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BRICK JOTS
I've got a brick jot that's a 1968 original. It's photographed below. Since you have already read ROYAL ANAGRAMS tab, and the HOME tab, you will assume at this tab that a union bricklayer put this brick jot there in Riverdale GA since Alexei Romanov's son (Dad) was building the house. As you see, it looks like the old McDonald's logo that was still in use in 1968 when this brick was installed at the house. The Big Mac was introduced that same year also. Brick jots go way, way back. A fictitious one was featured in the film National Treasure (2005), and I've put the video clip on this page. AFTER you check out the old brick postcards (1908-1911) here, and a few other photos below, click on the brick that's directly beneath this text box to go to more information about the jots.
Nicholas Cage in National Treasure has deciphered the hidden code on back of the Declaration of Independence. In this scene, he has found the marked brick that holds another clue to the 'greatest treasure of all treasures.' If you've seen the film, the hint about Egyptology started on back of the U.S. $1 dollar bills and the all knowing eye.
Their film props were amazing.
Here's another photo of my jot at the back patio double-doors, circled in yellow.
At the McDonald brick jot in Riverdale, with some paper and graphite, you can create a 'rub' of the brick, just like the brass rubbings in England, and stone rubbings in China. The image above was made from the Riverdale jot, and is upside down here. Liquid latex works too. Check out The Mighty Mighty Bosstones video from their 1-27-1997 album Let's Face It.
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A few WORD SEARCH puzzles about the jot.
And the puzzle above? Sure... Here's a movie clip of that version from a blockbuster film released November 4, 2001.
As you see from the movie clips and the WORD SEARCH 'hoopla' so far, brick jots have been used for years. Here are a few postcards dated from 1908-1911.
Lots of secrets!!
As you see from those rectangular purple graphics in the illustration above, and the anagram that I added to this kid's 45LP from 1966, the cryptic message is "USING THEM JOTS."
And here I am with the dog, the jot, and a bit of 'jot' merchandising... which was red wine in a box marked down at Kroger. Click on the dog's nose to go to the top of this page, and then click that brick if you're interested in more discoveries about brick jots.
And the perfect complement (with an 'e') to the McDonald brick jot, actress Senta Berger. If this face were in that classic American TV game show Concentration, the answer would be "Sent a Burger." The word for that type of cryptic code is 'rebus.' Senta Berger was Elsa in The Secret Ways (1961), Serena in The Spy With My Face (1964), Filli in When Women had Tails (1970), Sara Grimaldi in Puzzle (1974), and Clara in The Two Lives of Mattai Pascal (1985).
LAYORLIAR is all about 'royal' and 'genealogy,' and so it does make sense that British slang makes much ado about 'brick' too. We still keep getting ours, which was installed in the house of Robert Thomas Hollis Jr. in 1968:
Here's the brick again, on the right. On the left is that crypto currency you can get to with a mining rig called BITCOIN. Enough said.
Oops! Wrong page for this photo. But you remember anagrams. "WILL MILK KEN H." for Col. Klink's anagram is probably a better version for this page.