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Ryme has given us a small hint about an undiscovered merit badge.
Thanks to CTID for the log:

Mad Hamish: I asked Ryme for a clue for an undiscovered merit badge.

Mad Hamish: He replied "poetry"

Kinks: the ass kissing badge?

CTID: ooh do tell!

Mad Hamish: I teased him for his conciseness and he said "m"

CTID: m = 13th letter of alphabet, sonnets have 13 lines?

Mad Hamish: It's very cryptic, but that's what we've got

Ryme: which is a concise mmmm

Ryme: or mm-hm

Mad Hamish: ah, well then...

Ryme: you've still got "poetry".

Ryme: and breakfast at Tiffany's. That's one thing we've still got.

Mad Hamish: I swear, I think I remember the film

CTID: book, film or song ryme?

Ryme: no more hints for today, sorry.

Mad Hamish: how about some red herrings?

CTID is searching wikipedia for poetry

Ryme: well, you can look into that M if you want

That was the "hint".

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That was the small discussion. Now I don't know why I didn't look at it before because it is quite logical but I just thought of it today.
If you have done the right quest you will have the bard's play in your inventory. It discription reads as follows:

This is the complete works of The Bard. No, not Shakespeare. That would be much too heavy. This is the contemporary bard. His complete works only extend five pages. But just from glancing at those pages you can tell five pages is plenty. For one thing, he appears to have tried to one-up his predecessor by writing in iambic hexameter. While you were surprised to find that's actually a valid poetic format, it's still a silly thing to do.

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I think the iambic hexameter is the key to the new badge. It is sort of a mathematical form of poetry if I understand it correctly. I hear ryme has a thing for math and it is complicated enough. Maybe this is it.

Here is the wiki to read more about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexameter

I think that somewhere in the game there will be something that qualifies as one of these "iambic hexameters" and that will be the key to find the badge.

What are your thoughts on this?

Since noone else has posted. Here is idea #2:

The hint ryme gave was poetry. Now the description of the eagle feather happens to be:

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eagle feather

I wrote a poem, once:

Eagle feather,
Regal leather,
Beagle weather,
Smeagol tether.

Like it?
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This item is very likely to be giving a hint about the new badge since it has no use in the game that has been discovered so far. And ofcourse it has a cute poem in it's description.

Now nobody really knows exactly what it means. But I and many others think there is a good chance the regal leather, beagle weather and smeagol tether describe certain items needed. Here are some of the items we thought could be meant:

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Regal leather:

cube theater item made of leather, jerkin, snug breeches?

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beagle weather

most people think it is sky water. But tonight I came up with another one.

Pinata:
For no reason, you begin humming to yourself:

If you like your pinatas, and fighting crime in the rain. If you're not into burglary, if you can take an ounce of pain. If you like saving lives at midnight, wearing boots and a cape, I'm the hero you've looked for, write to me, and escape.

Note: the description rhymes, there is talk of rain and the pinata resembles an animal that might even be a beagle.

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smeagol weather

Trylon strap (most people think it is this)

remainder cell phone
I came up with this one last night. It's a little hard to come up with and probably not it but it was an interesting idea nevertheless. Heres why I thought it was a possibility. But ofcourse it does not explain the smeagol part.

Tether
This term is sometimes used in North America to describe using the Internet through a handheld or personal computer connected to a cell phone via a cable or Bluetooth DUN connection.

You mean like leeched liquid, potion of the indoors, and potion of invisibility?

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The churches are empty / The priest has gone home / And we are left standing / Together alone
--October Project: "Dark Time"

/me stifles a slight laugh.

Poor mischal. She got ya on that one, man.

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I've won the 100k DD bet so many times, I should have the title "Mr. Luck"

There are plenty of items that do nothing but combine with other items -- glob of goo comes to mind -- but how many actually do nothing? Kindling?

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Jesus (#229) | Solitude (#257)

As far as I know, kindling's the only item that does nothing (not counting various things that exist to be sold: double half-large, gold coin, etc.)

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The churches are empty / The priest has gone home / And we are left standing / Together alone
--October Project: "Dark Time"

I know my theories are not 100%. But I'm trying different stuff in the hopes of getting somewhere eventually. let's keep on the topic.

Also of note is the rail gun, which reads

"To misquote an oft-quoted poet, with this thing you can "rail against the frying of the light." Except that since you're doing the frying, I guess you'd rather support it than rail against it."

in its description, a reference to this poem.

Another thought is that "smeagol tether" refers to some sort of ring, as a reference to Lord of the Rings. The items that mention rings are e-rings and the laser macrodiode

As I told chat earlier: The Rail Gun "misquotes" Do not go gentle into that good night

Which contains alot of stuff that you could use to denote items in this game.

Ok folks....
I know that I'm a noob around here, but I get the feeling you may be barking up the wrong tree.
I was on chat for a little while last night when the topic of the new badge came up.
Well, in registering for forum access, I did a player search for Ryme. I found several accounts with "Ryme" as part of the account name. The most intriguing was the one named "Ryme of the Ancient Mariner", a slight misspelling of an old poem.
From what I hear the search for the new badge has been going on for about a month now. This account is just a bit over a month old, has no chips, and appears to have never been played.
Of course, this may all just be coincidence, so I'm going to google M + poetry for a while...

Enjoy!

... yea... I think that might have been while a bunch of people were messing around and registering silly names.

So... the description for the moped is a poem and it begins with m...

No. Ryme has confirmed that that was not a serious hint and that he was only joking.