Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Post by cgtyoder » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 4:42 PM UTC

Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery
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Re: Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Post by aw3c2 » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:03 PM UTC

Actual link is http://ask.metafilter.com/255675/Decoding-cancer-addled-ramb...

Re: Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Post by JTon » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:09 PM UTC

I love when an online community comes together and solves puzzles like this. /r/Whatisthis turns up some gems here and there. An another note, I'm disappointed this particular puzzle turned out to be prayers... boring

Re: Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Post by jccalhoun » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:15 PM UTC

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.

Re: Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Post by cobrausn » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:16 PM UTC

JTon wrote: post #3

I love when an online community comes together and solves puzzles like this. /r/Whatisthis turns up some gems here and there. An another note, I'm disappointed this particular puzzle turned out to be prayers... boring

Old woman dying of cancer didn't have the common courtesy to at least scribble down something more interesting for you to browse for 5 minutes on the internet later. What a shame.

Re: Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Post by anigbrowl » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:16 PM UTC

Ask Metafilter is a very very good place to get random questions answered - a smart and very diverse userbase, along with some sensible rules on how to ask a question, which gives it an edge over Quora for my tastes.

Re: Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Post by IvyMike » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:17 PM UTC

I thought this was going to be about the redditor who uncovered Tommy Wiseau's country of birth, but that's just a 10-year-old mystery.

http://www.reddit.com/r/theroom/comments/1vklp3/i_think_i_ha...

Re: Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Post by Luc » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:25 PM UTC

cobrausn wrote: post #5

JTon wrote: post #3

I love when an online community comes together and solves puzzles like this. /r/Whatisthis turns up some gems here and there. An another note, I'm disappointed this particular puzzle turned out to be prayers... boring

Old woman dying of cancer didn't have the common courtesy to at least scribble down something more interesting for you to browse for 5 minutes on the internet later. What a shame.

What the hell. It's a perfectly reasonable thing to remark on. It was presented as a conundrum, and it turns out it's something disappointing to the grandparent. You're the one dramatising things.

Re: Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Post by richardlblair » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:29 PM UTC

I love the interweb.

Re: Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Post by cobrausn » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:30 PM UTC

Luc wrote: post #8

cobrausn wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Old woman dying of cancer didn't have the common courtesy to at least scribble down something more interesting for you to browse for 5 minutes on the internet later. What a shame.

What the hell. It's a perfectly reasonable thing to remark on. It was presented as a conundrum, and it turns out it's something disappointing to the grandparent. You're the one dramatising things.

The 'boring' remark is the only thing that set me off. The post without that would seem reasonable - as it stands though, it looks like someone complaining about not having something more interesting to read about, not someone expressing disappointment there wasn't something more meaningful to her heirs.