Cryptoquote Spoiler – 04/30/09

“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and doing well whatever you do.”   — H.W. Longfellow

Jumble Spoiler – 04/30/09

Visual Description:  Weepy guests at a wedding reception’s high point.

RAWEY  =  WEARY,  DULIF  =  FLUID,  RUTSLY  =  SULTRY,  LETTAC  =  CATTLE   —   Giving us:  ERFIULTL

Clue/Question:  When the bride and groom cut the cake, it was . . .

Answer:  “TIER–FULL“

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 04/29/09

“A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”   —   Ernest Hemingway

Jumble Spoiler – 04/29/09

Visual Description:  Very particular woman trying the jeweler’s patience.

TYFFI  =  FIFTY,  TIARE  =  IRATE,  MOHGEA  =  HOMAGE,  NOMOIK  =  KIMONO   —   Giving us:  ITRTEHMEKOO

Clue/Question:  What his wife did when she picked out a watch.

Answer:  TOOK HER “TIME“

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 04/28/09

“Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”   — Sanskrit Proverb

(Could’ve come right out of:  The Audacity of Hope!) – – –   YUR

Man Of The Hour!

Pennsylvania Senator, Arlen Specter, announced today that he is switching to the Democratic Party!  Always one of the more pragmatic (and less dogmatic) Republicans, Senator Specter broke from his party of 29 years after concluding that the Republican party had just moved too far to the right.  He saw the handwriting on the wall, after watching 200,000 Pennsylvanian Republicans cross over to the Democratic Party.

The good senator stated:  “I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.”

If the Al Franken debacle is ever rightfully resolved in Minnesota, this would give the Democrats 60 votes in the Senate, and would provide the Democrats with the means to break any Republican filibuster.

The move has left the Senate Republicans in a state of shock.   Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, called an emergency meeting of party leaders to try to sort things out, and to attempt to put the best possible face on the matter.

President Obama was informed of the momentous news and reportedly called Senator Specter to say:  “You have my full support,” and we are “thrilled to have you.”

For the full story please visit:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/specter-will-run-as-a-democrat-in-2010/?nl=pol&emc=pola1

Your Uncle Rave

(Another Tough) Jumble Spoiler – 04/28/09

Visual Description:  Irate dad, trying to keep his hearing.

GANET  =  AGENT,  ZYIZD  =  DIZZY,  UNTRAB  =  TURBAN,  AGMANE  =  MANAGE —   Giving us:  ETDITRAAE

Clue/Question:  How the teen’s loud music left dad.

Answer:  “EAR“-ITATED

(This time they used the quotation marks!  Do you think they read Unclerave???) —   YUR

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 04/27/09

“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”   — Orison Swett Marden

(Wow!  I just love it when I’m blown away by a quote from someone who I’ve never heard of before!) — YUR

(Tough) Jumble Spoiler – 04/27/09

Visual Description:  Ladies watching a real weeper.

CAMPH  =  CHAMP,  SIDAY  =  DAISY,  ZELPUZ  =  PUZZLE,  CROGED  =  CODGER —   Giving us:  MPDSULOGR

Clue/Question:  What the friends shared during the sad love story.

Answer:  GLUM DROPS

(The individual jumble words were cake!  GLUM should probably have ” marks.  This one took some thought!) —   YUR

Sunday Cryptoquote Spoiler – 04/26/09

“History is little more than the register of crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.”   — Edward Gibbon

(That must be why I’ve always been a big history buff . . . and a fan of police blotters!) —   YUR