2004 Allison Wonderland Mock Hunt

Are you going to look for the medallion????

unJoe!

Sorry, I forgot. I might Reggie. Need a few more clues though. I'm going to be out Thursday running some errands, so will look then if it's still out there.

I might be on to something here. Think I'll go out tomorrow instead of waiting until Thursday.

"That'll do very well," said Alice; "and `slithy'?"

"Well, `slithy' means `lithe and slimy.' `Lithe' is the same as `active.' You see it's like a portmanteau -- there are two meanings packed up into one word."

"I see it now," Alice remarked thoughtfully: "and what are `toves'?"

"Well, `toves' are something like badgers -- they're something like lizards -- and they're something like corkscrews."

"They must be very curious-looking creatures."

"They are that," said Humpty Dumpty: "also they make their nests under sun-dials -- also they live on cheese."

Well, then, `mimsy' is `flimsy and miser­ able' (there's another portmanteau for you). And a borogove is a thin, shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round -- something like a live mop."

Oh oh. Reggie's left.

My dilemma is that I don't see very well at night so don't usually go out hunting then. But I'm self conscious during the day. I feel silly walking through parks and digging around.

I wonder who thinks they're on to what at this point?

I feel silly walking through parks and digging around.

Such is the plight of the Mock Hunt

I'd like to say, but I want one day to check it out myself first.

I guess everyone is eating dinner or something. I have a meeting to go to soon, so I guess I'll be off for a while and see what people have come up with later.

Just put my dinner on the table. Talk to you later.

I just got home. Long, long 11 hour day today.

Allison - I'm impressed with these clues. Truly impressed.

So lizards and funky looking birds and corkscrews and firepits and dining and cooking - still sounds a bit like Como to me. Of course that's just first glance. I haven't had time to noodle these clues to a fine point yet.

When I said It's Alice under ground I was referring to the book. Not to dig underground!

When alice woke from her dream she had leaves on her face

Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for the nosegay and the pair of white kid gloves, and she began hunting for them, but they were now nowhere to be seen--everything seemed to have changed since her swim in the pool, and her walk along the river-bank with its fringe of rushes and forget-me-nots, and the glass table and the little door had vanished....
...By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room, with a table in the window on which was a looking-glass and, (as Alice had hoped), two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves. She took up a pair of gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass: there was no label on it this time with the words `drink me', but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips: `I know something interesting is sure to happen,' she said to herself,

This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again. In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself. Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went, `One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.' ...
....`There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!' Alice said to herself, as well as she could for sneezing.

There was certainly too much of it in the air. Even the Duchess sneezed occasionally; and as for the baby, it was sneezing and howling alternately without a moment's pause. The only things in the kitchen that did not sneeze, were the cook, and a large cat which was sitting on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear.

`Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, `why your cat grins like that?'

`It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess,

As this poem is to some extent connected with the lay of the Jabberwock, let me take this opportunity of answering a question that has often been asked me, how to pronounce "slithy toves." The "i" in "slithy" is long, as in "writhe"; and "toves" is pronounced so as to rhyme with "groves." Again, the first "o" in "borogoves" is pronounced like the "o" in "borrow." I have heard people try to give it the sound of the "o" in "worry. Such is Human Perversity.

This also seems a fitting occasion to notice the other hard works in that poem. Humpty-Dumpty's theory, of two meanings packed into one word like a portmanteau, seems to me the right explanation for all.

hmmm...nobody in the park tonight that I went to....at least I don't think I look all that weird walking around with my dog.......

But a headlamp might make me look a little funny....but I just don't care......I have a great feeling about this one!!!!!!

peeeeek :)

hi everyone- I have been gone during the day with the history center and family school stuff and with family in the evenings. I am trying to follow this hunt. My thoughts after catching up fall twords Cherokee, Highland and the park on Ruth near SunRay.

Como does have a sundial :O

`You seem very clever at explaining words, Sir,' said Alice. `Would you kindly tell me the meaning of the poem called "Jabberwocky"?'

`Let's hear it,' said Humpty Dumpty. `I can explain all the poems that were ever invented -- and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.'

This sounded very hopeful, so Alice repeated the first verse:

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

`That's enough to begin with,' Humpty Dumpty interrupted: `there are plenty of hard words there. "Brillig" means four o'clock in the afternoon -- the time when you begin broiling things for dinner.'
`That'll do very well,' said Alice: and "slithy"?'

`Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau -- there are two meanings packed up into one word.'

`I see it now,' Alice remarked thoughtfully: `and what are "toves"?'

