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2002 Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt

Submitted by Casey Trauer on

Yes, the medallion has been found, but there's still lots to talk about. Feel the need for more than virtual discussion? Then join the Re-Hash Bash, Sunday, Jan. 27, at noon at Merriam Park in St. Paul.

green

Marnin', 'Heads!

Can't BELIEVE I made it awake for the Work Rush!

ONE MORE WAKE-UP!!! TOMORROW IT ALL STARTS AGAIN!!!!!

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Fri, 01/18/2002 - 8:10 AM Permalink
Rushmore

Good morning everyone! I am excited to get this thing underway, only 37 hours and 38 minutes away!!

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 8:22 AM Permalink
ares

morning rush, green.

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 8:23 AM Permalink
Frosti

mornin' ares

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 8:28 AM Permalink
ares

you already said that, frosti! :)

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 8:29 AM Permalink
green

There is so much I gotta do today, and I don't wanna do any of it. I wanna crawl bock into bed where ittiz warm. It even *looks* cold outside!

Sounds like a friggin' TB ward in this house...

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 8:30 AM Permalink
Frosti

I did? Sorry. Need more coffee...

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 8:33 AM Permalink
Phillip Diskerud

Good morning all... Checking in from work for the last time before the hunt begins. I can't wait to see that first clue that tells us it is in a park, not on a golf course, and in St. Paul. :-)

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 8:33 AM Permalink
THX 1138

Mornin' Sam

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 8:42 AM Permalink
ares

well frosti, marley refilled the pot!

mornin ralph.

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 8:42 AM Permalink
Frosti

I had my brother over for a couple of homebrews last night, and the peepers just don't want to open this morning.

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 8:48 AM Permalink
THX 1138

Frosty, I take it your a Johnny Cash fan?

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 8:50 AM Permalink
Frosti

What makes you say that? lol

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 8:55 AM Permalink
THX 1138

I'm psychic!

Actually, I had to look it up. I knew I'd heard it before but couldn't remember where.

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 8:57 AM Permalink
Frosti

and that's what tortures me

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 9:09 AM Permalink
ares

since we've got so many people in here who seem to have some sort of psychic ability, jt, why is it that not one of us has found the puck yet?

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 9:13 AM Permalink
Frosti

Maybe it's interference. All those psychic waves getting tangled together and pointing to the wrong place?

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 9:16 AM Permalink
THX 1138

Ares & Frosty,

I never said I was a good psychic. :-)

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 9:28 AM Permalink
ares

ahh. i understand.

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 9:35 AM Permalink
Scribe

Marnin Sams!

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 10:05 AM Permalink
Scribe

I gotta tell ya'll it was great to slog through a whole night and mark posts that I liked for once!!

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 10:06 AM Permalink
THX 1138

Hi Scribe! Who loves ya baby?

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 10:07 AM Permalink
ares

its about time you showed up scribe. i was worried for a sec that we wouldn't make 10000 posts before the hunt started :)

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 10:13 AM Permalink
StepDogg

what up what up!

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 10:16 AM Permalink
THX 1138

The ceiling

I crack myself up!

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 10:16 AM Permalink
ares

step!

:: wonders why don't i get a "norm!" style response when i walk in ::

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 10:19 AM Permalink
StepDogg

haha...what's going on Ares...gettin' ready for the big day or what?? It's right around the corner!

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 10:21 AM Permalink
ares

oh yeah. been practicing the sleep deprivation techniques, the posting from work techniques. still have to work on the digging style, but i've got a few more days for that. which reminds me, i should probably put the garden spade in the trunk tonite.

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 10:23 AM Permalink
Phillip Diskerud

Garden Spade in Trunk I can't forget that either...

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 10:32 AM Permalink
Scribe

Garden Spade

I'll bring the rototiller!

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 10:33 AM Permalink
ares

it goes along well with the post hole digger and snow shovel i keep in there year-round!

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 10:33 AM Permalink
ares

oh come on scribe, why not just bring a blowtorch and melt all the snow away :)

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 10:34 AM Permalink
Scribe

MMMMM.....blowtorch!

I could just dig wit you......you got more hot air than a blowtorch!:)

the door was open and I walked right in.

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 10:35 AM Permalink
ares

you got more hot air than a blowtorch!:)

and if you light a match behind me..... um ok i'm going to get back to work, or at least trying to create a reasonable facsimile thereof :)

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 10:37 AM Permalink
Scribe

Mental note to bring matches.

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 10:50 AM Permalink
me2

Hi! I am here but am trying to catch up on the morning gab and all the emails from the Yahoo AW club. Goodmorning!

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 11:08 AM Permalink
me2

Ha Ares, thats funny- I was so tired this morning-we all got moving late - and all I thought about was how tonight was my last night of a good nights rest and looking forward to the adrenolin of 1-4 hrs of sleep!

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 11:10 AM Permalink
Scribe

Hi ME2!

Just got a bunch of stuff done...and now my five year old has a made a complete mess out of the house cutting out snowflakes!

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 11:14 AM Permalink
me2

ha ha ha ha ha

mine are both in school!

(saying this with that teasing voice) :)

my 2 are 5 1/2 and 10.

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 11:16 AM Permalink
Scribe

Then you have plenty of time to come over and help me clean up this mess!!:)

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 11:18 AM Permalink
Scribe

My son just told me his motivation was to make all these paper snowflakes so he could sell them at the pre-dig gig......

Thats my little capitalist!

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 11:19 AM Permalink
me2

not a bad idea. Maybe that is a good start to recoop the $10,000 that you are not gonna get! :)

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 11:21 AM Permalink
me2

Actually out of all the people in the Cooler I hope you are one of the lucky to find it some year. :)

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 11:23 AM Permalink
Scribe

Oh I'm gonna get it!

Someday!!

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 11:23 AM Permalink
me2

dang it anyway, be right back-my coffee got cold already. I need to go "top it off" upstairs in the kitchen. It is so darn cold down here!

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 11:24 AM Permalink
me2

ok, Minnesota History FACT #1 for the day: Minnesota became a Territory in 1849 and a State on May 11, 1858.

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 11:32 AM Permalink
Frosti

OK. Fact #2?

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 11:46 AM Permalink
me2

I could keep going.

Minnesota History Fact #2 : The first Governor of the Territory of Minnesota was Henry S. Sibley.

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 11:48 AM Permalink
me2

By the way-all this history DOES help with the medallion hunt because in some way, either a person or a place or a year will eventually help hunt it down in the clues some year, I am sure of it! And make you a better Minnesotian/Minnesotan! >>> Minnesotian was one of the 1st newspapers in St.Paul.

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 11:51 AM Permalink
THX 1138

OK. Fact #2?

Uhm, "Minnesota lakes names range from the common-there are 201 Mud Lakes, 154 Long Lakes, and 123 Rice Lakes-to the uncommon-Mugwump Lake"

Fri, 01/18/2002 - 12:00 PM Permalink