Sunday Jumble Spoiler – 04/19/09

Visual Description:  Skittery rent-a-cops checking out a haunted house.

KOPHOU  =  HOOKUP,  SAHVNI  =  VANISH,  NIGMIT  =  TIMING,  YIFNER  =  FINERY,  COPITE  =  POETIC,  WECHEN  =  WHENCE   —   Giving us:  HOSHTGEROTWHE

Clue/Question:  What the guard said when he approached the haunted house.

Answer:  “WHO ‘GHOST‘ THERE?”

(I had a little trouble getting “poetic” and “timing”, and I’m sure that sneaky compound word tripped up a few, today . . . as usual.) —   YUR

Sunday Cryptoquote Spoiler – 04/19/09

“The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.”   — George Shultz

(Isn’t he also the guy who said:  Contingency plans? We ain’t got no contingency plans. We don’t need no contingency plans! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ contingency plans! You know . . . I always liked his brother Charles better, anyways.) —   YUR