Four old puzzles #1

I think one reason rec.puzzles has become less popular
is the SPAM onslaught. Why don't we find an otherwise
idle ng, perhaps rec.aquaria.freshwater.cichlids as I
have done here, begin cross-posting there, and hope
the spammers don't follow?

Please don't reveal why I aver this memo has unique looks.
Rather do make your best original theme and post in reply.

Famous Will Shakespeare did secure it:
So true a fool is love, that in your will, ...
Or in Poem LXII:
As I all other in all worths exceed ...

A Supreme Book can do it:
From Ecclesiasticus book LXIII verse XXXII see:
Glorify the Lord as much as ever you can,
for he will yet far exceed.
Or in Gospel by John:
My sheep do hear my voice.
And I know them: and they follow me.

Can you write a sentence (or seven) which keeps faith
under my new paradigm?
by James Dow Allen

Richard gave a hint for #2, so I'd better give a
hint for "Four old puzzles #1".
I won't bother to rot13 the hint.

The entire message (that is, the lines
beginning " " above) is a sequence of
words that satisfies a constraint. (*Each* contiguous
subsequence of words in the message satisfies the same
constraint.) The *meanings* of the message and
the individual words are *irrelevant.* My full name
"James Dow Allen" satisfies the constraint, but
"Richard Heathfield" does not, nor does "James Allen".

This "hint" may tell you little new, but I hope it's
enough. This type of puzzle was very popular in this ng
a few years ago. Despite that no one's solved it yet,
I still believe that this one is of, at most, average
difficulty compared with those posted a few years ago.

James (Dow) Allen

PS: I hope my use of middle name doesn't make me
seem like a pretentious "preppy"! It's a habit I
started with the World-wide-web since "James Allen"
is a *very* common name.

In , James Dow Allen
wrote:

I think one reason rec.puzzles has become less popular
is the SPAM onslaught. Why don't we find an otherwise
idle ng, perhaps rec.aquaria.freshwater.cichlids as I
have done here, begin cross-posting there, and hope
the spammers don't follow?

I wonder how the cichlid fans will feel about that, when they get back
from their decade-long expedition to Cichlidia to find their
newsgroup stuffed to the gunwales with puzzles?

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Richard gave a hint for #2, so I'd better give a
hint for "Four old puzzles #1".
I won't bother to rot13 the hint.

The entire message (that is, the lines
beginning " " above) is a sequence of
words that satisfies a constraint.

I guessed all that.

(*Each* contiguous
subsequence of words in the message satisfies the same
constraint.)

That's additional information, but I'm not sure how useful it is. That
is, I don't immediately see an application for the new knowledge.

The *meanings* of the message and
the individual words are *irrelevant.*

I guessed that, too.

My full name
"James Dow Allen" satisfies the constraint, but
"Richard Heathfield" does not, nor does "James Allen".

Bang goes Theory #6.

snip

--
Richard Heathfield http://www.cpax.org.uk
Email: -http://www. +rjh@
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
Sig line vacant - apply within

On Oct 22, 11:29*am, James Dow Allen
wrote:
I think one reason rec.puzzles has become less popular
is the SPAM onslaught. *Why don't we find an otherwise
idle ng, perhaps rec.aquaria.freshwater.cichlids as I
have done here, begin cross-posting there, and hope
the spammers don't follow?





Please don't reveal why I aver this memo has unique looks.
Rather do make your best original theme and post in reply.

Famous Will Shakespeare did secure it:
* So true a fool is love, that in your will, ...
Or in Poem LXII:
* As I all other in all worths exceed ...

A Supreme Book can do it:
From Ecclesiasticus book LXIII verse XXXII see:
* Glorify the Lord as much as ever you can,
* for he will yet far exceed.
Or in Gospel by John:
* My sheep do hear my voice.
* And I know them: *and they follow me.

Can you write a sentence (or seven) which keeps faith
under my new paradigm?
by James Dow Allen

Richard gave a hint for #2, so I'd better give a
hint for "Four old puzzles #1".
I won't bother to rot13 the hint.

The entire message (that is, the lines
beginning " " above) is a sequence of
words that satisfies a constraint. *(*Each* contiguous
subsequence of words in the message satisfies the same
constraint.) *The *meanings* of the message and
the individual words are *irrelevant.* *My full name
"James Dow Allen" satisfies the constraint, but
"Richard Heathfield" does not, nor does "James Allen".

This "hint" may tell you little new, but I hope it's
enough. *This type of puzzle was very popular in this ng
a few years ago. *Despite that no one's solved it yet,
I still believe that this one is of, at most, average
difficulty compared with those posted a few years ago.

James (Dow) Allen

PS: I hope my use of middle name doesn't make me
seem like a pretentious "preppy"! *It's a habit I
started with the World-wide-web since "James Allen"
is a *very* common name.- Hide quoted text -

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Given your "hint", a puzzle which seemed too hard is now much easier
to unravel. I am writing a short piece to claim to have found a
solution. Am I correct?

---------------
jonnie303, uk

On Oct 22, 9:53*pm, jonnie303 wrote:

Given your "hint", a puzzle which seemed too hard is now much easier
to unravel. I am writing a short piece to claim to have found a
solution. Am I correct?

Yes, yes! Callooh, callay!
John's post satisfies the constraint!!
(Though my response here does not.)
Maybe I *will* post another of these next decade,
after all!

