A tribute to Pokey60 Traditional Cache
Hidden : 1/11/2010
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Way to go Pokey60 on 1000 finds and I turned out all right.
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I Pokily Poked a Poke in the Pokey The English language is a marvelous thing, isn’t it? Not just the depth and breadth and height of it, or the way it freely (and forcibly) adopts works from other languages, but the way it evolves and grows and mutates. Yet, despite the size and scale of the language, and all the neat parlour tricks it’s picked up - the verbing of nouns and the nouning of verbs, to give two examples - it still occasionally forces a single word to do double, triple, or even quadruple duty. Consider “poke”, and all its variations. Today, by and large, it’s a verb, more or less synonymous with “prod”. A couple hundred years ago, it was a noun, meaning a bag or sack. (Hence the term “pig in a poke”.) Nobody seems too clear on how it came to mean bag, and the only etymology for it as a verb I can find unhelpfully notes that it’s “pugilist’s slang”. (Possibly of the same era that gave us the euphemistic term “claret tapper”… but I digress.) But poke - or at least “pokey” or “poky” - can also be a slang adjective, meaning “slow”. Nobody seems to know why this is. Pokey can also, as a noun, mean a jail (or gaol). Nobody knows why this is, either; maybe it’s connected to “pig in a poke”? (Except pig as a term for a policeman is a mid 20th-century invention, and pokey as a term for jail seems to predate that by a century.) Hence, it’s theoretically possible to, in fact, pokily poke a poke in the pokey (slowly prod a bag in jail), though people might get the wrong idea if you go around saying that… Oh, and according to some dictionaries, “pokey” or “poky” can also mean fast. So, I guess you could, pokily, poke a pokey poke in the pokey, if that’s what floats your boat. And we wonder why the English language can at times be incomprehensible to non-native speakers?
~ FTF Pokey60~

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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