Finally, the Voynich Manuscript has weaseled its way into a serious contemporary medium – the webcomic. Here’s a link to some nerdy stick-figure Voynichian fun from XKCD (“a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language“): its brand new theory should raise at least half a smile. 😉
Meanwhile, someone else has suggested on their blog that the Voynich Manuscript is the world’s first hippy/nerd manifesto. Is the leading edge of a wave – are the nerds reclaiming the VMs?
In retrospect, the XKCD theory does seem obvious… And the Voynich must have been enciphered because, then as now, religious authorities were surely paranoid about role-playing games and the dark soul-destroying powers they possess: http://www.chick.com/READING/TRACTS/0046/0046_01.ASP
Hi Emily,
Anyone caught criticizing E. Gary Gygax here will be moderated down by 10 points and have their seven-league boots confiscated. Be warned!
Cheers, ….Nick….
Hi Nick! I see you were already there. Twenty lashes with a wet noodle, as Ann Landers used to say.
Hippy/nerd is a bit hard to believe.
Be careful with that wet noodle, it might be a Holy Appendage of the FSM. 🙂