The letter S with an oblique stroke
The letter S with an oblique stroke is an extended Latin character used in various orthographies (the conventional spelling system of a language), including the historical Latvian and Lower Sorbian alphabets.
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The Somerton Man .. 
Last time your funny S with the oblique came up, some bright spark mentioned the old English S form that looked more like a lower case f as in ferpent or suck fuck. Take your pick but don’t think it makes much difference, unless you’re making a case for a new australian style Somertoni Manosovic.
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My theory is that because neither language has a Q in its alphabet, and Q is number 17 in the Latin alphabet then the secretly coded Crameresqe message was hidden in the 17th quatrain. How do like those apples?
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You mean to say that Gordon Scoooored with his null letter Q afterall. Now them’s apples would be a turn up for the books. If true, then all I can say is, good on you Gordon; all things come to those who lie like hell, cheat all their lives and steal other people’s thunder.
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So here’s the bloke with the book looking down on the man he was supposed to meet and match the slip with the torn page, but he’s down. The jig’s up. RUN. But only after dumping to book on the sly.
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Happy anniversary for Monday Carl.
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Bit late on both counts my man. 5th October 1941 Carl tied the knot with Dot, and there’s his birthday aniversary 16 November 2025 when he turned 120. Can’t recall anything that he might be celebrating next Monday December 8, unless it had something to do with US declaration of war on Japan on “this ominous day” in 1941
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I think he means last Monday, 1 December (1948)
Move on. We know now that Carl Webb isn’t Somerton man or it would have been announced officially a long time ago.
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No. 1: If you want to get the full monty on all the Whyte Street addresses ie 52, 62, 66 and 66A Lyons address list in including a whole lot of other useful day one info you’re not going to get better than to track CM’s Ruth Balint thread from 9 November through 12th inst. 2020. You’ll also find Peteb had a lot to say in the early days (2014) of the same thread when he and Nick were best of friends across the lake.
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