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2006 Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt

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excavating stud

"Do your research". I wonder if "red letter days" or some other phrase in the clue has historical significance to the park?
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 2:24 PM Permalink
wolfpac

This just in from the PP site. Just a thought... outing-pay is pig latin for pouting. Is this a reference to treasure hunters or pig eye lake?
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 2:29 PM Permalink
wolfpac

Has anybody found the medallion 3 times?
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 2:38 PM Permalink
OT

The left in a lurch anagram is awesome, but I also like the connection to cribbage and the winning score of 61. There are a few parks on highway 61.
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 2:47 PM Permalink
green

Oldie, what was that anagram? I read, but don't remember. I've tried and gotten nothing (I don't think) important.
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 3:02 PM Permalink
queenmalley

"You would be wise to look for the prize

By taking up a child's proclivities."

There is a "West Dora Court" and a "East Dora Court" and a "Dora Lane" in a square off Burns and upper afton road. you know, "Dora, Dora the Explorer".Abuts a patch of woods, but I am not sure if it is considered BC.
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 3:39 PM Permalink
KITCH

me2 asked me to post this for here

The area of Battle Creek was known as "Pine Coulee".

Apparently one of the most wooded areas of st. paul.

My undersstanding is she likes this to go with "research" and "treephobia"

but I like it to go with Pine Tar/Pitch. (huh? why is that?)
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 3:49 PM Permalink
Terry

Cuz Pitch rhymes with Kitch?
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 3:51 PM Permalink
Formo

This is my first post for this hunt...so here are a few of my ideas to add to the rest.

Pitch...isn't that a golf term? Highland has frisbee golf? BTW where did the tee boxes go?

Hill and Glen- Upper and lower afton road? :neutral:
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 3:54 PM Permalink
Terry

Welcome Formo!
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 3:55 PM Permalink
Formo

Thank you. I really liked using this site this summer. The PP board is so difficult to read thru...Thanks again for a great site:) :smile:
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 3:56 PM Permalink
green

She's rite and there's still lots o'pines there.
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 3:56 PM Permalink
wolfpac

That on the St. Paul side or Maplewood?
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:03 PM Permalink
wolfpac

Man, I never realized the area on the Maplewood side, North of the shelters, is so beautiful. Big pine tree's all over.
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:05 PM Permalink
KT

I searched the pants off the word lurch, and nowhere did I find the correlation between it and lych this olde engleesh word for corpse. I found it to have originated in the middle french era, no changes to the definition than all it means today.

Another dispellation of runorous noodles.
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:09 PM Permalink
Terry

Hey KT!

I love when you're about here. You have such a way with words. It's quite the talent.
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:16 PM Permalink
becksie

It sure was beautiful day to be out! :smile:
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:24 PM Permalink
Terry

That's soooo true...and so sad for those of us stuck in an office.

I'm truly happy for you, though Becksie.
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:26 PM Permalink
OT

I put 75 miles on my car today. I checked out most every large park in St. Paul and any small ones along the way.
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:27 PM Permalink
becksie

WoW!!!
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:28 PM Permalink
becksie

You will get out with us soon, TV...it doesn't seem like anyone is that close to finding it...heck, we're not 100% sure of the park yet!
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:29 PM Permalink
Terry

I believe after dinner, we're going to go drive around the one park we didn't get to last night.

At least Inks and my son will be getting out there tomorrow - at least that's the plan. I can be out by the weekend...and tomorrow is Finally Friday!!!
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:33 PM Permalink
green

Son is Hunting? COOLER!!!
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:43 PM Permalink
Terry

It is way cooler! After him being gone...first to grad school and then to Guatemala, to finally have him here during the hunt feels like heaven.
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:45 PM Permalink
lilslim

Here ya go Green Woman!!

Meaning

Abandoned in a difficult position without help.

Origin

This has nothing to do with lurching in the sense of staggering unsteadily.

There are reports that lurch is a noun originating from lych - the Old English word for corpse, which gives the name to the covered lych-gates that adjoin many English churches. The theory goes that jilted brides would be 'left in the lych (or lurch)' when the errant bridegroom failed to appear. The lych-gate is where coffins are left when waiting for the clergyman to arrive to conduct a funeral service. Both theories are plausible but there's no evidence to support either and in fact lych and lurch are unrelated.

Actually the phrase originates from the French game of lourche or lurch, played in the 16th century. Players suffered a lurch if they were left in a hopeless position from which they couldn't win the game. The card game of cribbage, or crib, also has a 'lurch' position which players may be left in if they don't progress half way round the peg board before the winner finishes.

