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[conuly]

Poll #25433 Voynich manuscript

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Some part of me is always thinking about the Voynich Manuscript

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Same
11 (13.9%)

Not so much
55 (69.6%)

The whatish whatnow?
13 (16.5%)

So...

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Hoax
11 (15.9%)

Aliens
3 (4.3%)

Nothing more than some elaborate cipher
46 (66.7%)

Other (explain)
9 (13.0%)

Ticky?

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Ticky
68 (100.0%)

Comments

[conuly]

Oh, god, Oak Island is another one that I think about entirely disproportionately to the amount I (or anybody) knows about it. Thanks for reminding me.

[melannen]

I read a bunch of the pre-TV-show Oak Island books last summer when I needed something to deaden my brain. It's mostly just really frustrating because so much of the possible evidence is just destroyed, and so much of the real basic foundation research is just not done. I spent WAY too long during slow periods at work last summer reading old shipping manifests to try to find out if coconut coir was even ever used as packing material on pre-19th century ships.

Breaking out the Elizebeth Friedman/Voynich theory in detail is a great way to stop discussion about other theories dead, though. :D