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Today’s Cryptogram

Posted on 02/12/2024 5:09:10 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy

TJOMT VFY KDY LJTK VLVXHUB VFKHOSY JA OSJKDHUB. KDYR DVKY KDYHF SHNYT. KDYR'FY HU KDY TDJYT EHKD TKHUMR AYYK, KDY CJFHUB ZFVEYFT. KDY ZFRYF HT KDYHF JUSR ODVUOY KJ YTOVGY VUZ KDYR VSS MUJE HK. — IYFFR TYHUAYSZ


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: pic
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 02/12/2024 5:09:10 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; Avoiding_Sulla; babyfreep; ..

Enjot today’s cryptogram


2 posted on 02/12/2024 5:09:51 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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3 posted on 02/12/2024 5:12:04 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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4 posted on 02/12/2024 5:25:12 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

The only thing male bees do is have sex with the queen.


5 posted on 02/12/2024 5:44:53 AM PST by scrabblehack
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True, but not with their own hive’s queen, has to be with queens from another hive. I’m a beekeeper, by the way.

Question: I’m not complaining, but what made you post about honeybees? (asklig for a friend)


6 posted on 02/12/2024 5:56:29 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Great cartoon - a keeper


7 posted on 02/12/2024 5:58:18 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Magnum44

Oooooo, YES. I like your image better than mine, it fits the quote better.


8 posted on 02/12/2024 5:58:34 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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9 posted on 02/12/2024 5:58:40 AM PST by Baldwin77 (DJ & JD 2024 (Trump-Vance))
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Using your cartoon as a baseline, here's the next one in order ...

But I thought this one was cute ...


10 posted on 02/12/2024 6:13:47 AM PST by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Think of that great feeling you get when the number of socks that come out of the dryer equals the number of socks that went into the washer.


11 posted on 02/12/2024 8:53:33 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

I was a beekeeper for many years. I miss it so much.


12 posted on 02/12/2024 9:19:40 AM PST by gitmo
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Mine have it particularly bad. Whew.


13 posted on 02/12/2024 9:20:55 AM PST by gitmo
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Look at the author’s screen credits.


14 posted on 02/12/2024 3:26:12 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy
Previous puzzle Sunday, February 11, 2024

R EFWRFNF GKQG Q EQT AZSFJ EUVW KQWMGRIF AKUV RA AGRWW EFGGFJ GKQO Q AUXXFJ BQIF. - JUO VKRGF
Solution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):

I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game. - Ron White

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

15 posted on 02/13/2024 4:53:12 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Bee Movie - he voiced a male worker bee.


16 posted on 02/14/2024 12:51:28 PM PST by scrabblehack
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Ahhhhh, now I understand what you were saying. I had forgotten that was him. Back when that movie was in theaters and all the kids were going to see it, I was volunteering at the after-school Boys and Girls Club and taught them about honey bees. With a grant we bought a big beautiful observation hive that we installed on the wall in the rec room. The bees could fly outside through a plexiglass tube. I had a terrible time trying to explain to the kids why the movie had drone bees doing all the work.


17 posted on 02/15/2024 3:16:13 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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