Re: OT - Enough to Gag a Maggot

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I see that Dennis has been ferretting about the Net
again:

> Phaistos Disk Decipherment Update
> http://users.otenet.gr/~svoronan/phaistos.htm
> 
>         While some of it is good research and our list member
> Jacques Guy has a couple of pointers, the biggest part
> is crankery.

And what crankery! Wonderful, super duper crankery most of
it. 


> Our old friend Steven Fischer's book,
> *Glyphbreaker*, takes the prize.

Which is wittily reviewed at link (40):

http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~lipi/archaeology/phaistos.html


>  A reviewer on Amazon, Paul
> Bahn

Bahn, in New Scientist two years ago, described the Phaistos
disk as a "large, carved stone disk". It would be hard to
get it more wrong! So I do not think we should be bitching
about Fortean Times on the VMS. At least FT got fewer than
three main points out of four hopeless wrong. Perhaps I 
should offer New Scientist my own view of the Phaistos disk,
that large, carved stone _pyramid_... BTW, I have a copy
of the correspondence between John Chadwick and the editor
of National Geographic, who wanted to publish Fischer's
decipherment of the disk in NG. It makes for jaw-dropping
reading. Eventually, after a leeeeengthy argument Chadwick
managed to convince Nat.Geo. I admire Chadwick's patience.

Here, listen to me: the VMS is a treatise of Necromancy. 
Proof: I deciphered it and used the knowledge to summon
the spirit of Romaine Newbold. He proceeded to prove his
decipherment by calling the spirit of Roger Bacon, who
confirmed that indeed, he, Bacon, was the author. Alas,
I cannot tell you more as there is a curse on the VMS
which renders insane whoever shares his decipherment
with anyone else. Like Newbold tried to do. So he
went insane less than half-way through explaining his
decipherment. Which again proves my point. 

Hey, is anyone at National Geographic reading this?
Have no fear: John Chadwick is no longer here to
talk you out of publishing my momentous discovery!
I'm open to offers!