Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

Q PTSR IPRRA. JO PQMR WBI VWR VRKCRKZO VT MBPP BABXV FWRK Q’J BFBNR.---RXKRIV WRJQKEFBO

[nikos1121]

You can find this fun quotation puzzle, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. I challenge us with the best ones out there.

The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram).

Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated, you’ll be solving them all within a few days. If you’re stumped, take a break and return to it.

PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and how you made out.

You can certainly send your solution to my private reply, or if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram ASK THE GROUP FOR HELP!

I suggest printing these out and work them on paper. If you need a little help you can copy and paste it to Hal’s Helper below.

You can then work on the puzzle without using pen and paper, but I recommend that you do NOT look at the letter counter.

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One last request. Feel free to post a fun or clever clue, the more tangential to the quotation the better, but please don’t put the actual words of the quote in the clue.

[Alberta's Child]

About one minute here.

Single letter at the start. Guessed at the second word because it made sense in a very short sentence. Then the author's name kind of materialized after a few more letters were tried in other parts of the quote.

[nikos1121]

For those of you who did not decipher yesterday's, here's one last clue. Today's offered by 1-Rain-Drop 4 minutes good 3 minutes excellent 2 minutes exceptional 90 seconds superior

[MustKnowHistory]

Got a couple of vowels and the author was obvious.

Never did get yesterday’s puzzle. The author is not one I think of often.

[Magnum44]

[cartan]

Quite quick. Contraction, common letter, author, done…

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Wednesday 3/10/2021:

JS QDJPIWUS WB KMDIG DA WI SMDYB, NMY VZ LPI MIXS KZ QDJPI UMOZUQZY. ----GZBJMIG UDUD

Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):

MY HUMANITY IS BOUND UP IN YOURS, FOR WE CAN ONLY BE HUMAN TOGETHER. ----DESMOND TUTU

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[nikos1121]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

1:39.77

What could possibly go wrong?

[gundog]

It isn’t loaded.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Could have a round chambered. Always treat every firearm at all times as if it is loaded and chambered. As a matter of habit.

[gundog]

I wouldn’t presume to tell him how to treat a firearm. Pretty sure that’s from the tuna trip where he bought the gun from a doctor on board. Sharks began circling a huge tuna, and he opened up on them. In the ensuing bloody feeding frenzy, the tuna was destroyed, irking the guy that had fought it for some time.

In a different incident, his wife scolded him for setting up teacups in a Ritz Hotel fireplace to test a pair of German submachine guns he’d been gifted by Buck Lanham. He sulked off to the bathroom, and soon thereafter shot the toilet with one of them. But, I think he knew the condition of the guns at all times.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I have to admit I have slept with an M-16 in my sleeping bag, but that was to secure the weapon. As a rule, treat a weapon as if its loaded and chambered at all times. Just a good habit.

[gundog]

Yeah. EH nearly had his head taken off by a woman on a hunt. He did not forgive negligent discharges.

[Moltke]

EH nearly had his head taken off by a woman on a hunt.

A job he finished himself...meh.

[doorgunner69]

“Could have a round chambered. “

Not real familiar with that firearm?

Maybe do a bit of reading on open bolt firing cycle.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

No I am not. Are you saying it cannot have a round chambered with the magazine removed?

[doorgunner69]

No, the act of firing releases the bolt, strips a round from the magazine into the empty chamber and fires it. The bolt is held open after firing if the trigger is released, with the chamber empty.

I SUPPOSE someone “could” drop a single round into the open chamber, but there is absolutely no reason to do such a thing.

[grey_whiskers]

A little Francis Macomber action there, eh?

[gundog]

Just some dumb woman that had her safety off.