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http://www.flickr.com/photos/8443340@N06/sets/72157600242068267
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i dont get it but i didnt click on any pics couldnt be arsed
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I'd heard about that but not seen it

You dont need to click on the pics Robo
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You don't need to click on any pictures.


FU mwg.

[Edited on 27-07-2011 by nathy_87]
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Originally posted by Robo C20Let
i dont get it but i didnt click on any pics couldnt be arsed


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You don't need to click on any links

FU Nathy.

[Edited on 27-07-2011 by _Allan_]
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Originally posted by Robo C20Let
i dont get it but i didnt click on any pics couldnt be arsed


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Is this true?
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am i missing something i really dont get it
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am i missing something i really dont get it


Read the letters in red
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So you think its really good yeah? You should try making the bloody thing up. Its a real pain in the arse.

*punctuation added
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Originally posted by Robo C20Let
am i missing something i really dont get it


Read the letters in red


really cant be arsed what does it say
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Massive lack of braincells in this thread.
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Originally posted by Robo C20Let
i dont get it but i didnt click on any pics couldnt be arsed


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It reads

DIME BAR
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Originally posted by _Allan_
It reads

DIME BAR




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Did he do that over a series of issues or all in 1 issue?
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Dismissal from Autocar
James May's hidden message

In an interview with Richard Allinson on BBC Radio 2,[15] May confessed that he was fired in 1992 from Autocar magazine after putting together a hidden message or acrostic in one issue. At the end of the year, the magazine's "Road Test Year Book" supplement was published. Each spread featured four reviews and each review started with a large red letter (known in typography as an initial). May's role was to put the entire supplement together, which "was extremely boring and took several months". He went on to say:

So I had this idea that if I re-edited the beginnings of all the little texts, I could make these red letters spell out a message through the magazine, which I thought was brilliant. I can't remember exactly what it said, but it was to the effect that "You might think this is a really great thing, but if you were sitting here making it up you'd realise it's a real pain in the arse". It took me about two months to do it and on the day that it came out I'd actually forgotten that I'd done it because there's a bit of a gap between it being "put to bed" and coming out on the shelves. When I arrived at work that morning everybody was looking at their shoes and I was summoned to the managing director of the company's office. The thing had come out and nobody at work had spotted what I'd done because I'd made the words work around the pages so you never saw a whole word. But all the readers had seen it and they'd written in thinking they'd won a prize or a car or something.

May's original message, punctuated appropriately, reads: "So you think it's really good, yeah? You should try making the bloody thing up; it's a real pain in the arse."
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Awesome.
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As the internet says, he had way too much time on his hands.

 
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