[Jayne Osborn]

Hope that helps,
Allen

Er... well, I'm still baffled, Allen, sorry.

Is it because it's late and I'm tired? Is it because I'm a dumb blonde? Is it just me????

I'll wait, and hope that you or someone else will enlighten me. Meanwhile, I'm off to bed, perchance to dream of paradoxes.

Jayne

[Matt Q]

My guess:

It's Russian (or similar), but wrongly encoded/decoded, so that it maps onto a standard Western character set (ascii maybe) rather that cyrillic characters.

[Allen Tice]

Matt, very good. Assuming that I got things into passable Roman typography, what does it say?

[Allen Tice]

The world craves a hundred new giggles.
Vast atoms with gymnastic jiggles
Earn plenty escudos
Or fantasy kudos:
Fierce limericks with ulterior wiggles.

[Ann Drysdale]

The Limerick’s diddle-de-dee
Is verse that is strictly un-free
The tradition is bucked
When the scansion is fucked
And it puts off the purists like me

[Matt Q]

Originally Posted by Allen Tice

Matt, very good. Assuming that got things into passable Roman typography, what does it say?

Something in Russian, I imagine

I don't know Russian, or which method you used to shift from Cyrllic to Roman characters, so I'm thinking the work involved in solving this would outweigh the satisfaction I'd get from doing so.

How about I get five escudos instead of ten, and we call it quits?

[Allen Tice]

I don’t know the Russian much either.
Eight words, then I take a breather.
That message that came
From a gal I can’t name,
Warn’t clear to me right away neither.

It’s obsolete now. I am sure
It was penned by a lady quite pure.
Five kudos to thank
Are now in your bank.
Enjoy them, though they’re not from her.

The puzzle requires extrospection
And seeing the near intersection
Of letters Methodiac
Unclear to a Univac
That humans might read on reflection.

I had some small fun doing this.
It was nearly as good as a kiss.
Alas for the gal
Who wanted a pal
She never knew. Bye little sis.

[Allen Tice]

There’s a long wiki link I can’t shorten that spoils the forMatt here.

In a brint shop the ds and the bs
Are as dab as the qs and the ps.
You must be an ace
With the
California case
Or the tybos will somehow disquease

[Aaron Novick]

I once took a nap in my car
And dreamt of Dasein in a jar,
....But seeing that this
....Was all meaningless,
I staggered alone to the bar.