.... And I hope you agree mine was orders of magnitude
easier than Mr. Heathfield's (at "#2").

jonnie303, uk

Well, *almost* satisfied the constraint. Next time
edit your .sig.

James

On Oct 23, 3:03*am, James Dow Allen wrote:
On Oct 22, 9:53*pm, jonnie303 wrote:

Given your "hint", a puzzle which seemed too hard is now much easier
to unravel. I am writing a short piece to claim to have found a
solution. Am I correct?

Yes, yes! *Callooh, callay!
John's post satisfies the constraint!!
(Though my response here does not.)
Maybe I *will* post another of these next decade,
after all!

... And I hope you agree mine was orders of magnitude
easier than Mr. Heathfield's (at "#2").

jonnie303, uk

Well, *almost* satisfied the constraint. *Next time
edit your .sig.

James


I solved it (.....pause for applause.....) too.
But I am finding the proof a bit hard to manage.
I'll try a riddle.
Why did the gnu cross the road?
The gnu wished to see a gnu view.

*almost* ken

On Oct 26, 4:43*pm, ken wrote:

I solved it (.....pause for applause.....) too.
But I am finding the proof a bit hard to manage.
I'll try a riddle.
Why did the gnu cross the road?
The gnu wished to see a gnu view.

*almost* ken

Two cheers! (And sorry, ken, that I couldn't say three!)

*almost* J. D. Allen

On Oct 26, 10:42*pm, James Dow Allen wrote:
On Oct 26, 4:43*pm, ken wrote:



I solved it (.....pause for applause.....) too.
But I am finding the proof a bit hard to manage.
I'll try a riddle.
Why did the gnu cross the road?
The gnu wished to see a gnu view.

*almost* ken

Two cheers! *(And sorry, ken, that I couldn't say three!)

*almost* J. D. Allen


Alas, my proof is not valid
There is an error.
Bahhhhh...

ken

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:29:02 +0000, James Dow Allen wrote:

Please don't reveal why I aver this memo has unique looks. Rather do
make your best original theme and post in reply.

Mentioning subsequences provided a very big hint (assuming that I have
truly solved your puzzle). Also, writing this way is a lot harder than I
assumed it would be; kudos!

martin

On Oct 27, 1:07*pm, ken wrote:
On Oct 26, 10:42*pm, James Dow Allen wrote:

On Oct 26, 4:43*pm, ken wrote:

I solved it (.....pause for applause.....) too.
But I am finding the proof a bit hard to manage.
I'll try a riddle.
Why did the gnu cross the road?
The gnu wished to see a gnu view.

*almost* ken

Two cheers! *(And sorry, ken, that I couldn't say three!)

*almost* J. D. Allen

Alas, my proof is not valid *
There is an error.
Bahhhhh...

ken

Alas! I'm sorry, Ken, if wrongly I challenged you.
(I was in The Grand City, Webless, and just now
did see your message.)
Full cheers did you deserve, but *I* couldnt give
you three of them and still obey this rule.

I'm not sure that I agree this puzzle is too hard.
Book called _Origin_ by Darwin, yes, did effect my goal:
"Hence it seems to me, as it has to many other ..."
and
"were to build for themselves a thin wall of wax,
they could make ..."
or
"abundance of the individuals of many species all over"

Khayyam did obey in best known Rubaiyat:
"Come fill the cup ...
"The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly ..."


And more casually,

"I beg thou, Yes?" "No." "Please, oh yes?" "No!" "Please, oh
please?"
"No ... well, OK, yes." "Oh, yes!" "Oh yes!! Oh yes! Oh Yes!"
"Ohhhhh!!!!!!"

James Dow Allen

On Oct 29, 10:03*pm, James Dow Allen wrote:
On Oct 27, 1:07*pm, ken wrote:



On Oct 26, 10:42*pm, James Dow Allen wrote:

On Oct 26, 4:43*pm, ken wrote:

I solved it (.....pause for applause.....) too.
But I am finding the proof a bit hard to manage.
I'll try a riddle.
Why did the gnu cross the road?
The gnu wished to see a gnu view.

*almost* ken

Two cheers! *(And sorry, ken, that I couldn't say three!)

*almost* J. D. Allen

Alas, my proof is not valid *
There is an error.
Bahhhhh...

ken

Alas! *I'm sorry, Ken, if wrongly I challenged you.
(I was in The Grand City, Webless, and just now
did see your message.)
Full cheers did you deserve, but *I* couldnt give
you three of them and still obey this rule.

I'm not sure that I agree this puzzle is too hard.
Book called _Origin_ by Darwin, yes, did effect my goal:
* * * "Hence it seems to me, as it has to many other ..."
and
* * * "were to build for themselves a thin wall of wax,
* * * they could make ..."
or
* * * "abundance of the individuals of many species all over"

Khayyam did obey in best known Rubaiyat:
* *"Come fill the cup ...
* *"The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly ..."

And more casually,

"I beg thou, Yes?" *"No." *"Please, oh yes?" *"No!" *"Please, oh
please?"
"No ... well, OK, yes." *"Oh, yes!" *"Oh yes!! Oh yes! Oh Yes!"
"Ohhhhh!!!!!!"

James Dow Allen

Two cheers you sent,
I was fully content,
Alas! on review of my text, I found my 'But' following my 'too'