Clever backmasked insult or coincidence?

[TarJak]

http://m.smh.com.au/national/insult-...210-2z33z.html

Murdoch paper puzzle with possible dig at the owner? You be the judge...

[Platapus]

Authors writing in magazines sometimes do stuff like this.

James May did something similar in 1992 in Autocar

Sometimes they get caught, sometimes not.

[Jimbuna]

Hard to say, does such a word actually exist?

[CaptainHaplo]

Well that's one way to get fired LOL

[Aktungbby]

I recollect that in WWII, the London Telegraph paper crossword had the key words: Bigoted, Overlord, Omaha ,Utah, Neptune etc in it and raised quite a ruckus at British intelligence: MI-5, that the D-Day landings were being compromised by a snarky crossword message to Abwehr agents. Nothing new here?

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Authors writing in magazines sometimes do stuff like this.

James May did something similar in 1992 in Autocar

Sometimes they get caught, sometimes not.

And here is James May's very cryptic message -



To be fair most people would have to get the whole book and set it up like the picture before even realising there is a message.

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

I recollect that in WWII, the London Telegraph paper crossword had the key words: Bigoted, Overlord, Omaha ,Utah, Neptune etc in it and raised quite a ruckus at British intelligence: MI-5, that the D-Day landings were being compromised by a snarky crossword message to Abwehr agents. Nothing new here?

So the pommy kiddies that read the Telegraph children's pages are Abwehr agents?

[Jimbuna]

But while some members of MI5, Britain’s counter-espionage service, were whiling away their spare moments in May 1944 by doing the Telegraph Crossword, they noticed that vital code-names that had been adopted to hide the mightiest sea-borne assault of all time, appeared in the crossword.
They noticed that the answer to one clue, ‘One of the USA’, turned out to be Utah, and another answer to a clue was Omaha. These were the names, given by the Allies, to the beaches in Normandy where the American Forces were to land on D-Day.
Another answer that appeared in that month’s crossword was Mulberry. This was the name of the floating harbour that was to be towed across the Channel to accommodate the supply ships of the invasion force. Neptune another answer, referred to the code-name for the naval support for the operation.
Perhaps the most suspicious was a clue about a ‘Big-Wig’, to which the answer was Overlord. This was the code-name given for the entire operation!
Operation Overlord map
Operation Overlord and the Normandy beaches
Alarm bells rang throughout MI5 …was the crossword being used to tip-off the Germans?
Two officers were sent immediately to Leatherhead in Surrey, where a man called Leonard Dawe lived. He was the crossword compiler, a 54 year-old teacher.
Why, the officers demanded to know, had he chosen theses five words within his crossword solutions?
“Why not?” was Dawe’s indignant reply. Was there a law against choosing whatever words he liked?
MI5 eventually became convinced of Dawe’s honesty and he managed to convince them that he had no knowledge of the coming D-Day invasion.
His crossword solutions it appears were perhaps just another of life’s astonishing coincidences!

http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK...Panic-of-1944/

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by TarJak

So the pommy kiddies that read the Telegraph children's pages are Abwehr agents?

But while some members of MI5, Britain’s counter-espionage service, were whiling away their spare moments in May 1944 by doing the Telegraph Crossword, they noticed that vital code-names that had been adopted to hide the mightiest sea-borne assault of all time, appeared in the crossword.
They noticed that the answer to one clue, ‘One of the USA’, turned out to be Utah, and another answer to a clue was Omaha. These were the names, given by the Allies, to the beaches in Normandy where the American Forces were to land on D-Day.
Another answer that appeared in that month’s crossword was Mulberry. This was the name of the floating harbour that was to be towed across the Channel to accommodate the supply ships of the invasion force. Neptune another answer, referred to the code-name for the naval support for the operation.
Perhaps the most suspicious was a clue about a ‘Big-Wig’, to which the answer was Overlord. This was the code-name given for the entire operation!
Operation Overlord map
Operation Overlord and the Normandy beaches
Alarm bells rang throughout MI5 …was the crossword being used to tip-off the Germans?
Two officers were sent immediately to Leatherhead in Surrey, where a man called Leonard Dawe lived. He was the crossword compiler, a 54 year-old teacher.
Why, the officers demanded to know, had he chosen theses five words within his crossword solutions?
“Why not?” was Dawe’s indignant reply. Was there a law against choosing whatever words he liked?
MI5 eventually became convinced of Dawe’s honesty and he managed to convince them that he had no knowledge of the coming D-Day invasion.
His crossword solutions it appears were perhaps just another of life’s astonishing coincidences!

http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK...Panic-of-1944/

[Platapus]

These should be easy for GT members.

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Platapus

These should be easy for GT members.

Oh all the inappropriate jokes that makes me think of...

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

Oh all the inappropriate jokes that makes me think of...

Methinks that was the idea. Of course the answers are right there, but still...

Originally Posted by Platapus

These should be easy for GT members.

1 is Snipe and 3 is Ginger

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

1 is Snipe and 3 is Ginger

4 is Subtext and 2 is Lither.

*facedesk* And that was without noticing the answers...I just used an Internet Anagram maker. D'oh!

[Tango589]

Originally Posted by Platapus

These should be easy for GT members.

All this did was to confirm my imagination is firmly in the gutter!