[Groop] 16-digit card thoughts

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	Now that Gary has blown card selections wide open, I have been
having difficulty with what to put on some of the cards I want. I have
been playing around with some 16 digit combinations and was wondering
what people thought.

1- HIDE MESS AGE2 5YRS

2- HIDE MESS SAGE 25YR

3- GROO MESS AGE2 5YRS

4- GROO MESS AGES 25YR

5- SAME MESS AGES 25YR

	The choices I put together were kind of in the spirit of the
Hidden messages, which appear in Groo. I kind of wanted to maintain some
sort of sensibility in each of the four-character "words" and not make
them completely mixed up or unreadable on their own. That way a complete
stranger, who is unfamiliar with Groo might not even get/realize they
could possibly read a phrase, a whole line as one, or "between the
lines", etc.
	I think I kind of like the fourth idea. Depending on how a
person reads the line (word to word or MESS AGES as one word), it can
imply the stories/morals of Groo lasting 25 years or the destruction
Groo creates within the stories lasting 25 years.
	I must admit the fifth one is pretty amusing to me as well
though. The idea when reading the whole fifth line is to give the
impression of all the same jokes in Groo being repeated for the past 25
years, which the Groo series pokes fun as an ongoing joke itself.
However, more attuned Groo fans might realize the word SAME happens to
have the initials of both Sergio and Mark. ;)

	I suppose a person could take these kinds of combinations
further to form other funny things like:
6- SAME MESS 25TH YEAR
	Or if someone REALLY wanted to push the boundaries of stretching
it, I suppose they could form and pick something like:
7- SAGA SKIS TILL MORE
	To me, this kind of sounds like some really cheesy headline for
a geeky newspaper article about the Groo series. The phrasing of these
four letter words obviously implies the Groo legend has managed to slide
by over the years until now when fans finally get to read new stories in
Groo's 25th anniversary year. At the same time though, for those REALLY
anal Hidden Message hunters... the first and last letters of each of the
four words spell out SA, SS, TL, and ME... which obviously are the
initials of the four creators of Groo.
	Do you realize how hard it is to find enough "sensible" words
matching all their letters?! At first I was just trying to find just 2
four-letter words to cover their initials, but try finding any word with
Tom's initials back-to-back. I SUPPOSE I could have gone with something
like:
8- 25TH YEAR SATL MESS
	...but CLEARLY everyone would ask what the heck a satellite has
to do with Groo? (In case you did not know, SATL is the acronym for
satellite.) It would just sound like another bad headline, but this time
about the recent mechanical failure and crash landing of some cold-war
era piece of space hardware. I suppose one could argue a connection
could be made because of the destruction resulting from the crash, since
we all know Groo always tops Conan as a destroyer without even
consciously trying. However, if the satellite happened to crash on the
Dark Horse offices just after beaming news of the upcoming anniversary
special, then it would OF COURSE tie all together and make PERFECT
sense.

	:)  With as much seriousness as possible, what 16 digit ideas do
people prefer?
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