77467 74674 44769 !4649 44436 !9669 96868 69648 96486 84832 43325 32255 2555?

Notes:
1. If you are not an avid fan, this may not give you a tingle.
2. Other necessary punctuation has not been encoded.
3. The inability to emulate a technology will require some informed guesswork; but all cryptographers must engage in that anyway.

I am a bit chagrined to at long last have figured out that this code indeed represents the chorus line in ABBA's song 'Ring Ring', from their first (1973) album of the same title.

 

Firstly, cascade the code segments downward on a slant, consecutively off-setting by 1 space.

 

7   7   4   6   7

     7   4   6   7   4

          4   4   7   6   9

               !   4   6   .    .

                   4   .    .    .    .

                        .    .    .    .   .

                             .    .    .   .   6

                                  .    4   8   3   2  

                                       4   3   3   2   5

                                            3   2   2   5   5

                                                 2   5   5   5 ?

                                           

Each column, read vertically and progressing from left to right, then indicate telephone keypad strokes, by number, to identify a letter in the answer.  So, hitting the 2 button three times (2-2-2) would yield a "C"!  The result, with spaces, appropriate stroke breaks and 'missing' apostrophe added, is:

 

777/444/66/4!  777/444/66/4!  9/44/999  3/666/66'/8  999/666/88  4/444/888/33  6/33  2  222/2/555/555? 

 

RING! RING! WHY DON'T YOU GIVE ME A CALL?

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Posted by rod hines on 2009-01-18 12:12:51