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Fit To Be Tied?? Traditional Geocache

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Hidden : 7/3/2006
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:

How long will it take for your patience to unravel? For your humor to sour? For your persistence to fade? For you to be "Fit To Be Tied"?


This cache will challenge you. It's not strenouous; it could be done from a wheelchair. It's not a "puzzle" per se, but it will challenge your mind to the max! Thanks go out to JoGPS in Nashville, TN, for the container and idea. He is a cache hider destined for the "Evil Hides Hall of Fame"!

Cassell's Dictionary of Slang says that the phrase "fit to be tied" is mid-19th century in origin. It says that the phrase evokes someone "so hysterically furious that they need to be tied down". However, given that in the mid-19th century the straitjacket was in common use for restraining mental patients, it's likely that that is indeed what the phrase is meant to imply.

This cache is in a dirt parking lot in downtown Bastrop. If you are near a railroad crossing, you are in the right place. You shouldn't have trouble with muggles, but you could be "fit to be tied" before you find this nefarious little cache. Bring your own pen; there is no room in the container for one.

Happy Trails!

Candy

CONGRATULATIONS TO MDA_TAZ
along with SEMIK and gimlear
for being FTF!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

jung'f gur bccbfvgr bs n fyrqtr unzzre?

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)