subject " is there a spider on the chest" ?
Nic

The point is that no such washable dye ink existed in Sauniere's time, therefore, he could not possibly have used it. I'm posting it on this forum because there would be little point in telling Sauniere to use a different ink for something he never wrote in the first place. You wrote those notes, Bill, don't you remember? Of course, you're welcome to prove otherwise by submitting to an independent polygraph examination. Until then, nobody but you is suspected of writing those notes.

The text on the notes is so bizarre that there is no way anyone could ever decode it, even if it really were a code instead of gobbledy-gook designed to LOOK like a code, unless they knew the particulars of the code procedure. Then after you go through the impossible task of breaking the codes on the notes, all you get for your trouble is a little chest with a couple pieces of pottery and a few coins, total net value about $1000 tops, and yet ANOTHER coded note. That one doubtless leads to another chest of cheap bobbles. It's a game of lead the naive treasure hunters around the countryside just for the fun of it. Either that or a game of plant some notes and bobbles and then pretend to find them.

Weirdest thing is, why didn't the great treasure hunter Bill Kersey dowse the most obvious place in the whole RLC countryside, cave of the Magdalene, years ago. You were fervently looking for Magdalene related artifacts around there for years and years and expect us to believe you never thought of dowsing that cave until a note in a bottle told you to. You've gotta be the single worst treasure hunter in the world, Bill. Where were you looking before, everywhere that DIDN'T have the word "Magdalene" in the title?

To Bulldognic. We Canadians all where tuques (knitted hats), even in the summer. Please don't make fun of us. We're very sensitive about the tuques. Mine has a pom-pom on the top, a very dignified pom-pom.

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