The Overnight Editor Easter Egg Hunt

NEW CLUES ADDED - SEE COMMENTS

Confession:  I laugh at my own jokes.  All the time.

People often catch me smiling to myself.  Walking along the street, chortling at my private punchlines.  I suppose it makes them think I'm weird.  I suppose they're right.  But if no-one else ever knows, and if no-one else ever gets it, I don't care - it's somewhere between idiocy and arrogance.  Can't help myself. 

Confession:  I've been doing it here.  On this blog.  All along.

Slipping things between the lines.  Bonus material, included purely for my own amusement.  Content for the cognoscenti, like hidden features on the DVD, or - if you prefer - Easter Eggs.

So - it being Easter, I present five of my old posts that have Easter Eggs in them.  Some are fairly obvious, some are pretty obscure.  See if you can find them!

A.  The gene-teller and what she told her

B.  Studded Wit

C.  Tomorrow's Happiness Today

D.  A Thousand Londons

E. 7H3 D0RK5 0F P3RC3P710N

Some Tips for this egg hunt:

1. These five are listed in increasing order of how well-hidden I think they are.

2. See how many you can uncover before you look at other people's guesses, in the comments.

3. I sometimes fiddle with my posts after I've published them, but I promise none of it affected these five Easter Eggs, which were all present in the original versions.

4. Regrettably, I included these for my own amusement, not yours... I'll be adding clues later should any prove too obscure.

5. For Mike at Troubled Diva - you already know about (D).  You can have this as a bonus point as long as you don't tell anyone else!

Answers after the Easter break. 

Comments

[jonathan]

Damn, OE, this is hard... just scoured the first two (allegedly easiest) posts for hidden dark chocolate between the lines, and... nothing, not even a miniature Cadbury's Creme Egg to be seen. I suspect my brain is functioning too literally this early in the morning to crack your hidden codes.... think I'll get off and tackle something a bit less cryptic over my breakfast, like the Daily Mirror Quizword...

Oh and I'm always glad to hear of other people who laugh at their own jokes in public, a trait to be heartily applauded in my view, and the surest sign of urbanity, civility and discernment (if they are not all the same thing).

[mike]

*curses his crap memory*

However, I do remember cracking an OE Easter Egg in another post, not mentioned here....

[isabelle]

How I love how your mind works !

Or maybe I am on the complete wrong track?

I wonder if they are all mixed up genetic, phrophetic little easter eggs? Or just some of them ?

1.Rosalind Elsie, not just a fortune teller, but a pioneer in the double helix stuff.
2.Jerry Cornelius? to do with the rooftop gardens? A secret agent , all things to all people?
3.Is the clue in the title?
4.Kwisatz Haderach: from Dune, 'the one who can be many places at once'...bridging time and space.
5.The hidden face, but that is too easy?

I want to think about this all day, but I have to go out .

[Peach]

What's your email address? I will email what I got...

[emma]

Oh bugger, I cannot even understand the question. Will go and stand in corner with a Dunces hat on. I think I might have been able to make the effort if you've been giving away a prize like a big chocolate egg or lager for life or summat.

[Marcos]

maddening stuff, this. I've got around to reading the first one so far. the bin liner.... this guy refuses to wear a condom...? maybe. I'm not a success at cryptic crosswords, and this seems harder.

[Marcos]

no salsa: he's rubbish in bed; drives too fast: premature ejaculator; and refuses to wear a bin-liner.

[overnighteditor]

Sticking to the answers so far:

Mike:

Yes, that was another one!

Isabelle:

A. ALMOST THERE! but still a little more to find...
B. No, simpler than that.
C. No, it's not in the title.
D. CORRECT! but what specific allusion am I making?
E. No, there's another one.

Marcos:

A. No, wrong track. The Easter Eggs are all "additional" to the story told in the post, not simply more of the same story. Think "DVD hidden extras" rather than "DVD Directors Cut"

[Callisto]

Is one of them the Prince Albert reference? I feel so dense. I laugh at my own jokes too, but mine are sooo less subtle.

[Oe]

Callisto - yes! but there is still a little more of that egg to find.

[Peach]

OK have mailed, is a bit long winded, hence mail and not comment...

[irishflirtysomething]

Wow you take this blog this very seriously for a man who laughs at his own jokes. Impressed at the Easter egg hunt, won't humiliate myself by getting it wrong.

[overnighteditor]

OK - some clues:
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1. What are the names of the five characters mentioned this post? Isabelle has already spotted one of them.

2. This egg also relates to names. Callisto has spotted one of them, but there are three more to find.

3. Study this post. It's not so much what's in it, but what isn't (or isn't much, anyway).

4. Isabelle has pretty much got this one. There is a tiny bit of egg still to find. What specific allusion am I making?

5. This is far and away the hardest egg to find. It is a very specific literary allusion - to a specific passage in a specific book!

[Peach]

I'm going back to Andre's Beautiful Revolution and feeling lost...

[overnighteditor]

Peach - thanks for your e-mail, I've replied.

[Callisto]

Haha, Christina, Isabella and Nefertiti - ouch, ouch and ouch.

[Beth]

I'm not bright enough for things like this...but its a good idea for a post.

[TSP]

I am also lousy at cryptic crosswords, but here are my nul points shots:

A. One of them has to be Noemie Lenoir.

B. No idea at all but thought of the Professionals meeting the Day of the Jackal.

C. You mentioned alcohol and drugs, so I starting thinking about depression. And love.

D. Not sure how this fits with Dune, but you said something in Polish like "Never let me go", the title of a Kazuo Ishiguro book.

E. Aldous Huxley.

[Callisto]

Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine and Guanine, very GATTACA

[Overnight]

Congratulations Callisto and Isabelle (who has separately found egg E). full answers late tonight. OE.

[Tim Stannard]

My brain is currently in the fridge, defrosting after a week in the deep freeze, so I haven't a clue what you're on about with any of this.
Do I get a prize for being the crappest?