SOURCE OF CRYPTIC REFERENCE TO FILMMAKER KUBRICK A MYSTERY `2001' STREET MARKERS MYSTIFY.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: ROB HIAASEN Baltimore Sun

BALTIMORE Do the words, ``Toynbee Ideas in Kubrick's 2001 Resurrect Dead on Planet Jupiter'' mean anything to you?

The cryptic words are on at least seven street markers on streets in downtown Baltimore. These aren't manhole covers or spray-painted graffiti; these are shoe-box-sized markers with black engraved letters. They're permanent.

No one knows how or when the street markers got there or exactly what the words mean. Their existence stumped folks at the Maryland Institute of Art, the Baltimore Film Forum and the city's Public Works department. Even Baltimore filmmaker John Waters has never heard of these markers.

Hundreds of people and cars pass over them every day. To see the markers, you'd have to look closely at the …