Thread: A plea for HELP

I am in a race of sorts with a group of others to figure out what this translates to. IF you can help please please please post or email me...THANKS in advance!

I was actually worried about doing your Russian homework for you, but then I realized that this was such horribly written Russian that no respectable teacher would give this to you. Someone used an online translator, or a really bad Russian student (like me):


Hi Comrade,
I see that you have deciphered my last delivery, (doesn't make any sense to me -- literally, "intelligent as I concealed this on the internet of Americans). The above coordinates were incorrect, as you now know well. Your mission requires the discovery of the "Wall of Secrets" in N. Carolina. This holds a secret registration, which you should sign to receive your "smile (WTF!?!?)" <RANDOM CHARACTER>. This is the first stage of multiple mysteries/riddles and holds enclosed mulitple mysteries/riddles.

You are looking for a small container painted black. Please use your special cleverness, searching for this, using your EYES then your hands. Do not move what you find in the container.

The string for the secret place is 945847704387553.

This report is for your eyes only, please don't give any kind of hints that you deciphered or found in the secret registration.

OK, there you have it. Now it's your turn to share with this nosy translator -- what's this all about/for?

That helps. The game of sorts is located at www.geocaching.com (no this isn't an advertisement for that site) but it is a cache I seek.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! Now I may have to start hanging out at the Russian forum

Originally Posted by Carlette

That helps. The game of sorts is located at www.geocaching.com (no this isn't an advertisement for that site) but it is a cache I seek.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! Now I may have to start hanging out at the Russian forum

I've heard of this before; interesting concept. Good luck finding it -- and if you're going to leave a message of you own in Russian, let us translate it for you in proper Russian...

Oh so here it is all again! I was trying to translate this dam thing on the other thread and just stopped over here to see if anyone was having as much trouble as me. It just didn't make sense in places.

Barmaley,
Goeocachers are the people that hide things in fake rocks and post coordinates for others to look for them using GPSr's. This is part of a "puzzle cache", finders have to decipher clues to get the final Latitude / Longitude. It makes for a more cerebral challenge, not just romping around the woods with a GPS. Not that it's easy, I've been doing it for about 5 years. I'll scope out their forum and see if I can find out more.

There are 30 caches hidden in Russia with only 10 being found. One was hidden March 08/06 in Moscow.
CUT & PASTE:

N 55° 55.659 E 037° 14.583

Quick! Save the Frewsabug TB and express respect to George Lippgardt!

First of all, I have to apologize. I did not make best, because I have was a short of time. Winter is not a best season to hide something outside, I hope travelbug will survive.

Due to landscape coordinates may vary about 15 meters. So if you can't find it, open the hint.

Stash is placed at the old house of Lermontov (russian writer). Now it is a hospital with a very small and nice lake.

Road leads to the main entrance. Then you have to go about 1 km to a stash.

Additional notes:
Stash is dedicated to express out respect to a honored man George Lippgardt, who stays clean in our hard and unfair life. If you find a stash, please say your respects to George.

Original contain:
1) Travelbug FREWSABUG
2) Soviet coin (1 RUB)
3) Soviet banknote (1 RUB)
4) Gzhel: the russian handcraft.

Thanks, Coddah. I was vaguely familiar with it already, but this was interesting. I think we actually touched on this in another part of the forums -- and I think I already commented that one big problem with doing it in Russia was that the authorities can be real turds about letting you bring GPS gear in (although I'm not sure how it is with natives). Is there any real reward involved in this, ie in terms of monetary value, or is it just a big hobby?

I tracked the guy down, he found it. Searched for Carlette, changed names in their forum. New name is GatherNoMoss, from Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Has a picture of Mr.T as his avitar. He also posted this:

March 10 by GatherNoMoss (577 found)
Had to blow the dust off an old college text book but translated easily...amazing what the mind is able to retain. WTFESL

I left a note:

Privet, GatherNoMoss aka Carlette DID not dust off any books. He/she had it translated in the Masterrussian forums by Barmaley, Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti.
Edit: forum doesn't support Cyrillic

Originally Posted by capecoddah

Privet, GatherNoMoss aka Carlette DID not dust off any books. He/she had it translated in the Masterrussian forums by Barmaley, Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti.
Edit: forum doesn't support Cyrillic

By the time he gets the chance to read this Barmaley will have been arrested by the CIA.

