[net.misc] Eschew Obfuscation

tynor@uiucuxc.UUCP (03/30/84)

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uiucuxc!tynor    Mar 29 11:42:00 1984


Here's something for your intellectual edification.  The following are
common everyday sayings, disguised in obfuscatory language.  Your
job: decipher them.

An example: 
  
1	Surveillance should precede saltation.

"Look before you leap."
  
2	Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
  
3	It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately
 	departed lacteal fluid.
  
4	Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
  
5	The stylis is more potent than the claymore.
  
6	It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated
 	canine with innovative maneuvers.
  
7	Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.
  
8	All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly
 	auriferous.
  
9	Where there are visible vapors having their prevenience in
 	ignited carbonaceous materials,  there is conflagration.
  
10	Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
  
11	Elcmosynary deeds have their incipience intramurally.
  
12	Individuals who make their abode in virteous edifices would be
  	advised to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles.
  
13	Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of
  	hedonistic diversion renders John a hebetudinous fellow.
  
14	The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses
  	thereby the optimal cachinnation.
  
15	Missiles of ligneous or otcrous consistancy have the potential
  	of fracturing my osspus structure,  but appelations will
  	eternally remain innocuous.


	    Steve Tynor
	    ihnp4!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!tynor
	    University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana