CRYPTOGRAM OF THE DAY # 1 Aug-11/2006

[How Brown]

Hey gang....me again...

Here's another new extra on the site for you all to enjoy.


This is a statement which is of importance in regard to the Whitechapel Murders...


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X W D--- E H V--- Z M H M B--- G W Z M


B G Q C H M F E H J J X--- M C H M--- Z E W M J H V L-- X H T L


F Z--- T B H J J X--- V W--- N F Z B T--- W V--- M C B


Z D I P B E M--- M C H V--- F M-- N H Z--- K F K M B B V


X B H T Z--- H R W...............


One clue....since I love everyone here:rolleyes: ....is that it isn't from the 19th Century.

[How Brown]

Okay,okay...I made a goof by not separating the letters.

Its fixed.

See if you can solve it now.....

[Robert Linford]

You can state most emphatically that Scotland Yard is really no wiser on the subject than it was fifteen years ago.

Robert

[How Brown]

Yeah?

And I will state it most emphatically that you ain't permitted to participate in cryptogram contests for the rest of your life,sor.;)

You got the answer faster than it took for me to put it together.....:cry:

Nice one buddy...very nice.

[How Brown]

Lets try this again....:rolleyes:


"VON--GMFNQIV--FK--QFVK--KMNZPV--JA--KEI--VAZEXI

MI--TOIQDV--KZ--UFFKMPV'-QFKIVK--QJEXI....

KMI--QFKKIN--VFTV,---POKM--FEXNT--VAOKI...

VON--GMFNQIV--SOS--PNZEX--PMIE--ME--SOS--PNOKI !!!"

[Robert Linford]

"Sir Charles at last throws up the sponge
He yields to Matthews' latest lunge
The latter says, with angry spite
Sir Charles did wrong when he did write!!!"

[How Brown]

"Robert Charles as usual picked up the sponge
He romps in How Brown's latest plunge...
The latter says, with angry spite..
Whatsamatta for the rest of youse,can't youse write?:rolleyes:

Glad I ain't having to fork over money to the winner in this comp.;)

Once again...nice work Robert...you rotten sonofa#&*%!:cry:

[admin tim]

Howard:

I TOLD you this latest contest was too easy. I suggested encrypting them in Hindustani in Braille, but did you listen? Noooooo......:banghead:

[How Brown]

Tim:

Time to play God.:judge:

Please disable the function on Robert's account,so that mere mortals can participate in the Cryptogram of The Week....and he can't see the thread.

Sorry Robert....you are,but we ain't..playin' with a full deck.:)

Or....maybe if Robert will kindly email the answer to me....just to keep a level playing field.

[Robert Linford]

How, Tim

I promise to sit the next one out.

Besides, if it's going to be in Braille Hindustani, that will slash my chances anyway.:)

Robert

[How Brown]

No Robert.....that was a joke !

If you get the answer,I'll state so on the thread....but by all means compete.

Just email the answer....so the other folks get a chance. You're too good....so far.

Next cryptogram in Aryan "Sanskrit".....an unwritten language.

Heh heh heh....:D Lets see how smart ya are now,Mr.Highpants.

[Robert Linford]

Hi How

Just as long as it's not on an Aldis lamp.

Robert

[How Brown]

Alright folks....here you go.

X--RKE--FDXWG--EDNMNXEGY--RZGJ--EGNOGKJW--WZXPCG--PKVVGY--AG--LT--WZG--JKAG--IH--VGKWZGN--KMNIJ

Robert...Please email the answer....thanks !:thumbsupbud:

[Nina Brown]

I was quite surprised when sergeant Thicke called me by the name of leather apron.

Nina :)

[Robert Linford]

Nina, I think you beat me by 5 minutes.

How, now you've got to do another one.

Robert

[How Brown]

Thatsamygirl !!! :thumbsupbud:

Along with her gorgeousisity ( yeah...thats a word.) she's got brains...

Robert was correct too.

Okay...now we have someone to compete with Robert.

Here comes another one.....

[How Brown]

VDM---PJO---WKDWEIZQKD---RO---WVXO---PK---RVZ---PJVP--

JO---VDM---JQZ---AOKAEO---ROCO---EKG---WEVZZ---HORZ

Hit it gang !

