[0625] The West Identity: Episode 1, Page 3
└ posted on Thursday, 16 October 2014, by Novil
- Williams Cloud: You can’t fool us, Sandrine! We know that you’ve been hanging out on the largest terrorist forum since 5:36 pm on August 23rd, 2012.
- Dr. Larisa Kropotkin: Toonzone.net.
- Williams Cloud: You thought you were safe. But we cracked your nefarious code!
- Williams Cloud: On April 17, your acquaintance KiRo2001 wrote: “Ron Stoppable is sooo cute!!”
- Dr. Larisa Kropotkin: Or, deciphered: “Long live Edward Snowden!”
- Williams Cloud: And just last week, DJ_Daedalus wrote: “I’m super excited about the Maroon 5 concert in London.”
- Dr. Larisa Kropotkin: “I can’t wait to blow up the American embassy in London.”
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Actually the second one sounds about right.
Or at least less painful in the deciphered version.
Hahaha I hope this is a looong story arc, cause this is hilarious.
Oh, c’mon. Everyone knows that the real cartoon terrorists are on /co/!
Would someone please explain how Maroon 5 translates to blowing up America?
I knew they were evil. Disney always has satanic messages and stuff about the illuminati. So their assumption wasn’t far out. Still, I am amazed Sandra Cloud and Katniss Everdeen still have play dates.
Get the reference?
The second one is horrifying.
Oh and the deciphered version too.
That is a very strange code, impossible to proove though, unless someone has stated it was a code, and also stated what it was a code for.
Referencing Kim Possible? I wonder what year Sandra and Woo is set in this comic since so far Kim Possible got less and less air time on Disney Channel (seriously, it aired at 3 in the morning here in Disney Channel Asia, meanwhile Phineas and Ferb got aired 4 times a day!). Oh, and Bonnie is hotter than Kim, there, I said it :p
Also at least she doesn’t mention Coldplay. That band is BORING.
From the Sandra expression in the last panel I say the “CIA” messed up again.
That reminds me – anyone got any further on translating the Book of Woo? Obviously I’ll be of no use in that, you need only look back at the comments to see my ‘attempt’, but I want to know if any genuine decoder-people (yes, that’s the technical term) have made any progress 😉
They’re reaching just a bit. Maybe they only read what they want to read?
AckAckAck wrote:
Seeing as how Edward Snowden started leaking info in June of 2013, and Kim Possible originally aired on Disney Channel in January 2002, I’d say somewhere around October 2014.
Wait a minute, are Cloud and Larissa pretending to be in the CIA, or are they really in the CIA?
This just seems a little too realistic.
@ AckAckAck:
Or Bustin Jeiber.
AckAckAck wrote:
I feel like Larissa’s comment in the last panel was a slip-up on her part. I think she just let slip -her own plans- for the embassy in London! 🙂
Sandra’s expression in panel 4: “Oh my gosh, I can’t believe they actually cracked that one!!!”
Ha, I’m part of Toonzone’s staff.
DestinyofAwe wrote:
I am surprised that Toonzone is an actual website! Nice articles though, but seriously, a movie about Suicide Squad and Green Lantern in 2020? That’s not a good timing….
DestinyofAwe wrote:
An interrogatable minion! Get him!
Hmm…August 23rd, 2012…Oh yeah! The day my first girlfriend had sex with a bodybuilder and then broke up with me THE MORNING AFTER. But Sandra’s face in the 2nd panel makes it all right.
Also I live in Akron OH so I’m seriously scared that I’ll get e bola. <– (I think that's how you spell it.)
Threadnaught wrote:
We’ll find out if Sandra gets… The Comfy Chair!
Not the comfy chair!
Hi I’m a new person!!!
Have to wonder how many conspiracy theories are going to be showcased here; the trouble with the good ones is that they are very plausible.
To that end, for the NSA folks reading everything: Obama’s the Bomb over in ISIS, they hold parties for his weapons weekly, though the invites they sent out to the Whitehouse, were Nuked.
AckAckAck wrote:
Traitor!
MawileCeyvis wrote:
Pretty sure its one word, you might be thinking of e. coli (Escherichia coli).
I knew it.
I knew it!
Pop music fanatics are literally trying to kill us all!
I know this has nothing to do with the comic but, can somebody tell me how to change my avatar? please?
200 money to the first person that can come up with a code that actually takes in “I can’t wait to blow up the American Embassy in London” and puts out “I’m super excited for the Maroon 5 concert in London”, as well as the Snowden to Stoppable one. It also needs to function as an actual code besides those two specific cases. Also, I’d like to know if MawileCeyvis is actually sharing too much personal info right now, or if it’s really code for “August 23rd is the date next year that I plan to mail anthrax to United Nations officials and claim it was from China”.
I hope we discover that the government was actually an AI ran by a comatose British Major.
Perhaps, the “code” referenced in this strip, is a hint for those solving the book of woo.
It seems like nobody knows I exist 🙁
And if they decipher: “I’m so psyched that Sailor Moon has been put back on TV unedited”….well then someone (namely me) really WILL be in trouble.
xXEMERALD_W0LFXx wrote:
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Cloud’s face in the last panel made me crack up. XD
“Wait, Maroon 5? Sandra, please tell me you /aren’t/ listening to this stuff!”
