WWII Homing Pigeon Found

Mein Hund hat keine Nase . . .

Wie riecht er?

Grauenhaft!

I’m hearing this whole thread in a Dick Van Dyke chimney sweep accent guv’nah.

:slight_smile:

google translate:

:frowning:

“Watch your head, Ned, when the King is dead in bed.”

An explanation for the Python-impaired: The Funniest Joke in the World

Could have been worse. Could have been Spotted Dick. (Which is NOT a venereal disease.)

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! :smiley:

I was hoping to read something like :'the homing pigeon was fed and watered, and sent on his long-interrupted journey":cool:

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!

Beat you by a couple of weeks. :stuck_out_tongue:

“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.

Shorter Article.

Seems incredible that they were still using a WWI code book in WWII.