Welcome to the 5th Annual Allison Wonderland Mock Hunt!
The treasure was found just before 9am on Wednesday, March 10th, by Me2. She will get a prize around $290 plus a variety of other goodies. It was found in Marydale Park on the north side in a pit under a tree near lamp post #12.
The wrap up party will be Saturday, March 13th at 8pm at Fabulous Fern's.
We're up to $270 now with a contribution from Texas!
Looking Glass-Mirror=Mears Hmmmm, Might have to go check it out just in case ;)
Who's in texas??
im in love
We're up to $270 now with a contribution from Texas!
Who the heck is in TX? Only poster here that I know in TX is Muskwa, and she sticks to the political threads.
im in love
So when's the wedding?
:-)
im in love
you must be Its on every darn thread.....I can't wait to read about this in the coolertimes......
We're up to $270 now with a contribution from Texas!
Whew thats a drive up....Can you bring me some "lone star beer"?
im in love
I bet I can tell you who it is.
I didn't figure it out. It took a woman to connect the dots for me.
hmmmmm....
alice was on a riverbank reading her sisters book. And when in "looking glass" she peeked through the 1st thing she saw was a firepit or grill.
Alice through the looking glass (clue 1) was published after Alice in Wonderland (Clue 2) what was before Wonderland??
In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room. The very first thing she did was to look whether there was a fire in the fireplace, and she was quite pleased to find that there was a real one, blazing away as brightly as the one she had left behind.
Fire place at Como blair witch hunt?
Who the heck is in TX? Only poster here that I know in TX is Muskwa, and she sticks to the political threads.
She didn't give me a screen name, I just have her real name, but I don't know that she wants it posted. She said she follows along on these threads, so maybe she'll announce herself.
http://www.hoboes.com/html/FireBlade/Carroll/Alice/Under/
Alice’s Adventures under Ground
That seems to be Alice Through The Looking Glass
but it starts the same way as alice in wonderland and much of the same story, but is shorter. The looking glass starts with the kitten.
You're right. I got my stories mixed up.
The Adventures under Ground were written out by hand and illustrated by the author, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), between 1862 and 1864 for presentation in manuscript as a Christmas gift to Alice Liddell’s mother. Alice Liddell was the ten-year-old girl to whom Dodgson is said to have extemporized the nucleus of the “Alice” story while boating on the Thames on the afternoon of July 4, 1862.
In 1863, friends who had read Alice’s Adventures under Ground persuaded Dodgson to publish his story. He expanded the 18,000 word original to the 35,000 word final version, changed the name to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and saw the first edition published in 1865 by Macmillan of London.
--from the Dolphin Book edition notes
cat name is DINAH...not sure it matters but thats the name...
no it is alice under ground
you're not proposing we actually have to dig up stuff for this hunt are you? ;)
I think it's still to early.
but ...I just need to post this....
today I thought I will go out to charokee just for the heck of it and walk around...then it dawned on me....
"Dining and cooking you’ll find figure most prominently."
what does the this?? A baker? baker a street that runs into charokee...duh? I think not...for somereason he wants us to have this this early just soo we all can say duh!
I'm sold on the idea....I just hope the clues are pointing me to the right park and not me making the clues fit.....
oh...and for all you guys reading this...your welcome...help us with your early noodling...come-on have some fun....heck you can even throw us a curve ball I don't care!!
you're not proposing we actually have to dig up stuff for this hunt are you? ;)
Now that part IS in the rules. No, it's not underground. I know you were kidding, but just so everyone is clear.
oh...and for all you guys reading this...your welcome...help us with your early noodling
With there not being a lot of snow, it's always possible it will get found early as no snow means fewer hiding places.
although with no snow, it's also not as easy to track where others have looked.
Cherokee-----:>)
Yep today I was just out looking for footprints in the snow....its a geocachers trick....but if AW placed it about 2 weeks ago..I'm going to have a hard time with just looking for footprints....
Lots of places it could have been where I was at today...lots of down trees, leaves, etc. could be tricky still...its not like I really want to go looking in the ravines either...
although with no snow, it's also not as easy to track where others have looked.
Sometimes, that's a good thing! hehe
True.. didn't help me much at phalen.
oh ya...ok scrap that idea...
EVERYBODY start posting where you looked and know it can't be there spots....!!! then I can play mop up....
Okay, I looked around my desk at work, I'm fairly confident it's not here ;)
Just got home. It's definitely not at Target.
its not in my shower either...
it's not in the company inventory here, just did a search on cheshire cat, came up with nothin ;)
I don't think you guys are looking very hard! :-P
it's not at the liquor store ;)
Its not in my car...oh maybe it is...I didn't look that hard....
anybody wanna help me look in my car...I'll be at the car wash and you can help me clean it out....
Only those with habits like chasing white rabbits
Hmmmmmm, Nuns?
Main Entry: 1hab·it
Pronunciation: 'ha-b&t
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin habitus condition, character, from habEre to have, hold -- more at GIVE
1 archaic : CLOTHING
2 a : a costume characteristic of a calling, rank, or function a nun's habit> b : a costume worn for horseback riding
Just about half an hour now to the next clue.
I see a couple of Cooler Crew people on the list. I guess everyone must be out hunting, right? hehe.
The first clue (only those with habits...) reminds me of the book Go Ask Alice and the song by Jefferson Airplane (the lyrics come from the book and from Alice in Wonderland):
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When shes ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know your going to fall
Tell them the hookah-Smoking caterpillar
has given you the call
Call Alice when she was just small
When the men on the chess board get up and tell you where to go
And you just have some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen four feet
And the white knight's talking backwards
And the Red Queen Says off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head
Feed your head
I think they've become complacent and think they can just stroll in at the last minute to pick up the clue. Let's shake them up and post it early! ;)
Just loading up the browsers now with the new clue, getting ready to fire.
Clue #3
Hearing of the slithy toves and mimsy borogoves
Made Alice ask for a dictionary from the porter.
But when he gave her a tome as big as a home
She asked if there was any way to make it shorter.
And the previous clue:
Clue #2
Alice's adventure had begun before she saw the rabbit run,
In an outdoor setting having some biscuits and tea.
Go now and don't be late for your very important date.
Dining and cooking you'll find figure most prominently.
Clue #1.
Only those with habits like chasing white rabbits
Look in Wonderland trying to find this treasure, alas.
Vanished is the Cheshire Cat. Which park could he be at?
You might start with a peek through the looking glass.
Slithy means lithe and slimy and toves are something like badgers, lizards and corkscrews. Mimsy is miserable and flimsy and a borogrove is a shabby looking bird with it's feathers sticking out.
Could it be near a library?
Anyway to make it shorter. Edit, shortcut, altering.
JOE!