Originally Posted by capecoddah

I tracked the guy down, he found it. Searched for Carlette, changed names in their forum. New name is GatherNoMoss, from Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Has a picture of Mr.T as his avitar. He also posted this:

March 10 by GatherNoMoss (577 found)
Had to blow the dust off an old college text book but translated easily...amazing what the mind is able to retain. WTFESL

I left a note:

Privet, GatherNoMoss aka Carlette DID not dust off any books. He/she had it translated in the Masterrussian forums by Barmaley, Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti.
Edit: forum doesn't support Cyrillic

LOL. Awesome. You provided interesting info AND busted someone who likes to, shall we say, embellish a bit? I've been called losts of things in my life, but never an "old college textbook" before!

BUSTED! LOL!

Originally Posted by Barmaley

Originally Posted by capecoddah

I tracked the guy down, he found it. Searched for Carlette, changed names in their forum. New name is GatherNoMoss, from Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Has a picture of Mr.T as his avitar. He also posted this:

March 10 by GatherNoMoss (577 found)
Had to blow the dust off an old college text book but translated easily...amazing what the mind is able to retain. WTFESL

I left a note:

Privet, GatherNoMoss aka Carlette DID not dust off any books. He/she had it translated in the Masterrussian forums by Barmaley, Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti.
Edit: forum doesn't support Cyrillic

LOL. Awesome. You provided interesting info AND busted someone who likes to, shall we say, embellish a bit? I've been called losts of things in my life, but never an "old college textbook" before!

This is the nth instance I've seen people embellish as you say over the net. I think people underestimate the ability and possibility that people can be tracked down.

And, I thought it looked a bit badly written in places, for my level of Russian that's saying something.

Originally Posted by Barmaley

The string for the secret place is 945847704387553.

Or possibly 94584700000004387553

"семь нолей" = 0000000

Y'all are silly...I didn't mind one bit that I was "tracked down". Its a game pure and simple within our area.

CapeCod I responded to your post on the cache page..LOL...my team has gotten a big chuckle over it this morning..including me

The whole point was to figure out what the Russian said...I think its pretty much understood not that many (if anyone) in my area is fluent. I thought posting here was a creative way of finding out...plus gettin a smile.

Thanks y'all!
Carlette aka Gathernomoss I'm an open book.

Originally Posted by волк

And, I thought it looked a bit badly written in places, for my level of Russian that's saying something.

Exactly. When I am picking up on errors, your Russian is horrid!

Originally Posted by Carlette

Y'all are silly...I didn't mind one bit that I was "tracked down". Its a game pure and simple within our area.

CapeCod I responded to your post on the cache page..LOL...my team has gotten a big chuckle over it this morning..including me

The whole point was to figure out what the Russian said...I think its pretty much understood not that many (if anyone) in my area is fluent. I thought posting here was a creative way of finding out...plus gettin a smile.

Thanks y'all!
Carlette aka Gathernomoss I'm an open book.

It's really not a big deal, no. It's just bad form. I certainly don't lose sleep over it. The only thing I would end with is that the issue isn't that you "cheated" the dead-dropper by translating it (I guess all the Dukies and Tarheels in Slavic studies were to busy/lazy/had lives), but that you "embellished" your source. No one asked you to credit this forum/me, but to intentionally fabricate the whole back story is kind of lame. Anyway, no hard feelings, and I'm glad you found it.

Originally Posted by Carlette

The whole point was to figure out what the Russian said...

The person who wrote it wasn't Russian, that much we can tell you

Originally Posted by capecoddah

Barmaley,
Goeocachers are the people that hide things in fake rocks and post coordinates for others to look for them using GPSr's. This is part of a "puzzle cache", finders have to decipher clues to get the final Latitude / Longitude. It makes for a more cerebral challenge, not just romping around the woods with a GPS. Not that it's easy, I've been doing it for about 5 years. I'll scope out their forum and see if I can find out more.

Sounds familiar? Maybe the whole "spy" scandal was just a Geocacher rock!!!

It's a silly, yet fun, game, I've been doing it for close to 5 years now. Poor form in Geocaching he didn't give Barmaley a small credit for help.
CUT & PASTE:

March 11 by GatherNoMoss (577 found)
LOL..Cape Cod Cacher...I had to blow dust off books to even FIND the masterrussian forum..LMAO.

All in good fun, only thing that irritated me was I spent 20 minutes typing a note on the Geocaching site with some of my horrible Russian, only to
get it turned into a string of ????????????????? God's Fish

URL is giving me trouble tonight... here is the site:

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... c3504eaa0e