Posted on 12/22/2025 3:39:14 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
MCDZO DFQJQTRG TS LIDZJ VTTPG KZU VD FDXQLCJSHX, VHJ MCDZO DFQJQTRG TS LIDZJ KDR ZID ZVGTXHJDXU FDJDGJZVXD. -- TGMZI EQXFD
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TULUSGUQ RA V SCMZJ CY RMBRZVZRCMSolution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):ZC YCQDUZ CWQAUIBUA RM ZJU
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DECEMBER IS A MONTH OF INVITATION TO FORGET OURSELVES IN THE SERVICE OF OTHERS. — ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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This was a tough one. Author was a little sweet, I heard.
What Bob Woodward tried to do to President Trump is an example …..
He was also known for stealing other people's witticisms. He was a good friend of James McNeil Whistler, and replied to one of Whistler's barbs, "I wish I had said that!" to which Whistler replied, "You will, TGMZI, you will."
Great example. The all time classic is John Forbes Kerry (JFK, get it?), who volunteered for small boat duty while serving on a destroyer, and took a typewriter to “document” his war experiences. He thought he would be the next incarnation of JFK, then found that the political mood had turned antiwar so he was became a different kind of hypocrit. One of history’s biggest jerks.
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