Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/09/11/can-you-help-decipher-this-not.html
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Flaming globes of Sigmund?
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something … something … women’s health … something …
That’s all I got. Reach out to Nick Gibbs, he can probably help.
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Beat me to it…
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Comments elsewhere indicate this could be Pitman Shorthand
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I believe it is a list of which of his fellow explorers he was planning to eat.
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And here is the reaction from the Zucker Brothers
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I’d rather eat Johnson, sir!
So would I.
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So nobody wants to eat me?
With a gammy leg? euuugh
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Shackleton didn’t eat anyone. He was too damn awesome and lucky.
“For scientific discovery give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel give me Amundsen; but when disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton.”
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Nope, sorry, I don’t recognize the script.
I have some of F. Alton Wade’s letters from Antarctica about the house somewhere.
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That is not to say he didn’t plan for such contingencies should the need arise. 
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It troubles me whenever discussions about ocean-going Brits take strange detours in cannibalism.
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It’s written in Voynich. But Low Voynich. I can’t quite make it out.
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It’s not shorthand, the words just suffered shrinkage from the cold.
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“Christ it’s bloody cold.”
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“This jerk shot my cat.”
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“Should have brought Ovaltine.”
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Perhaps it’s in Qwghlm?
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