The phrase had certainly entered the language by the 16th century as this line from Nashe's 'Saffron Walden', 1596, shows: "Whom he also procured to be equally bound with him for his new cousens apparence to the law, which he neuer did, but left both of them in the lurtch for him."

A more easily understood line, with the more familiar spelling of lurch, comes not much later in Holland's 'Livy', 1600: "The Volscians seeing themselves abandoned and left in the lurch by them, quit the campe and field."
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:45 PM Permalink
Terry

That's interesting about cribbage.

On one of our cribbage boards it actually has the skunk and double skunk lines...not lurch lines.

Very interesting.
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:47 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

it's in a dead skunk
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:50 PM Permalink
becksie

bleh!
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:51 PM Permalink
Terry

So if you found a dead skunk, Tim, you would use that new hoe tear about said skunk?
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:55 PM Permalink
Wicked Nick

I hope not...

after my run in with the Raccoon, that was hiding in the tree, and tried to eat me, last year at Crosby... I'm not messing with any animals...

alive or dead

It might not be dead... it could be faking...
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:56 PM Permalink
becksie

yeah, they do that. they plan and plot all year for the WC hunt, just to pounce on unsuspecting hunters that are invading their territory! :pbpt:
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:58 PM Permalink
zephyrus

I don't remember what it was but something else struck me as dog park... ken maybe... dunno...
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:58 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

we should be researching cribbage strategy right now.

double run= 2 different ski "runs"?
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 4:59 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

terry- if it has a nut goodie rapper in it's paws maybe :wink:
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 5:00 PM Permalink
KITCH

Did you tell him the rules...

give him a bag...

make him stick everything and everything the bag...garbage etc..

then go home a sort thru it like halloween candy..

oh and that includes mittons :wink:
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 5:02 PM Permalink
Terry

And earmuffs. :lipsealed:
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 5:02 PM Permalink
KITCH

u said it...not me :smile:

...
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 5:04 PM Permalink
zephyrus

Meaning

Abandoned in a difficult position without help.

Origin

This has nothing to do with lurching in the sense of staggering unsteadily.

There are reports that lurch is a noun originating from lych - the Old English word for corpse, which gives the name to the covered lych-gates that adjoin many English churches. The theory goes that jilted brides would be 'left in the lych (or lurch)' when the errant bridegroom failed to appear. The lych-gate is where coffins are left when waiting for the clergyman to arrive to conduct a funeral service. Both theories are plausible but there's no evidence to support either and in fact lych and lurch are unrelated.

Actually the phrase originates from the French game of lourche or lurch, played in the 16th century. Players suffered a lurch if they were left in a hopeless position from which they couldn't win the game. The card game of cribbage, or crib, also has a 'lurch' position which players may be left in if they don't progress half way round the peg board before the winner finishes.

The phrase had certainly entered the language by the 16th century as this line from Nashe's 'Saffron Walden', 1596, shows: "Whom he also procured to be equally bound with him for his new cousens apparence to the law, which he neuer did, but left both of them in the lurtch for him."

A more easily understood line, with the more familiar spelling of lurch, comes not much later in Holland's 'Livy', 1600: "The Volscians seeing themselves abandoned and left in the lurch by them, quit the campe and field."

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/225700.html
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 5:04 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

kitch likes my hoe better than his hoe.
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 5:05 PM Permalink
KITCH

yours is used...
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 5:06 PM Permalink
Wicked Nick

It did a good job on me...

it took a piece of skin from my finger, stole my glove, and made me run away super fast, while screaming louder than any girl ive ever heard....

I think I might still have rabies from it....

maybe thats why I glow in the dark?
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 5:07 PM Permalink
zephyrus

but Kitch is a better hoe than you will ever be... :wink:
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 5:08 PM Permalink
green

Great. Cribbage. Why me? WHY me!!!

Something else I'm not good at. I know ALL ABOUT getting skunked. Fur shure.
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 5:08 PM Permalink
wolfpac

Really and truly, that is the biggest hoe I've ever seen.
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 5:08 PM Permalink
green

I saw New Daddy out with his hoe today, but don't tell his wife.

He had a diaper pinned to his chest! And a picture of Newest Addition. Cute kid. Annudder Hunter in the making.
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 5:09 PM Permalink
KITCH

mine's just as big...and a little more bent
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 5:10 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

touche
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 5:10 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

mine is a little bit more heavy duty too. I'd be afraid I'd break yours.
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 5:11 PM Permalink
KITCH

I'm not so sure about the "duty" part.
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 5:12 PM Permalink
zephyrus

HA!
Thu, 01/26/2006 - 5:12 PM Permalink