[Nina Brown]

Robert,

How has to make these more difficult!

And the conclusion we came to was that he and his people were low class jews.

Howie,

Should I mail mine in too?

Nina ;)

[How Brown]

Nina:

....as long as you come in the envelope with the answer:smoker:



Okay...Its either make 'em harder....or use Spanish....or that click, click, bloody click language of the Hottentots.

[Robert Linford]

Ha! I was asleep in bed when that one went up.

Just remember, How. No Aldis lamps.

Robert

[How Brown]

I guess to make it fair....send me the answers....so other people get a chance....and the time differential won't be a factor.

[How Brown]

Here ya go....


GXBN---IWQQN---LXR---UMBAWC---XS---STW---WODWHRW--

EY--DXBART---IWWDWB---LAQSEH

Please email the answers to me to give the mere mortals or them whats slow on finding this post a chance...

Thanks...

[How Brown]

Well that didn't take too long....:rolleyes:

Mr. Cryptogram himself,R.C.Linford,sent in the correct answer.

Anyone else ?

[How Brown]

Well...no one seems to have cracked the latest one....except,of course my Nina:rolleyes: ....and Robert Linford.

Mary Kelly was buried at the expense of parish keeper Wilton.

Congrats to Nina....and Robert.;)

[How Brown]

Okay smartypants Linford....

Try this one on for size.

18--24--3 ** 8--22--3--6 ** 4--24--7--4 **

8--3--25--25--11 ** 24--7--15 ** 16--3--3--22 **

25--5--21--5--22--19 ** 6--5--4--24 **

7 * 10--7--22 * 7--22--15 *
4--24--7--4

4--24--3--11 ** 24--7--15 **

2--20--7--13--3-25--25-3--15



7--16--17--20--4 ** 4--3--22 ** 15--7--11--18**

18--5--22--1--3


How you like dem apples,Robert? Goin' all Zodiac-like on you this time....Ha ha !!!

[How Brown]

Folks:

Of course, Robert and Nina answered correctly..:cry: :cry:

I will post the answer at a later date.

Not only did Robert get the right answer....he pointed out where I misspelled one of the words !!:cry:



You are a special man,Mister Linford...and you are a special lady,Nina.;)

[admin tim]

Hindustani in Braille, I tell you. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[How Brown]

Hey ! Forget the cryptograms pal....

Fix my pooch or I go back to that other avatar...:mob:

[How Brown]

Answer to the last one......

She knew that Kelly had been living with a man and that they had quarrelled about ten days since.

As usual,the answers were quickly supplied by Robert and Nina.

Nice job.:bowdown:

[How Brown]

Okay gang......time to try this again with a twist....

The following could have been a letter written to the police.....it wasn't....but it could have been.

C H Z Q---C G W---U Q X Q---T L M Q---R G X F G R W---G F B

---R J X V D H---R J Y---F H Y---S J L Y Q---G C

---B G A A Q X.......

U Q X Q---P J C Y---Y U H---F L E Q---P Q U L C D---R H W C

W H J X C--- Y X J T W

C J F C D L F Q---G F B---C F G A A Q X


P.S....Robert.....I didn't missspel any werds this time. No fear.:thumbsupbud:

[How Brown]

Robert....answered it...within...10 minutes.:cry:

What do I have to do to stump this guy !!!:banghead:

Answer will appear later on....to give the mortals a chance.

Good going Robert..:thumbsupbud:

[admin tim]

Hindustani in Braille, I tell you. :banghead:

By Grey Hunter's criteria, Robert MUST be a Ripper Authority Extreme, for it is evident that he has way too much time on his hands. That, plus he takes less time to solve them that Howard does to create them.

Just one of the reasons that I changed the name to Cryptogram of the Day. Hour, maybe? :smoker:

[How Brown]

Tim:

Yeah, thats it...lets make Robert feel invincible while I sweat bullets trying to stump him. Thanks pal...thanks a lot:mob:

The next one I make will require Robert to have to use a mirror as it will be written backwards.

We'll bring him back down to earth...one way or the udder....

[How Brown]

Naturally Nina and Robert Charles Einstein got the correct answer...:thumbsupbud:

Some say we're like Barnaby and Burgho but not quite as dapper.....

We're just two nice Jewish boys....

Sunshine and Snapper !

Israel Sunshine and Emmanuel Snapper....

These momsers were part of a fight that Diemshutz and probably Kozebrodsky engaged in during March of 1889.

[How Brown]

Alright you pencil pushing peeps...

Lets try it again:



M---SODPWOA---UKO---JHJKPSR---BTPD---UKO---QOBU

KHEA---PB---UKO---AOJOHROA

Good luck....:thumbsupbud:

[Magpie]

I removed the cachous from the left hand of The Deceased...

[How Brown]

Well,well,well....:smoker:

Looks like Robert Charles Schopenhauer and Nina Tesla have their work cut out for them in the future.

16 minutes is almost as fast as the speed of Linford:judge:

Way to go Magpie !! Nice job.:clap:

I tossed in "cachous" to throw you folks off....and as I see,it worked. For 16 minutes.:cry:

Damn you people !!!:guns:

[Robert Linford]

How, you could always try Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.

[How Brown]

Fred and Ginger send this to you,sor...

Lets see how long it takes you or anyone else to answer this one.


TDHP...LIICF....PDX...VICNBX...HZX...N...XWXK...YN WX...PDXA

PDX...KHAX...IL...PDX...FPZXXT...TDXZX...N...HM... CNWNKY !!!

[How Brown]

Well....same as it ever was....Robert Linford already answered this one. Within 5 minutes of posting:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: !!!!!!!!

I had to go into the kitchen to see if he was looking over my shoulder.

You are amazing Robert.

[How Brown]

Not only did Nina Thomas also correctly answer it.....she,as did Robert,pointed out two errors in the message.

Its nott liek I cat'n spell,its just I maed a couple of errrors in putting the thig up. My apologies Nina and Robet.

:o

What fools the police are I even gave them the name of the

street where I am living!!!

[How Brown]

Okay folks....here's this week's two minute exercise for Robert and Nina...



P--GJHHEGE--LEJ--VZMW--VWZAT--ZSEJC--CVW--DJATWA--PF

TEASGWC---GCAWWC



Good luck...:thumbsupbud:

[Magpie]

P--GJHHEGE--LEJ--VZMW--VWZAT--ZSEJC--CVW--DJATWA--PF

TEASGWC---GCAWWC



[SIZE=2]Good luck[/SIZE
]:

I suppose you have heard about the murder in dorset street ?

There might be an error in there somewhere, How--otherwise it becomes "supposo"

[How Brown]

Hey!! Così dimentichisi a questo proposito! Sono più stupido di
una scatola di martelli! ..... settimane in una fila
ho sbagliato l'ortografia delle parole... Le mie scuse...:rolleyes:

I supposo so.


Which means...I ain't leadin' the league in brains in Eyetalian.

Folks,I'm sorry. Robert,Nina,and Magpie all got it right.:thumbsupbud:

I'm so embaraesed.

[Robert Linford]

This was an all-chestnut event for How, for he used the same story for the cryptogram and for "who am I?":)

[Magpie]

Hey, where's the new cryptogram?!?

[How Brown]

Magpie:

I'll have one up tonight.

I just spent over three hours placing the sixth chapter of the O'Donnell on the site....experimenting with watermarks.

Its pretty rough when some of the pages don't show up as well as the others and then I have to do it all over again.

Anyway....one to appear shortly.

[Magpie]

Ah, I see.

Sorry to be a nag, How:)

[How Brown]

Thats okay buddy. I was just explaining why the weekly wasn't up.

Here ya go........


KN---UEWN---ZUNG---E---QTAVNAMGJ---QDGDQEGMEH---KUD-

--QTAVNAO---DGRX---RDDON---KDQNG............

Bueno suerte,homes.....;)

[Magpie]

We have then a murdering monomaniac who murders only loose women.

Is that close?

[How Brown]

Why you sonofabitc....:mad:

Good one Magpie !:thumbsupbud:

[Magpie]

Thank you:)

I only got it because of the murdering/murders being in the same sentence.

[How Brown]

Hey...at least I speled all the words right this weak.

:thumbsupbud:

[Magpie]

Yep, you did a sterling job, Monsewer!
:bowdown:

[How Brown]

Magpy:

Thanks pal....

