Today’s Cryptogram

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

FSVO TCGBSVC VRUCOMNYH ARCVY'O AR LMBO WRS DJBYYCA NO OR AR ARCVY'O UCBY NO'V SVCJCVV. — OMRUBV B. CANVRY

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

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.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Have fun with today’s cryptogram and have a MARVELOUS MONDAY.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

An interesting example of the quote:

Coca-Cola was originally created as a way to counter morphine addiction. It’s inventor, Dr John Pemberton, became addicted to morphine after a pretty serious injury in the Battle of Columbus. As a pharmacist, Pemberton created his own addiction cure made out of alcohol and coca leaf extract. The drink was then offered as an alternative to morphine, to help relieve headaches and anxiety. No longer using coca, but plenty of sugar and a series of very clever global marketing strategies, Coca-Cola is now one of the most well known products in the world!

[mad_as_he$$]

Very little of the Coke available in the US has “sugar” in it. HFCS is the main sweetener. Track sown some “Mexico” coke in glass re-useable bottles if you want “sugar” in your drink.

[scrabblehack]

Genius is one percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration
— Today’s author

If he had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.
— Nikolai Tesla on today’s author.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Sunday, March 5, 2023

LXY YNX GSHIWPXHYWDK IAJH WHI YNX DXFXD AG XFXUTYNEHL TAS IA JEDD UEKX - PEONWXD QAUIWH

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

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise – Michael Jordan

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[grey_whiskers]

[Magnum44]

So this guy was, in a way, responsible for the Dominion voting machine disaster we face today....his early, less popular version:

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/utilize#:~:text=%3A%20to%20make%20use%20of%20%3A%20turn%20to%20practical%20use%20or%20account

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It is interesting that he was working on device to improve the speed of telegraph lines when he hit upon the idea of voice recording. He trying to build a device that would record an operator’s signal in what today would be called “real-time” and then play it back speeded up. The faster recording would be sent over a telegraph line, where it would recorded, and played back at the speed at which it was recorded. It occurred to him that the same device could record natural sounds, including, it turned out, the nursery rhyme “Mary had a little lamb”.

[Baldwin77]

However, sometimes it actually is:

[ComputerGuy]

Like some of my old code. Its only use is to serve as a negative example.

[A_perfect_lady]

I wonder how many people cracked that code, and then looked over at their spouse and thought, “Yeah, I guess.”

[MustKnowHistory]

Thank you!

[gitmo]

Sildenafil was originally developed by Pfizer for the treatment of high blood pressure and angina pectoris. During the heart clinical trials, researchers discovered that the drug was more effective at inducing erections than treating angina. They began marketing it to combat erectile dysfunction under the brand name Viagra.