[Groop] 16-digit card thoughts

[Jason Roberts]

 Tone, you do alot of thinking for a Groo fan. And
alot of writing.. Good thing Groo did learn to read.
 I like the simple Groop cards, nothing fancy, Just
Groo in tunic orange, and a silver for the
anniversary. 
--- Tone <Tone at moon-shine.net> wrote:

> 	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?
> _TONE_
> 
> 
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