Cryptoquote Spoiler – 07/31/08

“Every private citizen has a public responsibility.”   —   Myra Daniels

(Yes, but how do we convince the Lite Beer and Cheetohs crowd of this?)   YUR

Jumble Spoiler – 07/31/08

FYTHE = HEFTY, POKAK = KAPOK, SURJIT = JURIST, POMLEY = EMPLOY   —   Giving us:  FAUREL

Visual Description:  Two women talking over coffee.

Clue/Question:  What a mouthful of gossip can result in.

Answer:  AN EARFUL

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 07/30/08

“I like a little rebellion now and then.  It’s like a storm in the atmosphere.”   —   Thomas Jefferson

(Yeah.  Storms do have a way of clearing the air.  I hope our so-called leaders keep this in mind.)   YUR

P.S.  Since there are no other “F”s or “J”s I kind of spaced when it came to completing the author of this quote.  You’d think that, for an All American boy, who loves history, it would’ve jumped right off the page! 

Jumble Spoiler – 07/30/08

AVUME = MAUVE, NEMOD = DEMON, TEENIC = ENTICE, WHAIGE = AWEIGH   —   Giving us:  MADNENCAGH

Visual Description:  A banker coming home from work, and going out for a run.

Clue/Question:  When the banker shed his suit for sweats, he felt like a . . .

Answer:  “CHANGED“ MAN

(On a scale 1 to 5, I’d give this one a 4.)   YUR 

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 07/29/08

“I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate.”   —   George Burns

(I wish I’d read this quote when I was 23.)   YUR

(Sly) Jumble Spoiler – 07/29/08

DRUFA = FRAUD, MYPUB = BUMPY, PERUSH = PUSHER, NUTJAY = JAUNTY   —   Giving us:  DBUHSAN

Visual Description:  Ladies wondering whether a stud, at the party, is married, or not.

Clue/Question:  What a single girl shouldn’t look for when she’s looking for this.

Answer: A HUSBAND

(As in someone else’s)   YUR

Kontemptible Karl – Update!

We’ve come to this remote island, and you’ll never believe what we’ve found.  The fugitive, Rove!  (Seems he can’t hide here, either.)

Simply serve an arrest warrant, with the assistance of the local authorities, and he’ll be in U.S. custody in no time!  Find out: why he outed a CIA agent, how he targeted and harassed an “unfriendly” governor . . . all on the sly.

I’m Bill Curtis.  And I’ve just found . . . the fugitive, Rove.

Karl rove can’t hide anymore.  Get the Contempt of Congress charge back on the table, and restore this country’s Rule of Law!

(Uncle Rave has been granted full immunity for any resemblance this may have to any actual telecom commercial.)   YUR

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 07/28/08

“I don’t care how much a man talks if he only says it in a few words.”   —   Josh Billings

( . . . and those words are intelligible, appropriate and actual words, Mr. President.)   YUR

Jumble Spoiler – 07/28/08

NORCO = CROON, YACKT = TACKY, RAFIAN = FARINA, LARBUT = BRUTAL   —   Giving us:  CONTCKNABUA

Visual Description:  Cautious wife tempering anxious husband in the auto showroom.

Clue/Question:  This takes some study before a big purchase.

Answer:  A BANK ACCOUNT

Sunday Cryptoquote Spoiler – 07/27/08

“The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.”   —   Heywood Broun

(Replace the word gamble with have wild funky sex, and I’m there!)   YUR