Sunday Jumble Spoiler – 11/08/15

English: Men’s fashion during Victorian Era, 1870s (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Visual Description:  Victorian era coinage.

GONEXY  =  OXYGEN,  YECLER  =  CELERY,  SADRIH  =  RADISH,  DOTNUL  =  UNTOLD,  DINDHE  =  HIDDEN,  TOONIM  =  MOTION   —   Giving us:  OGEEYRIHNTOHNMT

Clue/Question:  They thought people would like the new coin with the queen’s portrait, and they were – – –

English: Picture of teapots. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Answer:  RIGHT ON THE MONEY

(Jolly good, old chaps!  Lots of merriment.  No new clue words, but all of the jumbles came up as new today.  Found none all that tough.  The answer letter layout did not give away a thing.  First-rate jumble.  Nice period cartoon.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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Sunday Cryptoquote Spoiler – 11/08/15

English: Photograph of writer Edith Wharton, taken by E. F. Cooper, at Newport, Rhode Island. Cabinet photograph. Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.”   —   Edith Wharton

(Whenever anything is difficult to find it’s best to stop looking, and get on with things.  Chances are excellent that you’ll run into it anyway.  Preconceptions and ideals can be very limiting.  Don’t let them weigh you down.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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The Big One………….Chapter 70

Go to his blog to read chapters I haven’t yet posted! — YUR

The Big One.....

Dave Rippley had a meeting on the back steps the morning following his experience with Abe,Anna and little Emily at the gold mine. By this time everyone at the meeting had experienced something with the creatures that were under the control of Fred Casper’s special new signal directive. These creatures were literally from out of this world and so any contact or encounter would be very traumatizing to say the least. Dave was aware of most things Fred Casper knew and so starting with the ships crashing in Roswell New Mexico he toke the gathering through the years to special new signal directive and it’s involvement in their present lives. This also included their enemy in the neighbouring mountain fortress and how young Rippley had been taken and roughed up by Anson Gorbel and his agents then rescued by the tremor toad at the direction of Casper’s console. He also laid out…

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