Boy did that crusty old Ebenezer Scrooge mend his ways! After his DMT-induced near-death experience, Scrooge helped out everybody! The biggest gift of them all was Scrooge's assistance to Tiny Tim! Scrooge fixed Tim's rickets and renal tubular acidosis by turning him into an amazing cyborg detective! Now Inspector Cratchit fights crime in Victorian England! [Yes, I'm writing about a cyborg in Victorian England, but it's not steam punk. Inspector Cratchit has no lacquered wood bits or inexplicable hoses running through brass fittings. You can either picture Inspector Cratchit as basically being Inspector Gadget but with bad teeth and a Cockney accent, or as a bad-ass futuristic cyborg cop, but he doesn't wear welder's goggles and a leather gauntlet with a baffling assortment of grommets and gauges.] Unfortunately, Tiny Tim was turned into a cyborg dynamo before he ever went to school, and is kind of an illiterate man-child. Can you help Inspector Cratchit solve his own jumbled writing!?
Below is a quote from a thing encoded with a substitution cipher. Each letter has been swapped for another. Today's hint: Y equals P.
"E/ KACCY/ EXGU/ QUPA/ AUUM/ JXH/ YPG/ MQ/ RCVW/ HUBX/ QUPA/ YJXGW/ BSERC/ QUP/ WRCCY./ WUMCGEMCW/ E/ BSEWYCA/ EX/ QUPA/ CJA"/
- VEJXG/ SPXGWMJX/ WYEHCA
The first person to e-mail me the correct answer at imillermoth@gmail.com wins a prize! If you would like your prize sent to you, include a mailing address with your answer.
Last week's answer:
"Until they called me to do Tron: Legacy, I seriously thought that all that shit from the first one had really happened to me."
- Jeff Bridges
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Gift of the Walleye
Here's a pretty useless pun.
Myrrh man.
Example: "That guy's really in to myrrh. He's a total myrrh-man."
I'm having a hard time imagining when this play on words might come into play. It's not often that both fish men and fragrant resin are being discussed. Perhaps with the Christmas season coming a person could casually bring up the Magi, steer the conversation toward their gifts, and feign confusion. Still, myrrh man is going to be tough to work in there.
The Bible doesn't mention it, but one of them
was a fireman. Also, his lower half may
have been shrimp tempura.
I would really like it if either of you that read this would try to use this pun and then tell me about it.
Myrrh man.
Example: "That guy's really in to myrrh. He's a total myrrh-man."
I'm having a hard time imagining when this play on words might come into play. It's not often that both fish men and fragrant resin are being discussed. Perhaps with the Christmas season coming a person could casually bring up the Magi, steer the conversation toward their gifts, and feign confusion. Still, myrrh man is going to be tough to work in there.
was a fireman. Also, his lower half may
have been shrimp tempura.
I would really like it if either of you that read this would try to use this pun and then tell me about it.
Labels:
Christmas,
Fireman,
Magi,
Mer-people,
Merman,
Myrrh,
Shrimp Tempura,
Three Wise Men
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