Discuss the 2010 Medallion Hunt Here
13th Annual Rehash Bash and Other End of the Winter Carnival Festivities
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Newell Park Pavilion
900 N. Fairview Ave.
Saint Paul, MN 55104
11:30am-2:30pm
The 13th Annual Rehash Bash will be held on Sunday, January 31, 2010, at Newell Park, from 11:30am to 2:30pm. As always, its a potluck, and since we\'ve got the building, there will be plenty of power indoors for crock pots. Donations will be accepted to cover the $136 cost for renting the facility. MrMnMikey has some door prizes available. Since this isn\'t Super Bowl Sunday this year, if people want to stick around past the 2:30 closing time, we can start a fire in one of the fire rings.
In addition, many of us long-time Coolerheads are loyal servants of Vulcanus Rex. Join us for the Vulcan Victory Torchlight Parade, followed by the Vulcan Victory Dance. Information on the Parade Route is from the 2006 Vulcan Krewe. The best places for viewing the parade are going to be at the end of the parade route, as His Majesty, Vulcanus Rex LXXIII, the true King of the Winter Carnival, overthrows that other guy on the steps of the St. Paul Central Library, across from Rice Park
Conference Call Info for Clue 11:
There was no conference call scheduled for clue 10.
- Phone Number: 1-517-417-5000
- Pass code: 859597 (clue 12 may be different
- Everyone will be muted initially
- Lines open at 11pm
- lilslim will read the clue twice from start to finish
- After the clue has been read, she will unmute the call
- 60 ports are available for the teleconference
Line Placeholder Schedule
1/26/2010-
5-6 Redbear
6-7 Jake
7-8 Jerilyn
8-9 Kathy
9-10 Mikey
10-Clue Steph
1/27/2010-
12-1 Redbear
1-2 Andrea
2-3 Nimrod
3-4 jengerm
4-5 Barefootguy
5-6 Wicked Nick
6-7 Chris Digger
7-8 Art V
8-9 CM & Me2
9-Clue Sara
When January’s slanting snow,
Makes us dream of Mexico
St. Paul emerges from Wintery sleep
To search for treasure buried deep
Notice to every hunting battalion,
We have hidden the Pioneer Press Medallion
Where? You ask in husky shout,
That’s for us to know, and you to find out
Turn off the tube, leave your hovel
Grab your walking stick and shovel,
Whether you be giant or runt,
The only way is to join the hunt
For to the hunter belongs the spoil,
Hunt by day, or Midnight oil,
Hunt in boot and sturdy glove,
Hunt with pal, or old true love
For you who hunt each and every year,
We raise a lusty St. Paul cheer
“Good Luck”
And now, let us be blunt,
Get off thy duff, and hunt, hunt, hunt
Deed is Done http://tinyurl.com/CwMessage
Clue 1 http://tinyurl.com/Clue1Video
Clue 2 http://tinyurl.com/clue2videonew
Clue 3 http://tinyurl.com/clue3video
Clue 4 http://tinyurl.com/clue4video
Clue 5 http://tinyurl.com/clue5videonew
Clue 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F14Z7enoJmo
Clue 7 http://www.twincities.com/sharedvideo/?bcpid=58071989001&bctid=62974493001
All hail, O Fire King, of thee we sing
Thy blast of winter heat scorches
When ice was like concrete it would\'ve been so sweet
If the Vulcans plowed with their torches
Emerge from the den as we once again
Offer a bodacious bounty
And this tip to the frozen: bring thick lederhosen
To public land in Ramsey County
Clue #1 Video
Hear ye all crews, now come the clues
For this task I am the Czar
With each rhyming gift, this shape I will shift
Listen well to each avatar
Kissed by a Vulcan, she left him sulkin\'
\"Sir Soot, I\'ll not forgive these sins!\"
Her airs Elizabethan, her language, bleepin\' heathen,
Our mother once blessed us with twins.
Look high, look low, wherever you go
Follow a picturesque route
There are ways to travel away from the gravel
That keep you in hot pursuit
Code by Morse should set your course
To long dashes that dot the landscape.
You or your avatar should park your car
On your way to this great escape.
Take a westerly tack up from the stack,
A landmark most uncouth.
Figures grand in scale point to a trail
Of footprints left by our sleuth.
You\'ll want to go shopping where things are hopping
And storeowners once dropped anchor
Go down the main drag, but be sure not to lag,
You\'ll have plenty for which to thank her
Escape your troubles where the water bubbles
Or gurgles like a stream.
You may be chargin\' right up to the margin.
Look for a productive seam.
Down on the delta where there\'s no ice to melta
The purple horde raids a golden legion
Today before kick off the prize you\'ll pick off
If you search in just the right region
To find the seed, energy you need
In search for your clues to glean
What once was planted is taken for granted
Stored in one of fifteen
Not far from stones and ancient bones
Lay clues that are fit for Jim
Lure the egrets to yield all secrets
And you should satisfy him
Get your kicks by hitting the bricks
Admiring the trees and view
Be ever glad hopping pad to pad
Like amphibians in\'52
Stonehenge tumbled down near a crumbled town
Not far from the lights of the city
If you would hike away from the pike
You might stumble on something pretty
Upstream from the landing lay a place in good standing
Where people prayed, God willin\'
Now midst the cocklebur and rusted spur
Is nothing by murder and killin\'
This park is a sliver, from ancient beds to a river
In neither is the prize to be found
Look for the goods among timber and woods
Do not dig in the fossil ground
Go for a lark in Lilydale Park
Between Water Street and the river
The city boundary sign and the old rail line
Define the zone that will deliver
You\'re outside the pale if you\'re close to the rail
It\'s not to be found near the tracks
Be nice and cooperative, respect private property
On public land launch your attacks
Within this area lies medallion hysteria
A tangle near the river - not too close!
