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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.

Phillip Diskerud

How is everyone doing in here today?

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 11:45 AM Permalink
StepDogg

what's up Phil

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 11:45 AM Permalink
Phillip Diskerud

Its going good Step Dog... how about with you?

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 11:46 AM Permalink
Annie B.

Marley King, still having trouble w/ your site (java) :-(

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 11:47 AM Permalink
StepDogg

pretty good...I wish I could be out diggin' already!!

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 11:47 AM Permalink
Phillip Diskerud

I hear ya... My girl friend... said lets go digging now.. It is her first year... I had to tell her to save her energy for a few days...

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 11:48 AM Permalink
StepDogg

yeah phil...too early to tell now!!

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 11:49 AM Permalink
Phillip Diskerud

Exactly... However I have my pre-clue parks I like..

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 11:50 AM Permalink
ares

hurting, step. now that the shoulder's stopped aching it's revealed the other body aches that had been concealed :)

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 11:50 AM Permalink
StepDogg

what are you so sore from?

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 11:56 AM Permalink
ares

skiing. well actually, falling, and plowing the slope with my shoulder.

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 11:57 AM Permalink
StepDogg

well you better get better!! Got lots of diggin to do soon!

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 11:58 AM Permalink
ares

well i figure by the time i get around to actually digging i should be fine. of course if you ask scribe, this is all just a plot to keep up the myth of my existence. :)

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 11:59 AM Permalink
StepDogg

hey...do you think the first clue has any meaning? I kind of get the impression that it is at a park on the outer edges of St. Paul.

search "far and wide" but have no fear because it's still in St. Paul.

Am I looking to deep already?

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:01 PM Permalink
ares

all i know step is that i do not like this clue-writer's poetry ability. i hope they get better soon. i agree that the only thing to noodle is "far and wide" and "light a spark"

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:05 PM Permalink
me2

Annie B- The Capitol Mall was originally Central Park donated in 1884 by the same man who owned my house!

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:05 PM Permalink
StepDogg

Ares - I agree...The clue doesn't flow like they usually do...I hope it will get better too.

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:06 PM Permalink
me2

Aces4ever- Those Beer cans show up quite a bit at estate sales and garage sales (I see them a lot) sell for $1 - $3 each. Ebay sometimes too. Weather they are still full or not-I don't know.

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:06 PM Permalink
me2

And-I want to stear twords Capitol Mall because of the co-ink-i-dinks: I just saw Star Wars Menace (may the force of the medallion guide you-let it come to you) I love that!

And I just found out 5 minutes ago that I won a pack of St paul playing cards on Ebay that have the State Capitol on the first card.

Not just the clues--It's the "FORCE" :)

I like the idea of seeing fireworks at the capitol too.

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:09 PM Permalink
me2

I am alone again :( Interception in the endzone! touchback! Stealers!

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:19 PM Permalink
me2

Scribe? are you there? I have some personal information JUST FOR YOU

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:20 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

Go stealers!

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:20 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

gtg bbl

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:21 PM Permalink
ares

not alone me2.

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:21 PM Permalink
Diggin' Queen

Hey Ares, Hey Tim, how the heck are you guys? Did you guys go to the party last night?

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:33 PM Permalink
Diggin' Queen

Awwww, common. Did everybody leave? I wanted to noodle!!!!

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:35 PM Permalink
me2

I am stil here- I was there last night - I just went to get dressed just now - I gotta run to SA for a button still-heard it has to be postmarked by today--downtown postoffice will postmark it still today. nothing like waiting til the last minute- that is very like me!

I am watching the game and talking to you all at the same time-Oh yah? men concentrate on one thing and cannot multi-task well! :)

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:36 PM Permalink
ares

hey dq. no i wasn't at the gig last nite. as for where everyone is, most are probably watching pittsburgh wail on baltimore.

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:37 PM Permalink
Diggin' Queen

oh sure football. lol. Don't feel to bad me I have to get my button squared away today too.

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:40 PM Permalink
me2

Ares-you were not at McGoverns last night so you didn't get to see all the excitement---I didn't see it posted all night either so you probly didn't hear yet about the 1st clue & Wisconsin...do I get to be the one to say or does everyone know?

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:40 PM Permalink
me2

for those of you NOT watching the game----touchdown Stealers!

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:41 PM Permalink
Diggin' Queen

I was going to go to the party last night too, but I had my kids at the Science Museum, and it got to be 8pm before we left etc. etc. etc. Needless to say, I never got there.

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:42 PM Permalink
me2

I didn't go til 8:15 and some of us were still there to 1 am. Marley King, Jake and the santa looking man. GOTTA close the bar down!

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:43 PM Permalink
Diggin' Queen

soooo let's noodle. I like the 2 theories of spark=fireworks, and far & wide=a park on the outskirts. now for my own noodling...

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:44 PM Permalink
ares

go ahead and say, me2.

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:44 PM Permalink
ares

is downtown more east or west in the city?

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:45 PM Permalink
Marleyking

go ahead and say, me2.

Oh no dont get jake going again!

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:45 PM Permalink
me2

downtown is more east in St. Paul---- and south too!

oh no---fumble! aaaahhhhhh Wow poor Baltimore

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:46 PM Permalink
me2

Hey MK -Jake is not here-but I was with him and it was very interesting to be apart of it.

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:47 PM Permalink
Diggin' Queen

Let me add to both theories. spark could also mean the statue of liberty sculpture. (what park is it in???) also far & wide a park on the outskirts of St. Paul but lets make it a WIDE park (going farther east to west, than north to south) not to mention that the PP seems to be scraping the bottom of the barrol when they got a clue writer this year. It barely even rhymes.

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:47 PM Permalink
me2

ok Ares--The jist of it is......PP put the wrong clue in the Wisconsin Sunday edition today! Not the same clue that you see right now in the Minnesota edition!

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:49 PM Permalink
Terry

Good Afternoon!

I'm sure not everyone has heard the story about the Wisconsin paper. Someone should tell it.

Good to see ya Piano man! It'll be fun to see some others get posting here too that haven't before!

I would think downtown would be considered central rather than east, west, north or south.

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:49 PM Permalink
ares

so what's the clue in the wi edition? hopefully something better than what's here?

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:50 PM Permalink
Diggin' Queen

Me2, what r u talking about??? please explain..

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:50 PM Permalink
ares

ter, i was just thinking about getting a bearing from downtown, ya know for green's small nor'east park theory. far and wide from, say, downtown?

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:51 PM Permalink
Diggin' Queen

hi Terry, how r u doing this year???

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:51 PM Permalink
me2

Hey DQ - That Statue of Liberty downtown on the bldg. is a "warm fuzzy" for me daily to look up at her--I told my husband that if we ever had enough $$ I wanted her terribly! She is not in a park (??)

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:51 PM Permalink
jakeinge

Heres what happened, was about to leave the PP after buying the paper with the first clue. This girl comes down and said "If you have the Wisconson paper, they put the wrong clue in it." Naturally we had to get a hold of that clue, and to make a long story short, Me2 had the brilliant idea of calling the Country Market store in Hudson and it turns out it was clue no. 1 from last year in their paper!!!

Sun, 01/20/2002 - 12:52 PM Permalink