24-09-2004, 17:36 | #1 |
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Shit puzzle
Not even sure why I am posting this, but I am interested to see if a non-native english speaker can guess what it means.
To the native English speakers, please don't post the answer straight away. YYUR YYUB ICUR YY4ME
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24-09-2004, 18:29 | #2 |
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I believe most Dutch should see it str8 away.
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26-09-2004, 12:24 | #3 |
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After about 2 minute thinking as a non-native speaker: UR (you are) and 4ME (for me or for Emmy?) is more or less clear but what is this YY? Why two? IC is apparently I see.
It reminds me of what happened when I first came to Houston. The secretary at work asked me: I need your middle initial to start e-mail account. I answered "Y" (my MI is Y). She said: because I need it to create an e-mail account. I answered "Y" again. She was really puzzled: because you need e-mail. Apparently there are no thinkable American names starting with Y.
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26-09-2004, 14:57 | #4 |
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I suspect that texting has rendered this puzzle a lot easier these days than it was 100 years.
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27-09-2004, 18:59 | #5 |
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OK, "YY" stands for too wise apparently. It just struck me at work in the middle of the day. It is a shit puzzle indeed, may be for little kids.
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27-09-2004, 20:25 | #6 |
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Ah yes. Got it...
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28-09-2004, 00:10 | #7 |
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Believe it or not I first saw this over 10 years ago as toilet graffiti at a bit of a hippie convention.
I am sure it is only because of the prevalence of txt these days that I thought of it.
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28-09-2004, 01:43 | #9 |
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is it supposed to be a poem in a sense? And how would I have knwon YY means two... oohhhhhhh I get it
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