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?

4 thoughts on “Voynich theory in a webcomic…

  1. Emily on June 5, 2009 at 3:35 pm said:

    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

  2. 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….

  3. Dennis on June 9, 2009 at 6:08 am said:

    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.

  4. Be careful with that wet noodle, it might be a Holy Appendage of the FSM. 🙂

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