sweet

I will place this obviously encoded communiqué in my bucket for future analysis. In the meantime, I will continue to eat pistachios.

Pistachios are very good for your health, but chocolate tastes better. What does he mean by mysterious wishes???

Is this, by any chance an encoded message?

I hope so!!! Who wants to figure it out with me?

awesome

Well. Where do we start?

I'll figure it out with you

The Slash between and/or could possibly be a good place to start

Let's start from the beginning, although I don't see anything mysterious or clueish.

hmmm me either.... still trying though!!

very 'mysterious'

Maybe mysterious is a scrambled word. What are they called again?

hmm maybe.... they are called anagrams

Oh. Yeah. I'll have to look. I'll get back to you on that.

I searched it online here are the anagrams I found
http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram....

All I saw that looked even remotely close was Mister You and that still doesn't really make any sense.

Maybe TLS do not stand for his initials

Does not I meant

Maybe. Do you know of any other important things either in the books or the world with those initials?

Okay, I just found Top Law Schools, Transport Layer Security, and Times Literary Supplement. Oh, and Theatrical Lighting Systems. They could all mean something though.

hmm you know how at the end of the first book on the back cover he write Mr.Benedict's first name in morse.... is there any morse or punctuation patterns?? I don't see any but maybe another pair of eyes might??

I studied morse code for a time, and I don't really see anything besides the periods. There are three, but he kind of had to have them there.

Yeah your right..... Maybe there is some kind of word pattern. He does say 'mysterious' a lot any other words??

?He uses the letter 'm' a lot?

ok sooo this is what I found... M is the 13th letter in the alphabet and every 13th word is- requested, not, friendships, own, S. (from the TLS). All of the words that start with the letter M are- many, messages, me, my, and mysterious.... I rearranged the words in the first thing and the only logical thing I got was own friendships not requested (I ignored the S) any ideas??

S could refer to a character? friendships not requested sounds right. The message by Jim might also be a clue...
continue to eat pistachios?
Obviously coded communique?

Well, let's call out to Jim then. JIM, JIM! Hopefully he will help us. But I really like the mixed words idea. What if we rearranged it even more...*thinking*...we could do 'requested friendships not my own' or 'many messages requested for friendship' There are so many options, what else could it mean? And maybe we need to narrow it down to letters instead or words. Like there is only one letter per word so the clue is altogether just one word.

Many messages requested for friendship sounds better

hmmm yeah it does checking out the letters now!!! ok so I did every 13th letter and searched anagrams and nothing I thought revelvant came up... I'm going to reply to Jim's comment to see if he answers!

hi Jim!! we think that your comment might be a clue... help please!!! If you read the comments you will see that Rashae, Josiah, and I (Frances) have been trying to figure it out. Please reply!!!

I am too busy eating these pistachios to answer your request. If I could tear myself away, I might be able to tell you something useful, but these are shelled pistachios, and consequently labor intensive.

ahhh I enjoy pistachios too. However I often eat various foods while typing as you did just a minute ago... and as it seems on the commercials for the pistachios they seem pretty easy to open. Please help us!

Spiderman. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. The Gruffalo. Sharks. Little Rock.

I've said too much.

huh??? I'm confused please help us in english!!!
and are you really 47?

Yes

hmmmm well ok I guess please help

_ .... .
_... _ _ _ _.. .
.. ...
_ .... .
._ _ _ _ _ ._. _.. ...

1E
BODE
IS
6E
WOKDS
what is that supposed to mean??

Ack. The blank spaces didn't show up! Let me try again.

_ .... .

Nope. Still no spaces. I'll put slashes.

_/..../.
_.../_ _ _/_../.
../...
_/..../.
._ _/_ _ _/._./_../...

the bode is the words... is it supposed to be code... and what do you mean by that... (help please from Rashae and Josiah!!)

the bode is the words.... hmm do you mean code not bode and what do you mean by that??

Ah yes. My pet monkey has miss-typed the "C" as a "B". This is the hazard of trying to send coded messages whilst eating pistachios.

Bad monkey.

I was trying to say that I believe the secret message is actually the literal message. Having analyzed the content every which way and then three more ways for good measure, I think the simplest explanation is simply that he means what he says. Either that, or I am lying.

hmmm well then there is always the hope that you are indeed lying... And yes I often misspell things when I am eating and typing... Does your pet monkey eat pistachios also?

He's is not allowed pistachios as he is highly allergic. While this is unfortunate for Chimchim, it is fortunate for me because it frees up his nimble fingers for typing Morse code while I am enjoying my pistachios. Of course, he is much more familiar with sending encoded messages by flashlight or tapping, hence his error in transcribing the letter "C". He is duly sorry.

oh tell Chimchim that its ok... what kind of monkey is he??

He is a Capuchin. He has a little suit.

Capuchins, in my opinion, make the best in-home monkeys.

But I would generally recommend females.