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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
One summer I spent in NYC I was ironing a blouse and I lsft it hanging there on the board when i went back to put it on it had the biggest cockroach crawling across it! It was as long as 2/3 of the lenghth of a bic lighter. I kid you not. I screamed and my boyfriend laughed.. This was upper East side. Everything in the Kitchen was always in tupperware.
and Yes I can see why you would Lose Weight ON IT!!! lol
wow that one was close!!! :eyeroll: :ooh: :goofy:
between the quotes paste what you copied, and then re-post your message.
Ya dont try that Diet!! Not a Great Idea!! lol
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I was completely freaked out, as was the little girl... I don't think my heart rate dropped for hours and I had nightmares that night. Yuck.
 :grin:
if it looks like a cluewriter, writes like a cluewriter, sounds like a cluewriter ... is the cluewriter
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-157185525.html
Didn't help any with deciphering the clues, but I got to re-remember some of the things I'd forgotten :smile:
WOW that HURT!!! :lipsealed: :ooh:
hand is still numb! I am Taking a Digi cam apart to put in a old accordion style cam. for My girl friend!
Posted on Wed, Jan. 25, 2006
It's time to come clean about Treasure Hunt
JOE SOUCHERAY
OK, I write the clues for the Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt.
There. Is everybody happy now?
I'm lying, of course, but that doesn't seem to make any more difference than when I tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I don't write the clues, but that hasn't stopped the bloggers, David W. Downing, chief among them. This Downing is a St. Paul fellow who plants the seeds of suspicion and doubt. The gullible treasure hunters read Downing's stuff, and then they call me and accuse me of making the clues too pointless, or too obtuse or too clever by half. There's also a guy named Stu who is so confused that he has called me in the summer and accused me of also writing the clues for the Minneapolis Aquatennial treasure hunt.
"There isn't one of those,'' I told Stu.
"That's what you say, sir.''
I did some research, people. This whole notion of me writing the clues started BECAUSE I DEFENDED TREASURE HUNTERS AGAINST BAD CLUES!
Yes, I went to bat for you and then you turned on me. Remember 2003? The regulars certainly do. That year, it occurred to me that a charming kind of simplicity and innocence had escaped us. We went from years and years of treasure hunts with words in the clues like backstop, picnic, grove and lake, to a literary tour de force of obfuscation and pretense.
In clue No. 4 of '03 you got the line, "The coldest star will guide you far,'' only to have it revealed that the coldest star referred to the Star of the North, or L'Etoile du Nord, the name of a French immersion school a couple of blocks from Como Park.
Good God.
But the smacker, the humdinger, that turned me into a raving ombudsman on behalf of you, the treasure hunter, occurred that year in clue No. 5:
"Treasure Hunt lifer, prepare to cipher.
This one's yours to keep.
Was it two or three, they seem not to agree
When St. Paul made a great leap."
I bet that one still smarts, especially after years of "look near the charcoal grill, it will be such a thrill, especially if your name is Bill.''
It turns out that "two or three'' referred to 1872 or 1873, meaning the year that Como became a park. And the word "leap" referred to Feb. 29, 1872, leap day, when the Legislature authorized the purchase of the land that became Como Park.
Not only did I decide right then that I was going to work for you, the treasure hunter, but I hoped with all sincerity that we had an employee assistance plan so the clue writer could get help for drug abuse.
There's an old saying for what has happened since 2003. No good deed goes unpunished. There's a faction of treasure hunters who believe I doth protest too much. For Downing, the proof this year came as early as clue No. 2. He heard me wrestling with it and thought that I was putting on an act. I wish I could say it was true. But it did not hit me — and had to be pointed out to me — that "son of pear" was Pearson. Pearson Candy. "Patty" and "nut" were in the same clue. Once it was explained to me, I realized that what might be taken from that clue was that the medallion is probably hidden in a Pearson candy wrapper.
And then a guy from the Pearson Candy Co. called me and wanted me to remind people that the medallion is hidden on public property. This guy had a bit of a Southern accent, by the way, probably wasn't from here and acted as though he was making the call while peeking from behind a curtain in his office. As hard as it might be to imagine, Pearson was overrun with hordes of treasure hunters Monday.
Stay off private property. I don't write the clues, and I have no idea where the medallion is, but I can assure you that the medallion is not hidden on the grounds of a candy manufacturing plant.
I'd be looking in a park, if I were allowed to look.
Joe Soucheray can be reached at jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com or 651-228-5474. Soucheray is heard from 2 to 5:30 p.m. weekdays on KSTP-AM 1500.