I am going to put another kryptograham together by tonight.

How do you like the O'Donnell ? Have you seen it yet?

[Magpie]

Hi How.

I'm at a disadvantage because my home connection is busted which means that I can only read it from work--and everytime I start to get into it some %*(#@!! phones me and breaks my train of thought, LOL. I'm slowly (very slowly) working my way through it though:) It's a fascinating find--can't remember the last time I was so excited about a "new" find in Ripperology

[Magpie]

Looking forward to the cryptogram:)

I've got 10 minutes to showtime, but I'll check back in immediately after :thumbsupbud:

[How Brown]

Yo Skipper....

Give me until tomorrow....I have a lot to do around the house tonight. I'm sorry buddy.:o

[admin tim]

Here is a new cryptogram for you to wrestle with. The answer is found somewhere on this site. :smoker:

[Magpie]

Curse you for your umlauts and your accents!! :p

One of Ripperology's Holiest Grails! Discover for yourself why Roslyn Donston was considered the prime JTR suspect by the late Ripper authority Melvin Harris.

I think I got it.

Good one, Tim! :bowdown:

[admin tim]

Well, we have a winner already! :eek: Tough crowd. :banghead:

But I'll bet this one took longer than 20 minutes. ;)


Hooooookay, I'll see if I can't stump our panel of experts for a day or so. :mob:

[admin tim]

Well, this IS the Cryptogram of the Day, y'know.

Have a go below. :p

[Robert Linford]

Despite any perceived shortcomings, Yours Truly Jack the Ripper is probably a better adaptation of the original source material than was Pigeons from Hell, but it still lacks the latent power found in Robert Bloch’s story. Basically, it is a quick rehash of a typical ripper murder in 1888 (not at all convincing, and certainly not factually accurate. Is that really supposed to be Mary Kelly?) complete with some rather misplaced albeit politically correct street buskers, and then it fast forwards to modern time, where it seems that our light-hearted friend is still at it.

[How Brown]

Note to self........

Be sure to ask Bob Chazz and Magpie to put down that I inherit their brains in their wills.

Holy Hobbledehoy ! Thats great work you guys.:thumbsupbud:

[Magpie]

But I'll bet this one took longer than 20 minutes. ;)




Yeah, it took almost 40--I was doing okay except I didn't notice there were two different "Y" characters and it totally threw me off :eek:

[admin tim]

How can these two do this and still not have solved the case? :confused:

One more time like this and we're going to Hindustani in Braille. :( :banghead:

Meanwhile, try today's offering. As before, the solution is found somewhere on this site. :smoker:

http://i908.photobucket.com/albums/ac287/HowieNina/puzzle2011a.jpg
http://i908.photobucket.com/albums/ac287/HowieNina/puzzle2011b.jpg

[Robert Linford]

Now, no one knows who this man was; no one ever saw his face. His identity has always been one of the world’s great mysteries. He killed only women and only a certain kind of women, but the murders were often accompanied by strange and forbidding rites. For months on end he terrorized London, defying whole divisions of police, and it was they who nicknamed him “Jack the Ripper.”

[How Brown]

Keep tryin' Tim...............keep trying.:D

I'm puttin' a contract out on Robert with the Mau Mau Nation.:mob:

[admin tim]

...or approved equal. ;)


Very bad manners, Robert; you could have at least waited until the ink dried. :mad:

But I see the problem; all of the phrases have been extracts of stuff that I wrote, and I know that Robert has hung on my every word, thus giving him an inside track here.

This next time there will be no mercy. :judge:

[admin tim]

All right, here is the next effort to thwart the Dynamic Duo. :guns:

If they solve this one in 40 minutes or thereabouts, I'll eat my top hat. ;)

Gentlemen, start your engines. And don't come crying to me. :cry::p

[How Brown]

Well,well,well....

Looky here....Lookin' like our ressy-dent geniuses may be stumped.

Anyone have the answer yet?

I sure don't :o

[Magpie]

Hi How.

I'm stumped, but not defeated yet:)

I'll get back to it once the benadryl haze wears off :p

[Robert Linford]

I've looked at it three or four times, but no, I give up.

