Mein Hund hat keine Nase . . .
Wie riecht er?
Grauenhaft!
I always hear an accent leaning toward Yiddish. In the context of WWII Germany, that makes me a bit uneasy, pardon me for being overly sensitive.
I’m hearing this whole thread in a Dick Van Dyke chimney sweep accent guv’nah.
I’m hearing this whole thread in a Dick Van Dyke chimney sweep accent guv’nah.
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“Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!”
google translate:
“If that is git and Nunstück Slotermeyer Yes! Beiherhund Or the gersput the Flipperwaldt!”
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“Watch your head, Ned, when the King is dead in bed.”
google translate:
An explanation for the Python-impaired: The Funniest Joke in the World
“Me name is Speckled Jim”
Could have been worse. Could have been Spotted Dick. (Which is NOT a venereal disease.)
The British have a very strong Official Secrets Act that kept a lot of basic info about WWII secret for a long time. It prevented publication in the UK about Bletchley Park and Engima until the 1980s, I think. This message might still fall under the Act and we might not know its contents any time soon.
Uh, I hope we don’t get put in jail for this thread. . .
GCHQ is actually asking for public help to decipher the message, although it seems to be more in the lines of help in identifying possible senders or receivers than actual code breaking.
There’s a picture of the message, too. Evidently, this is likely to be an official communication, not one from a spy.
I’d love to know what it says too. Did anyone ever bother to program all the known code-cracking methods into some algorithm or something?
I suck at cryptograms, so it won’t be me…
Also, why do they have that annoying heading on the whiteboard? “Originator’s No. Date. In reply to no.” Use a blank one, Brits! 
I was hoping to read something like :'the homing pigeon was fed and watered, and sent on his long-interrupted journey"
I’m sure the last part of it says, “This pigeon will self-destruct in 10 seconds.”
It’s the answer to “14 k of g in a f p d”! DAMMIT!
Maybe the secret message is what “14 k of g in a f p d” means.
It’s the answer to “14 k of g in a f p d”! DAMMIT!
Beat you by a couple of weeks. ![]()
“Return to sender, insufficient postage.”
it was a bank note in the capsule…seems the pigeon had flown 35 missions, and was ready to retire, -It was making a deposit on the house ( after making a deposit on the car in the driveway).
the Englishman who found the pigeon, took it to Scotland Yards, before it died.
the desk sergeant said, “My God, he looks horrendous…where did you get him?”
“In Surrey - there are millions of them” replied the pigeon
Most of the coded message deciphered.
Seems incredible that they were still using a WWI code book in WWII.
What was originally thought to be an unbreakable code has now been partially cracked using a First World War artillery code book.
Weston resident Mr Walbridge said: “I thought someone would come up with it sooner or later.
“After the war all the code books at Bletchley Park and the computers had to be destroyed. We accepted that. But I thought there would be a way to do it.”
Mr Walbridge, a former government worker, said he was pleased to get assistance from across the pond to crack the code. He added: “The Canadian researchers had someone’s father or uncle who had a code book and was able to use it.”