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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. 

   HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

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.

1 posted on 01/21/2022 4:00:06 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Among the dumbest quotes I’ve ever heard.

From The Arkansas Gazette

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2 posted on 01/21/2022 4:01:27 AM PST by nikos1121
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I started with the one-letter word and the word after the second comma. I could piece together the rest after that.

-PJ

16 posted on 01/21/2022 6:28:13 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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“Come on-a my house, my house, I’m gonna give you candy
Come on-a my house, my house, I’m gonna give a you
Apple a plum and apricot-a too eh”


17 posted on 01/21/2022 6:31:35 AM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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21 posted on 01/21/2022 6:48:20 AM PST by Stars&StripesNE
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Yeah, what a dumb idea.


24 posted on 01/21/2022 8:28:10 AM PST by enumerated
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28 posted on 01/21/2022 6:01:42 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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