`Well, "toves" are something like badgers -- they're something like lizards -- and they're something like corkscrews.'

`They must be very curious looking creatures.'

`They are that,' said Humpty Dumpty: `also they make their nests under sun-dials -- also they live on cheese.'

`Andy what's the "gyre" and to "gimble"?'

`To "gyre" is to go round and round like a gyroscope. To "gimble" is to make holes like a gimblet.'

`And "the wabe" is the grass-plot round a sun-dial, I suppose?' said Alice, surprised at her own ingenuity.

`Of course it is. It's called "wabe," you know, because it goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it -- '

`And a long way beyond it on each side,' Alice added.

`Exactly so. Well, then, "mimsy" is "flimsy and miserable" (there's another portmanteau for you). And a "borogove" is a thing shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round -- something like a live mop.'

`And then "mome raths"?' said Alice. `I'm afraid I'm giving you a great deal of trouble.'

`Well, a "rath" is a sort of green pig: but "mome" I'm not certain about. I think it's short for "from home" -- meaning that they'd lost their way, you know.'

`it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle -- to get one's head cut off.'

But you're really getting into that story! :) I hope you're reading it out loud to your kids while you research it.

While we're on the subject of Alice In Wonderland, and keeping in mind that I never throw anything out, I have a little 78 RPM recording of the sound track from Alice In Wonderland from when I was a little girl.

Alice and Boyd park too

just for kicks---Alice pk was named for Alice Dawson whos dad was the Dawson named for Dawson Park by Highland.

Just to prove that I read way too much into these clues, and going back to my Rabbit Run by John Updike theory, the book Updike wrote before Rabbit Run was titled Poorhouse Fair.

Seems not too much noodling going on, though maybe people are less likely to post their thoughts with a smaller number of people hunting. I didn't think tonight's clue would really be all that hard, so maybe people just aren't posting what they've figured out.

I am IMing with Ares now about it but not really coming up with much

Well I'm sure it will dawn on someone at some point.

I'm taking a harder look at clue #3.

I think porter or shorter or maybe both are important.

As with my other ramblings I have not looked at a map or thought about parks - these are things that come to mind when I read the clue:

Porter = Beer (Pigs Eye, Sprecher)
Tome as big as a home = Book as big as a house, still thinking about this. Is there a street or park or location that this would match?
Make it shorter = Trying to decide if this goes with the line before - in other words, are we looking for a large book, but one that is not as big as a house. Or, does shorter have to do with something else.

3M, thanks for posting all the Alice in Wonderland stuff. I haven't read it in years and you are bringing back fond memories.

Tangent thought - my youngest brother was into forensics. When he was in college he used to judge the high school tournaments. The judges always got a kick out of people reading Jaberwocky dramatically, as if to make it a serious piece. According to him, the only ones who scored well were those who had fun with it.

your getting pulled in LLBell! :)

well if you take the first 2 letters of the first words in clue 3 you get HEMA BUSH

Nope, I just peek once or twice a day and then I go away - must not get sucked in, must not get sucked in.

I still have refused to look at a map or the THG.

GEORGE Bush

if you had a dictionary it may be a Merriam dictionary :)

Louis Carroll Ave

Isn't there a Webster elementary school in St. Paul?

I've got it! When you shorten a book, you abridge it!

I still have refused to look at a map or the THG.

You will once you feel like you have an idea of what to look for.

So once again I'm thinking Cherokee and the High Bridge. Not that it's the only bridge out there, but I like the feel of it so far.

Nope, I have three huge papers due and I can't take the time. I promised Scribe that if she figured out where it is, I would hunt with her in the evenings, but my brain power must be dedicated to my papers. So, you only get my random thoughts each day. Hopefully, they will help someone.

OT - really great noodle. I think you are on to something (abridge).

thats a good one OT

OK i'm posting this because I want to claim it as my noodle....

CHEROKEE..
how do you shorten a tome ...a tome is a chapter...
heck make it a page

page...duh...

clue two... BAKER

cherokee cherokee cherokee...

Clue 3
A pair of sixes on the dice
Have a meaning all their own.
They don't look good to a shooter,
But they can help put you on the Boreas throne.
"A pair of sixes" refers to "boxcars," the slang term used by dice players for two sixes. They can be seen from bluffs on the way to the hiding spot.

so is this where Jake got his boxcars clue??? during his hunt last year?

well its nice it may be close to ME!!! MWAHahAHAHAhha

I was wondering why you were still hanging around in here. But where does one start? Closer for me too. I like that.