Jumble Spoiler – 01/24/11

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Visual  Description:  Suck-ups placating The Old Man.

SEMYS  =  MESSY,  FITEB  =  BEFIT,  DOLIBY  =  BODILY,  ULSSET  =  TUSSLE   —   Giving us:  ESBTOLSSL

Clue/Question:  A joke will get the most laughs when the . . .

Answer:  BOSS TELLS IT

(Not bad!  You don’t see “befit” all that often, although I think we’ve seen it here before.  And, since I’m not exactly a big rap phan, the last time I heard “tussle” was in Nick Lowe’s “So It Goes“.  Nice, upbeat little number!  Good scrambling of the answer letters.  Pretty easy to figure out though, especially with the great cartoon.  Congrats to the Packers and the Steelers!  Not who I wanted to win, but these two teams should make for a great Super Bowl XLV!)   — YUR

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 01/24/11

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“There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.”   — P.W. Bridgman

(How about that ingrained, formalized superstition known as organized religion?  Or, are they actually one and the same???)   — YUR