Today's Cryptogram

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

SEMCZG BP TMSMG SR OEZXYJBHZ, UBDRSEQ, MVJ VMEERF-WBVJZJVZPP, MVJ WMVQ RT RYE OZROGZ VZZJ BS PREZGQ RV SKZPZ MHHRYVSP. UERMJ, FKRGZPRWZ, HKMEBSMUGZ CBZFP RT WZV MVJ SKBVDP HMVVRS UZ MHAYBEZJ UQ CZDZSMSBVD BV RVZ GBSSGZ HREVZE RT SKZ ZMESK MGG RVZ'P GBTZSBWZ. - WMEL SFMBV

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

If you need a clue ask the group to send you a letter to your private reply.

4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior

Today’s should be a lay up. Very easy!

[ComputerGuy]

Get out and about

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[Yossarian]

It took me 4 minutes to solve it, and 5 minutes to read it...

[Magnum44]

[Magnum44]

[arthurus]

The Republican leadership has gone into opposition to prevent Republican judges. I knew Thune was a Squish as the brits call them, well before he became the Senate Majority Leader. Anything to lessen the damage to the Democrats.

[gitmo]

That one was very difficult for me. :-(

[BlueLancer]

And by the time it's over, you're ready to gouge out your eardrums with a fork ...

[manna]

Thanks.

[nikos1121]

Good quotation today. At first I didn’t quite uderstand it after recognizing the author.

Would be interesting if these great minds were alive today.

[doorgunner69]

Then, again, there are inner citiy areas.where this does not apply

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I believe the quote is from Innocents Abroad, his first book, and the one that made his reputation and fame.