About four dozen paces from the waterline to places
Where you should tromp, dig and freeze your nose
some people don't agree with it...some people wish they could be him....
"Dad?, when I grow up I want to be just like the Clue Writer"
I have looked at the clue and thought that it did evoke Klondike Kate. If it evokes her though, what is the meaning or significance? It could have something to do with what it is hidden in or tie to a nearby street or business but it doesn't jump out at this time.
There's been some discussion about how it was written "Her airs Elizabethan, her language bleepin' heathen". I think that airs is correctly used and that while not grammatically proper, it was changed for the rhyming scheme. It's saying that whomever they are alluding to had a presence that was proper/civilized but that her language was sassy/uncensored/uncivilized.
I find it interesting with the use of "Our Mother". Since they used our it would either have to mean it is a mother figure to the writer and reader, or it is the mother of the subject of the clue. My initial thought is that it referring to Ma Press which used to give two clues a day, which ties in to them giving two clues now. But is "Ma Press" a term that one of the Coolers came up with or is that something that the Pioneer Press has officially recognized and advertised before? I'm inclined to think not.
I know that in the past that the hunt was designed so any person can get a paper and play along... BUT... in light of the fact the newspapers are having to adapt to loss of ad revenue with declining subscriptions because of internet.. MAYBE... like Soucheray said once "This is no longer your mother's treasure hunt".. "give the geeks what they want - a harder hunt" The added traffic to the website makes them money from the ad revenues from the site.
Today we had Michael Jackson
Jackson St runs though Downtown St Paul and up in Little Canada between 2 lakes.
Viking could be caves?
I did point out last night that he looked like MJ!! but it got over looked!!!
Ok on to my Noodles one did anyone come to think that Hidden falls is Right acrosed the River from Minnehaha Falls!?! twins and that hunt never really got in to full swing because Jake found it to fast!! ok also note that Someone said something about being south and there is the south part of the park just a thought also like the twin lake in Vadnes Heights! to but Now I am going to check My email and facebook I hav
off to the ER for EMILY!!
will post more when I know MORE!!
I was wondering last night why they would go to the trouble to print a weird picture next to the clue. And also why would they go to the trouble of getting all these different costumes? I think the 'avatar's are important. Do I need to see the movie Avatar to understand this?
Anyway, does anyone know about the first "suing the Vulcs" incident? I didn't live in MN then so only know about it third hand. It was one lady who sued for getting "kissed" with greasepaint. Since then, the Vulcs have had to ask to put greasepaint on a face. What year was that?
2006 clue #3 medallion was hidden in a garter
I think if it is referring to a Vulcan incident it's the one that Leelabel mentioned that happened in the 70's or 80's involving one woman who sued when they "kissed/smudged" her without her permission. That's why they use a pen now and write a V. I cannot find details of this incident anywhere... who are a google advanced search experts?
I was trying to tie in the Mississippi as being the mother but can't remember why.
good idea about the falls. I'm trying to find 'south' IN the written clues IF we have to just go on written clues alone.
we are being made to think in 2 different ways - one with only newspaper clues and the other with newspaper clues and video.
MJ didn't go overlooked. Just that it needs to tie in somehow... just like Klondike Kate...If we are supposed to have the word "Klondike Kate", what are we supposed to do with that. Its not like they are giving us Tennis Courts"
hope all is okay with Emily. Does she have a Coolername yet?
(Sorry, couldn't resist that one!)
Ice was like concrete (possibly related to Brim"Stone") even though brimstone is sulphur.
note: It has been in more than this thread over the last couple of weeks.
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could be in or near a tire in the park - tire swing
:wink:
Really tho, sorry if I have been guilty of this, My language is often bleepin' heathen.
And there was something about St. Agnes Church being german as well as a good portion of frogtown (froggenburg = frog city)
#1 Viking/Football/Norweigen/Norway/NORTH
#2 Cross Dresser/Mannequin/Holding Left Fake Arm
And don't forget the Michael Jackson mask. :pbpt:
In Greek and Roman mythology, b Castor and Pollux
(in Greek, KástÅr and PolydeúkÄ“s - ÎšÎ¬ÏƒÏ„Ï‰Ï ÎºÎ±á½¶ ΠολυδεÏκης) were the twin sons of LÄ“da and Zeus/Tyndareus (Pollux's father was Zeus, Castor's was Tyndareus), the brothers of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra and the half-brothers of Timandra, Phoebe, Heracles and Philonoe. They are known collectively in Greek as the Dioskouroi or Dioscuri (ΔιόσκουÏοι), "sons of Zeus", and in Latin as the Gemini ("twins") or Castores. Castor means "beaver" in both Greek and Latin, and polydeukes means "much sweet wine".[1] They are sometimes also termed the Tyndaridae (ΤυνδαÏίδαι) in reference to their alternative fatherhood by Tyndareus.
In the myth the twins shared the same mother but had different fathers which meant that Pollux was immortal and Castor was mortal. When Castor died, Pollux asked Zeus to let him share his own immortality with his twin to keep them together and they were transformed into the Gemini constellation. The pair were regarded as the patrons of sailors, to whom they appeared as St. Elmo's fire.
Castor means "Beaver" (park reference??)
Patrons of sailors (lake or boat refernce) Harriett?
Also what community center did Joe Mauer play baseball at, being a Twins player. Griggs?