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2011 - Battle Creek Park

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2011 Clues




 

excavating stud

thx

I was thinking it could also be interpreted as a large manmade tunnell drilled into the rock

I can't see that it would fit anything, but hey
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:10 PM Permalink
zephyrus

like mines? My grandpa used to mine in St Paul. He drove a large boring machine...
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:13 PM Permalink
queenmalley

LOL! This fits perfect with your avatar!
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:14 PM Permalink
excavating stud

highland pony's are gentle and some have a chestnut coat...
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:15 PM Permalink
queenmalley

My first thought to "prodigious" was the prodigal son fable. But earlier post on prodigious definition wouldn't fit.
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:15 PM Permalink
ares

my one and only noodle for the night:

what if heaven or hell come = upper and lower afton roads.
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:18 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

Your logic works both ways. If it really doesn't matter, why do you feel the need to post it first? If it's going to be posted minutes later why can't your thread wait until the morning?

Look, I get it's not a big deal because it's so early. But what if some night it is a big deal and someone at home figures something huge out (c LEVEL and) and we're stuck at the paper trying to figure it out.

This isn't a debate where we go back and forth and argue. If I see things being posted over there from here I will keep the clues to myself and friends. If you really can't follow a simple request I'll get people's cell phone numbers and send it to everyone that wants it.
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:18 PM Permalink
zephyrus

prodigious is relating to prodigy, in some definition. A pretentious prodigy would potentially be a prodigious bore.
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:20 PM Permalink
queenmalley

Clue 2: it's usually "minding our P's and Q's" rather than the reverse Ma Press wrote.
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:21 PM Permalink
queenmalley

very good!
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:21 PM Permalink
zephyrus

SCD's, it's that time again...
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:22 PM Permalink
queenmalley

(sorry if I re-noodle. behind in reading posts).

Clue 2 "Stand and Deliver" was that movie about a high school.
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:25 PM Permalink
Tatergirl

I couldn't help it but this clue reminds me of the theme song for "All in the Family" - Archie Bunker

Boy the way Glen Miller played

Songs that made the hit parade.

Guys like us we had it made,

Those were the days.

And you knew who you were then,

Girls were girls and men were men,

Mister we could use a man

Like Herbert Hoover again.

Didn't need no welfare state,

Everybody pulled his weight.

Gee our old LaSalle ran great.

Those were the days.

we could get a ton of street references here
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:27 PM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen

Robin Hood, Robin Hood, with his band of men

Feared by the bad, loved by the good

Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:31 PM Permalink
Gilby

Queen, yes, Garfield High School.
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:31 PM Permalink
l and a mommy

Nice one Tater!
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:32 PM Permalink
queenmalley

James A. Garfield High School is the high school in Stand and Deliver.
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:32 PM Permalink
l and a mommy

Each morn they stand and deliver had been bugging me (I've been at Beaver until tonight) because it seemed to be a military ref. Fort Road runs past Highland...
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:33 PM Permalink
queenmalley

  • sorry, repeat*
  • Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:35 PM Permalink
    excavating stud

    Gentle chestnut..."chestnuts roasting by open fire" as song by Bing CROSBY... Och
    Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:37 PM Permalink
    queenmalley

    yes, clue 3 does focus on "when men were men"...
    Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:41 PM Permalink
    queenmalley

    Robin Hood flour has a Minnesota connection back in the day.
    Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:43 PM Permalink
    PilotsHatGuy

    The more I read this the more it makes me think it's talking about a person. Some military general or something back in the horseback days when "men were men" and then went into politics and, I don't know, turned to crap or something?

    Andrew Jackson came to mind. Wikipedia tells me he was born to Presbyterian Scotch-Irish colonists (Och is a Scottish & Irish term). He was a famous military general in the war of 1812 with his most famous victory at the Battle of New Orleans (gentle chestnut, stories of yore, days in the glen when men were men) Then he went on to politics and to be president (the prodigious bore). Not sold on it, but the best I've got at this point. Now I need to sleep.
    Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:45 PM Permalink
    Gilby

    Tamarack Park?

    Glen + (Chestnut) wood = Glenwood Ave just north of the park.

    Heaven or Hell = Temple of Aaron Cemetery just to the West of the park

    And my Stretcher:

    Prodigious (old or obsolete) bore (drilling/mining) = what appears to be a sand/gravel pit with equipment directly adjacent to the park on the west side (viewing from googlemaps).
    Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:47 PM Permalink
    queenmalley

    Robin Hood Flour Grain Elevator, Saint Paul, Minnesota

    209 Sycamore Street. Built in 1918 for the Capitol City Milling Company of St. Paul.Razed between 2004 and 2009.
    Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:47 PM Permalink
    Tatergirl

    Thomas Crosby died the same year the Winter Carnival started... 125th anniversary for both.
    Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:48 PM Permalink
    Eags

    I found it interesting that the text reads minding our P's and Q's instead of minding our p's and q's.

    Not sure why they would capitalize that, when the most likely origin of the idiom has to do with reversing lowercase p or q.
    Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:51 PM Permalink
    l and a mommy

    Trip 7's JOE!
    Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:51 PM Permalink
    KC0GRN

    Well theres a robin hood and a sherwood park near each other in maplewood....

    kind of doubt it's there though.
    Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:57 PM Permalink
    l and a mommy

    I see near Highland a street named Glen Ter is that short for Terrace or something?
    Mon, 01/24/2011 - 10:58 PM Permalink
    KC0GRN

    Does willard munger fit in anywhere?
    Mon, 01/24/2011 - 11:00 PM Permalink
    Eags

    Och is considered to be an idiom, one of several that has appeared in the clues thus far.

