TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2010
Today's Cryptogram
Cryptogram for February 16
Below is today's love quote cryptogram (single letter substitution):
XLIHJN BF RFBMHJ RFPHI DFXZQBN. BFOQWQNI LV LBILIVI FB LV..... JTIIHRR GQYHJ
Answer to yesterday's cryptogram: The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love..... Hubert Humphrey
(Hint: It's an inspirational quote or bit o' wisdom, with the name of the person who is credited as having said it.)
Cryptogram
"JPVJFR CQYULZ FXHY ZMXHWMZR
ZX ZMXRU ZYHZMR ZMJZ VQPP
WQEU FXH LXGTQCUGLU, MXSU,
KXF, PXEU, ZMJGNRWQEQGW, JGC
ZHYG JVJF FXHY IQGC TYXI
ZMXRU ZMJZ QGRSQYU FXH VQZM
TUJY, RJCGURR, CUSYURRQXG."
--AUYZYJGC VQPAUYZTXYLU
My Decoded Version
"------ ------ ---- --------
-- ----- ------ ---- ----
---- --- ----------, ----,
---, ----, ------------, ---
---- ---- ---- ---- ----
----- ---- ------- --- ----
----, -------, ----------."
---------- ------------
The Encrypted Letter
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
represents
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z -
A B C D E F G H I J K L M
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
2 0 7 0 3 7 11 7 2 11 1 4 10
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
1 0 5 12 12 3 4 16 5 4 15 13 17
Reset
Yesterday's Cryptogram Answer, and Today's Quote of the Day, is:
"The a cyclone drives its powers from a calm center. So does a person." --Norman Vincent Peale
U SR YRC XKYC K MHUBYS XQR VEUFBV XQBY U VEUFB, XQR XBBNV XQBY U XBBN, MRH EW VQKSRX UY CQB NRRF AKY SR IBCCBH CQKY CQKC.
ARYMPAUPV
LJ RAB FVK MAEEF NLDN ZADLKUR LE UTK UKKUT, RAB YLMTU FZ OKWW BZK XAUT JKKU.
NKLUT VLDTFVSZ
Today's Crypto Number (3360) (Tuesday)
XP KOO PXCID XP AKFBQXU AKFBQXU QU OXHT QD MTCWKMD BWT IXDB PKBKO BX BCFT WKMMQUTDD.--ZTCBCKUE CFDDTOO
Hint: X=O
Yesterday's Answer Number(997) (Monday) UBZ VPZMVQZ GB.Y. UBZDND ND ITUBNIQ KJU V UMVIDEZMZIOZ TE KTIZD EMTH TIZ QMVPZLVMY UT VITUBZM.--R. EMVIF YTKNZ The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.--J. Frank Dobie
Wordles Thought for the Day:
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
-Winston Churchill
KU GNIXKHC, K ZBKUR TBKIMJNU OBD NFJU CNJKZ GFMXNW FJN RUDOU FW GJHWWNIW WTDHZW.
Hint: Z = T
VQHIGVN GZ YBQVN YGHI DOSGMQBVGO HIOH O BGZC GV HIC QDCOV SCXCS YQPSFV'H DPBC. BQZZ WODFQVOSF (1915-1983)
Y8X8YNYYWYY82MFSJMKM2PGM2Z4AVSZMKM8DFM1S5ZBVRV53QF535ZG6TZQZPZVZ3ZC8TAGAG8Y518YN4MPS8SEM297M2MPMR5US221M2M2ZGV9ZHZ3ZKZ5ZJV1KTVR45M4Z5R3AQ92WY8Z6X8Y3UMH3PA2MRD2MMMAS3M9M2SAM2HJVR3H62Z5MVZVTHV366V5ZJB5Y5M
NOTHING IS WRONG WITH CALIFORNIA THAT A RISE IN THE OCEAN LEVEL WOULDN'T CURE. ROSS MACDONALD (1915-1983)
2/16 ILE OVJTHZ XFHBJ X ELXOLR-RVGL ZXZZXR EKH NLJBNILM JH KVO HRM OTKHHR: "ELRTHZL FXTG, HJJLN."
