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Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle

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Charlie Roberts <croberts@gmail.com> posted:

> On Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:15:09 GMT, James Dow Allen
> <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
> >Charlie Roberts <croberts@gmail.com> posted:
> >> I am sure you have come across something similar, but with skipped
> >> lines. The one I saw circulated quite a bit about 30 years back. It is
> >> a recommendation letter written by a prof for one of his students
> >> and read as it is, is full of praise, lauding the student for many 
> >> things. But if you skip the even numbered lines the message is 
> >> just the opposite! 
> >
> >
> >I often let ChatGPT do the work for me.  Sometimes it succeeds;
> >often it fails miserably.  In this task it failed miserably.

So I tried DeepSeek.  Its response resembled a hyperactive but untalented
seven-year-old who thinks it should be promoted to study with the 12-year-olds.

ChatGPT once asked me what personality it should present and I selected
"quirky and whimsical" or such.  So I have only myself to blame when it gets
fresh!  :-)  But DeepSeek never asked -- it gives me "pretentious moronic
blowhard" for free.

> >
> >Slightly similar to the recommendation letters Charlie Roberts writes
> >about are *palindromic poems*.  IIRC I was first introduced to these
> >several decades ago in this very newsgroup.

Here's a good "Line Palindrome":
       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA

Cheers,
James

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Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-03-02 06:20 +0000
  Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-03-03 07:52 +0000
    Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2026-03-03 12:28 +0000
      Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-03-03 18:45 +0000
      Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-03-05 04:02 +0000
        Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2026-03-05 06:03 +0000
  Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle Charlie Roberts <croberts@gmail.com> - 2026-03-03 15:16 -0500
    Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-03-04 05:15 +0000
      Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle Charlie Roberts <croberts@gmail.com> - 2026-03-04 17:48 -0500
        Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-03-05 03:54 +0000
  Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-03-12 19:22 +0000
    Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-03-13 05:35 +0000
    Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-03-25 11:19 +0000
      Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2026-05-19 18:23 +0300
        Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-19 17:56 +0000
        "Instigate to poison"  (Re: Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle) James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-08-30 08:35 +0000

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