    An idiom is an expression, word, or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is comprehended in regard to a common use of that expression that is separate from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it is made.

    Kind of like the difference between the words in the clues and what we noodle them into!
    Mon, 01/24/2011 - 11:01 PM Permalink
    l and a mommy

    Horse Chestnut is a type of tree for what it's worth
    Mon, 01/24/2011 - 11:13 PM Permalink
    Tatergirl

    Night all.... brain needs refreshing... :asleep:
    Mon, 01/24/2011 - 11:15 PM Permalink
    KC0GRN

    Ah what the heck...

    Boy, the way Glen Miller played. Songs that made the hit parade.

    Guys like us, we had it made. Those were the days.

    Didn't need no welfare state. Everybody pulled his weight.

    Gee, our old LaSalle ran great. Those were the days.

    And you know who you were then, girls were girls and men were men.

    Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.

    People seemed to be content. Fifty dollars paid the rent.

    Freaks were in a circus tent. Those were the days.

    Take a little Sunday spin, go to watch the Dodgers win.

    Have yourself a dandy day that cost you under a fin.

    Hair was short and skirts were long. Kate Smith really sold a song.

    I don't know just what went wrong. Those Were The Days.
    Mon, 01/24/2011 - 11:24 PM Permalink
    New Daddy

    nice noodle.
    Tue, 01/25/2011 - 12:05 AM Permalink
    l and a mommy

    Since I won't get out until Saturday I thought I'd pass this park on. Rice Creek Regional in Shoreview. clues slide in here with no tweeking...IMO Good luck all!
    Tue, 01/25/2011 - 12:33 AM Permalink
    CerealKiller

    just a fyi the part you think there is a gravel pit is a woman's jail or something like that!
    Tue, 01/25/2011 - 1:47 AM Permalink
    brasscat

    My first thought was Monty Python...with the horse chestnut...and a tree
    Tue, 01/25/2011 - 2:20 AM Permalink
    brasscat

  • Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker.

    * Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker,

    * Sally Struthers as Gloria Bunker Stivic.

    Penny Marshall, (Reiner's wife,

    * Rob Reiner as Michael Stivic.

    ALL IN THE FAMILY
  • Tue, 01/25/2011 - 2:36 AM Permalink
    Mad_Dach5und

    If posting the clue on the PP boards first causes that much of a ruckus, fine. I'll concede to the point I'll wait until someone else posts it first. That make you feel better?

    I have to get up for work at 5 am and have about 5 minutes (Maybe) to do anything online before Lunch break. Staying up past midnight is not doing me any favors.

    Was there this kind of whining when OldTimR was posting on the older PP board? Heck, the whole board would shut down and wait for her to post it.
    Tue, 01/25/2011 - 3:58 AM Permalink
    Grey Wolf

    What's the name of that horse buried near the parking lot at Ft. Snelling?

    Chestnut + bore might be saying the puck is in a hole in a tree. If it was hidden recently, that may have been all they could find.
    Tue, 01/25/2011 - 4:05 AM Permalink
    Downtown Dave

    The doll is gone, and has been replaced with an owl cookie!
    Tue, 01/25/2011 - 4:14 AM Permalink
    witchdoctor

    Whiskey
    Tue, 01/25/2011 - 4:22 AM Permalink
    Andrea

    I hadn't noticed that at all-- I agree, that does seem odd.
    Tue, 01/25/2011 - 4:36 AM Permalink
    Andrea

    Dan Patch was mahogany-- don't know how different that is from Chestnut.

    And to be honest, I don't think it matters-- I think this is a historical clue. It is just Dan Patch is the only local horse connection I could come up with.
    Tue, 01/25/2011 - 4:48 AM Permalink
    New Daddy

    I just want to point out how important it is to keep confidentiality about what is posted here. At Merrium Park we gave away the park here early and a lurker read our posts and found it. The crew did a great job of figuring out the park early, but lost our advantage when someone read our ideas.

    Hunting before the cooler crew was very different. If you figured out 1 in 10 clues you were doing good. Now we as a group figure out most of the clues. This is really an impressive group. I need all of your help, and depend on each of you to keep what is posted here private.
    Tue, 01/25/2011 - 4:52 AM Permalink
    mrmnmikey

    like hazel? (park)
    Tue, 01/25/2011 - 4:58 AM Permalink
    mrmnmikey

    good noodle on the treasure chest thing, that would make us hunters the chest nuts.
    Tue, 01/25/2011 - 5:01 AM Permalink
    Brassmonkey

    Well good morning. I try to pace myself and get sleep early in the hunt so I am just taking a fresh look at this now.

    In regards to the privacy issue here at this forum it is something that I consider sacred although it is really hard to police as anyone can pay the $10 and lurk all they want. If we really wanted to keep this bored private then it would need to be exclusive with each member being authorized to view and post and I do believe that gets away of from the open feeling of the cooler crew.

    Kinda a catch 22
    Tue, 01/25/2011 - 5:08 AM Permalink