Robert

[admin tim]

Everyone probably thought I was kidding about the Hindustani in Braille remark. :D

The truth is that, in an effort to stump our panel of experts, I pretty much did the equivalent, just as I had stated earlier. I took the English verbiage, translated it into German, and then encrypted it. :o

Looks like feast or famine in the cryptogram department. :p

I won't do it again, I promise. No need to now that I have gotten an old Enigma machine off of eBay. ;)

[Robert Linford]

Well, that's good in a way. I thought I was losing it for a minute there.:)

[How Brown]

Timmers:

What was the answer ?

[Robert Linford]

I think Tim's stumped.:clap:

[admin tim]

I was waiting for Magpie's effort since he had not yet capitulated AND now has the key to the solution.

[Robert Linford]

Gott im Himmel! So Magpie now knows where our submarines are?:eek:

[Magpie]

Hi everyone.

My apologies--I didn't realize you were waiting for me. Alas I don't speak german well enough to even attempt to crack the code, even if I weren't doped to the eyeballs as I currently am :D

Funny you should mention Enigma machines though....


I capitulate unreservedly. Well done Tim!!

[Magpie]

Is there a reason Tim is holding out on us? I admitted defeat, after all :rolleyes:

I could certainly use a cryptogram or two to wile away the lonely night shift here :thumbsupbud:

[Robert Linford]

I think Tim's lost the solution, and he's having to try and solve it himself.:)

Come, come, Tim : one hour max is all you should need.:bowdown:

[How Brown]

Yeah Timmers....

You remind me of someone I know who won't answer any of my inquiries....:rolleyes:

At least you don't have a vested interest in the cryptogram.

So get with the program and let my people know....vat vuz the answer?

[admin tim]

Well, the truth is that I will have to find the passage in question again. I had such high regard for our cryptogrammers that I didn't bother to mark it, figuring from past experience that someone would solve it before Howard could say Billy Be Damned. Actually, I'm not even sure which source I used.

But I'll find it and post it soon. Even if I'm wrong, who's gonna know? :rolleyes:

[Robert Linford]

Oh blimey!

Well Tim I'd have to spend a couple of weeks refreshing my German to attempt this, if it's in German. All I can do is make a few suggestions, which are probably wrong.:)

The page won't let me copy and paste the symbols, so I'll have to do it by word number.

First word is wenn
Second word is der
Sixth word is dass
Seventh word is er
Tenth word is war
Eleventh word is der
Fourteenth word is die
Nineteenth word is sie
Twentieth word is an
Twenty first word is dass
Twenty second is er

And so on.

I have some ideas about other letters, but I'm probably hopelessly offtrack already.

Robert

[Robert Linford]

When the something found out that he was incurably ill...
That ring a bell, Tim?

[Robert Linford]

I think that third word is womankiller.

[Robert Linford]

Something about dreadful risks and disappearing....I don't know. It's all German to me.:)

[Robert Linford]

If the womenkiller had realised that he was incurably ill, he would have been able to explain a great deal about the murders....

You throwing in subjunctives, Tim?

[admin tim]

If the Ripper had known that he was terminally ill, that could explain much about the murders; suppose that he knew that he was terminal before the murders had even started. If so, then he might not have been much concerned about anything if he knew he was dying, and would probably even have been willing to take the terrific risks in evidence since he had nothing to lose. It is a long shot, but such a condition might also explain the relative clumsiness of the later Alice McKenzie attack – a weak and dying Ripper.


This may be the one. HATS (top hats, of course) OFF to Robert for his brilliant deductive skills. :bowdown::bowdown::bowdown:

Since this exercise was so popular, the next will be in encrypted Serbo-Croatian. You think I'm kidding, don't you? :smoker:

[admin tim]

All right, here is the next cryptogram. To be more fair, this was encrypted from the English. :judge:

[How Brown]

Timmers:

Does it say..

"Hey National Geographic....thanks for the ill gotten cash for promoting an innocent person in the crimes,despite knowing full well years ago that there's no basis for these claims....but thanks,ha ha...for the cash." ?

