As long as we're discussing capitalization, lets expand that to include punctuation. "Don't fence me in" looks to be a quote and not so much a title, as only the word "Don't" is capitalized as they all would be if a title. So if you still think it's a title, you could also consider that "treasure chest" might just refer to the title of something using that same train of thought.
I don't know if I can handle another night of Urban Dictionary vocab expansion. I laughed for 10 minutes straight after the homage to The Godfather on Modern Family tonight. My stomach is still killing me. Maybe the clues are saying that if you take a Nantucket Sleighride down the hill, you can have your medallions gobbled! Heyoo!
The line "Winter allows what summer forbids"; perhaps it means what you can see. You can see things in the winter that the tree leaves hide in the summer.
Ian is out mapping Crosby, again, checking some spots, that man is an animal....
Just yesterday he was telling the story of the last time it was in Crosby, the year of the Lair of the Three Headed Woman, the year Mikey took the "before" picture of the hiding spot
The Godfather scene was awesome. It went right over Tara's head. Had to explain the real scene to her. Pft! Women... This is why they should stick to making me sandwiches.
I don't get it. All I can say is the capitalization is probably not important then. But I agree... it can change the way we think about it when we read it.
True, it could be anything. My thought was maybe you could see something referred to elsewhere in the clues, like the Cathedral for Crashed Ice, from the spot where the medallion is. You'd only see it in the winter when there's no leaves. Of course, that puts you someplace like Lilydale.
I'm sticking with Harriet Island. It seems to me that Clue #5 could be talking about how the river floods and gobbles up the park as it were. The "fence" then might even be a reference to the levee.
I don't know that there was a bath house per se. I think the public bath involved people taking a bath in the Mississippi. Now how dirty did people have to be back then that they could go into the Mississippi and come out feeling cleaner?
I disagree just a bit Me2. Normally I do preach the theory of not cross-pollinating clues, but there can be an exception for the 1st clue. Back during the Swede Hollow hunt there was something in the first clue saying that later clues would reference a lot of history, and they did. So I think it is possible that if there was some overarching element to all the clues, that they would mention it in the first clue, and in that case something in one clue could actually affect how you read another.
Harriet Island in downtown St. Paul, MN truly was an island until the 1950s when the U.S. Corps of Engineers filled in the back channel. In the early 1900s Harriet Island was the center of liesure activity for St. Paul residents with a zoo, picnic areas, ball field and the very popular bath houses. In those times indoor plumbing was still to come. Dr. Justus Ohage, St. PaulÂ’s public health director, owned Harriet Island where he built the bath houses to encourage better hygene as a major public health program.
Also if you look at the style of the writing and compare last years clues and explanations-they all connect back to each other. Each one has a piece that could be linked to the previous clue. I think in some ways you have to take them together to get the solution :wink:
I think when it comes to clues we all have our little rules of thumb we use. The only one who knows the true rule of thumb to use is the clue writer themselves. It changes over time though. I think a few years ago there was an anagram of Battle Creek where one word was in line 2 and the other word was in line 4. Prior to that we all were looking for anagrams to be consecutive words. The clue writer will try different things over the years to keep things fresh and try to find new ways to get important information into their clues. We all throw our ideas out there no matter how crazy or far fetched they are. The ideas may just inspire someone else to follow that line of thinking down the right path to where they figure out the park, or better yet find the actual thing.
Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above DonÂ’t fence me in Let me ride through the wide open country that I love DonÂ’t fence me in Let me be by myself in the eveninÂ’ breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever but I ask you please DonÂ’t fence me in
Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle Underneath the western skies On my Cayuse, let me wander over yonder Till I see the mountains rise. I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses And I canÂ’t look at hovels and I canÂ’t stand fences DonÂ’t fence me in.
I am thinking Crosby although I am not totally sold. Something doesn't just sit right. Sure they gave us the park name potentially in clue 2. It's a huge park with minimal landmarks. If they put it in Crosby and they didn't intimate that it was there somewhat early on, would we be complaining that it was such a huge park and they led us there late? I feel like yesterday's clue indicates flooding which indicates a river. I like Crosby over Harriet because it talks about Ups and Downs in the clue, and you go up and down to get into and out of the park. It seems too much of a coincidence to have a song of Bing Crosby's in a clue for a second time. Also a fence as a landmark in Harriet seems out of place, but in Crosby would be much more valuable given the size and scope of it. I also feel the use of the term nature fits better with Crosby as a park than Harriet.
Too many der bingle references.
Yellow mashed rice - Homer led icy swale.
Winter allows ...- walking out on the lake, pond hockey
Just yesterday he was telling the story of the last time it was in Crosby, the year of the Lair of the Three Headed Woman, the year Mikey took the "before" picture of the hiding spot
I just have trouble with Crosby not being the original singer
Crosby is the largest natural area in the st paul parks system.
http://www.stpaul.gov/index.aspx?NID=3593
http://www.letsdrug.com/meds_interaction/3201-6702-0/
They were obliterated by the 1965 flood.
source http://jimkosmo.com/harriet-island-truly-was-an-island/
"Look for fence" = the dog park is also fenced.
"fence" = farm
"gobble" = Holiday Inn; Thanksgiving is another season in the film
"Nature" = park
But I am nervous that it is so obviously Crosby that it probably isn't unless they want us to think that it is so obviously Crosby that it isn't.
 :pbpt:
Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above DonÂ’t fence me in Let me ride through the wide open country that I love DonÂ’t fence me in Let me be by myself in the eveninÂ’ breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever but I ask you please DonÂ’t fence me in
Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle Underneath the western skies On my Cayuse, let me wander over yonder Till I see the mountains rise. I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses And I canÂ’t look at hovels and I canÂ’t stand fences DonÂ’t fence me in.
Oh yeah and I forgot to add- JOE :cool: