Now that I'm back in town and can get to a full-sized keyboard, I can answer the questions you all have been dying to know!!
Official Answers to Code Breaker Contest Number 5!
Official Hint # 1: As discussed, is Mary Louise Parker, known for her role in "Weeds". And as you all have talked about is indeed a clue to the "weeds" that proliferate in the code that must be removed in order to decode it.
Quote:
Are all the code lines supposed to have 5 characters? There is one with 6, accident or curve ball?
A transcription error!
Official Hint # 2: The quote is fifteen words long. Self explanatory. (Note: the question did not ask if the quoter's name was included...)
Quote:
Oh and another thing, does each symbol (&, $, # etc.) stand for a number or letter?
My answer was "Yes and No. Not everything is as it seems". Obviously now we can see that some symbols (the letters) stand for something and some symbols (numbers, punctuation marks, etc.) stand for something else (or nothing at all however you want to look at it that way!!)
Official Hint # 3: A picture of the Pentagon. I used this to signify the pentagon shape of the 5-Star General rank of which Eisenhower was when he was Supreme Allied Commander (Europe) during WWII.
Official Hint # 4: The symbol of SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters of Allied Powers in Europe) initiated by Eisenhower in 1950.
Quote:
Can the symbols be deciphered as spaces?
My answer: No. Even the spaces are not spaces.
True though.
Official Hint # 5: Not all symbols, numbers and letters in the encoded quote are of equal value.
Obviously some symbols are of value and some hinder the decoding.
Official Hint # 6: K$#HB
32LE#
5%VZ
is the first word of the quote.
Yes, it is.
Quote:
How many letters are in the first word?
My answer: Exactly! (True. The
number of "letters" in the encoded message are the exact same number of letters in the first word.
Quote:
So do I get something special for correctly interpreting hint #1? :D
My undying respect and admiration.
A VERY sincere thank you to all who played and wracked their noggins to solve this.
It was fun!
Larsdog's beautiful 1963 Franklin went out in the mail this morning!!
Congratulations! 
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Posted 07/06/2012 2:50 pm
Guess I was just reading WAY TOO MUCH into what you wrote. I was sure there was some sneaky, sinister meaning behind it! 
