Entry deadline is 3:30 p.m. CST on Saturday, January 16, 2016 . Send fifteen answers and one tie-break to jmandresen at gmail.com. Anyone with an email address is welcome to enter! 1. Freedom (January) Freedom House is an international organization that studies democracy and freedom in the world, publishing an annual report on how many countries it calculates to be free, partly free, or not free. The 2015 report calculated that 89 of the world’s 195 nations were free in 2014. Will freedom advance, stay stagnant, or retreat in this year’s report, covering 2014? Note: the nine worst free countries (with the highest likelihood of being downgraded) are Botswana, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Lesotho, Montenegro, and Peru. The fifteen best partly free countries (with the highest likelihood of being upgraded) are Albania, Bolivia, Ecuador, Georgia, Indonesia, Mexico, Moldova, Paraguay, Philippines, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, ...
Dear Mummy,
ReplyDeleteOlive you. Grapes forgive me for: archery, insects, cousin-it and ving.
Your son, JMANDRESEN.
Do I win?
SUK IT TINA...
ReplyDeleteDear [Deer] Mummy,
I love you [olive u]. Please [peas] forgive [4 gift] me [do,re,me] for misbehaving [miss bee hay v ring-r=ing]
Your [y oar] son [sun],
jmandresen.
What did you do? And how old were you?
Very nice, Missy! You are correct. Time has happily cleansed my brain of the sordid details regarding my erstwhile transgression. The time period would be late elementary school, probably 4th or 5th grade.
ReplyDeleteStag eyed-egg, eccentric orbit bend dot heap numeral present doremi on-ramp high wasp hair tongs onion-r.
ReplyDeleteI like Missy's answer. I couldn't make out a couple items. I was stuck with "Dear egg" and "forgive me for [archery] + behaving" which didn't make sense...
ReplyDelete"Eyed egg"?!? That's creepier than the mummy.
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