Y868YQYYUYY82MFSJMKM2EGM2Z4AVSZM2MWDFM1S5ZBVR653QF535ZG6TZQZMZVZ3ZC8T9GZG8Y518YN4MPS8SKM397M2MPMR5UA211M2M2ZGV9ZHZ3ZKZ5ZJV1KTVP45M4Z5R3AQ9ZWT8Z6X8Y3UMH3PS2MRD2MMMAS3M9M2SAM2HJVR3R6HZ5MVZVTHV366V5ZJB5Y5M
2/16 NEW SITCOM ABOUT A WEASEL-LIKE MAMMAL WHO RETURNED TO HIS OLD SCHOOL: 'WELCOME BACK, OTTER.'
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
2-Fer
2-Fer
1. Memories
One day, long, long ago, there lived a beautiful woman who did not whine, nag or bitch.
But that was a long, long time ago and it was just that one day.
2. Daily Thoughts
A. Avoid cutting yourself when slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold the vegetables while you chop.
B. Avoid arguments with females about lifting the toilet seat by using the sink.
C. A mouse trap placed on top of your alarm clock will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
D. If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives. Then you'll be afraid to cough.
E. You only need two tools in life -- WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and should, use the WD-40. If it shouldn't move and does, use the duct tape.
Bonus Thought: Some people are like slinkies -- not really good for anything, but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs.
ALERT! Search On For Miss Cougar Australia 2010
SYDNEY, Australia -- If you're a male between the ages of 18 and 25, are considered handsome, have six-pack abs AND live in Australia, this might be a good time to head for the Blue Mountains.
Turns out there's a major Cougar alert Downunder from Brisbane to Melbourne, Voyeurwebbers, and these cougars like nothing more than preying on young, healthy men.
Yep, the search is on for Miss Cougar Australia 2010, and the claws will be out. U.S.-based author and relationship guru Rich Gosse is holding three cougar convention heats, in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne during February, and each will name regional Miss Cougars.
The event then moves to the Sunshine Coast in June to name Miss Cougar Australia 2010.
Aspiring Miss Cougars must be over 35, "legally single" and have a taste for younger men, said Gosse.
Younger men (or cubs) who are interested in snaring a cougar simply have to turn up and cast their votes.
Sperm Racing by K.
It's a lovely Spring day at Pantsare Down, Voyeurwebbers, and the anticipation is building as the sperm enter the starting gate. They're in. And ... there's the starter's gun and they're off! It's a tight pack as the sperm enter the first turn on their race to the egg.
At the second turn the pack of galloping sperm is still tight.
Wait a second, Voyeurwebbers, a sperm from Team VW is breaking away from the pack cuming .. er ... coming out of the third turn into the final stretch to the finish line and the coveted egg. The gap is widening between the rest of the sperm pack and the leader ... and at the finish line it's -- Eye hopes you're sitting down for this, Voyuerwebbers -- it's the guy with the paunchy middle who sleeps around a lot! Say what?
No kidding, Voyeurwebbers, that's what Australian evolutionary biologist Professor Leigh Simmons and his research team at the University of Western Australia in Crawley, near Perth, discovered while studying how quickly sperm can travel inside the female to reach the egg.
Prof. Simmons' findings, published in Biology Letters, showed that, in the race for the egg, size does not matter and having a paunchy middle and more than average sexual partners are advantages. If you're a mouse. The professor stressed that many animal species on Earth are polygamous, meaning an individual male's sperm has to compete inside the female reproductive tract with sperm from other successful suitors.
Prof. Simmons' team found that sperm from promiscuous mice swam 5 micrometers a second - or 0.00018 km/h - faster than sperm from monogamous males. As tiny as the figure is, it could be the difference in to fertilize or not to fertilize.
"Monogamous sperm have no selection pressure because at least some sperm will get up there [to the female egg] no matter how fast they swim," he said .
Once the researchers established who were the faster swimmers, they set out to find what it was that gave them the edge. "We were interested in whether longer sperm are able to swim faster because they have longer tails," said Prof. Simmons; adding that the research showed that concept was dead wrong -- the length of the tail didn't matter, the size of their mid-section did. The mid-section -- a powerhouse full of mitochondria, or energy organs, fuels the sperm, pushing them harder and faster towards the finish line.
Prof. Simmons said it is the competition between other male sperm that caused this bigger midsection to evolve.
As Eye sees it, Voyeurwebbers, if human sperm actually behave like mice sperm, then it's the beer drinkers who play the field a lot who'll win the race to the egg; not to mention everything that follows from that -- pregnancy, marriage, child/children ... "The complete catastrophe", as author Nikos Kanzatzakis had Zorba, the Greek, describe it. This, in turn, raises an important bio-evolutionary ethical question: Is this a good foundation on which to build a species? K.
1. Memories
One day, long, long ago, there lived a beautiful woman who did not whine, nag or bitch.
But that was a long, long time ago and it was just that one day.
2. Daily Thoughts
A. Avoid cutting yourself when slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold the vegetables while you chop.
B. Avoid arguments with females about lifting the toilet seat by using the sink.
C. A mouse trap placed on top of your alarm clock will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
D. If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives. Then you'll be afraid to cough.
E. You only need two tools in life -- WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and should, use the WD-40. If it shouldn't move and does, use the duct tape.
Bonus Thought: Some people are like slinkies -- not really good for anything, but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs.
ALERT! Search On For Miss Cougar Australia 2010
SYDNEY, Australia -- If you're a male between the ages of 18 and 25, are considered handsome, have six-pack abs AND live in Australia, this might be a good time to head for the Blue Mountains.
Turns out there's a major Cougar alert Downunder from Brisbane to Melbourne, Voyeurwebbers, and these cougars like nothing more than preying on young, healthy men.
Yep, the search is on for Miss Cougar Australia 2010, and the claws will be out. U.S.-based author and relationship guru Rich Gosse is holding three cougar convention heats, in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne during February, and each will name regional Miss Cougars.
The event then moves to the Sunshine Coast in June to name Miss Cougar Australia 2010.
Aspiring Miss Cougars must be over 35, "legally single" and have a taste for younger men, said Gosse.
Younger men (or cubs) who are interested in snaring a cougar simply have to turn up and cast their votes.
Sperm Racing by K.
It's a lovely Spring day at Pantsare Down, Voyeurwebbers, and the anticipation is building as the sperm enter the starting gate. They're in. And ... there's the starter's gun and they're off! It's a tight pack as the sperm enter the first turn on their race to the egg.
At the second turn the pack of galloping sperm is still tight.
Wait a second, Voyeurwebbers, a sperm from Team VW is breaking away from the pack cuming .. er ... coming out of the third turn into the final stretch to the finish line and the coveted egg. The gap is widening between the rest of the sperm pack and the leader ... and at the finish line it's -- Eye hopes you're sitting down for this, Voyuerwebbers -- it's the guy with the paunchy middle who sleeps around a lot! Say what?
No kidding, Voyeurwebbers, that's what Australian evolutionary biologist Professor Leigh Simmons and his research team at the University of Western Australia in Crawley, near Perth, discovered while studying how quickly sperm can travel inside the female to reach the egg.
Prof. Simmons' findings, published in Biology Letters, showed that, in the race for the egg, size does not matter and having a paunchy middle and more than average sexual partners are advantages. If you're a mouse. The professor stressed that many animal species on Earth are polygamous, meaning an individual male's sperm has to compete inside the female reproductive tract with sperm from other successful suitors.
Prof. Simmons' team found that sperm from promiscuous mice swam 5 micrometers a second - or 0.00018 km/h - faster than sperm from monogamous males. As tiny as the figure is, it could be the difference in to fertilize or not to fertilize.
"Monogamous sperm have no selection pressure because at least some sperm will get up there [to the female egg] no matter how fast they swim," he said .
Once the researchers established who were the faster swimmers, they set out to find what it was that gave them the edge. "We were interested in whether longer sperm are able to swim faster because they have longer tails," said Prof. Simmons; adding that the research showed that concept was dead wrong -- the length of the tail didn't matter, the size of their mid-section did. The mid-section -- a powerhouse full of mitochondria, or energy organs, fuels the sperm, pushing them harder and faster towards the finish line.
Prof. Simmons said it is the competition between other male sperm that caused this bigger midsection to evolve.
As Eye sees it, Voyeurwebbers, if human sperm actually behave like mice sperm, then it's the beer drinkers who play the field a lot who'll win the race to the egg; not to mention everything that follows from that -- pregnancy, marriage, child/children ... "The complete catastrophe", as author Nikos Kanzatzakis had Zorba, the Greek, describe it. This, in turn, raises an important bio-evolutionary ethical question: Is this a good foundation on which to build a species? K.
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