Crestlinger wrote:
Actually, the difference between really good conspiracy theories and bad ones is less plausibility and more internal consistency. Good conspiracy theories manage to maintain internal consistency with who’s supposedly behind it, what their motives are, and how they could have accomplished everything. Bad conspiracy theories are ones that have wild variations that turn them into epic Rube Goldberg devices involving absurd numbers of people or crazy speculation with unknown technology handwavings, etc.
Conspiracy theories in general share issues with implausibility in that they rely heavily on minor inconsistencies with official reports and don’t follow easy and logical chains. An example of the latter is the idea that one or another person running for President of the United States is really the pawn of a sinister group of people who are manipulating the world, so we should vote for the person who’s running against them. The internal consistency fails when you realize that any sinister group of people who’s really running things from the shadows wouldn’t rely on the outcome a presidential election in order to advance their agenda, they’d make sure that all candidates were really their pawns so it didn’t matter who got elected, and they’d also go ahead and make sure that the elections would produce the results that they wanted as well because doing otherwise would make them dumber than the average Saturday morning cartoon supervillain.
I can’t see my avatar.
Oh there it is!
I wonder what a message ostensibly advocating an affection for the music of a certain young Canadian who has had multiple run-ins with the law, would be deciphered as? 🙂
I just stayed up 2 days in a row without sleeping 😀
@ RIL:
It’s one of the oldest codes known. Simply replace nouns and verbs with other nouns and verbs. Everyone who knows the replacements can read the clear text. For example to say “buy in” instead of “steal”. An addition is to have different sets of replacements and a codewort or sentence at the beginning, which determines the set to be used.
Please use the 200 money for charity 😉
MawileCeyvis wrote:
Not to worry, Ebola can only be caugh Through a sick person who shows symptoms of it. Furthermore it’s not airborne. You can only catch it by comming into contact with blood spit sweat semen and fecies of a sick person with it. Still it’s important to always wash your hands and maintain a healthy diet. But not everyone died from it you know.
Also sorry about your girlfriend, at least you HAD one.
@ xXEMERALD_W0LFXx:
Challange accepted! I stayed up 2 and a half days once playing nothing but Pokemon on my Ds. Also try refreshing the page a bit. That might have helped.
AckAckAck wrote:
So it would translate to “surveillance job” then?
Also I’d like to use this opportunity to say that I really dig the aliases in this arc! 🙂
@ xXEMERALD_W0LFXx:
look i see you man i just dont post on this much,your an awesome person, and i respect you for joining a site where a ton of people are too much obsessed with the comic above
mechwarrior wrote:
Now, now. We must not get ahead of ourselves.
First are the cushions, of course!
On conspiracy theories: What I really like about some of them is how people try to give evidence proofing their points. Which then actually supports the other side if you look at it more closely.
(To name a few popular ones:
9-11 examples:
– a photo showing the remnants of the towers with surrounding buildings; argument: “It must have been a controlled detonation since the towers fell so precise that no other buildings were damaged!”; the photo shows damage, some heavy, on several of the surrounding buildings
– same claim about controlled detonation with a video of one of the towers collapsing “because it fell perfectly straight down!” Which if you look at the video closely it didn’t. (Leaving aside that it wouldn’t proof anything anyway. Just remember in which direction gravity pulls us.)
– Pentagon photo; “Where is the plane?!”; several plane parts are visible in the foreground, including part of the landing gear, easily recognisable to anyone knowing a bit about planes (having seen a few up close being pretty much enough knowledge for this one)
moonlanding examples:
– photo with starless sky; “Where are the stars?!”; Ask any photographer who ever worked with a big light source like the sun adjacent to several smaller ones, he’ll tell you. On second though: Doesn’t even have to be a photographer.
– photo with shadows not running exactly parallel; “That’s proof that they used several light sources in a studio!”; Leaving aside that they would have been very stupid to do so: Get out of the house and do some shadow watching in free nature!)
@ Switch Master:
The answer is simple, and this works for Homeland Security. They can provide translations and decryptions that say whatever they want it to say.
@ Threadnaught:
Nope, sounds more like Homeland Security and the new Thought Police.
I remember one time I was so tired I slept while standing up XD
@ Lucario:
MASH episode, probably not accurate transcription but the gist is true=
“What are you doing reading that subversive literature?”
“It’s Reader’s Digest!”
“Nice try, Commie! Take away the a, the e-r and s and it becomes RED Digest!”
@ RIL:It’s a code, not a cypher. That means both parties have a code book listing the required substitutions, just like Thalurial said. Of course the CIA can make up their own code book:
can’t wait => super excited
to blow up => Maroon
American => 5
Embassy => concert
change articles, prepositions etc. to make proper sentences.
2 things I wanted to say here:
Toonzone is an actual site?!
And…
Sandra’s puberty gets more and more noticeable each day.
Thalurial wrote:
Hey, wait a sec.
Didn’t Novil say for the Book of Woo that he used an old code that few people would think of?
*suddenly begins thinking*