Rhythmic Robot new product: Crack the riddle, win the thing!

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Just updating the website now... the moment it's done, I promise to reveal all
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Well, I promised you answers, so here you go…

MONGO'S ODE: THE SOLUTION!


First of all, congratulations to our lucky winners! They sweated blood and tears, and though they may bear the mental scars of wrestling with Mongo, they at least have shiny new toys to show for it. Tomislav won the Grand Prize of any of our line-up of products, plus the New Thing. Then Charles and Matt got runners-up prizes of the New Thing. Finally, Christian and Doug got the answer so close to each other that we've decided to award them both the New Thing as well. That's the kind of nice scientists we are.

Many thanks to all you good sports who took part. We've loved your comments. Admittedly, many of those comments have been along the lines of, "I will hunt you down for doing this to me". But we loved those too. And it was interesting that when people won something, they completely changed their tune, and were all "This was the best promo ever!"

Sooo… I guess you want to know what Mongo's Ode was all about, eh? All right, keep your hair on. Here goes.

MONGO'S ODE REVISITED

That ancient swift-winged messenger
So we start with a female messenger of the gods. Not Hermes, not Mercury, cos they're blokes. You need to go Greek, not Roman, too.
The daughter of the light
Perhaps the daughter of Electra? Electra light, geddit?
Who onetime paced across the sky
And sang dispatches from on high
Cos she was messenger of the gods, right...
Her footsteps burning bright
Okay, you should have her by now. It's Iris, Greek messenger of the gods and all-round hot tottie.

Now joins the swiftest from below
Swiftest from below… that would be below the sky, then. What's the fastest creature on the earth?
In reckless wondrous dance
And tattoo’d patterns weaving round
Now, tattoo'd patterns could be tattoo'd on skin, or they COULD be tattoo'd on something else. Another meaning of tattoo?
Keep step with vaults of pulsing sound
Well, the original meaning of "tattoo" was a complex rhythm beat out on a drum. You beat a tattoo on a drum, and you program a drum machine PATTERN in STEP time
Infusing their romance
Aww, they're in love!

The taste of this forbidden love
Is nectar to the bold
And sampling each forbidden bite
In-joke. Sampling is of course what we do here at Rhythmic Robot. Bite? 8 bits = a byte, and this is an 8-bit drum machine we're talking about here...
They dance away along the light
Something about light again here...
Toward their hidden gold.
Where do you find hidden gold?
At the end of the rainbow. Which is made of light, coloured light. Lots of colours of light. Which is also what Iris means: the spectrum of colours in the rainbow.
So we've got…
…an 8-bit drum machine.
Something to do with a rainbow of colours – in other words, the spectrum of visible light.
So this 8-bit drum machine is a marriage between a spectrum and the fastest creature on the earth –
– the cheetah.

Which makes our product the amazingly retro, gloriously 8-bit
CHEETAH SPECDRUM FOR THE SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM
…the perfect marriage of Spectrum and Cheetah!

So congrats again to our winners, Big Hugs to our gallant losers, and do come along to see what all the fuss has been about right here: http://www.rhythmicrobot.com/page0/page10/page30/index.html