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2014 - Como Park

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kevin

Kevin mlynarczyk
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 1:57 PM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

Wow, your name is worth a lot of points in Scrabble.
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 2:04 PM Permalink
Clue Master

You're in Kevin. Feel free to introduce yourself over there. Welcome!
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 2:07 PM Permalink
mrmnmikey

good noodle
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 3:02 PM Permalink
queenmalley

M --

T -

I ..
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 3:44 PM Permalink
mrmnmikey

WHEEL OF FORTUNE

HOPE RANDY PICKS A "C"
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 3:51 PM Permalink
Clue Master

Nope. He picked an H
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 4:11 PM Permalink
Hopslam Hunter

Does anyone know if there are still handball courts at Phalen? The 2004 hunt had references to them. Also was the year of the green doughnut. Como just smells like a red herring to me.
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 4:17 PM Permalink
ChefBrass

I think como is a red herring until tonights clue proves me wrong. lol
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 4:20 PM Permalink
ares

the ones south of maryland? they're still there.
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 4:22 PM Permalink
ares

ahh crap. someone at the prospero boards figured out the charlie pitts line of thinkng.
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 4:23 PM Permalink
brasscat

Foolish as I was...... I went to scope out CoNo...and wound up digging... :smile:
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 4:42 PM Permalink
mrmnmikey

saw a couple diggers out at noon today.
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 4:43 PM Permalink
tom

Have re figured out to "He" is?
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 5:02 PM Permalink
queenmalley

LOL!!
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 5:40 PM Permalink
queenmalley

matter of time
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 5:42 PM Permalink
queenmalley

Boreas?
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 5:43 PM Permalink
queenmalley

Boreas: The Greek god of the North Wind who lived in Thrace. He is depicted as being winged, extremely strong, bearded and normally clad in a short pleated tunic. He is the son of Eos and Astraeus, and the brother of Zephyrus, Eurus and Notus.

Boreas has two sons, two daughters and twelve mares which can race over the ground without destroying the grain. When the Persian navy of Xerxes threatened the city of Athens, the Athenians begged his assistance. The Great Wind of the Wintery North blew his anger at the Persians and 400 Persian ships sank immediately. Among other violent acts he abducted Oreithyia, the daughter of the king of Athens, when she was playing on the banks of the Ilissus. In Latin, he is called Aquilo.
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 5:47 PM Permalink
GreenTeam

Was google noodling and realized...

Charles Perry

Perry Como.
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 5:57 PM Permalink
GreenTeam

About Perry Como:

It's a well known bit of show business fact that Perry's first ambition was to be the best barber in Canonsburg. At 14, he was apprenticed to Steve Fragapane who taught him the trade of the shears, and Perry soon opened his own shop as an after-school money maker. With two assistants and a guitar he turned it into a profitable enterprise which he took over on a full-time basis after high school graduation. The miners would come out of the pits on Saturday night, black with coal dust, eager for everything from a shave to a manicure and Perry built his little shop into a $125 a week net profit. It was a small town store where he knew all his customers by name, where it wasn't strange for a barber to sing while clipping hair or stop to strum a guitar because he was in the mood. Life was good, his business was good, he was the local talent in the community, and in 1933 Perry went to Cleveland on a well-earned vacation.

http://kokomo.ca/cd_review/press/earlybio.htm

(Don't know if it means anything, but FYI).
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 6:04 PM Permalink
queenmalley

been awhile since I have "dug" into Como. Trolley Zone (Treasure Hunters Guide) has a batch of homes between Churchill St. and W Como Blvd. found in this zone 1990 by huge cottonwood tree. Trolley zone area found also 1956 and that ill-fated Horton Hears a Who of 2003 (god the best hunt, my son and I in the caravan from Harriet to the mosh pit).Don't see anything ice-like.
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 6:14 PM Permalink
queenmalley

Trolley Station Zone close to Lake Como, as well as Lake South Zone and Gates Ajar Zone. Found in Como 7 times, but not since 2003.
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 6:17 PM Permalink
HunterPixie

Speaking of Shamrock, have you ever been to the area that is just a little further north with the dog park, was there this fall and that would make for a great hunt. Lots of space in there.
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 6:18 PM Permalink
HunterPixie

I love that house! I just drove my kids by there a few weeks ago and told them it's one of my favorites. I would love to see the inside!
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 6:23 PM Permalink
KC0GRN

Not really, although I ought to try and keep a radio on me more often.
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 6:44 PM Permalink
New Daddy

wondering...

why "down" by old sandy.

anybody else look at trout creek trail, by Sandy Lake, the old lake that is not there anymore? Can't call a water reservoir a pit though.

