2005 RedBear's - all over the cities hunt

#1 - Seven and one men sailed

     down a raft not far away

     'twas a plan so bold,

     took 12 days to unfold

     that the legend be kept to stay

#2B - Marley was dead, was how one hunt started

      but get the right tale, don't be downhearted

      Dickens was good, but to find the bling

      find the tail with the far far better thing

#3B - The second city is cool, Chicago's got bite

      Jordan would fly through the air with great might

      To find what you're looking for, MJ's not quite right

      The key is what The Rock says: Go fly a kite

#4B - Time to get hunting, to start out and look

      Getting into a park and out of a book

      but before you go out, into the fray

      An eastern field general leads your way

#5B - I hate to mix metaphors

       But I like football scores

       And I've got a question for ye:

       The moose says to the caribou,

       "What is it I've in common with you?"



#6B - Soo whee! Say the pigs

      and the rockers with no gigs

      who have no where else to go

      the Italians aint right,

      just in case though, when you're there,

      just to be safe - purse and blow

#7B - A different kind of game

      For the man of the same name

      If you start 20,000 leagues under

      For that is the tone,

      When looking for clones,

      At 19 with beer and no blunder

#8B - The holiday season is about to roll in

      but don't let your spirits go fallin

      Tis better to give, than to get burned

      but if they gift wrong it can all be returned

#1 - Seven and one men sailed

     down a raft not far away

     'twas a plan so bold,

     took 12 days to unfold

     that the legend be kept to stay

#2A - Ok, ok, you're needing a place

      to outwit the rest, to headstart the race

      the suspects are usual, the folly is lark

      two places, two pucks, a st paul park

#3A - A moose named Dixie and a caribou named Billy

      walk into a Tavern. One says to the bartender:

      "Hey, can you play War?" The other says "what

      is it good for?" The wise bartender says "Civil,

      One, two or a police action - information, that's what."

#4A - The horny animals of the Serengetti

      Generally travel in packs.

      And to properly determine where the treasure lies,

      Bring along some snacks.

#5A - Mines of Mordor, Man can see

       For miles and miles cross the valley

       The unblinking eye, of course burns red

       To get near it, you might be dead

#6A - He saw the gilded weathercock

      Swim in the moonlight as he passed,

      And the meeting-house windows, black and bare,

      Gaze at him with a spectral glare,

      As if they already stood aghast

      At the bloody work they would look upon.

#7A - Henry the 8th, you was you was

      after taking the ride of another

      Hang two in the tower,

      One doesn't count, brother,

      To warn all the people below

#8A - You know, everywhere we go, people ask

      "How come you never do anything Nice?

      "and easy?"

      So we're going to take the beginning of this clue

      and make it nice

      and easy

      Then we're going to make the second part of this clue

      Rough

      Cause that's how we do when we roll

2 b honest...I'm really really lost...

Serengetti is spelled wrong...should be Serengeti....is this something???

serengetti eyewear =horny animals...the Housewifes of grand in packs??

they do bring snacks for their stroller kids...

heh

Gazelle

African Buffalo

Roan Antelope

Steenbock

Thomson's Gazelle

Topi

Waterbuck

Mountain Reedbuck

Bohor Reedbuck

Northern Black Rhino

Defassa Waterbuck

Oryx Antelope

Coke´s Hartebeest

White-bearded Wildebeest

Impala (looking for a car??)

Lesser Kudu

Bushbuck

at a risk of 3b making me look silly

" go fly a kite" anagram

" a key of gilt"

the KEY is what's got me confused.

Clintonesque= cigar?

FWIW I'm leaving town on weds afternoon....so clue 12 doesn't make a difference to me....

David Niven ...was an actor in "around the world in 80 days"

this is kind intreaging to me....

as Jules Verne wrote "around the world in 80 days" and "20,000 leagues"

...hmmm.... :chagrin:

or could I be looking for

verne gagne

kinda doubt it...any idiot would be able to come up with all kinds of rhymes with Given

:wink:

oops...damn clue writer trying to throw me off!!!

order noodles....and eat while noodling...

Stogies on Grand

961 Grand Ave, St Paul, MN

wow

HEADLINE: BERKELMAN ACQUITTED IN CIGAR THEFT CASE;

FORMER DULUTH LAWMAKER SAYS HE PICKED UP, BUT NEVER STOLE ITEMS

BYLINE: Todd Nelson, St. Paul Pioneer Press

BODY:

The husband of Minnesota's chief justice was acquitted Tuesday of charges he stole cigars from a St. Paul shop. Thomas Berkelman, 52, of Bloomington, was acquitted of a charge of misdemeanor theft after jurors deliberated for about three hours.

Berkelman, married to Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz, had maintained his innocence since he was first accused of pocketing pricey imported cigars during a Feb. 12 visit to Stogies on Grand.

Berkelman is a former state representative from Duluth.

While conceding that he stuffed some cigars in his pockets while browsing, Berkelman said he replaced them and never left the store with cigars for which he had not paid.

"This has been an expensive and painful lesson," Berkelman testified at one point during the trial. The verdict came after a weeklong trial that Berkelman's attorney, William Mauzy, said was the most heavily litigated misdemeanor case he had taken part in during 25 years of criminal defense work.

With a courtroom crowded with high-tech video gear replaying security video, large-scale diagrams of the store's walk-in humidor and enough talk about cigars to satisfy even Sigmund Freud's legendary passion for stogies, the hard-fought case was far from the typical shoplifting trial.

Jurors watched Berkelman grip handfuls of cigars while re-enacting his trip to the store and saw him try to place cigars in various coat pockets and remove them. They sat through exhaustive replays of tape from the store's four security cameras presented in dueling formats, with Mauzy using a DVD player hooked up to a big-screen monitor and Donald Lewis, special assistant St. Paul city attorney, using three small monitors connected to a VCR.

The case took an unusual course on its way to the courtroom as well. An assistant city attorney dismissed the charge in May, citing a lack of evidence, in a move that brought complaints from store owners. City Attorney Clayton Robinson revived the case in July after reviewing evidence at the request of Mayor Norm Coleman and Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher.

The sheriff launched his own investigation, saying he found no evidence that St. Paul city lawyers had committed misconduct or showed favoritism toward Berkelman in dismissing the charge. The sheriff also found no indication that Blatz "or anyone remotely related to her" had informed the city attorney's office of her relationship to Berkelman.

I'm game...