Forgive me if this has been posted elsewhere, I searched 5 pages and did not see it.
I remember some time ago, easily about a year and a half plus, GAMES MAGAZINE had an article on secrets that few people knew.
Among these where; “The Wint-o-Green Spark” The “Merch” code
getting TV Channel 6 (or was it 8) audio over the radio. The Signal to change Reels in Movies… and other information of that kind. While not being to close topic (but then seeing other topics that are still around on this board) Are there any other secrets like this that I am missing out on? This sort of information seems to be a Easter Egg/Urban Legends/Straight Dope Hybrid.
btw, it was through EEGGS.com I found Snopes, and through Snopes I found StraightDope, so Im pretty sure people here will understand what I am getting at.
Yes, there are more hidden secrets, but there is a problem.
Ben Franklin was correct. Three people can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. If I give you any hidden secret URLs, those web site owners will remain alive. So will I. Use your imagination to fill in the rest.
Using Google to search for hidden secrets works for me. Just make sure your format your query correctly. What does that mean? I cannot tell you; it’s a secret.
I worked in a cinema for awhile, and admittedly my experience is limited to the latest projectors at that time, but I can tell you what I saw. Every movie print we handled was spliced from the can onto the platter, which was very nearly 5 feet in diameter. There was no mid-screening splicing required, and once loaded, the projectors were fairly automated.
I’m told, by the projectionist who showed me the ropes, so to speak, that the round mark which appears in one corner of the screen about an hour into a movie is your marker, for the older types of projection equipment, but that those projectors are falling out of use fast, as they are harder on the prints, are greater fire hazards, and require more attention than you can pay a teenybopper to apply to expensive equipment. Not to mention the fact that prints are usually quite expensive, and if your archaic projector damages one, there go your concession profits for the month.
However, he also told me he’d been the London Werewolf for a time, but got tired of the Chinese food there and emigrated. So take all the foregoing with a grain of salt.
Well, maybe of their time, but the last one (Biggest Secrets) was published over 10 years ago. In that book William seemed (to me) a bit exasperated about all the ‘competion’ (and this was before the Web became really popular). (Bigger secrets seemed the weakest of the triology, BTW).
I don’t know, does anyone know if we’ll ever see a ‘Grand Secrets’ from Poundstone, or is the franchise done (Biggest Secrets was where I learned about the Beale Cipher - I thought that pretty cool at the time )
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