Cryptoquote Spoiler – 09/03/19

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”   —   David Starr Jordan

(Another great American from my neck of the woods.  Upstate/Western New York.  And, another fellow David!  Unfortunately, I’d never heard of him before today.  People who attended Stanford University have no doubt heard of him, as he was their founding president.  He was an educator and a peace activist.   We welcome the good doctor to the Cryptoquote Club today.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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Jumble Spoiler – 09/03/19

Visual Description:  Dressing professionally.

SLUPH  =  PLUSH,  WDROC  =  CROWD,  LUYFAT  =  FAULTY,  OIMNEC  =  INCOME   —   Giving us:  LUSOWDFLTIOE

Clue/Question:  Once one office worker started wearing business attire to work, others – – –

Answer:  FOLLOWED SUIT

(What’s a suit???  LOL!  Just kidding.  It seems you rarely see people dress for the office these days.  It’s like Casual Friday all week long now.  Maybe some of the muckety-mucks still get dressed, because they have to attend meetings with other muckety-mucks.  But, the rank and file folk get to wear khakis and such pretty much all the time.

Would you believe that the very common word “crowd” is a new clue word today?  Beats the crap outta me how that happened.  But, it was not on the latest version of the ralis95 clue word database.  So, I guess our friend has a little work to do.  The jumble “sluph” came up as having been used before, but all the others appear to be new.  The answer letter layout was a splendid twelve letter jumble.  I didn’t find anything obvious about it.  But, the answer did kind of scream out to me.

Great office scene cartoon.  Everybody looks very dapper.  It looks like the intern is pushing a mail cart!  Do they still have those things?  I thought everything was electronic these days.  Maybe he’s pushing a cart full of copy paper, and other office supplies.  Someones got to do it.  Feels like a Monday morning, even though it’s a Tuesday.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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