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Beefie
18 May 10 16:31
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Some of you may have seen my post of a few days ago "Parson's Code & Mystic Meg".  Well sadly, I have to report that after some early initial success I have managed to pick 14 losers in a row.

This has got me thinking that I should convert it into a laying system.  The question is, which laying system is it best aligned with.  I've done some research and come up with Maria's Laying System, which seems to be very successful and gets a lot of coverage on this site and elsewhere.  But, I've noticed that there appears to be quite a lot of debate around whether or not she actually got the prices on the lays that she claimed.  Some have alleged that it was all a marketing extravaganza for EBA.  So before I get involved, I thought I'd run it through Musipedia using Parson's Code and see whether or not the omens look good.

For those who didn’t see the post, Parson's code (search Musipedia), is a method for coding tunes. Humming the tune, if a note goes up it's u, d if it goes down and r for the same note.  So Twinkle twinkle little star would be *rururddrdrdrd.  So if you've got a tune in your head and can't remember what it's called you can search on Musipedia by putting in the udr coding, and it will give you the options for what it could be.

So my original method was to encode the names of the horses on the day’s card into Parson’s code.  I would do that by spelling out the horses name and saying that if the next letter in the name is further down the alphabet it's an up, if it's lower it's a down.  The same letter gives you a repeat (r).

So taking a horse that stood out a few days ago: Golden Shine 1.50 Newb, that codes up to *UDDUUUDUUD.

Now, I discover that Maria’s full name is Maria Santonix, and this codes up to *DUDDUDUUDDDU

If I put that into Musipedia I get some interesting results.

The first song it identifies is: The Police: Roxanne, “Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light Those days are ove...”

Now considering Roxanne’s occupation and the fact that the third song it identifies is Bryant (Everly Brothers / Simon & Garfunkel): “Bye bye love”, do you think I’m being overly superstitious, or am I right to give it a swerve?
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Report tobermory • May 18, 2010 6:45 PM BST
Confused
Report Beefie • May 18, 2010 7:03 PM BST
Tobermory

It's reasonably straight forward. e.g. your name TOBERMORY codes as: *DDUUDUUU

Put that into Musipedia and you get: Paul Simon (Simon & Garfunkel): America

Or:  Gerry Rafferty: Baker Street

Take your pick
Report tobermory • May 18, 2010 7:05 PM BST
good songs Grin
Report Beefie • May 18, 2010 7:31 PM BST
I'm definitely going to give this a miss.  If I invert the coding for Maria Santonix, (i.e. I go down instead of up and vice versa), that codes for: *UDUUDUDDUUUD

First song up for that is: Lennon-McCartney (Beatles): I'm looking through you
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