BS: homeric leaders

Subject: BS: Game - homeric leaders
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 06:55 AM

Okay!
I could have named the thread "Online Competitions" or "Security Entry", but that wouldn't have had the same impact.
I just entered a free competition from a daytime TV show. One of the requirements is the "Security Box" where they put a distorted graphic image of two words ina box and you have to type words correctly to enter. It's the bit that spambot programmes are not supposed to be able to read.

Have you ever noticed that they bring up interesting combinations of words and names? Examples below (10 minutes reloading the image box) :-

homeric leaders
muffins marks
oddity surprise
brinks Boston
rogue times
outer points
sneaked sunrise
goblins agency
versity handrail
lily overflight
Sunday gate
narrates Spokane
shut Toyland
gargoyle receives
lo slapping
von gift
Bernard rehearse
upstages Martha
aquaria Bellerose
My crumbier
veiling Boston
drooled Elizabeth
Nixon's ghost

It seems a shame to waste this apparently limitless source of inspiration. I wonder what novels Wiliam Burroughs could have produced, or songs from David Bowie (both of whom are reputed to have used a similar technique - cutting up sheets of words and seeing how the pieces fell together).

Anybody up for the challenge - write a verse of a song using pairings from security box output? Add a minimum of your own words as glue to make them stick together, but not allowed to split the authentic pairs...
Of course some of the box contents are just complete gibberish and can be ignored, but I'm curious to see what Mudcat might be able to produce.

Quack!
Geoff the Duck.

Subject: RE: BS: homeric leaders
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 11:27 AM

Homeric leaders unlike Nixon's ghost present an element of oddity surprise that during rogue times lead unerringly to lo slapping.

Subject: RE: BS: homeric leaders
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 11:36 AM

Homeric leaders
"D'oh"

Subject: RE: BS: homeric leaders
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 11:49 AM

G the D, I've never seen anything like the examples you gave. The security "copy this" displays I get are always more in the line of

W3z43L9
kk346Lg
418Qml6

and so forth.

Trying making a song out of THOSE!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: homeric leaders
From: Amos
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 12:08 PM

It's interesting to note that almost none of th examples given rhyme with each other.


A

Subject: RE: BS: homeric leaders
From: Rifleman (inactive)
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 12:14 PM

Google come up with some interesting ones (when you're setting up an account) though the champion has to be, funnily enough, facebook, yes I signed on there *LOL*, and my graphic image of two words was

$4,986,490 franking

Subject: RE: BS: homeric leaders
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 05:35 PM

Sounds a bit like they got their examples from the short-lived sport of "Google whacking"

The last time I had to enter some of those distorted letters, they didn't even form real words,and were SO distorted it took 4 tries.



(Homeric leaders immediately set ME to thinking of Babe Ruth, Hank Greenberg, Ralph Kiner and Mickey Mantle)

Subject: RE: BS: homeric leaders
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 05:59 PM

Uncle_DaveO - The sites I have found these on are on British commercial telly web sites www.gm.tv, and the ITV site. Don't know if they are blocked outside the UK, but if not, try the story generating function...
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: homeric leaders
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 07:14 PM

Veiling Boston sneaked sunrise
Upstages Martha's oddity surprise
Goblins agency
Handrail versity
Gargoyle receives Nixon's ghost

This article here explains what is behind this The idea is that a known word is paired with a word taken at random from some old damaged document, and in the process the old document gets deciphered as a by-product of pc users typing in the answers. A really neat idea.

Subject: RE: BS: homeric leaders
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 13 Jun 09 - 04:40 AM

So does that mean that an infinite number of Mudcats typing on computers are recreating the complete works of Shakespeare???
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: homeric leaders
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 13 Jun 09 - 04:44 AM

Mind you, if me, entering competitions, can help reconstruct World Heritage and disintegrating documents, perhaps I ought to stop ignoring the ones which don't read as potentially interesting lyrics and do some restoration instead, with the ones that look like gibberish!
Quack!
Geoff.