I know Phalen was executed by fellow travelers. does anybody know if he was thrown into the pit...

Here is a like to famous "sandy" http://www.famousbirthdays.com/names/sandy.html

did not help me
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 6:46 PM Permalink
Tatergirl

I don't know - I love the history aspect of this clue. But I can't help think this is a red herring. Like maybe the noodle for this clue is correct but the damn puck has a picture of Charlie Pitt taped to it. :angry:
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 7:27 PM Permalink
nancydrew

Welcome back everyone, please stay warm and safe. I too think clue 3 is a red herring. But I do have some facts about Como, my mom was a contributor to The Streets book. Henry McKenty officially renamed Sandy Lake to Como Lake in 1856. Dr. Henry Hoyt placed Charles Pitts' bones in Como Lake to bleach, but never recovered the skeleton from the lake. Charles Reed's head was found near the lake by Mr. Pepin's daughter. He was a carpenter (handyman). Didn't the PP in the 2003 hunt say Ann Bilansky's boyfriend was a carpenter? Gottfried's Pit is one of 22 storm sewers and wetland detention ponds that feed Como Lake. McMurray Field was once a gravel pit. I'm hoping this clue refers to a package of Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing sandpaper that the puck could be in.
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 7:28 PM Permalink
New Daddy

I am back to thinking mired means there is a swamp in the park and the rest is just fluff.
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 7:29 PM Permalink
Tatergirl

Just a heads up to some of the newbies here since some of you may post on more than one discussion board.

We pay to have privacy here, so common courtesy for this board is that if you have your own original noodle you can share where ever you like but don't take other's noodles here and spread them to masses on the other boards. (that's a real good way to get everyone to clam up here)

We like to keep it "in the family" so to speak :wink:
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 7:35 PM Permalink
Tatergirl

I keep thinking pit=mine= something 3M related. I didn't connect sandpaper though - awesome.
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 7:38 PM Permalink
Nimrod

Contrarian reporting in. Como clue three for anyone with google?

That said, it sure is a crystal clear clue. Which are unusual on three, no?

I'm in the coNO camp right now, and if it is not( and the clue means anything at all... Refer 2013 holiday pair) then I hand it to the writer for an outstanding zag when we thought we got zigged!

Save me a little space by the frog... I have to pee, and I'm shy.
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 7:45 PM Permalink
nancydrew

Como Ave.was known as Swamp Route in 1857.
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 8:03 PM Permalink
tom

I wonder if Old Sandy is a present name, as in Sandy is old. Anyone named Sandy ever find it?
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 8:24 PM Permalink
Tatergirl

The treasure's in Ramsey; public land, search it all --

again where away rainbows to bring

the you over fooled thinking far

puck it will been begin lead

luck you've it or you is if just
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 8:34 PM Permalink
kevin

luck and raimbow uh oh shamrock :chagrin:
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 8:36 PM Permalink
GreenTeam

luck

puck

where rainbows begin (ie pot of gold)
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 8:38 PM Permalink
GreenTeam

bring you luck
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 8:40 PM Permalink
OT

you

over

thinking

:smile:
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 8:40 PM Permalink
HunterPixie

totally thinking along the same lines...!
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 8:42 PM Permalink
Nimrod

You've always been my favorite!
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 8:43 PM Permalink
Tatergirl

fooled thinking
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 8:43 PM Permalink
Tatergirl

Why are the repeating the first line of clue 2?

Is that a goof?
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 8:44 PM Permalink
brasscat

Butterfly Party! Como Park Conservatory & Zoo

Butterflies are like winged rainbows! If you should tire of the water lillies at Como Park, just head over to the Butterfly Exhibit. :smile:
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 8:45 PM Permalink
OT

Rainbow Foods nearby
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 8:46 PM Permalink
Hopslam Hunter

Kinda sounds like it's emphasizing outer ramsey, not st. paul proper
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 8:49 PM Permalink
HunterPixie

I was watching a Lost Twin Cities tonight and noticed that when the streetcar system was dismantled in the 70's, those that weren't sold were burned in the pits and salvaged for scrap.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ossanna
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 8:50 PM Permalink
Hopslam Hunter

lead you over the rainbows
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 8:50 PM Permalink
Hopslam Hunter

will bring you luck
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 8:50 PM Permalink
brasscat

In 1895 city dredged Lake Como to increase it's depth from 5 feet to 15 feet to combat the swampiness
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 8:50 PM Permalink