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2010 - Lilydale Regional Park

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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 

 

 
First Video - The Deed is Done 

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
Clue #1 

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
Clue #2 

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.
Clue #3 

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
Clue #4 

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.
Clue #5 

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.
Clue #6 

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
Clue #7 

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.
Clue #8 

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
Clue #9 

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
Clue #10 

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
Clue #11 

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
 



 

leelabell

I think margin refers to the county line, seam refers to a crack in a rock or tree.

AW, she was at the Minneapolis paper then. It is still possible.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 8:47 PM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

I still think the medallion is hidden in some sort of memorial item...

Or is it?

She died January 2nd. We suspect the medallion was hidden in the Christmas storm. Which means either Clue #2 does NOT refer to what it is hidden in or the medallion was NOT hidden during that storm. I'm thinking the latter. What if the cluewriter hid the medallion within their own footprints?
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 8:55 PM Permalink
queenmalley

Welcome to the mix, Langdon.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 8:55 PM Permalink
Terry

Hi Langdon! Nice to have you here.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 8:56 PM Permalink
queenmalley

What if the cluewriter hid the medallion within their own footprints?

That would be kinda cool!
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 8:59 PM Permalink
Tatergirl

Do you think the avatar for clue 3 might be diamond Jim Brady?
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:01 PM Permalink
tom

If you search the last name Howell, its linked to the Coen Brothers movie A Serious Man. Part of it accoring to wekpedia was filmed at St. Olaf College.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:03 PM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

Here's something else I've been thinking since clue #2, though I wasn't sure what to make of it. But if you look at all of the twin (double) letters in that clue, they spell "SOLES". And then we had a clue mentioning footprints. The trails people make in the snow tend to be some of the last places to get dug up. If the medallion was hidden after the snowfall, wouldn't that be the best way to conceal it amongst otherwise virgin snow?
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:04 PM Permalink
excavating stud

I like that idea. Keeps my other theories alive
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:04 PM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

Hmmmmm, could be. Look at the size of that hat, just like the overly large one in the video.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:05 PM Permalink
OT

Maybe the next video will use Lillian Russell, Diamond Jim's girlfriend. Lily for short perhaps?
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:05 PM Permalink
tom

That is a great point, because clue 1 bascailly is talking about the Christmas storm. If you didn't shovel christmas eve, and on Christmas day, it seriosuly felt like you were shoveling concrete.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:06 PM Permalink
tom

If we had the blow up last night, Michael Jackson the 2nd night, maybee tonight would be Mr Rogers
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:08 PM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

We mentioned earlier that lederhosen is (are?) not a German thing so much as an Alpine thing. The Alpines are a mountainous region. What if the reference was meant to suggest mountain climbing which in turn references the ice climbing that people do in Lilydale?
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:09 PM Permalink
Mad_Dach5und

I'm expecting Mayor Coleman to do a clue before this over...

BTW - the Lederhosen line is the 1st Clue - 90% of 90% of the First Clues are just 'Public Land' - STOP looking for Lederhosen! You're gonna hurt something trying to reach for that one!
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:09 PM Permalink
OT

If that's the case, the video might use sock puppets. Didn't Mr. Rogers talk to sock puppets?
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:10 PM Permalink
queenmalley

...or Jesse Ventura.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:12 PM Permalink
OT

Maybe Michele Bachmann. Now that would be scary!
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:14 PM Permalink
tom

Maybee clue 12 will be Bill Clinton to say for the record that he did not have..........
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:15 PM Permalink
OT

I'm thinking sock puppets for sure.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:16 PM Permalink
tom

I find it strange that I can't find the costumes used at Twin City Magic's website
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:17 PM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

Mr Rogers did have puppets on the show, but I don't think they were sock puppets. The only one I specifically remember was one that was a king.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:17 PM Permalink
excavating stud

Ventriloquist? Now that would be frightening.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:19 PM Permalink
KOP

coleman at oxford
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:19 PM Permalink
OT

Lady Oberlin, Owl. But I think he started his career using sock puppets.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:19 PM Permalink
OT

Lady Elaine Fairchild
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:20 PM Permalink
wolfpac

Meow meow kitty cat.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:20 PM Permalink
tom

Can we review what was dropped in each video clue again?

