From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxj!mhuxi!mhuxv!burl!sb1!ll1!ihldt!ixn5c!iwsl2!jgpo
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: Re: a subtle joke
Article-I.D.: iwsl2.146
Posted: Mon Feb  7 09:04:48 1983
Received: Wed Feb  9 05:48:20 1983
Reply-To: jgpo@iwsl2.UUCP (John Opalko)



Reggel van, uj nap kezdodik....

OK, folks.  You've had a weekend to puzzle my "undecypherable" joke.
The punch line is ...



THE JOKE'S ON YOU.

The little bit of prose I sent is a) NOT a joke, and b) NOT encrypted.

All those of you who spent the weekend trying every rotation scheme you
could think of, as well as trying to solve it as a substitution cypher
were wasting your time.  All you had to do to be able to understand that
paragraph was to be able to read Hungarian.

Kudos to hogpd!avi, who was the first to see through my ruse (or, at least,
was the first to bother to inform me my cover had been blown).

For those of you who are curious about the translation, I can't help you.
I copied the paragraph from a story in the back of a teach-yourself book,
which I am just beginning.  About all I can get out of it is that someone
is getting ready to go to work.  Avi, correct me if I'm wrong.

Let's hear it for the piros, feher, and zold!