[Magpie]

The Mad Butcher ostensibly 'quit', never to be observed (he had never been heard from0 in action again but there are those today who blame him for similar killings in states other than Ohio, and some even hold him responsible for the murder of the Black Dahlia in 1947. Likewise, no one knows whatever became of the Zodiac Killer, one of America's best known serial killers, who also apparently stopped killing for unknown reasons. The Axeman of New Orleans, who killed without any consistent pattern or motive, today represents one of the truly great unsolved crimes of the 20th century, as he seems to have suddenly stopped killing as well. So we see that Jack the Ripper is thus in "good company", as it were, for his own circumstances are no less puzzling than those of any of these others.

Ta-da!!

Sneaky move with the quotation marks, Tim :thumbsupbud:

[Robert Linford]

Hi Tim

That's more or less it, except the last sentence is missing in the code.

Looking forward to the next one on an Aldis lamp.:)

Robert

[admin tim]

Well done - again. :thumbsupbud:

Hmmm, it looks as as if I will have to go back to the intermediate language route for these contests to last any time at all. How about if I translate to Italian and then encrypt it? :confused:

[Robert Linford]

I never learned Italian, Tim. Maybe Nina or Magpie did.

Why not do a Hungarian version for How?

[How Brown]

Bob:

I gots mah troubles with English...keep 'em in English.

[admin tim]

On your mark, get set.......

[How Brown]

C'mon man...

That stuff looks like the writing on the side of the Roswell spacecraft.

Dumb the next one down...

[Magpie]

Okay, that one's just downright icky, Tim! LOL.


Did you eat fast-food or something this evening?

[Robert Linford]

I'm going to pass on this one. I've got a couple of words, but I suspect there's something not quite kosher about it.:)

[Magpie]

Hi Robert.

It's about the possibility of Jack catching E.Coli from waving severed intestines around!!

[Robert Linford]

Oh, well I'll give that one a miss. :eek:

[admin tim]

Fainthearted and weakstomached Ripperologists; the very idea! You got the gist of it all right, but I really didn't think that passage was all that revolting.

Sorry, Howard; I didn't know you were participating. Here's one for you:

ackjay ethay ipperray asway ictorianvay ondonlay's irstfay anday oremostfay erialsay illerkay.

[Robert Linford]

owardhay avehay ouyay olvedsay tiyay etyay?

[Bill]

Oh, grundlin in Unwin-esque nebbi-wobe! And deep-joy of the blather-wattle - never forgetting the husty, thrusty twall-thorp - grimy from the needling-oh.

[Magpie]

Fainthearted and weakstomached Ripperologists; the very idea! You got the gist of it all right, but I really didn't think that passage was all that revolting.

Sorry, Howard; I didn't know you were participating. Here's one for you:

ackjay ethay ipperray asway ictorianvay ondonlay's irstfay anday oremostfay erialsay illerkay.

Hi Tim.

I got the first 2 images, but I left them at work:)

It does raise an interesting thought though.:cool:

[How Brown]

"ictorianvay" ?

Oh..it was in Yiddish,eh?

No,Robert....I didn't figger it out sor.

[How Brown]

ktmt---zxlihe---lf--psh---tqpsze---zg


fzkzqem---t---nzbhem---elcche---glrplzm

[Magpie]

jana oliver is the author of sojourn a modern ripper fiction

Thanks How--I needed that :thumbsupbud:

[How Brown]

Thanks my backside Magpie....Now I gotta do another one.:mob:

Next time,take 15 seconds before cracking the code.;)

Nice one dude.

[How Brown]

n-d-y-d-o-h-z......n-l-j-l-z-h-o-l-v-l-d-n....

i-d-v-r-d-d-g.......n-v-d-b-e-d-g-n-k-g-n.....

e-h-g-f-r-o-l-v-l-g-p.....h-g-f....v-e-d...

h-g-k-g-t-j-k-w-n..........z-d-v-v-d-o-n...

f-d-n-d-o-y-d..........n-q-o-w-v-l-g-l-u-l-g-p

[Nina Brown]

Several similarities between Stephenson’s handwriting and the anonymous letters deserve scrutinizing.


:rolleyes:

[How Brown]

Arggh !!!!:mob: \

Baby wants to get spanked !!!! Damn it !!!:banghead:

How long did that take ? 15 seconds?

