If only the PP board knew that me and Pilot Shay guy are sitting next to each other making up sh*t noodles to each other on the crazy board. :pbpt: :goofy: :wink: :sillygrin:
Could your CHestnut gentle, which many felt was a horse, refer to Horace (sounds like horse) Cleveland? ANd I forget how people got cleveland, but he fits with whatever that was as well...
I think chestnut gentle is referring to the wooden horses in the carousel, the stories of yore referring to the fact that the carousel used to be at the state fair.
I just had the McMurray thought and rushed here and everyone had it figured out. I was dead asleep and sprang up like I was shot out of bed with the thought.
He probably would be classified as a chestnut colored horse today and was known for his gentle nature. He was by far the most successful race horse of his day and certainly had tons of glorious stories. This all took place while he lived in Savage, MN, though Savage today was actually two cities, Hamilton and Glendale, back in the days when "men were men" (though I'm not sure exactly when men stopped being men).
What's funny is that even though someone did post about MacMurray on the PP board, I promise you by tomorrow afternoon people will still be all over the place and only a few more will be sold on Como.
Been on the road for eight hours driving back from up in North Dakota and arrived home tonight to oodles and oodles of awesome noodles. Thanks everyone! Looking forward to seeing many of you out in the snow soon.
Once again Queen, nice work on the details! Both the ("Bore") gravel pit, and the "32" acre athletic field in one sentence!
I hear ya. I half-seriously tried to get Vicky to go out there with me tonight, but it's not going to happen. The trash trucks will be here early and if the sleep disruption goes on until I'm wide awake, I'll be coffeeing up and heading out.
'Sup all?! Good to be back in here. Haven't had much time to really get into this year's hunt, but after I saw tonight's clue I had to check in and see if you all picked up on it just as easily. :cool:
For what it's worth, I don't know who or what you're posting on the PP board but the little nugget about McMurray starting Battle Creek would be a GREAT way to lead them in that direction, especially seeing as how you could connect some of the other clues there as well.
I'd post a BC thread over there but I can't bring myself to spend more than a few seconds on that board. :pbpt:
Hope to get out to Como on Saturday after a morning shift. Good luck!!
Start at the beginning, and when you get to the end, stop.
But I like Horace sounding like horse.
Blah, blah, blah and all that lovey shit.
//ClueMaster: get me another beer bitch!
 This former gravel pit became a 32-acre athletic field in 1927. It was named for William McMurray
in 1929. A successful tea merchant and extremely generous man, McMurray gave away large sums of
money and wrote off debts owed to his company. Battle Creek Park was started with his 1922 donation
of 25 acres of land on Battle Creek. When his firm declared bankruptcy in 1930, McMurray, then
chairman of the park advisory board, poured his personal savings into the company. In 1944, he was
living on $15 a week in a downtown St. Paul hotel when he was quoted as saying: “Where is the money?
I havenÂ’t the slightest idea, but I hope it did some people some good. I guess I was just in business for
the fun of it anyway.” Three new artificial turf soccer fields were added in 2007.
And need to turn out my light.
I've had fun with you all, It has been a real ball,
and to you I bid good-night! :grin:
Good work! I got the park! Como it is!
But MacMurray Fields would seal it in, like Horton, carousel, and other Como only clues.
McMurray fields have artificial turf - and the rules talk about not digging that up.
I bet that bore is that new tunnel under the railroad tracks near McMurray.
A chestnut gentle makes me sentimental,
For those glorious stories of yore.
Of the days in the glen, when men were men,
Och! Have I become a prodigious bore?
He probably would be classified as a chestnut colored horse today and was known for his gentle nature. He was by far the most successful race horse of his day and certainly had tons of glorious stories. This all took place while he lived in Savage, MN, though Savage today was actually two cities, Hamilton and Glendale, back in the days when "men were men" (though I'm not sure exactly when men stopped being men).
Have you met ClueMaster?
Once again Queen, nice work on the details! Both the ("Bore") gravel pit, and the "32" acre athletic field in one sentence!
The amount of snow out there is overwhelming to think about. Maybe that thought will help me sleep tonight.
Goodnight and SCDs! The puck is laying in Como somewhere just waiting for one of us to get it.
For what it's worth, I don't know who or what you're posting on the PP board but the little nugget about McMurray starting Battle Creek would be a GREAT way to lead them in that direction, especially seeing as how you could connect some of the other clues there as well.
I'd post a BC thread over there but I can't bring myself to spend more than a few seconds on that board. :pbpt:
Hope to get out to Como on Saturday after a morning shift. Good luck!!
http://extra.twincities.com/treasurehunt/index.php?topic=1533.0
please feel free to add to it. Thx! :grin: