Obnoxiously difficult quotes

[gryhnd51]

during my many years on this site there have often been times when folks have helped someone who's stuck. There are no rules against doing so. I do think that the chat room might yield a faster response.

[ddph]

I've never asked for anyone's help in solving a crypto. Like looking in the back of the math book for an answer. You learn more by figuring it out yourself, even if you have to struggle.

[imported_Lurker]

Wait, the answers were in the back of the book? Aaargh!

[wvwoman]

oddcouple, sometimes the struggle just doesn't come up with the answer. i like to know the solution, and see if i can figure out why i couldn't get it.

[guavamango]

Oddcouple, I do appreciate your point of view – I assure you that I didn’t give up easily. I’d worked on it for almost an hour but then had to go to “real” work. If the contraction had been “you’re not” rather than “you aren’t”, I *think* I would have solved it. Also, I had considered, but discarded, the possibility of “ii”. Although I’m a newbie, out of 2,077 puzzles it’s the only one I haven’t been able to solve so far. Now, thanks to GtrZan, I have added “aren’t” to my list of possible contractions and never again will I discard “ii” as a possibility!

[wvwoman]

i don't recall ever having that quote.

[maradnu]

Unlike you

Most of us are here to do cryptograms, and only chat and post as we feel moved to.

Then again, how would someone who had only completed four cryptos even know.

[maradnu]

Cryptograms

Do you even know what a crypto is?

You posted a couple of half assed riddles. Those are not cryptos.

And many of us have literally hundreds of forum posts.

And you are most decidedly NOT a leader.

[GtrZan]

Do you even know what a crypto is?

You posted a couple of half assed riddles. Those are not cryptos.

And many of us have literally hundreds of forum posts.

And you are most decidedly NOT a leader.

shhhhh.... ignore the troll, they HATE that

[munchlet]

The troll has been booted. He gone!

Thank you, Stephen.

[wvwoman]

yay!

The troll has been booted. He gone!

Thank you, Stephen.

and a woohoo!!

[ddph]

So if someone is banned, does that mean they're banned from the forums? Or from the whole site including puzzles?

[momn8r]

"You can't wrap love in a box, but you can wrap a person in a hug."
— Unattributed

[lacrosseballs]

Typically, contractions are quite useful...

"Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd. Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd."

- William Congreve

It's not bad if you just spell out heaven, turned, and scorned. Otherwise, it's vicious.

[momn8r]

obnoxiously difficult quotes

"Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein."
— Proverb