[How Brown]

berfv---adwvrim---burfvx---merm---med---drxm

---dic---gdpx---pjnuc---bjibdru---jid---js---medfw---jpi

[Magpie]

berfv---adwvrim---burfvx---merm---med---drxm

---dic---gdpx---pjnuc---bjibdru---jid---js---medfw---jpi

Chaim Bermant claims that the East End Jews would conceal one of their own

[How Brown]

You know...here in Pennsylvania,we not only hunt deer,bear,groundhogs, and boll weevils...but the magpie has its season too.:mob: Could you come and visit our state sometime?:rolleyes:

How long did that take ? 9 seconds ?

[Magpie]

You know...here in Pennsylvania,we not only hunt deer,bear,groundhogs, and boll weevils...but the magpie has its season too.:mob: Could you come and visit our state sometime?:rolleyes:


I passed through your lovely state last spring, and will be doing so again in April:)


How long did that take ? 9 seconds ?

Gosh no! It was well into the double digits :p

[How Brown]

Mag:

Seriously,you folks do very well on these cryptograms.

I hate you...I hate Robert...I ha...nah,I dig Nina.:rolleyes:

More to come this week....maybe a deluge of 'em.

[Magpie]

That one was actually a pretty tough one, How.

Not going to tell you why though :thumbsupbud:

[How Brown]

Oh...you want tough,sor?

Hereyago....


GAXZNGP---KNIHED---IWGDQP---AD---ECAJQG---UNIIZQH

OQXNWHQ---IZQ---CNIIQG---N---OCNXB---ONS

[Magpie]

psst...How.....don't you mean

GAXZNGP---KNIHED---IWGDQP---AD---ECAJQG---UNIIZQH

OQXNWHQ---IZQ---CNIIQG---ZNP---N---OCNXB---ONS

[How Brown]

:bowdown:

GAXZNGP---KNIHED---IWGDQP---AD---ECAJQG---UNIIZQH

OQXNWHQ---IZQ---CNIIQG---ZNP---N---OCNXB---ONS


Thanks Mag ! Once again,I goofed. Good eye...you bas-tid.:rolleyes:

[How Brown]

Hee Ya...

Take this ye bastids...and then,answer the Who Am I challenge. The person's name who stated the following is at bottom...
------------------------------

JS--HQV---LQ--NENH--SMQY--YB--KQOJLFK--J--EJXX--MJR--

HQV--VR--KFB--TNYB--NT--KFB--EQYAO--ENT--TBMWBC--JO--

KFB--EFJKBAFNRBX---YQNC...

---------T Q R J E N U N O------------

[Robert Linford]

If you go away from me tonight I will rip you up the same as the woman was served in the Whitechapel Road

Sopiwajan

[How Brown]

Good one Bob:thumbsupbud:

I was going through the Ultimate for an obscure individual and this ginzu wielding Nipponese sort of attracted my attention. ( you guys remember that "fad" about 25 years ago? Everyone buying Ginzu knives for choppin' vegetables and such.). He lumped up a little girl as well as slicing and dicing a woman. This guy was a real plick.:rolleyes:

In the newspaper account,this guy leaped through the grass...er,glass, of the front door of the Asian House ( where the motto, "We love you long time...and have a yen for men with yen" came from ) before a guy,naturally,named Sgt. Brown ( probably related,since he tucked the Nip safely away for jail ) put him down.:judge:

[How Brown]

Here you go...

YMDF...YMDVD...TA...YMD...UNDAYTSF...SO...XMDYMDV. ..BGYD...DQQSXDA

....XGA...DLDF...GF...SHHGATSFGR...KVSAYTYNYD

[Robert Linford]

Then there is the question of whether Kate Eddowes was even an occasional prostitute.

[How Brown]

No...no...no...:mob:

Then there is the question of whether Robert Linford has placed spyware on my computer or not.

Damn it.:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[Robert Linford]

Ok, while How is boning up on his science, here's one that's slightly different. Each letter that's mentioned is correct, but you have to work out the missing letters denoted by dashes.

It --ll -e n----ed th-- -h- fu-- -f t-- m-t--at---s i-c--as-d in -ac- c--e

[Nina Brown]

It will be noticed that the full of the mutilations increased in each case.

[Robert Linford]

Ha, ha. Now I know how you feel, How.:bounce:

Well done Nina!

[Nina Brown]

Here's my first attempt at making a cryptogram.