Last nights blow up they payed close attention to the blow up as it fell. This would be the 2nd manikin they CW showed us.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:23 PM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

What do you do while waiting for the clue?

Just sit and make up a silly rhyme.

It will probably say hunt for one more day

I guess we'll find out at clue time.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:24 PM Permalink
Eags

When that blow up doll fell, it was left in the "use me for a bicycle rack" position.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:25 PM Permalink
OT

Hunt! Hunt!! Hunt!!!
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:25 PM Permalink
OT

It was kind of disturbing.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:26 PM Permalink
Eags

While we wait, here's an oldie:

The Scribe wrote on his posting slate

And posted for all to see

“If faith’s anew’

Then why donÂ’t you

All come to mass with me?”

And one replied, “Can’t go inside

For long have I feared the worst

For much IÂ’ve scoffed

And pissed Him off

And into flames IÂ’ll burst.

Or maybe I never really thought

That any harm could come

But IÂ’ll err on the side of being sure

And with the priests, stay mum.

But IÂ’ll tell you

A sin or two

Though imagined or real they be

And whether theyÂ’re lies

Or super-size

My conscience can be set free.

So rub-a-dub-dub

Come hop in my tub

And IÂ’ll tell you my Alli-Sins

‘Bout whips and chains

And walking canes

And a few moreÂ…just for shts and grins.

But what I must confess

Is that I obsess

‘Bout hockey pucks hidden in tins

And I dream at night

Of parks all white

And that one of the Cooler Crew wins!

Now IÂ’m done confessing

So please give me your blessing

IÂ’ve gotten it all off my chest

Super-size or with fries

IÂ’ve my eyes on the prize

Just let me get on with my quest.”
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:26 PM Permalink
Terry

Clue 1 was the cape thingy.

Clue 2 was the arm and the F bomb
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:26 PM Permalink
witchdoctor

King Friday - the aggressive side of Mr.Rogers passive goodness.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:27 PM Permalink
queenmalley

Twilight was also a big hit movie, like Avatar.

Clue #1 video talks about "shape shifting" such as Avatars or werewolves in Twilight. It does state to "listen well to each avatar" so there must be some clue in those.

Also, Clue 1 video says that "with each rhyming gift, this shape I will shift"

I think the "rhyming gifts" are the words that are rhyming such as gift, shift, etc. it's like an anagram for some of the rhyming words somehow. AW touched on it in his earlier post.

But I think I may be just stuck and waiting for the next clue!
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:27 PM Permalink
leelabell

We went to Munich for Oktoberfest. Many Bavarians wore lederhosen non-ironically.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:27 PM Permalink
OT

I dream of the hunt all the time this time of year. Last night I dreamed that Captain Cauliflower was an important clue. Don't ask.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:28 PM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

One must wonder, was it a blunder

Or is the clue writer just a big perv?

The videos are scary, and I mean very.

The nightmares have fried my last nerve.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:29 PM Permalink
queenmalley

haha!
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:29 PM Permalink
OT

Good one, AW!
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:29 PM Permalink
ares

possibly
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:30 PM Permalink
Terry

Eags - I know who wrote that. Good job!
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:30 PM Permalink
queenmalley

This is great!
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:30 PM Permalink
Tatergirl

HILARITY!!!
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:30 PM Permalink
OT

The other night I dreamed I made a wonderful map of Ramsey County from the 1800's with a vellum overlay of how it looks now.
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:31 PM Permalink
tom

I'm glad I didn't watch Clue 7 video before bed, I would of had to make sure my windows were locked. :confused:
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:31 PM Permalink