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

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 -

- Show quoted text -

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 <john.gri... at (no spam) btinternet.com> 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

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

On Oct 26, 10:42 pm, James Dow Allen <jdallen2... at (no spam) yahoo.com> 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 Oct 27, 1:07 pm, ken <kjo... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:



On Oct 26, 10:42 pm, James Dow Allen <jdallen2... at (no spam) yahoo.com> 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

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?

[by]
jonnie303, uk-

Let's start with this one (which I didn't think was going to be overly
hard). The entire post (or *any* excerpt therefrom, not just the
quotations) complies with a constraint you're asked to discover.

Well? Time for the answer, surely? :)

martin

Light dawns (I hope?)
Scary how many hours I pondered this - and how many rules got despatched.
I agree with a prior message - It has been a struggle in the making of this
reply.
I can't go any further

Sid

An unlucky man from Japan's
Dejected, for all of his plans
For bliss will be shredded -
Yum-Yum's to be wedded
And he's not a part of the banns

Spot the constraint and write a poem (of any style) using the same
constraint as a followup.


martin

James Dow Allen <jdallen2... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
Martin DeMello <martindeme... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
Spot the constraint ...

Perhaps James solved Martin's constraint,
However one does make idle complaint:
Limerick's overly difficult:
Could you allow himself somersault?
Wrote anti-poem solving your anti-constraint.

Heh I must say that's an excellent job of trying not to follow it.

martin

Guess the simple rule operating in this apt poem.

Unlettered fellow will find this coincidental structure hard: Count on it!

Subject doesn't matter; speak of perfected jukebox or approximations,

Or even supercomputers and academic conversations.

Poems wholly without rhymes or meter triumph.

Can you write lawful lines that always follow this constraint?

Contribute your own which obey.

Dearest regards, James Dow Allen (mail address: jamesdowallen at gmail)

Much too easy. I solved it before I could even blurt "Jack Robinson".
Why not give us a more difficult one, Tim?

Tim S. Roberts from 2006
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.puzzles/browse_thread/thread/2c1580cae45e7b6b/91be3f8d39a7099?hl=en

A message complies if adjacent words never have a letter in common. For