‘C - WOVEE - LIM - V - XVDPIX - UCPI- OCXCPL - HOIP - C - LIM - OKDI.’

[Robert Linford]

I shall get a damned fine hiding when I get home.:hurt:

[Magpie]

Here's one to try....

[How Brown]

Oh yeah Magpie...sure.:pout:

You got any mescaline?

[Magpie]

Need a hint?

Okay, it's a two-stepper, How :canada:

[How Brown]

No,no,no senor..I no longer dance for Whitey:crutch: ....unless:

I see some mescaline. Even for a two step.

[Robert Linford]

Blimey, my eyes are swimming looking at that!:twitch:

[Magpie]

Sorry, I didn't have access to the snazzy greek fonts that Tim liked to use :)

[Magpie]

I can't believe I stumped the mighty Linford first time out :(

I guess I wasn't cut out to create cryptograms, How...

[Robert Linford]

Hi Magpie

I looked at it for a few minutes and tried a few things, but nothing seemed to work. Solution appreciated.

Robert

[Magpie]

Sure thing :)

The writing was on the jamb of the open archway or doorway visible in the street and could not be covered up without danger of the covering being torn off at once

[Robert Linford]

Thanks Magpie. As I say, I was trying out things - I think I got street - but in the end, nothing seemed to fit. The first letter 't' was different from the later ones, which sent me off on some wild goose chases. Was that because it was a capital?

Robert

[Magpie]

Thanks Magpie. As I say, I was trying out things - I think I got street - but in the end, nothing seemed to fit. The first letter 't' was different from the later ones, which sent me off on some wild goose chases. Was that because it was a capital?

Robert

Hi Robert.

Yes it was, and I apologize for that.

I was going to redo it, but I noticed that "the" appeared several more times in the quote and I figured that the pattern would still be visible despite the first letter being different. I should have mentioned that the first letter was capitalized.:pout:

[Robert Linford]

No worries, it was a good one anyway.:bump2:

[Magpie]

IFKGLQIB HDE DNNQEIQS DI IXQ IAKQ RO IXQ KFNSQNE AZ CRZZQCIARZ HAIX FZZDIFNDL ROOQZCQE DZS CXDNYQS DI KDNLGRNRFYX EINQQI, NQKDZSQS RZ GDAL, MFKUQS XAE GDAL, DZS YRI DHDB IR GRFLRYZQ

[Robert Linford]

Tumblety was arrested at the time of the murders in connection with unnatural offences and charged at Marlborough Street, remanded on bail, jumped his bail, and got away to Boulogne.

[Magpie]

:whoo:

Well done!

I got another one coming up :)

[Magpie]

Here's another one:

[Robert Linford]

Hi Magpie

Someone else can have a bash at the pictorial one - I'm going crosseyed!:faint2:

[Robert Linford]

On second thoughts :

At the inquest on the trunk of a woman found in a cellar in Whitehall on Tuesday last, surgeons who examined the remains testified that they were those of an unusually fine woman who had probably occupied a high social position.

[How Brown]

Nice work Robert...

Magpie:

Thanks very much for stepping up to the plate here. Its a nice gesture and we all appreciate it....at least,for the 8 seconds Robert didn't know the answer.

[Robert Linford]

Thanks Magpie, they were good ones.

Robert

[Magpie]

Hey, no problem. It was a (thankfully) quiet day on the ol' cubicle farm, and I realized I haven't contributed much lately.

Well done Robert! :hail:


Btw, I'm working on a new one that Robert will enjoy (as a challenge) and How will appreciate (for it's aesthetic qualities). I'll say no more for now, but hopefully it'll be up tonight some time

[Magpie]

How should like this one:

[Robert Linford]

Howard's obviously stunned by that.

[Magpie]

:spit:

:roll:

[How Brown]

Magpie:

Man,I am stumped.

I thought the first word was "Robert"....but then I get confused..

Nice caricatures.

[Robert Linford]

How, I think you are right because the images do seem to spell out my name.:clap:

Nice one, Magpie.

Robert

[Magpie]

Yes indeedy, the solution is in fact "Robert Linford"

:usa2:

[How Brown]

Magpie:

Oh man....I didn't see the last caricature !!! I didn't move the screen that far ! Damn ! I almost got one.