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.

(In reply to ABBA? ET too? by rod hines)

Yes.
ABBA to begin with is primary.

"a tingle" was hopefully suggestive  [No, you don't my number!]

The coded text structure was clearly another clue for something.

And then, technology, punctuation....?  Oh, yeah, the slant, er lean.

The latter (slant) I felt would have led to an earlier solution.

Something else came up here which I did not expect - T9!

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T9!
My daughters swapped SMS about the evening's dinner.  One offered 'roast potatoes'.  The received message was somehow "smart potatoes"!  Imagine!  Out of their jackets, a quick trim, a bathe in virgin olive oil, and on your platter!!

Posted by brianjn on 2009-01-19 06:10:41